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The Sexy, Sultry San Jose vs. MLB Complaint
You've heard about it at this point: The City of San Jose sued Major League Baseball for not letting the A's move to their fair municipality. You can find the complaint, which was filed in federal court in San Jose, here (pdf). It's long, though I've seen longer. The PDF is 188 pages, but that's with exhibits. The text of the complaint itself is 46 pages. It's 203 paragraphs.1
One reason it's so long is that the first six pages (23 paragraphs) are essentially a narrative background of the case. The point of a complaint in the federal courts (warning: I'm about to vastly oversimplify a contentious area of law) is to notify the other party of the claims against it. That's what it boils down to. That does not mean that a complaint saying, "I'm suing you for breach of contract" would be sufficient. Which contract? How was it breached? When was it breached? In order to inform the other party of the claims, then, the complaint has to actually allege facts.
The issue with this narrative background is that the complaint is meant to contain only relevant facts, with relevance determined by the claims. It might be the case that the person I'm suing for knocking over my mailbox is eight feet tall and green, but unless those facts are somehow relevant to him knocking over my mailbox, there's no reason for that material to be in the complaint.
Additionally, the complaint is only supposed to allege facts. This is a rule that is widely disregarded and largely unenforced, but in the end, there is still some idea that the complaint, the document that begins a lawsuit and notifies everyone what the case is about, should not contain argument or legal conclusions or attempts to convince anyone of anything. It's supposed to contain facts.
The first six pages here, like you'll unfortunately see in many complaints, especially those of a public nature, contain citations to cases the plaintiffs consider precedential, narrative about the amount of money baseball makes every year, and even a quote from a book called Fans of the World Unite!. (The attorneys for the plaintiffs left off the subtitle: A (Capitalist) Manifesto for Sports Consumers.) None of it is very useful for the court, but much of it is useful for the press.
(So far, this article has been an elaborate piece of postmodern art—without spoiling the joke, note how I complained at far too much length about an issue that doesn't matter at all: the plaintiffs' complaint opening with far too much length about issues that don't matter at all. Where do I pick up my Guggenheim Fellowship?)
Once you dig through the 206 paragraphs, the essence of the complaint is simple: San Jose is courting the A's, baseball is preventing the A's from moving, and in so doing, baseball is violating a variety of laws.
We can grant the two core facts without much dispute: San Jose is obviously courting the A's and baseball is just as obviously preventing a move from happening (by operation of its rules on territory that give the Giants the exclusive right to Santa Clara County). The question is in the legal conclusion: does this violate all those laws? The answer is simple: "um, well, sure, maybe, maybe not, some claims ... I guess."
It's first worth noting that San Jose quite possibly does not care about winning. Court documents and proceedings are in large part public, so you can see this lawsuit as an organizing or agitating or move. To the extent San Jose thinks baseball will respond to public or quasi-public pressure2 and that this lawsuit will provide an impetus to get those people moving and lobbying, then it may not matter much how or when the case ends. It's, on that view, a means to a different end than a legal victory.3
The core of the complaint, the area on which most of the allegations focus, is that baseball is violating federal antitrust law by the other 29 teams banding together to make rules that prevent the A's from doing what it wants as an independent business. The obvious problem, the problem that I'm sure many of you know about whether you read my review of Stuart Banner's book on the topic or not, is baseball's antitrust exemption. The short version is this: because of a Supreme Court case in 1922, the federal antitrust statutes do not apply to baseball. The hope of every plaintiff's lawyer in these cases for basically the last 70 years is that because the doctrine was created by the Supreme Court, the Supreme Court will knock it back down when it comes to its senses and realizes that things have changed. To which I say: good luck.
It's not impossible, of course. The exemption was last passed upon by the Court in 1972 in the Curt Flood case, which was 41 years ago. Things are different now than they were in 1972!
The problem is in the two periods: from 1922 to 1972, a lot changed, especially as to the Supreme Court's understanding of Congress's power to regulate business; from 1972 to 2013, some things have changed, but there's been very little movement on the breadth of Congress's power in that period.
Thus, I don't see a real reason to look at the Flood case and believe that circumstances are so different today that the Court would care to reevaluate its holding.4
If you're more optimistic than me that baseball will finally be brought in line with football and soccer and boxing and everything else in American life as regards it being subject to normal antitrust scrutiny, then I applaud your half-full glass. My glass is broken on the floor and there's no water for miles.
San Jose also accused baseball of violating California's antitrust statute. The problem is that state antitrust regulation of the business of baseball is preempted by the federal antitrust exemption—that is, the federal exemption is not merely a gap that the states are permitted to fill by their own regulation. Rather, the federal exemption represents a federal policy decision that baseball is to remain unregulated. On this point, the Supreme Court spoke in Flood v. Kuhn, approving of a lower court's statement that
Further, in a 2003 case arising from a challenge to baseball's contraction plan, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals (covering Alabama, Georgia, and Florida) read the Supreme Court's language in Flood as holding that state antitrust law could not apply to the business of baseball.
I don't, then, see any reason to think the California antitrust law claims will pass muster, and I don't see any particular reason to do any deep analysis of how baseball would fare upon application of such laws. That claim should be dismissed in short order.
A note before moving on with the rest of San Jose's claims: a key goal for the city is probably simply to survive baseball's argument that the entire lawsuit should be thrown out because none of the claims are viable. If San Jose can get past that stage on at least some of its claims, it will gain access to the discovery process by which it can obtain all sorts of documents and information from baseball, can do depositions (under-oath, out-of-court interviews, for those who haven't watched legal TV shows), and can generally just annoy the hell out of a bunch of old billionaires. Sure, MLB can do the same to San Jose's mayor and city councilpeople and goodness knows who else, but the fact that San Jose was willing to sue at all is strong evidence that the city thinks this is worth it on balance.
As someone who loves it when embarrassing internal memoranda come to light, I'm rooting for discovery.
Back to the substance. The city brought three other state-law claims: interference with contract, interference with prospective economic advantage, and unfair business practices.
