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Europe Losing Momentum to Deal with Debt Crisis
After a relatively positive autumn, things are looking tough again for the weaker European countries as uncertainty stemming from political gridlock builds. David Riley, head of global sovereign ratings at Fitch Ratings, tells Dow Jones's Art Patnaude where Greece and Spain are heading.
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The escalating price of buyouts and the valuations of recent IPOs have plenty of people worried we're in — or approaching — another tech bubble. Experts are divided on how accurate those fears are, but there's no denying the implosion that occurred around the turn of the century.
The first tech bubble saw ridiculous levels of spending — from both executives and venture capitalists — and it was only a matter of time before investors hopped on that bandwagon.
A lot of those shareholders ended up losing their shirts when the bubble burst, though many would confess that the investment decisions they made at the time were hardly prudent. Here are some of the most infamous flops of the era.
By Chris Morris, Special to CNBC.com
Posted 17 May 2012

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Divine Misdemeanors: Meredith Gentry, Book 8
You may know me best as Meredith Nic Essus, princess of faerie. Or perhaps as Merry Gentry, Los Angeles private eye. In the fey and mortal realms alike, my life is the stuff of royal intrigue and celebrity drama. Among my own, I have confronted horrendous enemies, endured my noble kin's treachery and malevolence, and honored my duty to conceive a royal heir - all for the right to claim the throne. But I turned my back on court and crown, choosing exile in the human world - and in the arms of my beloved Frost and Darkness.
While I may have rejected the monarchy, I cannot abandon my people. Someone is killing the fey, which has left the LAPD baffled and my guardsmen and me deeply disturbed. My kind are not easily captured or killed. At least not by mortals. I must get to the bottom of these horrendous murders, even if that means going up against Gilda, the Fairy Godmother, my rival for fey loyalties in Los Angeles.
But even stranger things are happening. Mortals I once healed with magic are suddenly performing miracles, a shocking phenomenon wreaking havoc on human/faerie relations. Though I am innocent, dark suspicions of banned magical activities swirl around me.
I thought I'd left the blood and politics behind in my own turbulent realm. I had dreamed of an idyllic life in sunny L.A. with my beloved ones beside me. But it becomes time to wake up and realize that evil knows no borders, and that nobody lives forever - even if they're magical.
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- Leanne
- Swansea, United Kingdom
- 14-09-10
Not the best voice over
As much as i enjoyed this book i think i'd rather have read it myself as the woman's voice was a tad annoying most of the time and her fairy voice really grated at times. Anyone who has read these books will have already built up an image and impression of what they think the characters voices sound like, which is something to always bear in mind with audio books, but this woman didn't do it for me unfortunately. The story however tied up some loose ends and i think marked a good start to getting back to how Ms Hamilton used to write!
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
- Saluki Selfie
- 04-03-15
meriedith gentry
great as are the whole series so far.
wish you had more bookd of laurell k hamilton
- Theresa
- 10-01-10
A lazy disappointment
Hamilton is always makes me vaguely sad- such a fantastic imagination with wonderful concepts but never, ever enough story and always too much pointless, repetitive sex. We get it, the heroine is strong and sexy, but those scenes lose their impact and become eye-rollingly annoying when we follow her into her boudoir over and over in every book.
Add to that an overly breathy, moany narrator and I threw in the towel halfway through. After wading through dozens of Hamilton books to pick out the meaty bits of story, this just might be the last time I indulge in my dirty little secret indulgence. (though I've said that before...)
Incidentally, although I recognize that there are only so many ways to describe certain acts, if I never hear anyone talk about 'spilling' (out of clothes, over passionate edges, etc etc) ever again it'll be too soon. :)
16 of 16 people found this review helpful
- Chelsea
- 09-10-10
Umm, unnecessary much?
Ok, I started to read Hamilton's Anita Blake series first and then started up with the Merry Gentry series, interested in the world of faerie. I enjoy learning about the politics and the different twists in the plot. I believe that it really does spice it up. What I find doing the exact opposite of spicing up the series is the sex scenes in practically every chapter. I understood her need to have sex when she was trying to get pregnant, but her sexcapades now are completely pointless. I get that she loves her men. Great. But that was just ridiculous.
She wakes up. She has sex. She eats breakfast. She has sex. She goes to change clothes. She has sex. She says 'hi' to one of her lovers, which obviously has to lead to sex. She hasn't seen one of her lovers for two days: of course sex has to be in the plans.
