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Elevating the Teaching Profession
ARRA Outreach (Assessment)
ARRA Outreach (Reporting)
Terrel Bell Awards
STEM Education
Odds and Ends
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Upcoming Events
Elevating the Teaching Profession
At Columbia University's Teachers College on October 22, capping a month of events focused on the teaching profession on October 9, speaking to prospective teachers in the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education, and, on October 20, hosting a virtual town hall meeting with current teachers Secretary Duncan called for America's colleges of education to dramatically change how they prepare the next generation of teachers, so they are ready to prepare their future students for success in college and careers. "By almost any standard, many if not most of the nation's 1,450 schools, colleges, and departments of education are doing a mediocre job of preparing teachers for the realities of the 21st century classroom," he said. "America's university-based teacher preparation programs need revolutionary change, not evolutionary thinking. However, I am optimistic that, despite the obstacles to reform, the seeds of real change have been planted." More than half of the nation's new teachers (220,000 annually) graduate from a school of education. High-quality alternative certification and teacher residency programs have emerged, but those programs produce fewer than 10,000 new teachers annually. Therefore, the task of "recruiting and preparing an army of great new teachers depends heavily on our nation's colleges of education." What needs to change? "I don't think the ingredients of a good teacher preparation are much of a mystery anymore," the Secretary explained. "Our best programs are coherent, up-to-date, research-based, and provide students with subject mastery. They boast a strong and substantial field-based program, in local public schools, that drives much of the course work in classroom management and student learning and prepares students to teach diverse pupils in high-needs settings. And, they have a shared vision of what constitutes good teaching and best practices including a single-minded focus on improving student learning and using data to inform instruction." The Secretary used the remainder of his address to highlight rising efforts to improve teacher education. "I cite all these examples to point out that, with courage and commitment, our teacher preparation programs absolutely can provide dynamic and effective teacher preparation for the 21st century.... In place of the uncertain profession, I want to see teacher preparation programs one day rival those of other professions."
Also: First Lady Michelle Obama recently penned an op-ed on the importance of high-quality teachers for a successful economy.
ARRA Outreach (Assessment)
The Department has announced public meetings in Boston, Atlanta, and Denver to listen and learn from assessment experts and practitioners. The goals of these meetings are two-fold: to gather technical input to inform development of a Race to the Top Assessment Competition and to enable states who will be the grant applicants and the public to participate in and learn from these events. Secretary Duncan has pledged to reserve up to $350 million (of the $4.35 billion Race to the Top Fund) to support consortia of states that are working to create new assessments tied to a common set of standards. The grants would be distributed through a competitive process next year.
Over six days of meetings in the three cities throughout November and December, Department staff will solicit a range of input about effective and innovative approaches to the development of the next generation of assessments. In each city, there will be a full-day focused on general assessment issues and half-days concentrating on specific topics, such as technology, high school assessment, assessment of students with disabilities, and assessment of English language learners.
All the meetings are open to the public. The official notice, along with information on how to RSVP for the meetings, can be found online. The Department also encourages the submission of written input (see instructions on the submission process online), and plans to post transcripts of every meeting session and all written input submitted to the agency.
ARRA Outreach (Reporting)
Final state reports on education jobs created or saved under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) will be published on Recovery.gov later today, but, according to a preliminary report issued on October 19, at least 250,000 education positions across the nation were directly credited to the ARRA. ARRA funding has enabled states to restore nearly all of their projected education shortfalls for both Fiscal Year 2009 and Fiscal Year 2010. Filling these budget gaps has allowed states to avert layoffs of educators in school districts and colleges and universities while helping districts make progress on reforms that will improve teaching and learning in classrooms.
For example, in 2008, the St. Louis Public Schools faced a significant budget deficit due to the economy. Using ARRA funding, the district was able to address critical needs, including saving the jobs of 85 teaching and learning facilitators. A new Department video tells the story of three of those facilitators.
Looking forward, to assist grantees and subgrantees in managing ARRA grants, the Department will hold web conferences on Cost Allocations/Indirect Costs (November 2, 2-3:30 p.m. ET) and Internal Controls (November 16, 2-3:30 p.m. ET).
Terrel Bell Awards
Next week, the Department will honor 2009 Blue Ribbon Schools at a special ceremony in Washington, D.C. (Note: This week, the Secretary visited a Blue Ribbon School in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.) This ceremony will include recognition of eight Blue Ribbon principals as Terrel H. Bell Award recipients:
- Sheila Holas (Oakwood Elementary School, Norfolk, VA);
- Eleanor Matthews (Western High School, Baltimore, MD);
- Raymond Myrtle (Highland Elementary School, Silver Spring, MD);
- Donna Newman (Garner Middle School, San Antonio, TX);
- Kimm O'Connor (Cedar Springs Elementary School, House Springs, MO);
- Lenora Roundy (Enoch Elementary School, Enoch, UT);
- Wayne Ryan (Crosby S. Noyes Education Campus, Washington, D.C.); and
- Wesley Sever (John W. Wash Elementary School, Fresno, CA).
The awards named for a former U.S. Secretary of Education and presented by the Department in partnership with the National Association of Elementary School Principals, the National Association of Secondary School Principals, and the National Middle School Association formally recognize outstanding school leaders and the vital role they play in overcoming challenging circumstances to foster successful teaching and learning at their schools. (Note: Each school's Blue Ribbon application is available online.)
STEM Education
On October 23, Secretary Duncan discussed Department activities and plans concerning science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education in a live webcast from the National Academy of Sciences. "Our Administration is committed to raising standards, upgrading curriculum, and forging partnerships to improve the use and understanding of science and technology in our classrooms," he said. "We are calling on states to enhance teacher preparation and training and to attract qualified math and science teachers to better engage students and reinvigorate those subjects in our schools. We support initiatives to pay more teachers in high-need subjects like math and science and rewarding excellence by paying teachers and principals who do a great job in the classroom." The event was being sponsored by the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), in response to the President's agenda to focus on general science and technology literacy to help the U.S. workforce become more competitive internationally and to grow the number of Americans who are interested in pursuing science and engineering careers. (Note: An archive of the video webcast is available online, while the White House posted an event blog entry.)
Odds and Ends
According to a report by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), within the Institute of Education Sciences, states vary widely in where they set their student proficiency standards for fourth- and eighth-grade reading and mathematics. Specifically, using National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) achievement levels as a reference point for understanding the stringency of state standards, most were in the NAEP basic achievement level range, except in fourth-grade reading, where most fell below NAEP's basic level. Overall, only two states set standards within NAEP's proficient achievement level. "This study confirms what we've known for a long time: states are setting the bar too low," the Secretary said. "We're lying to our children when we tell them they're proficient, but they're not achieving at a level that will prepare them for success once they graduate." (Note: The Secretary's statement is available online.)
"Public School Graduates and Dropouts from the Common Core of Data," another NCES study, presents the number of high school graduates, the Averaged Freshman Graduation Rate (AFGR), and dropout data for grades 9-12 for public schools during the 2006-07 school year. Among the findings: 2,892,351 public school students received a high school diploma in 2006-07, resulting in an AFGR of 73.9%; 16 states had an AFGR above 80%, while 12 states had an AFGR below 70%; and there were nearly 618,000 dropouts from high school among 48 states, resulting in a dropout rate of 4.4%.
In an October 21 letter to Chief State School Officers and State Directors of Special Education, the Secretary urged states to maintain high standards and not compromise the Section 616 determination process under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).