I'm going to beg your forgiveness and put aside the unfair practices claim—the concept of "unfair" is broad and not susceptible of easy definition or analysis in a short essay intended to explain the case to nonlawyers. (It might not be susceptible of definition or analysis anywhere.) Whether there's enough in the complaint to show prima facie that MLB's conduct was unfair is beyond my ken. There seems at least a reasonable chance, though, that MLB's defense to the unfair practices claim will be "nuh uh, it wasn't unfair." What this would mean is that it's a factual dispute: San Jose says "X Y and Z prove that it was unfair" and MLB says "A B and C prove it was not unfair." Factual disputes are not resolved early in cases, but after discovery. As I argued above, the very possibility of getting to discovery is probably a victory for San Jose.
The interference claims are very similar to each other: one is interference with contract, the other interference with "prospective economic advantage." The difference is exactly as it sounds: to prove interference with contract, you must prove that there is a contract, while no such thing is needed to prove interference with prospective economic advantage.
The contract/relation that San Jose alleges was interfered with is an option deal to buy land. San Jose essentially received $75,000 from the A's. In return, the team was given two years in which to exercise a right to buy land from the city for just shy of $7 million. (The contract is attached to the complaint. It's Exhibit 3.) The two hands:
One hand: an option giving a party the right to buy is not the same as agreeing to buy. There was no contract between the A's and San Jose—there was only the possibility of a future contract that perhaps the A's would have exercised or not, regardless of what MLB did.
Other hand: the A's were never actually given a choice to exercise because MLB interfered with that choice by denying the right to move to San Jose. Putting aside legalistic terminology, what is the actual, on-the-ground difference between a third party standing in the way of exercising an option and a third party standing in the way of performing a contract? Either way, it's interference.
As to that second hand, if you'll forgive my sloppy legal research (it's harder than you'd think to do this using only Google), let me quote to you from a Tennessee case quoted here:
An option to renew or extend isn't quite the same thing as an option to purchase land, and Tennessee isn't California, but if you paid me enough, I have a feeling that I could perform the research and find cases supporting at the very least the notion that San Jose's claim shouldn't be thrown out simply because it was an option contract that was interfered with.
As to prospective economic advantage, while no contract is required, San Jose will, if it wants to win, have to prove that the alleged relationship "probably would have resulted in an economic benefit." Would the A's "probably" have exercised the option and commenced the building of a stadium in San Jose were in not for those meddling
The difficulty with the economic advantage claim not present in the contract claim is that some "wrongful conduct" is required to prove interference. This means that baseball's conduct must have been independently wrongful, i.e. baseball must have failed to live up to a legal duty imposed by some other statute or law. It is not clear to me what that conduct would be, given that the collusive rules about where teams can move does not violate either state or federal antitrust laws.
Depending on the treatment of the option contract, the conduct here might fall in a weird no-man's land between the contract and economic advantage claims. That is, there may have been an economic relationship between San Jose and the A's, but there wasn't a contract; on the other hand, baseball interfered, but did not behave wrongfully in doing so. Since you either need a contract or you need wrongful behavior, San Jose might not have a good argument for either of the two claims.
The skinny? The antitrust claims, both state and federal, are dead by virtue of precedent nearing a full century of age. Without the antitrust claims establishing wrongfulness, I don't see the interference with prospective economic advantage claim holding up. The interference with contract claim boils down to whether interference with the execution of an option is enough under California law. And the unfair practice claim is a complete black box to me.
Questions? (Esp. ones I can't answer, I love those.)
Jason Wojciechowski is an author of Baseball Prospectus. Follow @jlwoj
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Ken Arneson
The Supreme Court said that federal antitrust overrided state antitrust on the reserve clause. But this isn't about the reserve clause. Why would state antitrust law be overridden because of interstate commerce on an intrastate business move?
Jun 20, 2013 09:40 AM
The basis of all of the baseball antitrust decisions was, that Congress was free to subject baseball to the antitrust laws, and that Congress's failure to do so meant that the Court wouldn't. I don't think there is any distinction regarding a team move. (In any event, the commerce clause argument would be that a move would affect all of baseball, not just the A's.)
Jun 20, 2013 09:59 AM
Ken Arneson
Maybe I'm just being dense here, but I thought the basis of baseball's antitrust exemption was that the Supreme Court in the 1920s ruled that baseball was not a form of interstate commerce. Except that Congress was free to rule that elements of baseball, such as the reserve clause, were interstate commerce, and it could regulate it if it wished. Which it did with the Curt Flood Act in 1987.
Jun 20, 2013 10:41 AM
Jason Wojciechowski
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Congress doesn't have the power to determine which things are in interstate commerce -- they have the power to regulate things that are in interstate commerce. They can make findings to that effect, essentially bolstering their own ability to regulate (IIRC the Violence Against Women Act is replete with these) in case of a challenge in court, but they are not the arbiter.
Jun 20, 2013 11:05 AM
Pat Folz
Thanks for the primer, this makes a lot more sense now.
Jun 20, 2013 10:43 AM
Jason Wojciechowski
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I chose 70 because the new era of the Commerce Clause essentially kicked off about 70 years ago. It's really only ever since then that there's been an "exemption" in the law that was both difficult to attack (Supreme Court precedent!) but also worthy of attack (it's stupid precedent!).
Jun 20, 2013 11:11 AM
It seems San Jose's ultimate goal here is to get MLB to move on modifying the assignment of Santa Clara County as being in the market of the Giants.
Jun 20, 2013 17:32 PM
Fantastic, thanks!
Jun 20, 2013 10:55 AM
Love this article Jason. Thanks for summing it up very nicely and offering perspective.
Jun 20, 2013 13:55 PM
I am going to respectfully disagree with the conclusion that the antitrust laims is "dead" on arrival. This is from the 9th circuit opinion affirming Al Davis's successful suit against the NFL:
Jun 21, 2013 13:25 PM
Jason Wojciechowski
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But that doesn't defeat MLB's "exemption," does it?