I want to give up on this series, but there is still something that I can't seem to let go of. I think I really just want to know what happens in the courts. I hope the next book is better.
As for the narrator. I like her all in all. I first laughed when I heard her interpretation of a male voice, but grew use to it, allowing me to get more into the plot because its easier to differentiate between the male and female characters when they speak. I can't, however, stand it when she squeals in a high voice when she is quoting a demi-fae. Seriously, I don't know if my ears or my speakers can take it when she does that. Their small and have small voices, I get it. Stop trying so hard.
13 of 13 people found this review helpful
- ohkimi
- 22-01-10
I'm only 29 minutes into this and I can't handle it anymore. I cannot even concentrate in the story because of the GOD AWFUL narration. I wonder if I can get a refund....
15 of 16 people found this review helpful
- GypsyMoon
- 19-12-09
Expected better
This book was a disappointment. I've read all of the books in this series and generally enjoy them for their balance of action, politics and mature content. This book, however, seemed to have a lacking storyline and too many love scenes.
6 of 6 people found this review helpful
- Leora
- 17-02-10
What happend??
I fell in love with the Merideth Gentry series... and everything has been so "edge of your seat".. Everything kinda came to a head in the book before this.. and this book, the characters seem to just be.. Passing time? strangely i'm not as satisfied with this one as I have been. But I still like the series! This book just isn't a favorite of mine.
5 of 5 people found this review helpful
- Elizabeth
- 16-12-09
Poor Narration
Decent book, but the Narration is not strong. Makes me not want to listen.
11 of 12 people found this review helpful
- Jenniferk
- 04-02-10
Sadly sagging author--Horrible narration
Disappointing is not a strong enough word for this book. I cannot believe I saved a credit to use in anticipation of this disaster. It should be in the erotica catagory (which is just fine) that way I wouldn't have felt cheated by the complete lack of new plot points or any story at all in between the sex
9 of 10 people found this review helpful
- The Mays
- 09-06-10
Great book, not great narrator
The book is great, but it sounds like it's being narrated by my grandmother...which is weird in the sex scenes. The entire series is excelent, but maybe better to read in print.
7 of 8 people found this review helpful
- Michelle Wright
- 21-12-09
Oh my!!
I have been bespelled by ALL the books i have read by this author until now...the first book i read compelled me to immediately go out and buy every book she had ever wrote. However...this one I don't know. I guess it had its moments and some of those moments repeated each other over and over...sorry.
7 of 8 people found this review helpful
- Rose
- 01-03-13
Is there anything you would change about this book?
Narrator, sounds less lively than previous one, in addition narrator voice sounds like that of a grandma with dry mouth.....which is pretty disturbing on some erotic scenes.
What did you like best about this story?
The story itself, I been following Laurell K. Hamilton's work for over a decade.
How could the performance have been better?
A different, younger and more lively narrator.
If this book were a movie would you go see it?
Maybe, most movies don't give justice to books.
Any additional comments?
PLEASE, please change narrator, fowarding book on the sex scenes because listening to the grandma with the dry mouth is just ....wrong.
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Pvt. John Bateman Testifies and Declares
In the aftermath of the Battle of Lexington and Concord, the Massachusetts Provincial Congress set out to collect testimony about who fired first in that fight, and about any other arguable examples of British army misbehavior. Here's the text of one of the depositions that magistrates set down:
Lincoln, April 23d, 1775.The Massachusetts authorities were no doubt pleased to have testimony supporting their version of events from a British soldier. The image above shows a copy of Bateman's deposition that the legislature sent to the Continental Congress; it is now part of the U.S. National Archives.
I, John Bateman, belonging to the fifty-second regiment, commanded by Colonel [Valentine] Jones, on Wednesday morning, on the nineteenth day of April instant, was in the party marching to Concord. Being at Lexington, in the county of Middlesex, being nigh the meeting-house in said Lexington, there was a small party of men gathered together in that place, when our said troops marched by; and I testify and declare, that I heard the word of command given to the troops to fire, and some of said troops did fire, and I saw one of said small party lie dead on the ground nigh said meeting-house; and I testify, that I never heard any of the inhabitants so much as fire one gun on said troops.
John Bateman.
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MIAMI (AP) — Like most people who signed up for Florida's official Burmese python hunt last winter, Mark Rubinstein slogged a couple times through the Everglades without ever seeing one of the elusive snakes.
Something else caught his eye, though.
