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Eric for Eric
Despite Eric Stults' great game yesterday, more pitching is needed right now so he was optioned back to Triple-A and Eric Hull was recalled. He's with the team in Houston right now. Takashi Saito should be arriving in Houston tonight and I still don't have any sort of update yet medically, but once we do, I'll pass it along or it will surely be in Ken Gurnick's notebook.
Here's the lineup:
Furcal, SS
Pierre, CF
Martin, C
Kent, 2B (has reached base in 33 straight games, the longest streak in MLB in 2007)
Gonzo, LF
Nomar, 3B (birthday boy, along with Kuo, Stan Johnston and the late Pee Wee Reese and Don Drysdale)
Loney, 1B
Ethier, RF
Billingsley, P
160 Comments
Hope Saito is ok and ready to pitch tonight. I don't know if Big John Stud can close again tonight. Too bad for Stults, but we need a fresh arm in Hull up for relief.
When's Wolf scheduled to return? This is a big road trip coming up, Id like to hit 5-2 on the Hou-Col end.
Maybe if Kemp got a chance to play everyday, he'd be more comfortable in the OF…How about Pierre's 4 fly outs yesterday???
The only thing wrong with Kemp's bobble is we all know that guy on 3rd would have been dust at home and if it was a fly to CF, he would have scored no matter what, but that's ok, right JP fans?
i don't know if anyone has brought this up yet, but about marlon anderson. remember when the report came out when marlon first came over that he told penny he was tipping his pitches? well after the mets series there was a quote about how marlon was instructing the mets batters on houlton. not only that, i wonder if its just a coincidence that lowe was knocked from pillar to post by the mets the other night. another reason why we should not have let marlon go!!!
If you need help up to bat when Houlton's pitching then you are pressing lol
JP is OUR EVERYDAY CF, Kemp just lost that ball yesterday. HE WILL NOT START IN CF!
There were plenty of reasons why we lost yesterday, Hernandez still on the team, another is Kemp's error, he gets cut some slack because he's young, but the fact is everyone here knows the ball should of been caught and he knows it better than anybody. He had a chance to redeem himself and struck out, just like Martin who had an awful series, Nomar's bat may have woken up, we'll see if it carries over on the road trip. With all the clutch hits Nomar came through with last year to win games (Grand Slam in Houston, S.D walk off, Arizona Walk-Off Grand Slam) he's due to come up short and he did on a nasty pitch by Wagner…new day, new game, hopefully a much better conclusion.
I appreciate JP's effort generally, but he honestly is not the best option. I hate it when salary and ego are the driving force and not talent.
How many teams sit a player that has been above .350 all year to play someone who hits .280 with no walks and no power and no defense?
Justify that.
I would love to but I've been having the same conversation for 5 months..I'm burned out and bored by it.
And I would then argue against what alex would argue against you. But I am bored of it as well. JP is our CF for 2007 (at least) so let's just move along.
Yep 4 flyouts is definatly a tough way to end a 14 game hitting streak.Its a shame Kemp struckout instead of hitting a long flyball to score JP… and martin going 0-5 with 3K's was pretty bad too.but of course its all JP's fault that we lost…..
oh btw scott JP was on base on his 10th inning walk…
Andy LaRoche homered in both games of a doubleheader for Triple-A Las Vegas on Sunday.
LaRoche took Jake Woods and Tomo Ohka deep in the games against Tacoma. He has seven homers and 19 RBI in his last eight games.
Nice update max, I'm happy to see LaRoche thriving after his early season struggles.
I wonder what the Cubs record is since trading Barrett and wonder what the Padres record is since getting him.
LaRoche is actaully healthy now. A couple of days after his demotion to the minors he was on the DL there. I have no doubt in my mind that if LaRoche was healthy when he was on the big club he'd be our starting third baseman right now.
geez….this is how it goes when KEMP makes an error? people try to deflect blame towards JP and play the "what ifs" game to strengthen their arguments that JP is a scrub?
fact of the matter is that KEMP made that error and the run scored….would JP have caught it if it was hit to CF? Probably… and if he did, would the runner from 3rd score? undoubtedly ya, in fact, the runner from 3rd probably would have walked in…But the FACT is that that didn't happen, its merely a hypothetical that doesn't have an bearing on yesterday's play…
I don't see anyone calling for KEMP's head after HE made that error… Kemp's error hurt us, but i don't have any ill-will towards the guy for missing that ball…like every player out on the field, as long as they give 110%, i can live with that….
What irks me is that fact that people play their favorites and an error by one player on the field is not as bad as a hypothetical error…Really, what does the error of KEMP have to do with JP? you guys know that if JP made that very same error, this board would go nuts and certain posters would go wild…..
anyways, the error hurt, we failed to produce at the end of the game with runners on, it was a team loss, live with it…
both KEMP and Nomar struck out….but i guess NOMAR failed us for striking out and should be DFA's, but KEMP's strike out is okay then?? geez, some of you surprise me…
btw…let's hope saito is alright, he's been money this year, and we really need him if we want to go deep into october 🙂
Belated thank yous to you, Camille Johnston and Frank McCourt for, without solicitation, taking the time to meet with the Dodger Thoughts group prior to Saturday's game. I think we all enjoyed the opportunity to meet with you all and discuss the product and organization that is near and dear to all of us.
I left that day impressed with the Dodgers organization and with ownership (or as McCourt said, "stewardship") and the general vision and long-range outlook that was presented.
Good luck to you and the organization as we head down the home stretch and into the future seasons.
And don't trade Matt Kemp!
El Lay Dave.
JP had a great at bat against Wagner, snapped a 14 game hitting streak, has 40 steals but its his fault kemp dropped a routine pop up and struck out instead of making contact. Does anyone know why grittle pulled Tomko & stults so early yet leaves Lowe in there until there is no chance to comeback?
Alex or Max or any of the other stats guys out there, how has Martin done since he became the everyday #3 hitter in the lineup? Is it my imagination or has he struggled a bit at that spot?
Martin struggled this past series, Nomar struggles for three months and no one wants to move him. Who would you bat three can't go wrong leaving our best hitter there that can steal more bases than our leadoff hitter. I don't get it why not bat Pierre lead off and Furcal second?
The three best OF on the dodgers right now and for the forseeable future are Kemp, Ethier and Gonzo (though Gonzo is admittedly a poor defensive OF).
Kemp and Ethier can both play CF better than JP and are far better offensive players than JP. JP just makes 12X the $$ that Kemp and Ethier make combined.
Can Nomar go on the DL for each road trip with a hangnail or something?
.328/.399/.487/.886 in the #3 spot this season, but he ran into a buzzsaw against the Mets getting only 2 hits in 4 games, so his numbers before the series were far better. Even still they're still very solid.
Gonzo is not playing better than Pierre, especially in the past month. Pirre's arm doesn't look so bad when Ethier & Kemp are in the line up, they cut the balls in the gap off. But with Gonzo and Pierre out there that really weakens our D. Has anyone watched Kemp in right he is not as good as Pierre in center, he soesn't get as good of jumps as Pierre. He has a better arm but that's why he's in right.
Last 7 days martin is hitting .120 with a .185obp
#3 hole .328 with a .398 obp
.328/.419obp in July…
Any word on Saito yet?
This is what Tony Jackson just posted
"Saito's MRI showed nothing. He will rejoin the team during the game tonight, and there is some hope he will be ready to pitch by tomorrow. He had an injury similar to this in Japan"
Too bad about Stults being optioned, but he's got to know that he's contributed.
If there is something that I have learned about baseball in the last two years that I did not truly understand before is that a team wins (or loses) based on the 40-man roster, not just the 25-man. And we still have good depth. Stults will be back.
Good news about Saito from Tony Jackson–nothing showed up and he may be ready tomorrow. Let's blow 'em out tonight.
and then again the MRI on schmidt showed nothing either… i know its not the same thing but MRIs are kinda useless sometimes. meanwhile we're going at least another day with a short pitching staff…im still fairly concerned.
I often wonder what my comment or posting would be after I check out the lineup. I had a few ideas. But then I told a friend of mine I wasn't coming out tonight because it was an 8:05 game. He as usual told me he wondered why I watched the game since they'd proberbly would lose anyway. I usually mutter something like I like watching. But tonight I suddently got angry. I told him the Dodgers could have just as easy swept the Mets as to lose 3 out of 4. I felt for years the Mets had dominated us, but that feeling is GONE. If our starting pitching didn't take a hit which effected our usually sound bullpen and tired them out we would of been the better team. Our hitting, whether its Bill Mueller or what, has definately improved. We made mistakes with our defense, which lacks experience. We gave them all 3 games. But we're going to straighten our selves out and get back to October as sure as sure as Christ made apples. THINK BLUE******LET'S GO DODGERS
here is an intresting note martin is .277/.366 at the ravine…
Alex and Fisher, thanks for the Martin info. I am sure he will make the necessary adjustmements. It is easy to forget he is only in his second season because he plays like a seasoned veteran.
Turtle can use some rest.
Over the last 7 days:
Nomar's BABIP: .375
Martin's BABIP: .150
Where the normative range is approximately .290, it's pretty clear that neither of them are performing now at a "new" level — Martin will bounce back in a huge way, while Nomar will tail off again.
