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Dave Grohl leads the Foo Fighters as they perform for a sold out crowd Monday night at the Gwinnett Arena. Social Distortion and the Joy Formidable were the opening acts.
>>> (From Wiki) The Foo Fighters are an American alternative rock band originally formed in 1994 by Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl as a one-man project following the dissolution of Nirvana wheb Kurt Cobain comitted suicide. The band got its name from the UFOs and various aerial phenomena that were reported by Allied aircraft pilots in World War II, which were known collectively as foo fighters. Prior to the release of the Foo Fighters' 1995 debut album Foo Fighters, which featured Grohl as the only official member, Grohl recruited bassist Nate Mendel and drummer William Goldsmith, both formerly of Sunny Day Real Estate, as well as fellow Nirvana touring bandmate Pat Smear as guitarist to complete the lineup. After a few lineup changes, drummer Taylor Hawkins became a member. The band briefly continued as a trio until Chris Shiflett joined as the band's lead guitarist after the completion of There Is Nothing Left to Lose. The band released its fourth album, One by One, in 2002. The group followed that release with the two-disc In Your Honor (2005), which was split between acoustic songs and heavier material. Foo Fighters released its sixth album, Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace, in 2007. In 2010, it was confirmed that Smear had officially rejoined the band after touring with the Foo Fighters as an unofficial member between 2006 and 2009. Over the course of the band's career, three of its albums have won Grammy Awards for Best Rock Album, and all six albums have been nominated. The band's seventh studio album, Wasting Light, was released in 2011.
AJC photographer Robb Cohen covered the event with his camera. Check out the online photo gallery. What did you think of the concert? What was your favorite Foo Fighters song? Who loved Social Distortion?
(Photo Credit: Robb D. Cohen/ www.robbsphotos.com) For other concert photography linked to Access Atlanta, please visit Atlanta ConcertPhotography Galleries.)
November 8th, 2011
8:00 am
Great show!
November 8th, 2011
9:03 am
One of the best concerts that I've ever seen. Just wow.
AJC- seriously, you guys can't do more than post a few uncaptioned photos and a wikipedia summary? You are the main paper in a major US city and one of the biggest bands in the world played last night. Either cover the story or ignore it. The Wiki-style "reporting" is terrible.
November 8th, 2011
9:22 am
anyone else have a nightmare of a time trying to get to sugarloaf from 85N?
November 8th, 2011
9:39 am
Was just thinking the same thing about the Wiki thing–you couldn't actually say that much about the show? I could!! I loved it! Definitely one of the best that I have seen from them. After being stuck in traffice for 2 hours and then going to the show, I can NOW say thatI loved that it created so much chaos with it being sold out.
November 8th, 2011
9:48 am
Rick and DeAnna: Sadly, most newspapers now operate on a small staff and mostly use national and freelance features. I miss the AJC music features Russ DeVault and Bo Emerson wrote about bands back in the day.
November 8th, 2011
10:00 am
Cool. Thanks for the explaination. Makes more sense now.
November 8th, 2011
10:06 am
One of the worst mixed shows ever! Sat dead center in club level. Should have had a perfect mix. Left after 14 songs. Way to much kick drum in the mix. No snare or high hat. The bass guitar was over the top. The vocals were too low (other than when he screamed). Pat Smear needs to go. A third guitar makes a wall of mud. Could barely make out the riffs. They then doubled down and over compensated by loudness. Total disappointment. Taylor's tom fills were also drowned out. Please fire the sound man. Dave does a great job as a front man. He was high energy and really engaged with the crowd. Too bad it sounded like complete and total crap.
November 8th, 2011
11:01 am
Makes me sick that I couldn't make it. Would love it if they could do another show locally.
November 8th, 2011
11:34 am
Incredible show, but getting out of the parking lot was a nightmare! 30+ minutes to get from deck to lot.
This was my 1st experience @ Gwinnett Arena. Is it always this bad?
November 8th, 2011
12:26 pm
My first trip there, too. Total clusterXXXX in the parking lot. We waited 20 minutes after the show before leaving and it still took 40 minutes to get back out to Sugarloaf. Really weird parking setup- basically a free-for-all until you got to the main parkway.
November 8th, 2011
12:30 pm
THE FOOS CAME ON AT 9:00 AND PLAYED UNTIL 11:45. I HAVE BEEN TO 250+ CONCERTS, AND THE ONLY HEADLINER TO PLAY LONGER WAS PAUL McCARTNEY.
November 8th, 2011
12:59 pm
My feedback is similar to that of Jobu. From the rear upper-deck, not a single crash cymbal was heard.
Particularly during The Joy Formidable, the double-bass was overmic'd, and it was drowning out all of the other voices.
Mixing definitely needed work.
November 8th, 2011
1:06 pm
On the last photo file in the ajc—it was so
obvious it was not your beautiful work! AJC is so
much going downhill in this area of cutting photo work.
Payday is coming for the AJC! Thanks Robb for doing all you can— your photography is the best! ms
November 8th, 2011
1:39 pm
Guys! Geez. The negativity is uncalled for. This show was kick ass. Yes, I am not a musician and I am sure if you work in the sound/music industry you would find the acoustics to be off. But its the freaking Gwinett Arena. Its not going to be perfect. I agree with whoever wrote about the length of the show. Almost 3 hrs! C'mon! That is awesome. This band is altogether fabu. And Pat Smear can stay. He kicks ass. If you dont like the band then dont go see them and stop complaining…enjoy the music.
November 8th, 2011
1:47 pm
it was meant to be loud, screaming rock and roll – and it was. and almost 3 hours for a very reasonably priced concert for a hugely successful band — I haven't seen that done by anyone else! the foos energy level was so crazy high that after the first 3 songs I thought, how in the world are they gonna keep this up? but somehow they did – I feel like I finally saw a rock and roll concert after going to concerts for more than 30 years.
November 8th, 2011
1:54 pm
I was on the side, and though it was LOUD the mix was fine. I could very clearly hear the kick/snare/hi-hat/ride in perfect balance, and make out all three individual guitars and also the bass. Sorry your mix straight back was flawed – it was (imo) a much better mix than I've heard in the past at Gwinnett. I usually hate that place for acoustics.
November 8th, 2011
2:38 pm
No negatively… It was an honest critique. When you drop $100+ on tix, I want it to sound good. I just can't stand when people can't even have the slightest critical look at their band. You are a consumer, you spend your hard earned money, it is ok to express disappointment in a purchase. I have seen Nickelback there three times and the mix was flawless. It CAN be done in Gwinnett. (Although VH sounded like crap there too). Flowerpower, I recently saw Avenged Sevenfold, Trivium, Slayer, so I am quite comfortable with loud and aggressive. Watching Taylor do killer snare fills and have it sound like the snare was outside the arena was disappointing. I never said the Foos were bad. I just said the sound really ruined a EXCELLENT performance. No worries. I will see them again somewhere else. However, if their sound man cannot dial it in 14 songs, Dave ought to look for someone else. Front center house should be the best place in the building to sit! I was behind the sound guy for gosh sake. =)
November 8th, 2011
2:51 pm
Hey Jobu, next time save your money for the Wiggles. When you go see the greatest live rock band You expect the sound to be natural without computers. I'm sure when you are in Starbucks listening to Yanni, everything is mixed correctly. Oh by the way f#c% off !!!!
November 8th, 2011
2:52 pm
it's all good Jobu – the loud screaming comment wasn't about your mix issue – I assumed that it wasn't so good from your seat and that does suck.