Jun 21, 2013 13:31 PM
Excellent question and that's at the heart of the case. The Flood case affirmed the draft and reserve clause, as necessary to league structure and competitive balance, issues which have been since been affected also by modifications in collective bargaining agreements. The question is whether and to what extent the exemption applies to restrictions on franchise moves. Here's one author's opinion:
Jun 21, 2013 14:54 PM
MLB has always been penny-wise and pound-foolish. Not only are the A's hurt by these rules, but Tampa is also. Why do they have to stuck in a terrible
Jun 22, 2013 13:00 PM
1) A move by the Rays (or any other team) to New Jersey would not be a good idea. While there is a large population in the Garden State, most fans have already formed an allegiance to one of the existing teams, most likely the Yankees or Mets. It would take about 20 years for the newcomers to develop a sufficiently large fan base to make the move worthwhile. Additionally, no adequate facility presently exists, so where would the team play while a suitable facility is constructed? (I'm sure NJ taxpayers are giddy at the prospect of having to fund a new baseball stadium.)
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|Left Ventricular Function in HIV-Negative Children Exposed to HIV and HAART In Utero
- Left Ventricular Mass Index [ Time Frame: Baseline ]left ventricular mass index measured by 2D echocardiography
- Fractional Shortening [ Time Frame: Baseline ]Fractional shortening measured by M-mode cardiography
- Global Strain Rate [ Time Frame: Baseline ]Myocardial deformation (a measure of heart contractility) measured by speckel tracking echocardiography
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HIV-negative children exposed to HIV and HAART in utero
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Approximately 700,000 children annually are born to HIV-infected mothers throughout the world, but with the advent of perinatal highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), the majority of children are born uninfected in Westernized nations and those uninfected are increasing in developing nations. Uninfected children exposed to HIV and HAART in utero, have subclinical left ventricular dysfunction (LVD) at birth which may predispose them to heart failure, conduction abnormalities and myocardial infarction later in life. The impact of this LVD on future cardiac risk is unclear as it is unknown if LVD in these children persist, worsen or resolve in pre-pubescence.
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The objective of this study is to characterize left ventricular function in HIV-negative pre-pubertal children born to HIV+ women and exposed to HIV and HAART in utero and compare them to age and gender matched healthy children born to HIV-negative women. Through this objective we will determine if LVD in HIV-negative children born to HIV+ women and exposed to HAART in utero persists, worsens, or resolves during pre-pubescence. If LVD persists or worsens in pre-pubescence, these data will lead to future studies examining mechanisms of and treatments for LVD in these children and will significantly impact the clinical monitoring and care of these children. If LVD resolves during pre-pubescence, then these data will provide important information that clinical cardiac monitoring may not be critical in this population.
We plan to examine left ventricular function in 30 HIV-negative children born to HIV+ women and exposed to HAART in utero and compare them to 30 healthy age and gender matched children born to HIV-negative women. Left ventricular function will be examined by 2-D, Doppler and Tissue Doppler imaging echocardiography using a General Electric Vivid 7® ultrasound machine. Left ventricular measures will include left ventricular structure and dimensions, systolic and diastolic flow rates, wall velocities during systole and diastole and systolic and diastolic strain and strain rates (sensitive measures of myocardial contractility). Echocardiographic measures will take place in the Cardiovascular Imaging Laboratory (CVIL) at Washington University School of Medicine by a certified cardiac ultrasonographer and data will be processed, analyzed and interpreted by the ultrasonographer, a consulting cardiologist and the principal investigator.
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- Mother was taking HAART during pregnancy (standard of care)
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|December 16, 2013
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|June 8, 2016
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heart function
in utero
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HIV Infections
Lentivirus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
Immune System Diseases
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I'm trying to perfect my new domain name before I purchase. I'm using google search as a tool to do so. Say I google "red strawberries" and get 300,000 results. And then "red and green strawberries" and get 100,000 results. What's better? Is it better to have a more specific group of keywords so there are fewer results (as if a few hundred thou less is fewer lol)? Or is it better to have a more general group of keywords so you get more search results? More specifically if I add an "s" at the end of my preferred new domain name the results drop by from 1,220,000,000 to 331,000,000 - more than half. Thanks for your thoughts!
im more with the
"red and green strawberries" and get 100,000 results." then inside your pages include the keywords intesity... it's the best good approch in my eyes!
I'm sure you know about the devaluing of keyword domains recently right? If not, you may want to research it. I think it is more about your on page content these days than the keyword. I go more for brandable keywords that look "cool and catchy" in the search results rather than something like: "red-and-green-strawberries.com" but that's just me
Having said that, I was gonna suggest RedStrawberry.com as a keyword and brandable domain but it's listed as a premium domain for $2,000+. I'd lean more towards the shorter one. Keep the domain general and shorter and target specifics with your pages and content. The S isn't always super important since google will recognize related word forms most likely including strawberry and strawberries. I'd focus on the base form without the S in this case since volume is so much higher.
Strawberries was only an example. Here is a Matt Cuts vid on keyword domains http://www.seroundtable.com/google-keyword-domains-13125.html
You choose best keyword and domain name for you site, which define your site.
I've alreadyady got the domain so it's a moot question. But nowbody seems to answering my actual question. Just pointing out.
I'm not sure I totally understood your question. You were asking about choosing keywords to include in your domain name? That might be a moot point in the first place considering the devaluing of keyword domains. Maybe not totally moot - but at least less importance than what it used to be.
I also realized you are talking about results. I thought you were talking about search volume. I've never cared about search results much. There are always millions of results for most searches but people only look at the first couple pages if they get past the first 5 results. I'd recommend looking at search volume using the Google Keyword Tool or a similar tool. For you domain name, if you're using a keyword domain, go with the higher search volume keyword. In your content, optimize for the higher volume keyword but try to include the lower volume keyword too. Depending on how close they are related, you may pick up rankings for both.
