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Class L: New Canaan falls to Windsor
STRATFORD -- There was the pass that bounced off the back of a receiver's head, the muffed punt, the balls that always seemed to land just beyond a player's reach.
And then, finally, there was the fateful final onside kick that seemed to roll forever before ending up in an opponent's hands.
A combination of poor execution and bad bounces doomed the New Canaan football team's chance to play in a seventh straight state championship game Sunday afternoon.
Second-seeded Windsor, which was stunned by New Canaan on a last-second field goal in last year's CIAC Class L semifinals, this time survived a rally in the final minute to come away with a 27-21 victory over the No. 6 Rams at Bulldog Field to reach next weekend's championship game.
"They're just a gutsy group of kids," New Canaan coach Lou Marinelli said of his players who, despite being outperformed much of the day, still managed to position themselves for the win. "They never gave up. We didn't play well. We lost to a better team. They're a team that deserves to go play in a state championship. We did not play well enough."
Still, memories of a year ago crept just a heartbeat away. Devonte Dillon's second touchdown of the second half gave Windsor a seemingly safe 27-7 lead with 7:38 remaining.
Windsor came in second in the state defensively, giving up just eight points a game, and had shut out New Canaan (9-3) until Cole Turpin got open behind the defense and scored on a 45-yard pass from Teddy Bossidy late in the third quarter.
Helped by a personal foul penalty on Dillon's second score and then consecutive facemask penalties by Windsor, the Rams came back four plays later, with Louis Hagopian's 1-yard run narrowing the deficit to 27-14 with 5:49 left.
The Warriors (11-0), whose second-half adjustment spurred a strong ground game, were on the verge of running out the clock, needing just one more first down to end the game.
But quarterback Robert Fleeting's third-down fumble was returned 79 yards by Michael DiCosmo with 47 seconds left.
Suddenly, gloom morphed into hope. The mental DVRs were rewound by a year.
"We all said that," Hagopian said. "All year we've been aiming to prove people wrong."
Neal Koller delivered a perfect onside kick that eluded Windsor's first wave of players. A long chase ensued, and suddenly the ball ended up, perhaps fittingly, in the hands of Dillon, who ran out of bounds. Two kneel-downs later and hope turned back into gloom.
"Had we gotten that onside kick, which I thought we were going to get...it just wasn't meant to be," Marinelli said. "For our kids to keep playing, keep playing, keep playing, we called the timeout and said, `You can do it, you can do it,' and the next thing you know he's in the end zone and I'm saying we have a chance."
Windsor coach Robert Fleeting, whose son is the quarterback, said he remained calm even while most everyone else was thinking back to last December, when New Canaan outscored his team in the second half 20-0 and won on a field goal with 4.2 seconds left.
"It just goes to show the game's never over," Fleeting said. "The difference from last year is we didn't panic. The kids have grown up."
Had it not been for four turnovers, including an interception in front of the end zone by New Canaan's Grady Lynch on the opening possession of the game, Windsor might have rolled with ease.
"We've been living by opportunities all year and it came back to get us," Hagopian said.
Windsor held New Canaan without a first down and to minus-1 yard in the opening quarter.
The Rams also turned the ball over four times. A muffed punt gave Windsor the ball at the New Canaan 19 and led to Fleeting Jr.'s 1-yard run late in the first quarter. The next time the Warriors had the ball, Fleeting Jr. hit Ryheime Moore in stride on a 45-yard play for a 14-0 lead.
Dillon's interception led to his 7-yard run on the next play that made the score 20-0 midway through the third quarter.
The Warriors, who have an explosive passing attack, rushed for 198 yards in the second half. They had a 35-4 run to pass ratio in that time and ran the ball on their final 26 plays.
"We run the same offense and they are very familiar with us and we are very familiar with what they do," Fleeting said. "We went to our short-yardage offense and it caused a few problems for them. It is something they were unfamiliar with and I think that was the difference."
Marinelli was expecting Hand to be his next opponent. It will be -- only in next season's opening game, rather than next weekend's Class L final.
"I'm proud of the effort we gave," Marinelli said. "We just came up a little bit short, but hopefully we can regroup and get ready for next year."
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W--Robert Fleeting, 1 run (Christopher Traore kick)
W--Ryheime Moore, 45 pass from Fleeting (Traore kick)
W--Devonte Dillon, 7 run (kick failed)
NC--Cole Turpin, 45 pass from Teddy Bossidy (Neal Koller kick)
W--Dillon, 8 run (Traore kick)
NC--Louis Hagopian, 1 run (Koller kick)
NC--Michael DiCosmo, 79 fumble return (Koller kick)
Records: New Canaan 9-3; Windsor 11-0


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Clearly, I haven't been to any transcendent sporting events live in the last 10 years, and thankfully, that's not true of some of our lurking commenters. Join the party!
I know this is just a bit outside the last decade, but it is very appropriate for me today. It was September 13th, 1998. The Cubs had a playoff bound team, but the big story that summer was the Maguire/Sosa home run chase.
My brother and I had been to the game the day before and saw Sosa hit 60. It was a really fun day. So much fun in fact, that we decided to go again the next day. But this time we called our Mother to see if she wanted to join us. Despite the fact that we didn't have tickets she agreed to drive down to Wrigley with us and worst case sit in a bar and watch the game from there.
My Mom was the one who really made us rabid sports fans. When we were growing up, we would walk in the house from school and she would be watching the Cubs. She had pictures of Cubs' players on the fridge instead of our school work. A true die hard fan.
So she got in the car with us and we went to Murphy's and got 3 bleacher seats from my guy who always had tickets. We went in and watched the Cubs and Brewers play. It was a glorious day. Sosa hit 61 and 62. The place was rocking. My Mom was screaming and said it was the best day of her life. She was so thrilled to be there with us.
My Mother died on Wednesday night from cancer. I will miss her terribly. I will always think of her when I watch the Cubs or the Bears. And maybe now she can pull some damn strings and get the Cubs a world series.
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The Saints first-ever playoff win over the Rams in the 2000 playoffs. Remember: The Rams, defending Super Bowl champs, had drubbed the Saints in the regular-season finale a week before.