In the dirt along a levee, about 10 miles deep into the wetlands, Rubinstein found a gold pendant, with sapphires forming a cross inside a circle of diamonds. One edge of the penny-sized medallion was melted and misshapen.
It may have fallen from the sky. Rubinstein was hunting near the crash sites of two airplanes that went down in the same area: Eastern Flight 401, a New York flight that crashed as it prepared to land in Miami in 1972, and ValuJet Flight 592, a 1996 flight to Atlanta that caught fire shortly after takeoff and plummeted into the remote swamps west of Miami.
Rubinstein hopes to return the jewelry to its rightful owner.
"We've got to get this back to the family, if we can," he said last week.
All 104 passengers and five crew members aboard the ValuJet flight died. The Eastern flight carried 163 passengers and 13 crew members. Seventy-seven people survived, thanks in part to a Homestead man who was catching frogs from his airboat that night. He pulled survivors onto his airboat and turned his headlamp skyward so rescue helicopters could find the crash.
Invasive pythons have been able to disappear into the Everglades for a reason. Sawgrass gets its name from its sharp edges and can grow tall enough to hide predators and any sign of civilization. The wetlands are best traversed by an airboat, and guides warn tourists that anything dropped into the murk is gone for good.
Eastern Flight 401 passenger Ron Infantino spent five hours pinned by debris in the water and sawgrass, holding onto the armrest of what had been his seat on the airplane. The crash stripped him of everything, leaving him naked except for the elastic of his socks. He screamed for his wife of 20 days, Lilly, but he never heard her voice again.
"I've always wondered: Could you imagine if I went back out there and found my wallet? But, no," he said. "It took them two days to find Lilly."
His first thought of his wife when he saw a picture of the pendant Rubinstein found, but he didn't recognize it as a piece that belonged to her. Infantino, who is raising money to build a memorial to the people lost on his flight, praised Rubinstein for reaching out to the survivors and the victims' families.
When Rubinstein got the pendant home in February, he dropped it into a jewelry cleaning solution, expecting it to disintegrate. Instead, it became more lustrous and revealed an intricate leaf pattern.
The Coral Springs man, who works at a construction firm, got in touch with the Florida Gold Coast Gem & Mineral Society, which posted his find in an online forum for jewelers. Stephen Walker of Walker Metalsmiths in Andover, N.Y., spotted the post and offered his expertise in Celtic jewelry to Rubinstein.
Walker suspects the pendant belonged to someone aboard the ValuJet flight because Celtic jewelry was scarce in the 1970s and didn't become popular until the 1990s.
The pendant's bright gold color, even where it melted, indicates that it was made from high-carat gold, he said.
"Diamonds will survive anything, and sapphires will, too. These were the ideal materials to survive this. A 14-carat gold would turn into a glob," he said.
Rubinstein also took the pendant to Robert Moorman, owner of Carroll's Jewelers in Fort Lauderdale. Moorman recognized the religious symbolism in the piece, and he determined that it was handmade from 18- or 22-carat gold, probably in the 1800s or late 1700s.
Rubinstein and Moorman have a few strong leads about the pendant's possible owner.
"A perfect situation would be someone saying, 'Here's a picture of so-and-so and they're wearing it,' but you don't always get perfect," Rubinstein said.
If he never finds the rightful owner, Rubinstein plans to give the pendant to a museum or the Archdiocese of Miami.
"It didn't belong out there. It doesn't necessarily belong to me," Rubinstein said.
Eastern Flight 401: https://sites.google.com/site/eastern401/
Florida Python Removal Program: http://myfwc.com/license/wildlife/nonnative-species/python-permit-program/
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A UC San Diego professor and avid hiker collapsed and died along a trail in San Diego's North County two months ago. Now, officials say her death was caused, in part, by a rare condition that made it impossible for her to sweat.
A report from the office of the San Diego County Medical Examiner obtained by NBC 7 rules the July 5, 2013, death of UCSD professor Ellen Comisso, 65, accidental due to hyperthermia, which stems from unusually elevated body temperature.
But, conditions that contributed to her death included a skin disorder called ichthyosis and a rare condition called anhidrosis, which results in the inability to sweat normally.
According to the report, Comisso's daughter told officials that her mother had a medical history of anhidrosis and would "reportedly always overheat during hikes, and would seek shade underneath trees or bushes to cool off."
Pediatric endocrinologist Sherry Franklin, MD, of the San Diego Medical Society, did not treat Comisso, but is familiar with anhidrosis in other patients.