In an October 26 letter to college presidents, the Secretary urged institutions of higher education to become Direct Loan-ready for the 2010-11 school year. While a majority of institutions continued to use the Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) Program delivery process last year, over 500 others responded to the fiscal uncertainty by switching to the Direct Loan Program. These colleges' move to direct lending happened in an effective and efficient manner, without interruption of service to students, and the number of Direct Loans increased by nearly two-thirds compared to the previous year. The President has proposed lawmakers make the loan system more reliable by moving to a 100% Direct Loan delivery system.
The College Board has released its annual studies on trends in college pricing and trends in student aid, as well as the benefits of postsecondary education.
The Big Read, a program of the National Endowment for the Arts, is accepting applications from non-profit organizations to conduct month-long, community-wide reads between September 2010 and June 2011. Roughly 75 organizations will be selected to participate, receiving a grant ranging from $2,500 to $20,000, educational and promotional materials, and access to online training resources. Organizations will select from 31 reading choices. (Note: The deadline for all applications is February 2, 2010.)
Through December 18, elementary and secondary students, teachers, administrators, and parents from across the nation have the opportunity to share their ideas and opinions on how technology should be used in the education process, through Project Tomorrow's latest annual Speak Up survey. Results are shared with participating schools, so that they can use the data for planning and community discussions. Results are also used by government agencies and other organizations to inform programs and policies.
DASH+, a hands-on contest sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy and Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE, challenges teams to design, describe, and pitch the "next generation" of automotive dashboards that support behavioral change to help drivers maximize fuel efficiency and reduce environmental impact. The winning team will make their mark in the industry by inventing a new way to think about transportation and eco-driving, by collaborating with fellow students and putting their STEM skills to the test. The team will have the chance to travel to Detroit for a VIP experience, where they can share their ideas with representatives from the industry and obtain feedback. (Note: Team registration closes February 1, 2010.)
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"From the moment humans first walked on this Earth, we've been endlessly fascinated by the stars. As long as we've been around, we've been trying to unlock the mysteries of the universe and figure out our proper place in the cosmos and somehow make sense of it all.... There are a lot of mysteries left, and there are a lot of problems for you students to solve. I want to be a President who makes sure you have the teachers and the tools you need to solve them. That's why we're working to reinvigorate math and science in your schools and attract new and qualified math and science teachers into your classrooms, some with lifetimes of experience. That's why we've launched a Race to the Top to raise standards and upgrade your curricula and improve teaching and learning in math and science. That's why we're making a college education more affordable, so that by the time many of you graduate in 2020, America will again have the highest proportion of college graduates in the world. And, that's how we'll move American students to the top of the pack in math and science over the next decade, and guarantee that America will lead the world in discovery in this new century."
|President Barack Obama (10/7/09), at Astronomy Night at the White House
Upcoming Events
Don't forget! Assistant Secretary for Planning, Evaluation, and Policy Development Carmel Martin and Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education Thelma Melendez are hosting a series of events at the Department's headquarters (400 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C.) where stakeholders can offer input on the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). (Note: Stakeholders are also invited to send comments to email@example.com.)
National Veterans Awareness Week (November 8-14) reminds schools to invite veterans into their classrooms in the days leading up to and following Veterans Day (November 11). Veterans are asked to share their experiences and teach short lessons about the history and significance of Veterans Day, helping students reflect upon the ideals of liberty, freedom, and democracy. (Note: A school kit, with sections for students and teachers, may be downloaded.)
Next week, the Department will exhibit at the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities' Annual Conference in Orlando (October 31-November 2) and the National Middle School Association's Annual Conference in Indianapolis (November 5-7). If you are attending either of these events, please stop by the Department's booth.
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Add Joe Staley to the list of San Francisco 49ers who've recently had surgery.
The two-time Pro Bowl left ackle underwent minor arthroscopic knee surgery earlier this offseason, and he's expected to be at full speed by training camp.
The Sacramento Bee was the first to report Staley's procedure, which he later confirmed in a tweet.
Procedure I had this offseason was very minor but necessary. I will be 100 percent and better than ever by training camp.â Joe Staley (@jstaley74) May 28, 2013
Staley joins left guard Mike Iupati (shoulder), defensive end Justin Smith (arm), outside linebacker Aldon Smith (shoulder) and wide receiver Michael Crabtree (Achilles) as major contributors to go under the knife since the 49ers' Super Bowl loss.
Recently voted No. 78 on NFL Network's "Top 100 Players of 2013," Staley graded out as Pro Football Focus' No. 1 left tackle in the NFL last season. As the "single most athletic lineman in the league," according to SiriusXM NFL Radio analyst Ross Tucker, Staley is the anchor on the NFL's most dominant run-blocking unit.
No coaching staff schemes more creatively in the run game, and no offensive line confuses its opponents more with combinations. With Crabtree's status in doubt this season, the 49ers have the luxury of leaning even more on Staley and the ground attack.
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On Dec. 7, 1862, Union forces from the Army of the Frontier and Confederates from the newly formed Army of the Trans-Mississippi clashed on the open corn, wheat, and hay fields of Prairie Grove, Arkansas. The opposing forces had previously fought several minor engagements in Missouri and Arkansas. The battle opened with Confederate cavalry routing some Union cavalry a few miles south of the Prairie Grove Church. The southerners lined up along the Prairie Grove ridge, stretching from the Borden House to the Morton House. There they repelled two bloody attacks by Brig. Gen. Francis J. Herron's Federal troops who had just crossed the Illinois River from the north. The Confederates counterattacked after each Union assault, only to be thrown back by the northern cannons on the north side of the Borden cornfield, which devastated the rebel regiments as they came out of the woods into the open farm fields in the valley. About 2:30 p.m., Maj. Gen. James G. Blunt's Federal troops arrived from Cane Hill and attacked the Confederates on the western end of the ridge near the Morton House. This fighting continued until dark with no advantage gained by either side. The South fell back during the night leaving the battlefield to the Union army. As a result, the Confederates lost control of northwest Arkansas never again attempting, with any sizeable army, to seize northwest Arkansas or invade Missouri.
The Battle of Prairie Grove was practically forgotten, even though it was one of the few Union victories in 1862. Larger and bloodier Civil War battles dominated conversations in the North and South. However, the families in Prairie Grove would forever remember the images of December 7th and the days that followed. Not only did they witness the horror of the battle as it raged across their property, but they endured the subsequent harassment and raiding by Union troops and Confederate bushwhackers.


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This report was written by our colleague John Gonzalez of the San Antonio Express-News.
President Barack Obama is planning a July fundraising stop in San Antonio, local supporters have disclosed.
The president will be here for two private events on July 17, according to an email to Obama backers from San Antonio attorney Frank Burney.
The notice said the first event would be a luncheon at an undisclosed downtown hotel. Tickets would start at $250, with an unspecified lower rate for a limited number of students, it said. For $1,000, supporters can be seated along a rope line — and those contributing $5,000 can be photographed with the president, or $7,500 for couples and families, the notice said.
Later, what's described as a mid-afternoon luncheon at an undisclosed private residence will draw a smaller crowd of large contributors. Limited to 75 attendees, the event will give participants a photo opportunity with the president and a chance to pose questions to him, the notice said. The event requires a contribution of $35,800 per couple; no individual rate was specified.
The announcement made no mention of other Texas stops, but campaign volunteers have said the president also is likely to make private fundraising stops in Houston, Dallas and Austin this summer before returning in the fall for public campaign events.
