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Carole King, James Taylor, Aerosmith, Jimmy Buffett and many other bands will perform at "Boston Strong: An Evening of Support and Celebration" in Boston on May 30. The concert will raise money for One Fund, a collection for victims of the Boston Marathon attack. Tickets went on sale Monday May 6 at aconcertforboston.org.
The President and First Lady hosted a concert "Carole King: The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize In Performance at the White House". President Obama presented the award as he did when the Library of Congress honored Stevie Wonder (2009), Sir Paul McCartney (2010), and the songwriting team of Burt Bacharach and Hal David (2012). The event was streamed live at www.whitehouse.gov/live on May 22.
Carole King spoke up for America's wild horses in a featured interview on the Today Show, Tuesday, May 14th. The piece delves into the wild horse controversy as the focus of a news segment by NBC News Senior Investigative Correspondent Lisa Myers.
In case you missed it, here's a direct link to NBC News and Open Channel.
The esteemed Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA bestowed Honorary Doctor of Music degrees to Carole King, Willie Nelson and Annie Lennox at their commencement on May 11 at the Agganis Arena at Boston University.
Current students paid tribute to the honorees during the traditional concert held the night before the ceremony, by performing music associated with their careers.
Carole King performed "So Far Away" at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony in recognition of her former producer and manager Lou Adler, who received the Ahmet Ertegun Award for Lifetime Achievement.
The 28th Annual Rock and Rock Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony was held at Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE in Los Angeles on April 18, 2013.
From more about Lou Adler click HERE.
For more about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame click HERE.
"Beautiful: The Carole King Musical" is scheduled to open in spring 2014, with a pre-Broadway run at the end of this year, the producers announced on Friday, March 15, 2013. The show will have a book by Douglas McGrath, whose screenplay for "Bullets Over Broadway," written with Woody Allen, was nominated for an Oscar in 1995. Paul Blake and Sony/ATV Music Publishing are the producers.
Update - May 2, 2013Prior to its planned Broadway arrival in spring 2014, "Beautiful: The Carole King Musical" has locked in a San Francisco tryout run for the fall.
WASHINGTON, DC – Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), Raul Grijalva (D-TX), and Ed Markey (D-MA) have introduced the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act (NREPA), H.R. 1187, which would protect as permanent wilderness the dwindling wildlands across five states of the Northern Rocky Mountains, one of America's greatest natural treasures.
Carole spoke with Pandora about songwriting, recording, being a mother and her future in music. Watch the interview HERE.
Carole King joined NPR's highly respected "The Diane Rehm Show" for an interview to talk about her many achievements in recording, songwriting, and activism. Carole also discusses her 2012 memoir 'A Natural Woman', her advocacy for wild horses and her work to preserve the Northern Rockies ecosystem.
The program aired Monday, March 4th. Find your local station and airtime here.
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What can a brazilian 80's stickers album called "Impacto" (impact), an old arcade house by the sea, Zorro's "Z", Iron Maiden's Eddie, drawings of humanoid cow and chicken, a trip by balloon to the Moon, digging rupees in another world, taking a beating by Dhalsim and creating some gadget with paper clips and 2 or 3 other doodads to escape from death have in common?
P.S.: this is the first time I post something in parts, like I had planned to do since the beginning.
P.P.S.: finished in Feb 01, 2009.
Something old, a scrawl transformed from a long paragraph to a pseudo IRC transcript. Probably too "specific" for most tastes, though.
Something new, but it's a little hidden. Can you find all that red?
Not what it seems...
(One more short story, written sometime before last year's end.)
Here's the third short story, done at the end of 2007, just to practice simple dialogs.
Maybe this kind of exercise about conversations should become a small series.
I remember dialogues used to be my main concern (regarding writing, of course) a long time ago, when I was still a teenager.
I wanted to make them as natural as possible, which for me meant trying to mimic the way people interrupt one another all the time and also to include noise, like grunts and cries. Nowadays I'm not against more synthetic (artistic), functional approaches.
The Wikipedia entry about immortality mentions some symbols related to it, like the phoenix, the ouroboros, the "ankh" hieroglyph (☥) and "the Möbius strip in the shape of a trefoil knot".
This trefoil knot is a starting point for interesting matters in mathematics and history, even more here, combined with the Möbius band.
I had written that the previous story was my favorite among the few I've finished. After rereading and translating this one, I don't think so anymore.
This was written quickly, from start to finish. Without any planning, as far as I recall. The story came vivid to me as I was writing it.
What's the use of reading fiction? What are the limits of literature, which experiences, ideas, emotions, sensations can it transmit? Let's be practical: it's raining, I have this cup of tea and I'm free for the rest of the day, what can I do?


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The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Wednesday refused to grant any interim relief to UK-based Vedanta Group company, Sterlite Industries Ltd, to commence operation of its copper smelting plant in Tamil Nadu's Tuticorin district.
A bench headed by (NGT) Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar said even though the expert committee report said the emission and ambient air quality were within prescribed limits, there is no "justification" for allowing the plant to start operating as there were claims of gas leakage from the industrial unit.
Even while trade and industry have been demanding the reopening of the GAIL pipeline project, citing the energy needs of the region, farmers are united against its unilateral implementation in its
INDORE: Panic gripped the industrial town of Nagda in Ujjain, nearly 120 km from here, when a toxic gas leaked from a German plant on Tuesday affecting 50 villagers in the vicinity. While most of those affected were discharged after primary treatment, three plant officials were arrested and later released on bail.
Victims complained of cough, burning in eyes and breathlessness and were admitted to Indubhai Parekh Memorial Hospital for treatment. All but three were discharged within hours of being admitted.
In a dramatic turn of events, the National Green Tribunal (southern region) has decided to transfer the ongoing Sterlite Industries (copper plant) imbroglio to National Green Tribunal in New Delhi, citing "circumstances did not permit us" to hear the case further in Chennai.
The tribunal, which was supposed to announce a decision on an inspection report filed by a team of four on the alleged poisonous gas leakage on Monday, has decided to transfer the case to the principal tribunal in Delhi due to unavoidable circumstances, sources pointed out.
They say people of Tuticorin have been bearing brunt of emission
There was panic in the town after chlorine gas leaked from Panjab Alkalies and Chemicals Limited (PACL) early this morning. Residents of Jawahar Nagar Market area rushed out of their homes at about 5.30 am, complaining of suffocation and irritation in the eyes, Lovely Angra, a local panch, said. Pawan, another resident, said: " At about 6 am, I felt breathless and uneasy. I ran out of my house where I saw a large crowd already on the streets. Soon, we learnt that gas had leaked from the nearby plant."