November 8th, 2011
3:22 pm
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November 8th, 2011
3:31 pm
LMAO! You are brilliant FooFanatic! What are you, 19?! You must be with comments like the "greatest live rock band". Go see ACDC, Metallica, Maiden, Rush, Ozzy and some new acts like Slipknot and Avenged and get some perspective on life. The Foos are GREAT, but get a clue. Computers have nothing to do with it. What a ret@ard… Maybe if you put down the Guitar Hero and picked up an actual instrument, you might know how a concert mix is done. And btw, I listened to Stone Sour at Starbucks this morning…back at ya flowerpower. all good. =)
November 8th, 2011
3:39 pm
It was an awesome concert. My son is a big fan of them. Almost 3 hours of high energy from Grohl – totally engaged the audience. It was LOUD. We were about 9 rows off of the floor in the corner (section 122). The sound was pretty good to me from where we were at. I didn't hear the mixing issues that Jobu noted. Not saying the mixing issue didn't exist, but I didn't think it was too bad from where we were at. Look forward to seeing them at the Masquerade in 2027. lol Concur with the traffic getting out of there…what a mess.
November 8th, 2011
4:20 pm
All I can say is Wow!!!! What a showman Grohl is and he definitely pulls you into the show. His cover of Breakdown was flawless and his acoustic songs were on point. I agree with Jobu about the mixing and at times the numbing bass drowned out most everything else. I am a fan and appreciate the Foo Fighters sticking with their blend of hits and new stuff. My feet r sure sore fron dancing though. The crowd was great but there was definitely some strong weed coming from somewhere close. I purchased 8 tickets and my 10 year old daughter went to her first concert. Rock On !!!!
November 8th, 2011
7:34 pm
Jobu is the man! Great response to the 19 year old. Well played, sir.
Ozzfest- Rush is the closest band I know to giving Foo Fighters a run for their money in terms of length and quality of a performance. Of course, they took a 20 minute break during the Time Machine tour. But hey- they are in their late 50's!
November 8th, 2011
8:06 pm
Foo Fighters rocked it! THE last great rock band
November 8th, 2011
8:30 pm
I have to say that the Foo Fighters show on 11/7 at the Arena at Gwinnett was awesome! I did not hear as many mixing issues as Jobu mentioned, but that could have been because I was wearing some hefty hearing protection. Even with the hearing protection it was LOUD. Grohl put forth some much energy and kept it up for almost a solid 3 hours. I have know idea how Taylor kept it up either. Between those two tornados, it did seem at times that the rest of the band was just playing along as best they could to keep up. No drama implied. They are a very cohesive band and create quality music that I certainly will continue to enjoy for as long as they will continue to put it out. It is my opinion that the Foos are certainly rock legends in the making.
November 8th, 2011
8:46 pm
It was FOONOMINAL! The best concert I've been to and I've been to many! I will definately be seeing them again and again and again!
November 8th, 2011
9:13 pm
I really wanted to enjoy this concert from top to bottom, but the acoustics were just plain mush. I was in section 104, right about 10 rows up. Should have been a great seat for sound quality, but from Joy Formidable onward, the sound was not mixed properly. The volume was probably 20% above what would have made for fully legible lyrics and a loud concert atmosphere, and the bass was dialed up at least 10-15%. When Social D came on, they were a bit more refined, but you still got the sense that the sound guy just didn't understand that we're in a 13k venue, not a 90k venue.
When Grohl came out, they spanked my eardrums for 3 hours. I am an audiophile, and love music, and my ears. Well, with three guitars and a screaming madman, I expected it to be loud. Too bad the sound guys couldn't keep it in check. Literally, my eardrums were flexing and fluttering, which I don't mind, as long as the tones are there. I couldn't hear definition in the rhythm guitar, nor cymbals on the drum kit, just mushy bassy tones.
The show itself — killer. Grohl knows what he's doing, as does the rest of the band. The antics were priceless, and the entertainment factor was no joke. I just would have liked to have heard what I paid for. Even the Joy Formidable singer stormed off stage pissed at the lack of crowd response, which was due to not really hearing the music.
November 9th, 2011
10:53 am
Muddy sound aside, this was a phenomenal show. ("Foonomenal"-nice one, Krystal!) Missed Joy Formidable, thanks to getting a late start from Smyrna, but a friend assured me we didn't miss much. Love me some Social D, though I must say I enjoyed them more a couple years back in Memphis when I was right up front. Still, a solid set from those guys.
The Foos…well, they have been right near the top of my list since day one, and did not let me down. What energy! Taylor is a beast on the skins, and Dave really is a master at playing to the crowd…I wanna' party with that guy! Nice set list too, hitting the newer tunes while still working in enough older stuff to keep me happy. ("This Is A Call" was awesome) Got home about 12:45, ears ringing, brain still buzzing from all the adrenalin and endorphins (and a few beers too), and plopped in bed with a smile on my face! Next morning at work though…not so much!
As far as the traffic, we exited 85N on 120W, just south of the Sugarloaf exit, and came up Meadow Church Road to Sugarloaf, which I think saved us some time getting there. Then purposely parked near the front so we could get out quickly later. (had to skirt around a few orange cones and one particularly authoritative parking guy to do this!) It made for a longer walk to the venue, but beat the heck out of sitting in traffic after the show!
November 9th, 2011
4:32 pm
What a mindblowing group of talent, such is the case with Dave and team. I've seen many concerts, Section 106 was perfect, sight and sound – pretty amazing rock concert you just don't get anymore. As far as commute, we live near the Arena, so I was on a slower autopilot than usual crawling home, no big d. We'll do it again next chance they come our way, cause we're "Foo Fighter People". My teenage son who is an aspiring musician was mesmerized and we all left inspired that such a unique group of guys could all come together to rock out in such a way, and remember they did it again in Charlotte, NC last night. Bravo. Enough said.
November 9th, 2011
6:51 pm
Could have listened to them play all night……even if they were tapping spoons and whistling their melodies……waited years to see them live…..best live show I've ever been to…….See you at the Masquerade…………..Surprised light rays weren't coming out of my eyes the way the music lit up my brain. Thank you Foo Fighters for the time of my life.
November 9th, 2011
10:35 pm
I have been a huge fan since the seventh grade. I'm 17 years old and as of monday I can become part of the "Foo Fighters People". It. Was. Mindblowing.
November 13th, 2011
7:13 pm
The sound at the St Louis show was SO much better. I drove 5 hrs for that show, flew 2 for the Gwinnett show. I am THE BIGGEST Foo Fan! But the first 5 songs were bad. Once the songs got less heavy it was AMAZING!! THE BEST ever.. I love the Foo – top notch over all concerts I have seen. Traveling from venue to venue cannot be easy, BUT they should have sound checked more possibly?? love you dave….
November 13th, 2011
7:15 pm
Sorry, forgot to mention that Dave was absolutely amazing. Taylor is a GOD!! Nate, Chris and PAt are soo talented and passionate about what they do.. No disappointment there at all. Just sound issues vary..
November 14th, 2011
2:59 pm
One of the BEST shows I've ever been to! I was right in the front! The sound was not the best there but I didn't care….the Foo Fighters but on such an energized show! I was bouncing all over the place with everyone else SCREAMING the songs as loud as I could! I was the one that made the 'We Are Foo Fighters People' sign and was stunned that Dave even mentioned it before going into 'Times Like These'! He got it right….because that crowd kicked some major ass! Definately an awesome moment for me! I also drove to the Charlotte show the next night and I have to say…ATLANTA was way louder and more energized it seemed! Now we'll see if Dave keeps his promise and comes back to play the Mascarade…in 2027?! LOL! A GREAT SHOW! I didn't expect anything less from the Foos….or I wouldn't have driven over 15 hours to see them! And I'd do it again in a heartbeat!