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MONKTON — All hands are on deck to oppose the section of Vermont Gas Systems's proposed $72 million pipeline that would cut through the Monkton area. More than 100 citizens have signed a petition in opposition, the Monkton selectboard followed suit with a letter to the Vermont Public Service Board last Tuesday, and at a Wednesday night meeting the Addison County Regional Planning Commission also signaled its reservations.
"It's not opposition to the pipeline per se," said Monkton selectboard chair John Phillips. "It's opposition to part of (VGS) chosen road."
VGS has proposed extending a natural gas pipeline from Chittenden County to Middlebury, with possible extension in the future to Rutland and the paper mill in Ticonderoga, N.Y. The company estimates that the project, if permitted and built out as planned by 2015, would serve up to 2,100 residential and business customers in Middlebury. It would involve the laying of approximately 42 miles of new 12-inch-diameter pipeline from Vermont Gas's existing mainline off Route 2 in Colchester to Middlebury's Exchange Street. That route goes right through Monkton
The parties involved in this dispute say they support the building of the structure itself — with conditions. Adam Lougee, executive director of the regional planning commission, couldn't be reached for comment. But Monkton resident Jennifer Baker, one of the leading opponents, said those conditions discussed at the regional planning commission meeting included changing the pipeline's proposed route through Monkton.
VGS is expected to file a petition to move forward with constructing the pipeline with the state's utility regulator, the Public Service Board (PSB) this week. Its proposed route for the pipeline runs along Pond Road and Monkton Road. However, an earlier version of VGS's plan had called for the pipeline to run along a utilities corridor owned by Vermont Electric Power Company, known as Velco.
The utilities corridor does cut behind some properties, but would not require that residential streets and front lawns be dug up, said Baker, who lives along the currently proposed corridor.
"If we have to choose between having (the pipeline) 500 feet behind the house or 30 feet in front, we'd go the back way," Baker said.
She added that VGS's last minute change of plan from routing the pipeline along the Velco corridor has upset residents and left some feeling "duped."
"A lot of people don't understand the ramifications," Baker said, noting that some assumed the scale of the pipeline would be similar to the one installed in Hinesburg last summer. "This is different. This is like the I-89 of pipelines coming through here. It's not meant (to run along) residential streets."
On Dec. 11, the Monkton selectboard sent a letter to the PSB stating the town's opposition to the pipeline route and outlining several requests to protect citizens' wells and property. These requests included that the gas pipeline right of way be set back a minimum of 300 feet from habitable structures and registered wells, and that the pipeline be buried 48 inches below the current grade.
The letter also noted that the route down Monkton Road would disrupt work the town was doing with the Vermont Agency of Transportation to construct an amphibian crossing for endangered species of salamanders.
Baker said many in Monkton just want the whole situation solved. If VGS delays its filing and moves its pipeline back onto the Velco route, she believes the entire situation would be defused.
"We want (Vermont Gas) to make the whole thing go away so we don't have to spend the next two years of our lives fighting it," she said. "There's this huge inflating bubble of opposition. They could pop it instantly, and we could all go back to our lives."


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A man who was arrested Thursday after a manhunt that stalled traffic on U.S. 90 has been identified by the Lafourche Sheriff's Office as Joseph Eatmon, 33, of Jasper, Ala.
A man who was arrested Thursday after a manhunt that stalled traffic on U.S. 90 has been identified by the Lafourche Sheriff's Office as Joseph Eatmon, 33, of Jasper, Ala.
Eatmon was involved in a car wreck just before 9 a.m. near the La. 182 exit of U.S. 90, Sheriff's Office spokesman Brennan Matherne said in a news release.
After the crash, another driver stopped to check on those involved. As the driver slowed, Matherne said Eatmon pointed a gun at the driver and demanded his keys, which the driver surrendered.
At that time, a U.S. Department of Homeland Security investigator who was passing by stopped and identified himself as a federal agent, Matherne said. As he attempted to have the gunman surrender, Eatmon jumped onto the back of a semi-truck trailer that was stopped.
The driver of the truck then drove away before realizing Eatmon was aboard, Matherne said. When he noticed the passenger, the truck driver stopped, and Eatmon continued to flee into some nearby woods.
A police K-9 eventually assisted in Eatmon's arrest, Matherne said. Nobody was injured.
Matherne said Eatmon refused to cooperate with investigators and was eventually booked on charges of armed robbery, aggravated assault and resisting an officer. He is being held on a $106,000 bond at the Lafourche Parish jail.
State Police Troop C also cited Eatmon on hit and run, reckless operation and no driver's license.
Eatmon has been arrested multiple times in Alabama, Missouri and Tennessee on charges of stealing, assaulting a law enforcement officer, DUI, resisting, escape and leaving the scene of an accident, deputies said.


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Will we find a cure for cancer? Maybe not in our lifetime. But Meldrick Mpagi's laboratory research on tumor suppressor gene P53 allows us to view that possibility in the future.
Early in his graduate study, he was busy in the Center for Genomics Research at Wright State, testing the effects of gene regulation. If P53 becomes inactivated or mutated, it leads to tumors. And tumors lead to cancer. So how can we stop that from happening? That's the challenge presented to Mpagi and his colleagues.
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Our hope is that Meldrick Mpagi—and his fellow researchers—will make a real difference for the health of the human race. And he is optimistic about making a contribution. "It's always something to work for. If you can find a way to eliminate tumors, you're on your way to eliminating cancer."


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I love potato salad. My mom makes a few great ones and if we are together for my birthday a request of mine might be Sloppy Joe's with her Dilly Potato salad…maybe I will post that recipe closer to my birthday.
A great healthier alternative to a sour cream or mayonnaise based potato salad is this French Potato Salad. My mom has a similar recipe that uses beef consomme that is really good, but I never seem to have beef consomme in my pantry so one day I stumbled upon this recipe. It's just as good – light and fresh tasting with a slight hint of vinegar. If you are looking for a healthier alternative to potato salad – definitely try this!
The parsley you can see in the picture is from my herb garden…its holding on for dear life.
"Crunchily undercooked potatoes are dreadful, and overcooked potato slices will disintegrate."
Can you hear Julia saying that? This recipe was apparently one of her favorites and Nora Ephron made it on Good Morning America around the time that "Julie and Julia" came out. The recipe there is definitely written in the style of Julia.
This is also incredibly easy to make. Once you have the potatoes boiled and peeled it's probably one of the easiest recipes on this blog.
So, if you are looking for a light and quick version of potato salad that will satisfy all of your cravings – give this one a try. Julia does not disappoint.
Julia Child's French Potato Salad
- 1 1/2 to 2 lbs small waxy potatoes peeled and cut in half or sliced (for Keto use 2 bags of frozen cauliflower and cook according to package directions)
- 2 Tbs shallots or scallions finely minced
- Salt
- White pepper freshly ground
- 1/4 cup chicken stock or potato-cooking water
- 1 1/2 Tbs wine vinegar
- 2 to 3 Tbs fresh parsley chopped
- 2 to 3 Tbs olive oil
- Cook potatoes until you can pierce with a fork. Drain and cool.
- Combine scallions, salt, pepper, stock, vinegar, parsley and oil. Toss with the potatoes and then allow to sit for at least 30 minutes before serving.
- Enjoy!


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First, let me say HOLY CRAP, I can't believe it's been six months since I last posted! Don't know how that has happened, but let me assure you that I have continued to read everyone on my blog list. I'm still having some problems commenting, even if I use the anonymous option, but I do read you all.The next HOLY CRAP is that I didn't wish everyone happy holidays and happy new year. So to one and all, a belated Happy Holidays and Happy New Year! I hope 2012 brings many good things to all of us (especially good health and money)!
