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Tiny was late. Not something Sean Erez wanted to hear. The feds were arresting his New York mules left and right, so Erez decided to change the drill for the latest shipment. First he used a couple, a man and a woman, to carry the 80,000 or so Ecstasy pills he'd bought from his favorite lab in Amsterdam. The pair were Orthodox Jews, just like the rest of his couriers, but maybe the cops would be looking out for the black-bearded, black-garbed, eighteen-year-old yeshiva-student types he'd been using for the past three months. Maybe a young couple in their early twenties, without Hasidic trappings, could slip through.
Second, Erez didn't send them to JFK in New York. This time, when Moshe had passed the couriers the suitcases in Paris, Erez had arranged for them to fly directly to Miami International, where Tiny would meet them, give them the code word, take the X, move it to GQ or one of the other dealers, then fly back to Amsterdam with Erez's cut of the cash. Tiny hadn't liked that idea at first, didn't want to get caught with money. "What do you think it's for, money?" he had whined. "When someone has a quarter million in their suitcase, what do they think it's for, tomatoes?" Eventually Tiny agreed, and Erez described to him what the couriers and their luggage looked like. He told Tiny they'd be arriving in Miami between 12:30 and 12:45 p.m. on April 14....
But Tiny was late. He hadn't been there when the couple had landed, and by the time he arrived, neither the mules nor the two million dollars' worth of high-quality elephant and Superman brand pills were anywhere to be found.
At 11:20 p.m. Erez is fuming in his apartment on Amsterdam's Herengracht Street when his cell phone rings. It's Tiny.
"I ought to stab you in the head," Erez seethes. Tiny has put him in absolutely "the worst predicament ever. You deserve nothing; you deserve to have no money and be broke again." That way, Erez threatens, "maybe you'll appreciate things in the future."
He pauses. Across the Atlantic, Richard Harris "Tiny" Berman says nothing. Maybe it's best to let Erez vent for a bit.
"I just don't get it. How could you be late?" Erez continues. "They couldn't be expected to wait for you."
At this Berman responds that the last time he went to the airport with Goombah, he had to wait.
"I cannot afford to lose any more money," Erez declares.
Berman then asks if the couriers are going to call anyone. Erez says he doesn't know, but what he does know is that Berman owes him $600,000. Erez berates Berman, asking his Miami connection to consider for a moment that the couple "might have stolen it." Perhaps, Erez continues, if it were Berman's money on the line, he would have been on time to meet the plane.
Berman hangs up. Erez folds up his cell. Where are the couriers? Did they take the X? They thought they were smuggling diamonds. Even if the young couple got the idea they could fence diamonds, there was probably little chance they'd know how to get rid of 25 kilograms of Ecstasy.
Or maybe they got pinched. Best not to think about that.
In fact the couriers had been standing in line at the gate in Charles de Gaulle International Airport in Paris on April 14, just about to board their flight to Miami, when French police descended on them like hungry crows on roadkill. Their suitcases contained 78,000 Ecstasy pills, also known as rollers, bearing the Superman and elephant imprints, the two types of X popular in the Miami Beach club scene for which Richard Berman was a major supplier. The male courier, whose name is not contained in the federal indictment or the Drug Enforcement Administration's (DEA) arrest affidavit in this case, told the French anti-narcotics agents the following story.
He was recruited in New York by a man named Isaac Deutsch to take a free vacation and smuggle diamonds back to the United States. He arrived in Paris on April 12; the next day a man calling himself Moshe Katz met the courier at his hotel and gave him the bags containing not diamonds, but Ecstasy (the drug's chemical name is abbreviated MDMA). The courier recognized Katz, and knew the name he was using was an alias, but couldn't remember his real name.
According to the arrest affidavit, Moshe Katz is actually Simcha Roth. (That arrest affidavit also includes excerpts from wiretaps on Sean Erez's phones, from which the opening scene of this story was constructed. At press time all of the defendants in this case have pleaded innocent, and are awaiting trial.) The courier recognized Katz because both are members of a close-knit community: the Hasidic and the ultra-Orthodox Jewish groups of New York City. Roth and Shimon Levita, both eighteen years old, allegedly served as the primary recruiters for Erez's Ecstasy operation, and the couriers they chiefly recruited were, like them, Hasidic males ranging in age from eighteen to their early twenties. From wiretaps, confidential informants, and other investigative techniques, DEA and U.S. Customs Service agents learned that Erez specifically set up his smuggling gang to use young Hasidic men as mules, hoping that their distinctly conservative dress, and the piety with which that dress is associated, would allay any suspicion of wrongdoing.
The initial shock of the arrests in this case, which made international news in late July, centered on the incongruity of Hasidic Ecstasy smugglers. But as culturally quirky as this alleged smuggling ring might seem, it does somewhat fit an established profile for international MDMA trafficking. In its June 1999 Drug Intelligence brief about Ecstasy, the DEA stated that Israeli organized-crime syndicates (some composed of Russian-Jewish immigrants to Israel who maintain ties to Russian mobsters) are the "primary" source of Ecstasy for distributors in the United States.
But while the DEA is thinking globally, Miami Beach club kids are tripping locally. Laying aside the distinguishing garb of the alleged couriers, the sheer number of pills involved in this case speaks volumes about Miami's appetite for the most famous of all designer drugs, the drug that's driving some of the hottest music trends and dance clubs -- and most heated drug-enforcement debates -- on that sinful stretch of Miami Beach known as Washington Avenue.
Four forty-five a.m. Sunday on Washington Avenue. The regular clubs are closing down, the after-hours clubs are starting up, and too many of the thronging revelers are fucked up on the wrong kinds of drugs. A shaven-head twentysomething in a Fubu tank top shoulders his way through a cluster of silk-shirt-and-blue-jeans clad men waiting to get into Twist. "Excuse me," says one of those getting shouldered, with a tinge of attitude. "Excuse you is right," says the offender, clearly spoiling for an early morning gay-bash. His two friends shoo him along without incident. It wouldn't have been worth it anyway, it seems. "Hitting a faggot is like hitting a woman, knowhatimsayin'?" he expounds. "They start cryin' and shit."
Now there's a guy who could use some Ecstasy, the feel-good drug of the Nineties. Where could he score some? According to Miami Beach police, just about anywhere. Like from the guy with the impish grin and dyed-blond flattop waiting in line to get into The Mix. "You need rollers?" he asks, in a friendly tone. Or maybe it was a statement: If you're up this late, and you're not already rolling, then you need rollers.
His offer is politely declined; he departs with a retro "soul-brother" handshake. No more business to be done here. He's clearly taken a gander at the 30 or so individuals waiting to get into the Beach's most notorious after-hours club, and seen that the clientele is already rolling big-time. Every third patron is sucking on a Charm's Blow Pop; one diminutive girl, appropriate to her stature, has brought a pacifier, while a couple of bug-eyed gringos are chewing ferociously on plastic straws. Anything to offset that dry-mouth feeling that comes from the dehydration effect of Ecstasy; several of those in line are draining bottles of Zephyrhills. What's that smell? Ah, it's the wiry youth with the goatee and the Atlanta Falcons floppy hat smearing Vicks VapoRub all over his face. Who doesn't love the smell of menthol in the morning? (Kids on X use the strong-smelling stuff to cool off because the drug raises their body temperature.)