New Year's Eve Eve. Prior to the game, a voodoo ceremony was held to exorcise the Saints' past playoff demons. Through three quarters, the Saints had the Rams in check, and were up 31-7 at one point. Aaron Brooks was playing well. (No, really). Madness.
In the 4th quarter, the Rams got going, scoring 2 quick TD's and, with 2 minutes to go, forcing the Saints to punt. The Superdome was utterly silent. The only audible sound was the collective, "Oh fuck, I can't believe they're going to blow this" mutters of tens of thousands of beleaguered Saints fans.
Az Hakim muffs the punt, Brian Milne recovered for the Saints, and it was sheer pandemonium.
That night, my buddy and I went out to Bourbon Street—we were juniors in high school and had never gotten drunk before. Did we puke all over the lobby of a very nice hotel where a debutante ball was being held? Yes, yes we did.
Disco Choo:
Not so much a great game as an experience, but the '99 Western Open, Dubsdread: I was there to caddy in the Pro-Am but skipped the work part and got to walk around, get tons of free crap, and go anywhere with the caddy pass I had. Me and a buddy pretty much followed Tiger most of the time. We're behind the green on 18, and Tiger pops a wedge a bit left, long, and right at us. I try to get out of the way, but too many people were behind me, so the ball hits me in the shin and kicks toward the green instead of deeper into the crowd for what instead would have been a tough lie behind a tree. Cameras all over me, and Tiger walks up and asks if I'm okay, and of course I was. He shook my hand and thanked me for "helping" him out. It was surreal. After he chips two feet away from the cup and puts out, he's walking into the clubhouse and I ask for his autograph. He tells me he's "in a hurry, sorry" and blows me off. Douche.
/reflecting on my decade in sports, I realize I didn't see a single "great" game in person, which is thoroughly depressing. Though, being a Cubs, Blackhawks, Fighting Irish, and Bears fan, whatamIgonnado? Merry Xmas, queers.
I meant '00. Fuck me, I'm Christmas drunk. Why no edit button?
2006, UCLA vs. USC at the Rose Bowl. USC was on track to head to the national title game. All they had to do was beat a very mediocre UCLA team who was starting a backup QB. As per tradition, the middle sections of the Rose Bowl were filled with blue, while the end zones were red. My buddy and I were in the very fringe of the blue section, where we were forced to listen to USC's band play that stupid fight song approximately 9,473 times. They were even playing it when USC players got hurt.
The game was stunningly close, with UCLA barely hanging on late in the fourth quarter and USC driving. SC got all the way down to the Bruins' 15 when UCLA's Eric McNeil made the play of his life, not only tipping a pass at the line of scrimmage, but turning around, diving and catching it for the clinching pick. As the blue sections of the stadium went crazy, my friend, who hadn't trash talked the whole game, turned to the deathly silent red section and screamed "WHY DON'T YOU PLAY THE FUCKING FIGHT SONG NOW?" The perfect end to a perfect upset.


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Bethesda, Maryland, USA - On April 30, dozens of researchers and staff from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) will head back to high schools in rural and urban communities across the country to share with students some of the exciting research taking place at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
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To help teachers and students make the most of National DNA Day, NHGRI also has developed free, educational tools on genetics and genomics, which are available at www.genome.gov/DNAday.
NHGRI is one of the 27 institutes and centers at the National Institutes of Health, an agency of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). Additional information about NHGRI can be found at its Web site, www.genome.gov.
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Joe, 8 Jan 2007 @ 10:48am
I just hit on this the other day...reading a news story about trump and the former Miss Nevada, i Googled 'Miss Nevada' and was surprised to see the badware warning for the pageant site.
Ryan, 8 Jan 2007 @ 11:03am
grrit doesn't offer a link to continue even if you want to. that's annoying.
Anonymous Coward, 8 Jan 2007 @ 2:57pm
Re: grrHi Ryan,
I know it's not the best solution but if you use Firefox you might want to give this extension a try: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/190/
It will create a clickable link from just about any text link and is really quite useful.
The infamous Joe, 8 Jan 2007 @ 11:09am
Malware bluesI've run into this on my internet travels, and I seem to recall a way to continue. (because I did, I'm such a rebel) :)
I have to agree that is seems too easy to get a site on the list, but no matter where you draw the line, there will be blurry areas.. the question is, would you rather a safe site be blocked, or an unsafe one be allowed?
So, how long until business start reporting their competition? :)
Anonymous Coward, 8 Jan 2007 @ 9:14pm
Re: Malware bluesIn my opinion it is much better, in the broad scope of things, to allow the possibility of bad sites over the possibility of screwing legitimate ones.
The internet is all about freedom of information and if we start censorship of any kind it should only harm those sites that fall into the obvious range. It is in nobody's interest if we start sniping because in the long run we will all lose out on the freedom the internet has allowed.
Seems like a no brainer to me. Your question should be rephrased from, "would you rather a safe site be blocked, or an unsafe one be allowed?" to "is it a good idea to block those sites which are known harmful sites, even if the risk of a few being overlooked exists?" Pretty simple really, some harmful sites blocked is better than none and all harmful sites blocked with guaranteed casualties isn't good.
That being said, in my humble opinion, I think censorship of the internet in any way goes against everything it stands for and everything freedom of speech stands for. We take chances and risks every day and this is no exception. The internet is as life, if you don't want to get fucked up the ass then educate yourself or shut up and enjoy it. In the long run, it's just digital information and anyone dumb enough to lose everything (what? no backups?) just might need to learn that lesson once so they stop being an ignorant fool.
Sea Man, 8 Jan 2007 @ 11:15am
I've run into this on my internet travels, and I seem to recall a way to continue.
The only way to continue is to copy and paste the URL into your address bar.
would you rather a safe site be blocked, or an unsafe one be allowed?
I would rather they do their due diligence before marking any site as dangerous.
Matt, 8 Jan 2007 @ 11:16am
Re: grrYa...that is annoying (Not having a continue link)
Either way, I think site owners should submit their sites to be checked and if its OK show a green sign next to the search result, if its bad then show a red sign, and if it hasn't been checked yet show a yellow...Also, maybe some sort of thing where people can rate the site as good or bad.
But Google not (easily) allowing access to the site is kind of ridiculous.