Anyway, yesterday when I realized that they were no longer going up and down the street, I went out into the yard to see where they had disappeared to. I began hollering their names, and eventually they popped up at a yard at the end of the street and waved at me. I thought they were at a house at the 'dirt road' on the end of the street where I'm a passing acquaintance with a lady from the school, where our street turns to the right toward the cul-de-sac. I hollered at them that they should have told me where they were going, and then let it go. My daughter called a few minutes later to say she was on the way, so I decided to go ahead and call them home...
and they were nowhere to be seen or heard. Nothing. I yelled until I was hoarse, but nothing. I had been sick for several days and was weak as a kitten (I think it's my thyroiditis flaring up), so I was in my pajamas with no make up on and my hair pinned up and all over the place. After yelling for what seemed forever, I ran in the house and put my jeans and shoes on and headed down the street to the dirt road area, which is four houses away (that seemed like a dozen).
If you have read me for any time at all, you know that we have an area behind our subdivision that is wooded, and where we have taken the boys for hiking and exploring. There's a trickle of a stream that floods when it rains, and though it's not a huge spookey area, it is a good distance from the house and wooded and, oh, did I mention that THEY ARE NEVER SUPPOSED TO GO THERE WITHOUT AN ADULT???
So I went to the dirt road at the house where I thought they were, and two men in the driveway said they hadn't noticed which way they'd gone, and their kids were in the house. I stood there at the dirt road that leads to the woods and began a frantic screaming for the boys. Nothing. More frantic screaming, turning round and round so that my voice would carry in all directions. Garrett, Conner! Where the hell are you? Where did you go? Why can't you hear me? Pa-leeeeze, where are you????
Finally, off in the distance in the direction of the woods, I saw a flash of white shirt and heard a far, far away voice. Filled with both relief and anger, my screaming became Are you kidding me? What the hell are you doing over there? Get your butts over here immediately! Run as fast as your feet can carry you! What the hell were you thinking? When they finally got near enough for me to actually hear them and they me, my anger was just overwhelming. My heart was beating so fast I thought I'd drop dead right there, and blood roared in my ears so loud I was almost deaf except for the screaming of my own voice. What the hell were you thinking? You know you're never supposed to go in there by yourselves! On what planet do you take a six year old boy into the woods without an adult? Bla bla bla ...
By now both boys are crying hysterically and Garrett's saying I'm sorry! and asking me why am I screaming, and telling me that he thought I knew where they were. What? Knew where they were? Was I unconscious when he came home and said Mawmaw, Conner and I are going to go by ourselves down the dirt road and into the woods and down to the creek? Of course he knew that that made no sense, but by that point I think we were all three in a state of hysteria, them at being in trouble and listening to me scream at them as we walked/ran home, and me at the idea of how easily this could have had a bad ending. (And let me say here that the lapse of time from when I first called them home until the time they came out of the woods was the longest 15-20 minutes of my life.)
As I neared the house, an older girl, maybe 10 or 11, came up from behind me saying m'am, m'am! She's new to the neighborhood, and though I had seen her walking home from school I really had no idea who she was. She ran up to me as we got to the house and apologized, saying it was her fault. (Apparently she had walked out of the woods more slowly and had waited until my rant subsided before she showed herself!) Said that she's new in the neighborhood and that Garrett had mentioned the creek and she asked if he could show her. Didn't know that they didn't have permission. I thanked her for her apology, said that she had no way of knowing he didn't have permission, that Garrett knew better, and that she should never go there by herself and especially without telling anyone where she was going!
When we finally got into the house, these two little boys still crying and me shaking like a leaf, I said horrid things like Do you realize that every week there's a story on the news about a child being kidnapped and either hurt or murdered? About little kids that ride off on their bikes without saying where they're going and never coming back? About parents who turn their backs for ten seconds and never see their kid again? Do you have any idea how badly you scared me?
Well, by the time Melody got here a few minutes later, Garrett was sitting at the computer and Conner was totally wrapped in a blanket and laying on the couch crying, and I was sitting at the kitchen table trying to slow my heart beat down. Melody was on her phone and didn't realize for a few minutes that something was going on, so when I finally was able to tell her the story she was very disappointed in her boys! She handled it better than me, scolded them calmly but sternly, telling Garrett that she was disappointed that he had made such a bad decision, making her realize that he needed to be better supervised until he could make better ones. That they were both grounded to their yard or mine and could not leave them until further notice.
And I had to apologize to her for letting it happen, for being an unreliable caregiver, both of us knowing, of course, that these things happen under the best of circumstances, that we lucked out this time. And I'm thinking back to when she was a girl, about four or five years old, and disappeared on our street while playing with neighborhood kids, and they had gone to a field at the end of the street - where she was never supposed to go! At that time there seemed to have been a rash of kidnappings and deaths across the country, and particularly one where the child had been dumped in one of those roadside porta potties on a mountain road in Colorado. So I recognized this fear as the same I had felt at that time! And, of course, last night I had the same kind of dreams that I had had then.
One thing that I keep thinking about is - I do not know my neighbors. I know the ones on either side of me and across the street, but all the others are phantom neighbors who pull into their garages when they get home from work and just as silently leave the next day. Who are they and why are they so anonymous? Do they have kids, how many, how old? Are any of them unbalanced? Do they watch any kids that are in their visual range for safety sake, like I do? I feel like I need to go door to door to check everybody out, to know who is interacting with my grandsons, and who I can go to if one of the boys seems to have disappeared!
Well, there's not a parent alive who hasn't gone thru some version of a child disappearing, if even for just a few minutes, and experienced that cold fear that grips you so quickly, so primitively and to the gut. I know I won't soon forget those long fifteen minutes and the fear that gripped me.
And I don't think the boys will soon forget the vision of their Mawmaw looking like a wild woman going down the street, screaching at the top of her lungs, and probably were a bit shocked at all the cuss words she forgot she wasn't supposed to use in front of them!
Of course, it doesn't stop at childhood, does it? They're on a date and 30 minutes late getting home and forget to call. Or off riding around with friends. Oh gosh, the first time they take the car for a drive by themselves! I'll never forget the first time Melody drove all the way to Colorado from Georgia by herself! What about you? Do you have one of these lost or late kid stories?


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OK, with the latest class of inductees being announced on Jan. 9, it's time to start breaking down the Baseball Hall of Fame ballot. Let's begin with the 15 players on this year's overstuffed, 37-player ballot that I think are a fairly easy no … even though there are some very good players among these 15.
Then, we'll run through the eight players who merit a second look -- those who are close, but not quite. And, finally, a last installment covering the 14 best players on the list, and my Hall of Fame ballot: the 10 players I'm voting for.
Let's begin by celebrating 15 players who I predict are making their one and only appearance on the ballot.
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Sandy Alomar Jr.
Length of career: 20 years, 4,865 plate appearances.
Place in game's history: Roughly the 100th best catcher in baseball history … Part of a celebrated baseball family with a father who was a longtime player in the major leagues and a brother in the Hall of Fame … Had a somewhat magical 1997 season when he hit .324, was MVP of the All-Star Game, hit a key home run off Mariano Rivera in the playoffs and hit .367 with 10 RBIs in a World Series his Indians lost in seven games (otherwise, he might have been MVP).