Franklin told NBC 7 the condition is rare, but can be fatal.
She said that when the body is unable to sweat, it can't cool itself, which can lead to overheating and symptoms of heatstroke, especially during exercise or in hot weather.
"Anhidrosis can lead to dizziness, weakness, muscular cramping, nausea, blurred vision and flushed skin," explained Franklin. "There are different levels of anhidrosis. It can affect a few specific areas on the body or be diffused all over the body, which is more dangerous."
Franklin said anhidrosis can be a primary condition inherited at birth or can develop later in life.
She said certain skin conditions, including ichthyosis, can cause anhidrosis. Comisso had a clinical history of ichthyosis, which can cause thick, dry skin that can build up and impact sweat glands.
Franklin said anhidrosis treatment involves curbing the heat-related side effects that stem from the condition by cooling down the body with rest, shade and fluids.
Comisso would often go hiking with her husband, Mladen Soic, who suffers from advanced dementia, the couple's daughter told investigators back in July.
On the morning of July 5, hikers found Comisso's body in the brush just off the 4-mile-long San Pasqual Clevenger Canyon Trail near the San Dieguito River Park in Ramona, Calif.
The hikers called 911, and responding officials confirmed Comisso's death at the scene. There was no evidence of foul play, investigators said.
The report says investigators later learned that a person placed a 911 call to police on July 4 reporting an elderly, confused man in a car in the parking lot near the trailhead.
The man – who was later identified as Comisso's husband – was taken to Palomar Medical Center. Due to his advanced dementia, he was unable to provide his name or any information.
When Comisso's body was found on the trail the following day and her daughter was contacted by officials, investigators determined that Comisso had gone hiking with her husband on July 4, but collapsed and died while on the trail.
Soic walked back to their car in the parking lot, but was unable to report that his wife was in distress due to his advanced dementia, the report says. Comisso was found about a half-mile from the parking lot at the trailhead.
On the weekend of Comisso's death, temperatures in the Ramona area where the trailhead is located ranged from 61 to 91-degrees, according to weather data from Wunderground.
Being that Comisso was an avid hiker, the report says she was found appropriately dressed and prepared for the activity. Her vehicle contained a backpack, hats and sunscreen. On her person, Comisso carried a backpack and fannypack containing water bottles.
Following her death, Comisso's brother, Sid Turkish, spoke with NBC 7 and fondly remembered his sister as an educator and scholar who loved to hike and walk trails.
Comisso was a longtime professor for UCSD's department of political science and had been teaching at the university for the past 30 years. She was a Yale graduate and an expert on eastern European economies, and had written a number of books on the subject.


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LA: Save The Date – Lab Art's "Miss Danger On The Loose"
Photo courtesy of Lab Art.
Los Angeles! Save the date! Lab Art in Los Angeles has a new exhibit coming up called "Miss Danger on the Loose," and it's going to be great. The exhibit will consist of works by female street artists!
Some of the participating artists include Advntrs, Becca, Clio, E, Gretta Kruesi, KH No. 7, KYM CBS, Lori McMichael, Lydia Emily, Olek, Random Act, Sand One, Sarah'sincognito and more!
The private gala reception will be the hottest ticket in town on July 14, 2011. The exhibit will be open to the public the following day on July 15, 2011 and will run through August 14, 2011.
Don't miss it. Lab Art is located at 217 South La Brea in Los Angeles.


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Hey guys -
Looking for some advise....
I started a small Do It Yourself project of cleaning up and painting my steel [ 5 1/2Jx15, 1537 Semmerz, 11/67 ] rims.
Got done priming one of the rims when I noticed it was cracked. Checked the other 3 rims and found one of the others was cracked in the exact same place! Argh.....
Being steel, I assume a weld bead can be put down relatively easily to stop the propagation of the crack.
Would anyone with experience and/or know-how please chime in?
Is a simple weld fix considered safe?
To keep cost down, I would like to find a local welding shop to do the fix.
- as opposed to finding a wheel shop to do a full restoration
Does anyone know of a welding shop, optimally in the Hayward area, that could do this?


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Tri-Five—Jim Crushman - 1957 Bel-Air
Camaro—William Bova - 1973 Camaro
Nova—Mark Morgan - 1967 Nova
Chevelle—David Dwyer - 1970 Chevelle
Fullsize, '58-up—Diana Morgan - 1959 El Camino
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Earlier this month, Lafayette resident Jon Hydeman filed a protest with the city over the fact that the petitions, circulated by citizen group East Boulder County United, didn't contain a summary of the issue for voters to read and thus violated state law.