November 14th, 2011
11:45 pm
Next time you go to a sold-out show at Gwinnett, park across the street at Kroger. And take Satellite to it – don't go as far as Sugarloaf.
I will agree with the mix comments. Not enough melody, too much vocal and drums. But, that was one of the loudest shows I've ever been to and I've seen Metallica, Ozzy, and ACDC, etc. I think Godsmack was almost as loud. This was definitely the longest show rivalling Green Day at 2hrs 15 mins. Dave and Pat and Taylor – they were all great – so good to see Pat with them again. They most definitely appreciated the crowd. In fact, Grohl mentioned that we were loud as f'ing s't. Was a great show!!! So glad to have seen them.


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Pablo Sandoval is lean and motivated.
Tim Lincecum is ready to complete his reinvention as a crafty pitcher, instead of a fastball chucker.
Tim Hudson is here to help Lincecum — and he can still deal.
And those are the three and four starters, behind the horses Matt Cain and Madison Bumgarner.
Brandon Belt and Brandon Crawford keep improving; Angel Pagan and Marco Scutaro are healthy; Buster Posey and Hunter Pence anchor the meat of the order; and Michael Morse has arrived to make sure there are no weak spots. The bullpen is deep (love Sergio Romo!); the bench is capable (lurve Hector Sanchez!); Bruce Bochy is the best in the business.
And best of all: I have a new Giants book coming out!
The Giants Baseball Experience: A Year-By-Year Chronicle From New York To San Francisco will be published by MVP Books and will be available April 3. I'll set up a new Web site, and start planning events. The last time I had a new Giants book out — with Willie Mays on the cover, naturally — was 2010, and we all know what happened then!]]>
In the case of the Giants, according to Mercury News beat writer Alex Pavlovic, "they went 20-14 after August 24 and finished with wins in 10 of the final 15 games."
In my case, I attended three games in the last week of the season. In my first, the Giants lost to the Dodgers, but they kept it close, they won the next two, and we were treated to the spectacle of Brian Wilson's ignominious return to San Francisco. I had the extra pleasure of attending with my friend Joe Konte, who is not only the man who has organized my season ticket group since Pac Bell Park opened in 2000, but is now also the author of the fabulous new book on the Giants and Dodgers and their long enmity for one another, "The Rivalry Heard Round the World."
With Rivalry Day approaching – wait, didn't you know that Oct. 3 was Giants-Dodgers Rivalry Day? On this date in 1951, Bobby Thomson hit his famed home run; in 1962, the Giants again won the capper of a three-game playoff against the Dodgers, this time when Stan Williams walked Jim Davenport with the bases loaded; and in 1993, the Dodgers beat the Giants on the last day of the season in what we know as the Salomon Torres game, and the Giants lost the division championship to the Braves. And on Oct. 3, 2013 – as in, tomorrow – Joe Konte will appear at Books Inc. in San Francisco's Marina neighborhood to regale the crowd with even more tales of the rivalry. (It will help put the latest sordid episode into context as well.) I saw Joe's event at Book Passage in Corte Madera, and he was a wonderful storyteller. (Buy his book!)
My next two games were Friday, Sept. 27, and Sunday, Sept. 29. The Giants beat the Padres in both. Friday night, Hunter Pence won the Willie Mac Award as the team's most inspirational player. Last season's winner, Ryan Vogelsong, turned in a strong effort. I hope he makes it back next year.
Then, after the Giants rewarded Pence with a big contract – yay! – he showed what he's capable of, turning in his first walk-off hit as a Giant as the team came from behind to beat the Padres on Fan Appreciation Day on Sunday. It was a glorious afternoon at the ballpark, highlighted by two moving displays: An ovation for Giants fan Bryan Stow, who came out to the ballpark, and an overdue ovation for Barry Zito, who shared his love of the fans. Three years ago, such mutual affection seemed impossible; fans chafed at Zito's poor performance under his massive contract. But Zito proved himself a class act, first accepting a sideline role in the 2010 playoffs, and then rebounding with a strong 2012 season and some series-saving performances in the postseason. Redemption is sweet, and Zito, with all his struggles, seemed less like a glamorous millionaire athlete and more like one of us as he doffed his cap and touched his heart.
I can't say enough about how optimistic I am for 2014. I love a pitching staff anchored by Matt Cain and Madison Bumgarner. (Do I have to say it? Bring back Tim Lincecum!) I love that Buster Posey is locked up for years – he is our Derek Jeter. I love that Brandon Belt and Brandon Crawford emerged as bona fide big leaguers, and will continue to improve. I love that Pablo Sandoval showed, if only briefly, that he can lose weight and regain his stroke. I love that Sergio Romo can go a whole season as a closer. (Do I have to say it? Bring back Javier Lopez!) I love little things – the return of Angel Pagan, the emergence of Yusmeiro Petit (the next Vogelsong), the clutch hitting of Hector Sanchez, the willingness to spend big on Pence and possibly other free agents. And I love that the Giants never quit, and managed to escape the cellar and finish in third place, after all their struggles. Thank you, Bruce Bochy!
The Giants' failure to defend their World Series championship probably means the end of the line for my incredible run as the author of Giants Past and Present. I still have some of the 2012 World Championship editions to sell (email me for a signed copy!), but there won't be a fourth edition.
I have, however, put the finishing touches on a new Giants' book, the Giants Experience, which will be out in the spring. It will be a big, beautiful coffee table book that will sell for $35. I'll set up a new Web site for that! (You can get a sense of what it will be like by checking out Tyler Kepner's Phillies Experience.)
Thanks to the Giants, who in yet another season of Torture have reminded us how sweet those world championships really were, and to all of you, for reading and supporting me on this wonderful ride.]]>
It barely seemed possible. MVP Books, publisher of Giants Past and Present, also published last year Juan Marichal: My Life From the Dominican Republic to the Hall of Fame. And now they had an offer: Would I like to do a book event with Juan Marichal?
It did not take me long to agree to that. We set it for this past Friday, following the Giants' home opener – 6 pm at the Barnes and Noble in Emeryville. And there was one more request: Could I give Juan a ride to the event?
The stage was set for a magical afternoon. I immediately bought three tickets for the opener, in the left field upper deck. I needed to figure out how I would connect with Juan. It would have to be in an area accessible to the public, since I do not hold a media credential that would get me to his seats. As it happened, I do have a favorite place to meet people outside AT&T Park, one far less crowded than the Willie Mays statue.
The Juan Marichal statue.
How many living people have statues erected in their honor? I had visions of posing for pictures with 75-year-old Juan Marichal, next to the statue of 25-year-old Juan Marichal. Juan with his feet on the ground, Juan with his leg virtually vertical.
Of course, I knew it couldn't happen that way, and Juan confirmed it: He said he couldn't go to the statue after the game, or the crowd would never let him get away from it.
Somehow, I maneuvered my car to the gate next to the statue (making a dubious left turn past a sleeping traffic officer at Parking Lot A), and waited. Juan and his wife, Alma emerged, along with Gaylord Perry and his wife. I was able to escort Juan into the car, and head into what I feared was going to be a traffic nightmare. But fortunately, we made it to the Bay Bridge easily enough and were in Emeryville in short order.