Personal thoughts: In many ways, Sandy Alomar Jr. was the player who helped reestablish hope for me as a baseball fan. I grew up a Cleveland Indians fan, and when the Indians traded Joe Carter to San Diego for Carlos Baerga and Sandy Alomar Jr., I was pretty much all out of hope. The Indians were terrible (of course), and Carter was more or less the only player worth watching -- at least he hit 35 homers and drove in 100 RBIs and seemed to care. The next year, the Indians were bad again, but I had to admit there was something a little bit different about them. I think Sandy Alomar was that difference. He won the Rookie of the Year award and was the first rookie catcher to win a Gold Glove since Carlton Fisk a couple of decades earlier.
I don't know if he deserved either award -- the ROY award seems particularly suspect since he took it away from Kevin Appier, who had a better year and would make a career of getting jobbed out of awards he deserved -- but it wasn't awards that made him matter to me. He just seemed … different from previous Cleveland Indians players. There was something regal about him, something classy; it's a hard thing to explain, but having followed Indians baseball for two decades, I knew it was something rare. Alomar stood 6-foot-5, he had this lightning quick catch-and-throw motion, he would hit better than a typical catcher … but what separated him was that he seemed to me the kind of guy I had grown up seeing on OTHER people's teams.
That's an odd concept, I know. The best example I can give of this "guy I grew up seeing on other people's teams" concept doesn't come from baseball but from basketball … for a few years in the early 1990s, I was convinced that if the Cleveland Cavaliers could just get E-Z Ed Pinckney, they could win a championship. I was obsessed by this for a while. Pinckney was no star. He never played in an All-Star Game, never came close to playing in an All-Star Game. But that guy -- at least when he played Cleveland -- would always grab the huge defensive rebound, make some key 18-foot jumper, save some ball from going out of bounds, always do something right. That was the thing: He would ALWAYS DO SOMETHING RIGHT. The Cavaliers of the early 1990s were a terrific team, but they were a shot blocking team, which meant they constantly jumped out on the shooter and gave up what seemed to me to be a bajillion offensive rebounds and easy second-chance points. I used to dream of them getting Ed Pinckney, who wouldn't try to block every stupid shot, who would actually stay back, grab a defensive rebound, maybe grab an offensive rebound or two, make a play, just keep things together for the Cavaliers.
I know Celtics fans and others will say I'm idealizing Ed Pinckney, who really wasn't that good. Maybe. But that's my point. I have long idealized guys on other teams. Alomar, for once, was a guy on my favorite team I could idealize.
Alomar played in six All-Star Games, which is a pretty amazing number for a guy with a career 11.6 WAR. He had a good offensive season in 1997, but he had a lifetime 86 OPS+. He won a Gold Glove and was generally viewed as a good defender, but he only had four seasons where he played 100 games. Still, for me, he was the catcher for the Indians on two pennant-winning teams in the 1990s, and everyone on and around those teams seemed to look up to him, and I would say he more than lived up to those hopes I pinned on him when the Indians got him in 1990.
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Jeff Cirillo
Length of career: 14 years, 6,136 plate appearances.
Place in game's history: One of 100 best third basemen ever, certainly, maybe one of 50 best … Played every infield position except catcher (but including pitcher). … Once played 99 straight games at third base without making an error … Was Randy Johnson's 4,000th strikeout.
Personal thoughts: Every year, there is at least one player on the ballot who was better than I remember. Jeff Cirillo is that guy for me this year. From ages 26 to 30, Jeff Cirillo was a really good player. He got on base (.391 on-base percentage), played a nice third base, hit you 40-plus doubles a year, scored runs, drove in runs, a really nice player. The last of those years, though, he was in Colorado, which masked the now obvious -- he was beginning to decline. That year, 2000, he hit .326/.392/.477 with 53 doubles, 11 homers, 115 RBIs and 111 runs scored. Decline? Seriously. Look a little closer:
Home: .403/.472/.607
Road: .239/.299/.329
Ugh. A 30-year-old third baseman with a .299 road on-base percentage … it's not good. The next year, he hit .313 with 17 homers, which seemed to suggest he was still a very good player. But again, home/road suggests otherwise:
Home: .362/.404/.571
Road: .266/.327/.383
This, of course, is when the Seattle Mariners swooped in and traded for for Cirillo … just in time for his 32nd birthday and the inevitable free fall. There really wasn't anything surprising about what followed: Cirillo simply hit like he had hit for the previous two seasons away from Coors Field minus a little for age. He hit .234/.295/.308 before the Mariners rather desperately traded him to San Diego for whatever they could get. San Diego released him a few months later.
But this should not erase the fact that Cirillo really was a good player while in his 20s. He had a bit of a second act as a part-time player, and, as mentioned above, he's probably one of the 50 best third baseman in baseball history, which is an awfully good thing to be.
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Royce Clayton
Length of career: 17 years, 8,164 plate appearances.
Place in game's history: One of the 100 or so best shortstops ever … Maybe Top 125 -- it's close … Played for more franchises (11) than any other shortstop in baseball history … Played Miguel Tejada in "Moneyball," which, for some reason, seems to me to be one of the strangest twists in sports movie history.
Personal thoughts: Royce Clayton never had a 100 OPS+ season. Not once. Even the year he hit .288/.346/..445 -- which SEEMS like it would be at least an average offensive season -- he finished below 100 OPS+ because that was 1999, when everyone was hitting like crazy, and he played for Texas, which was a great hitting ballpark.
So Clayton had a career 78 OPS+. There are only three players in baseball history who got 8,000 plate appearances in the big leagues with a career OPS+ of 80 or less. One is Larry Bowa, who won two Gold Gloves and was widely viewed (fairly or not) as a great defensive shortstop and an iconic figure. The other is Don Kessinger, who also won two Gold Gloves and was considered a great defensive player and an iconic figure. Clayton, meanwhile, never won a Gold Glove and was traded four times, released twice, granted free agency six times and signed seven times. He only played 500 games with one team, his first team, the San Francisco Giants, then it was onto St. Louis for three years, Texas for three years, the White Sox for two, Milwaukee for a year, Colorado for a year, Arizona for a year, then Washington for 87 games, Cincinnati for 50, Toronto for 69 and Boston, finally, for eight games in their World Series season of 2007. I don't think he got a playoff share.
Why couldn't he keep a job? He couldn't hit. Why did he keep finding jobs? I think it was probably because he was a good defensive player, even if he didn't win a Gold Glove. His defensive numbers are strong. There's usually a place somewhere in baseball for someone who can field ground balls.
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Jeff Conine
Length of career: 17 years, 7,782 plate appearances
Place in game's history: The best 58th round draft pick in baseball history (there hasn't even BEEN a 58th round draft pick in 15 years) … Was MVP of the 1995 All-Star Game … Split his career between first base and the outfield so it's hard to pick a place for him in baseball history, but he's probably one of the best 150 first baseman ever if you put him there … Played more than 1,000 games for the Florida Marlins, earning the nickname "Mr. Marlin" in some corners of the world.
Personal thoughts: I was always strangely fascinated by the fact that Jeff Conine was a world-class racquetball player. That's how he was always described, too, as "world class." Conine was a good big-league player who hit as high as .319, hit as many as 26 homers, drove in 105 RBIs one year, but it was this world-class racquetball thing that blew my mind. As good a baseball player as he was, it seemed a waste to me that he wasn't able to take his place as one of the world's elite racquetball players.
Since he stopped playing baseball, Conine has apparently begun competing in triathlons and Ironman competitions. He's really an extraordinary athlete.
