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It was announced in January that Paramount and Bad Robot Partners JJ Abrams and Bryan Burk are going to create a film of the now infamous cyclist Lance Armstrong. Paramount has the screen rights to Cycle of lies: The fall of Lance Armstrong.
It was announced in January that Paramount and Bad Robot Partners JJ Abrams and Bryan Burk are going to create a film of the now infamous cyclist Lance Armstrong, who rose to stardom after beating cancer and winning the Tour De France seven times through doping. Paramount has the screen rights to Cycle of lies: The fall of Lance Armstrong, which will be written by Juliet Macur for Harper Collins. Macur is a sports journalist for The New York Times and has followed the life of Armstrong for over a decade, so there is probably nobody better to write a book on him. However, should a film be made?
When the allegations first surfaced properly last year, Armstrong, who had been a hero and role model to so many, vehemently denied any involvement with performance enhancing drugs. However, recently, Armstrong admitted to the scandal on the Oprah Winfrey Show, he also admitted to bullying some of his team mates to ensure their continued loyalty towards him. The sport has taken a beating because of these scandals and a film could damage cycling even more, especially if it's dramatised through Hollywood. I enjoy films by Abrams and Burk, but they're better known for Sci-Fi films. If this film is going to be made, it should be made as a documentary, where facts are the tenets instead of exciting drama.
An example of a good sport's film trying to hijack truth and replace it with drama is The Blind Side, which starred Sandra Bullock and Quinton Aaron. The 2009 film portrays the true story of Michael Oher, who was the son of a poor, crack addicted mother in Memphis and was adopted by the Tuohy family (played by Sandra Bullock and Tim McGraw), who helped him develop his football skills. Oher was not pleased with the direction of the film because the details were greatly exaggerated for dramatic purposes and even his own character was falsely portrayed as a Forrest Gump type athlete, when in actual fact, Oher was already very good at football by the time the Tuohy family took him under their wing.
Saying this, directors should be allowed some dramatic license, even in true stories. However, the unadulterated facts in a Lance Armstrong film would still provide an exciting experience, as it's now fully apparent that the allegations placed on the fallen cyclist are true. However, the sport must come first and cycling had some amazing moments last year, especially for the UK (Bradley Wiggins at the Tour De France and Team GB at the Olympics), a film could overshadow all the great things that the sport has to offer … but, alas, this won't stop the juggernaut that is Hollywood.
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[As we branch out national-style, Faith, our new Editor-At-Large, will be bringing us a weekly scavenger culled from eBay, so no matter where you live, you can entertain a purchase for your kitchen.]Here's a vintage Franciscan Atomic Starburst platter in a narrow oval shape. Maybe it's my vintage kitchen talking, or my insatiable need for more serving dishes, but I find this piece quite charming. It has no bids yet, so it's still at its starting price of $8.50. Ends Sunday, September 24.
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Ah, Franciscan-ware... My mother utterly despises it. My grandmother, her mother, one of my Aunts, and a second cousin all have the Desert Rose pattern. They tried to get my mother to buy it and she sensibly refused. :P
I do love vintage Corelle patterns, Pyrex, and Fire-King Jadeite though. Some day when I have enough money, I will build an entire collection of Jadeite dinnerware from eBay.
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It's a little ceramic figurine designed to keep your fruit pies from boiling over and for venting steam so that the crust doesn't get soggy.
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The DPW - Highway Division maintains 265 miles of public roads, 30 off-street parking areas and the structures within its right-of-way including stormwater drains, curbing, approximately 130 miles of sidewalk, 130 trash receptacles; provides leaf collection on public roads in R-20 building zones and below; maintains traffic signals; and installs signs and pavement markings. The Highway Division provides many other services to the Town. These include snow and ice control, street sweeping, maintenance of certain Board of Education infrastructure as will as important ongoing capital programs such as paving maintenance and highway maintenance. This latter program includes work to maintain over 10,000 catch basins, sidewalks, curbs, fences and guiderails across the Town. Altogether, the Highway Division functions as a well organized and dependable service provider for the town.
The Waste Disposal Division of Public Works provides solid waste disposal services to the public. Services provided include: disposal of solid waste materials - regular household and commercial trash, over-sized bulky waste (construction & demolition material), organic waste (yard waste), single stream recyclables, other recyclables, and household hazardous waste. This Division conducts outreach to its customers and its work with resident participation in the recycling area has led Greenwich to have one of the highest rates in the state. Holly Hill is an extremely busy facility which operates efficiently with a small number of full time staff.