Cool thank you. You had my question right. So you think volume is better. still not sold on that. However as Matt cutts said, they are only turning down the dial a bit. Not off. Redstrawberries.com will always display before bobsgarden.com when searching for strawberries. If you dont have 20 million to spend on branding then a name like yelp or fredscode.com will never do well. As my current site name has proved.
Volume and number of results are probably closely related anyway but results can widely vary. I don't know if you've ever looked at page 500 of the search results but usually once you get to page 20, they are barely relevant anymore. So I'm skeptical that the number of results always displays exactly how many sites are competing for a keyword. I'd rather know how many people are search for a specific keyword monthly to evaluate a market.
I agree building a brand domain name can be more expensive but it depends on your market. I went with a brand for my domain name although it still has "web" in it and haven't had too much trouble ranking for keywords. Regardless of the domain, it takes an investment of time, money, and hard work.
You're in a pretty tough niche I've noticed. I've posted some web tutorials before and found them much harder to rank than other topics I write content on. That's one arena where you'll find the number of relevant search results to be high and so competition is fierce.
I agree it's a tough nut to crack. I know much more than I did 7 years ago . I think I have a good shot at it. Another site I have in a different field does really well so Ive done it I just need to transfer the same thing to this field.
My only question remaining really is... To 301 dedirect all of my 812 tutorials from my old google failed domain or to just start fresh and completely move away from being associated with the old domain. My current (old domain) does fairly well in comparison. Usually within the first 2 to 5 pages for whatever search. I'm leaning toward starting fresh and not doing the redirects. It will take longer to rank well but when I do I believe it may rank better. It's a toss up? What do you think?
I'm confused again. What's the problem with the old domain? Has it been penalized you think? Is it the one in your footer? I'd lean towards using an old domain rather than starting a new one. I would be building up the reputation and rankings of the current domain that as an established reputation (even if rankings aren't excellent). That would be a lot of content to just abandon. Maybe it just needs some solid promotion, good incoming links, etc.
Thanks. The site name is visibilityinherit.com. I think google is confused by this. So I am changing it. But your right on further thought I'm going to 301 redirect mainly so all my old links floating around still work.
A few things I'd note:
For what it's worth, UsedCars.com is #4 for "used cars" behind 3 non-keyword domains.
EMDs are not totally meaningless. I guess we don't know for sure how much they have been devalued. We just know they are valued in search rankings less than they used to. I would guess given all other things being equal, usedcars.com would get a better domain score than edmunds.com based solely on domain name. It's just not weighted as much anymore so more people are going to go after a brand name. I prefer brand name domains now myself because it communicates a higher value and a company that is working to build a quality and relevant site with good info. It might not always be true but it usually is. UsedCars.com looks like a high quality site though.
Yeah, they've never been #1 and their highest rank ever was #2. I used to work for a different automotive aggregator company like Autotrader.com that wasn't an EMD and it took two years to get to position 2 for the term. The company has since gone out of business, but I can tell you if you jump into the links and everything on UsedCars.com the different in link profiles between them and the other competitors is astounding. Autotrader, Edmunds, Cars.com, KBB.com all have much more robust SEO, so the EMD helps them quite a bit (though as you pointed out they are a high quality site still).
I agree mostly on the brand thing too. I have my own branded site ListHere.com that's for classifieds and like the name more than if I could get classifieds.com or what not, but I also run a bunch of EMD's for affiliate stuff that rank well and convert well since they're focused on singular products. Really depends on what the purpose is I suppose. For me, List Here is a "legitimate" business opportunity, while the affiliate EMD sites are really just short-to-mid term incremental revenue, definitely not something to quit the day job for.
My goal is to keep my day job and make $5000 or so passive income from advertising. I usually accomplish what I set out to do. I really-really enjoy web design. But I really-really hate dealing with flaky clients. 10 years ago when I was a client I had to painfully wait for the developers work to be performed. When I was a developer myself I also had to painfully wait on the clients to pull their head out of their ass. I now prefer to only rely on myself.
It's hard to turn down a cool domain when picking just to get a boring one that will do better. But I had remind myself what my end goal was. I came up with about 50 good .coms. The one I had to force myself to pass on was codegratis.com. Thought that was really cool. But google didn't seem to. Although gratis does have the distinction of meaning the same in most languages which is a large benefit.
After Google EMD update its very difficult to take keyword in domain name.
I would suggest you to take brand name in urls instead of keywords after new update google does not like much having keywords in url.
I am agree with you as per Google new update Google does not like having keyword in URL. If brand name is used in URL it will help you for branding your site also. So I also suggest use brand name in URL


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A man walking home with a bottle of champagne in Devizes at about 1.20am on Sunday was attacked by a drunken man.
The victim was approached near The Crammer by three men who told him to hand over the bottle.
When he refused one of the men grabbed him around the neck, which caused him to fall to the ground, and then kicked him. The other two then pulled the attacker away saying: "That's enough". The bottle was not taken from the victim.
All three men were described as intoxicated but the man who attacked the victim was the most drunk.
He is described as white, 5ft 6in tall, of stocky build, about 24 with a flat nose like a boxer and wearing a grey hoody with the hood up.
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Android gamers can now benefit from using a PlayStation 3 control pad on many of their favourite mobile games and apps. Dancing Pixel Studios' Sixaxis Controller app runs the Sixaxis or Dualshock 3 controller on Android phones and tablets. PlayStation controller Sixaxis enables the PS3 Dualshock to take control Be warned …
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Keep up, Android users. Maemo's had this since launch, and it has Zeemotes and Wiimotes too.
F*ck yeah, I think I know what I will be doing tonight.
Sweet now make better games on the andriod that isnt a tower defense, angry birds or fruit slice clones !!
Snesoid, Nesoid, Gameboid and all the other Emulator software for Andrioid, this may be the best app ever!
Someone pulled the same trick with the Wiimote some time back. Looks like they've managed to figure out what makes a Sixaxis tick as well and applied the same trick (in both cases, you need Bluetooth on).
And there was I thinking that this app must have somehow unlocked the PWC-P* interface on both devices.