It was amazing how easy it was to talk to Juan. We asked him all kinds of questions, and he just let the stories spill out: About the 16-inning shutout he pitched against Warren Spahn, about his 54 shutouts, about his 244 complete games. About players in the steroid era, about modern five man rotations and deep bullpens and pitch counts.
Before I knew it, we were in Emeryville. About 60 people came to the store, and Juan fielded a wide variety of questions. His answers ranged from inside baseball stories, to poignant life lessons.
Some of the highlights:
• On the 16-inning game: "After nine innings, my manager, Alvin Dark, told me that's it, you're done. I said, I am not coming out of this game. After 14 innings, he said, that's it, now you're done. I said, 'Do you see that guy on that mound there?' He said, 'Yes.' I said, 'That guy is 42 years old. I'm 25 years old. I'm not coming out until he comes out. No one is taking that ball away from me.' That was really dumb!'"
Finally, after the 15th inning, Marichal said to Willie Mays, "Chico" – because Mays called everybody "Chico," Marichal called him that as well – "I don't know how much longer I can go!" Mays told him, "Don't worry, Chico, I'll win this for you." And then, with one out in the 16th inning, Mays blasted a solo home run to win the game, 1-0.
Marichal had thrown 227 pitches. After that game, he said, "That was the only time in my career I did not have to make my next start on three days rest. I got four days." A few years later, he said, he pitched a 14-inning shutout, only to lose to the Mets on a Tommie Agee home run.
• My friend Susan Hutcher asked a great question, and Marichal gave a tremendous answer. She wanted to know how a pitcher can remain calm, when all eyes are on him. Such pressure must be nerve-wracking. The answer: "Confidence," Marichal said. And he told this story. "When Barry Bonds played for the Giants, I used to see other managers walk him when there were no outs, or walk him with the bases loaded. They'd rather let one run score than four runs. If a manager ever told me to walk someone with no outs, or with the bases loaded, I'd have given him the ball and said, 'You do it.' I'm out there to try to get hitters out."
• The Giants fans at the bookstore, myself included, had a good time hooting and jeering a Dodger fan who showed up, but Juan calmed the crowd down. "I finished my career with the Dodgers," he said. When he joined the Dodgers, Johnny Roseboro called a press conference and told everyone to welcome him to the team. He told how he and Roseboro became lifelong friends, and Roseboro came to visit him in the Dominican Republic.
• Marichal thinks teams baby their pitchers today because they pay them so much money. "Justin Verlander signed a contract for $180 million. They want to make sure he doesn't get hurt." Why didn't Marichal get hurt? He felt that throwing so many pitches made his arm stronger. In his words: "I threw a lot of rocks as a kid."
• As a pitcher who claims to have hit .500 — 11 for 22 — with runners in scoring position — Marichal must hate the designated hitter, right? Wrong! "We had Orlando Cepeda and Willie McCovey, and had to trade Orlando because we couldn't play both of them, and he won the MVP," Marichal said. "I would have let one of those guys hit for me."
• When he was called up to the Giants, Marichal had just pitched a great game in Sacramento for AAA Tacoma, and was ready to go to the AAA All-Star Game, where participants would be given a watch. "I was excited to be called up, but sad that I wouldn't get the watch," he said. Orlando Cepeda introduced him to his new teammates. He couldn't believe he was shaking hands with Willie Mays. "It was my privilege to play with the greatest player of all time, Willie Mays," he said.
• As the event was winding down, and Juan signed the last of the books, a group of young men in green LOMA sweatshirts sidled over. It was the baseball team from Point Loma College in San Diego County. Juan graciously stood and chatted with them for 20 minutes. "Nothing is impossible," he told them. "I came from Laguna Verde in the Dominican Republic, to Santo Domingo, to Michigan City to Springfield [Mass.] to Tacoma to San Francisco to Cooperstown. If I can do that, anyone can do that. Nothing is impossible."
If I can somehow find a way to write a book about the Giants, and they win two World Series, and my book goes into a third edition, and I get to spend a day with the greatest San Francisco Giants pitcher of all-time riding around in my car, telling baseball stories and selling books alongside me, then I have to agree with him: Nothing is impossible.]]>
The new edition looks fantastic. MVP Books gave the cover a complete makeover. A banner proclaims it the "2012 Championship Edition," while the word GIANTS is bigger and bolder than ever, in black block letters outlined in orange. Best of all, the cover features 2012 National League MVP Buster Posey, following through on his timeless swing, against a backdrop of the Polo Grounds, where so many other great Giants once performed their heroic feats. Buster would have fit right in.
Naturally, I am optimistic about the Giants' chances this year. I know the Dodgers have spent big to acquire a lot of big time talent, but the Giants have youth, pitching and Bruce Bochy. I talked about all of this with Jeff Thurn, host of a show on ESPN Radio in Sioux Falls, South Dakota (the other SF, as I think of it), and you can listen to that 9 minute conversation here:
Dan Fost on Jeff Thurn ESPN Radio show February 20, 2013]]>
I will be updating "Giants Past and Present" to include the great stories of the 2012 World Series Champions! The third edition of the book should be out by Opening Day 2013. I will organize some public events and look forward to celebrating another Giants championship.
If you have any ideas of photos that belong in the book, please let me know! My own favorite is the photo from this post of Marco Scutaro, joyfully drinking in the rain in the waning moments of the clinching seventh game of the NLCS.
In addition, I contributed a few articles to the San Francisco Chronicle's fabulous 72-page commemorative section on the champs that ran Sunday. My stories:
How do these Giants compare to other great Giant teams of the past? They may not be as great as the Willie Mays-Willie McCovey teams of the 1960s, but with two titles in three years, they may rank even higher. Bill Kent, the leader of the New York Baseball Giants Nostalgia Society, who has seen a few great Giant squads in his day, said this year's model had the most guts.
The Giants' success starts on the farm. The Giants managed to win a World Series without going out and signing a bunch of high-priced free agents, a rarity in the modern era. The biggest free agent on the team was Barry Zito, who we had come to think of as the biggest bust before #rallyzito won him a new place in our hearts.
Giant relics from 2012 World Series heading to Hall of Fame. And wouldn't you rather see the bat Pablo Sandoval used to hit two home runs off Justin Verlander, instead of that Barry Bonds baseball that some knucklehead branded with an asterisk?
And, not that this has anything to do with me or my book, but I had a lot of fun watching Ashkon Davaran's new Giants' video, "We Are the Champions" and thought I'd share it here. (Video is embedded below.) Ashkon's "Don't Stop Believin'" video defined the Giants' run through the 2010 postseason. Falling down the YouTube rabbit hole, I found another pretty funny Giants' song, "SF Giants Style," a parody of "Gangnam Style," the song that took over AT&T Park this fall. It is great to be a Giants' fan.
Speaking of songs at the ballpark, I was excited to learn that the Fist Pump Granny is actually Giant executive Mario Alioto's mother!]]>
My former colleague from the San Francisco Chronicle, Anastasia Hendrix, posed that question last week. She was generous enough to include my answer in her story in this past Sunday's Style section.
Alas, my answer was incomplete. I knew orange and black were always there, and became dominant in the 1940s, but I didn't know why. It's obvious why, say, the Princeton Tigers are orange and black, and the Baltimore Orioles; they are following Mother Nature's lead. But the Giants? (Or the Oregon State Beavers?)
Thanks to a friend who is apparently more skilled searching the Internet than I am, a new possibility has emerged. This from WikiAnswers:
Before managing the Giants, John McGraw managed a National League version of the Baltimore Orioles (not the AL Orioles of 1901, who would become the NY Yankees in 1903). When McGraw left Baltimore, along with some of his players, he also took the orange, black and white team colors to NY for the Giants.