The Building Construction and Maintenance Division (BC&M) is responsible for the administration, planning and execution of all construction and maintenance activities for town owned buildings; except marine docking facilities and buildings assigned to the Board of Education. BC&M deals with 136 locations throughout Town, including Town Hall, the Metro-North Railroad sites, Town buildings leased by outside groups and many other facilities. This Division is constantly "rolling with the punches" accommodating and re-modeling various departments and buildings as needs and staff grow and evolve.
The Engineering Division has responsibility for the planning, design, and construction administration of Town capital improvement projects and for providing professional engineering services for comprehensive reviews and reports on private development plans submitted to the Town's Land Use Commissions. Engineering handles traffic engineering, the bridge program (75 bridges), stormwater planning and improvement design, and other capital projects to better town infrastructure such as sidewalks, drainage, dams etc.. Engineering coordinates with Highway and many other stakeholders to arrive at maintainable, practical, and safe designs. We are fortunate to have well-trained engineers on staff who are often tapped to help other DPW divisions when their expertise is needed.
The Building Inspection Division is responsible for the administration (and State mandated enforcement) of the Connecticut State Building Code and all other codes and standards referenced therein. These responsibilities include reviewing applications for building permits (including monitoring other Town agency approvals prior to permit acceptance), reviewing plans for code compliance, issuing building permits and associated trade permits, inspecting work done under said permits, monitoring building permit conditions as well as other Town agency approvals and issuing a Certificate of Occupancy/Compliance for each permit. This Division follows strict and not always popular regulations; but they are adept at dealing with the public in a polite and professional way.
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LaFOLLETTE (WATE) - Members of the Animal Control Advisory Board in Campbell County met for the first time Tuesday night since closing the county's only shelter amid scandal.
The county's only animal shelter closed two months ago and is now under investigation by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.
It was shut down after shelter workers alleged that the director, Betty Crumley, was not giving animals enough sedative during euthanasia.
Tuesday's meeting was not about reinstating Crumley or reopening the shelter because the animal control advisory board does not have that power.
That power lies in the hands of county Mayor William Baird, who insists he will do nothing until TBI completes the investigation.
Crumley sat at the table as eight board members discussed the current state of animal control in the county.
The board did not discuss allegations against her or the operation of the shelter. Members made a point to the 20 people in attendance that they had no power to hire or fire anyone.
"We didn't make the decision to close the animal shelter, and if 15 of us voted to open it back up, we cant open it. It's solely on the mayor. He is in charge of that department. We have no authority," said Tom Hatmaker, Animal Control Advisory board member and county commissioner.
Hatmaker said their hands are tied."I would have liked to see it open two months ago, but there are only three employees and they're operating on a shoestring budget, and we can't simply hire three more people," Hatmaker said.
At the moment Betty Crumley and two other employees are on paid administrative leave.
Crumley appeared at Tuesday's meeting as a non-voting member of the board.
Board Chairman Mike Garret said Crumley's experience makes her a valuable member of the committee.
"She is the best source of that information because she ran the shelter," Garret said.
But some in the crowd were surprised she was there.
"We have the director of the shelter on the board, and personally, I think it's a conflict of interest," said Michelle White, a member of Friends of Campbell County Animals.
FCCA is one of the rescue groups that is taking over while the shelter is closed, spending thousands of dollars of personal money.
"The county is taking taxpayer money and setting it aside for the use of the shelter, yet the shelter is not open. That is a huge problem," White said.
Mayor Baird says he will not reopen the shelter until the investigation is complete. Many continue to point out the allegations against Crumley's actions are still only allegations.
"Until I hear someone sit down in detail under oath and say what they saw and what went on, then it's basically hearsay," Garret said.
In the meantime, LaFollette Animal Control Director Stan Foust, also a member of the board, has been answering many of the county's calls. He says his workload has doubled."In the spring we had all these puppies born and now they are running loose in the county. Has it had an effect on rescue groups? Yes it has, I'm sure they're overwhelmed. Has it had an effect on the residents of Campbell County? Yes it has," said Foust.He says for the county's sake, the shelter needs to reopen as soon as possible."Whatever the outcome, whether Ms. Crumley is guilty or not guilty, we need to get the shelter reopened and put this behind us and get the county taxpayers taken care of," Foust said.