[* - Psychic Wireless Control Protocol].
...if you have both your hands on the controller, then how exactly do you see the screen on the phone? You can't hold the phone, so what....you prop it up or something? My HD7 has a kickstand so that would work (maybe MS will add XBox controller support to WP7 as they have with Windows PCs, my HP Touchsmart tablet/laptop works superbly with that in Fallout 3).
iPad users have to either hold the tablet or scrunch up a coat or bag underneath it, or use some kind of flappy flippy case thing - so what of Android phone users?
It is a nice idea though, just that the execution seems tricky.
I'm keeping my fingers crossed for a Halo game on WP7 that uses the XBox controller, I have to admit.
You know that Transformer thingy? Android laptops are out there too.
Sorry to bring this subject up *again* but my N900 has tv-out, so along with a sixaxis controller it makes for a great portable console when on the road and staying at hotels and the like.
Depends on the device -- remember, there are MANY Android phones/tablets/thingies...
Bearing in mind hotel TVs are often small and crap, using a laptop with an XBox controller might be a better bet, especially as you can play much better games that the N900 just can't handle, e.g. Fallout 3. :)
This looks promising -- problem for me is that it needs a rooted phone. That's not a trivial process on my HTC Legend as far as I can tell, and I'm too busy/lazy to do it at the moment... Has anyone else tried this with a Legend?


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"This study confirms what educators have been saying since the Los Angeles Times first published their deeply flawed and irresponsible ratings of LAUSD teachers. Not only did the Times use their own highly inaccurate "value-added" method of data collection, but they then made bad conclusions from bad data and published it for the world to see. The effectiveness of a teacher cannot be measured by one or two standardized test scores and the Times did a great disservice to all educators by reducing something so multifaceted and complex to something so simplistic. CTA hopes that others who have considered following the Times' example will take this new report and its conclusions seriously, and that the Times will act with much greater caution and concern in the future before it ever again considers needlessly and wrongly besmirching thousands of dedicated education professionals."
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The rollout began in February in Texas, Northern California, and Ohio, and will continue at select kiosks throughout the year, said the company.
The feature was test-piloted by Coinstar and PayPal in the Dallas metropolitan area in 2012. Initial test results revealed that 40% of kiosk users who used the PayPal feature went back to use PayPal on a Coinstar kiosk an average of two times a month.
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Subdudes Co-Founder Johnny Ray Allen Dies at 56
Johnny Ray Allen, founding bassist and songwriter for the Subdudes, has died at age 56. The cause wasn't immediately known, though Allen had a heart condition. Allen's wife said he was found dead in bed on Friday morning.
Allen wrote or co-wrote most of the groundbreaking New Orleans-born Americana group's songs from its 1987 founding through an original breakup in 1996. He wasn't part of a later incarnation that lasted from 2002-11, but had recently returned for an on-going tour with fellow founding members Tommy Malone, Steve Amedee and John Magnie — one which had already included a stop at the House of Blues during the New Orleans Jazz Festival.
Martha Allen, his wife, told NOLA.com that Johnny Ray had been "delighted" by the long-hoped-for reunion. Other than a short-lived band called Tiny Town with Malone, he left the music business behind following his split with the Subdudes. Allen founded a construction company, and had been involved with real estate development. "He had a nice renaissance," Martha added. "He hadn't been paying enough attention to his creative side, I don't think, for years, and it was a nice surprise for him."
The Subdudes had a series of dates scheduled in Colorado and California through September, with a return engagement in New Orleans at Tipitina's on September 26. Plans were also in the works for new music. No word yet on whether the tour will continue.


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OneRepublic's 'Native' Slated for March Release
OneRepublic frontman Ryan Tedder's busy career as a songwriter and producer for other artists has been keeping him tied up for the last few years, but he hasn't given up his day job — and the band will prove it on March 26 when they release their third album, 'Native.'
Tedder opened up about the new record in an interview with Billboard, expressing his excitement about making a fresh start with the band and saying, "We're stoked to actually have this thing come out because we haven't put out an album in three years now and frankly I don't really want to do that again. I think the world's changed, musically and that's like the worst thing you can do as an artist today is to just disappear for three years. To just go away."
The album's first single, 'If I Lose Myself' (embedded below) made its public debut during the band's performance on 'Dick Clark's New Years Rockin' Eve' on Dec. 31, and although it was selected by committee, Tedder told Billboard it still ended up being the only logical choice; as he put it, "Fortunately everyone came to the same conclusion about what should be the lead single."


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Natural foods were simply not available at the time, so they started the Eden food co-op to bring them in. Their initial $200 orders to Erewhon in Boston and Chico-san in California were well received and caused a local stir. This lead to co-op members traveling rural roads, knocking on doors looking for farmers to grow food using organic methods.
The Eden co-op grew into a natural food store offering whole grains, beans, soyfoods, sea vegetables, miso, cereals, vegetable oils, seed and nut butters, and the like. It expanded adding a cafeteria, bakery, and books, and became known as the Eden Deli. It was one of very few places in the U.S.A. where you could get natural, organic, macrobiotic food.
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The hate group American Family Association isn't very happy with corporate America.
Not only did J.C. Penney feature a gay Dallas couple in a recent catalog, but the Plano-based company doesn't seem to really care what the AFA has to say about it.
On its website, the AFA says JCP is now blocking emails from its alert system and advises members to send messages from their personal accounts instead.
And now the AFA is annoyed at Target, too. For Pride month, Target is selling several Pride items and is donating 100 percent of the proceeds to the Family Equality Council up to $120,000. The AFA doesn't want you shopping there either.
And AFA announced that they sent petitions to Home Depot for "extensive support for homosexual activism and direct the company toward neutrality in the culture war."
AFA doesn't specify what the beef is, but apparently some lesbians work there. And they get equal benefits.
The group is asking people to boycott Home Depot and pray for Chairman Frank Blake, then print a copy of the petition and "distribute it at Sunday school and church," because nothing says love your neighbor like distributing petitions at church calling for hardworking people to get fired.