I know its very doubtful but whats these rumors I here about Ethier,Loney,and a minor league pitcher for mark teixeira.
CASINOD383:: Ckeck my post from this morning under AUTOGRAPHS. Your post W/regards to JP & KEMP agrees with me 100 PERCENT!!
Martin hits better on the road Nomar hits better at home
Where did you here that rumor marselease, in playboy?
yeah i guess i did,nm
I always like Mark Teixeira but I wouldn't trade ETHIER & LONEY for him now.
Teixeira is a dbag! I dont want him in Dodger blue.
Thanks for the Saito update diehard. That is definitely great news. What would we have done if the MRI's showed serious injury? I don't even want to think about it!
I can't believe some of you are still talking down on JP. Give the guy a break. He's been playing very well for us for about 2 months.
Let's hope Bills can give us a strong outing and help rest that bullpen. Let's also hope Grady (whom I rarely criticize) doesn't think Hernandez is a good option…
Wow, no Broxton tonight (rest) nor Saito, Beimel is our closer tonight, we really need Bills to step up tonight and our offense to pound the Astros tonight. It could get ugly if Bills isn't sharp…
we need Gagne
We did not need Gagne until the past few days and who knows how he would have fared with the workload in L.A. as opposed to Texas.
Well one ump is already shoddy…
ummm JP was safe! Bad Call!
After cooking yesterday at the ravine I'm sooo happy to be back at my normal place and actually seeing the game….Althought the 10th inning almost rally was alot of fun WTG KENT!!!
Kent is clutch, had no clue about the 34 game on base streak, Loney with 26 behind him.
KENT is my "ole Reliabl"e
Kent has kinda quietly become a force in this line-up, I love it. You know how the saying goes…hitting is contagious.
bang bang no harm no foul
That's the way to bail out defensive mistakes right there, nicely turned 4-6-3.
His hook is sick!
123 gotta love minimal damage innings like that.
We need Gagne?
Why in the world would we trade for Gagne who 4 months. Do you think Texas is goin to give him up for less than Loney, Kemp, Bills, or Russ Mart?
Your nuts.
Texas might be willing to just dump his contract seeing as how they are not in the running with him…Might get him just to take over the contract … ever think about it that way?Texas is a selling team and if we put the money back in there pockets as he is a 1 year signing.Not saying we need him but that is a point to ponder.
and after Gagne let's go after Eckersley, Lee Smith, and John Wetteland…after all you can never have enough pitching right?
That was a full on vet play by Gonzo there.
The best part about the game so far has to be Bills' pitch efficiency. Keep it going and save the bullpen for a day.
Bills looking good so far. That curve he threw to Berkman was just unfair especially for the first pitch of the AB.
and Nomar redeams himself!
Run saving catch by Nomar, more than made up for that error earlier.
I hear SAITO may not be available again, It would be good if we could score some runs Tonight.
Kent Loves TX….
randy, you need to study the market before you make ridiculous statements like that
gagne would be a nice logical pick up
we can easily get gagne for a B or C grade prospect. would pretty much be a salary dumb. THINK BEFORE YOU POST.
for the right price… player to be named or someone we don't need and player to be named even better and we eat the money.
dump*…Freudian slip i guess 😉
Nomar is looking sharp in both at bats
2-0 Blue crew.
That should be an auto out……
wow Bills being super efficent.
Bills is looking good. Looks like my investemnt in a Bills jersey is paying off. I hope it gets here before the 3rd. Im going to a game that night!
RF and JP doing there job!
**** Houston's LF is a joke! Too **** short
If we trade Hu or Abreu for Dotel, we are getting ripped! Dotel has given up 21 hits in 21 inn. plus he has 10 walks. 26 K's in 21 inn., but with that many hits and walks, do the K's really matter? He's been either ineffective or injured the last three years. To trade a guy that could potentially lock up a middle infield spot for us for the next 4+ years is not a good idea.
Big clutch hit by Gonzo to plate the rabbits
Ya see that? Furcal waving JP in? why? Because Donnally is a horrible 3rd base coach!I don't hate anyone but lastyear and this I have seen Horrible baserunning due to the 3rd base coaching…..
Nice to see da GONZ come through for 2.
ouch not a good start
not a good place but we are in their bullpen now.
haha i heart martin's arm
YEAH! Bills got outta trouble with a little assistance by the All-Star and Loney with the sweet tag.
Chad Blows away the Baby Faced assasain!
MARTIN may not be providing much offense but that defensive pick off at first base makes up for a lot.
that 5th inning of Bills was really impressive. He got into trouble but you couldn't tell by looking at Bills or the way he pitched. He's got that ace type make up. We needed innings from him today and he did that. He needed to find a way to get out of that 5th inning and he did with Help from the other Kids.
The "kids" just keep getting more impressive each game. I and alot of other dodger fans who follow the farm system alot have been dreaming of this for couple of years and its coming true now.
Grunick still thinks the Dodgers are going after that first basemen from the Rangers(i know his name i just refuse to say it). That would be a diaster. It would be an old Dodgers move. DON'T DO IT
The old man is flat out putting on a clinic tonight!
Finally some good baserunning!
We Might Love LA But Kent Loves TX. or atleast hitting in TX.
epic game!
Super"clark"KENT is reliable again da GONZ is hot and NOMAR gets 1 in, after a nice short double by MARTIN
CG would be a great stat for Bills to build on.
**** that change up was sick. It looked like a greg maddux fastball.
lord knows we will need the bullpen with Lurch going tomorrow even though he's been better then expected this year for the most part.
Freaking Milton Bradley 3 run HR!
Manny3–I am afraid that you are wrong about Gagne. I love the guy, but the health of his arm is questionable and his salary big. We could overcome that if we needed a guy to end games. But Gagne is no good as a set-up man. He has the mentality of a closer. He is lights out to end games, but not to come in during the 7th and 8th.
Perhaps, given that he has pithcing well, you might actually ask Gagne to close games. Lots of fun for Dodger fans, to be sure. But Gagne's contract is incentive-laden based on Games Finished. So he would not waive the no-trade clause unless he was either going to close the games or have his contract guaranteed (Gagne might do it for love, but his agent, that jerk Boras, won't). So why go with a $10 million closer when we have a $1 million closer who is just as good. It's just not economical.
Max–I can't fathom that Texiera trade making any sense whatsover. He may be a fine ballplayer, but James Loney is our first basemen, and ranges anywhere betwee not-yet-as-good-as-Tex-but-with-potential and already-better-than-Tex. I don't think Gurnick is reporting that there is interest, but since the team is in Texas, I think he is reporting the rumors that they are flogging in Texas–the fools in the Dallas Morning News can't seem to stop–perhaps they don't like Texiera??? I don't know. But as Dodger Thoughts reports, Loney, with a HBP tonight, has now reached base 28 consecutive games–the third longest active streak in the league behind Jeff Kent with 34 (the longest streak this year) and Ryan Howard with 29. And, BTW, Texiera makes something around 25 times what Loney makes, and Loney is 3 years away from arbitration (I think). Agree or disagree with all of the management moves, but Ned has done a good job at protecting the top-shelf talent that has been helping us (trading Edwin Jackson, Joel Guzman, Willy Aybar, Navarro, but holding onto Kemp, Bills, Loney, Martin, and all sorts of guys who teams are desperate for).
Also, when I was at the game on Sunday, they advertised that Loney and Kemp would be making personal appearances at two Southland area Staples stores on August 4 (Hopefully Josh can send those details?) That suggests that everyone expects those guys to be around after the trade deadline. Admittedly, they can change things around, and the PR department may not be tied into the moves that the baseball operations make, but Loney and Kemp were sent out on personal appearances just before the All-Star Break. That suggests the one thing that we all suspect–these guys are going to be very big parts of the team for years to come, and the Dodgers expect them to be the faces of the franchise (along with Martin and Penny–who will probably be on the right and left field walls at the Stadium next year–and a few others).
My Loney Has a Firstname its HR!!!!!!!
nice fantasy stats for me Loney!
I didn't even see where that ball landed! Goodness Loney…out of orbit!
My Loney has a first name,
It's J-A-M-E-S
My Loney has a second name,
It's L-O-N-E-Y
I love to watch him every day
And if you ask me why I'll say
'Cause James Loney has a way
With H-I-T-T-I-N-G!
Man its gotta **** to be down 10-0 at home then give that up….
Sorry Old Fogey–My brother liked your ending, but thought it was too cerebral for the casual fan.
It looked like OLD TIMERS NIGHT until LONEY teed off with his 3-run drive.
I like the raising pitchers E-R-A ending.
fisher–I'll send it along. My brother was trying to pass out the lyrics at the game last Monday. But I say feel free to use your preferred ending.
gd loney! way to ruin cbills cg shutout
****, so close Bills, so very close! GREAT JOB BILLS! You're still the M.V.P of this game!
oh well take the bad news first because the good news outweighs it! CG Win!
Bills is great tonight, but I am worried about his pitch count–over 106 now. He needs to end it soon.
But even with the HR, a great, great job. Just what the Doctor (Jobe) ordered for the bullpen.
I really wanted to sing it yesterday at the game but the oppotunity didn't come up.
Exactly. Bills was HUGE. And the offense was great which gave us the comfort of not having to hit for him and the freedom that only Hull even got up.