None of that was discussed Tuesday night. Instead, the board went over ordinances on how the shelter should be run and how animal control should operate.
For many rescue group members in attendance, it's a step in the right direction.
"We are starting at such a low point, that anything is good, but the situation is deplorable, so we need to get this fixed. We need to get that shelter opened. We need these animals taken care of," said Cindy Faller, a volunteer at Blount County Animal Shelter and member of Smokey Mountain Animal Rescue.
The board only got through a fraction of the ordinances. They plan to meet again next month.
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Over at the Washington Post, Chris Cillizza has a worth-reading take on whether Newt Gingrich should withdraw from the GOP presidential contest. He says no – not yet:
If Gingrich can win in Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana — and, to be clear, that's a big "if" — he will have stockpiled enough delegates in the most reliably Republican region in the country to give himself a bit of bargaining power with the eventual nominee.
…If he holds out and can score wins in the deep South over the next three weeks — not entirely out of the question — then Gingrich is in a position to cut a deal with Romney who will be looking for ways to consolidate support and close out the nomination by then.
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Mitt Romney won a crushing victory Tuesday, winning twice as many states as Rick Santorum and more that two and half times as many delegates, but his triumph is being portrayed in headlines across the nation as sign of weakness and failure.
Romney is being widely panned by the press for an "inability to close the deal," and yet the description seems far more apt for Santorum, who now has blown huge leads in the most critical contests of recent weeks, Ohio and Michigan. If anything, the more voters look at Santorum, the more concerned they become and less likely they are to sign on the dotted line.
Worse for Santorum, he will continue for the foreseeable future to split the most conservative votes with Newt Gingrich – who stays in after winning Georgia – and with Ron Paul, who would remain in the race until 2018 if he could. And Romney has a war chest that will swamp Santorum in the upcoming air wars for closely contested states.
And yet, despite all the evidence Romney largely vanquished his rivals Tuesday night, here are some of the headlines this morning:
Wall Street Journal: Romney Ekes Past Santorum in Ohio
New York Times: With No Knockout Punch, a Bruising Battle Plods On
Los Angeles Times: Battle in Ohio Reinforces GOP Divide; Romney's Slim Victory Leaves Race Uncertain
USA Today: Romney, Santorum See Momentum
CNN: No Knockout Blow for Romney
Reuters: Romney Narrowly Wins Ohio, Fails to Knock Out Santorum
You get the idea.
There are several reasons for this.
All reporting is now sports reporting. Reporters love a battle and they love to go on TV and rave about how exciting everything is. And editors seek a bracing and never-ending storyline because it draws readers and ultimately pleases their corporate bosses, who want to sell papers and generate pageviews.
And reporters also tend to be moderate to liberal. Bloodletting among Republicans at some level is agreeable to many of them.
That Romney is in all likelihood on the march toward nomination will probably soon become too apparent for any serious journalist to deny.
March 7th, 2012
3:34 pm
so the test is to see if alabama and mississippi votes are as stupid as south carolina and ga? even odds i'd say
March 7th, 2012
3:39 pm
Maybe Newt and Callista will be sent to Somalia as ambassador and mrs.
March 7th, 2012
3:41 pm
Romney Scores Big Win; Press Fails to Notice
Hardly. As I recall, the "moderate to liberal" press made much of the groups that Obama/Clinton did or didn't carry in 2008. He's been running for 6 years, he has tons of money, and he is squeaking by. That is news-worthy.
March 7th, 2012
3:44 pm
I'll share my conspiracy theory, Adelson has said that he will not support Santorum, but he will eventually support Romney. So he makes his last contribution to Newt so that Newt remains in the race to keep Santorum from winning the nomination, therefore ensuring a Romney victory.
March 7th, 2012
3:48 pm
If Newt were to be Romney's running mate, it would Dick Cheney reincarnated.
March 7th, 2012
3:51 pm
I vored for the only real CONSERVATIVE… Ron Paul
March 7th, 2012
4:00 pm
He's delusional at best, won 2 out of 20 something. Money must be involved somehow.
March 7th, 2012
4:03 pm
Stay in the race. republiCons will vote for which ever white guy wins the nomination. He has nothing to lose by staying the race until the convention.