Hydeman's attorney, Craig Stewart, argued Thursday that there is no reasonable way a voter could have read and absorbed what he said took him nearly nine minutes to read aloud at a rapid pace.
"The petition and proposed amendment itself were too long to expect signers to read," he said. "The circulator needed to stand there for the 10 minutes (the signer) needed to read and understand the proposal."
Hydeman, who begins work next month as a fracking operator assistant with Halliburton, said in an interview after the hearing that the problem is one of basic fairness to the voters.
"It is unlikely that people walking into a grocery store had eight minutes to read what they were signing," he said. "I just don't think it was fair."
Stewart said during the hearing that Colorado statutes clearly state that petitions for ballot issues need to include a summary of the issue so that people know what they are signing.
But Kelly Davis, a clinical fellow of the environmental law clinic at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law who represented East Boulder County United at the hearing, argued that what prevails in the case is Lafayette's home rule charter, which doesn't require the inclusion of a summary on petitions. And the Home Rule Act of 1971 comes out of the Colorado Constitution, she said.
"The Home Rule Act is the exclusive procedure by virtue of the Lafayette charter," Davis said.
East Boulder County United's spokesman Cliff Willmeng said what's at issue in the dispute is "who determines whether oil and gas activity takes places in Lafayette." He said that decision rightfully belongs to the city's residents.
The hearing began with questions about how long Hydeman had been living in Lafayette and whether he was a registered voter in the city at the time he filed his protest. He told Koster that he has lived in the city since December and registered to vote as a Lafayette resident Aug. 7.
He filed his protest Aug. 8, which the Colorado Oil & Gas Association announced in a news release.
Willmeng said the fact that Hydeman only registered as a Lafayette voter the day before he filed his protest led him to wonder how independent the anti-petition effort really is.
"It tells me he was informed to (register to vote) and that he had neglected to do so up to that point," Willmeng said.
Hydeman said he filed the protest "of his own accord" after hearing about the fracking ban movement in Lafayette from a friend in the industry. He said he neither received money from the Colorado Oil & Gas Association for doing so nor did the job he landed at Halliburton come as a result of his actions.
Doug Flanders, director of policy and external affairs for the Colorado Oil & Gas Association, confirmed that his organization did not compensate Hydeman for filing the protest but acknowledged that it is helping pay for the two Holland & Hart attorneys who attended Thursday's hearing.
Lafayette's fracking ban ballot issue is one of several that will face voters this fall up and down the Front Range, as oil and gas drilling opponents ramp up their efforts to convince Coloradans that fracking -- in which water, sand and chemicals are injected at high pressure into the ground to loosen deep deposits of oil and gas -- threatens water and air quality and endangers human health. The industry counters that the practice is safe and has been in use for decades with no ill effects.
Voters in Broomfield and Fort Collins will be deciding whether to impose a five-year moratorium on fracking in their respective cities, while voters in Loveland are expected to make the same decision about a two-year moratorium there. However, a Loveland resident filed a protest last week against the group pushing the fracking moratorium and the City Council postponed a decision this week on referring the measure to the ballot until after a hearing on the issue is held.
Boulder residents will vote on a five-year moratorium on fracking in the city and on Boulder-owned open space.
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Advice: My sister demands I chose her or her ex-husband
Dear Carolyn:
This past June, my son graduated from high school. My sister and brother-in-law have been very involved in my son's life, coming to all of his games and activities.
About a year a half ago, they separated. They remained very friendly and she continued to bring him to major holidays and school activities. Most of my husband's family did not even realize they were separated.
Two weeks before the graduation, my sister introduced us to a "new" friend and said she was bringing him to the graduation. I said that would be no problem, and that we would still be inviting her husband. My sister threw a fit. She said I was "meddling" in her life. She went on and on texting me how horrible and insensitive I was for inviting her husband. She demanded I choose her or her husband. I explained to her that he watched our son grow up and that my son wanted to share the graduation with both of them.
Her husband sent a very sweet graduation card, explaining that he had decided it was best not to attend the graduation.
The day of the graduation, my sister did not even show up. She texted me later with an apology saying she forgot.
I can't help but feel differently toward her now. I don't think including her husband should have created such an issue, since she continued to include him herself. The "new" friend is no longer even in the picture.