But Bills did this one!
Ok, 113 pitches in 5 innings, Bad
106 pitches, saving the bullpen, pitching a complete game and the best game of his big league career, very very good in many different ways.
The "CROWN JEWEL" Chad BILLINGSLEY pitched a JEM. and don't forget the 17 more hits tonight. KEEP IT GOING BOYS.
Leekfink, assuming Saito is gonna be out for a while, going after Gagne makes good sense. He would close while Saito's out and when Sammy comes back…well, I'm sure that a problem Grady would welcome at this point.
It seems your concerns about getting Gagne boil down to 1) his reluctance/inability to come in the 7th and 8th and 2) his contract .
The first is something I think he can deal with if he's willing to do so, and the second matters to no one other then Mr. McCourt. I mean, if I'm not mistaken, his contract maxes out at about 10-11 mil. Assuming he reaches the max, we'd be responsible for about 5 mil. Its not like we're taking on an albatross.
our offense is looking lethal…way to go guys in blue! great all around effort, and it helps when you're starter is out there throwing up zero's 🙂
let's keep it going!!!!!!!
Save Hull for tomorrow he is good and will count to spell some really tired arms.I think Hernandez being signed for a minorleague contract should go help LV because we are really taxing them again this year.
I don't have the stats to back this up, but our offense has made a dramatic improvement the past 3-4 weeks.
We get into alot more close games then blowouts if we could get Gagne back for a few months without giving up more then money it would not only boost attendance but allow each Gagne and Saito to alternate instead of pitching back to back games while trimming the unproductive…
another way to look at it is if one closer blows a save you still have one waiting in the wings where grady has always been afraid to put a closer in same as pinch hitting the only backup catcher…it allows for error.
Ok Manny, you ready to give up Loney, Ethier and Broxton to get Gagne back?
Dumbest thing I have heard in awhile!
Manny3–If Saito were going to be out for any extended period, then maybe going after Gagne makes sense. But the reports are good, and I'm optimistic. We should know long before a deal could even be put together.
I don't doubt that Gagne would try to pitch in non-close situations (if we guarantee his contract). I just don't think he is mentally cut out for it. He had the same great stuff when he was tried as a starter, but never cut it. The only bad outings he had in his Cy Young year were the All-Star Game when he pitched in the 8th, and a couple of situations when he pitched in tie games. Maybe I'm wrong, but I just sense that Gagne's mentality is about ending games. Usually that's good, but I think he has to be used like that.
As for his Contract, there are two things–first, who do we give up for him? Yeah, if it means moving Delwyn Young (who probably deserves a chance, but who faces a pretty full outfield), OK. But obviously, not any of the guys making a difference now (I've said it before, unless we can get Babe Ruth or Lou Gehrig from 1927, it's silly to lose a Loney or Kemp). But even while it's easy to say that the amount of the contract only matters to Mr. McCourt, I am a realist. $5 Million on a closer means less money to spend on a front-line or middle-of-the-rotation starter, an extension for Penny, a long-term contract for Russell Martin, or a higher parking fee at the Stadium, or something. In other words, it's going to affect something somewhere. If money were no object, then we should go out and acquire A-Rod to play third, Griffey to play right, Pujols at first, and get Clemens, Oswalt, and Santana to shore up our rotation. In fact, if money were no object, we could have just signed him in the off-season.
It's not that I don't like the guy–I love him. But it just doesn't make sense anymore.
Curtis, I never said I would give up any of those guys for Gagne…I hope you're kidding, otherwise you're a complete idiot.
Gonzo and Nomar both made Web Gems on Baseball Tonight…#'s 5 and 4 respectively.
SCurtis, I never said I would give up any of those guys for Gagne. In fact, what I did said was that we could probably get him for a B or C level prospect.
I hope you're kidding, otherwise you're a complete idiot.
oh good god, the Tex trade made the freakin dodger notes?!? somebody stop this before ned starts to think its a good idea!!!
Leekfink, points well taken.
In the end though – as a fan – I wouldn't mind seeing Gagne back in Dodger Blue for the stretch run (for the right price of course).
The Dodgers after 100 games are 56-44, last year they were 47-53 during a long losing streak. But then recovered to win the Wild Card. This rumor of Loney & or La Roche being traded for Mark Texieira. I could of understood it a year ago. Loney eventually will be as good as Tex. What's the matter they can't wait? Do we need Tex now? I say we don't need him anymore.
Linebrink just blew the hold/save. Matt Holliday tied it up on a three run blast Colorado and S.D tied at 5 Bottom 8.
No comment on any trade rumors…that's all they are
Go Rocks!!
Brad Hawpe just killed a Cla Meredith pitch for a two run home run
Colorado 7 San Diego 5 Headed to the ninth…
GO Hawpe!!!
just another day at Coors field… Hawpe adds a 2 run shot. 🙂 alex, i realize its just 'rumors' but its so obviously stupid at this point i wonder why its even still a rumor.
The Madres aren't a good team. We finally have our best players playing now and once we get healthy we'll be better. The Madres team BA is like .242 they are pathetic.
Its so stupid too because Teixera is represented by Boras and, sincerely, why bring that guy into the fold unless its absolutely necessary– like when it comes to signing A-Rod. We have a great first baseman who is young, cheap, under contract for multiple years, and is not represented by a guy who will gladly screw you for a few more million…..
The madres are counting on milton bradley to carry the offense. good luck…
Exactly, it's actually not even worth our time to talk about them, I don't mind talking about potential deals that we as fans would like to see, that's fun, but everything 'reported' is exaggerated BS, don't buy into it. The ONLY time this **** is real is when the trade is done and leaked before it's announced and you read…
REPORT: So and so dealt to Dodgers…
…if it's anything else by Rosenthal/Gammons/Olney etc…it's pure speculation by them based off conversations they've had with people within the organization, to get you to watch Baseball Tonight or click their links etc…there are very few exceptions like everything in life, but that's the norm.
Yeah!!! Go ROX!!! 2 games up!!!
And that's a Two game lead!
It's OVER The cauliflowers beat the Frias we're 2 Gamres UP.
The rumor I just read said that the Red Sox, Angels, Braves and of course the Yankees, they want everbody are after Texieira. Nothing about the Dodgers and they want get rid of Gagne & Sosa.
Manny–I agree that it would be great to see him back in the Blue. I think we were robbed of the moment we all wanted to see–Gagne jogging out of the bullpen in the bottom of the Ninth of a playoff game. I was at the Lima Game in 2004, and was expecting it. We were all excited that Lima was going the whole way, and we just assumed that there would be another chance. But it only makes sense at the low price you are talking about, and it seems unlikely.
You gotta love Coors Field (unless we're playing there)–no lead is safe.
I hope it's not too soon to do this:
Dodgers Magic Number=62.
Why can't we bring up someone like Justin Orenduff to start. Lurch just doesn't have major league talent, end of story.
im all for trading lurch back to the 66'ers.
oops meant 76'ers lol.
leave poor lurch alone he has done more to win ballgames then more then a few guys on our current 25 man roster but for that so have some that are in vegas.Someone has to answer the bell and Lurch had his games in the beginning of the season as well as of late.If we can get a healthy 5 man rotation back in order lurch can go back to long relief and our bullpen can get healthy again.
I'm just flattered anyone remembered "The Loney Song (old_fogey alternate ending version)" !
Chad Billingsley was a stud when it was needed the most. The veterans really came through today, with the kids chipping in. Offense still rolling – 17 hits!
Don't be surprised if Ned takes a cheap flier on Joel Pineiro who the Bosox just DFAed. He's still young, 28, was decent-to-good a couple years ago, contract is not too horrible (what remains of $4 million this year – about $1.3 million – some unreachable incentives, and an '08 option that I hope is the team's and not the player's) or he is signed for the minimum after passing through waivers. Never pitched in the NL before, maybe a change of scenary? Worst case – he stinks more than Roberto Hernandez fielding grounders and gets released again.
I liked that ending OF it rhymed nice with the OM OG version.