March 7th, 2012
4:08 pm
Noots should pull out his secret weapon.
Have callista throw her head back and swallow a rabbit just like on "v".
March 7th, 2012
4:20 pm
Newt wants a prime time speaking slot at the convention to talk about the details of his moon colony and how it will be paid for despite the billions in revenue lost from Mitt's tax cuts to the wealthy. How to pay for it? How to pay for it? How to pay for it? How to pay for it? How to pay for it? BONDS! AKA debt. But I suppose Repulsivecan debt is different than other kinds of debt so they would not count it.
March 7th, 2012
4:40 pm
Please, please, please!!! Stop the whining and crying like babies over "media bias". It is not the cause of every issue that plagues the right wing. It really isn't.
It's old, it's tired, and things just aren't all that bad. If the media bias really exists you have a virtual lock on talk radio and FoxCorp at your disposal to act as a counter.
But your incessant whining and crying is just worn out and makes you all look like spoiled children to pretty much everyone else.
March 7th, 2012
4:47 pm
Stop…Just Stop
March 7th, 2012
4:40 pm
"It is not the cause of every issue that plagues the right wing. It really isn't."
No but it the reason Obama's approval rating is not around 30%.
March 7th, 2012
4:51 pm
Dry your eyes widdle one. If you're good I'll buy you a mocking bird.
Cry baby
March 7th, 2012
5:01 pm
Stop…Just Stop is the first liberal partisan here to deny the media bias. I expected to hear from more stuck pigs.
March 7th, 2012
5:03 pm
Maybe President Obama's approval rating is just above 50% because despite constant derision from the overwhelmingly 'conserrrrvative' media, JUST OVER 50% OF AMERICANS APPROVE OF THE JOB HE IS DOING.
Couldn't it.
March 7th, 2012
5:11 pm
I seem to notice it is mostly the 'con' media that is discounting romney's obvious lock on second place in November.
They seem not to like him so much but they just can't hold their breath and make him go away.
March 7th, 2012
5:17 pm
I love how it's just total opposites arguing past each other:
"The media is LIBERAL!"
"NO, the media is CONSERVATIVE!"
March 7th, 2012
5:17 pm
You people conduct a most useless dialogue.
March 7th, 2012
5:22 pm
I'm not questioning it as much as I am pointing out that your constant crying and whining over it is unseemly for an adult. Grow up already and get over it. One of the reasons it is so hard to take you seriously is your predictability……
1) Someone on the right screws up
2) Galloway or others or others report on it
3) You cry baby's blame the messenger
So stop….just stop. Don't make me come back there.
March 7th, 2012
5:31 pm
Drudge has endorsed Romney and will give Romney favorable coverage.
Newt will stay in the race because there is no reason to get out. Someone else is paying the bills and he gets to do what he enjoys, feeding his ego.
Besides the world is coming to an end in December anyway.
March 7th, 2012
5:31 pm
Approval rating just above 50%? Honested, what pipe are you smoking from?
And Centrist – crushing victory? Seriously? Crushing? He's running against an inept field and still has not clinched. One of his victories was due to the two leading opponents not even being on the ballot. Two other states were one of his own home states and a neighboring state. Another was a caucus stacked with Mormons. He had to go negative and dump half his cash into Ohio to barely beat nutty Santorum. The only thing crushing is Mitt's faltering ego.
March 7th, 2012
5:36 pm
Check the average at RCP (just because of the ease of access) and then look at the individual polls and you will see that only the 'usually wrong suspects' are the only ones that do not show the President at 50% approval rating or better.
I know the wrong wing dislikes the guy intensely, but you don't seem to realize the wrong wing is shrinking every day!
March 7th, 2012
5:40 pm
Newt will need to flip her "on" switch first.
March 7th, 2012
5:42 pm
the deal is to be mayor of that moon colony?
March 7th, 2012
5:43 pm
jconservative (5:31)
ya just hit the nail on the head
March 7th, 2012
5:44 pm
Centrist: "And reporters also tend to be moderate to liberal."
I'm sure it would take less than a minute to list any journalist (and I use that term loosely) whose writing is "moderate." You are correct in you depiction of them as being the "cheerleader" types (my words), and that they are paid to deliver the goods, i.e., sell newspapers. We here in the Atlanta area have been fed an overly-aggressive plate full of innuendo, speculation and pure guesswork by the likes of the AJC; Jim Galloway being the epitomy of a "Poster Boy" for that group.
