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Philadelphia Phillies – Year 3: Finishing in the first division for the first time, at third place.
With Harry Wright still the team's manager and with second-year pitcher Charlie Ferguson becoming a rising star, the Quakers/Phillies would begin 1885 attempting its first serious run at the National League pennant, with a chance to meet the winner of the other recognized major league, the American Association, in a post season playoff system, which would be a precusor to today's World Series, which was first established in 1884, where the National League Champions Providence Grays would end up defeating the American Association Champions New York Metropolitans, 3-0, in a best of three games series.
The Phillies would face a National League that would be slightly different from the one that they had joined in 1883, as the Cleveland Blues franchise would fold early in the year, while the New York Gothams would change their name to the Giants, based on a comment that was suppose to have been said by their player/manager Jim Mutrie, after a victory over the Phillies in the previous season: "My big fellows! My giants!" The franchise that would replace the Blues in the NL would be the best team from the failed third major league of the previous season, the Union Association Champions, the St. Louis Maroons. Along with the Maroons, the Giants and the 'World Champions' Grays, the Phillies in 1885 would face the Beaneaters, the Bisons, the Wolverines and the White Stockings.
The Phillies would begin the 1885 season with a twenty-three games home stand that would cover all of May and their first game in June. During this long home stand, they would play a game with the league champs Grays, followed by two with the Beaneaters, another game with the Grays, then two more with the Beaneaters, before playing eight straight two-games series with the Wolverines, the White Stockings, the Wolverines again, the White Stockings again, the Maroons, the Bisons, the Maroons again, the Bisons again, and then a single game with the Giants. The Phillies would start the season off on a sour note as they would lose their first three home games by scores of 8-2, 2-0 and 9-8, before going on a six-games winning streak, which would include a 15-5 crushing of Boston, followed by 10-3 and 17-8 drubbings of the Wolverines. After dropping two straight games to their western nemesis, the White Stockings, they would then win two straight games against the Maroons, winning the second game by the lop-sided score of 12-1, before losing the first game in their two-games series with the Bisons. The Phils would then go on a five-games winning streak, thus ending May with a winning record of 14-8, the team's best start in its short history.
The Phillies would start off June, and end their home stand, with a lost to the Giants, giving them a 14-9 home stand. This game would be the start of a four-game, Philadelphia to New York and back again series between the two clubs. After defeating the Giants in New York, the Phillies would drop their second home game with New York, before dropping the second game in NY. The Phils would then go on an eight-games road trip to the east coast, meeting the Grays for two-games, the Beaneaters for two, and then going to Providence, Boston, Providence and then Boston again for the last four games of the trip. The Phillies would lose both of their games with the Grays, before finally breaking their four-games losing streak with a victory over Boston. After losing their second game with Boston, they would defeat the Grays, before losing the next two games in Boston and Providence. They would then end their nine-games road trip with a victory over the Beaneaters, thus ending their Eastern trip with a 3-7 record. After splitting another Philadelphia to New York series with the Giants, losing at home and winning in New York, the Phillies would go on their first trip to the west, planning to meet the White Stockings, the Maroons, the Bisons and the Wolverines for several four-games series, for the rest of June and the start of July. After losing the first two games, the Phillies would end their visit to Chicago with a series split, as they would win the last two games. Going to St. Louis for the first time in the organization's existance, their would lose the first three games of the series, thus ending the month with a sour record of 7-14, while having an overall record of 21-22 for the season.
July would begin with the Phillies winning the final game of their first road series in St. Louis. After losing the first game of their series with the Bisons, the Phillies would sweep a July 4th doubleheader from them by the scores of 10-5 and 7-2, the first doubleheader sweep in the franchise's history. The Phils would then lose the last game of their series with the Bisons, then lose their first two games with the Wolverines, before splitting the last two games, thus ending the road trip with a 6-10 record. The Phillies would then come home to play a twenty-games home stand for the rest of July and early August, in which they would play seven straight two-games series with the Beaneaters, the Grays, the Wolverines, the Maroons, the Wolverines again, the Maroons again, and the White Stockings, before playing a single game with the Bisons, followed by two more games with the White Stockings and then three more games with the Bisons, before they would go on another east coast road trip. The Phillies would start the home stand by splitting their series with Boston, before being swept by Providence. After splitting the next two series, they would sweep their second two-games series with Detriot, including a 19-2 rout, before being swept themselves by both the Maroons and the White Stockings, with the later two games being 2-0 and 9-0 shut outs. The Phillies would thus end July just as badly as they had ended June, with a 9-14 record, while their overall record would now be a somewhat respectible 30-36.
After starting August by defeating the Bisons, the Phillies would be swept once again by the White Stockings, before ending the home stand by winning two of their three games with the Bisons, thus ending the home stand with an 8-12 record. The Phils would then visit Boston, Providence and New York for three straight two-games series on the road. The Phils would sweep the Grays, then spilt their series with the Beaneaters, before being swept by the Giants, to end up with a 3-3 road trip. They would then participate in a six-games home stand with the Beaneaters for two games, the Grays for three and the Giants for one. After splitting the series with Boston, the Phillies would then proceed to sweep the Grays, starting it with a 2-0 blanking in the series' first game, and ending it with Charlie Ferguson pitching a 1-0 no-hitter against the Grays on August 29, the first no-hitter in the franchise's history. The Phils would then end their home stand by losing to the Giants for a 4-2 home stand and ending the month with an 11-11 record. The team's overall record would now be at 41-47.
The Phillies would start off September by visiting the Giants, before playing against them at home for two more games. After losing the game in New York, the Phillies would sweep New York at home, which would be their last home games of the year, as they would now spend the rest of September and all of their October games on the road. With their two wins over the Giants, they would end the year with a 29-26 mark at home, while their overall record at this point would be 43-48. Their long twenty-games road trip would include two straight two-games series with the Grays and the Beaneaters, before ending with four four-games series with the four western teams, the Bisons, the Wolverines, the Maroons and the White Stockings. After splitting the series with Providence, they would sweep the two-games series with Boston. After losing the first game in Buffalo, they would win the next three games against the Bisons, before going to Detroit and losing the series with the Wolverines, 1-3. The Phillies would then go to St. Louis, where they would win their last game in September, to end the month with a 10-6 record, and an overall record of 51-53, now just two games under .500.
The Phillies would start October with a 3-3 tie against the Maroons, before sweeping the next two games to take the series at 3-0-1. In their last series of the year, against Chicago, after losing the first game, they would win their last three games of the season, to end the month with a 5-1-1 record, and the road trip at 13-6-1, as they would end the season at 56-54-1. This would land them in third place for the first time in the team's history with a .509 winning percentage, three games ahead of the fourth place Grays, 28 games behind the second place Giants and 30 games behind the 1885 NL Champs, the White Stockings. The team's road record would end up being 27-28-1.
The Phillies would meet the other teams in the National League sixteen times each, except for the Grays, whom they would meet fifteen times. They would have winning records against five of those teams (Beaneaters, Bisons, Wolverines, Grays and Maroons) with their best record being against the Bisons at 11-5. Their worst records would be against the White Stockings and the Giants, both ending up at 5-11. The Phillies would be 10-9 in shut outs, 13-12 in 1-run games and 17-19 in blowouts. The Phillies would play 55 games at home before 150,698 fans.
In 111 games played, Phillies batters would end up being second in doubles (156), fourth in walks (220), fifth in at-bats (3893), runs scored (513) and home runs (20) and sixth in hits (891), triples (35), strike outs (401), batting average (.229), slugging percentage (.302) and on-base percentage (.270), while also having 327 rbis. Among pitchers, the team ended up second in hits allowed (860), third in ERA (2.39), wins (56), complete games (108), shut outs (10), runs allowed (511), home runs allowed (18), walks given up (218), fourth in innings pitched (976), fifth in saves (0) and strike outs (378) and sixth in loses (54), while also finishing three games, giving up 259 earned runs, throwing 63 wild pitches and being called for three balks.