After a 40-minute wait in debilitating heat, the velvet rope parts. You plunk down a $15 cover charge, endure a turn-out-your-pockets- and-thorough-pat-down search, and then you can roll right into The Mix, with it's thump-and-wail trance soundtrack courtesy of DJ David Padilla, $4 bottled water ($2 for a cup of ice water -- hey, these kids ain't drinkin' booze, and these clubs ain't there for charity) and grinning, sweating clubsters brandishing glow sticks.
If Miami is the Ecstasy mecca of the globe, then The Mix is its holiest shrine.
MDMA, an acronym for 3, 4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine, has been around in one form or another since 1912, when a German company first synthesized it, possibly for use as an appetite suppressant. Decades later its euphoric effects, including the feelings of empathy, touchy-feelyness, and all-around good vibes, gave it some currency among psychiatrists, who explored its application as a therapeutic drug in the late Seventies and early Eighties. As with so many other substances in our anything-for-a-buzz culture, the stuff found its way into the illicit market, and as recreational use of this designer drug began to escalate, the state stepped in.
"July 1, 1985," says Jim Hall, executive director of the Miami Coalition for a Safe and Drug-Free Community. "I remember the day exactly. That's when the DEA scheduled MDMA as a designer drug." Beginning on that day, Ecstasy was a Schedule 1 drug in the United States, meaning the federal penalties for its use and possession were just as stiff as they were for cocaine, PCP, and heroin.
But even as early as the mid-Eighties, the European subculture that had grown up around X, especially in the pot-permissive Netherlands, was unique. "The emergence of warehouse parties in Amsterdam was really centered around Ecstasy," Hall says. "It was [marketed] like, 'Here is the return of acid, but without LSD.' Ecstasy gives self-introspection like LSD, but it's technically a stimulant, not a hallucinogen. It's not a stimulant like cocaine or amphetamines, where you get this physical, nervous, agitated energy, like too much coffee for some of us," he adds, with a chuckle. "It's more of a mental alertness, an awakeness, but there's no distortion of reality." With the warehouse parties, Hall says, the early-morning hours accommodate the stimulant effect, and the booming music and photonic light shows stand in for the aural and visual hallucinations acid would have provided.
Hall adds that, despite the euphoric feelings it delivers, X is hardly benign. As with any stimulant, an overdose carries the risk of convulsions or even stroke. Ecstasy also is notorious for a bad hangover, usually lasting most of the day after use. Because of the relative newness of MDMA, Hall says, researchers really don't know much about the effects of long-term use of the drug on humans.
Kirsten Leistner, a 34-year-old bartender, has a prime perspective on the Ecstasy era. A native of Berlin, she vividly remembers the European X scene, and she's tended bar in Miami Beach since 1991. "Back in the days," in Europe, she says, Ecstasy appeared out of an Amsterdam drug/club scene already saturated with marijuana and LSD. X spread quickly through Western Europe as a once-in-a-while, special-occasion, stay-up-all-night-and-hug-everybody drug in the mid- to late Eighties, and remains strong in the clubs over there. One of the most visible and notorious barometers of Ecstasy's continued popularity is the annual Love Parade in her hometown, during which it seems the entire continent's youth takes MDMA, then brings the fun out of the clubs and into the streets. If you don't want to participate, it's best to leave Berlin.
"The music needs to be enlivened, so the old disco gets a revived backbeat to it, a more energetic feel to it," Hall adds. "There was always this kind of special relationship between the drug and the event." The intertwined phenomenon of MDMA and the all-night party made enough of an impact in the United States -- principally in Houston, Atlanta, and the San Francisco Bay Area -- for the government to declare the drug part of the deal illegal. (With a few exceptions, then as now, the drug itself was being produced in Western Europe and shipped all over the world.) In addition to the semiclandestine warehouse parties where X was served, organizers would sometimes pitch a tent somewhere out in the boondocks as a temporary venue. By the end of the Eighties, the word rave entered the mainstream pop-culture lexicon. By the early Nineties even Jason Priestley's character on Beverly Hills 90210 took something called "Euphoria" at a rave in one episode. (He makes out with a sleazy girl who slipped the "4" (as in eu-FOUR-ia) in his drink, then the next day she says, "You told me you loved me," and he says, "Yeah, well I must have been on drugs." Cue music ... and fade.)
The demand for the stuff was expanding steadily. As with most drugs, its popularity spurred a growth in the production of fake Ecstasy.
"Through most of the Eighties, when people would send in Ecstasy for us to test, it was one of the few street drugs that was almost always what it was supposed to be," Hall remembers. Then, in the mid-Nineties, that began to change. He recalls one person from Central Florida calling the Miami Coalition's hotline, distraught because he had flunked a drug test, but insisting that he hadn't done any drugs. Hall asked him what he had tested positive for; the man told him, cocaine and phenobarbital. Which was impossible, because he hadn't taken any drugs ... except for Ecstasy. "Well, there's your answer," Hall told him. "What you took wasn't X, but a combination of cocaine and phenobarbital."
This was the first Hall had heard of this particular mode of combining an upper and a downer in one pill -- a cheaper formula than MDMA -- and calling it Ecstasy. But as he investigated this ersatz X, often known as "rollers" (which is confusing, because being on real Ecstasy is also called "rolling," the real stuff also called "rollers" and "rolls"), he discovered something weird.
"What has fascinated me about [fake Ecstasy] in the Nineties is, normally, when there's adulteration, the consumers get mad, or antsy, or paranoid," he says. "But here, for the first time, the adulteration becomes almost a promotional tool. People will ask each other, 'What's in your roller?' 'Mine has a little bit of X, plus methamphetamine, plus a touch of cocaine, and some Xanax, and just a little bit of heroin.' We first reported this back about six years ago, when people would take a 'five-way': In that case snorting, say, a line of coke, a line of Rohypnol, a line of Ecstasy, a line of Special K [the veterinary anesthetic ketamine], a shot of Jägermeister," he says, with an ironic laugh. "There was no real pharmaceutical logic to it."
In South Florida the non-Ecstasy rollers became a desired product themselves in the Nineties, especially among teenage ravers. Even as late as 1998, Hall says, the data he has collected locally, along with that of federal law enforcement and drug-prevention agencies, suggested that the big story down here was fake X, not real X. But in 1999 it's become clear that good old-fashioned, high-quality MDMA has made a huge comeback, especially in Miami Beach, thanks to a massive influx of the stuff from Europe, chiefly Amsterdam. The trendy and potentially deadly illogic of the "five-way" persists, though. The night of the September 18 rave in the Coconut Grove Convention Center, at which 15,000 people took in large volumes of electronica music and controlled substances, a man in his twenties died of an overdose in a nearby hotel. He appeared to have succumbed to some or all of the components of a "nine-way": Ecstasy, Special K, heroin, LSD, nitrous oxide, pot, cocaine, Xanax, and alcohol. (At press time the Miami-Dade County medical examiner's office had not determined the exact cause of the man's death.) Kirsten Leistner has witnessed the ebb and flow of drug trends from behind various bars. Her state-of-the-city report: "Now it's rolls everywhere," she says, specifying that she means actual X, not the fake stuff. Sometimes she sees the younger clubbers taking what they call "horse pills," big capsules that contain blends of Ecstasy, Special K, sometimes LSD, or other uppers or downers. Still, in 1999 the return of the real deal is dominating the club scene on the Beach. "Ecstasy came in within the last five years, but in the past few months, it's gotten a little more extreme," Leistner says.