March 7th, 2012
5:53 pm
Romney wants to win, therefore,
Newt likely will NOT be VP or in cabinet– maybe ambassador
(but wouldn't he just love Sec of Defense or something in the "intelligence" field!?!)
Professionally, likely because the Obama election taught Romney it is best to skip those votes in Congress that can be used against him, he now seems to feel the only upward mobility for him to achieve is for him to become president.
Ever ambitious, let's hope that if Romney wins the nomination and presidency that his mindset will be on history and he will use his considerable leadership skills to make the USA better for the majority of working Americans w/o making it an embarrassment w/regard to it's treatment of the elderly, children and those others that did work and still want to but cannot work, specifically including but not limited to our veterans.
feel his running mate will be either Latino and/or a seriously religious right-wing-nut.
March 7th, 2012
5:56 pm
Going right………….over a cliff, The media here and everywhere pretty much states the facts. The things you don't want to hear, even when true, make it look slanted in your eyes. Facts are facts. Deal with them or quit reading.
March 7th, 2012
5:58 pm
Just tell me what is happening.
Don't stop to worry about an 'effect on the share price' that might occur if the Public finds out the facts.
Just sayin'.
March 7th, 2012
5:59 pm
"We here in the Atlanta area have been fed an overly-aggressive plate full of innuendo, speculation and pure guesswork by the likes of the AJC; Jim Galloway being the epitomy of a "Poster Boy" for that group."
Then stop whining and start your own paper. Why do you feel you have an entitlement? Free market. Free press.
March 7th, 2012
6:05 pm
Or, you could just read kyle wingnut every day, even though it wouldn't tell you anything about what was really going on.
March 7th, 2012
6:34 pm
Some replies to the above – I will continue to mention the liberal bias of the media and especially point it out when it is done via this blog. Only the most partisan liberals say the mainstream media is conservative. Talk radio and some websites, and on cable TV Fox has conservative spots – the vast bulk of the media is left or far left.
Romney's win yesterday as well as his previous lead is "crushing". He has more than double of the delegates than all contenders combined, and will maintain at least that double lead over his nearest rival until he secures the nomination. It is rare that at this early point in the primary/caucus calendar that a candidate has already secured the nomination. Plenty of nomination conventions have gone more than one ballot in the past (and the leader usually wins on subsequent ballots), but it is not likely to go past the first ballot this year.
March 7th, 2012
7:00 pm
Your argument may work, until you ask someone who agrees with you (not a polemicist, just some rink off the street) what they actually mean by 'liberal media'. You will get twitching blank eyes and maybe some babble reflecting what they heard on am radio, but most people I have ever asked to define their complaint CAN'T.
To the second point, 'crushing' will define the Obama victory over the magic underwear candidate in November.
March 7th, 2012
7:03 pm
I just can't help myself but this is one place where we might agree.
Many who whine here would suggest that failure by Mr. Galloway to jump to the defense of the SBC or to hail the unconstitutional attempt to criminalize abortion would point to a 'liberal bias'.
Instead of seeing it clearly as a bias toward the law.
March 7th, 2012
7:08 pm
Google "Drudge Romney bias"
281,000 links.
"Centrist" wants the media to be biased to favor his candidate.
Drudge is being accused by many conservatives of a bias that favors Romney. Drudge is of course is a very conservative website. Funny, "Centrist" just posted a Drudge column today on Jim's blog.
March 7th, 2012
7:39 pm
Santorum left last night before Romney was declared the winner in Ohio. He KNEW… It is interesting
that Romney carried the women and Catholic vote when two of the candidates are Catholic. I am the first to admit that MR has been battle scarred by NG anf RS plus the elite biased media (MSNBC –
plus several others. —yellow journalists. i.e. Rev Al Sharpton.trying to become the next MLK… …they don't even try to hide their bias broadcasting 24/7….Newt will stay in the race as long as he has the price of a plane ticket from primary to primary. He and RS just didn't do their homework by not getting certified in Va and several other states. Pain is an opportunist; she, BHO and Newt love "center stage"…every time I turn on the TV…there they are.)free press…. Newt & Callista didn't even vote…what a pair???