Sanguine Dream, 8 Jan 2007 @ 11:26am
Why with all the speculation?Why is it that these businesses are so wrapped up in trying to lable sites good or bad? For a little bit of good press right? Why not instead of trying to form a way to block sites why not just give a litsting of what is on the site that could be considered dangerous? That would address comment #3's question of businesses turning on its competitors.
Microsoft reports Linux to Google. MS would have to come up with an actual reason why linux.com (or whatever it is) should be blocked.
People are so hyped up about trying to create a magic bullet cure all these days.
Anonymous Coward, 8 Jan 2007 @ 11:27amTime to start reporting all the pain in the a$$ online merchant sites that pop up when looking for information on a product or service, or even historical encyclepedic info on a subject. Why can't google allow us to filter out merchant sites from our searches?
The infamous Joe, 8 Jan 2007 @ 11:45am
Re:Because you don't pay google, the merchants do.
Anonymous Coward, 8 Jan 2007 @ 12:00pm
Re:try this in your google searches
Anonymous Coward, 8 Jan 2007 @ 12:05pmI'm with Google and Stopbadware. This is a situation that definitely requires people to err on the side of caution. If there is ANY CHANCE that visiting a website might damage my computer, I would like to be alerted and I don't care if a random site here or there loses a little bit of traffic occasionally to get it done.
Tracy Allen, 23 Sep 2009 @ 10:45pm
Re: losing a "little bit of traffic"You sain "I don't care if a random site here or there loses a little bit of traffic occasionally to get it done."
You are mistaken.
Sites that are erroneously listed on these types of "lists" lose 65-85% of daily traffic immediately.
It is not a "little bit" or "occassionally". These warnings don't just pop up "every once in a while".
These types of sites, like McAfee's SiteAdvisor (horrid "list" generated by unqualified people who are not tested, certified or screened to "review") should not be allowed to do what they are doing.
They are ruining legitimate businesses by using their software to block sites from getting to customers. THEY are worse than viruses!
And any of YOUR competitors can sign up to be a "reviewer" and give you a big fat red WARNING dot so they'll drive your traffic away just for spite. Who needs to hack? Just go be a reviewer for a virus software company that has millions of users!
Sammy, 8 Jan 2007 @ 12:10pm
Anonymous: Merchant sitesWhen you get tired of the merchant sites that pop up on google you can do as I do, start going elsewhere. There's always a new search engine, or one retooling, that you can use instead. I tried Google, I liked Google, and I finally made it my default and used it exclusively. Google's search results are too full of spam now, and too commercial, and I'm finding them less and less relevent... so I use other engines more each day and soon Google will be irrelevant (to me).
Wolff000, 8 Jan 2007 @ 12:20pm
Not EasyThere is no real way for any bad site filter to work on the whole web. It would be next to impossible to filter all bad sites or even check all the reports of bad sites. The best thing to do is blocking any and every bad site that gets reported but instead of blocking completely just have a precede at caution with an explanation why the site is "bad". It is the only plausible solution. To those that think each and every site should be verified you must not have ever run a successful comapny that made money. it would take lots of people searching through vast amounts of data to filter correctly. This would cost a huge amount of money not just for payroll but, the facility is is in, power consumption, PCs, servers, and the list goes on and on. you could easily spend millins on something like this and still not filter half the bad stuff out there on top of that you have no sourvce of income. Unless you can convince people to pay for your filtering which is a huge task in itself.
Wondering, 8 Jan 2007 @ 12:34pm
I wonderI wonder what would happen if the site Stopbadware.org received multiple reports that it had badware and ended up on the blocked list. :D
Brandon Rusnak, 8 Jan 2007 @ 12:46pm
StopBadware not as good as SiteAdvisorOn my PC I use a tool called SiteAdvisor (http://www.siteadvisor.com) that conveniently tells me if the website I am currently on contains spam, spyware and/or viruses/exploits. Although it is offered by McAfee, it is free and the site reports that it offers are very detailed and mostly accurate. Here's the site report for techdirt.com:
It would be nice if this technology was integrated into the major search engines and/or they had a partnership w/ SiteAdvisor.
Then again there have been a few cases where I have disagreed with SiteAdvisor about a website's rating or status and there is no possible way of blocking every known piece of malware on the net, even with sites like SiteAdvisor and SptoBadware. I applaud Google for trying to stop spyware, however, if they did indeed report the site because it was messing with search ratings and indeed was benign then Google can chalk up one more exception to their "Don't be evil" ideals.
Jim, 8 Jan 2007 @ 12:59pmGoogle knows what's best. Resistance is futile.
misanthropic humanist, 8 Jan 2007 @ 1:06pm
search not censorThis is what happens when you make yourself the neighborhood policeman, you can't please everyone and the moment you screw up then everyone points the finger at you and shouts "injustice!".
The other point I would make is that they are actually exacerbating the real problem(s), stupid users with unsecured machines, poor quality insecure software and malicious site owners. They are throwing themselves into a 3 way tangle that they can't possibly hope to help with, and will get all the stick for it.
"I would rather they do their due diligence before marking any site as dangerous."
Do they have any obligation to diligence? Is labellig a site "may be dangerous" troublesome for them? Sergey Brin may be a child molester. Say it often enough and people will start to beleive it is true. Keep on saying it and even when it's proven he is not a nonce, a great number of people will still believe it. Is that slander, or libel? A fat bloke in the pub told me Sergey Brin may be a child molester - I trust his opinion, he predicted the Arsenal-Liverpool game spot on, so what due diligence have I exercised before repeating that?
The only way to continue is to copy and paste the URL into your address bar."
That's wrong imo. As other posters say they can warn, but they should not block. Although of course, Google are under no obligation to even include a site in the first place.
"When you get tired of the merchant sites that pop up on google you can do as I do, start going elsewhere."
Clusty works very well imho. It is good for broad searches where you want to fan out related concepts from a semantic web from just one keyword - for example "Hoover" ... then pick politics or vacuum cleaners. Also, Ask was once very lame compared to Google, but they seem to have caught up and improved enormously in recent months - the natural language like interpretation of questions is occasionally good.
Google are starting to show signs of over-reaching themselves at the expense of their core values - search.
Scottitude, 8 Jan 2007 @ 1:17pmBrandon beat me to it; SiteAdvisor is an excellent choice for anyone concerned about malicious content.