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Steve Finley
Length of career: 19 years, 10,460 plate appearances
Place in game's history: Like Reggie Sanders, one of just eight players in baseball history to have stolen 300 bases and hit 300 homers … One of the 50 greatest center fielders in baseball history … Had one of the greatest transformations in baseball history from young, slap-hitting speedster to veteran middle of the lineup slugger.
Personal thoughts: How does this guy:
.292/.355/.407, 44 stolen bases, 5 homers, 84 runs scored, 63 Ks, brilliant centerfield defense
Become this guy:
.264/..336/.525, 8 stolen bases, 34 homers, 103 RBIs, 94 Ks and, yes, brilliant centerfield defense.
Steve Finley was a shape-shifter. Of course, you might have a strong opinion about that, like you might have a strong opinion about all players who suddenly started hitting homers. He has been a PED whisper suspect -- Finley, more than many, because he apparently was fairly open about using Creatine. Now, it should be said, Creatine is not a steroid and is still legal for baseball players to use (I didn't know this, I just looked it up -- apparently it is not illegal at the Olympics either). But there are some who say it is often used in concert with steroids.
Anyway, we're not talking about steroids, we're talking about how much Steve Finley changed through the years. I would argue he is utterly unique in this shift. Look at the eight players with 300 stolen bases and 300 homers:
Willie Mays: Two 30-30 seasons, three 25-25 seasons.
Barry Bonds: One 40-40 season, four 30-30 seasons, five more 25-25 seasons.
Bobby Bonds: Five 30-30 seasons, four 25-25 seasons.
Alex Rodriguez: One 40-40 season, one 25-25 season
Andre Dawson: Three 25-25 seasons.
Carlos Beltran: One 30-30 season, three 25-25 seasons.
Reggie Sanders: Two 25-25 seasons.
Steve Finley: Zero 30-30 seasons. Zero 25-25 seasons.
The other seven players blended their power and speed at some point in their careers. Not Finley. The three years Finley stole more than 25 bases, he hit 5, 8 and 10 home runs. The six years he hit 25-plus homers, he never stole more than 22 bases and only once did he steal more than 16. He was one kind of player. Then, suddenly, he was another kind of player.
One way Finley was a pioneer: He was one of the first to shift to the harder (and, perhaps, easier to shatter) maple bats. The bats have created their own kind of controversy.
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Shawn Green
Length of career: 15 years, 7,963 plate appearances
Place in game's history: Probably one of 50 best right fielders ever … Perhaps the third best Jewish baseball player of all time behind Hank Greenberg and Sandy Koufax … Author of a fascinating little book called The Way of Baseball: Stillness at 95 mph… Hit 40-plus homers three times and drove in and scored 100 runs four times.
Personal thoughts: Do you remember the end of The Incredibles? The son, Dash, had super speed, but the family wanted him to live a somewhat normal life. Ah, this is the tough-to-find balance of a superhero's life. So at the end of the movie, the family went to a school track meet and they wanted Dash to go fast enough to gain some joy out of competing but not TOO fast to reveal his super powers. Dash went just fast enough to finish second and everyone left happy.
In many ways, the steroid era has many similarities to the Dash Conundrum. Looking back on that era, you wanted to be good enough to be a star in the big leagues, make your money, help your team, collect the cheers. But, in retrospect, you didn't want to be SO GOOD that people called everything you did into question and Congress called you to special hearings. This was one of the baffling consequences of the steroid era. Good became bad. Success became failure. Greatness was viewed with a cutting skepticism.
Shawn Green hit 42 home runs in 1999 (the second year in a row that Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire passed Roger Maris' famous 61), he hit 49 homers in 2001 (the year Barry Bonds his 73, Sosa hit 64, Luis Gonzalez hit 57 and Alex Rodriguez hit 52), and he hit 42 homers in 2002 (the year A-Rod hit 57). I am not interested in any way in speculating whether Shawn Green did or did not use steroids. He says he didn't. I have absolutely no evidence to doubt him. And I don't want to talk steroids anyway.
All I'm saying here is that his home run totals those three years (which in any other era would be absolutely extraordinary) are looked back upon as either ordinary or suspect. Those seem to be the two options of the steroid era. Ordinary. Or suspect.
It's too bad … Shawn Green was a wonderful player to watch. He was tall and lanky and he had this beautiful swing. He would look so utterly relaxed before the pitch, like he was pondering something deep like water running over stones in a river or why people put the word "Mister" in front of basic words and believe that's a clever business name.*
*I just saw a restaurant called Mr. Taco.
And then, the pitch would come, and he would unwind -- it wasn't a quick, wristy swing like Mike Schmidt, it was more like George Brett's swing, a full and flowing thing. And, though it did seem like a long swing, you still couldn't throw a fastball by him. He would strike out quite a bit -- as many as 142 times in a season -- but it seemed to me that happened when a pitcher managed to upset the delicate timing of his swing with a change up or breaking ball.
Fastballs: He loved them, and he ate them up. I remember watching Green face a Kansas City Royals pitcher named Blake Stein in 1999 -- Stein was a huge pitcher (6-foot-7) from Mississippi with a big fastball that overpowered hitters once or twice a year. Stein once struck out eight consecutive Milwaukee Brewers, making him one of only four American League pitchers to have done so. Most of the time, though, his fastball was arrow straight, chum for fastball sharks like Shawn Green, and indeed they faced each other six times, Green was walked twice, he got hits the other four times, two of them home runs, one of them a long blast on the day I was watching. It was on days like that when it seemed that there wasn't a fastball on this earth fast enough to race by him. Green had four or five years like that.
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Roberto Hernandez
Length of career: 17 years, 1,071 1/3 innings pitched.
Place in game's history: His 326 saves ranks 13th all-time … He probably ranks among the Top 50 relief specialists in baseball history … He's one of only 15 pitchers in baseball history to appear in more than 1,000 games.
Personal thoughts: I will always remember fondly how Roberto Hernandez handled failure. He came over to the Kansas City Royals in the Johnny Damon trade when he was 36 years old and his best days were behind him. Hernandez was a legitimately excellent pitcher when he was 27 and 28 and again in his early 30s. But he was clearly on the downslope when the Royals picked him up with some vague hopes he could stop them from losing games in the ninth inning.
Hernandez, by that point, had seen pretty much everything. He had been a first round pick, but it took six excruciating, painful, misguided seasons in the minors for everyone to figure out that he couldn't be a big league starter. He was 27 when he finally got his first full season in the big leagues, and he was dominant as a late inning reliever … and he would be a late inning reliever for another decade after that. When he arrived with the Royals, he had closed out games, and he had blown them. He had gotten out of absurd jams of his own making, and he had given up the game-winning homer, and he had cruised 1-2-3. Four times, he led the American League in games finished. He knew the ups and downs, the overs and outs, the joys and sorrows of late inning baseball. Because of this, he never seemed too happy after a victory, and never hid after a defeat.
It was after those defeats, I always thought, that Roberto Hernandez was at his best. He would be sitting and waiting by his locker when the reporters came in. He'd have a cup of beer by his stool. And he would be ready to answer every question. No, I didn't have it tonight. Yes, I take the blame for this loss. No, I don't think we will let it carry over. Yes, I feel like I let my teammates down. Then, he would wait until all the questions were answered, take his beer, and prepare his mind for tomorrow. It was the best attitude I ever came across in sports.
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Ryan Klesko
Length of career: 16 years, 6,523 plate appearances
Place in game's history: His 278 career homers ranks him 162nd all-time … Split his time between outfield and first base and struggled at both positions so it's difficult to rank him by position … For a big slugger, he did not strike out very much, especially late in his career. From age 29 until he retired he walked (516) almost as often as he struck out (554), which isn't a historically great achievement but was good for his era.