Individually, the team leaders in offensive categories would be Joe Mulvey at Batting Average (.269), Slugging Percentage (.393), Hits (119), Total Bases (174), Doubles (25), Triples and Home Runs (6 each) and RBIs (64), Ed Andrews in on-base percentage (.318), runs scored (77) and singles (94), Sid Farrar and Jim Fogarty in games played (111), Jack Manning in at-bats (445), total plate appearances (482) and walks (37) and Charlie Bastian in strikeouts with 82. Among pitchers, Charlie Ferguson and Ed Daily would be tied for the team lead in wins with 26, becoming the first pitchers to win 20 or more games in the same year in franchise's history, while Daily would become the team's second twenty-games winner. Daily would also lead the team in ERA (2.21), games pitched (50), innings pitched (440), home runs allowed (12), walks (90), hits allowed (370), loses (23), earned runs allowed (108), and wild pitches (40), while Ferguson led the team in strikeouts (197), shut outs (5) and games finished (3).
The Phillies' third place finish would, for the moment, place them among the league's elite, while they prepare to compete for a league pennant in 1886.
Sources: Wikipedia, Baseball Almanac.com, Baseball-reference.com, Baseball History: 19th Century Baseball.com
Philadelphia Phillies – Year 2: Trying to become a first division team.
In 1884, with Harry Wright, the future Hall of Fame manager, as the ballclub's third manager, Reach and Rodgers would try to put together a team that they hope would become a better contender for the National League pennant than was the previous year's team. Among the changes made would be a change in the team's nickname, as the Quakers would now be known as the Philadelphias, following the naming convention of the time. The local sports writers would later shorten the team's nickname down to the Phillies, which is today the longest used team nickname in American sports history. But, the local sports writers would continue to call the ballclub the Quakers in their reporting on the team, officially until 1890, using the two names interchangeably, and unofficially into the first couple of decades of the 20th century.
The Harry Wright-led Phillies would face in 1884 the same seven teams that they had faced the previous season: Boston, Providence, New York, Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit and Chicago. Their home ball park would remain Recreation Park.
The Phillies would begin the 1884 season as they have begun the disastrous 1883 season, in May, with a home stand. But, unlike the previous season, the Phillies would be involved in a twenty-one-games home stand, facing the Wolverines for two games, the White Stockings for four games, the Bisons for two games, the Blues for two games, then another two-games series with the Bisons, followed by a second two-games series with the Blues, two games with the Beaneaters, two games with the Grays, a second two-games series with Boston and finally a single game series with the Grays. The Phillies' home opener with the Wolverines would see the Phillies win their first opening day game in the club's history, as they pounded Detroit, 13-2. After winning the second game in their short series with the Wolverines, the team would win their third game in a row as they would beat the White Stockings in a close game, 9-8. The Phillies, after starting the season off on such a high note, would go back to their losing ways as they would lose their next three games with the White Stockings, followed by a lost to the Bisons, 9-7. After winning their next two games and then splitting the next four games of their home stand, the Phillies would find themselves mired in a long seven games losing streak, which would include seeing them being shut out three times, including a 13-0 defeat at the hands of the Beaneaters, before they would defeat the Grays in the final game of their long home stand, 4-3. Leaving Philadelphia with a record of 8-13, they would begin their first road trip of the season, a trip along the eastern seaboard, where they would face both the Beaneaters and the Grays for two two-games series, before ending the road trip with a two-games series against the Gothams in New York. Their first two two-games series against the Beaneaters and the Grays, which would include a doubleheader that was played first in Boston with the Beaneaters and then in Providence with the Grays on May 30, would see the Phillies end up losing all four games, thus ending the month of May with a losing record of 8-17.
June would begin just as badly for the Phils as May has just ended, as they would lose the two games of their second two-games series with Boston and then lose the first game of their second two-games series with the Grays, 4-0, before they would finally win their first road game of the year, a close 9-8 victory over the Grays. The Phillies would then start an eight-games series with the Gothams, that would include two two-games series in Philadelphia, as well as a second two-games series in New York. After losing the first two games in New York, thus ending their first road trip of the year with a 1-9 record, the Phillies would begin the first of their two two-games series with the Gothams in Philadelphia. The eight-games series between these two future rivals would see the Phillies playing the Gothams as competitively as they could, but when the eight-games series was over, the Phillies would leave Philadelphia having lost the series 3-5, although winning the second of the two-games series played in New York and splitting the second two-games series in Philadelphia. The Phillies would then begin their second major road trip of the year with a single game against the Grays, followed by a two-games series with the Beaneaters, then a second single game series against the Grays, before heading to Cleveland for four games with the Blues, followed by a four-games series in Buffalo, then four games against the White Stockings and then four games with the Wolverines, before finally ending the road trip with two games against the Gothams, for a total of twenty-two games from mid-June to mid-July. After losing the first game in Providence and then splitting the series with the Beaneaters, the Phillies would then lose the second game in Providence, before going on to Cleveland and losing their series with the Blues, 1-3. The Phillies would then drop the series with the Bisons, also 1-3, thus ending the month of June with a 7-17 record for the month, while having a season record of 15-34.
The Philles would begin July losing their four-games series with the White Stockings, 1-3, including losing a July 4 doubleheader by the scores of 3-1 and 22-3, before splitting the four-games series with the Wolverines and then losing the two-games series with the Gothams, ending their long road trip with a 6-16 record. After losing a two-games series at home against the Gothams, the Phillies would play four single games series, facing first the Grays, then Boston, then Providence again and then the Beaneaters once more, before coming home for a long home stand. The Phillies would split the four games, 2-2, losing the first two and then winning the last two. Their next home stand would see the Phillies play two games with the Grays, then two games with the Beaneaters, followed by a single game against the Grays, then two more games with the Beaneaters, followed by another single game series with the Grays, before they would face the Gothams for the final two games of the home stand with their east coast opponents. The Phils would begin the home stand by first losing the two games with the Grays, then losing the two with the Beaneaters, the two teams that would once again be fighting it out for the National League pennant, thus ending July on another losing note, as they would end the month with a dismal 5-15 record, while their season record would now be at 20-49.
The Phillies would start August with their losing streak going to six games as their would lose their game with Providence and then their first game with the Beaneaters, before finally ending the streak with a 6-2 victory over Boston. After losing the next game with Providence, the Phillies would split their two games with the Gothams, thus ending the home stand with a 2-8 record, before the two teams would head on to New York for another two games series, which would also end up as a split series. The Phillies would then go back home to Philadelphia for another long home stand, this time against teams from the west, starting with a five-games series with the Blues, followed by a four-games series with the Bisons, then a six-games series with the Wolverines, and then, finally, a four-games series with the White Stockings, for a grand total of twenty-nine games from late-August to mid-September. The Phils would begin the home stand by losing the opener to the Blues, and then tying the second game on August 20, 9-9. They would then win the next three games with Cleveland, including a 20-1 pounding of the Blues, thus winning their first series since their July 23 single series game with Boston, going 3-1-1. They would then lose the series with the Bisons, going 1-3, ending August with a somewhat good record of 7-9-1 and with an overall season mark of 27-58-1.
The Phillies would start off September on a high note as they would win their six-games series with the Wolverines, going 4-2, before getting creamed in their four-games series with the White Stockings, losing by scores of 15-10, 16-6, 19-2 and 5-2, thus ending their long home stand with a somewhat respectible record of 8-10-1. The Phillies would then conduct their second and final western road trip, facing the Bisons, the Blues, the Wolverines and the White Stockings for four games each. The Phillies would start their series against Buffalo by losing the first three games, increasing their losing streak to seven games, before finally ending it with a 3-0 shut out of the Bisons on September 20. The Phillies would then embark on a winning streak of their own, defeating the Blues for four straight games and then winning their first game with the Wolverines, for a six games winning streak, as they would end their first winning month in the team's history by going 10-9, while increasing their season record to 37-67-1.