Since she told me to stay out of her life, that is what I have been doing. I still feel saddened and angered that she chose to turn this into an issue about her rather than celebrate the accomplishments of her nephew.
-- Disappointed
From my 16 years of advice experience, I can say with confidence there's no question in your question.
Maybe that means you've made up your mind about your sister and are looking only for validation.
I hope not, though. Your bond with your sister is lifelong, and your affection for her apparently lifelong minus one month.
Meanwhile, her poor behavior -- awful, really, there's no excuse for it -- coincides with what may be the most emotionally fraught period of her life. Ending a marriage, even amicably, is acutely painful. Dating again after a long marriage is often scary and confusing, as people become novices anew at something they thought they'd mastered. Introducing a new love while on delicate footing with a former love isn't for sissies. (It's not bomb disposal, but still.)
This isn't to excuse your sister's middle-school-quality meltdown, but to isolate it. In an otherwise functional lifetime friendship marked by her rallying for everything your kid ever did, surely she's accrued enough credit for you to see this as an exception vs. an end? If not today, then after you've both had a chance to step back and breathe your way to some kind of perspective?
No doubt your son is puzzled and hurt. As a loved kid on the cusp of adulthood, though, he'll manage. It's your sister who appears unable to manage her current emotional state. Please consider, when you're ready, approaching her not with a "What were you thinking!" but instead: "That wasn't like you. Are you OK?"


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It is tempting to chuckle at the image of Coviello in his skirt. And truth be told, there was a bit of tittering on our part. It is also tough to get riled up and indignant about students being denied the right to wear shorts to school once the temperature drops. Wouldn't they get cold anyway?Givhan should come to Wisconsin. It's January yet it is 50°. I guarantee you the campus area is full of young guys in shorts. The desire to wear shorts is really out of control. I would ban the damnably inadequate pants year round, myself. These are manly boys, though, and cold isn't going to stop them.
But should we laugh at a boy in a skirt? It's a kilt:
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Note about me: I used to get in trouble, back when I was in junior high school, for wearing mini skirts. I can remember the teachers expressing concerns about my getting cold and predicting the fad of the moment would have to be abandoned when the cold weather set in. That only hardened my fashion choice into a matter of principle. And I am still pissed off at the teachers who sent me to the vice principal's office and at my Chemistry teacher who tried to block me from getting onto the Honor Society for having a character flaw.
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Kicks off the Season Ticket, Sean Topic.
Larry Lucchino (LL) on Sports Radio 850AM WEEI with John Dennis (JD) and
Gerry Callahan (GC):
JD: Sox unveiled new plans, Monster seats, 87 new seats behind home,
extended scoreboard, pitchers charts, etc. Larry Lucchino joins us, what
did the Gallop polls say overnight about the changes?
LL: Didn't see a Gallop poll, but did see fairly positive reviews in the
newspaper today (of new seat plans). I was planning on talking to you.
Baseball season kicks off after the Superbowl. Press briefing was
coincidental but generated an enormous amount of interest. People care.
JD: Revenue streams and more dollars to compete. Of all the new things, a
bunch of ideas must be too outrageous, e.g. Naked Fan of the Night where
you said no, no, not going there?
LL: Well, let's see, first a much larger section of seats behind the Wall
was suggested at one point, wanted relatively modest. Scoreboard in
Centerfield, too much.
JD: Naming rights of Monster itself been explored. No, not yet.
GC: Signage?
LL: Yes signage has been considered, plenty of pictures from the old days.
History is complete with signs of different local companies. Some signage
this year with National League scoreboard added back for first time in 27
years. When I said, we're not embarrassed to be pursuing additional
revenue streams, that is part of our job. You need revenue not just for
major league payroll but you need it for a lot of other things. We have a
much bigger budget for the signing of draft picks this year, larger by
several million dollars. You get revenue for scouting and player
development as well by the revenue you can generate at the ballpark.
JD: Speaking of ideas floated, what has there been discussion of variable
ticket pricing, e.g. pay more for Yankee game, less for Tampa game?
LL: There has been discussion of that. Number of clubs trying that this
year. Thought about it, fact of life in many ballparks. Something
illogical of Tampa Bay game on Tuesday versus a Yankee game on Saturday
JD: Yankees would have to go up, while Tampa Bay night go down a little
LL: If a change took place that would be likely one. We are aware that our
prices are high, we don't have as many cheap seats. We have some, lowered
price in bleacher section to $10 this year. Adding surcharge didn't seem
appropriate thing to do.