According to his arrest affidavit, Sean Erez's Ecstasy-smuggling ring was a major supplier of top-notch product to the Miami Beach market. Federal agents, with the cooperation of Dutch, French, and other European law enforcement agencies, have arrested seven people in connection with this network: The mastermind Erez, a 29-year-old Canadian citizen, known also by the aliases Opher Erez, Shmule, and Chaim; his girlfriend Diana Reicherter, a 21-year-old American also known as Rachel; Giacomo Pampinella, 23 years old, an alleged wholesaler of the drug in New York City, known as Goombah or Jimmy; Richard Harris Berman, 29 years old, an alleged wholesaler in Miami Beach also called Tiny; Yves Cesar Vandenbranden, 24 years old, known as GQ, an alleged Miami dealer who is accused of buying his drugs from Berman; and the two Hasidic 18-year-olds, Shimon Levita (also Shimi, or Mo) and Simcha Roth (Moshe, Moshe Katz, or Mutty Katz), who are accused both of transporting the Ecstasy themselves, and recruiting couriers from New York's ultra-Orthodox community for that purpose. At least six of these couriers became confidential informants for the government.
The federal documents describe the following modus operandi. Sean Erez, based in Amsterdam, would buy the X from the manufacturers. He or his girlfriend, Diana Reicherter, would pass the shipments to the Hasidic couriers recruited by Levita and Roth. The couriers would fly from one of several European cities (principally Brussels, Paris, and Amsterdam) to New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport. There one of two middlemen would meet them: Pampinella, the New York wholesaler, or Berman, the Miami Beach wholesaler. For the return trip, Pampinella or Berman would give the couriers cash, to be handed over to Erez in Europe.
Of the million or so MDMA pills the ring is alleged to have distributed, more than half of that amount was sold in Miami Beach. In one taped conversation from a government phone tap, Berman once told Erez that 40,000 Ecstasy pills were "nothing," and that he could move 100,000 pills in 48 hours in Miami Beach. The DEA affidavit states that Erez relied on Berman as his readiest source of cash, because of Berman's ability to sell the Ecstasy quickly and return Erez's share of the profits to him in Amsterdam.
In early April of this year, after the feds started busting the couriers, the recruiters fled. Levita and Roth flew from New York to Miami, and then to Amsterdam. Roth eventually continued on to Israel and was considered a fugitive before returning to New York and surrendering to federal authorities. Ultimately all seven alleged members of the ring were arrested. Roth and Vandenbranden currently are out on bail after pleading innocent to the charges. Erez and Reicherter are still in the Netherlands, and are contesting their extradition to the United States.
On at least one occasion, the young Hasidic couriers made their trips from Miami, then to New York, then to Paris. The affidavit is unclear as to whether these couriers were recruited from Miami. Linda Lacewell, the assistant U.S. attorney prosecuting the case in New York, says that as far as she knows, Roth and Levita did all of their headhunting among the Orthodox Jewish communities in the New York City area. They focused on their fellow Hasids, but occasionally recruited other Orthodox people (such as the Paris couriers). Although she won't give an exact number, Lacewell says that, in the five months of its operation, Erez's Ecstasy ring recruited "dozens of individuals" as couriers, nearly all of them young Hasidic males from the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, and Monsey, New York. Some of them made multiple trips either to Europe with money, or from Europe with Ecstasy.
"The recruiters believed that these couriers would not attract the attention of Customs inspectors because of their conservative background and their religious dress and appearance," states a press release issued by the U.S. Attorney's Office in New York. "The recruiters exploited the youth and relatively sheltered background of their recruits by falsely telling them that they would be smuggling diamonds."
Which of course is also illegal, but not without precedent among the Jewish diaspora, especially in the years before and during the Holocaust. "[Those couriers] might have said to themselves, 'Well, I remember grandma telling me about smuggling diamonds out of Europe in the linings of their clothes,'" says an Orthodox rabbi in Miami Beach, who asked not to be identified for this story. "So even though it would be wrong, they could try to justify it. There's these tax laws on merchandise, and it's a white-collar offense. But they should still know that it's wrong."
"Smugglers will try any subterfuge to get drugs into this country," says Rabbi Pinchas Weberman of Miami Beach, president of the Orthodox Rabbinical Council of South Florida. "They'll put it in fish, or cans of food, and this is just another way of hiding it. [The young Hasidim] don't fit the profile, and [the smugglers] probably knew that."
The press release continues: "Each courier was promised a free trip to Europe and approximately $1500 in exchange for making a smuggling trip. Some couriers also were paid a finder's fee of approximately $200 for each additional courier they recruited. Each courier smuggled between 30,000 and 45,000 Ecstasy pills into the United States." Within its relatively short lifespan, the ring allegedly imported at least one million pills into the United States. At a cost to Erez of between $.50 and $2, and a street value of between $25 and $30 in New York and Miami Beach nightclubs, there was plenty of profit to go around. According to the government complaint, couriers going to Europe often carried as much as $500,000 in cash.
And though the multiagency, international investigation was centered in New York, Lacewell emphasizes that more than half of the million pills the ring smuggled into this country were sold in Miami Beach through Berman and his dealers. "This was a significant ring," Lacewell says. "I'm not aware of a larger Ecstasy organization that's yet been broken up." The DEA has published reports linking Ecstasy smuggling to Israeli organized crime, but nothing in the public record about the Erez ring suggests any mob ties to the operation. Lacewell declined to comment on possible links between Erez and Russian/Israeli gangsters.
Does the fact that the alleged couriers were mostly Hasidic young men especially trouble other observant Jews in South Florida? The rabbi contacted for this story hadn't heard the tale. After reading an Associated Press account of the bust, he reluctantly agreed to an interview, taking pains to stress that such behavior is an aberration. (Which, of course, is precisely why Sean Erez used young Hasids in the first place.)
"Every community wrestles with these kinds of issues," he says. "Teachers and parents wonder how to train the next generation, and when something like this happens, it just points out the challenges we face. The fact that young people are going to clubs and taking Ecstasy is the problem, that's what bothers me more. It's terrible that people are going to go to such lengths to recruit and plan for the supply of this drug, but the real question is, 'Why are kids taking this drug?'"
In the Miami Beach club community, after-hours clubs are not the only ones in which Ecstasy is being sold and consumed. But the number of wide-awake early-twenties clubbers the drug generates clearly is driving the bottom line of The Mix and its after-hours brethren, the Fabric and Kit Kat clubs.
Their proprietors probably know this, and they also know that the combination of their drug-haven rep and the ungodly hours they keep (4:30 a.m. to noon) has put them in the cross hairs of cops and politicians on the Beach. But hey, these people are going to be awake for a while anyway. Do the powers that be really want packs of young adults roaming the streets, touching everything that moves?
"I've seen some crazy things," says bartender Kirsten Leistner. "Those glow sticks, you know how people wave them around in front of people's faces? This girl was standing in front of my bar two or three months ago, totally rolling, and this guy with two glow sticks comes up to her and starts making them go around her head, really fast. Then, he smacks her in the head so hard that she starts bleeding! The guy freaked. He was like, 'Oh my God, I'm sorry!' I gave her some napkins and asked, 'Did you notice that you're bleeding?' She just kind of wiped it off and smiled. She didn't even fucking care."
(Leistner adds that X actually has been a real bummer for those in her profession. "I made more money from the cokeheads," she says. "They have more to drink, and they get generous when they're wired. The X kids don't have much money, and they spend it all on the drug. Plus you don't want to drink anything but water on X.")
Would shutting down after-hours clubs solve the Ecstasy problem in Miami Beach? According to several sources, the X connection to the Beach goes way deeper than that.