The Phillies would start October seeing their winning streak end as they lose to Detroit, 1-0, before going on to win their next two games, winning the series at 3-1. The Phillies would then go on to Chicago, where they would be swept in four games by the White Stockings. They would then come back home on October 15, to finish out the season by losing to the Grays, 8-0, ending the month with a 2-6 record and the season with a record of 39-73-1, with a winning percentage of .348.
In their second season of existance, the Phillies would end the year in sixth place, 23 games behind the fifth place White Stockings and 45 games behind the 1884 NL champions, the Providence Grays. The Phillies would end up playing sixteen ballgames with each of their opponents, except for the Blues, whom they would face in seventeen games. Their best season record would be with the Wolverines, against whom they would go 11-5, followed by the Blues at 10-6-1. They would have losing records with the rest of the league: Bisons and Gothams (5-11), Beaneaters and Grays (3-13) and White Stockings (2-14). The Phillies would go 3-13 in shut outs, 10-11 in 1-run games and 12-43 in blow outs. The Phillies would be 19-37-1 at home, while they would go 20-36 on the road, which would be improvements over their previous season's home/road record, as they would go 9-40-1 at home and 8-41 on the road. The team's home attendence for the year, at 100,475 fans, would be an increase over the team's 1883 attendence mark of 55,992 fans.
In 1884, the team would play in 113 games, with the batters ending the season with a team batting average of .234 (7th), a team slugging percentage of .272 (6th) and a team on-base percentage of .301 (7th). The team batted 3998 times (6th) and had 934 hits (6th), as they scored 549 runs (6th) of which 343 would be by RBIs. Of their 934 hits, the Phillies would have 149 2Bs (5th), 39 3Bs (8th) and 14 HRs (8th). Phillies batters would receive 209 walks (5th), while striking out 512 times (4th). Pitching wise, the Phillies pitchers would have a team ERA of 3.93 (8th), with 106 complete games (7th), of which only three were shut outs (7th), while seven other games would be completed by another pitcher. The pitchers would convert one save (3rd) during the season. In 981 innings pitched (8th), they would give up 1090 hits (7th) and 824 runs (8th), of which 428 were earned. They would give up 38 home runs (6th) and walked 254 batters (6th), while striking out 411 (8th). They also committed 126 wild pitches.
Among the team's batting leaders, Jack Manning would lead the team in batting average (.271), slugging percentage (.394), on-base percentage (.334), total bases (167), doubles (29), home runs (5), RBIs (52), walks (40), strikeouts (67) and extra-base hits (38), while Bill McClellan would lead the team in at-bats (450), total plate appearances (478), hits (116) and singles (98), Ed Andrews would lead in runs scored (74), Blondie Purcell would lead in triples (7), while McClellan and Sid Ferrar would be tied for most games played at 111. In pitching, Charlie Ferguson led the team in games pitched (50), games started (47), games finished (3), complete games (46), wins (21), loses (25), saves (1), shut outs (2), innings pitched (416.7) and strikeouts (194), while Bill Vinton would lead in ERA (2.23) and Jim McElroy in wild pitches (46).
Charlie Ferguson, in his first major league season, would become the first twenty-game winner in franchise's history with his 21 victories.
Harry Wright would continue as the Phillies' manager in 1885, as he continue to try to turn the team into a first division team in the eight team National League.
Sources: Wikipedia, Baseball Almanac.com, Baseball-Reference.com
Philadelphia Phillies – Year 1: Rejoining the National League and landing in the cellar.
In 1883, Philadelphia, along with New York, would rejoin the eight-teams National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, or the National League, after the 1876 editions of both clubs, in the league's first season of existence, were both expelled by the league for their refusal to participate in a late season western cities road trip. The new Philadelphia team, nicknamed the Quakers, would be brought into existance by former professional ballplayer and sporting goods manufacturer Al Reach, and his partner, attorney John Rogers, after the two men had successfully won the franchise rights of the now defunct Worcester (Massachusetts) Brown Stockings (also known as the Ruby Legs), which has gone bankrupt in 1882. Reach would become the team's first president. The team's first manager would be Bob Ferguson, who was, like Reach, a former professional ballplayer, as well as the former manager of the Troy (New York) Trojans, another disbanded team, whose franchise right would be bought by the New York Gothams (later the New York/San Francisco Giants). The Quakers would play their home games out of Recreation Park, which was located in North Philadelphia between 23rd and 25th Streets and Ridge and Columbia (now Cecil B. Moore) Avenues.
The Phillies' opponents for its inaugural season, along with fellow newcomer, the New York Gothams, would be, by geographical order: Boston Beaneaters (1876 member); Providence (Rhode Island) Grays (1878 member); Buffalo (New York) Bisons (1879 member); Cleveland Blues (1879 member); Detroit Wolverines (1881 member) and Chicago White Stockings (1876 member). Of the other six teams, only Boston (now in Atlanta) and Chicago, along with the new teams from Philadelphia and New York (now in San Francisco), would still be playing in the National League.
The Quakers' first game, which was also their first home game, would be played on May 1, 1883 against the Providence Grays. The game would end up as a 4-3 lost to the Grays. The Phillies would then play two more games with the Grays, followed by a three game series at home with the Beaneaters, all loses, including two games in which the opposition would score twenty or more runs against the Quakers, a 24-6 thumping by the Grays on May 3 and a 20-8 defeat by the Beaneaters on May 7, ending the team's first home stand winless. After losing two straight games on the road to the White Stockings in Chicago, the Quakers would finally get the first victory in Phillies' history, a 12-1 victory on May 14 against the White Stockings, thus ending the first losing streak in Phillies' history at eight games. After winning their second victory over the Wolverines in Detroit, for the club's first winning streak, the Quakers would lose the next two games in the series, quickly followed by a two-game split with the Blues in Cleveland before they would lose their three games series against the Bisons in Buffalo, including the first game in which the Phillies would be unable to score a single run, losing 4-0 on May 25, before winning the last game in the series on May 28, 3-2, thus ending its first road trip at 4-7. But before their next home stand, the Quakers' manager, Ferguson, with a record of 4-13, would be fired by the owners, thus becoming the first Phillies manager to be let go. He would be quickly replaced by Blondie Purcell, a player on the Quakers', thus becoming the team's first player-manager. Sadly, the change in managers would not improve the team's fortunes, as they would begin their next home stand, on May 30, losing the team's first doubleheader, dropping both games to the White Stockings by the lopsided scores of 15-8 and 22-4. The team would then end their first month of existance by losing their third game in a row to the White Stockings by the score of 4-3, with a record for the month of 4-16.
June would begin just as badly for the Quakers as it would finish its first four game series by losing to the White Stockings 10-1. During the rest of the home stand, three more four games series with the Wolverines, Blues, and Bisons, the team would go 4-8, which would include the first game in which the Quakers would score 20 or more runs, a 20-4 drubbings of the Wolverines on June 6, which was also the team's first home victory, as well as the team's first shut out victory, a 2-0 win against the Bisons on June 14, ending the home stand at 4-12. The team would then go back on the road for two two-games series with the Beaneaters and the Grays and a single game series with the Gothams. The Quakers' bad fortune would continue as they would lose the first six games of that road trip, including a 29-4 shlacking by the Beaneaters on June 20, before finally gaining another road victory, the team's first shut out defeat of an opponent on the road, as they would defeat the Grays 4-0 on June 26, before losing the last two games of the road trip. The team would then come home to face the Gothams, losing the game 8-6, thus ending the month of June with a losing record of 5-18 and an overall record of 9-34, last in the league. Also in June, on the ninth, the NL would allow the Quakers to slash its ticket prices down to .25 cents, so that it would be able to compete with the more popular Philadelphia Athletics baseball club of the rival American Association, as the team's home attendence would increase because of the decrease in ticket price.