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text: The few Ivy Leaguers privileged enough to join "Thefacebook" nine years ago would hardly recognize the site today. Facebook has long since shed its early exclusivity (along with its clumsy definite article). With more users than all but a few countries have citizens, Facebook spans national borders and social strata, empowering what optimists see as a new kind of digital citizen. But Facebook is hardly a democracy. Through most of its existence, changes to Facebook features and privacy policies have led to frequent outcries that sometimes heeded, sometimes ignored. The complaints reflect a certain naivete: Ever since Mark Zuckerberg took his first round of venture capital, Facebook has existed as a for-profit undertaking. And since going public last May, Facebook has a whole new constituency it's legally obligated to please. Sometimes the interests of Facebook shareholders and users conflict. In such conflicts, users don't always win. As so many of us frequently need to be reminded: Facebook is free. We users are not the customers. We are the product. That said, a billion voices raised in resentment over a new feature is hard to ignore. So let the movement start here: In honor of Facebook's ninth anniversary, nine things we want, we miss or we're glad are gone. Like! Miss: When your status was an actual status Believe it or not, there was a time when your Facebook newsfeed had actual news about your friends' comings and goings. Ironically, the cultural shift among Facebook users from updates about what you were doing to updates about what you were thinking happened around 2007 -- the same year the iPhone made updating your status from out in the world easier than ever. Photo: Riaz Kanani/FlickrMiss: How We Met For a while, the act of friending someone on Facebook came with the option of ticking a box to remind your would-be "friend" of how you knew each other. (LinkedIn still works this way.) Photo: Alison Yin PhotographyMiss: iLike In the same way if you moved into your college dorm room and started blasting the music that you liked or put art up on your walls, this third-party app gave people a quick, compact idea of who you were -- or who you wanted them to think you were. A nice, compact alternative to the ubquitous "Like" button, which is more commercial and less about you. iLike disappeared after MySpace bought it. Photo: Garry Knight/FlickrGood Riddance: Farmville ... ... and every app request you couldn't hide. Photo: Brizius/FlickrGood Riddance: When the poke became throwing sheep ... ... slapping, punching, and (insert verb here). Photo: Nikki McLeod/FlickrGood Riddance: Places Where you could check in to your friends' homes and tell the world where they lived. Photo: Halfmoon Hiker/FlickrWe Want: True data export All email addresses that you have a right to see, you should have a right to export -- plus photos, phone numbers, and your friend list -- in a meaningful format. Facebook should offer an API and let you export your social graph. If Facebook cuts you off tomorrow, you should still have access to your data. Graphic: Ross Patton/WiredWe Want: Personal profile analytics The option of having Google Analytics-like insight into the impact your profile is having on your friends. It might sound a little corporate, but if Facebook and advertisers have access to a lot of this data, it would be nice if we could, too. Who's looking at my photos? How many reactions have I inspired over time to my updates? How am I resonating with my social graph? Of course, one of Facebook's pleasures is voyeurism, so maybe you have the option to opt in to allow your friends to track your interactions with their stuff. Graphic: Ross Patton/WiredWe Want: Full text search of the whole internet ... ... with results ranked by which sources your friends trust and like the most. Graphic: Ross Patton/Wired

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Stocks for the New Normal
A top value manager finds global leaders unusually cheap despite a scary economic backdrop. Check out his fund and his picks.
Investors seem to be of two minds. Some are chasing gold, which trades near $1,200 an ounce -- off its high, but still dear. Gold is a great hedge against inflation, especially inflation caused by loss of faith in paper currency. An equally large crowd is bidding up the prices of U.S. Treasury bonds, which are the best shelter if the nation falls into deflation and interest rates and the general price level decline.
Chris Davis, co-manager of Selected American Shares fund (symbol SLASX), is no Pollyanna. He subscribes to the "new normal" thesis, shorthand for a world so debt-laden that economic growth will be anemic and stock returns will be much lower than their historic average of more than 9% for several more years.
No fund manager can afford to ignore the macro picture today, he argues. "People are right to worry; we face huge structural headwinds," he says. "I'm not sure whether we'll get inflation or deflation, but I'm certain we'll have flation" -- that is, one or the other.
What should you own when uncertainty of which malady will afflict us -- and how seriously it could hit -- is so high? Davis's answer: stocks, because the alternatives stink. If we get high inflation, Treasury bonds will get clobbered, and if we encounter serious deflation, the price of gold will likely plummet.
Stocks are hardly a perfect solution. If either inflation or deflation gets out of hand, share prices will plunge because the economy will run into all sorts of complications. But if we can avoid extremes of flation, stocks -- or at least the right stocks -- should perform well.
Stocks are cheap. Standard & Poor's 500-stock index trades at about 13 times projected earnings for the coming 12 months, compared with a long-term average of 15.5. Based on price alone, the S&P 500 trades where it did in 1998. Treasuries haven't been this expensive (meaning they yield so little) since the 1950s. Even real estate is far above its 1998 price, as are commodities. "A lot of deflation has already happened in equities," Davis says.
Selected American Shares, a member of the Kiplinger 25, looks like a better bet than an index fund to me. The fund has returned an annualized 1.5% over the past ten years through July 26 -- puny, but better than the annualized 0.8% loss of the S&P. Expenses of the S class shares are just 0.94%; the D class shares are cheaper at 0.61% annually, but they require a minimum initial investment of $10,000.
Davis, 45, clearly loves what he's doing. He, co-manager Kenneth Feinberg and their team of 12 analysts seem focused on learning from mistakes (most notably American International Group, which imploded in 2008) and producing better returns. Almost 30% of the fund is still in financials, but that's less than Davis used to own -- and among the big investment banks, his only holding is a small position in JPMorgan Chase (JPM). The fund has also built a 4% emerging-markets stake, which is new.
What Davis is buying now
Davis looks for global leaders trading at attractive prices relative to earnings and other indicators. He wants healthy and sustainable dividends. And he prefers companies with mountains of cash in case things go wrong. The following stocks are so familiar you've probably gotten tired of reading about them. But they fit this very sound strategy.
American Express (AXP) is a longtime and archetypal holding. It's more profitable than its credit-card rivals because it does much less partnering with banks and service companies. American Express, at $45.43 as of the July 26 market close, trades at 14 times anticipated earnings for 2010. The yield is less than 2%. On the negative side, credit-card companies could lose business to cash purchases in the U.S. as a result of the new financial-reform law.
Davis owns a slug of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B). He lauds the company for giving "enormously strong disclosure." Of course, the big question is what happens after Buffett, who turns 80 next month, isn't around or as active. Davis concedes the conglomerate then will "be worth less. But unlike many legendary CEOs, Buffett is honor-bound to make his successor's job as easy as possible," the fund manager says.
Coca-Cola (KO) is another Davis favorite. With a distribution network in more than 200 countries, growth in emerging markets is powering Coke's sales. The stock, at $54.94, trades at a price-earnings ratio of 16 on estimated earnings for 2010 and yields 3.2%.
Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) is a health-care colossus, huge in pharmaceuticals, medical devices and consumer health-care products. It has been hurt by safety problems with product manufacturing and faces lots of expiring drug patents. But, at $57.74, J&J trades at a P/E of 12 on estimated earnings for 2010 and yields 3.7%.
The world's largest consumer-products manufacturer, Procter & Gamble (PG), was stung by sales declines in some products during the recession. But with brands such as Charmin, Gillette and Tide, business is bouncing back. The stock, at $62.52, trades at 16 times anticipated earnings for the fiscal year ending next June and yields 3.1%.
There are no sure things in investing, but high-quality stocks, such as the ones Davis favors, look like winners to me in most economic environments. And when the market does fall, I think these will dip far less.
Steven T. Goldberg (bio) is an investment adviser.


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On the first day of Christmas, Gaga gave to me... 10 flame press on nails, 9 Gaga cookies, 8 candy bow lollipops, 7 Gaga rings, 6 Diamond teacups, 5 spiked moto gloves, 4 magnetic dress-up sets, 3 stiletto stockings, 2 charm key toggles and a Gaga light up yo-yo.
That's right, folks, Lady Gaga is unveiling Gaga's Workshop tonight at 11:59 at the Barneys Madison Avenue flagship store right here in New York City. The music icon is rumored to be there to kick off the holiday shopping season.
An entire floor of the store has been transformed into a rendition of Santa's workshop, in Gaga fashion, of course. Limited edition items, as mentioned above, will be available for purchase. And, 25 percent of sales from all items will be donated to Gaga's Born This Way Foundation, which promotes youth empowerment and equality.
For more details, visit Gaga's Workshop online.


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The letter will be read to all Church congregations worldwide. The letter states:
We would like to reiterate the policies first stated in 1995 concerning the submission of names for proxy temple ordinances:This letter arises as a consequence of actions taken by individuals with access to the FamilySearch New.FamilySearch.org website that have failed to follow the specific instructions of the site and submitted unauthorized non-family members for Temple ordinances. There have been hundreds of news and blog posts about this issue recently, here is one example from the Salt Lake Tribune. The actions of the few misguided individuals has been the basis for a general condemnation of the Church and its members.
Our preeminent obligation is to seek out and identify our own ancestors. Those whose names are submitted for proxy temple ordinances should be related to the submitter.
Without exception, Church members must not submit for proxy temple ordinances any names from unauthorized groups, such as celebrities and Jewish Holocaust victims. If members do so, they may forfeit their New FamilySearch privileges. Other corrective action may also be taken.
Members are encouraged to participate in FamilySearch indexing which is vital to family history and temple work.
Bishops are asked to post this letter on their meetinghouse bulletin boards. Church members may seek the assistance of the family history consultants in their area for additional information, if needed. Name submission policies are also clearly stated on New.FamilySearch.org.
We appreciate the faithful adherence to these policies by all members of the Church.
Sincerely yours,
Thomas S. Monson
Henry B. Eyring
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
The First Presidency
The whole system of Temple ordinance submission relies on the honesty and good will of all of the participants. Unfortunately, there are some who insist in violating the clear rules, laid down for many years concerning this aspect of genealogical work. There is also the possibility that those who oppose the Church have intentionally obtained access and submitted names to embarrass the Church.
My personal experience in this has shown me that the practice of submitting names for unrelated individuals or those whose relationship is tenuous to say the least, is quite widespread and fairly common. In actual practice, any time some one submits a name for Temple ordinances without proper documentation and through demonstrating a relationship, they are in effect, violating the spirit, if not the letter of the mandate.