And look out for that radical group AARP. They're apparently using member resources to "advocate for immoral behavior." The AFA claims that the AARP's LGBT resources pages links to "articles on personal finance, travel and other issues of interest." Shocking.
Of course, AFA would like us to get back to traditional marriage as it's existed since biblical times … as depicted in this photo released by the Israeli Defense Forces this week in honor of Pride month:


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Endo Eyes Generics Growth with $225M Boca Pharmacal Acquisition
Endo Health Solutions said today that its Qualitest generic drugs subsidiary is acquiring specialty generics company Boca Pharmacal for $225 million cash. Endo said the deal is expected to enhance Qualitest's growth platform and pipeline—one of Endo's priorities for its ongoing restructuring—and was consistent with Endo's strategic transformation into a more focused specialty healthcare company.
The acquisition is expected to close before year's end subject to standard regulatory requirements. Endo said it will finance the Boca Pharmacal acquisition with cash on hand. The company reported $505.6 million in cash and cash equivalents as of June 30, according to its second-quarter Form 10-Q filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Established in 1998, Boca Pharmacal is based in Coral Springs, FL, and focuses on commercializing and developing products in categories that include controlled substances, semisolids, and solutions. The company's product list includes generic versions of anxiety drug Xanax (alprazolam) and the antiepileptic Keppra (levetiracetam). And in July, Qualitiest won FDA approval for Oxycodone and Acetaminophen tablets of 2.5 mg/325 mg, 7.5 mg/325 mg, and 10 mg/325 mg.
During the first half of 2013, Qualitest net sales grew 14% year-over-year, to $349 million. Growing Qualitest, a generic business of more than 600 products, is one of three priorities to which Endo has committed itself under a restructuring announced in June, in part through accretive acquisitions.
"The acquisition of Boca Pharmacal is the first of several transactions we plan to execute as we transform Endo into a more focused specialty healthcare company with a lean operating model, able to deliver consistent earnings and revenue growth for our shareholders," Rajiv De Silva, Endo's president and CEO, said in a statement. "The acquisition is aligned with our current generics footprint and will meaningfully accelerate the growth of Qualitest in 2014. I believe that the revenue and earnings contribution of this transaction, combined with the unique commercial portfolio and strong pipeline of ANDAs, make this an ideal fit."
Endo said Boca Pharmacal is expected to generate about $50 million in earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) this year, and be immediately accretive to Endo's 2013 adjusted diluted earnings per share.
Endo lowered its projected adjusted diluted EPS range in June to between $4.10 and $4.40, from between $4.40 and $4.70 as part of its restructuring, which included eliminating 15% of its workforce or some 700 jobs worldwide, as well as pursuing buyers for its HealthTronics urological business and branded pharmaceutical early-stage discovery platform.
The restructuring actions came less than a month after FDA rejected Endo's citizen-petition aimed at stopping a generic version of its Opana ER® (oxymorphone HCl) moderate-to-severe pain drug from reaching the market, and sent the company a complete response letter that delayed its third try at approval for its long-acting testosterone undecanoate injection Aveed.
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The Best Way to Capture Your Memories
Former Crutchfield staff writer Woody Sherman spent years working as an editor and manager in the video industry at the national level.
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Heads up!Welcome to this article from the Crutchfield archives. Have fun reading it, but be aware that the information may be outdated and links may be broken.
Have you ever wondered if you're getting the best possible results from the scenario you're shooting? It's not always easy to know what makes a camera (or camcorder) well-suited to a specific challenge.
Could you use a specialist?
With time, planning and luck, almost any digital camera can generate acceptable keepers. Even camera phones can deliver winners with time and patience. But prepare yourself to be throwing away a lot of missed, blurry moments along the way. Figuring out the most appropriate camera/lens for the situation at hand can make the difference between an ordinary snapshot and a picture — or a video — that you'll cherish for a lifetime.
The three-scenario challenge
To help shed some light on this process, some of Crutchfield's experienced photographers took three popular cameras — each representative of its class — and compared them in three common scenarios. To level the competition, we chose standard kits, fresh out of the box in full auto mode. After we'd tried them all in each situation, we evaluated which cameras delivered the best image results and shooting experience in each instance. To learn more about our experience with these cameras, check out our video.
Right job, right tool
|Left to right: Nikon Coolpix P500, Canon EOS Rebel T3, Panasonic DMC-G3K
We took the cameras shown above, representing high-zoom, SLR, and hybrid categories respectively, and tried them in three typical scenarios in full automatic mode. Which one matches your lifestyle?
Outdoor Vacations: We recommend high-zoom
Every vacation delivers the same challenge: outdoors, you need a camera that can reach out over distance while remaining portable. Both SLRs and hybrids can deliver the range, but they can't match the no-fuss nature of today's high-zoom cameras. High-zooms do a great job of managing visual space while remaining lightweight. Crutchfield designer Erica had no trouble capturing the shot to the left with the Nikon Coolpix P500.
Subdued Light Indoors: We recommend hybrids and DSLRs
You'll need a camera that makes the most of the light you have to get the best results here. Bigger sensors and lenses on the hybrids and DSLRs give them better low-light performance than you'll find on high-zooms. Hybrids are more portable, but DSLRs can have the quick-reaction edge. Here, our designer Josh set the Panasonic DMC-G3K hybrid to automatic and grabbed this intimate, no-flash shot in seconds.
Outdoor Action: We recommend DSLRs and hybrids
Sporting events present two challenges: conquering distance between you and the subject, and freezing the action in still shots. DSLRs and hybrids have bigger lenses and fast-action continuous modes that really shine once you've become familiar with your camera. Erica froze her friend's Taekwondo exercise with the Canon EOS Rebel T3.
Later, I tried to take some action shots with these three cameras on a dark, cloudy day. I didn't have the same luck Erica did. Remember, we were using these cameras in full auto mode, and, not knowing what I was specifically shooting, all the cameras obliged my difficult low-light situation by slowing the shutter speed. Sadly, that led to a lot of well-exposed but motion-blurred pictures.