Nothing's infallible but McAfee seems to have put considerable thought into the mechanics and, most importantly, does not disable the links, just gives you "fair warning" so you can proceed (or not) as you choose.
What's more, anyone willing to register can leave comments relating to the warning level and effectively alter the initial designation.
There's a right way and a wrong way to do everything and in this case, Google and Stopbadware.org have clearly chosen the wrong way.
dinkster9, 8 Jan 2007 @ 1:33pm
law suit ahead?no one has mentioned it (not even in the article) but my god, doesn't this have law suit written all over it. I mean, plain and simple what google did is libel. sure Google is allowed to post anything they want, but falsely posting and basically accusing a site of being bad (when i'll assume it wasn't) and killing their traffic is actually measurable and would be easy to sue for. Google is an internet porthole search engine, you better believe that if they started blocking or hindering ebay they would get a lawsuit.
Anonymous Coward, 8 Jan 2007 @ 1:50pm
Re: law suit ahead?true, guess we need a list of blocked sites & an ambulance chaser :D
This is what's wrong, 8 Jan 2007 @ 1:54pm
Re: law suit ahead?Just let the market take care of it. If Google continues to do this to good websites, people will stop using Google. They understand that and will adjust their technology as needed. Lawsuits are not the answer.
mcho, 8 Jan 2007 @ 2:12pm
It'll get worse......because IE7 will introduce a built-in "badware" notification as pointed out by this WJS article:
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB116649577602354120-5U4Afb0JPeyiOy1H_j3fVTUmfG8_20 071218.html?mod=rss_free
I think, overall, services like this will be beneficial to the home users, but it could be mis-used to financially benefit service sponsors (yet the current systems seem to be fair to businesses of all sizes).
Anonymous Coward, 8 Jan 2007 @ 3:44pmnumber 2 has the right idea
weebit, 8 Jan 2007 @ 11:45pm
badwareFor years many have been looking for a system that works. It is not fool proof, but I do not find it any worse than your anti spam software that labels a legit email as spam when it's not. The service that siteadvisor and stopbadware provides is good, even though it does have flaws. The main concern I have had over the years trying to teach computer, is the fact that many think just because the website is online it is provided by a pro. As you know this is not the case, a child or grandma can slap a page together. So can a person out to do harm to your computer. Many websites are not listed at the BBB, or have the online "ok" or "well known" as the most popular websites have. To judge a website by it's cover is a hard task to do when just about anyone can slap a nice neat website together, and slap a few bad downloads on it, and put enticing words on the page.
Keeping up with the bad sites is hard to do. They are constantly changing domain names, and doing their best to hide their evil content. Or make it look so enticing that even your own family member could fall prey.
I will still advise new computer users to use this type of plugin or search engine, and set rules up to only visit the websites that get a good rating. People have too much money tied into their computers, and software, and they would be ludicrous to guess at the content being safe or not. A few negative reviews will not change my mine on this. I feel the risk is low on missing a good website, but todays Internet the risk is high you will visit a bad website.
The ones falsely accused of bad content can have it reversed, they only have to prove their website is clean of badware, spam, and legit business wise. This is not asking too much of any legit business online. I myself don't feel intimidated by this method, and I don't believe any legit website will be either.
I personally think it may be a added boost for some websites, that people were weary to do business at.
chuck, 18 Jan 2007 @ 8:50pm
Re: badwareThere is a two or three week delay before they process an appeal. Do you realize what that can do to a small business's revenue and reputation?
Google and StopAdware.org are causing grave harm. If a website is clean, Google should remove the warning within 12 hours max.
chuck, 19 Jan 2007 @ 11:34pm
StopBadware Appeals Process is a jokeBecause they're part of Harvard Law School they have breaks and don't give a rat's ass when they get to you appeal.
Every day your website is blocked by Google you can be losing serious business.
Jeff, 9 Jan 2007 @ 3:36am
LMAO!True comedy, regarding the post:
"If there is ANY CHANCE that visiting a website might damage my computer, I would like to be alerted"
ANY CHANCE? OK, here's your alert. Anytime you visit *ANY* site on the Internet, or even if you're not visiting sites but your computer is just connected, there's a chance, no matter how slim, that your computer might be damaged.
Heck, for that matter, even when it's off, and plugged in, even on a power strip, there's a VERY VERY VERY remote chance that a bolt of lightning will hit your building with sufficient force to fry through the walls, with enough amps and volts to fry through and around any surge protection system you use, and cook your computer's CPU to the point where the board is charcoal.
But it's still a chance. So anytime you surf from that computer, expect a series of warnings and random OK boxes telling you that your computer could be damaged at any moment.
Ben, 9 Jan 2007 @ 5:40am
remote chances?Heck, it's not a VERY VERY VERY remote chance... I've seen it happen. The route: through the telephone line and the modem card.
bjc (profile), 9 Jan 2007 @ 7:26amA.Coward: If you have ads for online merchant sites 'popping-up' when you do a google search, then your computer is infected with spyware.
Google NEVER shows pop-up ads. Ever. Many spyware programs target Google searches however.
See http://www.google.co.uk/help/nopopupads.html
weebit, 9 Jan 2007 @ 10:52amI do have one beef though with Google. They don't show popups on their searches, but they do allow malicious websites to advertise. I understand they want to make money. But nothing can convince me they are worried about your security 100% if they are allowing these websites to advertise with them. If your going to preach it, then set a good example too.
Fco Aloy, 11 Jan 2007 @ 12:57am
stopbadware.orgWhen a complaint from anybody can cause the badware message to appear on a Google search, it's an invitation for abuse. I just had my website gone over by SiteAdvisor and was found to be clean. Yet and still, I've been listed on the stopbadware database.
I can just about guarantee this will get way out of hand because there are no controls in place to insure safe websites. Heck, your competitor can put you on the list at whim...they take any complaint and act upon it..how fair is that?
No sir, stopbadware in its present form will not last past a good formal - and legal - complaint. (meaning: somebody will sue for damages and win)
chuck, 19 Jan 2007 @ 11:31pm
Re: stopbadware.orgI've had contact with at least 5 people at Harvard Law School, complaining about this and they agree that harming innocent businesses caught in this Gitmo snare is a serious problem.