Personal thoughts: I saw Klesko play in the Southern League in 1991, and, at the time, there were many people who thought he was going to be a Barry Bonds kind of superstar. He was big, strong, ran shockingly well, and hit for preposterously high averages (he hit .404 during a brief stint in rookie ball and hit .368 for half a season in A-Ball). He was ranked the third-best prospect by Baseball America … behind Todd Van Poppel and Andujar Cedeno, who actually disappointed quite a bit more than Klesko did. You have to go down to No. 8 on the list -- Ivan Rodriguez -- before finding a player who put up a Hall of Fame worthy career.*
*Just for fun -- No. 49 on that list was Chipper Jones, though he would jump to No. 4 the next year and No. 1 the following year. The Braves over the next few years would have Javy Lopez, Andruw Jones, Jermaine Dye, Jason Schmidt and Rafael Furcal.
Klesko started hitting pretty much right away in the big leagues and he kept hitting. His rookie year, he slugged .563 in 92 games and, in his second season, he hit .310/.396/.608 in 107 games. He also hit 10 postseason homers, three of them in the World Series. In many ways, his career is the opposite of Royce Clayton's -- he did not have a sub-100 OPS+ season until his last with San Francisco. But he never could find a position, and he had trouble staying healthy. If he had been an American Leaguer, he might have been a DH from Day 1 and become a David Ortiz or Travis Hafner type of player.
One interesting thing about Klesko … unlike many other sluggers of his era, he never had a crazy home run season. He was a big guy with huge power, but he never hit 40 homers. He never hit 35. He hit 34 with Atlanta when he was 25 and he never topped it -- he only hit 30 one other time. Remember that rather disgraceful list of "rumored" steroid users that came out a few years ago only to be debunked rather quickly? Klesko was on that list and, as much as I'd like to forget that, I always remember it.
Then again, it seems to me if we are going to make rash judgments about players based on their statistics, Klesko's career stats actually points to a player who never did have that major spike and never had some crazy home run season. If we're guessing one way, we should guess the other and say that it's at least possible Ryan Klesko was actually one of the victims of the era.
Then again, we don't know. That's why this whole thing is so baffling.
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Jose Mesa
Length of career: 19 years, appeared in 1,022 games.
Place in game's history: Finished fourth in the MVP voting in 1995, when he was successful in all 46 of his save attempts and posted a 1.13 ERA for the first Indians team in forty-plus years to win a pennant … Wildly inconsistent but probably ranks in Top 100 among relief pitching specialists … Played for eight different teams … Plunked Omar Vizquel twice after Omar's book criticized Mesa for falling apart in Game 7 of the 1997 World Series.
Personal thoughts: I have too many personal thoughts about Mesa, who did indeed blow Game 7 of the 1997 World Series. He came in with the Indians leading 2-1. He gave up a single to Moises Alou, struck out Bobby Bonilla, gave up another single to Charles Johnson and allowed the sac fly to Craig Counsell. When you look at it that way -- a couple of singles and a sac fly to three pretty good players -- it really wasn't a historic collapse or anything. But for a team that has not won a World Series since 1948, it was plenty lousy.
The thing that amazes me about Mesa's career is that there seemed nothing about his early career -- absolutely nothing -- that suggested he could become a dominant closer, even for a year or two. Until he was 28, he was just a lousy starting pitcher who hardly struck out anybody and gave up a boatload of hits. He did not display one talent that would seem to translate well to the closer role. He did not have razor sharp control. He did not have dominating stuff. You would seem more likely to find a dominant closer by just choosing a random Class AAA pitcher.
But Mesa was spectacular in 1995. He allowed just three home runs, had a 58-17 strikeout-to-walk, was perfect in saves and went 3-0. He appeared in 62 games all year. The Indians won 60 of them … and were losing by five or more when Mesa entered in the other two. It was just charmed, magical, and Mesa rode that charmed magic for another 12 seasons. He was never as good, though he did have a couple of 40-save seasons for Philadelphia when he was in his mid-30s.
But put it this way: His WAR for 1995 was 3.8 -- fabulous for a reliever. His combined WAR for the final 12 seasons of his career: 3.9.
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Reggie Sanders
Length of career: 17 years, 7,043 plate appearances.
Place in game's history: One of only eight players in baseball history to steal 300 bases and hit 300 homers; fascinating that two of the players on that list who definitely won't go to the Hall of Fame (Sanders and Steve Finley) are both on this year's ballot … Played at least 200 games at all three outfield positions, but he was primarily a right fielder and one of the 50 best to ever play the position. … Rather infamously struck out 10 times in 18 plate appearances in the 1995 NLCS.
Personal thoughts: With Roberto Hernandez and Reggie Sanders, this ballot has two of my all-time favorite people on it. Sanders was unfailingly kind to me in my dealings with him in Cincinnati and in Kansas City. Every sportswriter, I imagine, has a story about an athlete who was kind to them when they were young and nervous and felt like everything they did was wrong. And those athletes will always be special to them no matter what follows. For me, it was Tom Glavine in Atlanta and Reggie Sanders in Cincinnati.
We are about the same age, and we were both trying to find our way in the world in the early 1990s in Cincinnati. You might remember that in 1994, when he was still figuring things out, Pedro Martinez was throwing a perfect game against the Reds and Sanders came to bat with one out in the eighth. Pedro hit him with a pitch. And Sanders charged the mound. He did not seem aware of the rather obvious logic that Pedro would not have purposely hit him with a perfect game on the line. But, well, we all make a lot of mistakes growing up. Reggie just made his in front of America.
Sanders was a magnificent talent, but he was not especially graceful. He was muscular with what must have been a 28-inch waist and a big chest and arms -- his physique resembled the young George Foster. Because of this, he had kind of a herky-jerky swing and was not an especially fluid runner. But he was very strong and he was very fast. He hit as many as 33 home runs in a season and he stole as many as 36 bases and three times he led right fielders in range factor, meaning he got to a lot of balls.
He was tremendous in 1995. He hit .306/.397/.579 with 28 homers, 36 steals, 99 RBIs, 91 runs, played very good defense (including 12 outfield assists) and the Reds went to the National League Championship Series. There, against that great Atlanta pitching staff, he was helpless. He scraped out two hits in the series, both singles, and he struck out 10 times. He was never again as good as he was in 1995, and there are those who say the NLCS lingered with him for the rest of his career. I asked Reggie about it … he didn't think so. I don't either. He was 27 years old in 1995, at his very peak, and he had his best year. He had other good years -- and had postseason success against the Yankees in the 2001 World Series.
Late in his career, I ran into Reggie Sanders in an Apple Store in Kansas City. We talked for quite a while about life and how much had changed since our younger days and so on. Reggie Sanders had a wonderful baseball career. It's not quite Hall of Fame worthy, but few are. He seemed to enjoy his career very much. I'm glad to know him.
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Aaron Sele
Length of career: 15 years, 2,153 innings pitched.
Place in game's history: Aaron Sele tied Brad Radke and Johnny Podres with 148 career victories … He probably is one of the 400 or so best starters in baseball history … He is from Golden Valley, Minnesota, which is where the actress Kelly Lynch is from.
Personal thoughts: Aaron Sele was just about as league average as you could get. He pitched more than 2,000 innings with a career ERA+ of 100 -- league average. He once finished Top 10 in strikeouts, and twice finished Top 10 in walks (10th, both times). His only distinguishing quality seemed to be his penchant for hitting batters. He hit 112 batters in his career, 61st all-time.