This was a case where full-auto simply wasn't the best choice. Picking a sports-specific shooting mode, or a shutter-priority mode would have led to much better results. If you think you'll be shooting a lot of fast action, do yourself a favor and get to know your camera's scene settings choices. Learn more with our article on improving your outdoor action shots.
Resolution and Sensor Size: Do I need more megapixels? Or a larger sensor?
Pixel counts and sensor sizes are just part of the complex formula of electronics and optics that determine your final image quality. If you're taking informal snapshots, almost everything on the market today, including most phones, have enough pixels to make a decent image. However, fewer pixels on a sensor can sometimes enhance overall picture quality by making the camera less susceptible to noise and other digital artifacts.
Bigger sensors can host bigger, wide-aperture lenses; they isolate focus on a subject in an artistic way. It's also true that they can have the ability to be more efficient in low-light. However, the way the manufacturer designs the entire camera to work as a sum of its parts — lens, sensor, body, processor, mechanics — is often more important than simple measurements of megapixels and sensor size.


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Here you go, I have always liked Williams, he has stuff to figure out, but he could be a steal. Minnesota obviously has space to get rid of him and the way they are using him seems to indicate that he is expandable.
Lance and Tyler are probably peaking as far as trade value, and if Danny comes back then PG moves to the 2, Lance does not have as much importance to us anymore.
We could always pick up a free agent as well.


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Triple H mentioned about it being an end of an era, with himself, Shawn and the undertaker being
To be honest im personally glad jericho didnt win the royal rumble. The last couple of years it's been wrestlers who are main event material who have been out sidelined, injured for months and suddenly comeback and win the RR like they instantly deserve it, i.e Edge/cena when ppl have been busting their asses in the ring for the opportunity to main event wrestlemania.
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Saint Louis University Announces New Dean of Parks College of Engineering, Aviation and Technology
August 8, 2012
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Theodosios Alexander, Sc.D., has been named the new dean of Parks College of Engineering, Aviation and Technology at Saint Louis University.
Alexander, who currently serves as chair of energy engineering at Queen Mary, University of London, England, will join Saint Louis University Sept. 1.
"Dr. Alexander brings considerable experience as an administrator, scholar and researcher to his new role at Saint Louis University," said Manoj Patankar, Ph.D., ('92) vice president for academic affairs. "As a Parks graduate, I am proud that someone with such international renown will lead my alma mater."
Alexander, who is also known as Theodosios Korakianitis and publishes under the latter name, said he is excited by the opportunity to lead Parks College. Among his primary goals, he said he will seek to improve the school's rankings and to expand its reputation for excellence in teaching, research and service.
"I want us to springboard from the historical foundations, traditions and mission of Saint Louis University and of Parks College, and to advance our reputation as an institution where research-led education provides sought-after and marketable degrees to our graduates," Alexander said.
"We will strive for Parks College to reach a comfortable state where every individual's career and personal goals and the institutional goals are aligned, and are all framed in the context of academic excellence, as well as research accomplishment, scholarship and business relevance," he continued. "I want us to work cleverly, efficiently and with tireless determination to achieve our goals."
The SLU appointment is a sort of homecoming for Alexander. His first academic post was at Washington University in St. Louis, where he served from 1988-2001. During that same period, he worked on engineering projects for the McDonnell Douglas Corporation and Boeing Company.
After a decade away, Alexander said he is looking forward to enjoying some of his St. Louis favorites, including the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Forest Park; Cardinals and Rams games; bicycling on the Great River Road; and trips to The Hill and Ted Drewes.
More about Alexander:
Alexander was educated in England and the United States completing his First Class Honours undergraduate degree in Marine Engineering at Newcastle upon Tyne University in the United Kingdom before attending the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he received master's degrees in naval architecture and marine engineering, ocean systems management and mechanical engineering. He went on to earn his Sc.D. in mechanical engineering at MIT.
After his time at Washington University in St. Louis, Alexander held the James Watt Chair in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Glasgow in Scotland and went on to become Chair of Energy Engineering at Queen Mary, one of the Colleges of the University of London. He also has worked for Hellenic Shipyards, U.S. Navy consultants John J. McMullen Associates in Washington D.C., the Northern Research and Engineering Corporation, McDonnell Douglas Corporation and the Boeing Company on propulsion-system studies. He is active in several international consulting activities.
Alexander's research focuses on thermal/fluid sciences and applications on the design of power and propulsion systems, energy conversion systems, renewable energy and engineering systems and components. His personal research concentrates on unsteady thermo-fluid dynamics and unsteady transport phenomena within the above themes.
His latest research is on the performance of turbo machinery and airfoils, on a novel method to predict gas turbine and piston engine emissions, on the development of a novel engine for unmanned aerial vehicles (NASA, U.S. Army and DARPA funding) on fluid-dynamic modeling of the cardiovascular system, and development of mechanical circulatory support devices.


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Date: September 17, 2013 PIO Number: 13-9-19
The Broward Sheriff's Office will hold a Shred-A-Thon and Operation Medicine Cabinet prescription drug "take back" event this weekend at its Lauderdale-By-The-Sea district office.
9 a.m. – noon, Saturday, Sept. 21, 2013
BSO's Lauderdale-By-The-Sea District Office
4513 N. Ocean Drive, Lauderdale-By-The-Sea
The prescription drug take back program, operating under the name Operation Medicine Cabinet, allows participants to turn in unused or expired prescription medication to receive a $5 gift card (while supplies last, limit one per family).
The Shred-A-Thon provides residents with a safe way to dispose of their personal documents, check stubs, credit card offers, receipts and any other paperwork that contains sensitive information. The service is free of charge. There's a limit of five boxes per person.
The Shred-A-Thon events began in Broward County in May 2008, as a joint initiative by the Broward Sheriff's Office and the Florida Attorney General's Office, with the assistance of UNISHRED and The National Association of TRIADS.