March 7th, 2012
7:54 pm
P S Palin is a opportunist. The train has left the station and Romney is the engineer….He just needs
to stay in the driver's seat and watch out for landmines on the tracks as he heads into Ala, Miss and La. Newt thinks he has Tex sewed up based on Perry's endorsement but remember Barbara Bush has endorsed MR….Her agenda is more than likely Jeb B, her son. Newt may not make it to Tex. Is it likely that the incumbent may make Hiliary his running mate???? A possibility???
March 7th, 2012
8:50 pm
So…what Chris is saying that Newt should stay in because he can win republican states, but not moderate or democratic states.
How is that supposed to help anybody in a General Election?
This, my friends, is why advocates make terrible prognosticators.
March 7th, 2012
8:52 pm
Okay, the NYT express way too much doubt about Romney's Super day. But, otherwise,I don't know what news outlet some of you were watching, but CBS and CNN, and Fox for that matter all said, for all practical purposes took the nomination last night. They're analysis of the strength of his support, however, expressed more concern. Legitimately, I think.
I see it a little differently than most of them. The fact that Romney's strength is in urban centers, could cut one of two ways. One: Obama won with strong numbers in urban centers and was weak in the rural, less populous areas. This could mean that Romney can take on Obama in the urban areas winning the growing number of independents there and win the rural areas who would vote for Elmer Fudd over Obama. The second take? Since urban areas are the strongest Democratic areas, Obama takes them again and the rural areas don't matter.
March 7th, 2012
9:36 pm
Romney's strength in the primaries lies in urban areas. He will not win these areas in the general election.
Romney's biggest strength is that he is not Santorum (he is neither Ron Paul nor Newt, but they are such losers that no comparison should be necessary). Conventions can be brokered and I am nearly certain the GOP would rather broker a convention to nominate Romney than embarrass the party by allowing voters to nominate Santorum. After the Palin fiasco and the bond downgrade the GOP can not afford a fascist embarrassment like Santorum.
Romney has nothing to worry about unless, as they say in the South, he is caught in bed with a boy or a black girl.
March 7th, 2012
11:50 pm
Newt hasn't bowed out because he knows Romney and Santorum can't close the deal with Obama. No one would sit in the barbecue like he's done merely for ego. Newt's staying in because he truly believes he knows where America's heading and he's trying to get her back on track and I hope and trust him to do it!
March 8th, 2012
11:13 am
Newt & Santorum are unemployed. Romney is retired. The first two are running on "someone else's dime"…Newt has a good chance to beat RS in Ala, Miss, La and maybe Tex???? What does he have to lose…after all he is promoting his/Callista's books and gaining free press for their books. He can always go back to teaching on the college level. Don't think he will ever move back to Ga??? Eli you have great insight into this GOP race. Don't think MR will ever consider RS or Newt for any post….like kerosene and water…just won't mix. MR needs to concentrate on TEX, IMO.
March 8th, 2012
1:07 pm
If the media is so biased, then why did the always refer to Super Tuesday as a Republican Primary? I know several Democrats who were unaware that they needed to go vote because there was nothing else on the ballot. Fortunately I put out the word and for a few days before the election and had others do so as well. Thanks Social Media!
March 8th, 2012
1:11 pm
Romney has nothing to worry about unless, as they say in the South, he is caught in bed with a boy or a black girl.
I thought the saying was nothing to worry about unless you're caught in bed with a live boy or a dead woman.
I guess your version is said in "secret places."
March 8th, 2012
1:26 pm
If he stays in the race a bit longer, he might run into another cute blonde he can replace Calista with. Just think of how many more votes that would get him from the evangelicals that supported him on Tuesday.
March 8th, 2012
3:39 pm
You can always tell a "smart mouth" but you can't tell him/her much???


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I looked at him funny. "You're kidding me, right?"
He nodded. "No, I'm not...," he slightly blushed.
"Well! You promise not to do that?" I slightly growled.
"I promise...," he said quietly. I think I scarred or scared the poor guy. He got up and skulked away. Flint slapped me so hard on the back I almost choked on my own septum.
"You should apologise! I think he loves you!"
"Ow! That hurt!" I got up and stamped away and locked myself in my room. I put my ear up to the wall because I could hear him.