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Crusaders RL would like to update fans on the current situation involving the club.
Following a meeting of Wrexham Village shareholders, club Chairman Ian Roberts said:
"Our solicitors have informed us HMRC have made an application to dismiss the winding-up order which was due to be heard on November 10.
"They are doing this because we had already paid them the amount in question.
"It was an old debt which had already been paid, and the order was down to a misunderstanding.
"There will still be a hearing on November 10 but only to dismiss the order.
"We are still looking at the currrent position of the club and how best to take it forward. We once again thank fans for their continued support and pateince and a further annoucement will be made in the near future."
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Posted 08 November 2010 - 11:55 AM
....and what are the odds, regardless of the 'HMRC mistake', that they will go into Administration and become the Welsh/Wrexham Crusaders
Sorry folks, no forecast comp this year
Posted 08 November 2010 - 12:53 PM
What are the odds it was never a mistake and the RFL are footing the bill
Something apparently seen, heard, or sensed, but having no physical reality!
Posted 08 November 2010 - 01:09 PM
about the same as the Crusaders going into adminstration on Friday
Sorry folks, no forecast comp this year
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Volunteers fill bags for a school lunch program. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta.)
Late Wednesday night, the House Agriculture Committee passed a comprehensive, $940 billion farm bill. This was a first step towards making a real, five-year bill law—something the last Congress failed to do, and something that, by all accounts, this Congress deems an absolute necessity.
But one central issue could derail the farm legislation once again: food stamp cuts. Republicans are demanding even deeper cuts than what they proposed last year, and Thursday morning on Capitol Hill, several House Democrats made it clear they are willing to let the farm bill die if it contains those steep cuts.
The bill passed by the House Agriculture Committee last night slashed $20.5 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, $4 billion more than what the committee proposed last year. These cuts would take away food stamps from nearly 2 million people, and several hundred thousand low-income children would stop receiving free school meals.
At a press conference Thursday morning, several prominent Democrats drew red lines around the cuts. "Lest anyone think that this [debate] is going quietly into the night, you have another thing coming," said Representative Rosa DeLauro. "Maybe, and I can't say for sure, maybe we'll take a look at whether this bill can move at all."
Representative Jim McGovern was more direct. "The $20.5 billion cut in SNAP is a poison pill. It means that we shouldn't be supporting the farm bill," he said.
The stakes are extremely high here. The agricultural community—from farmers to the multibillion-dollar industry players—badly wants a new farm bill, and powerful senators from rural states, in particular, are bent on enacting it. President Obama has repeatedly pressed Congress to pass one.
These threats from McGovern and DeLauro, who were joined by Representatives Marcia Fudge and Barbara Lee at Thursday's event, carry real weight. The backdrop is that many conservatives oppose the House Agriculture committee bill in part because the SNAP cuts are too small—Paul Ryan's 2013 budget calls for $135 billion in cuts to food stamps and for the program to be block-granted to the states.
Many far-right conservatives will likely oppose the farm bill for this reason, and for many other reasons—voting yes on a nearly trillion-dollar bill isn't easy for them. That means Democrats will be needed to secure House passage, and if liberal members can mobilize enough colleagues to join them in steadfast opposition to the food stamp cuts, the farm bill might not pass. (House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi did not return a request for comment about how she would instruct members on this issue.)
Even if the bill does pass the House, food stamp cuts could still blow up final passage when the House and Senate try to reconcile their bills. The Senate version of the farm bill cuts one-fifth of what the House proposes. Senator Debbie Stabenow, chair of the Senate Agriculture Committee, told reporters on a conference call Thursday afternoon that she would not accept the food stamp provisions of the House bill.
"I absolutely reject the level of cuts [to SNAP] and the way this is done in the House," Stabenow said. "That policy does not have support in the United States Senate. I won't support it the conference."
McGovern said he hopes Obama, too, will prioritize the food stamp fight over simply getting a bill passed. "We need the White House to come up here and help us a little bit on this," he said. "I really do believe there ought to be a line in the sand drawn, by this White House, that you're not going to sign a farm bill with any SNAP cuts. Certainly not cuts of $20 billion."
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The House Agriculture Committee bill cuts SNAP primarily by eliminating "categorical eligibility"—a method that forty states use to make sure needy families get food stamps. The 1996 welfare law allowed states flexibility with food stamp qualification limits by aligning them to more generous rules used under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, and that's the flexibility the GOP wants to eliminate.
Generous, of course, is really a misnomer here. The qualification for food stamps—130 percent of the poverty level—often excludes needy families who technically exceed that limit, but have disposable income well below 130 percent because of childcare and other expenses, as the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities explains. Also, the SNAP asset limit of $2,000 hasn't been adjusted for inflation since 1986 and has fallen 53 percent in real terms.
So forty states, both red and blue, use the flexibility provided by categorical eligibility to make sure needy families don't get screwed out of food stamps. If that eligibility is scrapped, as the GOP proposes, the Congressional Budget Office estimates 1.8 million low-income will stop getting food stamps and 210,000 needy children will stop getting free meals at school.
This is an outcome that far-right members of the House proudly champion. "It seems to me that the goal of this administration is to expand the rolls of people who are on SNAP benefits, the purpose of which is to expand the dependency class," said Representative Steve King during Wednesday's committee debate.
McGovern and his colleagues also see this debate in moral terms, though naturally very different ones. "Here's the deal: we have 50 million people in the United States of America who are hungry. Seventeen million of them are children. We're the richest, most powerful country in the world. We all should be ashamed," he said Thursday.
"The debate around the farm bill yesterday should not have been focused on how we should cut SNAP. We should be talking about how we improve and expand SNAP," he added. "We should be talking about how we invest more in nutrition, invest more in the effort to end hunger."
Read George Zornick on another under-covered issue: integrating veterans back into society.
What a difference five years make! In 2008, when a few hundred union workers at the Republic Windows and Doors factory in Chicago voted to occupy their plant instead of submitting meekly to being laid off, theirs was a rare act of courage in a cold winter of crisis for organized labor. Five years on, as some of those same workers cut the ribbon on their own cooperatively run business last week, it was yet another bold step by innovative workers in a season of daring by labor.
It's no easy thing to sign a lease, buy equipment and open a business with a group. Starting a coop is risky, just like walking off a low-wage job. Asked why he and his fellows had decided to start a co-op, veteran window maker "Ricky" Maclin told me it was because they were tired of their lives being in someone else's hands. In the last five years, two different owners for two different sets of reasons had tried to lay them off. Now Maclin and his partners are owner/operators of a cooperative company called New Era and a similar sort of determination and defiance is being seen in city after city, from fed up workers who are taking to the streets.