"We are an epicenter of Ecstasy for the world," stresses Jim Hall of the Miami Coalition for a Safe and Drug-Free Community. "Even in New York, it's the Miami name that you find associated with some of the Ecstasy tablets. We are a world capital for Ecstasy, not the production center, not necessarily even the consumption center, but one of landmark, prestige centers of the MDMA cognoscenti. They visit here, they deal here, they trip here." He pauses. "They raise a lot of money here for charities."
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Hall is referring, rather pointedly, to another aspect of Ecstasy's broad appeal. Not just skater/ravers from Kendall, but Miami's gay male clubgoers are rolling these days, as many of them have been throughout the decade. "Of the circuit parties, the White Party stands as the center event of that scene, which has done wonders for [AIDS-related] charities," Hall says. "Yet within that genre has also appeared the international jet set of this drug. The cognoscenti comes to the high temples of the high parties, whether they're on an island in Thailand or Sydney or London or Paris, Amsterdam, or New York."
And while local law enforcement hasn't made any busts on the scale of the alleged Erez ring, they have been noticing a sharp uptick in the amount of Ecstasy flowing into South Florida.
Agent Brent Eaton, public information officer for the Miami office of the DEA, notes that MDMA distribution and use has risen dramatically in the past few months. He cites several DEA busts as evidence of this trend. On July 21, two Dutch women were arrested at Orlando International Airport after arriving on a flight from Brussels with 50 pounds of MDMA. On July 25, a Dominican woman was arrested at Miami International after arriving from Santo Domingo with 9500 tablets of X; she was the most recent of five Dominican couriers arrested at MIA within the past six months. On July 29, a German man and woman were arrested at Fort Myers International after having brought 33 pounds (50,000 tablets) of Ecstasy on a flight from Düsseldorf. (Eaton says these pills were bound for Miami.) And on August 25, a Dutch woman was busted at the Orlando airport after bringing in 27 pounds of the drug from London.
On the Beach itself, the upsurge has been even more acute. "We didn't really start making arrests with [Ecstasy] until the last year, year and a half," says Sgt. David Young of the Miami Beach Police Department's narcotics unit. "We've made what we consider some really big arrests, involving up to 10,000 pills. It's now become so common here, we're running into dealers almost weekly." Although Beach cops hadn't "run into" the Miami Beach middlemen of Erez's alleged operation, Young confirms that the elephant, Superman, and yin-yang imprints of Ecstasy pills the group are accused of trafficking were -- and still are -- commonly found in Beach nightclubs.

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Reporters can now use Twitter, text messages and email in courtrooms in England and Wales without needing to ask permission, the head of the judiciary said Wednesday.
"Twitter as much as you like from today," Lord Chief Justice Igor Judge told journalists as he handed down new guidelines on using laptops and hand-held devices.
Under interim guidance issued in December 2010, reporters could apply to the judge for permission to use live text-based communications in court.
That came after journalists covering the extradition hearings of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange asked to be allowed to tweet live news of proceedings.
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He said the use of "an unobtrusive, hand held, silent piece of modern equipment for the purposes of simultaneous reporting" was unlikely to interfere with proper proceedings.
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As we put on our jackets to walk to Mayfield in Crown Heights a few Sundays ago, my dining companion asked me: "Should we call ahead and make sure they're still serving? It's almost 10 p.m." We did; they were.
It wasn't the sleepy Sunday, last guests lingering that I'd expected. Instead, a lively dining room, a crowded bar, a sense of energy. We wound down our meal with bourbon and then Fernet, paid the check with no hurry, and left with a good dozen people still eating. Midnight. Sunday.
Having visited Mayfield only three times I can't say whether that's a pattern, but if my experiences have been any indication, this is a neighborhood spot that's filling a void. It's as successful a bar as a restaurant, gathering place as eatery, with a menu I'd eat from any day of the week.
Opened back in October by Lev Gewirtzman and Jacques Belanger (both of Ouest, both chefs, though Belanger is all front-of-house here), Mayfield brings something new to this increasingly coffee shop– and eatery–crowded stretch of Franklin Avenue.
Such restaurants fall somewhere in the general progression of gentrification, Brooklyn-style, when a capital-R, social-media-ed, you-know-the-rest Restaurant lands to anchor what's likely to be a restaurant row. How do these things go? Neighborhoods evolving along with their new residents—perhaps first there's a coffee shop (or bakery, or deli) with better-than-average coffee; then a grocery store with a good produce section. A little wine shop, or a better beer selection at Key Foods. New sandwich shops. Comfortable cafés. And finally, a full-fledged, sit-down, wine-listed, craft-cocktailed, night-out-for-dinner restaurant. Mayfield is the last of those. (The artisan mayonnaise shop is somewhere further down the line.)
That's not to suggest a value judgement about what a neighborhood "should" be, or who and whose institutions "belong"; all I can say is, there's a crowd that's already received Mayfield enthusiastically. "We're the only bougie restaurant here," said our server one night. "I think there was a neighborhood need."
Chef Gewirtzman's menu includes many takes on American classics, almost all of which are executed beautifully. House-Corned Beef Tongue ($10) smells like a Reuben when it hits the table, in the best possible way: warm griddled rye bread; tender petals of beef tongue corned in-house; a pile of sharp sauerkraut. Fried Clam Bellies ($13) sport an aggressively crunchy shell, plump and crisply fried, soaked in buttermilk before they're dredged and flour and Old Bay. They're essentially American pleasures both. Other dishes reflect the greens-loving Brooklyn of our time, like a plate of Roasted Brussels Sprouts ($10) with cubes of prosciutto, turnips, and pickled mustard, the sheep's milk cheese Dante grated on top. (At my first Mayfield meal, we had to order a second plate.)
Of the mains, there's plenty to love about the Berkshire Pork Chop Saltimbocca ($22), wrapped in proscuitto and sage and pan-seared. Its accompaniments almost steal the show: A bed of farro cooked in mushroom stock with caramelized onions and brussels sprout leaves; grilled radicchio with a balsamic reduction. Sides dominate, too, in the buttermilk fried quail ($20), crunchy and well-seasoned on its own but made a complete pleasure once paired with supple, jiggly-middled corn spoonbread and bacon-laden collards. And if you'd like to linger a bit longer, an apple upside down cake, a generous scoop of vanilla ice cream to top, is worth an order too.
At some point, I realized that I was eating pickled honshimeji while the couple next to me were throwing back beers and "Highway to Hell" played through the speakers. My kind of meal. Plenty of Brooklyn restaurants these days will bill themselves as neighborhood spots—knowing they have an audience within walking distance, knowing they'll pay for good food—but, frankly, don't treat customers with neighborly goodwill. At Mayfield, I saw servers seat two members of a party of three, without making them wait for their tardy guest (!). I saw servers linger with diners, chatting about college basketball (playing on a muted screen overhead) or opining on after-dinner amari. It's easy to welcome a restaurant that wants to welcome you back.
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In Wall Street Journal op-ed: New Business, Not Small Business, Is What Creates Jobs, Kauffman Foundation senior execs Carl Schramm, Robert Litan and Dane Stangler announce their latest report on small business job creation.
The report sorts out small business job growth fiction vs. reality.
It turns out that "nearly all net job creation since 1980 occurred in firms less than five years old."
No wonder start-ups generate so much [intoxicating] fun. In fact, researchers report that "of the entire pool of new jobs added in 2007 (roughly 12 million), about two-thirds was generated by these young companies."
While the report is exceptionally well written (and filled with terrific graphs for anyone—like me—who sells to small business), their policy recommendations are off-target.