Trouble is they can't seem to get Google to change their tactics.
j, 16 Jan 2007 @ 1:06amHoly crap this feature is horribly annoying. I tried to get to a legit site, and it stopped me. It doesn't even give you an option to continue! I had to copy and paste the damn link in to continue.
I don't need search engines telling me what's good or bad.
chuck, 18 Jan 2007 @ 8:56pm
StopBadware and Google = Gitmo of the InternetI'm hoping a class action lawsuit will stop these self-appointed Gods in their tracks. Of course StopBadware.org has been created by Harvard Law School so they are not defenseless wimps, but they are so in the wrong but not providing a speedy appeals process.
They had the nerve to say they were behind because of the holiday break. When you shut down someone's livelihood for weeks, you can't go off partying like Paris Hilton!
chuck, 18 Jan 2007 @ 8:56pm
StopBadware and Google = Gitmo of the InternetI'm hoping a class action lawsuit will stop these self-appointed Gods in their tracks. Of course StopBadware.org has been created by Harvard Law School so they are not defenseless wimps, but they are so in the wrong but not providing a speedy appeals process.
They had the nerve to say they were behind because of the holiday break. When you shut down someone's livelihood for weeks, you can't go off partying like Paris Hilton!
Richard Stokes, 5 Feb 2007 @ 1:36pm
Google blacklists anti-spyware siteGoogle just blacklisted us. We were the original antispyware review site. We have hundreds of pages of content and have helped probably over a million people at this point with their spyware-related computer problems.
Yet today, I see the message that Google claims we are "hosting or distributing badware". Read all the gory details here:
Google bans antispyware site
I think your thoughts about lawsuits are going to come to fruition much quicker than you may have thought. I have already consulted my attorney. I could definitely use the publicity after the damage they've caused me.
neel, 15 Feb 2007 @ 7:20am
Google Idiots !My site with a PR of 5 and no badware is reported as a bad site. Google really sucks.
I have sent an appeal ... 10 days they say .. my site is now at their mercy ..
Anything else I can do ? Please advice
Petre, 28 Feb 2007 @ 3:08am
Re: Google Idiots !We are guilty... we made a Google monopolists. I stopped to use Google and all the Google services. Altavista, AskJeeves, we're waiting for the Chiraaaalce...
Mack, 26 Feb 2007 @ 11:20am
Google's Malware warningI'm trying to get one of my company's websites removed from the malware warning search results list? Does anyone have any tips to expedite or continue the process? The process is cryptic and not defined. Please advise.
Jamie Neylon, 26 Mar 2007 @ 9:08pm
This is CriminalI run a small family owned auto repair shop in Ann Arbor. I reley on my websight a our main source of advertising. A few months back the we noticed a drop off in phone calls. Then a customer pointed out the problem with our websight. Our web sight may have been poorly written with Publisher, but was clean and had no bad links to anything harmful. Our business is suffering as a result, my name that I have spent over 20 years making is getting slandered and tarnished. I am not a believer in lawsuits solving problems, but where is the line to sign up for this one. What if the phone company decided to block you phone because there were too many calls going out on you line, you must be soliciting ??? Can these clowns do this????? oh wait they already are!!
Anyone have any advice for this problem please contact me email@example.com
Thank You
Jamie Neylon
KIller X, 19 Apr 2007 @ 12:01am
Google suxHowever Google search Sux. We have to be programmers to set search keys , what ever they do sux, I use SiteAdvisor for these Internet Noobs to decide what is good what is bad. Siteadvisor is 75% Good .
Rajput Jitendra, 1 May 2007 @ 12:48am
www.etatvasoft.comMy site with a PR of 5 and no badware is reported as a bad site. I have sent an appeal ... But still there is no repaly.. What can i Do??
MoneyFanClub, 3 Aug 2007 @ 12:19am
Re: www.etatvasoft.comI guess there isn't much you can do. This is the reply from Google: Our guidelines are that it's safer to err on the side of caution with malware. Reincluding a site when we are not entirely confident the site is clean could hurt our users. Also, it takes quite a long time to do a malware reinclusion because checking a site for malware tends to be fairly difficult.
Benedict Wick
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mark worsey, 26 Feb 2008 @ 4:06pm
Google are playing God with peoples livesI built a site for my client she was very happy with it, few weeks later she called me up because GOD-oogle had placed a warning on the site and so no one could access the site.
I later found out after hours of investigation on my part that my hosting provider and i'll shame them mdwebhosting.com.au (AKA crap) had their FTP compromised and someone had put some code on the site.(it happened to loads of other sites as well)
anyway. Google banned it straight away; what would have been nice is a message from them stating you have 24 hours to rectify the problem or we will place a warning- now that would have been better but no Google blacklisted it straightaway, now I have to insert codes, get things verified and I am waiting for them to remove the warning its now been over 4 bloody weeks date 27/02/08
A questions is can I sue Google/MD webhosting for loss of income as its not my fault that the MD servers were compromised! Google are now costing my client business as she relies on the net to generate leads for her to sing at venues
on top of this my cleint had a adword campaign which was stopped and i had a email from google stating you have malware so they ahve stopped the campign as mentioned I removed anything i found inserted their code and verified it- they said its fine now and re-released the adword campaign- now here is the point.
I'LL TELL YOU- BECAUSE THEY ARE MAKING MONEY ON THE ADWORD CAMPAIGN- its not rocket science people Google suck big time.
I could scream
mark worsey, 26 Feb 2008 @ 4:07pm
Google are playing God with peoples livesI built a site for my client she was very happy with it, few weeks later she called me up because GOD-oogle had placed a warning on the site and so no one could access the site.
I later found out after hours of investigation on my part that my hosting provider and i'll shame them mdwebhosting.com.au (AKA crap) had their FTP compromised and someone had put some code on the site.(it happened to loads of other sites as well)
anyway. Google banned it straight away; what would have been nice is a message from them stating you have 24 hours to rectify the problem or we will place a warning- now that would have been better but no Google blacklisted it straightaway, now I have to insert codes, get things verified and I am waiting for them to remove the warning its now been over 4 bloody weeks date 27/02/08
A questions is can I sue Google/MD webhosting for loss of income as its not my fault that the MD servers were compromised! Google are now costing my client business as she relies on the net to generate leads for her to sing at venues
on top of this my cleint had a adword campaign which was stopped and i had a email from google stating you have malware so they ahve stopped the campign as mentioned I removed anything i found inserted their code and verified it- they said its fine now and re-released the adword campaign- now here is the point.