Fast food workers went on strike in Milwaukee this week, the fifth city to see low-wage workers walk out in one-day protests. Before Milwaukee it was New York, Chicago, St. Louis and Detroit.
There's plenty to be fed up about. The same people slashing services are talking about an economic recovery, but if this is the economy in recovery, workers seem to have no place in it. Politicians and pundits are doing OK—in fact, for anyone with a stock portfolio, the economy's in the pink. But that old supposed pact between Big Labor and the Democrats is clearly broken. Labor unions invested millions in helping Democrats win the last election but they're getting nothing back—at least nothing that helps working people live and rear families and eat.
Wages remain rock-bottom, millions are more or less permanently out of work and those who are working are working harder, for more bosses, in less secure workplaces, with nothing in the way of benefits.
No wonder people are embracing new tactics. And surprise, surprise, those tactics work.
By occupying their plant the first time (in December 2008), the New Era workers won back-pay—and time for a new owner to be found. By occupying a second time (in February 2012, when those new owners threatened to liquidate), they won a chance to form a cooperative and make a bid on equipment.
Now their company's name is seeming especially apt: New Era Windows. Are we, in fact, entering a new era for labor? The last time the labor movement embraced sit-down strikes and worker occupations, it was the 1930s. For most of the last century, industrial unions viewed autonomous worker co-ops as a threat. Today the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America will be representing the New Era workers, and the United Steelworkers of America is working with the Basque co-ops of Mondragon to open industrial co-ops in the US.
Likewise, until recently, trade unions refused to support ambitious strikes by low-wage workers in predominantly non-union industries, especially strikes led by women, immigrants and community organizations. The one-day stoppages around the country by retail and fast food workers this season are targeting non-union chains like McDonald's, Burger King, Taco Bell and TJ Maxx. Community groups are leading the way (although many are funded by the SEIU). They're demanding a meaningful raise—to $15 and hour—and the right to organize a union without attack. So far, they're succeeding in staging one-day walkouts without dire reprisals from management. That's a jaw-dropping thing, with visible support. Milwaukee's strikers returned to work Thursday, flanked by elected officials and clergy.
While the one-day strikes may be involving only a minority of workers so far, they are clearly building support as the wave of actions shows. What happens next? Strikes and co-ops are two different ways to respond to the finance-driven crisis of job losses and low wages. The first aims to build power at the bargaining table, the second to compete in the market. The outcome's unsure, but just like that first occupation at Republic, the experiments themselves have unleashed new potential.
It just goes to show what can happen when workers lead the way, and when, as Jim Hightower would say, those who say it can't be done get out of the way of those who are doing it.
In this video from Raise MKE and Wisconsin Jobs Now! workers describe what it's like living on a low wage and why they've had enough. Today's low wage buys only about 70 percent of what it bought in 1968. The majority of jobs created in this so-called "recovery" have been low-wage jobs. What's that like to live on? As one woman puts it simply, "Living on minimum wage sucks!"
New York fast food joints may be in trouble for rampant wage theft. Read Josh Eidelson's report.
Last night, I was happy to hear Chris Hayes report that the Buena Vista, Michigan, school district, which had been closed since May 7 with the intention of canceling classes for the rest of the school year, has reopened.
While it was good to see that these kids will indeed have classes for the remainder of the school year, I couldn't help but hear this story and think about what's happening with the school closings in Chicago. The city plans to move forward with the closing of fifty-four schools, despite protests from students, parents and the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU).
They differ greatly in size, but what Buena Vista and Chicago have in common is that the populations most affected by these school closings just happen to be mostly black. Buena Vista is home to just under 7,000 residents, 74 percent of whom are black. In Chicago, where black students make up about 40 percent of those enrolled, 88 percent of those who would be displaced by these school closings are black.
"Let's not pretend that's not racist," CTU President Karen Lewis said at a rally back in March.
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I was surprised her remark didn't cause more of an uproar. I agree, what's happening is racist, but, generally speaking, the public has a way of not calling racism by its name. We dance around the issue by noting the size of the black population, or using creative language like "racially charged," but consider racist an accusation best left unspoken. And in part that has to do with what our conception of racism is. We don't call this racist because no one was caught on tape saying the "n-word." No one was secretly recorded saying black children are inherently inferior to white children and therefore undeserving of an education to begin with. There won't be any Eyes on the Prize–style documentaries made of this moment featuring Mayor Rahm Emanuel pledging "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever" in a fiery speech. There are no ready-for-Disney fire-breathing racist demons on the scene who find joy in denying black children a proper education. It's all so… boring.
But that's how racism operates for the most part. It goes about its business as items on a budget while those in charge remain massively indifferent to the suffering of communities of color. And what was it but indifference when Michigan Governor Rick Snyder was refusing to release 0.1 percent of the state's rainy-day funds in order to keep Buena Vista schools open? What else but indifference explains why Mayor Emanuel is open to using $125 million of taxpayer money to fund a basketball arena, but can't find any money to help keep some of those schools from closing? Neither of these men has set out to deliberately destroy the educational opportunities of black students, so far as anyone can tell, but the point is they don't have to. The effect of their indifference is the same racist result. All they have to do is not care.
As long as the education we need costs more than we are willing to invest there are going to be budget issues. But we don't call it racism when the budget shortfalls wind up shortchanging people of color first and hardest, even though that's what it is. And we'll continue to live with this problem so long as we're afraid to name it properly.
Read Mychal Denzel Smith on the right to bear guns—and whether we really still need it.
A solver recently inquired about the legitimacy of this clue from Puzzle 3283:
Bread, upon reflection, is bread (4)
The basis for the wordplay in the clue is the fact that the answer is a palindrome. Read it forwards and it means "bread"; read it backwards and it also means "bread."
In one sense, then, the palindrome clue can be taken as a special case of a reversal clue. It gives a definition of the answer word, and a definition of the word that results when you reverse the answer. It just so happens that they're the same word.
But that description, although fundamentally accurate, glosses over the inherent weakness of a palindrome clue—namely, that it doesn't provide two independent paths to an answer. The premise of a cryptic clue, after all, is that either part can lead a solver toward an answer, with the other part confirming. In theory, you should be able to come up with an answer from the wordplay and let the definition tell you whether that answer is correct—or vice versa.
A palindrome clue doesn't do that, because only one of those paths is operational. You can use the definition to come up with an answer, and the wordplay will rule out some possibilities—it's not PITA, for instance, or ROLL. But you can't do the opposite, solving from the wordplay and using the definition to confirm.