Until the First Presidency issued this statement. I have declined to comment on the practice in this blog. But I feel the situation now warrants an expression of my agreement and support of the First Presidency statement as well as my more general observations. I also feel that this is an even better reason for replacing New.FamilySearch.org with Family Tree as soon as possible.


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On this last day of 2011, this is about that time when everyone's going to start making a long list of resolutions that they'll be all gung-ho about for about three weeks, until their coffee addiction starts calling their name at 2:15 in the afternoon, they seem to pass a Marshall's on every corner which is full of new clothes for the season, or they just have to drop in - just to look - at all the cupcakes in the bakery they pass every day.
I've decided to not to make a list - at least not a long-term list. If I fail to meet my goals, then I'll only feel disappointed in and frustrated with myself. And a frustrated me is not that fun to be around. Just ask Jamie how delightful I am after four failed batches of caramel in a row.
This past Tuesday, I made a list of things I wanted to get done this week, while I had the time off work. Some were small and easy to do, like returning something to a department store and taking a box of photo albums to the storage unit to make more room on my bookshelf. I wrote and mailed thank-you notes.
I put all my laundry away (one of my most despised chores) and then made myself go through my closet and fill three bags with clothes to donate. This is hard for me, because I so love clothes and love having a variety of things to wear. Even those things that I have yet to wear, because I bought them a size or two too small to motivate myself to work out more so I could fit into them.
One of the more time-consuming tasks I gave myself was to go through all my stacks of magazines and cut out all the articles and recipes I wanted to keep. Freeing up the shelves for... more magazines. It's a never-ending cycle, that one.
But it does make me feel good that of the 9 things on my list for the week, I've crossed off 6 already. And since I don't have to go back to work until Tuesday, there's a good chance I'll get the others done, too.
So this is my resolution for 2012: to frequently make short-term goals that I know I can achieve. And to not pay attention to all that silliness about the world ending.
With the holidays almost over, I have to admit that I'm a little sick of sweets. At least the heavy, buttery, chocolatey caramelly ones. Which brings me to eggnog, which I love. I made my own once years ago - I don't remember if it was cooked or not - but it was pretty bad. I was expecting that creamy from-the-carton taste, and that didn't have it. Although I'm about done with sweets, I'm not quite sick of eggnog yet, which I consider a sweet, and still have some left in the fridge from Christmas. I've been enjoying a White Russian (or two) in the evenings this week, made with a little Pumpkin Spice Eggnog.
There will be no more layer cakes for quite a while now; instead, it's back to small, individual desserts once a week, with no tempting leftovers. This eggnog pudding is right up that alley. It's smooth and silky, slightly sweet, and oh-so-easy with just 4 ingredients and 10 minutes of your time. I would have liked a little cookie with the pudding for a crunchy/chewy texture to balance the silkiness of the pudding, but with no cookies in the house, we ate a little square of the caramel bars that my mom brought us from someone she works with. They were so good I don't dare make them.
And with the extra pudding, I made a creamy eggnog french toast bread pudding for breakfast, with some crushed almonds and pecans. Jamie ate all of his, it was that good.
I wish you all a happy new year!
Eggnog Pudding
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- 3 tablespoons cornstarch
- 2 cups cold eggnog
- 2 tablespoons Kahlua, Bourbon, or dark Rum (optional)
- 1/4 teaspoon vanilla
- pinch of grated nutmeg
Place the cornstarch in a medium saucepan. Pour 1 cup of the eggnog into the pan and whisk until it's pretty much smooth with no visible lumps. Add the remaining eggnog, liquor (if using), and vanilla.
Turn the heat to medium and cook, whisking constantly, until thickened, about 8-10 minutes.
Immediately pour into 4 serving dishes. Cover dishes with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 1 hour before serving. Garnish with a sprinkling of nutmeg.
Yields 4 servings.
Eggnog French Toast Bread Pudding
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- 1 cup chilled eggnog pudding, divided (recipe above)
- 2 whole eggs
- 1/4 cup milk
- 1/4 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/4 teaspoon grated nutmeg
- 3 cups cubed French bread
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 1/4 cup chopped salted pecans and/or almonds
Preheat the oven to 350. Spray two medium-sized ramekins with non-stick spray.
In a bowl, whisk together 1/2 cup of the eggnog pudding, eggs, milk, vanilla and nutmeg until smooth. Add the bread and toss so that that the bread absorbs the liquid. Divide bread mixture between the ramekins.
Bake uncovered for 25-30 minutes, until bread is golden brown on top.
Meanwhile, combine the remaining 1/2 cup eggnog pudding and the honey in a small saucepan. Warm over medium low heat, stirring occasionally, just until warm. Set aside.
When the bread puddings are done, place the ramekins on serving dishes. Drizzle each with a spoonful of the eggnog honey sauce, then pour the remaining sauce into small dipping bowls to serve on the side.
Sprinkle puddings with the chopped nuts and additional nutmeg.
Yields 2 servings.


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Christmas Memories
The deaf cat, a skinny princess getting on, could not hear her own purrs, nor our learned conversations above her head, at a festive gathering in a lovely house on St. Leonard's Creek beyond Jefferson Patterson Park.
Though I demurred, our hosts, Stovy and Anne Brown, pushed the cat (code named Lady Godiva) off her chair so I could sit down. This untoward act of displacement required my offer of lap and a good caressing. For an hour I warmed her elderly feline bones, did not murmur baby talk she could not hear nor mind she left beige hairs on my black slacks.
Since my aged white angora Pusscat died, I'm delighted when other people's cats honor me. Siamese she was, this frail kitty.
Chicago 1939
Siamese too, or rather Thai, the destitute human my father rescued in a long-ago blizzard. Driving in the snowstorm, my father, noticed a slight figure in an odd district of town. He stopped and found a foreign student searching for a flophouse. Over Christmas break, the university dormitory closed, the student had no place to go but the back streets of Chicago. And these were Depression years.
Turned out the stranger was a young prince from what is now Thailand. Sent to study in America, his funds had soon run out. My father brought him home to a couch shared with our angora tabby, King Tutankhamen, who warmed him all Christmas week.
My father sometimes sang the Old Russian song of the Caucasus: Each guest is sent to us by God, no matter how torn his shirt. He believed that principle and put it into practice. I, in turn, was thrilled by all the assorted guests around my parents' table, including the Siamese.
I kept that couch for years, for other strangers and cats, and many a Christmas it was occupied by guests of many nationalities and languages. In Greek, I learned, the word for stranger and guest is the same: ksenos or xenos.
Twice Round the World
Did my Russian émigré father, George Leonidovich Artamonoff, tell his guest how during Russia's Civil War he trudged snowy battlefields seeking safe shelter? Or how, escaped from Sebastopol onto an American ship, he reached Ellis Island midwinter — penniless except for the $20 bill lent by a sailor from somewhere in Maryland so he would not appear a destitute refugee? Once the $20 bill gained my father entrance to the United States of America, he returned it to the generous, but almost-as-penniless, sailor.
My father hitchhiked to Washington, where he landed a job at an auto-body repair shop, and at night attended George Washington University. My father was merely related to princes, but because an American admiral befriended him, he received invitations to Christmas dinner on an elegant estate above the Patuxent.
That house belonged to journalist and Washington Times-Herald editor, Cissy Patterson, and has since become Jefferson Patterson Park, near where, in 2010, I sat in a borrowed chair petting the Browns' deaf Siamese cat.
A scholarship for foreign students sent my father to Yale for electrical engineering. For two winters, he slogged through storms and shoveled coal, tutored calculus and French, and wound all the university's numerous clocks, survival jobs to pay for meals, books and clothes.
An electrical engineering degree in 1923 plus some business instincts and a penchant for new ideas and new languages took him in time via the balmy Philippines to snowy Chicago, where at Christmastime 1939 he first encountered his Thai student-prince.
When my father's job took him to Thailand, the prince, doing well, greeted him warmly. I, beside the icy Patuxent in St. Mary's County, again missed him and envied my parents' Christmas in Thailand.
Another Turn of the Wheel
Christmas of 1982 was incomplete with the absence of my younger son. In Syracuse, New York, Alexander George Ritchie stayed to finish late exams and overdue term papers. By the time he could head home, a blizzard had closed in. All other students departed, the dorm was locked in and out, the heat down to a minimum.
Alexander threw his suitcase out the dormitory window, then jumped into the growing snowdrift below. With $20 in his pocket and no friends left in Syracuse, he trudged through the snow to the nearest open door, the veterans' hospital, and phoned us collect.
"Go to their personnel office," I suggested, "and volunteer. Institutions get short-handed on holidays. They'll surely give you a meal and a bed in return for help on the wards."
His next call reported that instant volunteering was against regulations. Nor could he hang around till dawn when flights might resume. "Call back," I said. "We'll think of something."
Finally we located a fellow journalist in Syracuse, Ron Somebody.
"Don't worry," Ron answered. "My wife cooked a huge dinner, but our relatives are snowbound in Omaha. Send your son along."
We phoned the VA hospital. Alexander had disappeared.
Finally he phoned from a corner store near a housing project. An elderly African American had overheard his plight, led him back to his efficiency, served him tea — which was all he had — and offered him an extra mattress on his floor.