I want to do a little more research, before accepting that explanation. I looked at several books I have about the New York Giants, and while many talk about McGraw's defection from Baltimore – he even brought many players with him – none mention the orange. (McGraw did try out Christy Mathewson in a game in Orange, N.J., but I'm pretty sure that doesn't count.) Baseball Almanac has a great page on uniforms, and includes some information on the orange and black, noting that McGraw brought orange to the Orioles' uniforms, and black to the Giants, but doesn't mention the melding of the colors in either city.
Baseball Almanac does cite a definitive reference, which I will need to track down: Marc Okkonen's book, Baseball Uniforms of the 20th Century (Sterling Publishing, 1991). Until then, hey, it's Halloween – the whole country can celebrate the Giants in their orange and black!
UPDATE (Nov. 5, 2012): This weekend, I bought Okkonen's book, and what a beautiful thing it is. It clarified one point: McGraw did not bring orange to the Giants from Baltimore. (McGraw did love to fiddle with uniform design, and he's the guy who introduced the collarless uniforms now de rigeur in baseball.) In fact, the Giants did not use orange trim until 1933 – the year after McGraw retired. They won the World Series that year, and orange has remained on the uniform ever since.
Since the glory season of 2010, orange has returned to a prominence in Giants Nation not seen since the days of the double-knits in the 1970s.
It's also worth noting that when the New York Mets were established in 1962, they took their colors from the National League predecessors who had left New York five years earlier – blue from the Brooklyn Dodgers, and orange from the Giants. (Yet the Mets new ballpark at Citi Field pays far more homage to the Dodgers, and virtually ignores Giants' history. I guess the Giants got the last laugh this year, getting Angel Pagan from the Mets.)]]>
If 2010 was a team of castoffs and misfits, at least it was a veteran club, and one with dominant pitching. The 2012 Giants seemed like a bunch of kids, and the arms all seemed to fade as the season lurched to a close. The word I heard the most from the Giants this year was "grind."
Even as the playoffs started, the Giants did not carry any air of inevitability, or invincibility. Falling behind the Reds, and then the Cardinals, the season could have ended at any moment.
Until, suddenly – dramatically – for the second time in the post-season, the Giants got their wake-up call. It was an unlikely time. Barry Zito, who had not looked good against the Reds, got the call as the stopper in St. Louis. He gave up three hits before the Giants had one.
And then Marco Scutaro and Pablo Sandoval singled, and with one out, Hunter Pence hit a weak dribbler back to pitcher Lance Lynn, and the Giants got the sort of lucky break that defined this entire post-season – and, I suppose if you believe in these things, defined the Giants as a Team of Destiny. Lynn threw to second base, and there was no one there. He tried to hold up his throw, and it hit the bag. Scutaro scored. Another out, another couple of singles – one on a beautifully planned bunt by Zito – and the Giants were on their way to a 5-0 victory. They would never lose again in 2012.
About those lucky breaks the Giants caught, whether it was Johnny Cueto leaving Game 1 of the Cincinnati series, or Angel Pagan's grounder hitting third base against Detroit (again with the base!), or Gregor Blanco's exquisite bunt, stopping incredibly inside the chalk. Include in those the sloppy defense by the opponents in every series, and then consider: the Giants made no such blunders.
And that's by design. The Giants are built around pitching and defense. It makes sense, when you think that pitching wins games, and defense is a big part of pitching. Manager Bruce Bochy could have played Xavier Nady or Hector Sanchez in a quest for more offense, but he knew the formula. If you keep the other team from scoring, you don't have to score too much yourself.
In building that type of team, General Manager Brian Sabean also built just the right lineup for AT&T Park. The best defenders are not necessarily sluggers in the Barry Bonds mold. Instead, Sabean acquired and promoted contact hitters, who can spray the ball into the gaps. Players like Melky Cabrera, Pagan, Blanco, and even Pence, Buster Posey, Scutaro, Brandon Belt and Sandoval all fit this model. With Scutaro in particular showing the virtue of taking pitches, and not striking out, the Giants were built for the modern post-season.
The Giants had one more ingredient: Heart. It sounds like a cliche. It is said of nearly every team. (Well, maybe not the 2009 Yankees.) But consider some of the stories on these Giants – and not just overcoming the Brian Wilson injury or the Cabrera suspension. Instead: Ryan Vogelsong, wandering baseball's wilderness for years before he came home to San Francisco and became a bona fide star. Scutaro, the very definition of a journeyman infielder, earning the nickname Blockbuster as he turned into Ty Cobb when he arrived on the Giants in July. Zito, never living up to his massive contract, but suddenly becoming a consistent winner. Tim Lincecum, losing his magic touch, but happily accepting a role as a middle reliever, and becoming unhittable once again. Posey, coming back from the most devastating (and unnecessary) injury this side of Joe Theisman to become National League MVP. And plenty of other players – Matt Cain, Madison Bumgarner, Sergio Romo, Brandon Crawford, Pence, Sandoval – putting plenty of other struggles behind them for the sake of the team. I have to believe even having guys like Nady, Aubrey Huff and Ryan Theriot just in the dugout cheering (never mind scoring the winning run in the clincher, as Theriot did) had to help.
Without these guys, there's no parade in San Francisco on Halloween.
Nicely done. And thank you. Every one of you.
What I was wondering, less than one month ago: Where was the Torture? The Giants clinched the West so early, the world seemed upside-down.
But through the National League Division Series against the Cincinnati Reds, and the National League Championship Series against the St. Louis Cardinals, the Giants have shown that even though they have so many new cast members, they all know the script: Torture.
Having fallen behind two games to none against the Reds, the Giants managed to come all the way back. They proceeded to drop three of the first four games to the Cards, and once again won three straight to take the pennant.
Memo to Bruce Bochy and the boys: Please just win this next series early!
I had great fun the other day discussing this and other weighty matters on Michael Krasny's excellent program Forum on KQED. (Krasny graciously said that "Giants Past and Present" is "one of the best books about the Giants.") You can listen to the show here:
The show opened with Giants' President Larry Baer, and you could really hear how much fun he's having. Larry is a lifelong Giants fan in his dream job, and you can't help but smile every time you see him. Then Michael led a spirited discussion with me, KNBR's awesome Marty Lurie, and San Jose Mercury News columnist Mark Purdy. I sure learned a lot listening to those guys – especially when Marty told us that, however bad Pete Kozma played shorstop for the Cardinals in the NLCS, he was not as bad as the Washington Senators' Roger Peckinpaugh in the 1925 World Series, who made eight errors! (Another highlight: Marty let me try on his 2010 World Series ring – and it is a thing of beauty!)
One thought I had that I did not get to share: As we discussed the Giants, and beautiful AT&T Park, I wanted to give props to General Manager Brian Sabean for building a team perfect for its ballpark. Instead of going out and signing home run hitters, who only get frustrated with the park's wide open spaces, Sabean brought in gap hitters like Angel Pagan, Marco Scutaro and Gregor Blanco. You could put Melky Cabrera in there too (even though we don't really like to talk about him any more), and it looks like it'll be a good fit for the Brandons – Belt and Crawford. Need I say Buster Posey?
And maybe, if Hunter Pence hits more line drives like his famed "triple double" from game 7 of the NLCS – the ball that hit the bat three times – instead of swinging for the fences, the Giants will have the ingredients necessary to foil those big bopping Tigers.