In July, things doesn't get any better for the ballclub, as the Quakers would lose two more games to the Gothams, the first one at Recreation Park, then the other in New York, before they begin a short four games home stand with the Grays and the Beaneaters. After winning a forfeit with the Grays (the actual score was 9-11 Grays) as the Grays had to leave town so that they could play a game with the Gothams in New York on that same day, the Quakers would get swept once again by the Beaneaters, including a game that they would play after the forfeited game with the Grays (both played on July 4). (The forefited game would also be the first series that the Phillies would win in the club's history.) The Quakers would then spend the rest of the month on another 'western' road trip, which would include a five games series (their first) with the Blues, and three straight four games series against the Bisons, the White Stockings and the Wolverines. By the time they finally limp back home on August 4 to face the Gothams, the road trip would be a complete disaster, as they would only win three games of the seventeen games road trip, thus ending the month of July with a 3-17 record, while their overall season record would now be at 12-51, still in last place.
Back home, the Phillies would lose to the Gothams, before heading to New York to lose the next game. After coming back home to gain a victory over their fellow newcomer, they would go back to New York, where they would be swept in two games there. They would then be swept in two straight three games series by both the Beaneaters and the Grays, the two teams who were at this point fighting for the National League pennant. Among these loses would be a 28-0 drubbing at the hands of the Grays on August 21, the most lopsided shut out in the game's history. The Quakers would then end the month playing three more games with the Gothams (one of which was played at Recreation Park) and two home games with the Grays, losing all five, thus ending the month of August with a 2-17 record and an overall record of 14-68.
The Quakers would spend the rest of the season playing at home, playing seventeen games with the Beaneaters (1), the Grays (1), the Gothams (2), the Blues (3), the Bisons (3), the Wolverines (4) and the White Stockings (3). The Quakers would go 3-13-1 in those games, which would include their third two-games winning streak, as they would win single games with the Grays, winning their second series, and the Gothams, get no-hit on September 13 by Hugh Daly of the Blues, losing 1-0, and be tied for the first time in the team's history on September 22 with the Wolverines, as the two teams would play that day to a 6-6 tie. The Quakers would end its first season in the National League in last place with a 17-81-1 record, 23 games behind seventh place Detroit and 46 games behind the league's champion, the Boston Beaneaters.
Against the rest of the league, the team would only have losing records in 1883: Beaneaters (0-14); Grays (3-11); Gothams (2-12); Bisons (5-9); Blues (2-12); Wolverines (3-11-1) and White Stockings (2-12), with its worst record being against the Beaneaters and its best being against the Bisons. They would be 3-7 in shut outs, 2-12 in 1-run games and 4-42 in blowouts.
In a 99 games season, the team would go to the plate a total of 3576 times (6th) while getting only 859 hits (7th) for a team batting average of .240 (8th), a team on-base percentage of .269 (8th) and a team slugging percentage of .320 (8th). The Quakers would score 437 runs (8th) on 299 RBIs. The team would get 181 2Bs (6th), 48 3Bs (6th) and 3 HRs (8th), while also receiving 141 walks (4th) as they struck out 355 (5th) times. Pitching wise, the Quakers had a Team ERA of 5.34 (8th), and in 99 games played, they had 91 complete games (2nd) with 8 other games finished by another pitcher, only 3 (8th) of which would be shut outs. In 864 innings pitched (5th), the team's pitchers would give up 1267 hits (8th), allow 887 runs (8th) to score of which 513 were earned, give up 20 HRs (6th) and walk 125 batters (5th) and strike out only 253 (8th).
Individually, the team batting leader was Purcell with a .268 batting average, while Jack Manning would lead the team in slugging percentage with .364 and in on-base percentage with .300. Purcell would also lead the team with 425 at-bats, 70 runs scored, 114 hits and 88 singles, while Manning would also lead the team in total at-bats with about 470, 153 total bases, 31 doubles, and 37 RBIs. Other team batting leaders were: Sid Farrar in games played (99); John Coleman and Farrar in triples (8 each); Purcell, Bil McClellan and Emil Gross in home runs (1 each); Bill Harbridge in walks (24) and Coleman in strikeouts (39). In pitching, Coleman would also be the team leader in ERA (4.87), wins (12), loses (48), games pitched (65), innings pitched (538.3), strikeouts (159), games started (61), complete games (59), and shut outs (3).
After the season, Purcell would be replaced as the team's manager with Harry Wright, another former professional ballplayer, and former manager of the second place Grays, and before that, the manager of the Beaneaters, leading that franchise to NL pennants in 1877 and 1878. It was hoped by both Reach and Rogers that he would turn the team's fortune around.
Sources: Wikipedia, Baseball Almanac.com and Baseball-Reference.com


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By Matt Murphy
State House News Service
BOSTON — With special attention paid to fighting drug addiction and improving the performance of the embattled Department of Children and Families, House leaders Wednesday will present a $36.2 billion annual budget proposal that also features scores of spending cuts.
The budget blueprint for the fiscal year that starts July 1 increases spending by 5 percent over last year, but falls about $191 million short of what Gov. Deval Patrick proposed in January after House Speaker Robert DeLeo made clear he would not pursue new taxes and nixed proposals to tax the sale of candy and soda or expand the bottle bill in the budget. House leaders say Patrick's fiscal 2015 budget increased spending by 5.3 percent.
The House Ways and Means Committee released the bill Wednesday, and lawmakers have until Friday to review it and propose amendments in advance of the House's annual budget debate scheduled to begin April 28. The Senate plans to unveil and process its own budget proposal in May.
While the budget reflects the agreement reached early with the Senate to increase local aid for public schools by $100 million and boost unrestricted aid by $25 million over last year, officials said additional increased funding was targeted for regional school transportation, special education, charter schools, and local libraries.
"It shows our partnership that we feel we have with our cities and towns," DeLeo told the News Service during an interview in his office.
Despite surging state revenues — collections are running $631 million above original fiscal 2014 estimates — House Ways and Means Chairman Brian Dempsey said cost drivers like reimbursement rates for human service workers, a commitment to increased transportation investments of $141 million and the decisions to accelerate funding by $163 million for the liability-plagued state pension system ate up large chunks of new resources. House officials identified $203 million in costs associated with implementing a 2008 health care law governing reimbursement rates for human and social services, including long-term care services for developmentally disabled adults.
The MassHealth program accounts for more than a third of total spending in the budget. The $13.5 billion appropriation provides funding for 345,000 individuals newly eligible for Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act.
Dempsey's budget proposal also significantly makes $339 million in cuts to "maintenance spending," the details of which will become clearer later Wednesday when the full budget document is released and scrutinized.
After a late morning committee vote on the bill, Rep. Viriato deMacedo, the ranking Republican on the Ways and Means Committee, said he was withholding judgment until he had more time to review the document. The Plymouth Republican said he was briefed just about 30 minutes before the committee vote, and the five Republicans on the committee present for the vote reserved their rights.
"Obviously some of the issues that I think are very important are the realities of addressing the issue of substance abuse. I think we all bipartisanly agree we have to spend more resources in that area. It's an epidemic, so we agree with that," deMacedo said. He also said he was glad to see no new taxes and a smaller bottom line that the governor's budget proposal.