One other thing: He pitched for six different teams … and despite a league average ERA, he had a .500 or better record with every one of them. I don't care about win-loss records, but that's kind of a cool thing.
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Mike Stanton
Length of career: 19 years, 1,178 appearances.
Place in game's history: Among pitchers, only Jesse Orosco appeared in more games than Mike Stanton. … One of the most used LOOGYs (Lefty, One-Out GuY) in baseball history, he made 233 appearances where he pitched just 1/3 of an inning -- fourth all-time (behind lefties Mike Myers, Jesse Orosco and Dan Plesac).
Personal thoughts: What's interesting about Stanton is that he pitched forever as a lefty specialist and he really wasn't all that good against left-handed hitters. I mean he was only slightly better against lefties than righties:
Righties: .261/.333/.388 against Stanton.
Lefties: .251/.316/.359 against Stanton
I mean, yes, he was a little better against lefties, but it's not like he dominated lefties like:
Mike Myers: .219/.304/.332
Jesse Orosco: .209/.287/.301
Dan Plesac: .215/.276/.342
Tony Fossas: .215/.285/.303
Or other LOOGYs of note. In fact, Stanton was actually quite miserable in his one-out appearances. He went 6-18 with an 11.70 ERA, gave up 159 hits in 77 2/3 innings. It is true that when the games are split up 1/3 of an inning at a time, it's kind of hard to determine what is good or bad. I will point out that his 11.70 ERA is the highest for any pitcher with 125 or more one-out appearances.
But, hey, he made a living. He was only a full-time closer one year -- 1993 for Atlanta -- and he never threw 85 innings in a season. He played for eight different teams and pitched in 53 postseason games … very effectively for the most part. He cashed more than $30 million in big league checks, which sure as heck isn't bad for a 13th round draft pick who started one big league game in his career.
That one start, in case you were wondering, was in 1999 for the New York Yankees. The Yankees were in a bit of a bind. He went four innings, allowed two hits and no runs. The Yankees won 6-1.
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Todd Walker
Length of career: 12 years, 5,055 plate appearances
Place in game's history: Played for seven teams in a career where he was mostly a second baseman but did log time at short, third, first and left field. … High draft pick after being a star at LSU, where he carried the Tigers to the College World Series championship in 1993 … Probably one of the 150 or so best second basemen in baseball history, but one of the 50 best offensively.
Personal thoughts: After the 1998 season, Todd Walker seemed like a pretty good candidate for stardom. He was 25 that year, he had been a big prospect (ranked 7th on Baseball America's list) and he hit .316/.372/.473 for Minnesota. He wasn't in the class with Derek Jeter or Nomar Garciaparra, but he was probably just a notch or two behind -- ahead of guys such as Miguel Tejada. But even though he had some pretty good offensive seasons after that, he was never as good a hitter. And his defense was enough of a problem that teams just kept trading him -- he was traded three times between July 2000 and the end of 2002.
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Rondell White
Length of career: 15 years, 5,852 plate appearances
Place in game's history: One of the 100 greatest left fielders in baseball history, maybe even Top 75 … split time between center and left, he was generally a good defensive center fielder as a young man and an indifferent defensive left fielder as an older one. … He was implicated as a PED purchaser in the Mitchell Report.
Personal thoughts: Rondell White offers a perfect example to help clarify one of the most underrated -- but one of the most important -- skills of baseball, namely: The ability to play every day. Only once in White's career did he play more than 140 games. Because of this, he never put up those round-number stats that capture the imagination -- no 100 RBI seasons, no 100 run seasons, no 30 homer season, no 30 stolen base seasons and so on.
Look at a few partial years:
.300/.363/.513 with 17 homers, 58 RBIs and 54 runs in 97 games.
.307/.371/.529 with 17 homers, 50 RBIs and 43 runs in 95 games.
.311/.374/.493 with 13 homers, 61 RBIs and 59 runs in 94 games.
.313/.348/.489 with 12 homers, 53 RBIs and 49 runs in 97 games.
Any of these -- spread out to 150 or 155 games -- could have been a great season with MVP votes and All-Star nods and everything else -- especially because the younger White played good defense. But White just couldn't stay out there. An indestructible guy like Johnny Damon was probably not as good a hitter as Rondell White in his prime, but Damon just kept playing and playing and compiling and compiling and his career is significantly better.
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Woody Williams
Length of career: 15 years, 2,216 innings.
Place in game's history: One of the 250 or so greatest starting pitchers in baseball history … Did not become a full-time starter until he was 30 years old and did not pitch his best until he was in his mid-30s. … Like his former teammate and Hall of Fame Ballot-mate Craig Biggio, he became a high school coach after finishing his career and had immediate success.
Personal thoughts: Woody Williams was one of those guys who just couldn't get anyone to believe in him. He was a 28th round draft pick out of college, and though he pitched very well in the minors, especially at the start, it took him five full seasons before he threw his first big league pitch. He didn't start a game in the big leagues until he was 28. He didn't become a full-time starter until he was 30. He was about a league average starter, got traded, was about league average for a couple more years and was traded again.
Then, in St. Louis, he emerged, pitching great down the stretch of the 2001 season, and going 38-21 with a 111 ERA+ the next three years for the Cardinals. A lot of credit was given to pitching coach Dave Duncan, who undoubtedly deserved some, but the bulk of credit should go to Williams, who never lost faith in himself and never stopped believing he could pitch effectively in the big leagues. He finished off his career with a lousy season, a good one and a dreadful one before going off to coach high school baseball with 132 big-league victories. That is a couple more than Andy Messersmith and Jason Schmidt and Dean Chance, guys who starred when they were young, but didn't have Woody Williams' staying power.
Want more of Joe's HOF thoughts? Click here for Part Two of his series. Click here for Part Three.


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Sometimes you might see a television commercial in which a person exclaims, "I own real estate worth over $1 million!"
Being an attorney practicing in the area of real estate, I always ask myself, "How much does that person owe?"
A million dollar property with no debt is really good, but the same property with two million dollars in debt is something altogether different.
When it comes to skill in Karate, I always feel the same (sort of). I am very grateful for the Karate I have been fortunate enough to learn from my Sensei and seniors. If my Karate skill is worth $1 million, I would say that I owe $10 million for it. My Karate is encumbered by the debt I owe to my Sensei and seniors. Without them, I would have nothing in Karate.
Of course I realize that we have to refine Karate by our own sweat and effort. We can only learn so much from our Sensei and seniors. But without them, we could not get to the point where our own sweat and effort could lead to refinement. Without our Sensei and seniors, we would be groping in the dark.
Before anyone gets the wrong idea, I am not saying that my Karate skill is worth $1 million. I am just using that as an example. Whatever skill I have in Karate is encumbered tenfold by my debt to my Sensei and seniors.
Also, when I use the term Sensei, I am writing it in the Japanese sense. There is no plural in Japanese. So when I say "Sensei," I mean all the Sensei I have ever had. I currently have two Sensei of Shorin-Ryu and have had many Sensei of Karate and other martial arts. I mean all that when I write the term "Sensei."
Being in such great debt, I will try my best to use my Karate for good and also teach to the best of my ability. I feel that there is no way to directly repay your Sensei and seniors. So the next best thing is to pay the next generation by teaching them. We repay our Sensei and seniors by teaching and setting a good example for the next generation.
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How Much Do You Owe?
Sometimes you might see a television commercial in which a person exclaims, "I own real estate worth over $1 million!"
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