So it's true that a palindrome clue is less legitimate than most clues, which probably accounts for our solver's discomfort. But to our way of thinking, this is at worst a venial sin. Palindromic words are so rare that this sort of clue doesn't come up very often; remember that long palindromic phrases like "Able was I ere I saw Elba" or "Lisa Bonet ate no basil" are rather contrived, and unlikely to show up in a cryptic crossword grid. (See our post on "dictionary nature.") And when a solver does encounter a palindrome clue, the very rareness of palindromic words helps to narrow the search fairly quickly.
Moreover, palindromes offer a bonus for solvers. Even before solving the clue, if you have the first letter of the answer from a crossing word, you can confidently also enter the last letter; if you have the penultimate letter, you can also enter the second letter, and so on. This helps compensate for the weakness of the clue.
We have used similar clues on a few occasions in previous puzzles:
ANNA Leo's heroine looks the same in the mirror (4)
CIVIC Honda running forward and in reverse (5)
OTTO Going up and down, it's the same guy (4)
And we'll use them again in the future—but probably not very often.
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A Walmart store in Richmond, Virginia. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
This week has been a waiting game for consumers, as we've followed news of fashion brands that source from Bangladesh to see how they respond to the late-April collapse of the Rana Plaza factory where, to date, more than 1,100 garment workers have perished. Clothing companies and labor groups have been busy etching out a rigorous fire and safety agreement, which establishes independent inspections of the country's factories, is legally binding, and requires that improvements in building safety be partially funded by fashion brands.
As the story has unfolded, it's highlighted an underlying problem with corporate responsibility, particularly in the United States: Whether brands participate in the Bangladeshi factory safety agreement is totally voluntary. And embarrassingly and dishearteningly, it's been the US clothing giants that have been reluctant to sign on. European companies, including H&M, Tesco, Primark, Benetton, Mango and others rapidly signed on earlier this week. Walmart has decided to develop its own plan for inspecting its Bangladeshi suppliers. This, even after it was revealed that the retail giant sold jeans from a supplier that had placed an order in Rana Plaza. It's response was to fire the supplier, Fame Jeans.
Sears has also decided to go its own way. As of this morning, Target has declined to comment on the agreement and J.C. Penney is still reviewing the plan. One potential bright spot: Gap, which owns Old Navy and Banana Republic, is expected to sign on in the coming days.
One justification provided for the split between European and American retailers is that, according to a Gap spokesperson, America is overly "litigious." In other words, this agreement might actually provide the necessary threat to brands for an agreement like this to work. In 2009, the Ninth US Circuit of Appeals ruled that workers in foreign factories that supply Walmart can't hold the company responsible for their workplace conditions, despite the retailer's code of conduct that's supposed to hold its contractors to decent labor standards. This lack of liability is enjoyed by every retailer that uses contracted factories, which they do not own. It's this loophole, the one that legally distances clothing companies from the very people who actually make the clothing, that has consistently and historically wrought disaster and human tragedy.
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Given the labor-intensive and highly competitive nature of the fashion industry, it has long needed tighter regulations and now is the time to push them through. The workers in sub-contracted garment factories need crucial protections. Currently, the United States government and our courts are doing nothing to police fashion companies' behavior in factories overseas. The Rana Plaza disaster is a matter of international concern, and the time is ripe for government leaders to step in, evaluate the situation and force the hand of business. Otherwise, clothing brands will continue to distance themselves from tragedies, tragedies will continue to happen and consumers will feel confused and hopeless about their role in all of this.
In a new survey, 84 percent of New York's fast food workers report having their wages stolen. Read Josh Eidelson's report.
Barack Obama has been rocked by scandals over Benghazi, the IRS and the DOJ. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais.)
Benghazi, the IRS targeting Tea Party groups, the Department of Justice secretly seizing AP phone records: It's a "trifecta" of scandals, Chuck Todd said. A "perfect storm," Ron Fournier of National Journal wrote. "Obama's Watergate?" Larry Kudlow's CNBC show asked. And indeed Republicans, the mainstream media and all too many liberals have been getting emotionally swept up in the belief that no matter the merit of any one of these "scandals" (some more deserving of scare quotes than others), together they prove the Obama administration to be fatally scandal-prone, if not Nixonian, and predict flat-out second-term doom.
But let's take a deep breath.
If they hadn't converged within seven or so days in May, these scandals might have died of their own accord, as Fast and Furious did, as Solyndra did. Remember when the BP oil spill was deemed "Obama's Hurricane Katrina," even his "Iran Hostage Crisis"? As presidency-destroying scandals go, the IRS and AP crises rest on only slightly less flimsy ground than Benghazi: The IRS flap involves incompetence and short-term thinking by mid-level officials for whom Obama bears only the whiffiest responsibility. The DOJ investigation of a national security leak to the AP is a gross overreach, but it's exactly the sort of leak-plugging that Republicans excoriated Obama for not doing aggressively enough.
So why is the media huffing in a paper bag in between speculating on his demise? Alone, each of these stories may have fizzled, but together their gaseous fumes ignite to reach escape velocity and overcome the gravity of facts altogether. Or as Stephen Colbert said, cracking out the champagne to celebrate the "chilling" IRS scandal, "This proves that everything I ever said about Obama is true."
The triumphalism on the right may always be premature, but this time they do have an apology from the IRS to swing like a club, not to mention the sudden prostration of scandal-intoxicated Dems. "I'm sorry, Bob Woodward," Mika Brzezinski said Tuesday. She was apologizing for once mocking Woodward for suggesting that a White House aide had threatened him for not towing the Obama line on sequestration. Back then, in February, Mika said, "Is he really afraid of a little aide that said that to him? Really? Are you kidding me?" But just twenty-four hours of trifecta hysteria had Mika convinced that "Maybe he was right." (He wasn't.)
"This is outrageous," Democratic consultant and one-time John Edwards adviser Chris Kofinis said of the IRS controversy. "The administration and the president need to condemn this and act immediately. This is not a right-left issue." (By last night, of course, Obama condemned it, again, and fired the IRS acting director.)
Most bitingly, Joe Klein wrote: "Previous Presidents, including great ones like Roosevelt, have used the IRS against their enemies. But I don't think Obama ever wanted to be on the same page as Richard Nixon. In this specific case, he now is."
In fact, so many media liberals were piling on Obama that Morning Joe's Mike Barnicle declared, "I do not want to hear the phrase 'liberal bias' applied to the media when it comes to coverage of the Obama administration after the past couple of days." (Greg Gutfeld of Fox News obliged, coming up instead with a new phrase: "The media is Obama's scandal condom.")