The full budget was posted online before noon at: https://malegislature.gov/Budget/FY2015/House
With increased attention being paid to the rising epidemic of opioid abuse, DeLeo said the House budget would increase funding for the First Responder program to help communities with higher overdoes rates to equip paramedics and others with Narcan, which can reverse the effects of an overdose.
Gov. Patrick's effort to ban the prescribing of a new powerful painkiller Zohydro has been challenged in court and was looked upon unfavorably Tuesday by a federal judge, but the House budget also zeroes in on prescription drugs. According to summary, it proposes to allow the commissioner of public health to limit the distribution of certain prescription opioids that lack certain abuse deterrent qualities consistent with federal law.
The Ways and Means budget would also increase the maximum prison sentence for trafficking heroin from 20 years to 30 years, pilot new drug diversion programs, and add 64 treatment beds to reduce the number of addicts diverted to correctional facilities.
A $2.7 million investment in specialty courts will enable the Trial Court to fund five drug courts, two mental health courts and one veterans' court, according to House officials. Gov. Patrick also included the investment in specialty courts. Trial Court Administrator Harry Spence hopes to double specialty courts to 50 over the next three years.
"Many times you'll find that substance abuse and mental illness go hand in hand. This budget, I think, reflects that," DeLeo said.
The budget also again rejects Patrick's proposal to close Taunton State Hospital, providing enough funding to keep it open with 45 beds. Patrick has argued that the money would be better spent in community-based settings after shifting patients to a new hospital in Worcester.
To address lapses at the Department of Children and Families that most notably contributed to the disappearance of a five-year-old boy in Fitchburg, DeLeo said his budget committed the resources necessary to hire 100 new employees to keep caseloads to 15 per case worker with no more than 28 children under their supervision.
The budget recommends a new licensing requirement for DCF social workers and adopts recommendations made by the Inspector General and others strengthening background checks of social workers and hiring medical officers at each regional office to ensure that children receive medical screenings within 72 hours.
With roughly $68 million in increased spending on higher education, Dempsey said the House budget beats Gov. Patrick's proposal by $3 million in funding for the University of Massachusetts, which he said should be enough to freeze tuition and fees for the second straight year. DeLeo and Dempsey both said they were working with state and community college leaders to similarly freeze tuition and fees rates, but DeLeo said their success could be "uneven" across all three systems.
The House is also proposing a $7.5 million increase in spending on early childhood education and care that leaders say will reduce the waiting list for services by adding 1,250 new child care slots. The investment is about half of what Patrick proposed spending, which the governor said would add 1,700 seats. Early Education and Care Commissioner Tom Weber said in January that the state had a waiting list of 25,000 infants, toddlers and pre-schoolers under 5.
Calling the ongoing problem of homeless "challenging" and "frustration," Dempsey said the budget proposal would increase funding for rental vouchers by $3 million boosting the total investment to create 1,200 new vouchers while preserving this year's shelter expansion.
Now that the Gaming Commission has awarded a license to Penn National for a slot parlor at Plainridge Racecourse, the Ways and Means budget assumes $20 million in revenues from the last quarter of fiscal 2015 from gambling activity at the facility, as well as $53 million in licensing fees from at least two casino licenses that could be awarded later this year.
Though the Gaming Commission has slowed down the licensing process for an eastern Massachusetts casino as it considers Boston's request to be treated as a host community for the proposed casino in Revere, Dempsey said the state should be able to backfill any revenues that don't immediately materialize from the general fund.
The governor's budget assumed similar new revenue from gaming activities.


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This August, The Royal Pavilion of The Reverie Saigon will feature a selection of vegetarian specialties in honor of the Vu Lan Festival, a special time for people to express their gratitude to their parents.
Made from rice flour, banh can and banh xeo are specialties in southern and south-central Vietnam.
(Cinet)- The 17th Vietnam Tourism Awards has honored the top hotels and tour operators with excellent performance in Viet Nam last year.
(Cinet)- Fans of Chocolate Marou now can enjoy their favorite treats in a beautiful café shop, newly opened by the owners of the globally famous made-in-Vietnam chocolate.


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The Allie Beth Martin Award provides recognition and a $3,000 honorarium to a librarian who, in a public library setting, has demonstrated: (1) extraordinary range and depth of knowledge about books or other library materials; and (2) distinguished ability to share that knowledge. The award was established by the Public Library Association Board of Directors in 1978. After its 1993 fall meeting, the PLA Executive Committee notified PLA Award Chairs that the word "librarian" is defined as a professional possessing a Master of Library Science degree. Therefore, persons not having earned an MLS are ineligible to receive the Allie Beth Martin Award.
Only the materials submitted will be considered. They should represent a full portrait of your candidate's accomplishments. Specific examples of work are more useful than general statements such as "The candidate loves books." Supporting documentation is often helpful.
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"You got to enjoy punishment because you are going to deliver so much of it, and you are going to get so much of it…If you are prepared you don't really feel the punishment during the game."
(Louisiana State)...6'0'', 214...James Charles Taylor ... LSU All-American, 1957 ... Packers' No. 2 draft pick, 1958 ... 1,000-yard rusher five straight years, 1960-1964 ... Rushed for 8,597 yards, caught 225 passes, amassed 10,539 combined net yards, scored 558 points ... Led NFL rushers, scorers, had record 19 TDs rushing, 1962 ... Excelled in 1962 NFL title game ... Ferocious runner, rugged blocker, prime disciple of "run to daylight" doctrine ... Born September 20, 1935, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana … Died October 13, 2018, at age of 83.
When Vince Lombardi took over the Green Bay coaching reins in 1959, fullback Jim Taylor became the Packers' bread-and-butter guy. Lombardi depended upon him to get the needed short yardage whether it was for a first down or a touchdown.
As the Packers' dynasty grew, so too did Taylor become the symbol of power in the awesome Green Bay attack. Jim was a throwback to an earlier era, who ran with a fierceness no one could match. He caught the short swing passes and blocked with rugged determination.
Thousand-yard seasons became a specialty for Taylor. He went over 1,000 yards five straight seasons beginning in 1960 but reached his zenith in 1962, when he had a career-high 1,474 yards and was named the NFL Player of the Year.
Jim was living testimony to the popular football adage "When the going gets tough, the tough get going." Nowhere was this more evident than in the 1962 NFL title game. Playing on a bitter-cold day, Taylor engaged in a personal duel with the New York Giants' outstanding defense, led by All-Pro linebacker Sam Huff. Jim carried 31 times for 85 yards and scored Green Bay's only touchdown in a 16-7 victory. He took a fearful pounding both from the hard-hitting Giants and the frozen ground. He suffered an elbow gash that took seven stitches to close at halftime and a badly cut tongue. At the end, he could scarcely see and he couldn't talk.
Taylor was often compared with Jim Brown, the Cleveland fullback, who played at the same time. There were many different viewpoints but Lombard's summation was most succinct. "Jim Brown will give you that leg and then take it away from you. Jim Taylor will give it to you and then ram it through your chest!"


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[First published September 12, 2005] During World War II, one could measure the progress of the war by the territories taken from the enemy, and the change in the front lines. So far, we have no such measure of our war on terror. I will now offer one.
Assumption 1: free countries — liberal democracies — do not sponsor terrorism or support it against other free countries.
Assumption 2: if the whole world were liberal democratic, terrorism would be defeated in that:
2a. They would not have a support base
2b. The remaining isolated gangs of terrorists would be treated as criminals.
2c.Democracies would combine forces to defeat those that remain, e.g., in the Philippines
Therefore, the progress of global liberal democratization measures the progress of the war on terrorism.
Okay, then how to measure the progress of liberal democratization? Freedom House has been rating nations on their freedom since 1972, giving a 1 to 7 rating their civil liberties, and then to their political rights. Adding these two ratings together, a 2 to 4 joint rating is what they define as a free country and what I will define as a liberal democracy. The worst rating on each is a 7, so a joint rating of 14 for a country is what they define as an unfree country and what I call totalitarian. See their ratings over the years here.