I'LL TELL YOU- BECAUSE THEY ARE MAKING MONEY ON THE ADWORD CAMPAIGN- its not rocket science people Google suck big time.
I could scream
Fred, 19 Apr 2008 @ 1:49pmhttp://digg.com/tech_news/When_Google_Tells_People_Your_Website_Is_Danger_and_its_Not
Show Google your anger Digg it!!
kristofer brozio, 19 Apr 2008 @ 2:52pm
My site is on listI just found out my personal blog is on this list, I'm trying to get it fixed... strange I just saw this after I made the blog post two days ago..
Julian, 5 Jul 2008 @ 2:38am
SiteAdvisor defames Tech-Pro.netIt's not just Google but Yahoo! and other search engines that are telling people who have McAfee SiteAdvisor installed that my website hosts malware. This is potentially even more damaging now that Yahoo! is using SiteAdvisor ratings to warn all users of its search engine of potentially bad sites.
The problem is that SiteAdvisor has blacklisted my site based on three downloads (actually the same file, which it downloaded three times) which it claims to contain malware. This is actually a false positive, as I have verified at VirusTotal. See my blog for the full details. Unfortunately unless you are a big company that employs some threatening lawyers it appears impossible to get McAfee to act quickly to remove the defamation.
I am all in favour of cleaning up the net so that ordinary users can surf and download in confidence, but when site ratings are given based on flawed automated tests and small companies are driven out of business by a mistake in a bit of software, something has to be done.
James Pereira, 31 Aug 2008 @ 12:20pm
false positive on my websiteMy blog site has been blocked for weeks and maybe even months, and over a week ago I sent three or four website review requests, emailed the head of PR for stopbadware.org, emailed what board members and partners I could find, and called Google HQ and left a voicemail on some random person's VMB (this was yesterday) asking them to get a hold of whoever is in charge of malware detection or whatever and tell them to get a hold of me. I haven't heard a single thing yet, and there isn't any malware on my site, nor do I link to any, and I screen all comments on my blog entries. The page in particular that Google claims has malware is a blog entry with no comments in which I describe a dream I had that had Stephen Colbert in it. This is really fucked up because nobody's going to click that tiny link in the bottom right-hand part of the page to continue if Google is claiming there's malware on my site, and it gives my site a bad reputation! Is there a class-action lawsuit in the works? I would be into it.
Gerrit Verstoep, 31 Jan 2009 @ 6:54am
Getting Message on all Google searches todayThis is a little strange but today every site displayed on Google Search is being flagged with 'Warning - visiting this web site may harm your computer!'
StupidGoogleSux, 31 Jan 2009 @ 7:40amTry to search for google and see what you get. I guess this is the best time for a better alternative search site to surface. Lets say goodbye to stupid google.
wm pissed off, 5 Mar 2009 @ 9:43amIts time to start a class action lawsuite against badware.org and google They do not remove the badware tags. My site was cleaned up 3 days ago and they r still tagging it.
I had no idea how long the tag was placed there but they sure are not removing it once its been cleaned. Add me to a lawsuite list.
Mike, 16 Dec 2009 @ 11:12amI don't know if I am alone or crazy, but I have seen this warning before and I am certain it outright blocks me access to certain webpages. There is no way to cancel or go past the warning. I mean, I have my own antivirus an anti-malware programs installed, and I have common sense. I don't need ANY service outright denying me access to a webpage, especially one I have been to before and know to be safe...Unbelievable.
StopStopBadware, 20 Jun 2011 @ 5:51am
Stop Badware stops only certain badware...I don't think it's a coincidence that Google and Stopbadware stops anything coming from certain companies that would otherwise compete with them for advertising dollars. Even less surprising is that if you search Google for any negative mentions of StopBadware...well, you don't get any (maybe one or two). Probably because they're blocking out such results automatically. Search the same exact string on Altavista and you get tons of results.
Anonymous Coward, 23 Feb 2012 @ 12:02pm
Petition to Stop Stopbadware.org, et al.
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David R Broughton, 20 Jan 2018 @ 4:29am
I just discovered my website has been called dangerous for yearsI have been wondering why I get no visitors. I compose and publish music. I have personal interests I share on my website. I'm an ex-cult member and perhaps they have the means and motive to be behind it. But whoever it is that is telling whoever it is to have a pop up telling any number of potential visitors not to go to my website because it is dangerous...??? I certainly would like to know why and why any accusation is not investigated and me told about it. I just gave a friend a link to my website for images about activity in a virtual world. Her browser said my site was dangerous and would damage her computer. When she chose to ignore the warning, she was sill prevented from opening the page. What is this? Is Big Brother watching me? What is the deal here? No wonder I have wasted years editing my website to no benefit. Can anyone on your site please tell me if there is anything I can do. This gives new meaning to loss of Internet Freedom. It now effects me personally.
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WSU Swimming Inks Three During Fall Signing Period
Dec. 3, 2002
PULLMAN, Wash. - Andria Giovanni (Bremerton), Laurie Gregg (Los Altos, Calif.), and Katie Van Horne (Healdsburg, Calif.), have signed National Letters of Intent for swimming, Washington State Head Coach Erica Quam announced Tuesday.
'I'm excited about our fall recruiting and the start of our incoming class for the fall of 2003,' Quam said. 'I believe that Laurie, Katie, and Andria will help our team tremendously. Not only are they great student-athletes, but they are great people and will really add a lot to our program. Each one adds a different element to the team and will help us in many areas.'
Giovanni comes to WSU from Central Kitsap High School. As a freshman, Giovanni placed 14th in the 100 free at the State championships, and was selected for first team all-league honors. During her sophomore year at the State championships, she placed eighth in the 50 free, and 14th in the 100 free. Last season, as a junior, Giovanni helped to lead her team to a 6-1 record, and a fifth place finish in 4A division at the State championships. As an individual she placed sixth in the 100 free and seventh in the 50 free, both at the State level. She received All-America consideration for her performance in the 400 free relay.