"Maggie... I wish I'd never seen your face... you led me away from home... just so you could be alone... you stole my heart and that's what really hurts...," his voice was a bit garbled through the walls.
"Oh...," I sighed softly. I continued to lean.
"We're no strangers to love... you know the rules and so do I... a full commintment's what I'm thinkin' of... you wouldn't get this from any other guy... I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling, gotta make you understand... never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down, never gonna, never gonna say goodbye, never gonna tell a lie and hurt you...," he stopped for some reason. (A/N: You've been rickrolled HAHAHA!!! :D)
"Drank too much water...," I mumbled.
"Lucian! Lucian?" I went to his room and he wasn't there. "Oh? You aren't here?" I paused. I looked at the space between the bed and floor was just big enough for me to fit; so I crawled under it. "This will be interesting," I thought. Luckily the drapping around the bed should hide me... "People will think I'm crazy... oh well..." I then heard footsteps.
"Wonder where Cynthia went?" He said. "Oh well, time to jack off!" He grinned and lied down on the bed. I thought about vomiting... I just decided to to plug my ears instead. I soon became oblivious and fell asleep... I woke up to him talking, "hmm... sex... wonder what it's like..."
I then got an idea. I crawled quietly from under the bed. "Sex is fun," I whispered into his ear.
"Are you my conscience?"
"Yes, trust me, it's fun...," I began to walk off. I slowly opened the door and shut it quietly. "Phew...," I sighed in relief and went to the kitchen; Aaron and Bertha were there.
"HiCynthia!" He said. "What'sup?"
"I was sleeping... what about you?" I smiled.
"IwasjackingoffbutnowI'msitting," he replied. I eyed him funny but he tried to keep the snickers in.
"That was weird," I mumbled walking into the kitchen. Bertha was doing her crosswords, Aaron was snickering and Cynthia was looking at him funny. "What's going on?" I said sleepily.
Bertha soon snapped out of what she was doing. "Oh, nothing much," she said. She went back into her crossword and ignored whatever we said. I sat down next to Aaron.
"I had the weirdest dream...," I whispered into his ear.


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DERRICK MAY: Father's Day is on Sunday and the holiday of course makes us think about our dad, Da
39 years ago next week, the San Francisco Giants and the New York Yankees engaged in the first trade of $100,000 athletes in sports history. I don't remember where I was when I heard the news. Pretty sure the reason I don't recall the moment is because, well….
I knew it was coming.
* * * * * * * *
The best teams are very much like a rock band. You have your leaders, your loners, your followers, and in my experience*, there was never a band better than the Giants of the early '70s. You had Willie Mays, who was like our ageless, iconic lead singer; a phenomenal horns section of Gaylord Perry and Juan Marichal; the sure-handed Willie "Stretch" McCovey on bass; the forgotten All-Star catcher Dick Dietz on drums keeping time for everyone, and an incredible young lead guitarist with one of the most fabulous sports names of all time.
Bobby Bonds.
Bobby had established himself as one of the up-and-coming superstars of the game at this point. He was fourth in the MVP voting in '71, and the season before had joined the elusive 30-30 club. The talk was that Mays coined the phrase "30-30" (even though Ken Williams from the St. Louis Browns was the first to do it in 1922) and was all too happy to include Bobby in that group. Willie and Bobby had a true bond. Bobby was more than his protégé. In many ways, he was his son; in others, they were like brothers.
My personal recollection from Spring Training, 1971 & '72 before the strike, they were inseparable. Always talking in the clubhouse, going out to eat together. They were the very best of friends. Again, my idol was Marichal and he taught me so many things in this game and McCovey was one of the coolest dudes in the clubhouse – he was the judge in our Kangaroo Court. It's not a coincidence that Willie's number was 24 and Bobby's was 25. Everyone expected Bobby to be Willie. Sometimes Bobby expected Bobby to be Willie. A few of those years, he came real close, too.
One field general behind the plate, four players we knew were going to the Hall of Fame, and the one everybody was convinced was on his way. With a caring manager in Charlie Fox that watched over us all.
Quick story, it's my first spring training and we're playing the Cubs, I'm 20 years old. First inning of my spring debut, nerves are getting the best of me and I walk the first couple of batters. Glenn Beckert steals third. I'm a little rattled, Beckert's dancing outside the base line – I end up balking him in. The Cubs dugout is laughing their ass off and pointing at me. I was pretty embarrassed. The laughter wouldn't stop. "Muley" (Dick Dietz' nickname) calls time and trots out to the mound.