After all, Marty Lurie viewed Pence's lucky-breaking line drive as karmic payback for Willie McCovey's smash that ended the 1962 World Series. No one could have hit that ball any harder, but it went straight to the Yankees' Bobby Richardson. Pence's ball curved away from Kozma, and the Giants were in business.
It's good to be good. But sometimes it's better to be lucky.
Even if it's a little Torturous.]]>
Once again, the Giants are roaring into October, and the diehards are ready for another magical run. I sure am. But I can't help but note that things feel different this time.
For one thing: Where is the Torture?
And for another: What happened to our lovable band of castoffs and misfits?
The Giants of 2010 knew how to break a curse. They took all the Torture of the past half-century-plus in San Francisco — all the second place finishes of the 1960s, McCovey's line drive, Jose Oquendo, Candy Maldonado, Dusty Baker and Russ Ortiz — and they owned it. When Duane Kuiper coined his slogan in May of that season, "Giants Baseball: It's Torture!," he gave the team a rallying cry that told the world, we don't care how many times we bring it to the brink, we can win.
No one personified Torture more than Brian Wilson. He became the face of the franchise, muscle-bound, and weird beyond words, stalking to the mound, throwing heat – and giving up the walks that would bring opponents tantalizingly close, only to slam the door on such Torture. And it all flowed from Wilson: His pal, Pat Burrell, donning the leather straps as the Machine; Burrell's pal, Aubrey Huff, donning the satin thong that assured the postseason; and the rest of the castoffs, midseason acquisitions like Javier Lopez, Ramon Ramirez, and Cody Ross, who was claimed off waivers and went on to author some improbably insane postseason heroics.
The Giants kept their team remarkably intact in 2011, and it got them nowhere. But they did learn something important that season: the importance of Buster. When Posey went down in May, the Giants were essentially done.
I've often felt that Posey could be the Giants' Derek Jeter. Like Jeter, he provided the missing ingredient to bring his team a championship in his rookie year. He is calm, poised beyond his years, confident and capable. I don't think anyone would argue with the Giants naming Buster their captain.
And that's where the big difference between 2010 and 2012 comes in. Instead of Buster quietly fitting in among the Freak, the Beard and the rest of the castoffs, he is the undisputed leader of this year's squad. The Giants have a much more understated, workmanlike approach, exemplified for me by three young, strong, silent Southerners – Posey, Matt Cain and Madison Bumgarner. I think (warning: armchair psychoanalysis ahead) this may be why Tim Lincecum is struggling; the free-spirited, pot-smoking, long-haired Freak is no longer at home in his own clubhouse.
One of the interesting things about this switch in team personality hit me in August, when Carl Steward, a fine columnist for the Bay Area Newspaper Group (aka the San Jose Oakland Contra Costa Marin Mercury Times News Journal), took note of the Giants hitting a real low point in the season. They had been swept by the Dodgers at home. They looked like they couldn't score runs. Steward wondered if Coors Field could prove a tonic (it did), and if Posey and Cain were too quiet to fire up the team the way Huff and Burrell did two years earlier. Steward wrote:
Good teams need strong, occasionally outspoken leaders. Leadership can't always be by setting a good example aka Cain/Posey. Sometimes you have to get in players' ears. Sometimes you need to throw a fit or berate one of us media types after a loss. Sometimes you have to remind teammates that it's baseball and it's supposed to be fun as you set off a cherry bomb in the middle of the clubhouse, or hide a four-day-old chicken neck in somebody's locker.
It may be Cain's team and Posey's team, but they're the strong, silent, stable types. The Giants need somebody right now to throw the cherry bomb. Make somebody laugh. Make somebody ticked off. Become the human defibrillator.
Not only did the Giants start hitting at Coors, but they got their cherry bomb two weeks later, when Melky Cabrera was suspended.
He was cast off. The Giants were misfits no more. And never mind Torture, they overtook the Dodgers and clinched the division with 10 games to spare.
I can't wait to see what they do in October.]]>
Yet I couldn't help but notice that he has gone through some pretty impressive stretches this season. I've looked at the stats, and found this:
After dropping to a dismal .173 batting average on April 21 in New York – yes, well below his listed weight of 215 pounds – Crawford went on an impressive little run, hitting .259 in the next 17 games. Then Bruce Bochy boldly batted Brendan second in the order – where he's likely to see better pitches – and he responded, hitting .300 over the next nine games, with an on-base percentage of .356, 7 RBI and 8 runs scored.
You can see and sort Crawford's game-by-game stats at the table below. (I love Baseball Reference! The column headed BOP indicates batting order position; from May 17 to May 28, Crawford hit second in all but one game. If you click on those dates, you can get a table showing the stats from those games – my source of information.)
Boch said at the time he was experimenting, but that Crawford had been hitting well enough to merit a shot.
I would have thought Crawford had passed his audition, but then Ryan Theriot came off the disabled list, and as a proven major league hitter (in years prior to this one), Bochy handed him the 2-hole. I can't criticize that move, especially since Crawford struck out 15 times in his 45 plate appearances batting second. (Bochy also gave him two more shots at the 2-hole and he went oh-for-7.) And Theriot has proven Bochy right so far, batting .321 with a .406 OBA and zero whiffs in 32 plate appearances.
It's funny, because I had been wondering why Angel Pagan doesn't bat second, and Henry Schulman today reports that Bochy has considered that idea. (Schulman mostly writes about Pablo Sandoval's weight, thank goodness – I had long thought of that as, if you'll excuse me, the elephant in the room, and I'm glad to read that the Giants are addressing it.) Wouldn't you love a lineup of Blanco-Pagan-Cabrera-Posey-Sandoval? I sure would.
Meanwhile, since Crawford returned to his usual spot in Siberia, I mean the 8-hole, with its diet of pitches outside the strike zone, he has resumed his old ways, going 2-for-13 in the past five games.
He may be a future number two hitter, but he's not there yet – at least, not for a team, like the Giants, that has serious playoff plans.


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To borrow the words of Lee Hacksaw Hamilton, "Pick Em Pal!"
I pulled off an 11-5 record last week, but that was 2 games behind the Bolt Beat group leaders of last week: Red and marcdb 1. If you want to jump into the group, just jump into our ESPN group here. You can see how you compare to other Bolts fans and see how much you know football better than I do!!
Anyway here are my picks for this week:
Patriots over the Buffalo Bills
The Pats are rolling right now and you have to go with the hot hand. It will be a shootout with Ryan Fitzpatrick and Tom Brady going NUTSO, but the Brady and the Pats will roll to 3-0
49ers over the Bengals
This was a tough choice, but had to side with Jim Harbaugh and the 49ers to squeak by the Bengals.
Browns over the Dolphins
Peyton Hillis and the Browns offense should be able to control the ball and the clock to take the victory over the fish.
Titans over the Broncos
Maybe Tebow will get into the game this week? Chris Johnson and Kenny Britt will be too much for the Denver defense to handle.
Lions over the Vikings
3-0 for the Lions?! It sounds crazy, but they have a pretty good squad up there. Matt Stafford will try to have another HUGE ballgame for them.
Saints over the Texans
This is supposed to be a shootout and the Saints should come out of this game alive with the victory. Drew Brees and that offense will be too much for the Texans.
Eagles over the Giants
Mike Vick is going to play and has the home field advantage. The Giants will put up a good fight and will try to knock Vick out, but Desean Jackson will make some things happen.
Panthers over the Jaguars
Battle of the rookie QBs. Cam Newton should get his first victory of the year in this game and still put up monster numbers.