Giovanni also competes for the Gig Harbor Peninsula Swim Club with coach Ben Olszewski. With the club, Giovanni placed seventh in the Western Zone championship in the 100 free in 2000.
'I'm really excited to become a Cougar,' said Giovanni. 'It means a lot to have worked so long and hard at swimming and then been given the chance to fulfill a dream like this. I can't wait to get started.'
Gregg attends Mountain View High School in Los Altos, Calif. As a freshman, Gregg was selected as a Central Coast Section qualifier and named all-league. During her sophomore year she was selected as a Central Coast Section semi-finalist, all-league and was the recipient of the Iron Woman Award. Last season, Gregg's first place finish in the 100 free and 200 free assisted in leading the Spartans to the League championship. She also was a Central Coast Section semi-finalist in the 200 free, and a finalist in the 100 backstroke. She was named an all-american as a member of the 200 and 400 free relay teams.
Gregg also swims with Stanford Covington Racing Aquatics under coach Scott Shea. With the club, Gregg was selected to the Western Zone All-Star Team in 2002, with a first place finish in the 100 back, a second place finish in the 200 IM, a third place finish in the 400 free and a sixth place finish in the 400 IM. Also with the club, Gregg was selected as a California Sectional Semi-Finalist in the 200 back in 2002.
'After spending a weekend living in the dorms, visiting all the athletic facilities, and cheering for the Cougs at a football game, I knew I had found the perfect school for me,' Gregg said. 'I found more than just an awesome swim team and coaches.'
Van Horne attends for Healdsburg High School. She was selected as team MVP her freshman, sophomore and junior years, as well as team captain this season, as a senior. As a junior, Van Horne set meet records in both the 50 and 100 free. She placed in the finals at North Coast Section in both events. Van Horne currently holds the Healdsburg High record for both the 50 and 100 free.
For the past year, Van Horne has been competing for the Piranha Swim Club. With the Piranha's, she won the 50 free at the Western Zone Championship in August of this year.
Academically, Van Horne is in the top three students of her class , a member of the California Scholarship Federation and also a Governor's Scholar in 2000 and 2001. Van Horne received the trilingual award taking four years in Spanish, French as well as English.
'I love the atmosphere, the college town and the athletic programs at WSU.' Van Horne stated. 'I cannot wait to become a Cougar.'
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Bruxism (patient information)
For the WikiDoc page for this topic, click here
Bruxism On the Web
Editor-in-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S.,M.D. [1] Phone:617-632-7753; Associate Editor-In-Chief: Lakshmi Gopalakrishnan, M.B.B.S.
Bruxism is when you clench (tightly hold your top and bottom teeth together) or grind (slide your teeth back and forth over each other) your teeth.
What are the symptoms of Bruxism?
- Clenching the teeth puts pressure on the muscles, tissues, and other structures around your jaw. The symptoms can cause temporomandibular joint problems (TMJ).
- Grinding can wear down your teeth. Grinding can be noisy enough at night to bother sleeping partners.
- Symptoms include:
- Anxiety, stress, and tension
- Depression
- Earache (due in part because the structures of the temporomandibular joint are very close to the ear canal, and because you can feel pain in a different location than its source; this is called referred pain)
- Eating disorders
- Headache
- Hot, cold, or sweet sensitivity in the teeth
- Insomnia
- Sore or painful jaw
What causes Bruxism?
- People can clench and grind without being aware of it during both the day and night, although sleep-related bruxism is often the bigger problem because it is harder to control.
- The cause of bruxism is not completely agreed upon, but daily stress may be the trigger in many people. Some people probably clench their teeth and never feel symptoms.
- Whether or not bruxism causes pain and other problems may be a complicated mix of factors:
- How much stress you are under
- How long and tightly you clench and grind
- Whether your teeth are misaligned
- Your posture
- Your ability to relax
- Your diet
- Your sleeping habits
- Each person is probably different.
When to seek urgent medical care?
- There is no recognized TMJ specialty in dentistry. See a dentist immediately if you are having trouble eating or opening your mouth. Keep in mind that a wide variety of possible conditions can cause TMJ symptoms, from arthritis to whiplash injuries. Therefore, see your dentist for a full evaluation if self-care measures do not help within several weeks.
- Grinding and clenching does not fall clearly into one medical disciplines. For a massage-based approach, look for a massage therapist trained in trigger point therapy, neuromuscular therapy, or clinical massage.
- Dentists who have more experience in evaluating and treating TMJ disorders will typically take x-rays and prescribe a mouth guard. Surgery is now considered a last resort for TMJ.
- An examination can rule out other disorders that may cause similar jaw pain or ear pain, including:
- Dental disorders
- Ear disorders such as ear infections
- Problems with the temporomandibular joint (TMJ)
- You may have a history of significant stress and tension.
Treatment options
- The goals of treatment are to reduce pain, prevent permanent damage to the teeth, and reduce clenching as much as possible.
- To help relieve pain, there are many self-care steps you can take at home. For example:
- Apply ice or wet heat to sore jaw muscles. Either can have a beneficial effect.
- Avoid eating hard foods like nuts, candies, steak.
- Drink plenty of water every day.
- Get plenty of sleep.
- Learn physical therapy stretching exercises to help restore a normal balance to the action of the muscles and joints on each side of the head.
- Massage the muscles of the neck, shoulders, and face. Search carefully for small, painful nodules called trigger points that can cause pain throughout the head and face.
- Relax your face and jaw muscles throughout the day. The goal is to make facial relaxation a habit.
- Try to reduce your daily stress and learn relaxation techniques.
- To prevent damage to the teeth, mouth guards or appliances (splints) have been used since the 1930s to treat teeth grinding, clenching, and TMJ disorders. A splint may help protect the teeth from the pressure of clenching.
- A splint may also help reduce clenching, but some people find that it makes their clenching worse. In others, the symptoms go away as long as they use the splint, but pain returns when they stop or the splint loses its effectiveness over time.
- There are many different types of splints. Some fit over the top teeth, some on the bottom. They may be designed to keep your jaw in a more relaxed position or provide some other function. If one type doesn't work, another may.
- For example, a splint called the NTI-tss fits over just the front teeth. The idea is to keep all of your back teeth (molars) completely separated, under the theory that most clenching is done on these back teeth. With the NTI, the only contact is between the splint and a bottom front tooth.