"So I'm fine," Alexander insisted to us on the phone. "With my 20 bucks I've bought groceries for my benefactor …"
"Wonderful, but this Ron Somebody expects…"
So Alexander presented the groceries to his first host, and several hours later made it through the storm to his second host's house in the suburbs.
Ron under another name turned out to be a leading television personality in Syracuse, and as Alexander was weighing a career in journalism, conversation that Christmas Eve was lively. By morning, the blizzard abated, flights resumed and — thanks to Ron's loan for the airport taxi — Alexander reached home by Christmas afternoon.
Stock Up for Unexpected Guests
This cold blowy afternoon in late 2011, cars grinding up and skidding down icy hills, inside my warm house I rush to the cupboards: Are they stocked for unexpected visitors in blizzards? This is a lean season.
Yet with local supermarkets vying to offer the best deals in oven-ready turkeys, I won't have to tackle the turkey vultures who hang out in our jungle of sycamore trees, honeysuckle and poison ivy along the winding dirt road.
I've stocked kibbles for the feral feline from the marsh, a shorthaired white kitten, tabby patches asymmetrical, lopsided, witness to generations of untoward trysts in barns up the lane. One skinny waif, nobody will claim her.
Despite spousal disapproval (I don't want to become attached to any more pets), she has willy-nilly adopted me.
But as the Chinese say, Any cat who comes to your door as if following a yellow thread (perhaps only the cat can see) is a blessing, must not be turned away.
Many a yellow thread, too fine for my all-too-human eyes to spot, has evidently led to my door. So I, too, rescue strays in a blizzard.


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University Peak Climber's Log
mrchad9 - Jul 7, 2010 3:08 pm Date Climbed: Jul 6, 2010From Center Basin
The last of 7 summits on a 4-day trip from Onion Valley, University taunted me all weekend as I circled around it. Was happy to make it to University Pass and drop the pack, and even happier for the glisside down. Wouldn't want to do the route to Robinson Lake without snow.
Blair - Jun 7, 2010 5:42 pm Date Climbed: Jun 6, 2010Ski the North Face
We ran out of water and time, so we could not summit. We dropped in at 445pm and experienced soupy soft snow conditions, low avy concerns, but we wore beacons. What a experience to ski that...
mhengst - May 10, 2010 12:23 pm Date Climbed: May 9, 2010Via Robinson Lake drainage
Had a blast kicking steps up the snow chute but when we reached the ridge the weather turned and we had to descend amid high winds and whiteout conditions.
Sam Page - Nov 27, 2009 1:11 am Date Climbed: Nov 22, 2009Up North Couloir, Down Southeast Ridge
We intended to climb up and down the North Face route, but got inadvertantly sucked up the North Couloir, which I would not descend. That led to a joyless crossing of the oft-maligned boulder field, which was inconveniently plastered with unconsolidated snow, in the dark. Here is my trip report: Getting Schooled on University Peak.
Guilty - Nov 2, 2009 2:08 am Date Climbed: Oct 11, 2009Route originating from Robinson Lake
Started at Onion Valley trail-head went up to Robinson Lake. With no map or direction to go by, found route by trial and error.
I must of scaled about 4 false peaks before I got the right peak. Lots of class 4 and 5, with great views and great day. 5:50 hrs. car to car
Sam Roberts - Sep 29, 2009 8:20 pm Date Climbed: Sep 24, 2009North Face
Nice scramble and perfect weather.
cab - Sep 21, 2009 11:25 am Date Climbed: Sep 19, 2009North Face Route
Fun route with a short trail approach. The rib on the way up was solid, but took the "sand and gravel chute" to the west of the rib on the way down which was easier than descending the rib. Awesome 360 degree views from the top were maybe the best I've seen from any summit. Took 3.5 hours to summit and the same amount of time on the way down due to some routefinding errors. Beautiful weather all day and I didn't see a single person until I got back on the Kearsarge Pass Trail.
Deb - Sep 14, 2009 11:28 am Date Climbed: Sep 12, 2009North Face Ascent/SE Ridge Descent
Took a "fun" solo dayhike up the North Face and kept it as Class 3/4 as possible by avoiding the beat down sandy trail. Got a half-expected snow flurry at exactly 11AM just before summitting. Descended via "shortcut variation" chute on SE ridge; really enjoyed the scree skiing but the moraine was totally endless! Have to appreciate the drizzle to keep the exit refreshing. I felt that I deserved that chilly wine cooler at the TH. :)
MiguelVieira - Aug 27, 2009 12:40 am Date Climbed: Aug 1, 2009North face up & down
Climbed with the Sierra Club Peak Climbing Section from Onion Valley. We left the trail to Matlock Lake and went cross-country to the Class 2 ridge on the east side of Bench Lake and then to the bottom of the route. We found the route mostly Class 2 with some Class 3 a few hundred feet below the summit that was avoidable by veering to the climber's left. Just below the summit ridge, we followed ledges on its south side (including through a talus window) until they ran out, then we kicked steps up a snow field that led straight to the top. Everyone was impressed by the views. The summit register notebook was soaking wet. Time: 6 hours up, 5 hours down.
Trip report of our hike up University Peak north face.
Luciano136 - Aug 18, 2009 6:30 pm Date Climbed: Aug 15, 2009North Face up - Shortcut variation down
Did this as an alternate day hike for the 2009 Sierra Challenge. I did have some trouble finding the correct class 3 route up to the summit. I tried a bunch of different routes and kind of expected that the back side would have a trail going to the top; it does have one but you would need to downclimb on the other (south) side first. Not the best option.
Right before topping out, I did sprain my ankle, making the descent and especially the moraine at the bottom of the shortcut variation a slow and tedious traverse. I think going down University Pass is better since the moraine looks much less of an issue there. The shortcut variation is quite steep as well and seems to hold some hard snow at the bottom.
MarieP - Aug 11, 2009 3:56 pm Date Climbed: Jul 5, 2009From University Pass
Quick stop at the top on the way home.
seano - Jun 15, 2009 12:50 pm Date Climbed: Jun 13, 2009Southeast chute
Climbed a random snow chute from below University Pass to the NE ridge, then traversed a few false summits. The sand descent into Center Basin was fast and fun.
farrisgl - Feb 27, 2009 7:00 pm Date Climbed: Sep 3, 2005Climbed from Onion Valley
Camped at Robinson Lake, with my wife, 17 year old son, and two of his friends and climbed the peak Saturday. Great Peak but lots of loose rock make the ascent slow and a bit dangerous. The normally impressive Kearsarge Pass and Peaks looked very small. Returned to camp and hiked out on Sunday.
Thomas Erspamer - Sep 27, 2008 2:46 am Date Climbed: Sep 12, 2008North Side
Great day. Perfect weather. Did loop up from Onion Valley. North side main route. Down south over University Pass down the chute and out past Robinson Lake back to Onion. About 12 hours. Took lots of time to contemplate the meaning of life. Great rock. Terrific day of bouldering. Deserted wilderness.
dpsiebert - Aug 23, 2008 4:48 am Date Climbed: Oct 12, 2003North Face
Dayhiked with Independence. Easier than I thought it would be.
yaknjorgl - Jul 2, 2008 3:31 pm Date Climbed: Jun 18, 2008north face
fine scramble, class 3 moves, and the zigzag through the upper towers is spectacular, even climbed the upper snow patch to keyhole and summit block. A little disouraging finding a running trail off the south side, but I think I got the better views.
Dave S - May 2, 2008 11:39 pm Date Climbed: May 2, 2008North Face
Nice scramble! Fun solo dayhike from Onion Valley. Descended via the Southeast Ridge to make a loop of it.
Brian Kalet - Apr 22, 2008 12:36 am Date Climbed: Apr 19, 2008Southeast Ridge (ascent); North Couloir (descent)
eric.hannan - Oct 22, 2007 9:53 pm Date Climbed: Sep 22, 2007Scramble
Did this in preparation for Whitney. Great hike from the Onion Valley route. The chain of lakes are not only great visually but a great place to camp. I am surprised that more people don't visit this area! It was cold and there was a good amount of snow on the ground and it also snowed a little. A group went with us with a broken tent, not such a good time in freezing temps!


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I think ideally it should check all the received headers but for time reasons (the checks are slow) only one address is checked. When i wrote the script i looked at how SpamAssassin was doing it and it appeared to be how i've implemented it (i guess they skip 127.0.0.1 though!). Perhaps, given that only one ip address is checked, the last received one is better to check because a spammy server can easily forge the earlier received headers.
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(Note: Disappointingly, some of the emails that I transferred over from my old computer seem to be fragmentary, typically having the end parts turned into some random gibberish. I am not sure why, and I am going to try -- when I find the time -- to boot up that old computer again and try to recover these emails in their full forms. I don't know if that is possible, but if I manage it, I will replace these incomplete versions with the complete texts from those emails. In the meantime, here are three partial emails from December of 2002 -- actually, they're the last ones I have for that year -- and even though they are incomplete, there is some interesting stuff iin them. -- PL 10-28-12)
Subj: first drafts of episodes 22 and 23
Date: Tuesday, December 3, 2002 9:22:05 PM
From: Peter Laird
To: Lloyd Goldfine
Wow! These are exciting! If we're able to get on screen what's here on the page, these will be two kick-butt episodes. I have no significant structural issues, only a few small things and several minor suggestions.