Chargers over the Chiefs
How many times have I said KILLING this week!?
Raiders over the Jets
These Raiders will be our toughest threat this year for the AFC West title.
Ravens over the Rams
Baltimore defense should be able to slow Sam Bradford and the Rams
Buccaneers over the Falcons
My upset pick of the week. Like I have said before, I still don't believe the Atlanta HYPE.
Packers over the Bears
I really can't pick Jay Cutler in a big time game
Cardinals over Seahawks
The NFC Worse showdown and the Cardinals show that they are the best in the division
Steelers over the Colts
Will the Colts even win a game this year?
Cowboys over Redskins
Romo and his bad ribs and lung will gut this one out.


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Paul "Earthquake" Moore mural defaced in Southwest Philadelphia
A Southwest Philadelphia mural has been defaced and the man whose face appears there now with graffiti sprayed on it wants to find who is responsible.
"I want them to learn to appreciate the neighborhood they live in," said Paul "Earthquake" Moore, a former professional boxer turned anti-violence activist.
The Finnegan Playground mural on the 6900 block of Grovers Avenue depicting Moore has been vandalized and tagged—with some offensive language.
A resident of the area, Moore noticed the damage more than a week ago, he said. He's alerted city police but wants to see what he can find out on his own. He said he plans to talk to some graffiti experts in the area to see if he can find any leads.
"I want to know who Chaz is," said Moore, referring to the alleged tag name spray painted on the colorful park mural.
But he's not out to throw somebody in jail.
"In order to change the community, you have to change the mindset of people," Moore said. "We need to send a clear message."
He personally wants to offer those responsible community service in the neighborhood.
Moore also thinks the graffiti could serve as a reminder to people the streets are not as safe and clean as they thought they were. That's something Moore has been working on for years following his boxing career.
In 2011, he was the winner of the Wrice-Campbell Award for Neighborhood Safety and was elected as chair of the Southwest Community Development Corporation.
"I'm just trying to make this community better," said Moore. "I'm over here trying to do God's will. Someone has got to take charge in the community. Somebody has got to stand up."
Moore is also seeking help from community members to clean up the eight-year-old mural. Interested parties can visit his website for contact information at paulearthquakemoore.com.
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Howard Roark laughed.
He stood naked at the edge of a cliff. The lake lay far below him. A frozen explosion of granite burst in flight to the sky over motionless water. The water seemed immovable, the stone flowing. The stone had the stillness of one brief moment in battle when thrust meets thrust and the currents are held in a pause more dynamic than motion. The stone glowed, wet with sunrays.
The lake below was only a thin steel ring that cut the rocks in half. The rocks went on into the depth, unchanged. They began and ended in the sky. So that the world seemed suspended in space, an island floating on nothing, anchored to the feet of the man on the cliff.
His body leaned back against the sky. It was a body of long straight lines and angles, each curve broken into planes. He stood, rigid, his hands hanging at his sides, palms out. He felt his shoulder blades drawn tight together, the curve of his neck, and the weight of the blood in his hands. He felt the wind behind him, in the hollow of his spine. The wind waved his hair against the sky. His hair was neither blond nor red, but the exact color of ripe orange rind.
He laughed at the thing which had happened to him that morning and at the things which now lay ahead.
He knew that the days ahead would be difficult. There were questions to be faced and a plan of action to be prepared. He knew that he should think about it. He knew also that he would not think, because everything was clear to him already, because the plan had been set long ago, and because he wanted to laugh.
He tried to consider it. But he forgot. He was looking at the granite.
He did not laugh as his eyes stopped in awareness of the earth around him. His face was like a law of nature — a thing one could not question, alter or implore. It had high cheekbones over gaunt, hollow cheeks; gray eyes, cold and steady; a contemptuous mouth, shut tight, the mouth of an executioner or a saint.
He looked at the granite. To be cut, he thought, and made into walls. He looked at a tree. To be split and made into rafters. He looked at a streak of rust on the stone and thought of iron ore under the ground. To be melted and to emerge as girders against the sky.
These rocks, he thought, are here for me; waiting for the drill, the dynamite and my voice; waiting to be split, ripped, pounded, reborn; waiting for the shape my hands will give them.
hitch hiked from Michigan to San Francisco with http://tiger-lilith.tumblr.com/
camping in golden gate park
appologies for lack of updates.


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The Story of Crime Fiction
Fri 8 Feb 2013, 18.30-20.00
Conference Centre, British Library
£7.50 / £5 concessions
Mark Lawson, who recently wrote and presented BBC Radio 4 series Foreign Bodies: A History of Modern Europe Through Literary Detectives, is joined by crime fiction writers, P D James, Henry Sutton and Jason Webster to discuss the history of the genre, their favourite classics and their own work.
- P D James is one of the great crime fiction writers and the recipient of many prizes and honours. From Cover Her Face, published in 1962 (which introduced police inspector Adam Dalgleish of Scotland Yard), via An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1972) and the dystopian sci-fi classic Children of Men (1992) to the recent Death Comes to Pemberley, her bestselling novels have been consistently acclaimed by both readers and critics. They combine intricate plotting and macabre twists and turns with elegant prose and complex morality. Created Baroness James of Holland Park in 1991 she previously spent thirty years in various departments of the British Civil Service, including the Police and Criminal Law Department of the Home Office, and has served as a magistrate and as a governor of the BBC.
- Henry Sutton is the author of eight novels, including the shortly to be published My Criminal World, and co-author, under the pseudonym James Henry, of the DS Jack Frost novel, First Frost. His work has been translated into many languages and his fifth novel, Kids' Stuff, became a long-running stage play in Riga, Latvia. In 2004, he won the J.B.Priestley Award. He has judged numerous literary prizes, and was for many years the Books Editor of the Daily Mirror. He is now Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, where he also teaches the master's module, The Writing of Crime Thriller.
- Jason Webster was born in California and was brought up in England and Germany. After living in Italy and Egypt, he moved to Spain in 1993 where he now lives, close to Valencia. His first crime novel, Or The Bull Kills You, was long listed for the CWA Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards, New Blood Dagger and was followed by the equally acclaimed Death In Valencia. The third in the series, The Anarchist Detective, will be published in 2013. He is also the author of a number of highly acclaimed travel books including Duende: A Journey In Search Of Flamenco and Sacred Sierra: A Year On A Spanish Mountain.
- Mark Lawson is one of Britain's most accomplished cultural journalists, broadcasters and authors. He has presented The Late Review since 1994 and also BBC Radio 4's arts magazine Front Row. He has twice been voted TV critic of the Year and has won numerous awards for arts journalism. He has been a freelance contributor to numerous publications since 1984 and a Guardian columnist since 1995


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Chapter Eighteen6 Reviews
Kobra Kid explains to Lady Madness what's been going on...
Colourful Shadow flicked on a light switch "Thank god the electricity's still on. God this place brings back so many memories."
We looked around. It looked like our old hide-out only bigger and all on one floor. We were in a large kitchen area and there were loads of doors leading off into different rooms.
Colourful Shadow took us to the nearest door "So in here is the bathroom. It's pretty self-explanatory. There's a bath, a shower, a toilet… It's the works!"
She walked around the kitchen pointing into different rooms and telling us why they were there. Finally she got to the last room and paused "And this room is the baby's room."
We all looked inside. There was a small pink cradle on one side of the room, a changing table the other, a small wardrobe for the baby's clothes and baby toys dotted around the room. "Why is this room here?" Screaming Revolver asked "I didn't think it was normal to keep a baby out in the zones."