For more information on the Shred-A-Thon, please call (954) 321-4100. For more information about the prescription drug "take back" event or prescription drug prevention presentations, contact Jonathon Fishman at (954) 831.8902.
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AV-1011 bird repellent for rice seed, a product of Arkion Life Sciences, has received Section 18 label approval in Louisiana for its use as a rice seed treatment (Effective Feb. 20, 2014 – June 1, 2014). The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approval means that rice growers in Louisiana can protect their seed from blackbirds and grackles.
Applied to rice seed prior to seeding, AV-1011 liquid treatment formulation is scientifically designed to deter birds from eating rice seed before emergence. Birds that ingest AV-1011-treated seeds experience immediate but harmless digestive distress. After sampling the treated seed, birds avoid it and look for other food sources. Anthraquinone (AQ), the active ingredient in AV-1010 is a naturally occurring substance, nontoxic and nonsystemic.
In the past, many rice producers have delayed planting to avoid the risk of newly planted seeds being eaten by birds over-wintering in the south. Bird damage to rice fields causes lower yields and sometimes requires reseeding — both of which are very costly. In addition, applying AV-1011 eliminates the need for growers to physically deter birds through visual or audible scare tactics and allows growers to concentrate on other important duties.
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The Radiologic Health Branch (RHB) approves radiologic technology and limited permit X-ray technician schools across the state based on their ability to provide adequate instruction to prepare individuals to safely X-ray patients across the State of California. Part of the evaluation of these approved programs is reviewing the pass rates of their graduates on national and state licensure examinations. The trend in many industries is to supply the pass rate information for educational programs on the Internet; therefore, RHB is now publishing the annual pass rates for the California-approved programs of radiologic technology and limited permit X-ray technicians.
As you link to the document that contains these pass rates, please note that the programs are organized alphabetically by program type. The headings of the columns describe "# Tested" and "% Passed." The heading "# Tested" means the number of individuals that took the national or state licensure examination for each school between January 1st and December 31st of the reported year. The heading "% Passed" means the percent of those who took the test who received at least a passing score.
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Almond Apricot Bars Recipe
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Apricot jam provides the fruit flavor in this small pan of sweet dessert bars shared by Olga Wolkosky of Richmond, British Columbia. "They freeze well and are always a hit," she relates. "They're also good with seedless raspberry jam instead."
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- 2 cups white baking chips, divided
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 3/4 cup apricot jam
- 1/2 cup sliced almonds
- Preheat oven to 325°. In a microwave, melt 1 cup chips; stir until smooth. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in melted chips and vanilla. Gradually beat in flour. Spread half of the batter into a greased 8-in. square baking dish. Bake 15-20 minutes or until golden brown. Spread with jam.
- Stir remaining chips into remaining batter. Drop by tablespoonfuls over jam; carefully spread over top. Sprinkle with almonds. Bake 30-35 minutes or until golden brown. Cool completely on a wire rack. Cut into squares; cut squares in half. Yield: 1-1/2 dozen.
Originally published as Almond Apricot Bars in Quick Cooking March/April 2005, p53
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"My friends and family rave about these bars and I have made them many times with the apricot jam only. Can't wait to try the raspberry jam."
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"I have been making Razz Ma Tazz Bars for years, they are basically this recipe but with Seedless Raspberry instead. I have made it several times with Apricot and either way it's a huge hit! YOU MUST MAKE THESE!"
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05 May 2012
I don't know how long Jim Leyland is going to be able to keep Brennan Boesch in the number two spot in the batting order if he continues to struggle so much. But the question is, if Boesch was to be yanked, who would fill his place?
I've seen a good bit of internet chatter clamoring for Andy Dirks to get a shot, but while his .282 batting average looks good, he doesn't draw many walks and only has a .300 on-base percentage to go with it. And when you boil it down OBP is the name of the game for your top-of-the-order hitters. They're getting the most plate appearances every game, and it's their job to 'set the table' for the big power guys in the three and four slots. Other than that, though, I haven't heard many suggestions.The Book (by Tango, Lichtman, Dolphin), a statistically rigorous book about baseball strategy, the authors concluded that the number two hitter and number four hitter are basically identical in their importance to the team. Or, to put it another way, number two and number four should be two of your best hitters (with OBP preference to number two, and SLG preference to number four).
Keeping this information in mind, I think a perfect fit for the spot would be Alex Avila. First of all, he would keep the righty-lefty-righty feel of the lineup (which is excellent strategy in my opinion) but even more than that, he fits the profile of an excellent number two hitter.
Avila strikes out a bit more than an average hitter would, at a rate of 23% of his plate appearances, but he more than makes up for that with his well-above average walk rate (12.5%) and his ability to hit for extra bases. But really, you don't need to look any further than his career .363 OBP to see that he would be a strong candidate to hit directly in front of the Miguel Cabrera-Prince Fielder duo.
My one concern with Avila is that he's nothing like a speedster, and slower players could tend to hit into double plays (which are a killer in the two spot), but he hits more balls in the air than on the ground which helps mitigate the risk. For his career, he's grounded into a double play in 10% of his opportunities (runner on first with less than two outs), which is slightly better than the league average rate of 11%.
The big problem with Boesch right now is his approach at the plate. He's not good at drawing walks and tends to hack at too many balls out of the zone (even in good hitter's counts). You would think that hitting in front of Cabrera and Fielder would force pitchers to throw more balls in the zone, but why would they do that when they know Boesch will chase anything?
Avila patient approach at the plate (his willingness to take more than his fair share of walks) could help the team take advantage of the protection that the big fellas provide. He's not going to chase pitches like Boesch will which will force pitchers to either put the ball in the strike zone or face Cabrera with an extra runner on base.
I don't know that Jim Leyland would ever view Avila as a candidate for the number two spot in the order, but I think it would be a great experiment to try.
Matt Snyder is the editor of The Tigers Den. He can be reached on Twitter @snyder_matthew.