Episode 22:
1.) Pg. 6: Don see the Shredder clones and in answer to Leo's "What are these things?", he says "Genetically engineered hybrid clones, etc." As it has not been established that Don actually KNOWS that this is what these things are, I suggest changing his lines to "My guess would be genetically engineered hybrid clones, etc."
2.) Pg. 7: Gary also commented on the "super speed" issue. I know the writer is trying to say that the mini-Shredder clone is moving very fast, but "super speed" in comics (and I think in cartoons) means Superman or Flash-level speed -- the kind of speed which would allow you to move fast enough to blast around the world in a minute, for example. That's surely not what we're talking about here, so why don't we just use another phrase rather than "super speed"?
Also, why does mini-Shredder have pop-out claws? Seems odd, when none of the others do. It's not like he ordinarily has to HIDE them, like Wolverine does.
3.) Pg. 8: Don is described as having a "ShellCel cradled on his shoulder" while he fights the Four-Armed Shredder clone. This seems kind of silly (not to mention really difficult), and Gary made the point that Don may have lost his ShellCel earlier. Would it make more sense, if Don has to be in contact with April a lot, that he have some kind of hands-free headset connected to his ShellCell -- maybe even something clipped to his bandana?
4.) Pg. 11: On this page Mike gives a "Tarzan yell". Can we actually have him yell "Kreegah Bundolo"? That would be cool for all of us fans of the original Tarzan stories.
5.) Pg. 21: It occurred to me that in this setting with the five alcoves with the five Foot Mystic statues, there are also, coincidentally, five points in the classic mystic pentagram. Should we have a pentagram inscribed on the floor with each of it's five points corresponding to a statue's alcove? Or is that too "Satanic"?
6.) Pg. 28: Where Leo says "Trashed April's store?", I think it would read better and be more accurate if he said something like "Burned down April's building?"
7.) Pg. 30: I'm not sure why this didn't occur to me before, but -- how exactly is Leo carrying the Sword of Tengu on his back? Does it have its own power-resistant sheath? (I don't recall seeing it.) Would an ordinary sword sheath contain it without burning up or vibrating to pieces? Wouldn't the naked blade of the Sword of Tengu damage Leo's shell? Should we give Leo a Don-constructed techno-damping sheath for the Sword?
Also, when Raph says to Don "What, you didn't pack a compass in yer bag a' tricks?", I thought it would be fun to have Don stop and start digging in his bag, saying "Well, as a matter of fact..." -- and then Leo finds the elevator before Don can find his compass.
8.) Pg. 37: Shredder's line to Stockman "However, you now have a chance to correct that mistake" would read better as "However, you now have a chance to redeem yourself".
Episode 23:
1.) Pg. 3: Stockman's lines 11 and 12 seem kind of clunky.
2.) Pg. 6: After Shredder cracks Stockman's dome, and he says his line 21, I thought it might be cool to then show the crack filling in and disappearing, then Stockman smugly saying something like "Self-healing polymercrylic -- just one of thirty-nine patentable technologies I've developed using your resources!"
3.) Pg. 8: I would reword line 33 (Lead Guardian), which reads "One has to admire the tenacity and courage of the turtles. Truly, the turtles are ninja of the highest order.", to "One has to admire the tenacity and courage of the turtles. Truly, they are ninja of the highest order."
There seems to be an extraneous "and" in line 36 ("And, they've managed to infiltrate the Shredder's building...").
Also, I would suggest changing line 41 from "With respect, the Sword of Tengu could be the salvation of them." to "With respect, the Sword of Tengu could be their salvation."
4.) Pp. 21-22: Splinter gets a bit wordy on these two pages and I would suggest trimming his lines a little bit. For line 72 on page 21, I would say delete "And you... I have been grooming you to lead the others." -- it's obvious and sort of redundant given his next line of "Lead your brothers well."
There's an "alright" in Leo's line 75. Yuck!
On page 22, I would change Splinter's line 76 to just read "Fight well, my sons."
5.) Pg. 26: Shredder's line 98 could do without "I believe you've met my Elite Ninja!" (obvious) and be just fine as "Finish him!"
Also, while I won't make a big deal out of it, and I acknowledge it's a neat visual, I am curious to know if there is any logic to the Elite emerging out of the pond when the Shredder pushes a button. Weren't they part of the fight when the Turtles first got to the top floor (beginning on page 31 of episode 22)? How did they get into the pond, and why? Did they run from the fight? Doesn't seem likely. Or are they DIFFERENT Elite ninja (they don't SEEM to be, from their description)?
6.) Pg. 30: Another "alright" in line 108 -- AAAIIIEEE!!!
7.) Pg. 31: What exactly is the Guardian saying in line 112 -- "This one is taken care of you."?
Also, in line 114, "We Guardians will take care of this lot" seems odd -- I'd just have him say "We will take care of this lot."
8.) Pg. 33: Would it be better for the Lead Guardian to say, in line 118, "Saki has the sword" instead of "Shredder has the sword."?
9.) Pg. 36: I'd like to change Don's line 128, where he says "... should cook the insides of the entire building" to something like "... should fry everything electronic in the whole building".
10.) Pg. 38: I don't think the power surge should literally melt "all the vehicles" and "all the equipment" -- instead, we should see animated power surges coruscating all over these things, leaving them charred and smoking... the idea being that all of the electronics inside them have been destroyed, melted -- rendering them useless to the Shredder.
11.) Pg. 39: I still feel that there should be something, a crashed pod or whatever, near where Leo left Splinter, that would give the Turtles the idea that that might be what happened to him (something knocked him off the roof). Otherwise, his just mysteriously "disappearing" is too "soft" -- it makes it seem too likely that he has just been spirited away to some other location. In fact, it makes it seem like he must have been healthier and stronger than Leo thought he was, because the first and most obvious inference would be that he got up and walked away.
As you can tell, I'm very happy with the way these turned out and all of my comments are pretty minor, more detail tweaks than anything else.
-- Peter
Subj: Re: Hi Pete
Date: Thursday, December 5, 2002 11:45:41 PM
From: Peter Laird
To: Lloyd Goldfine
In a message dated 12/5/02 9:15:03 PM, Lloyd writes:
<< Soooo... I was unable to track you down today! Hopefully we can talk
tomorrow. I have a 12 noon meeting, so I may not get to call you until
1:30 ish, but I'll try you around then.
We sent out scripts for 24 and 25. If you have notes tonight, we can
discuss those as well tomorrow.
Hope all is well.
Talk to ya soon.
Lloyd >>
Hopefully we'll connect on Friday. In the meantime, here are some comments:
Episode 23 profile, Episode 22 final draft, and Episode 24 second draft -- no comments! Woohoo!
Episode 25 first draft ("The Search for Splinter" part one):
1.) Pp. 3-4: I realize we had a Turtle riding a motorcycle on rooftops in the CGI clip we did last year, but that was more for a "proof of concept" effect. It's REALLY unrealistic to have Raph jumping from rooftop to rooftop on the Shell Cycle (ESPECIALLY if what he is doing is trying to search for Splinter, and NOT trying to draw attention to himself) -- he should be riding it at street level.
If we need an aerial perspective, why not reintroduce the glider that Don used in that earlier episode, and maybe say something about how he's improved it since then? We could then do a cute gag (ripped off from the first SUPERMAN movie, I'll admit it!) where a bored kid is watching out of a window fifteen stories up as Don floats by -- Don could give the kid a thumbs up -- and the kid could run offscreen, excitedly telling his mother "Mom! I just saw a big turtle fly by my window!", and then we hear the mom yell something like "No TV for a week!" Or, the kid could just yell "Gamera!" as Don goes by.
2.) Pg. 5: Raph says "Man, doesn't anyone in this city take in their garbage?" That sounds odd to me -- why would anyone WANT to take in their garbage? I get from the context that he means the garbage CANS, but...
3.) Pg. 7: I think a word -- perhaps "have"? -- is missing from Leo's line "Raph, it looks like we might something to go on." Should it read "Raph, it looks like we might have something to go on."?
4.) Pg. 9: Lloyd, as you pointed out in one of our phone conversations, the Guardians wouldn't have thought the Shredder was dead because his head got cut off, as they know his true nature (Utrom in robot body). I think the same applies for the Utrom Council, so this exchange referring to the Shredder...
Council Member #2: "Could he still be alive?"
Guardian Dorn (Radio VO): "Possible. He has deceived us before."
... would seem to need reworking.
5.) Pg. 10: Leo says to the Guardian "Easy. We're not here to fight." And The Guardian replies "Anyone who lays a trap for me, can expect one!" This seems grammatically suspect. The "one" in the Guardian's line I think refers to a FIGHT, but the way it's written it actually sounds like he's referring to a TRAP. I think it sounds odd because in Leo's line "fight" is a verb and the Guardian is referring to "fight" as a noun. (Hey, I'm married to an ex-English teacher!) I think a simple solution might be to change Leo's line to "Easy. We're not here FOR A fight."
6.) Pg. 12: For the shots of the Turtles trying to track the Guardian, I would suggest letting Don once again use his glider.