Here's a copy of my response and a call to arms for Geeked-out Salespeople…
Carl, et al: Terrific insight… that *new and growing* businesses are the real fuel of economic growth (cf., small businesses in general). Thank you for that important clarification.
Your conclusions, though, leave out the most critical element.
While you present good suggestions (welcoming immigrants, unleashing professors, access to capital, sarbox exceptions), they will do little to break the enormous inertia preventing entrepreneurs and their breakthrough ideas, patents and processes from ever reaching the point at which their [start-up] companies are able to create jobs.
Having worked for and with hundreds of venture-level firms and each of their entrepreneurs, the single biggest contributing factor choking the conversion from entrepreneurial idea to commercialization (and jobs) is lack of customers. Pure and simple, if you can't create a customer (or in the case of Twitter: a registered user), your idea dies.
Without customers (and the revenue they create) investors won't invest, IPO's won't occur and patents become worthless (fyi: 60,000 patents expire each year… so we really don't need more patents).
No doubt, the ability to create customers (a/k/a selling) is critical to any firm. But for startups, it is their literal lifeblood.
But given this linkage, it is exasperating to find so little sales training or formal education available. At which institutions do engineers (and for that matter, professors) learn how to sell? I cannot list 5 institutions in the US that provide the kind of bare-metal selling necessary for taking early-stage products (i.e., working prototypes) to market.
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The man who played Luke Duke on the iconic show "The Dukes of Hazzard" is taking on a different role in an effort to help raise autism awareness.
Actor Tom Wopat said he has a nephew who was diagnosed with autism, so he's using his celebrity to bring awareness to the cause.
Wopat, who has been on Broadway and is a two-time Tony Award nominee, will be in Baltimore next week to take part in a special benefit concert at Goucher College. Money raised from the concert will go toward the group Pathfinders for Autism and the Saint Elizabeth School.
Wopat said autism is something that's close to his heart.
"It's something that is difficult and hard to define, and I think that's why, a lot of times, it gets the short end of the stick as far as money being donated for research goes. They're trying to really figure out how to best integrate these individuals into the community," Wopat told 11 News.
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CBS has sold out all of its advertisements for Sunday's Super Bowl, despite controversy surrounding anti-abortion ads and gay dating sites, Reuters reported Monday. The network will be airing some of the most expensive 30-second spots on television this Sunday.
A tough economy didn't stop advertisers like Budweiser from paying for their ads to air in one of the biggest sporting events of the year -- some 30-second spots in this year's National Football League championship game sold for nearly $3 million.
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The network will still be airing an ad sponsored by conservative Christian group Focus on the Family, which features Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow and which some U.S. women's groups say has an anti-abortion message.
The network said it is a first step in its shift toward more advocacy ads. But after accepting the Tebow ad, the network did reject a spot promoting the gay dating site Mancrunch.com that showed two men kissing. A network statement said that the company's "Standards and Practices department decided not to accept this particular spot."
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Dave Marsh's continues to narrate Roy Orbison's professional and personal life from the mid 60's to the 80's. Following the success of Pretty Woman was a chain of tragic events of Orbison's personal life. He continued to made music through the 60s and 70s, but a major comeback began in the mid-1980s when David Lynch used "In Dreams" for his film, Wild at Heart. Roy discusses how that happened, and we also hear how that was followed by the Traveling Wilburys and posthumus album Mystery Girl.
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This is the ninth vehicle in the 30-day Countdown to Barrett-Jackson's 47th annual Scottsdale auction.
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The first two ingredients in the food are named meat products. The first is chicken - inclusive of its water content. Once this is removed, as it must be to make a dry food, the ingredient will weigh around 20% of its wet weight. It is thus unlikely that it is the true first ingredient in the food, and it is likely to be more accurately placed much further down the ingredient list. Since the second ingredient is a meat meal, however, this is of limited concern. Chicken meal is the sole meat meal ingredient in the food.
The next 4 ingredients are all grains. These are primarily decent quality grains, but we note that three of these are forms of rice (the ingredient is "split") and it appears likely that the combined grain ingredients would outweigh the meat meal ingredient in this food. Consequently, our confidence that the food contains a decent amount of meat is low.
Beet pulp is controversial filler. It is a by-product, being dried residue from sugar beets which has been cleaned and extracted in the process of manufacturing sugar. It is a controversial ingredient in dog food, claimed by some manufacturers to be a good source of fibre, and derided by others as an ingredient added to slow down the transition of rancid animal fats and causing stress to kidney and liver in the process. We note that beet pulp is an ingredient that commonly causes problems for dogs, including allergies and ear infections, and prefer not to see it used in dog food. There are less controversial products around if additional fibre is required.
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Like Senator McCain, I am an American citizen born overseas to American citizens. As a result, I'm deeply and personally interested in the latest furor over whether McCain's birth in the Canal Zone disqualifies him from running for the US presidency. All my life, I've been told that because I was born in Germany I was a kind of "second class citizen," unable to even consider running for President.
Unlike McCain, whose father was in the military, my father was an American diplomat. Thus, I must admit that I'm not sure what to think about Senate bill S.2678, introduced yesterday in the US Senate by Claire McCaskill (D-MO). The bill is entitled: "A bill to clarify the law and ensure that children born to United States citizens while serving overseas in the military are eligible to become President." Of course, my question is: What about the kids of US Diplomats? What about the kids of folk that worked for Agriculture, Customs, FAA, CIA, or any of the many other US agencies? Are we somehow less worthy, less American, less good than the military kids? In fact, what about the kids born to US citizens who weren't working for the government at all? (Does the fact that one's parents worked overseas or had an unexpected birth while on vacation in the Carribean make one less of an American?)
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Total TimePrep/Total Time: 20 min.
Makes10 servings (2-1/2 quarts)
- 1/2 cup chopped onion
- 4 bacon strips, diced
- 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1/2 teaspoon chili powder
- 1/8 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 package (32 ounces) frozen cubed hash brown potatoes
- 2 cans (14-1/2 ounces each) chicken broth
- 1 can (14-3/4 ounces) cream-style corn
- 1 can (11 ounces) Mexicorn, drained
- 1 can (4 ounces) chopped green chilies
- 1/4 cup pearl onions
- Sour cream and minced fresh cilantro, optional
- In a Dutch oven, saute onion and bacon until onion is tender and bacon is crisp. Stir in the flour, cumin, chili powder and garlic powder. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 1 minute or until thickened.
- Stir in the hash browns, broth, cream corn, Mexicorn, chilies and pearl onions. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, for 10 minutes or until heated through. Garnish with sour cream and cilantro if desired.
Nutrition Facts1 cup: 197 calories, 6g fat (2g saturated fat), 6mg cholesterol, 756mg sodium, 34g carbohydrate (5g sugars, 4g fiber), 6g protein. Diabetic Exchanges: 2 starch, 1 vegetable.
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Feb 18, 2014
This is wonderful but I think it would have been just "okay" without the toppings - the toppings are what really put it over the top for me! We used shredded colby jack and chopped green onions in addition to the sour cream. Didn't have any pearl onions or cilantro but I bet the cilantro would have been a good addition. Also since one of my daughters is a vegetarian I used vegetable broth and served the bacon as a topping. To finish it off, try a drizzle of Sriracha. It can be hard to find a good potato soup recipe but this one is definitely a keeper for me!
Feb 3, 2011
This was a good recipe. I served in with the Guacamole Chicken Wraps in the same issue. I made a few changes: used regular corn instead of creamed since I don't like it. I also cooked the bacon first, removed it to paper towel and cooked the onions in the bacon grease. I used the cooked bacon as a garnish, along with cilantro, sour cream and crushed tortilla chips. Next time I will eliminate the pearl onions as I did not like them in this particular recipe.