There's something amusingly Lilliputian about the Republicans using all these slender threads to tie Obama down. But it's scary, too, like waking up with Mitch McConnell standing on your nose, ranting at you.
So it's important to separate these threads, and to see how in each case the GOP is framing the stories and encouraging us to jump to conclusions without waiting for buzzkills like facts or context.
Benghazi: Off the Fox/GOP scandal assembly line, this had been pretty much accepted as a "nothingburger." Every time the right promises a bombshell, it's defused, like the e-mail leaked to ABC's Jonathan Karl that was supposed to reveal nefarious editing of Susan Rice's talking points. Turns out, the leaked e-mail had itself been nefariously edited by Karl's sources to make it look as if the White House was more focused on the talking points than it was.
And so far, the 100 pages of e-mails the White House released as damage-control yesterday look like a second helping of a nothingburger. That, or a long-form birth certificate.
Of course, there's always Darryl Issa, though lately he's been reduced to explaining that Obama covered up the Benghazi attack by calling it an "act of terror." Obama's semantics are a dead giveaway, Issa says, because "an 'act of terror' is different than a 'terrorist attack.' " Please proceed, congressman.
The IRS: It's clear now that the Cincinnati office of the IRS targeted conservative groups with words like "Tea Party" and "Patriot" in their names for extra scrutiny before granting them tax-exempt status. While these organizations weren't rejected, their applications were often delayed by years, and some are still waiting for an answer. Worse, according to reporting in USA Today, the IRS approved liberal groups more quickly.
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So it's bad, sure, but it apparently has nothing to do with Obama. In fact, liberals are beginning to realize that the right has been tying their hair to little pegs to keep them from moving, and they're starting to yank free. Joe Klein stepped back from the brink the other day, saying, "I may have swung a bit too hard, putting Barack Obama's Administration in the same league as Franklin Roosevelt's and Richard Nixon's when it comes to the Internal Revenue Service."
The most important difference is that the Roosevelt and Nixon IRS depredations came from the White House. This mess seems to have percolated from the middle–the IRS's Cincinnati office (a major facility, by the way)—up to the upper-middle. It was an overreaction, to be sure—but, as Ezra Klein explains, it was a response to a very real problem: how do you draw the line between political advocacy, which is a taxable activity, and policy advocacy, which is not, if the advocate organizes itself as a 501(c)4? Here's Ezra.
The real scandal at the IRS, as my colleague Ari Berman says, "is how the Citizens United decision has unleashed a flood of secret spending in US elections that the IRS and other regulatory agencies in Washington…have been unwilling or unable to stem."
In fact, Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) had planned to hold hearings this June "to go after" such dark money groups, like Karl Rove's Crossroads GPS and the Koch brothers' Americans for Prosperity, that have won tax-exempt status and the right to hide their donors by pretending to be 501c4 "social welfare" organizations. But because of the IRS scandal over the smaller-fish Tea Party groups, the investigation has been indefinitely delayed.
Anyway, misuse of the tax code is a bipartisan sin, as Harry Reid said Tuesday. "It wasn't long ago that the IRS inappropriately targeted the NAACP, Greenpeace and a California church that was really progressive called the All Saints Church in Pasadena, California," he told reporters. "At that time, we didn't hear a single Republican grandstand the issue then. Where was their outrage when groups on the other side of the political spectrum were under attack?"
AP: In order to trace a leak of classified information about a foiled bomb plot in Yemen detailed in an AP story last year, the DOJ secretly seized a broad swath of reporter and editor phone records during two months of 2012. AP executive editor Kathleen Carroll says, "I've been in this business more than thirty years" and she and the AP's lawyers have never "seen anything like this." Attorney General Eric Holder counters, "I've been a prosecutor since 1976 and I have to say that this is among, if not the most serious, it is within the top two or three most serious leaks I've ever seen. It put the American people at risk. That's not hyperbole."
Progressives and journalists hate this kind of dragnet gumshoeing, and rightly so—it freezes out potential sources and whistleblowers, and Obama and his administration have acted, yes, scandalously in pursuing and punishing government leakers.
The Republicans have made a fine art out of demanding Obama do something, then attacking him when he does. During the campaign, Paul Ryan pretended to be outraged that Obama had saved $716 billion in the Medicare program, even though Ryan claimed the same cuts in his own plan. When Obama gave into GOP pressure by proposing the awful "chained CPI" cuts to Social Security benefits, a Republican congressman called it "a shocking betrayal of seniors."
And now the same Republicans, like Joe Scarborough, who were screaming for Obama to shut down national security leaks like the one in Yemen, are now screaming that he's trampling on free speech. (See Scarborough and former Obama adviser David Axelrod go at it over this here.)
After attempting damage control on Benghazi by releasing e-mails and the IRS by axing its acting director, the White House is now trying to quell protests over spying on the press by asking Senator Chuck Schumer to reintroduce a 2009 press shield law that could protect journalists from revealing sources. The proposed law is full of loopholes, a Times editorial says, but as a "peace offering," it's a start.
It also dares the GOP to act on its supposed outrage, a way of saying, Blazing Saddles–style, "Stop, or press freedom gets it."
Let's fix these problems, then let's come down from our scandal high and move on, as Joe Klein implies he did. "What is more dangerous to our democracy," he writes, "the Obama Administration's massaging of its mistakes or the Republicans' constant campaign to paralyze our government through diversions like these?"
Read Leslie Savan on the Cleveland kidnapping and what it says about violence against women.
This article was originally published by Campus Progress and is re-posted here with permission.
Poor me-me-me. Because I am a Millennial, according to Time magazine's Joel Stein, I am a stunted, shallow narcissist who needs to have statistics mansplained to me by a Gen-Xer:
"Millennials consist, depending on whom you ask, of people born from 1980 to 2000. To put it more simply for them, since they grew up not having to do a lot of math in their heads, thanks to computers, the group is made up mostly of teens and 20-somethings."
LOL, Joel! Sorry, you didn't grow up with computers. In that case, let me carefully explain another Internet term that we Millennials learn while checking our phones every hour for eighty-eight daily text messages:
A troll is somebody who deliberately goads others on "Internet message boards" (you might remember these from GeoCities) just to get a reaction. And you, Joel Stein, are the perfect example of an offline troll: a journalist who riles up readers by smearing an entire generation as lazy—only to turn around and completely undermine his own half-baked shock-bait with the latter half of his article. I'm loath to feed a troll, but this particular troll, who admitted to "cozying up to the editor of the magazine" in his early career, has too wide and too credulous an audience.