7.) Pg. 13: Another grammar thing -- when Leo says "April -- suppose the trail went cold?", it read to me as if he's asking her "What would happen if the trail went cold?" which obviously makes no sense. I think we should just add "I" to the line so that the meaning is clearer -- "April -- I suppose the trail went cold?"
8.) Pg. 16: In reference to the TCRI building, Don says "The secret to our origin... lies within the walls of that building." Well, he doesn't actually KNOW that for a fact, right? There could be ANYTHING in that building. The letters of the name could be a coincidence. I think we should add "could" so the line reads "The secret to our origin... COULD lie within the walls of that building." Actually, isn't "within the walls of that building" a bit florid? How about just saying "within that building"?
9.) Pg. 18: Leo says "Master Splinter is in there. Answers we've been looking for our whole lives are in there." Much like my previous comment, while WE know his surmise is right, LEO doesn't actually know these things. They MIGHT be true... they might NOT. They only know that the Guardian is probably in there, and the name of the company in that building has the initials TCRI. I suggest changing Leo's line to "Master Splinter -- and answers we've been looking for our whole lives -- could be in there."
10.) Pg. 19, etc.: Are we sticking with the name "Mr. Smith"? Does anyone besides me like "Mr. Mortu"?
11.) Pg. 20, 22: Why does April suddenly seem to turn into a moron? This seems unnecessary, and this bit of forced humor on page 22...
I'm... Ap...
Don't use your real name.
(making it up as she goes)
...a... Apollo Vander Pepper. Dr. Vander Pepper. A doctorate, not an MD, so don't come to me with any backaches.
... didn't make me laugh.
12.) Pg. 30: Why does one of the Guards RIP a desk from the floor and toss it aside, just to reach Casey? I thought they were trying to PREVENT damage to their lobby, not cause it.
13.) Pg. 31: The "electrically charged" hologram is back! And doesn't Mike seem REALLY stupid to just blindly leap into (or at) a concealing hologram without knowing what's behind it? I would suggest something else to get them to fall -- perhaps Mike doesn't perceive where the edge of the hologram is, and puts his suction cup over it, with the obvious result that he loses his grip.
The art for the Foot Genetics Lab, Four-Armed Shredder Clone (revised), Stockman in Exo-Suit, and the five Foot Mystic Ninjas all looks fine to me.
Subj: notes on episode 25, second draft
Date: Monday, December 9, 2002 8:59:17 PM
From: Peter Laird
To: Lloyd Goldfine
Episode 25, second draft: This one is nearly there! I have only a few comments:
1.) Pg. 12: Can we think up a cooler "Turtleistic" name for the "tracking bug" Mike plants on the Guardian? In the past (in the old animated series) these have been called TurteTrackers, I believe... which isn't a bad name. Others might be: ShellTracker, ShellSpy, TurtleBug, ShellBug.
2.) Pp. 12-14: The "tracking of the Guardian" scenes are a lot better than in the first draft. However, I still don't quite see why the Turtles aren't in the BattleShell with April, but instead are out on foot following her instructions. At first I was thinking "Well, it's because they want to be stealthier and not alert the Guardian to the fact that they're following him in the big noisy BattleShell..." -- until I realized that they don't ever actually get within visual range of the Guardian (and one would assume the opposite -- that the Guardian never sees them, either), so stealth is somewhat irrelevant. So... why walk when they can ride?
Also, why do they need April at all? Wouldn't it make more sense for Don to have a portable version of whatever gadget is inside the BattleShell which tracks the tracking bug? And if so, why not leave April out of this entirely? Don could also have the ShellCam in his goodie bag. The more i re-read this bit, April seems really superfluous.
I'd suggest reworking this sequence to take April out of it, and either have the Turtles by themselves on foot, or by themselves in the BattleShell.
3.) Pg. 19: The following line -- said by Leo about the TCRI building -- is still in the script:
Master Splinter is in there. Answers we've been looking for our whole lives might be in there.
The second part of that line has been fixed, but the first is still wrong -- they DON'T know that Splinter is in the TCRI building -- they only know that the Guardian is PROBABLY there.
4.) Pg. 21: April STILL looks like a moron in this scene, "staring with mouth agape" as she "stares blankly" until she's "finally able to speak". I mean, what the Turtles are suggesting in this scene is NOT SO HARD TO UNDERSTAND!!!! April is a smart lady -- I'm sure she "gets it" -- and if we want to suggest here that she doesn't want to do it, or thinks its a bad plan, we should find another way to say so.
Why not have her nod, murmur "Mm-hmm...", or "Riiigght..." as each of the Turtles glibly lays out his part the outrageous plan (basically humoring them), then end it with the following exchange:
It all rests on your shoulders, girl. No pressure.
ANGLE ON APRIL – can't take it any more
Uh-huh, that's all good. Great plan. There's just a teeny-tiny part of the plan missing: INVISIBILITY! Because there's a guard sitting right there!!
5.) Pg. 32: I hate to sound like a broken record, but the hologram is still "electrically charged". I really don't like this, and propose the following:
ANGLE ON THE INDICATED AREA – which looks like solid wall. We hear O.S. <THUCK-THUCKS> as the Turtles scale around it – Mikey and Don below it, Leo and Raph on opposite sides.
There's nothing here.
Hold on!
(leans closer)
Hear that? Air's coming out.
(extends had over it)
You can feel it, too.
CLOSER ON DON – also feeling the air.
Amazing. Maybe it's some kind of hologram.
Yeah, finally - a way in. All we gotta do is find out where the real wall ends and the hologram begins --
Mikey eagerly starts waving his hands around as he edges forward, feeling for the edge of the hologram and now only held on by the suction cups on his feet.
DONATELLO (concerned)
Mike, not so fast! Be careful --!
Suddenly Mike finds the edge -- as both his hands plunge INTO THE WALL, his forearms DISAPPEARING into the hologram. Startled, he pulls back (incomplete)


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Ryan Reynolds has apparently been cast as the new Highlander in the remake of the 1980s fantasy action movie.
The Green Lantern star's name has been linked to the project for some weeks, but now movie blog JoBlo.com claims to have official confirmation that Ryan will play leading man Connor MacLeod, who can only be killed by being decapitated.
28 Weeks Later's Juan Carlos Fresnadillo is directing the remake of the film about a Highlander who discovers he is one of "a dwindling group who wander the earth and kill each other in combat for the final prize - immortality".
Twilight's Melissa Rosenberg is writing the script for the new film, along with Iron Man writers Art Marcum and Matt Holloway.
American-born French actor Christopher Lambert played the immortal swordsman in the original 1986 film, and in 2008 his Scottish accent was voted the worst in cinema history.
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Re: Run Prince RunThursday, July 2nd, 2009
In yesterday's comic, Juan found himself without options and will now have to make a tough choice. I kind of hate those. In truth I hate having to make a choice at all, period. I have been known to let myself miss out entirely rather than choose.
If anyone's noticed my seeming disappearance from the internet lately it's because, like Juan, I find myself in the midst of having to make some tough choices. It's taking me quite a bit longer to get this done than I'd thought, but I do have to remember my propensity to simply not choose. So to the handful of people wondering where I've been, I'll be back. With luck, when I return I'll be more myself than ever. Fingers are crossed.
The comic is immune to this break I'm taking though, so if you're only here to see amigurumi comic weirdness then you're in luck. The comic will be delivered on time, every week. As the primary thing I think I'm doing an OKAY job on, it stays. Hooray comic! Now back to your regularly scheduled programming.


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Re: Subject: st: decimal points in funnel plot
Nick Cox <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Re: Subject: st: decimal points in funnel plot
Thu, 30 Aug 2012 13:04:37 +0100
Ross guessed that you were using -metan- (SJ/SSC). He was obliged to
guess because you did not give precise details of the code you used.
We are still lacking any precise details of the code you used.
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Sentil Vasan Kandaswamy wrote:
> Thank you very much. I am sorry, I was actually referring to Forest plots. The outcome of interest is waist-hip ratio, which makes it difficult or rather not possible to change the scale of estimates.
> If you have any further suggestions of this, it would be of great help.
> I am wondering if you refer to forest plots rather than funnel plots, as
> the funnel plot does not display study estimates. If you mean forest
> plots, and are using metan, then you are right: unfortunately it is not
> possible to change the decimal places. This is because most applications
> use risk ratios of some sort, which are generally adequately displayed
> to 2dp. This is something on the wishlist to be changed in future.
> If your estimates really are so small, then perhaps they are
> non-standardised mean differences. In which case, I would suggest
> changing the scale of your estimates - e.g., grams to kilograms, 1000s
> of whatever measure you are using, etc. Similarly, if you are analysing
> some non-standard measure, such as rates, then change the scale of
> these. Hopefully this is something that will be updated in future, but
> this will have to do for now.
Vasan Kandaswamy <firstname.lastname@example.com>
> I am doing a meta-analysis and would like to seek help on editing funnel
> plots in STATA.
> For a particular trait that I am interested in, the effect size and
> 95%CI are in the range of 0.001-0.0004. The funnel plot shows only upto
> two decimal points ( which makes it appear 0.00 for all studies in the
> analysis). I would much appreciate if someone tells me, how this could
> be edit to 3-4 decimal points.
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