JD: Studies done on optimum number of seats. If you build 45-48,000 might
not sell out.
LL: Have to study your market. Market here would support a lot more than
33 and change. 45-48 is another question.
GC: When you first got into this Larry, when you first joined forces with
Werner and Henry, you thought a new ballpark was going to be part of the
deal didn't you?
LL: No, I didn't, and that's called a leading question Mr. Callahan. We
did not think a new ballpark, there was talk of a new ballpark. Ask
O'Donnell group, they were inclined toward a new ballpark, and we were
inclined toward renovation.
GC: Must admit, you thought people just loved Fenway, wouldn't let it go.
In fact, you've learned since you've gotten here though that there's not
quite that much affection for the old ballyard?
LL: Boy does he lead the witness, it's unbelievable...the fact is I have
not... the first part had a semblence of truth to it. That Fenway was held
in high esteem universally, but is in a majority. I ask question in places
I go. More than slight edge for renovation of Fenway. Yesterday gave a
talk and it was 50/50.
GC: But how many of them go to games. People who don't go to games always
want renovation. People who go to games regularily and stuff themselves
LL: Aha, Callahan, the rare valid point, I do agree with you there. The
fact that people who go to the games most often, particularly the media,
they do have a different perspective on it. They know how great new
ballparks can be and they are not among the most fervid supporters of
GC: How can we get seats on the Wall, do you have to be a close personal
friend of George Mitchell to even get a sniff of one of those seats?
LL: Selling those on a group basis. You can call in now. Group of 20 or
more get deduction. About 75 on an individual tickets per game available
in spring.
JD: Will there be another net behind the seats?
LL: Plans now do not, some of us are suggesting we put some kind of
JD: Can you make sure someone is in charge of telling Manny these seats
are up there so he won't be frightened on the first inning of opening day?
LL: Yeah, we'll take a picture and show it to him in spring training.
GC: He's still trying to figure out the voices come out of the Wall,
"there's people in there?"
LL: By the way the National scoreboard is coming out, many people desired
that information, and the Fleet boards in left center field. Pitching
data, and hitting data.
GC: Sean McDonough is widely regarded as one of the best play-by-play guys
around, certainly has a great reputation in this town, and part of that is
based on his candor and his strong opinions. Is he a little bit too candid
and opinionated for you?
LL: Uhh... pffftt... well that's a tender topic these days because Sean
has been fairly critical in the last few weeks, but this is obviously a
difficult time in his life, so I'd rather reserve on any comments except
to acknowledge that he has been highly critical of the club in ways that I
think are inaccurate. I mean to suggest that somehow the ownership of this
club cannot afford this club is just wrong. It's just flat-out wrong. And
some of the other comments he's made I disagree with, but he does have a
point of view, make no mistake about that.
GC: Philosophically, are you opposed to your play-by-play guy having a
point of view and not being a team guy?
LL: Well that is a difficult topic. I don't think that philosophically one
can take that position. I think the credibility of the play-by-play guy is
important, and he's gotta have positions on what happens on the field, the
performance of players... he's got to be free to make those comments as he
sees them, call 'em as he sees them. But when it comes to other political
issues, that he may not have full information on, I think one's got to be
a little more circumspect.
JD: Did the criticism of the deep pockets or as he describes it a lack
thereof, bother you more, or the fact that he's taking Theo to task about
not trading Fossum and getting Bartolo?
LL: No, the second area is fair game for most journalists, and Sean is
sometimes a journalist and sometimes a play-by-play employee for the club,
he has an ambiguous role, but I would say, the things that he knows least
about, the ownership financial situation, the politics of the acquisition
of the team and whether another group was better financed, most of those
things are just wrong.
GC: So you're still in Boston, you haven't taken the job in Washington
yet? LL: Now there's an example... GC: Or are you in La Jolla?
LL: I live in Boston. I love living in Boston. I've got two kids going to
school in Boston. The notion that I'm running this by remote control from
La Jolla is just preposterous and going to Washington. When that rumor
surfaced. We sent out a quick response saying I hadn't spoken to anyone in
Washington, no one's trying to get me to go, I'd rather be in Boston. So
there's no story there. The denial issued prior to the publication never
got included.
JD: Larry, pitchers and catchers report couple of weeks, what keeps you up
at night?