"I have studies! I have statistics!" Stein crows. Actually, he has about two paragraphs of cherry-picked data! He has hand-waving generalizations! He has quotes from twenty people over age 32, and only two under age 30! (Thanks to fellow Millennial and Campus Progress alum Tyler Kingkade for the latter observation.)
Some of Stein's mistakes may be simple carelessness. Maybe, when he wrote that Millennials "have less civic engagement and voter participation than any previous group," he just hadn't read that Millennials are most interested in civil service careers and volunteerism, had record levels of voter participation last year and care far more about family than fame.
Maybe it didn't occur to him, when citing a survey of middle schoolers who want to grow up assisting famous people, that early adolescence isn't the best time to evaluate most people's career paths. And maybe he just hadn't heard that the National Institutes of Health survey about Millennials' narcissism has been called into serious question under peer review.
But too many of Stein's blunders are internal contradictions that if not he, then his editors, should have known better than to print.
He says young people are stunted because they spend more time socializing with peers than adults, then says Millennials don't rebel as much because they have friendlier relationships and more in common with their parents. He snarks about middle-class families displaying far more photos of themselves than in the '50s, but those are the houses Millennials grew up in, not the ones they head—and then he says vacation-slide-showing baby boomers, given the same technology, would have been just as obnoxious as Facebook-oversharers. He debunks his own claims about the self-esteem-hyping, over-trophying culture of the 1970s by writing that "millenials' perceived entitlement isn't a result of overprotection but an adaptation to a world of abundance."
Maybe that "perceived" entitlement is just "how rich kids have always behaved," but Stein's most glaring omission is failing to acknowledge just how not-rich this generation is becoming, and just how badly the baby-boomer-created system has failed them.
It's hard to fathom how Stein can call Millennials lazy when too many of them slave for sixty-hour weeks working multiple jobs to take unpaid internships, all so that they can see no wage gains from all that extra work.
It's outrageous to connect Millennials' supposedly "stunted" intellectual growth with the popularity of keeping them on their parents' insurance until age 26, when the reality is that "good jobs" with benefits are getting harder to find.
And it's jaw-droppingly insulting that Stein's only discussion of low-income youth is a flippant reference to "ghetto-fabulous" lifestyles.
The "how Millennials will save the world" part of the piece has some decent points.
Millennials have positive attitudes. They are shaped by, and shape, the technology and environment they are presented with. Their egalitarian, decentralized understanding of the world will change and benefit both them and the world.
But Millennials and their world won't benefit from confused, stereotype-driven understandings of who they are and what they care about. While we keep building bridges to the future, let's keep the trolls tucked away underneath them.
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New York City fast food workers rally at a one-day strike on April 4, 2013. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
An update, with comment from the New York Attorney General's office, appears below.
At an 11 am press conference outside a Brooklyn KFC restaurant, fast food workers and activists will release a new report alleging rampant wage theft in their industry, one of the fastest-growing in the United States. The report includes results from an Anzalone Liszt Grove research survey of 500 of the city's fast food workers, in which 84 percent reported that their employer had committed some form of wage theft over the previous year.
Today's press conference follows strikes by fast food workers in five major cities within six weeks, all demanding raises to $15 an hour and the chance to form unions without intimidation. The report, "New York's Hidden Crime Wave: Wage Theft and NYC's Fast Food Workers," is being published by Fast Food Forward, the campaign behind the strikes in New York. It lands on the same day as a New York Times article reporting that New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman "is investigating whether the owners of several fast-food restaurants and a fast-food parent corporation have cheated their workers out of wages, according to a person familiar with the cases."
Reached by e-mail, a spokesperson for the National Restaurant Association told The Nation, "We fully support compliance with all state and federal wage and employment laws." The attorney general's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
"Wage theft" is a term popularized by activists and advocates over the past decade to describe a wide range of ways in which companies fail to pay employees the wages they're legally owed. The Fast Food Forward report identifies several types of violations as prevalent in the city's fast food industry: employees working, without pay, before or after their shift; employees working overtime without being paid time-and-a-half; employees working during their breaks or not receiving breaks; and delivery employees not being reimbursed for expenses like gasoline or safety equipment.
The report quotes McDonald's worker Elizabeth Rene, who says she loses up to $75 a month because she isn't paid for the time she spends counting the register before and after her shift: "I feel cheated and used and like I'm not appreciated for my hard work."A 2008 study by the National Employment Law Project estimated that the average low-wage worker loses 15 percent of his or her annual income to wage theft.
Asked about wage theft allegations, a Domino's spokesperson told The New York Times's Julie Turkewitz, "If anybody is paying below minimum wage or using the tipped wage credit, that would probably be independent franchisees in our system. And I can't really speak to that." The authors of today's report reject such arguments. "Because the corporations design, maintain, monitor and profit from the fast food delivery system," they write, "they should be the focus of regulatory and political action to eradicate wage theft up and down the fast food chain."
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As I've reported, recent years have seen a rise in labor activism around wage theft, often backed by unions or "alt-labor" groups organizing non-union workers in the workplace and in local politics. In 2010, New York passed a statewide anti–wage theft law that the Progressive States Network described as the strongest in the country. In January, the Chicago City Council unanimously passed an ordinance that threatens offending companies with the loss of their business licenses. In other cases, forcing unwanted legal, political or media scrutiny on alleged wage theft by a company has proven a potent weapon in labor groups' "comprehensive campaigns" to force concessions from management. The release of today's report could represent an additional front in campaigns by Fast Food Forward, and parallel groups elsewhere, to transform jobs that are increasingly representative of work in the modern United States.
Update (12:15 pm Thursday): The New York Attorney General's office has confirmed to The Nation that it issued subpoenas to a fast food parent corporation, and is investigating several New York State franchisees (the AG's office declined to name the corporation). Schneiderman's office is exploring potential legal violations including sub-minimum wage pay, unpaid work, false payroll records, overtime without time-and-a-half pay, work expenses that weren't fully reimbursed and paychecks that bounced.
In an e-mailed statement, Schneiderman spokesperson Damien LaVera called the Fast Food Forward report's findings "deeply troubling," and said they "shed light on potentially broad labor violations by the fast food industry." "We take the allegations seriously," said LaVera, "which is why our office is investigating fast food franchisees. New Yorkers expect companies doing business in our state to follow laws set up to protect working families." LaVera urged workers who have experienced wage theft by fast food companies to contact the attorney general's office.
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Richard Nixon says goodbye to staff after resigning on August 9, 1974. (AP Photo.)