To get my democratization score, I will do this:
Take the average of the civil liberties and political rights rating for each country for each year. For a liberal democracy, this will average to 1 or 2, and to 6 or 7 for the worst unfree countries.
Then I will average all these averages across all countries for a year. If all countries are liberal democracies in a year, the average of the averages will be no greater than 2; if all counties were unfree for a year, the average of the averages would be greater than 6.
A problem is that I want to measure increasing democratization, but increasing democratization is so far measured by decreasing average ratings. So, to get the measurement moving in the proper direction, I will subtract each average of the averages from 7, the maximum possible. I will call the result the modified ratings. Then the modified 0 to 1 rating will mean all countries are unfree for a year, while 5 to 6 will mean all are liberal democratic.
With this understanding, I plotted the modified ratings in the figure below. I have set it up so that it is easy to see the progress in democratization, and thus by my assumptions, the current progress in the war on terror. I have fitted various trend estimates to the plot, such as a log, or polynomial fit, but all agree with what you can see. The trend line is up, and if it continues this way the world will be democratic in 3 or 4 decades, or liberally democratic in about two or three decades after that (to fit an equation just to determine the exact number of years to democracy or liberal democracy would be misplaced precision, given the uncertainties involved).
From now on, I will try to do this table year-by-year as a measure of the progress of the war on terror [not done, but will do in a new blog when I complete republishing these old blogs several months from now], not to mention the fulfillment of the democratic peace in the ending of war, democide, famine, and mass impoverishment.
Link of Day
"Of Minds and Metrics," By Michael Barone (8/29/05)
Barone says:
Metrics are hard to come by in the war on terrorism. We can know the number of improvised explosive devices that go off in Iraq and the number of suicide bombers there, but we can only guess at whether these numbers represent the last throes of a terrorist movement or its continuing growth. We can count the number of days the Iraqi parliament has moved the deadline for drafting a constitution–seven, as this is written–but cannot be sure what the effect of a finally drafted constitution will be. We can note that some 220,000 Iraqis took part in deliberations over the constitution and that the Iraqi electricity supply now exceeds that of prewar levels.
Written with the excellence I've come to expect from Barone
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"Reassessing the war on terror" By Harlan Ullman:
: Several weeks ago, the Pentagon led an attempt to rename President Bush's global war on terror as the global struggle against violent extremism. Many commentators took this effort as a sign of a policy reassessment within the administration. But the name change was stillborn by the president himself, who in a subsequent speech pointedly referred to the global war on terror more than a dozen times.
A shallow analysis that lives up to my expectations.
" StrategyPage Looks At War on Terror Metrics":
. . . discusses US strategy in the war on terror and then addresses the difficulty of measuring success in this intricate war."
This is Austin Bay's blog, and this article is informative and worth reading.
" Scoring the war on terrorism":Presents five measures of success and concludes:
There is no easy long-term strategy that guarantees success. Instead, the United States and its allies must accept the inevitability of a large, global movement bent on murder as a form of political expression. With skill and energy; we can beat it back. Outright defeat will be far harder. That may depend ultimately on the proverbial draining of the political swamp. But by any measure it is a very large swamp.
RJR: another important article to make time for.


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Mainline the Nios2 Linux Kernel port
- Summary
- Mainline the Nios2 Linux Kernel port
- Proposer
- Tobias Klauser
The Nios II as an embedded softcore processor for Altera FPGAs (see http://www.altera.com/products/ip/processors/nios2/ni2-index.html for more information). It is configurable and may include an optional MMU.
There has been a port of the Linux Kernel for Nios II without MMU for quite some time now, but it never made it into mainline until now. Since 2009 there is also a (separate) port for Nios II with MMU.
The two version are currently separated into two trees, but work is ongoing to merge them. There are also people working on getting full device tree support to the port and converting drivers.
Linus' git tree is regularly merged into the main development branch of the tree to keep it up-to-date with current mainline and make possible mainline inclusion simpler.
Some drivers out of the project have already been submitted and included into mainline (e.g. altera_ps2 serio driver, altera_uart and altera_jtaguart serial drivers). Some drivers such as the altera_tse ethernet driver, the nios_mmc MMC host driver or the spi_altera SPI driver still need to be brought into shape for mainline submission. Especially the altera_tse driver needs some serious work, maybe it could be submitted for inclusion into staging first.
The task would include finishing the work on the NOMMU/MMU tree merge and FDT support, fixing emerging bugs, submitting the code to LKML for review, incorporating review feedback etc. until the architecture could finally be merged into mainline.
Related work
- Existing Linux port for Nios2
- Code: git://sopc.et.ntust.edu.tw/git/linux-2.6.git (mirrored at
- Background Information for the "MMU port":
- Background Information for the "NOMMU port":
- Nios II Processor Reference Handbook:
Around 4 weeks (full-time) to get the tree ready for initial mainline submission. Work amount afterwards heavily depends on the review feedback which needs to be included.
Contractor Candidates
Thomas Chou is the "official" maintainer of the port and also works on the Das U-Boot for Nios2, he would certainly be a great candidate.
I worked with and on Nios2 Linux for some time now and am one of around 5 people contributing to Nios2 Linux regularly (currently working on the NOMMU/MMU merge), so I'd also like to nominate myself.


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Could you explain the distinctive Presbyterian/Reformed view of the "Real Presence" in the Lord's Supper, and what it entails?
This is an old and interesting question. The reformers Calvin, Luther, and Zwingli took somewhat different positions on this in response to the abuses that were being taught by the Catholic church. The view of the Catholic church, which may be worth stating here as a backdrop, was that when the priest said the blessing the elements of bread and wine were mysteriously transformed into the body and blood of Christ. This was called transubstantiation. They saw Christ as, if you will, overly present in the supper, to the point of being offered up over, and over, and over.
Christ's sacrifice was given "once for all," and that was on the cross (see Hebrews 9 and 10, especially Hebrews 9:24-28.
24For Christ did not enter a man-made sanctuary that was only a copy of the true one; he entered heaven itself, now to appear for us in God's presence. 25Nor did he enter heaven to offer himself again and again, the way the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood that is not his own. 26Then Christ would have had to suffer many times since the creation of the world. But now he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of himself. 27Just as man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment, 28so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many people; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.
The idea that Christ's "once for all" sacrifice on the cross was repeatedly "re-presented" in the Lord's Supper was rejected by all the major branches of the Reformation. Zwingli's view is the closest to the modern evangelical view, though upon close inspection, it could be the case that he is somewhat misunderstood. Nevertheless, Zwingli is understood by many as teaching that the supper is a "memorial" to Christ's death upon the cross. The issue of presence in the Supper is played down (at least in comparison to other reformers). The analogy of a wedding is used. The Lord's Supper is a visible reminder of something accomplished in the past, whether the person is present or not.
Luther had a heightened view of the presence of Christ in the supper, though I find him the hardest to really follow. He said, and Lutheran Catechisms (like "Luther's Small Catechism") still say, that Christ is present "in, with, and under" the elements. By this Luther wanted to suggest that Christ was "truly" in some way present in the Supper, even in the elements themselves, yet he did not want to go where the Catholic church had been on the supper. Certainly his sense of Christ's essential presence could be argued as being stronger than that of Zwingli, but not as problematic as that of the Roman Catholic church. Still, the prepositions "in, with, and under" seem to skirt the issue, and I have not been overly helped by them yet.