"This was my room." Colourful Shadow replied sadly "When I was a baby anyway."
We were all silent. Although all of us were orphans (Apart from Lady Madness) we felt extremely sorry for Colourful Shadow.
Colourful Shadow sighed heavily and took a step back "I guess this is the end, huh?"
"I thought you were coming back?" Fun Ghoul asked, looking panicky.
She smiled at him "If I have the opportunity to come back then I promise I will."
"I can't believe you're going back." Fun Ghoul said, shaking his head "I can't believe that we're letting you back there."
"It's not really your choice to make, is it?" Colourful Shadow asked, rising her eye-brows "Anyway, I'm off. Thanks for forgiving me and agreeing to let me come back and stuff."
"Well thank you for saving us," I smiled "We'll all miss you until you come back too."
"And I'll miss you too." Colourful Shadow grinned "But we'll see again."
And just like that, she ran back to the elevator "I won't say goodbye properly," She called as the elevator doors began to shut "It hurts too much!"
The doors shut with a bang and we heard the elevator rise back to the surface. Jet Star took a deep breath "But what if Better Living doesn't believe her? What if they terrify her into giving up our position?"
"She wouldn't do that." Fun Ghoul said sternly "I trust her so the rest of you have to, okay?"
He said it so fiercely that we didn't dare argue. Lady Madness turned to me and asked "Could you please tell me what's going on now?"
"Yeah sure, sorry." I apologised, taking her hand and pulling her into one of the bedroom's that I hoped would be our bedroom. That's if she chose to believe me…
I sat down on the bed and she sat next to me. I told her everything from finding her into the desert from the moment that Korse shot her with the memory gun.
She shook her head "It's a pretty convincing story but how do I know you're not just leading me on?"
"What do you mean?"
"In this story we're in love, yes? How do I know that you aren't just making this up to make me fall in love with you?"
"Because you told me something you'd only tell someone you trust and love," I whispered "You told me your name."
"I would never do that." Lady Madness replied, looking confused "I would never tell anyone my name."
"I can assure you that you did," I said then added "Jenna."
Her eyes widened and her mouth dropped open "I really told you my name!"
"Of course you did!" I cried "And I told you my name! You still remember it Jenna, you know you do! Please remember! Think really hard!"
She started thinking really hard, I could see the effort in her face. She sighed heavily "I'm so sorry, I don't remember you!"
I took her hands "Korse told me that when he shot you with the memory gun that you'd remember my true name forever. It's there somewhere you just need to remember."
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"Thank Christ!" I cried, throwing my arms around her "I was scared you'd never remember me!"
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Then in a secret meeting of the planets that did not include Pluto, it was decided that Pluto should no longer be considered a Planet at all. Earth was primarily responsible for the decision, saying that the definition of a planet should be made more rigid for scientific purposes*. Earth was the thinker of the group. At first, Venus and Saturn felt bad about the decision, but then they thought Pluto might actually feel better if he didn't have to try so hard to live up to high planet expectations.
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Japanese interest in the aircraft - which takes off and lands like a helicopter, but flies like a plane - has grown now that the U.S. Marine Corps has deployed the aircraft there for over a year. Public resistance to the V-22s on the island of Okinawa, which has a large U.S. military presence, has also diminished.
"They've started to see the capabilities because of the U.S. presence over there. They're starting to resonate with the platform itself," Leanne Caret, vice president and general manager for vertical lift in Boeing's defense division, told Reuters in an interview.
Caret added that there had been interest in the aircraft in the Middle East. "An order from the Middle East will open some serious doors," she said.
A senior Pentagon official told Reuters in June that the U.S. government had provided briefings to Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Italy, Brazil, Colombia, Singapore and Australia about the V-22 aircraft, also known as the Osprey.
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The expected downturn in U.S. defense spending was similar to declines seen after the end of other military conflicts, but this was the first time that there was such strong international demand at the same time, she said.
Recent wins in helicopter competitions in South Korea, which ordered Boeing's Apache helicopter, and India, which is buying CH-47 Chinooks could help generate additional sales in those respective regions, as well as follow on work for aircraft support.
"That's going to open up more areas of opportunity in that region as those aircraft continue to demonstrate their capabilities," she said, noting that the company planned to have a large presence at both the Dubai and Singapore air shows.
With the Pentagon bracing for over $1 trillion in spending cuts over the next decade, Boeing is also focused heavily on ensuring that it delivers its aircraft to the U.S. military as promised.
Boeing has multiyear purchase agreements with the Army and Navy for its CH-47 Chinook helicopter and the V-22 but even those contracts could be reexamined if the current difficult budget climate continued, Caret said.
"So we're being very cautious and we're making certain that we stay focused," she said, noting that Boeing also continued to invest in new technologies and other efforts to drive down the cost of producing new weapons.
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One of the busiest places to be this time of year is the operating room. It's not because of holiday accidents. Huge numbers of patients have surgery in December by choice.Dr. Tim Smith is a sinus surgeon at Oregon Health and Science University. The week before Christmas this year, he performed 10 surgeries in three days.
Tim Smith: "We joke with one another that people think it's busy at the mall this time of year, they ought to check out their outpatient surgery centers."
Smith says it wasn't like this a decade ago. But now surgeons across the Northwest expect a rush of patients wanting elective surgeries in December. The reason, says Smith?
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Hello Ted World! I will never stop asking you guys questions! It's out of respect though, I respect you guys so much!
My question is, is there such a thing as a useless degree? Okay. my interests in a nutshell. I love talking. I love debating. I love making films. I love directing. I love public speaking. I love planning events. I am currently a junior, 17 years old, and recently I held my very first event at school. I had speakers, performers, videos, presentations, and the purpose of the event was to inspire people to be themselves and love who they are. My ultimate dream is to be a talk show host. The best major that I think suits me is communications. I cannot tell you how many times I've heard that it was a useless major. That I would never be able to find a job. And live my whole life working at Burger king.
Is there such a thing as a WORTHLESS degree? And if you don't mind sharing, what did you major in? How did that turn out?
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IRVING, Texas – For the last two months, we've talked about the Cowboys being around $20 million over the salary cap.
In a few hours on Thursday, they turned it around and are now under the cap.
And they're not exactly done creating cap space either with other deals expected to get restructured by the weekend.
But by the end of Thursday's business day, the Cowboys had officially restructured five players, including cornerback
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Realistically, the Cowboys could get even further under the cap to place the franchise tag of $10.63 million on
The Cowboys did make their first free-agent signing of the offseason as well, retaining long snapper
Last weekend, both owner Jerry Jones and vice president Stephen Jones told reporters the Cowboys could get under the cap without signing
Unlike players such as Carr, Witten and Ware, whose new contracts had provisions already written in the language to redo, Romo's new deal will take some serious negotiations. The quarterback has altered his contract twice before to save some cash on the cap.
This deal is more about Romo getting a fair deal for the market, but one that fits the Cowboys' financial plans as well.
It's likely Romo's camp is waiting for Baltimore's Joe Flacco and/or Atlanta's Matt Ryan to re-sign their deals before agreeing to anything the Cowboys are offering. Still, it's expected Romo will probably land a contract that will pay him in the range of $16-19 million annually.
The Cowboys also have tackle
Cutting Connor would save the Cowboys $3 million off the cap, but the club has reportedly approached him about lowering his base salary to return next year.
Overall, this offseason here at Valley Ranch could be considered a slow time, but Thursday was definitely an exception.