I have my issues with Obama—often expressed here—but come on. Judging from the wild references online and on the TV to Obama being "as bad as Nixon"—maybe "worse"—and behaving in a very "Nixonian" manner in regard to the IRS tax-exempt probing and DOJ seizure of AP phone records, most hosts and guests and pundits have very little knowledge of Richard Nixon's actual acts (or have forgotten them).
So here, as public service, just for starters—there was so much more (e.g. approving a break-in at Brookings, the secret bombing and then invasion of Cambodia, ovethrowing Allende, bombing Hanoi and continuing Vietnam War for four years etc. )—are the first two of the three articles of impeachment approved by the House in 1974.
The third related to his rejection of subpoenas and other requests for evidence.
Yes, I've written a fairly well-known book about Nixon, although not Watergate-related (it covers his dirty-tricks 1950 campaign for Senate). Not to mention growing up in a Nixon-loving household during the 1950s.
Musical soundtrack here, courtesy of Phil Ochs.
Read Greg Mitchell on the DOJ seizure of AP staff's phone records.
Many of the groups who helped Scott Walker win the Wisconsin recall were 501(c)(4) Tea Party groups that worked in close tandem with his campaign despite their non-political tax designation. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File.)
My pixels have been absent from these precincts while I report a feature story for The Nation, and I'll have more to say about the ersatz Scandalpalooza being ginned up by Republicans this week, but for now I wanted to drop a quick word about just how overblown the outrage is about the Internal Revenue Service flagging groups with "Tea Party" in their name for extra scrutiny when they apply for 501(c)(4) status. Jeffrey Toobin, in a New Yorker post called "The Real I.R.S. Scandal," succinctly explains the legal background:
It's important to review why the Tea Party groups were petitioning the I.R.S. anyway. They were seeking approval to operate under section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code. This would require them to be "social welfare," not political, operations. There are significant advantages to being a 501(c)(4). These groups don't pay taxes; they don't have to disclose their donors—unlike traditional political organizations, such as political-action committees. In return for the tax advantage and the secrecy, the 501(c)(4) organizations must refrain from traditional partisan political activity, like endorsing candidates….
Particularly leading up to the 2012 elections, many conservative organizations, nominally 501(c)(4)s, were all but explicitly political in their work. In every meaningful sense, groups like Americans for Prosperity were operating as units of the Republican Party. Democrats organized similar operations, but on a much smaller scale. (They undoubtedly would have done more, but they lacked the Republican base for funding such efforts.)
So the scandal—the real scandal—is that 501(c)(4) groups have been engaged in political activity in such a sustained and open way.
Just how sustained and open a way? Well, in June of last year I reported from the closing weekend of the recall campaign against Republican governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin:
I drive to a microscopic town next to Racine, where a giant open field was a stop on the bus tour in which Americans for Prosperity, the fake grassroots group that fronts for the Koch Brothers, was shipping supporters from, among other places, Illinois, to these here rallies around the state. Not, they claim, to support the Walker campaign—that would violate election law—which they had nothing to do with, but just in the interest of "educating folks in the importance of the reforms."
The three hundred or so (though National Review counts differently than me) white people—and one black, who stood precisely in the center of the front row and wore an AFP staff T-shirt—heard an AFP staffer hosanna "economic freedom, limited government, and lower taxes." And that "even Barack Obama's Bureau of Labor Statistics" said "we've created jobs in Wisconsin." Then he introduced as an "honorary Wisconsinite," the head of Americans for Prosperity—Wisconsin, Tim Phillips—a Southerner who made a joke about frigid weather. Apparently reverse carpet-bagging is a signal feature of this "grassroots" movement.
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Then a third speaker, but I had already wandered off, bored by the conspicuous lack of energy, past a sign reading "Republican's Are Makers Democrats Are Takers" [sic, of course], and tables featuring free DVDs on both the glories of Scott Walker and the United Nation's plan to enslave the United States, in the direction of a second, entirely separate, stage across the field put up by the Racine Tea Party. A few minutes later, the rest of the crowd followed me there. For, yes, an entirely separate rally, which had "nothing" to do with the nonpartisan one two hundred yards away that had just ended [wink wink, nudge nudge]. There they heard Walker's running mate Rebecca Kleefisch rant about the "big union bosses from out of state," and how the unions were just like Goliath, and her boss was exactly like David.
Me, I fingered my slick Americans for Prosperity—Wisconsin flier, which I later noticed contained the most revealing typo in the history of politics. "The forces of BIG GOVERNMENT would like nothing more than for you to DO NOTHING," it warned, but promised, "We are gathering citizens together from across Michigan to make phone calls, knock on doors and educate their friends, family and neighbors."
As Toobin points out, this is the real scandal: the nakedly transparent flouting of the tax laws by groups claiming to be nonpolitical and nonpartisan. Count on the media in Washington to entirely miss that obvious point.


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"Plus, Jones is 2 for 5, vs. LHP, this spring. "
Talk about completely meaningless.
"If Jones can figure out LHP even a little bit"
So players can only improve if you think they can? Even if the probability of that happening is zero.
0 for 2 today. Of course, he was facing Cliff Lee. And Alvarez is never going to be good against LHP, even if he does get it all together. Ryan Howard is a .231 career hitter vs LHP.
You hope, though, like Howard, Alvarez can eventually hang in there vs LHP well enough to avoid a platoon situation. And to that end, I think he could benefit from some more time in AAA. I think the Pirates would be better served by suspending Alvarez's service clock, while gettting him full-time PT in Indy, vs. platooning him with McGehee this year.
You might be right about him needing more AAA time but i dont think they will do it.
""suspending Alvarez's service clock"
I might be wrong but i think he would need to be there a good while for that to come into play.
""I might be wrong but i think he would need to be there a good while for that to come into play.""
Well, the 6 year contract Alvarez signed in September of 2008 expires after the 2014 season. After that, Alvarez will need to be resigned, based on his service time - as a 0-3 guy, or an arb1, or an arb2, whatever he is, at that time.
So, by suspending his service time while he still has an available option, the Pirates could save millions, in a few years. Plus, whenever Alvarez reaches 6 years of service time, he's outta here - Boras clients almost invariably head to free agency, as soon as possible. So, the longer he's in Indy this season, when his MLB production may not be up to par, the longer he's a Pirate down the road, when he's fully blooming.
I think the Alverez situation is a mess. There's room for blame on both sides.
I think the Pirates rushed him being desperate for something positive to happen after all the purges. I also think they over hyped him for the same reasons.
For Pedros part he didn't take the job seriously and is just now understanding what it takes commitment wise to play ML baseball.