Calvin, and those coming from his direction are the ones I do find to be the most biblical, clear, and helpful. While denying that the elements themselves are in any way changed, he argued strongly that Christ was truly present by his/the Spirit in such a way that we can and should believe that Christ is truly, "really" present. In other words, the "real" presence of Christ, is a uniquely spiritual presence. The Supper, according to Calvin and the Reformed tradition, is truly a unique meeting with the resurrected Christ who promises to nourish the souls of his people as they feed upon him by faith. The language of "feeding upon him" should not be misunderstood. I cannot say it any better than the Westminster Confession, so I'll quote chapter 29, section 7:
Worthy receivers, outwardly partaking of the visible elements, in this sacrament, do then also, inwardly by faith, really and indeed, yet not carnally and corporally but spiritually, receive, and feed upon, Christ crucified, and all benefits of his death: the body and blood of Christ being then, not corporally or carnally, in, with, or under the bread and wine; yet, as really, but spiritually, present to the faith of believers in that ordinance, as the elements themselves are to their outward senses.
Many books and dissertations have been written on this subject. You may wish to consult Given for You: Reclaiming Calvin's Doctrine of the Lord's Supper by Keith Mathison, published by P & R Publishing. It should be helpful.
Please let me know if I have helped or confused you! It is a tricky, but important question. The Lord's Supper is a true, spiritual blessing to the people of God, and understanding the way in which Christ is really present in the Supper is important to seeing how our once-for-all sacrificed and resurrected Savior continues to give himself to his people.
Blessings in him.
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Welcome to Alpha Beta 53.
Tournament Set-Up
- 16 Players
- Two brackets: Alpha Bracket and Beta Bracket
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Michael Kosowan: If it comes out of the ground and has value in a commodity sense, we're looking at it for investment ideas. My background is as a mining engineer, so what I'm often looking at are mineral-style investments along the precious metals space, because a lot of my clients are speculators. They're looking for the high-return, high-potential rewards that we can get from a discovery. We're coming into a market where there's been a lot of work that's gone into the ground and a lot of dollars spent, some misspent. Either way it sets the table for a strong exploration market.
TGR: A lot of these junior mining companies are struggling because they're running out of money for exploration. Yet you say it's a strong exploration marketcould you explain that?
MK: Strong because there have been a lot of dollars put in the ground over the last decade that are going to prove up some real buyable deposits. Also, the economic metrics that we're working under are much stiffer than in the past.
We're in a marketplace that has very tight financial constraints. It's also not particularly forgivingthe markets have been lousy over the last 18 months and we are seeing low stock prices. But it's important to make the distinction between the market and the businesses. From a business perspective, I see quite a bit of good work going on.
TGR: Over the past 12 to 18 months, many senior mining companies are spending a lot of time justifying to their shareholders reasons to stay in the stock even though their share prices have not performed, costs have increased and senior management has been fired and replaced. Do you see a pathway for the seniors to retain investor confidence, and do you see them being successful in drawing money away from the exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and back into the equities over the next three to six months?
MK: The senior mining companies are starting from a very low base relative to the prevailing gold price. I'm a big proponent of the slogan "well bought is half sold." From that perspective I see good valuations among the seniors for investors with a bullish view toward the gold price.
The senior gold stocks have to compete with three new elements in the marketplace with which they're not entirely familiar:
"There have been a lot of dollars put in the ground over the last decade that are going to prove up some real buyable deposits."First, precious metal proxies or ETFs have had a significant impact on the investment flows into the sector, which didn't really exist before the advent of the ETFs. Aside from the direct relativity to the gold price, the metal proxies have had the added benefit of removing the investor from the equity arena.
Second, skepticism has grown toward corporate governance. There are some management changes at the top of some of these companies, and investors are starting to ask if management groups are making the best investment choices for shareholders and economically growing the mining enterprise. When the price of gold was moving up strongly, the message seemed to be to grow at all costs. Now that inflation, taxes, regulatory hurdles and labor costs are seen as cutting into the profit margins of the seniors, the seniors are acutely aware of fine-tuning their operations and becoming more economically efficient.
Third, there had been a lack of leverage to the gold price. The price of gold has increased more than fourfold over the last 10 years. Meanwhile the major gold producers have enjoyed a mere 8% annualized return. The low return can be accounted for in part by the attempts made to develop marginal assets. The market was rewarding the industry for ounces in the ground irrespective of what that meant to the bottom line. The concept of leverage to gold got confused in the context of a greatly increasing gold price. Now that reality has set in, in the form of tighter financial markets, inflation playing catch-up with costs, higher taxes and operational constraints, the earning outlook does not seem as pretty as was originally hoped, and the end result is the weak share prices.
TGR: Do you think it's true that extremely high capital expenditure (capex) projects aren't viable anymore?
MK: High capex and low grade have been the death knell of many a project and will continue to be real. The market has changed and is becoming more focused on the economic viability of projects. The market has developed a sweet spot for the "small is beautiful" idea. Smaller gold producers may be in a real window of opportunity where the higher gold prices that we're experiencing go directly to their bottom lines or their margins and are allowing them to be quite profitable because they never really had an aggressive growth strategy to begin with. If you're a 2 million ounce gold producer, you've got a real problem. Your problem is finding more economic reserves to rely on, and that's become a challenge now that we've removed a lot of the low-grade opportunities that were once apparent in the marketplace and financeable in better economic times.
"The market has changed and is becoming more focused on the economic viability of projects."
We've seen the senior names diversifying their asset portfolios to include metals that they hadn't focused on beforefor instance with the Barrick Gold Corp. (ABX:TSX; ABX:NYSE)Equinox Resources Ltd. (EQN:TSX; EQN:ASX) deal that we saw earlier last year. The huge companies are trying to find ways to replace ounces through other metals or acquisition. Going back to my illustration about the gold price going up fourfold, or even fivefold, in a relatively short period, the supply response from gold production has been pretty muted. If you think about the margin that would expand under that scenario for any other commodity, then you would start to see real supply coming onstream, and we just haven't seen it. That speaks to the challenges of finding these good, high-grade, economically viable deposits. They haven't been found at the rate that the industry requires, which is why what we are looking at could develop into a strong exploration cycle.
TGR: Given the backdrop of resource nationalism, increasing cost inputs, exploration risk and the other factors that go into exploration, how do you decide what projects you're going to investigate for your clients? Let's talk about some of your favorite jurisdictions right now.
MK: I like to find jurisdictions that are generally misunderstood, especially if that misconception is further emphasized by the media. I'm a contrarian and find investments at a discount. It's, of course, critical to back up that with concrete, objective facts; however, finding well-valued or cheap speculations involves building up the intestinal fortitude to go against the crowd. I hearken back to what my friend Rick Rule has often said, which is there are many who call themselves contrarians so long as it's fashionable.
"I like to find jurisdictions that are generally misunderstood."
I have looked at areas such as the Yukon, about eight years ago, when it was a frontier market that really lacked infrastructure. I then moved on to West Africa in the wake of the Red Back Mining Inc. (RBI:TSX) acquisition, with the idea that the senior mining companies would see this as a very attractive area because the types of deposit matched their style. They were large, low-grade projects that required high capital and in a sense created a moat around their investment thesis. You couldn't be a little junior company who hopped in there with a rake and a shovel and started going to work and producing gold. It was much more capital intensive and that created the moat, the barrier of entry. With the market developing the way that it has lately, the high-capex projects are nonstarters. I've been looking at heap-leach oxide, near-surface projects. That's where your capex is nicely controlled and infrastructure is readily available.
I think Mexico is a great place. I visited the Guerrero Gold Belt this year with a team of geologists, and I concluded that it was very appealing to the sociopolitical contrarian in me. The drug wars were quite heated, and there was the idea that Mexico is just a terrible place to go, which I didn't see as true. There are certain places in Mexico that are certainly dangerous, but you shouldn't use a broad brush and wipe out the potential or the stability of the entire country based upon what is in the news media. The Guerrero Gold Belt is an old new gold belt. Even though it is an area that has been mined for decades, there is still much to learn from the prospectivity of the geological controls.