- As a next phase after splint therapy, orthodontic adjustment of the bite pattern may help some people. Surgery should be considered a last resort.
- Finally, there have been many approaches to try to help people unlearn their clenching behaviors. These are more successful for daytime clenching, since nighttime clenching cannot be consciously stopped.
- In some people, just relaxing and modifying daytime behavior is enough to reduce nighttime bruxism. Methods to directly modify nighttime clenching have not been well studied. They include biofeedback devices, self-hypnosis, and other alternative therapies.
Where to find medical care for Bruxism?
Directions to Hospitals Treating Bruxism
What to expect (Outlook/Prognosis)?
Bruxism is not a dangerous disorder. However, it can cause permanent damage to the teeth and uncomfortable jaw pain, headaches, or ear pain.
Possible complications
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Insomnia
- Increased dental or TMJ problems
- Nightly grinding can awaken roommates and sleeping partners.
Stress reduction and anxiety management may reduce bruxism in people prone to the condition.


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The Daily Show's Rob Riggle continues his testosteronetastic bid to become gaming's most ridiculous/funny/obnoxious spokesman. This tim, he's walking viewers through Liberation and Piazza, two downloadable maps for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 that were released today.
"Aaaagh! Guns! Bombs!" He shouts.
"Haaaagh! Noobs! Explosions! Kickass!"
It's all kind of confusing, just like the last trailer Riggle did. But in the midst of his carrying on, you can get a look at the two new levels. They sure look like Modern Warfare levels to me.


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TORONTO — The best pitcher in baseball?
Make the case for Clay Buchholz. Make it strong.
Catcher David Ross said, "He's got four-plus pitches that he can throw for strikes. Who has that many?" When Ross recently watched James Shields of the Royals pitch he said to himself, "He's a lot like Clay because you have no idea what he's going to throw you next or where he's going to locate it. He keeps you guessing on every pitch. It's mind-boggling to a hitter."
Yes, Buchholz is blowing everyone's mind. He has quietly taken over the league lead in wins (6-0). He has pitched seven or more innings in six straight starts and gotten into the eighth on three occasions.
There are some good starts around baseball. Lots of good, young pitchers. Tampa Bay's Matt Moore is 5-0 with a 1.13 ERA and 0.88 WHP. The Mets' Matt Harvey is 4-0 with a 1.56 ERA. Madison Bumgarner is 3-0 with a 1.55 ERA for the Giants. Detroit's Anibal Sanchez is off to a great start.
Buchholz, however, is 6-0 with a 1.01 ERA, a 0.96 WHIP, 47 strikeouts in 44⅔ innings.
There's just no stopping him right now. He can trick you with a two-seamer, a changeup, a cutter, or a curveball as he did Wednesday night, and then throw a 95-mile-per-hour four-seam fastball by you. He's got deception. He challenges you. He makes you guess, mostly wrong. He can freeze a hitter.
And then pitching coach Juan Nieves lays this bombshell on us — Buchholz has a sixth pitch – a split-fingered fastball he hasn't used yet. When asked how effective the split-fingered pitch is, Nieved just shook his head and said, "Unbelievable."
Nieves indicated Buchholz will save the splitter for later if he struggles, and even Buchholz acknowledges that he probably will eventually, struggle, as Jon Lester did on Tuesday night.
But the big thing for Buchholz right now is, "I'm just riding the wave. It's fun pitching good. I feel confident when I'm out there and that relationship with your catcher is great and you throw whatever he throws down there."
Ross feels like he's a kid in a candy store. What does he establish first? What part of the plate does he want to control or shut down? Ross caught a very talented staff in Atlanta the past few years, but he hasn't seen anyone quite like Buchholz.
"Really good with his fastball tonight," Ross said. "He had that two-seamer back and it went away to righties. They didn't know what was coming. He's 6-0. He's a really good pitcher. They have a really good lineup. When you have a guy who can do all the things with a baseball that he can do, the more I get to know him the more he can manipulate the ball really well."
Ross added that Buchholz's repertoire is by far the most vast he's seen.
"He can execute four to five pitches on both sides of the plate. There aren't many guys like that in the big leagues and that's why he's doing what he's doing. He's that good. You don't see guys throw right-on-right changeups to the heart of the order and he's doing it on 0-0 counts. He can really pitch," Ross said.
Nieves marvels at Buchholz and what he can do and the feel he has for pitching and the feel he has for getting hitters out. Asked who Buchholz reminded him of, Nieves, who spent many years with the White Sox, said, "Jake Peavy. The Peavy that threw 93-94. There are a lot of similarities. Peavy really knows how to pitch. Clay is very similar."
Buchholz has held opponents to two or fewer runs in all of his starts. His 1.01 ERA is the sixth best by a Red Sox pitcher through his first six starts, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. Does he have the breathtaking stuff of Roger Clemens or Pedro Martinez? No. But Buchholz doesn't need the power because he has the finesse.
He pitched a total frustration sandwich to the Blue Jays. The only shaking going on was Blue Jays hitters walking back to the dugout. He allowed only two hits and walked three. Hardly perfect, but pitchers always sense a major victory when they tame the Toronto sluggers.
Never a strikeout pitcher, suddenly Buchholz has that swing-and-miss capability.
"Being on the same page with the catcher means there's not a lot of shaking off," Buchholz said when asked about the strikeout surge. "If there is, it's to change to the same type of pitch. I didn't have command of anything two or three times around the lineup and then my two-seamer came back and I had some life on the ball."
He attributed his 1.49 ERA at Rogers Centre to, "I love the mound. I don't know if that's a confidence-builder but the mound stays put together really well. Not having to deal with holes or anything like that. It's my favorite mound to pitch off."
Buchholz said he threw his full arsenal Wednesday night. He hadn't seen a good two-seamer in two starts. Ross kept calling it and by mid-game, Buchholz had the feel for it again.
"[Ross] kept throwing it down and I stopped overthrowing it," Buchholz said. "It's a hard pitch to get a feel for because it goes backdoor to righties and front door to lefties. It requires command."
Right now there's no pitcher in baseball commanding the strike zone, commanding the opposition hitters, and generally in command, more than Buchholz.
The best pitcher in baseball right now?
Not a hard argument to make.
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