LL: I would say, one is health problem. This team is better than the team
that went to spring training last year, the coaching staff is better, the
manager is obviously more certain. I think we've got a better revamped
bullpen. I think we've got a deeper, more reliable bench. So there are a
lot of good things that I see. But I certainly go to sleep with visions of
Kevin Millar dancing through my head. I certainly worry about the
contractual situation long term with Pedro and Nomar, but those are a
couple of the issues that are on our mind. We hope to keep Pedro and Nomar
in Boston and keep them happy and productive for as long as we can.
JD: How about a mid-term grade for Theo Epstein, last six weeks.
LL: Obviously I have a bias. I was part of the selection. He's shown a
definite philosophy, a point of view with respect to OBP and the power
players that he's acquired. Suffused the organization with an overall
philosophy. The minor league coaches and instructors that have come in and
the effort to put everybody on the same song sheet. He's been honest and
available to the press. And he's stuck to his guns in negotiations. I give
him very high grades, and I think the public does as well.
GC: Are you comfortable with the Bill James philosophy? Have you always
been a numbers, a rotisserie, a stats guy? Or did you have to learn that
and wade into those waters?
LL: I think the latter is true Gerry. I had to come to it slowly over
time. I became president of the Orioles in '88. One of the first things I
did was hire one of those statistical geeks, we got him an office. I was
open to the idea that there were different ways to look at baseball. More
susceptible to it. I have great respect for the traditional point of view
but I believe there are different ways to analyze it. Over the course of
many years, conversations with Sandy Alderson and others who shared a
curiosity about the effectiveness of the statistical approach to the game,
I became more and more of an advocate. Every year I've been president,
I've had someone in the organization who's a sabermatrician. It's really
John Henry's idea in the off season to hire Bill James himself. I came to
it slowly over time.
JD: As the fruits of James labor may relate to the Red Sox this year, the
closer by committee thing. If it works, doesn't mean it's correct. If it
fails, doesn't mean it's wrong.
LL: I would agree with that. You have to have a sufficient N, a sufficient
number of events to reach a conclusion in one season with a certain cast
of characters doesn't mean that the approach will work or won't work. One
season not enough to reach lasting conclusion.
GC: Steve Buckley on Tony C. retired number...
LL: It's not that easy Callahan. We did meet on Monday for a long and
spirited debate. We learned a lot. One of the positive things is we took a
look at the policy where there was some rigidity there and we may not feel
that we need to be guided by. We're spending a lot of time talking about.
Meeting with some baseball people, some politicians spoke about it. How do
you guys feel?
GC: I say you do it right after you retire Johnny Pesky's number.
LL: There's the issue. Once you do one, there's two or three others whose
names come to mind very quickly.
JD: Not high on my radar screen to be honest, don't lose sleep over it.
Just want Buckley off our backs. Larry could you give the cliffnotes
version of the ripple effect of the season ticket holder's being able to
purchase additional seats?
LL: I think the issue was blown out of proportion by the media. Last year
there were 700,000 tickets put out for sale on individual game basis. This
year 800,000 tickets, new seats, manage process better, tickets put out
earlier... Season ticket holders, in an experiment to give them some
benefits of being season ticket holders, may take 50 or 60,000 of those
tickets so as a net-net matter they'll be more tickets available. But this
is an experiment, we'll see if it induces some people to become season
ticket holders. And if it causes terrible problems, we'll change it in
future years.
JD: Jan from Wellesley email - Michael Weiner lawyer for Player's
Association filed a request for management documents about negotiations
with Free Agents during this off season, supposedly this move could be a
prelude to a possible collusion grievance. So what comes next Larry, and
do you think MLB's independent arbitrators will find that team owners have
violated the anti-collusion provision? (GC: Oh God)
LL: Oh God is my reaction too, you and I are on the same page... GC:
Collusion's a good thing, we want you to collude, just do it secretly this
time... haven't you learned anything? JD: Black operations...
LL: It's certainly not collusion that's resulted in a change in the
marketplace, we've got a whole host of issues and factors -- a new CBA,
considerable downturn in the economy, clubs losing money acting like it.
Tempest in a teapot, nothing to this but they have the right to kick the
tires and explore the issue.
GC: I don't think Jeff Loria got the message on the Pudge Rodriguez
LL: Yeah I was shocked by that one too, said "it was one year!"... heading
down the 14th, 15th, 16th weekend (spring training).
GC: That's a long trip from La Jolla.
LL: I live in Boston!
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