Dec 26, 2009
Every time I make this recipe, my family loves it! The sour cream, cilantro and crushed taco chips makes for great toppings. I exclude the pearl onions...just our taste.


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Game #125: A's at Jays pregame
Oakland (62-64) at Toronto (63-61)
at 7:07 p.m. ET at the Rogers Centre
Today's lineups:
Jeff Davannon, CF
Marco Scutaro, SS
Nick Swisher, RF
Jack Cust, LF
Mike Piazza, C
Dan Johnson, 1B
Mark Ellis, 2B
Jack Hannahan, 3B
Kurt Suzuki, C
PITCHING: RHP Dan Haren (13-4, 2.54 ERA)
Reed Johnson, LF
Lyle Overbay, 1B
Alex Rios, RF
Vernon Wells, CF
Frank Thomas, DH
Troy Glaus, 3B
Aaron Hill, 2B
Gregg Zaun, C
John McDonald, SS
PITCHING: RHP Dustin McGowan (8-7, 4.14 ERA)
NOTES: Another slow news day here at the Dome. You know that's the case when the biggest "news" out of the pregame came when Jays manager John Gibbons said the team will need a third catcher as part of the upcoming September call-ups. So, that means either Sal Fasano, who was recently banged up in a collision at the plate, or prospect Robinzon Diaz could get the call. … Outside of that — not much going on. … Gibbons didn't want to discuss the McGowan pinch running situation more than he had to, saying he didn't want to provide any more "ammo" for people to use. Interesting. … Some more news on LHP David Purcey. The pitching prospect — out since June with an elbow injury — is slated to take part in the Arizona Fall League, which begins in October. … On this date last season Gibbons chased pitcher Ted Lilly into the tunnel behind Toronto's dugout, where a fight broke out. Ah, the good ol' days. I'm leaving on a jet plane tomorrow for the West coast. So, probably no blogging tomorrow.
entering Tuesday
1. Boston 75-50 (–)
2. New York 70-55 (5)
3. Toronto 63-61 (11.5)
4. Baltimore 57-65 (16.5)
5. Tampa Bay 47-77 (27.5)
entering Tuesday
1. Seattle 70-52 (–)
2. New York 70-55 (1.5)
3. Detroit 67-57 (4)
4. Toronto 63-61 (8)
5. Minnesota 62-62 (9)
TICK, TOCK…Since 1995, the runner-up in the AL Wild Card race has finished with an average of 89 victories. The Blue Jays would need to go 27-11 over their final 38 games to reach 90 wins.
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Gibbons generates plenty of ammo by Xeroxing his lineups every day instead of moving underperformers around.
Jordon, thank you for the information on Purcey-that's good news; meaning he's not meeting Dr. Tommy John.
I'm not surprised at Gibby's reaction to the McGowan question. I'm sure JP questioned him on such a dumb move.
It was the bottom of the 8th, we were down 6-3, with 2 out. I would think differently if it was 6-5 and McGowan was potentially the tying score.
Why risk a prized starter, scheduled to start tonight that we have such a huge investment in?
What was wrong with using Tallet, or Wolfe?
As I mentioned earlier, if the game went to extras, Tallet or Wolfe might have pitched, but McGowan definitely wouldn't have.
torgen-then use one of the guys on the bench-or Jessie Litsch-to use McGowan-next day's starter was stupidity
And Tommy John is the pitcher who got the surgery, not the doctor who performed it.
Besides we were 2 out in the bottom of the 8th against their 8th inning guy and closer coming up. We were heading into the poor part of our lineup-so there was little chance we could score 3 runs and tie
torgen-please-do you not think I know that. Dr. Tommy John has become a bus word for the operation in case you didnt know
In very long extra innings games you sometimes have to use starters as relievers, but even in such a case you would never use the next day's starter. Litsch may have had to pitch the 18th, but McGowan would still not have been brought in.
you have your opinion, I have mine, and mine is Gibby was an idiot for using him. If McGowan had gotten injured and couldn't pitch today or through the end of the year or ever what would you have said then.
He was needed for the 18th. common already give it a rest
Gibby was an idiot-plain and simple-support him if you want -your choice
It's not like Litsch getting injured would have been any better.
Litsch isn't a franchise pitcher-McGowan is-there is one h e l l of a difference and you know it
But as I said if you want to support Gibby's idiotic decision-your choice.
I do not. EOD
I'd like to think that as a Major league player, Dustin could run the bases pretty well without hurting himself; on top of that he looks like a pretty good athlete.
We haven't heard of any kids getting hurt running the bases on Jr. Jays Saturdays.
So my thought on Gibby using Dustin last night is good on him for taking such a huge gamble. (sarcasm on huge)
Would you feel the same if there was a play at home plate where Dustin got banged up by the catcher?
"Hey Dusty, if there's a play at the plate, slide feet first."
There, problem solved.
alright guys DROP THE MCGOWAN DISCUSSION i fear it's gonna turn into a lethal war soon. Something like with bosox and richard or whoever owned that horrible company before. Gibby made his decision you all said what you thought and i am sure no one wants it to go further.
Agreed on that point Torgen. I'm sure Dustin's smart enough to avoid colliding with the catcher.
let's talk about tonight's matchup do u think the jays stand a chance again haren. He's been way too good this season and our offense underperforming he prolly is the worst guy that can come up. Unless the offense start up today then he is the best cause that might give the jays some more confidence.
ALso wells seems like he is pulling it together as of late.
guys i'm sure dusting knows how to slide but i'm pretty sure so does jeter remember wat happened to him in the first game of season couple of years ago at 3rd base. that being said what happened to jeter is pretty rare so there we go you each have a point now lets stop talking about the controverisal move gibby made.
where is garry thought he'd be here by now, oh and wat channel is the game on today. it's not on Sportsnet.
I won't believe Wells is putting it together until he hits a homer. Likewise for Rios. Both have gone almost a month. Rios has been an on-base machine, but without power behind him it's not so useful. Johnson's OBP vs. RHP has looked a little better lately, but it's still under .300 for the month, and that just won't do for a leadoff hitter.
I think the game is on TSN, but I'm closer to A's territory than Jays, and I'm stuck with Gameday Audio because of the local mlb.tv balckout.
i think johnson is coming back slowly and you have a point about wells certainly needs to hit more big ones. Rios is turning into miguel tejada have u guys noticed?
OVERBAY does not deserve number 2 right now. It should be hill or rios. Perhaps at number 2 rios's power will come back.
i'm using gameday not audio i don't get tsn. perhaps i'll listen on Fan 590 later but i don't like the guys there
not good first 2 batters on base guess us talking about the pitcher making the start before the game is jinxing them. like marcum yesterday
first pitcher to swisher was a stirke wat's the ump calling
guess his curve isn't working today
luckily we got away with just 1 run. they seemed poised for a big inning
Nothing really new tonight
Tallet blows another.
I thought Gibby pulled McGowan an inning too early. The kid looked as if he was on a roll so why not give him the extra 3 outs (or 110 pitches w/e happens first).
My understanding is Gibby felt Mcgowan was done, because he ran the bases last night.
This McGowan thing has got everybody fighting Gibbons was wrong.
What I cant understand is why Gibbons is still the manager of the Blue Jays the man is a goof all you have to do is listen to the way he explains his stuped moves.
This team needs a new manager hitting coach and GM.