This concept of a renaissance is exciting because it gives an air of familiarity with the region, enough to make you comfortable with the geology while opening the door to modeling and interpreting these new gold-bearing structures.
TGR: Do you see Mexico continuing with its support of the mining industry? Could the Mexican government do anything similar to what we've seen in Argentina or Peru, where there is increased resource nationalism, or a more difficult permitting environment?
MK: In Peru, which is a country I worked in with a junior exploration company, the community where the mining activity occurs doesn't share in the social take that is generated in the region. Lima is gaining most of the benefit. Argentina is going down the route of currency controls. But let's face it: the idea that countries worldwide are going to increase their social take is very much on the rise. Part of that problem stems from the mining industry itself, which has simply been announcing operating costs and not taking into account the additional costs of sustaining capital or exploration in finding more ounces. As a consequence, the jurisdictional governments have been saying, "Well, if their margin is that thick, 100%, then they can certainly cut us in for twice the kind of taxes that we have historically achieved."
TGR: That is a problem of a mining company not effectively reporting what its true costs are. Maybe that's part of the better transparency that we might see going forward.
MK: I think we will because they have to. The senior mining companies were rewarded for offering leverage to gold; as a consequence the market misrewarded them, in a sense, for finding marginal ounces, and that's what they gave us in spades. It was very easy for them to deliver on that promise, and now they're sitting with a series of assets that they really can't develop due to the economics of hard times.
TGR: Are there other jurisdictions you like besides Mexico?
MK: I like Serbia. I traveled there two years ago. There are a series of companies along the Tethyan Belt, which really offers a lot of potential. Serbia was closed off largely because of Kosovo and the war. Now that they want to get the economy humming again, it's really looking at these other mineral-type developments.
TGR: Do you have any other parting thoughts for investors in terms of how to navigate 2013, when we have a gold price today at $1,700/oz.
MK: A large part of my investment theory is geared toward discovery. My clients hire me to seek out the high-return speculations available in this market. These markets, while challenging, are still rewarding exploration success. The discoveries are starting to come to the forefront because there has been a fair amount of activity that's gone into plays, or dollars spent to develop geological concepts and ideas that are starting to bear fruit. Speculators often like the idea of getting rich quick, but the exploration process realistically takes time, and it takes a mature view to see how these projects are developing.
TGR: Rick Rule has been famous for saying that the chances of success in the discovery business are extremely slim. Are your clients patient with this process, knowing the odds are not great?
MK: Yes, my clients have developed this discipline over time. I've been working as an investment adviser for over 12 years, and a lot of my clients have been with me through thick and thin. We've been through the 2008 market. We've been through this market over the last 18 months, which I've typified as death by paper cutit's been a long process. I've been able to educate my clients. If you want to be happy with your stock portfolio over the last two months, that's simple: lower your expectations. You've got to expect that there's going to be times in the race where you're at the back of the pack. It's more important to stay with it on a good trend in a good investment and to know when you're positioned to make a move at the appropriate time.
TGR: That's the whole idea of being a contrarian. That's why it takes a lot of moxie and guts.
MK: It does.
TGR: Thanks for your insights.
Michael Kosowan is an investment executive at Sprott Global Resource Investments Ltd. Originally from Canada, Kosowan holds a master's degree in mining engineering and is a licensed professional engineer. He is also a registered representative, having completed the Series 7, Series 24 and Series 63 in the U.S. and the Canadian Securities Commission course. He also holds a diploma in Regulatory Law. Prior to working for Global Resources, Kosowan was a project engineer at Placer Dome (now Barrick Gold) and the exploration manager for Atapa Minerals in Indonesia.
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Jennison Myrie-Williams fired his fifth goal of the season to earn a 1-1 draw for second-placed Port Vale after an error by goalkeeper Chris Neal had handed visitors Dagenham and Redbridge the lead.
Much of the first-half was a hard fought and scrappy affair with Neal and visiting goalkeeper Chris Lewington largely redundant.
Vale did build up a head of steam towards half-time as Ashley Vincent and then two attempts from Tom Pope finally warmed Lewington's fingers.
But it was the visitors who took the lead following a 72nd-minute mistake by Neal, who was Vale's hero in Saturday's victory at Bradford.
Luke Howell's powerfully struck 30-yard shot was fired straight at Neal, but the ball slipped through his fingers and rolled over the line.
Howell then blasted a much easier chance over the top from 12 yards just seconds later and the miss proved costly as Myrie-Williams levelled in the 75th minute.
Dagenham failed to clear from a goal-mouth scramble and the Vale winger drove a fierce shot which Lewington touched but couldn't keep out of the bottom right-hand corner of his net.
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I've been pondering the widely-held belief that the "Acts 2 Community" is the ideal Christian community: the one to which we should aspire. Here is what that community was like:
- They devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching; fellowship; to the breaking of bread and to prayer.
- Everyone was filled with awe.
- Many wonders and miraculous signs were done by the apostles.
- All the believers were together and had everything in common, and they gave to anyone as he had need. etc.
George Barna in his latest [odd] book Revolution basically uses Acts 2 by which to measure all other churches, past and present, saying: "Who wouldn't want to be a part of this?"
And the challenge, of course is that if the Church could get herself back to that, we'd be better off: we'd be more God honouring; less institutional etc. We need real community. And the 'Acts 2 community' is real community we need.
There is no doubt that the text here is describing a situation that is wonderful. That is clear. It's also clear in Acts 4:32-35. The truth is -- I do want this kind of community. And I think that Acts 2 functions as a wake up call for our often lazy-consumer-driven church experiences.
But I'm not sure that God wants us to go back to this.
I am wondering whether the 'Acts 2 community' is an adequate model for us. It's not enough. Here are my three reasons why we need to go beyond the Acts 2 Community.
1. They have yet to include a single non-Jewish person.
The Gentile question doesn't get hammered out properly until Acts 15. God has to give Peter a bizarre dream to get him to move beyond racial boundaries. The Acts 2 community is a racially Jewish community only. It is yet to be inclusive.
Don't we want the Jew-Gentile community that gets hammered out after Act 15? With all the difficulties that come with reaching out beyond racial comfort zones? I'm glad, as a Gentile, that the community did not remain the way they were.
2. They have yet to be tested under the fire of persecution.
That doesn't happen until Acts 4 [a 'nibble'], Acts 5 [a flogging], Acts 6 [Stephen arrested], Acts 7 [Stephen murdered], Acts 8 [A full-scale persecution breaks out]. Up until that point, everyone loves 'em.
Don't we want a Church refined by the fire? One where 'convenient faith' is shown for what it really is? Isn't the persecution and the testing [post Acts 2] one of the most powerful aspects of Acts?
3. They have yet to feel - and work through - disillusionment.
The first 'problem' with the community doesn't happen until Acts 5:1-11. And a major shock to the system it was.
Don't we want a community that can deal with disappointment in a gospel way? The Acts 2 community had yet to experience the disappointment. Don't we want to be able to cope, without replacing the gospel with inappropriate idealism? I want a Church that reflects Bonhoeffer's words:
- "Thus, the very hour of disillusionment with my brother becomes incomparably productive, because it so thoroughly teaches me that neither of us can ever live by our own words and deeds, but only by the one Word and Deed which really binds us together--the forgiveness of sins in Jesus Christ. When the morning mists of dreams vanish, then dawns the bright day of Christian fellowship."
I think that I'd prefer the Acts 2 community together with what God does in that community after the ideal is described. God had more blessing for them. And we are the inheritors of that blessing.
There is no going back. Only forward.
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