I also think the pressure of being "the savior" had a negative effect on him. That and a lack of options in the lineup, protection wise, lead to his struggles.
Hopefully he has that protection now and will get better.
But i don't think he is ever going to be the guy we thought he was going to be and I dont think he was ever that guy in the first place.
I too had Nick Evans ahead of Hague for the platoon at 1B. His career OPS v. LH-pitching is over .800, but Evans has not performed well this spring. Hague has looked good at the plate, but has not looked good at 3B.
There are still a few more weeks of ST, but as of right now I have an opening day platoon of Jones/Hague at 1B and McGehee at 3B based purely on performance.
I have earlier posts on this board that contradict the previous sentence. Hague is not an ideal platoon candidate and has never hit LHs better than RHs. Hague will probably need to get more reps at 3B at sometime in his career to increase his value. But, Hague is the best option right now.
"not favorable to Pedro with 4 lefties Lee, Hamels, Capuano, and Kershaw in the first 6 games."
Good point. May well play a factor into the decision making.
""Hague is not an ideal platoon candidate and has never hit LHs better than RHs. Hague will probably need to get more reps at 3B at sometime in his career to increase his value. But, Hague is the best option right now.""
Well, let's see:
If Alvarez comes north in April:
McKenryMcLouthMcGehee2 of Navarro/Harrison/Fox
If Alvarez goes to Indy in April, that puts McGehee in the starting line-up, at 3rd. And opens a spot on the bench for Hague.
So, I'd say the real choice is between Alvarez and Hague.
I agree that it comes down to Hague v. Alvarez for one roster spot.
Like you said, the other two roster spots are between Navarro, Harrison, and Fox. Fox and Navarro may get the early nod. With Mercer and D'Arnaud in the middle infield at AAA, I would not be surprised if they temporarily stick Harrison in AA to get more reps SS. There is an opening at SS in Altoona since Brock Holt is more of 2B and Benji Gonzalez did not do enough offensively to deserve a promotion. I do not think Fox will finish the season with the big club, so Harrison's demotion is only temporary. JayHay will be play most of year in Pittsburgh.
Generally, teams don't demote guys 2 levels, even to learn another position. I actually think Harrison's fate is tied to Alvarez, the same as Hague's.
This stuff of playing guys out of position, to help them become more versatile, is fine for ST. But when the bell rings, I think you'll see guys more in their usual positions. So:
If Alvarez starts at 3B for the Pirates, McGehee platoons with Jones at 1B. And against some of the NL's toughest LHSP, you may want to sit both Jones and Alvarez, and stack as many RH bats in the line-up as possible. Creating a need for a RH bat, that can play 3B at least semi-adequately. Making the bench:
If Alvarez goes to Indy to begin this season, McGehee plays 3B FT. And Hague platoons with Jones at 1B. Hague being a rookie and all, they'll want some protection for him, in case he falters. Creating more of a need for Fox. Making the bench:
I think Navarro comes north, regardless. He's the only one left standing that has the glove to back-up the MIF. And Harrison's, Hague's, and Fox's fates are tied to what happens to Alvarez, and consequently, whether McGehee plays full time, or part time.
You wrote - they'll want some protection for him in case he falters.
If Hague falters at the MLB level, then they just send him back down to AAA and bring up Alvarez, Fox, Harrison, or Evans. Hague's got options to burn.
"Plus, whenever Alvarez reaches 6 years of service time, he's outta here - Boras clients almost invariably head to free agency, as soon as possible."
A lot needs to happen before Pedro worries about free agency...
I hope everyone saw this. Looks like Bucs seriously considering Hague as backup...and he's working extra hard at 3rd.
Sometimes, rookies DO make the club out of ST. He's not like a Cutch or projected like Alvarez was, or Bryce Harper who was optioned to AAA today. Waiting for service time issues to kick in with those guys made sense. In this case, not so much. Two reasons: Is the team SERIOUS about winning now? Then they need to bring him up given the uncertainties at the infield corners. Might we "lose" a season of Hague later? Maybe...but as I've noted, he's not projected like some of those other guys, and sometimes ya just gotta go for it.
Sometimes, rookies can - and should - make the club out of ST. The Pirates are finally in a position where April games may have some meaning. Yes, that is pathetic, but we all know that's reality.
Given the April schedule, the time is NOW for Matt Hague.
I do not necessarily disagree with that statement about Harrison and Navarro. They are both RH and play 2B-3B well, but neither has been a great option at short. There is very little to separate them where you would say Harrison is better in this situation and Navarro is better in another. I would prefer a LH or Switch-hitter in the middle infield with Harrison. They are too similar.
I have yet to see Harrison at SS, so I am unaware of his performance. If he looks good, then he should start the season North. I see Harrison is having a good spring 9-for-15 with 5 doubles and 1 triple, .600 BA. Navarro is 5-for-25 with one extra base hit. I really never got the need to trade for Navarro.
Harrison doesn't play any position well defensively and the purported hit against Navarro is that he plays soft defense too, though I haven't seen him play at all.
Maybe Harrison has improved his defense significantly? I doubt it very much.
But Lo! Harrison had a good 15 at bats this spring! Let's bring him north! lol
who are you kidding, keith? the kid has more money already than most of us will ever see...


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Welcome Scrapbook Friends to the first but not last Disney/Pixar Scrapbooking Blog Hop.
You are in the right place if you've come from Catarina's blog. Just happened to come to this scrapbooking blog, you can go back to the beginning (see below) and hop along with us.
We're so excited to be doing this scrapbooking hop and we have a fabulous lineup with some very talented ladies. There will be lots of fun projects, along with some great blog candy, and a great grand prize for this hop.
The scrapbook hop is a 2 day hop so you will have plenty of time to make it through the whole hop lineup twice. Check out each blog and see what blog candy you can win at the individual stops. Please come back both days to see great projects.
Here is my scrapbook project… BAMBI. Using my cricut and having fun … makes creating a scrapbooking page sooooo easy… I cut the grass from plain cardstock … Now I just need those fantastic fun pictures to complete the scrapbook layout. Hope you enjoyed this as much as I did doing it…
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There is going to be an overall grand prize sponsored by Lisa from Scrapping with Lisa and she will be the first and last stop in the lineup. In order to qualify for the grand prize, you must leave a comment on every stop in the hop, including my facebook page. You also must become a follower of my blog and of Scrapping With Lisa on facebook. The grand prize for the blog hop is a nice grab bag full of goodies. You won't be disappointed in this prize.
Have a great day and I look forward to seeing you again.
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