Baseball is suposed to be entertaining but this rubbish the Jays are feeding us most certainly is not.
I'm with you on fan 590 those two announcers are so condescending it makes me sick.
But dont worry I hate the TV Announccers on sportsnet to I watch the game without sound.
I see the Yanks Cy Young candidate-Mike Mussina has been a bit off the last couple of games.
6.2 innings in total and 13 era's. Great Yankee Pitching staff.
You need to relax G. If you don't agree with me about McGowan I couldn't care less, but i was just stating that I would've left Dustin in there. just because I agree with one decision that he made doesn't mean I have to agree with all of them. I'm starting to think Bosox was right, u seem to take it a little personal one someone disagrees with you.
I think you need to relax. My post to you was meant as a joke and I assumed you recognized that. Sorry you misunderstood.
no we certainly are out of the play-off race noone else except doc seems to be winning.
I like the sportsnet announcers. What do you have about jamie?
There you go enigma i think gsumner just gave an apology.
btw *** is wrong with the jays defense we just lost another one today cause of horrible defense.
I said earlier: If we play like we can, we have a chance. If we play like we have, we don't. Which of those did this series look like?
Sorry about that then sumner, I really didn't think you were joking lol. I apologise.
At any rate the jays are done this year. I've said it before J.P. has less then a year with me before I start to feel that he should be fired. If the jays don't look like serious contenders by mid-may next year, then i'd fire him. (how I wish I owned the team)
Where is everybody cat got your tongues we only lost three in a row it's not the end of the world let's try to figure out what went wrong.
Hill must be tired he is making to many errors or is he just discouraged and giving up.
Our starting pitchers must be pulling their hair out by the roots. They're pitching their hearts out and getting nothing to show for it.
At the start of the year pitching was our weak point, or so we thought. It turned out to be our strong point we were supposed to have a very strong offense. Instead it is non-existant. Our defense has been great until lately it's starting to look a lot like our offense has all year.
Every year at about this time, our team falls apart. It seems every time we have a shot at the wildcard, we give up. Can any of you figure this out? I know I've been banging my head against the wall and I can't.
Well we're on the road again and as you all know we have a terrible road record. Can anybody see it turning around? I'm afraid I can't.
I think we now have to look towards next year and maybe start talking about the playes we would like to see come up. Any ideas anyone?
Tonight my grand-daughter is visiting and as yu can tell, she is typing for me. I use one finger. She uses two hands. That's why the long post.
The game was not televised today, and I forgot it was on early, so I missed it on the radio. But it looks like Burnett pitched another quality game. That's three in a row now. That's the best he's done since Halliday was out. We just may have the number two started we paid for.
I hope Jesse Litsch gets a better deal than he has his last two starts. If he doesn't, he may get seriously discouraged and that's the last thing he needs at this point in his career.
No need to apologize.
I don't think JP is the problem, I do think Gibby is. JP has done a great job of delivering the players, rebuilding the minor league system and drafting. The proof in that is how the teams in the minor leagues are playing against their peers and when you check it out-they're doing fine.
I'm not sure what the problem is with the Jays-all i know-as you do-is they should be performing an awful lot better than they arre.
The offense is a joke. When you look at it, it's the same offense as last year-with the addition of Thomas-so one would assume they'd perform better-but they haven't
Why-is the question-and I don't know about you-but I have no idea.
As a long term baseball player and fan, I see and recognise mistakes Gibby makes. Of course I see these and make judgements on them without knowing what's going on in the clubhouse.
The mistakes I see him make are continual and consistent-like he never learns from past errors. As such, I feel he needs to be replaced.
I do think we have the right mix of players-I just don't think we have the right management to ensure maximum performance each night.
Sometimes when I watch a game, I feel these guys are just simply mailing it in-there doesn't seem to be any motivation at all-and that-at the end of the day is Gibby's biggest responsibility.
Hey how old is your grand daughter-I have one thats 8.
this is a fact: I wish you owned this team, too.
One thing I know for sure, you never would have hired J.P. or Gibbons or the last manager, Carlos T. And we would probably be in the play-offs… two or three times by now.
Tell me this, would you have brought Thomas here? Would you have traded Glaus? Who would you have brought in for shortstop? Would you have brought in Matt Stairs as the DH? Also, would you get rid of Thomas this winter? And keep Stairs as the DH?
Looking forward to your answer.
The important score of the day
Texas -30
Can you believe that?
Wilner was defending Mickey Brantley with one caller (saying ultimately it's up to the hitters) and agreeing that our hitters don't change their approach with two strikes with another. You can't have it both ways. If they need to change their approach, whose job is it to tell them?
LET'S HIRE TONY La RUSSA
Can't get rid of Thomas. Nobody will eat his contract after this year. (Unless he hits 15 more dingers in the next month-ish.)
If we have a problem with team discipline now, it's not going to get better with Tony 'DUI' LaRussa managing.
My granddaughter is twice the age of yours.
'nuff said.
Read the post I posted to enigma and give me your answer too.
Same goes for anyone else who's on tonight. What would you do if you owned the team?
Tony La Russa would be a much better choice than Gibbons. I think when Gibbons had that fist fight with Ted Lily and the problems he had with Hildebran, who is a waste of skin, cost him a lot of respect from his players. And I think something like that stays in the clubhouse and festers as long as that manager is with the team. Remember, everything is not always as it seems and we can't believe anything the Blue Jays' management tells us. Also, that outburst by Towers this year most certainly didn't help. I think what it says is Gibbons has no control over his players, and not near the respect he thinks he has. That could be the biggest problem this team has.
JP is losing the respect of the Blue Jay fans because he just sits back and does nothing. At least that's the way I see it through my eyes.
good for you.
I like thomas, I wouldn't trade Glaus, I like Johnny Mac as SS, and I like Stairs as a left handed bat coming off the bench.
I like the players we have-I just don't like Gibby-he's the one, in my opinion that needs to be traded-the sooner the better.
Dump Gibby and sign La Russa
LaRussa has his own pitching coach, so if we bring him in, we lose Arnsberg, which means Burnett probably opts out. Bad news if he's pitching like the guy we paid for.
I haven't been here in a while and thought I'd chime in.
First thing I do is FIRE EVERYONE! Godfrey, JP, Gibbons, Witt, Brantley, (I'd keep Arnsberg if he'd stay despite all the firings)
I'd try and get one of the "free-agent" executives in this offseason: Bill Stoneman (Angels) if he'd leave Anaheim or Brian Cashman if (and it's looking less and less likely) he's fired.
Beyond management:
I'd trade any or all of the above for the right offer: Thomas, Glaus, Burnett.
I think Thomas is basically done, Glaus will be hurt for the rest of his career, and ditto for Burnett (i'd rather have a lesser talent make 30+ starts than AJ making 20).
IF he'd come (and he won't but I'l say it anyway) I'd try to sign Jorge Posada for a 2 year deal, and dump Zaun.
Overbay is still hurting and will be for the rest of the year but I think he'll return to form, ditto with Johnson.
And I think it'd be a panic move to trade Wells with his value so low.
I like McDonald more and more everyday but, if we could get an improvement (Eckstein is the only FA worth signing) I'd do it.
Who ever the new manager is needs to be A LOT better at managing a game in terms of manufacturing runs.
My line-up with the current roster
And do just "give the green light" to the top 3 guys but TELL THEM TO RUN!! They've got speed but don't use it.
From zero to one hundred percent, what percentage do you think we have of signing La Russa? I think Gibbons is gone for sure. I think money will play a big part in our chances of signing La Russa. My pick is 25%.
We need a hitting coach that's not afraid to work with these players and teach them the fine arts of hitting. Rios seems to be the best we have. Thomas you can't change or help because of his style. It's something he has to work on by himself constantly. But the rest of the players you can better. I don't mind Butterfield. Can't say much about the pitching coach, the way these guys are pitching.
My biggest beef with this team is Overbay in the two hole. He has no speed, forget the left-handed bat. It's no good if he's not hitting. In fact, it's a hindrance. When is Gibbons going to get that through his thick head? My opinion: never.
you just named the same line up I named a few days ago. And I'm with you on that one. I also agree with a lot of the things that you said. As for Burnett, I think he's over his aches and pains. Arnseberg has to stay. This team is pitching was above par. He has to be a big part of the reason. As long as he stays, so will Burnett.
My pick is zero percent.
There are no indications that JP is in any danger of losing his job, and I don't think he'll ever hire a competent manager (this is what? year 6? and he hasn't had one yet).
Agreed on Overbay (obviosly based on my line-up).
I agree about Arnsberg, but what makes you think AJ is over it?
I'll start to think he's over it when there are rumors that he's in pain but pitching anyway.
Maybe the Jays will start that rumor lol
Well I'm all out of words and ideas for the night see you all tomorrow.
Yeah, have a good night.
I would have no problem with Overbay hitting second if he was still hitting doubles because he could drive in Johnson from first.
Nioka (currently playing in Japan) is a better free agent choice than Eckstein. Our worries about production from the shortstop position would be moot if the rest of the lineup was producing up to expectations.
WOW seems like i missed a huge discussion yesterday!!
anyways granpa sumner i'm gonna say we got a 26%chance of signing la russa.
granpa garry i wouldn't trade glaus, i wanted to trade burnett earilier but we will never get the right price for him so might as well ride him out atleast for next season unless he does horrible from today onwards. No one is gonna pick-up thomas now but if i were manager, i would have sign thomas to a 2 year but will less money and more incentives.
But if thomas was not performing and stairs was then i would have traded thomas for a good left-handed pitcher in the bullpen and a few prospects and placed stairs as DH. Then this offseason i would let go of tallet and rearrange the bullpen slightly.
FOr short i would sign eckstein(i stated earlier that i like the guy) and put him in the 9th hole. So we have true speed in 9-3 or 4 and we can play some small ball.
i would have signed zaun this offseason cause he provides leadership in the clubhouse but if needed i would also make him number 2.
This offseason i would basically trade if we get the right price: thomas and burnett.
Oh and i would certainly trade chacin or towers. Perhaps chacin since he might get us more in return and i would for sure get rid of gibby. Keep JP he made some good moves a couple of seasons ago.
Do you guys agree with the moves i'd make? Please i want some feedback on my post this time:)
If Burnett pitches for the rest of the year the way he is now, you most certainly would not want to trade him. If you think he's going to opt out by the end of next year, whether or not you trade him would depend on what posistion the team is in by next July.
Thomas was a poor sign-in because of his age. And remember, he did have ankle problems, which may haunt him yet. He runs like Benji Molina and the price was too high, as you so stated yourself.
torgen stated there was a shortstop in Japan by the name of Nioka who was available. I wonder what his stats are? Maybe torgen can help us there. Personally, I like Johnny Mac.
As far as Zaun goes, he was never my favourite. I believe he thinks of himself more than the team. Remember this guy used to take a bath in a tub of beer.
Gibby definitly has to go. What I don't understand is why we talk about him affectionately by using the term of "Gibby" instead of Idiot.
Hey guys and gals. Anybody else have some feedback for harry????
you're right. if this line up was hitting, our production from the shortstop posistion would never enter our minds. The defense has been unbelievable. I'm not for all of these Japanese players coming over here to play in the majors. I think most of them are a big hype. Although there are some good ones.
You're right about Overbay not hitting. But the two hole is not the place for him. Too slow. When he is hitting the six hole would be the best. But remember, that's only my opinion.
Nioka is a .350 OBP, .450 SLG type hitter and a good defender. He's been a pretty consistent 15HR guy, but remember that in Japan, the outfield fences are ~15ft tall. (At least they are in many stadiums, including the Tokyo Dome, which is Nioka's home stadium.) A few years back he had around 15 stolen bases, but in Japan they bunt a lot and don't steal much.
I have been inspired by garryguy. In case this word, or phrase, hasn't already been coined, I'll do so now:
Gibby + Idiot = Gibbiot.
Catchy, no? I personally would not refer to him as an idiot, but I feel he doesn't have the kind of Captain or Leader feel I would expect from a coach. I've met him, and he seems like a typical Texan. My buddy nicknames him "Boomhauer", as from the show "King of the Hill", because of the way Gibby talks. But he must be doing something right if Guillen invited him as an All-Star coach?
That assumes Guillen is doing something right.
I agree with you on Godfrey, Gibbons, Whitt and Brantley. I like Arnsberg and Butter who have both done a good job. I also like JP.
I'm not sure about Eckstein. He hits for higher average than Macdonald, but is poorer defensively and currently makes 4.5 mill per year. He'll likely get 6 mill, and if we pay him 6 mill-we probably will not resign Johnny Mac. There's little diffence between the two and I think defense at SS is more valueable that 30 points in BA. I also don't think it'll cost us 6 mill for Johnny Mac. So I'd take Johnny Mac over Eckstein.
I agree with your lineup. I'd trade Thomas, resign Matt Stairs and keep Glaus. I would not resign another DH, but instead use that spot in the lineup to put either Stairs, Glaus, Lind, Rios Wells or Johnson on days when they need a partial day off but keep the bat in the lineup.
I wonder if Pat Gillick would consider coming back as president?
Gillick is too busy working for the Phillies to come back to the Jays.
Like I said before, if anyone will even take Thomas, it's unlikely that they'd give up much after the year he's having, and even then we'd probably have to pick up a bunch of his salary. Plus, he has that vesting option, which makes him even less desirable, because whoever trades for him might be stuck with him for 2 years if he continues as he has this year.
Nice series gainst the A's. Yeah right you're going to be challenging for a playoff spot!!! LOL!!!! You fools ****, you can't even beat a team like the A's.Well, you guys are one less team the Yanks are going to have to worry about. Keep playing yourselves out of the playoff picture I need a good laugh. Just keep saying what you always say every year. Wait until next year!!!!
Sumner, I personally would keep the team pretty much the same next yeaR, the only exception being that I would bring a- Castillio at second (move hill to short), or b-Eckstein at short and the 3rd option being J. Mcdonald. In a perfect world i'd sign Eckstein and if he's still willing to be a back-up then John as well. About the only thing I would have done differently last off-season was to have gone after Barry Zito if it was possible under the budget (though in hindsight it was great that they didn't go after him, would've been a bad move.) I would've also tried out Nomar Garciaparra as a potential shortstop before going after Clayton. Other then that I had no problem with J.P. signing Thomas and keeping Glaus at the deadline this year. Thomas though in my opinion should have been after giving a courtesy call to Nomar. Bosox had told me that Nomar was staying in LA but i am sure had the jays approached him with a better offer then LA he'd consider it.
My ideal line-up for next year:
1) Johnson
2) Castillio
3) Rios
4) Wells
5) Overbay
6) Glaus
7) Thomas
8) Hill
9) Zaun
Bench: Stairs, Adams, Thigpen or Fasono and Mcdonald (assuming he doesn't mind the back-up role).


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