"You all right, kid," he asked me. I nod as the Cubs continue busting my chops from afar.
"I know what to do," I say. Muley flashes a knowing smirk, he gets it, he knows what's coming, slaps me on the rear and jogs back behind the plate. I do what I have to do.
My next pitch is a 95-MPH heater stuck right in the batter's ear. He fell like a ton of bricks. Muley stands up above him, grinning as he tosses me back the ball. The laughter coming from the Cubs dugout stops. I fan the next two guys up, glaring across the field as I walk off the mound.
"Keep on laughing," I yell over, "You guys got two innings of this crap!" I take my time heading to the bench as Mays comes up behind me, slapping me on the back running in from the outfield. Marichal chuckles knowingly as I step down into the dugout, reaching over, rubbing his hand over my cap like I was a little boy done good. Charlie Fox had no expression as he leans in, whispering, "Finally, I got a young pitcher like you." I felt like a teenage gangster getting congratulated by the mob for my first caper. As I walk down the dugout to grab a drink of water, someone gently kicks my leg to get my attention. I turn to find Bobby Bonds winking his approval.
And the band played on.
The 1971 Giants were a team that didn't take any crap, went to the post-season for the first time in nearly a decade, coming within two games of the World Series.
The Giants had finished in 2nd place for five straight seasons from 1965 to 1970. The only problem was the ballclub had attendance issues; tickets sales had dwindled from 7th in the league in 1967 to dead last by 1972. Longtime Giants owner Horace Stoneham was having serious financial difficulties – unlike other owners in baseball, the Giants were his sole source of income. Even before Free Agency, before Messersmith-McNally, how do you pay five potential Hall of Famers when you're counting less than a million coming through the turnstiles?
The answer is you don't.
During the baseball Winter Meetings of 1971, Stoneham made a move. He traded Perry along with shortstop Frank Duffy to the Cleveland Indians for southpaw Sam McDowell. Sudden Sam had a dream season as late as 1970, striking out over 300 batters, an all-star four years in a row – a player that simply needed a change of scenery, Stoneham thought. Sure, Perry and McDowell made the about same salary, but Perry was due for a big raise. Marichal was already making $125,000 per. One of them had to go.
It was during the 1972 campaign where turnover in the band really took shape. Dietz was our representative at the time of the Major League Baseball players' strike that spring. He was also coming off two incredible seasons, OPS+ higher than 130 in each of those years. Muley made the mistake of crossing management during the labor negotiations. When the players' returned to the field in April of 1972, Dietz was gone. Stoneham didn't even trade poor Muley; he placed him on waivers. The hated Dodgers didn't think twice, scooping Dietz off the waiver wire almost immediately. There was talk about some "clerical error" in the Giants' front office, but we all knew the truth. Dietz was let go for his attitude during the players' strike. First week in the season Dietz broke his finger and was done by June. Purchased by Atlanta the following spring, 1973 would be his final season. His OBP in 191 plate appearances was .474. His avg., .295. His OPS+ 145. After being released by the Braves in the spring of 1974, Dick Dietz couldn't find a job. Such a smart, sure-handed receiver, made a fireballer like me look like a control pitcher. A shame what happened to him. Go through the '74 rosters on baseball-reference.com – tell me you can't find at least five teams that could've used 'ol Muley. He was 32 and out of baseball. Blackballed. One of the more reprehensible labor-related stories in league history.
One month later, Stoneham cut more payroll, albeit in the classiest manner possible. It's an oft-told story, but basically Willie Mays wanted security and Stoneham's financial situation was anything but. So by sending Mays, the face of the franchise, back to New York, Stoneham created a heartwarming Baseball tale AND cut over $150,000 from the payroll. This left a void where, even though Stretch and Marichal remained and were beloved, extremely respected men in the clubhouse, the Giants baseball band needed a lead singer.
Whether he liked it or not, Bobby Bonds had to fill this role.
* * * * * * * *
The clubhouse in '73 was for the most part harmonious, even if there were many groups. Bobby had his own group, usually playing cards on the team plane with "The Garys", 2nd-year player Garry Maddox & rookie Gary Matthews. They were the "Young Giants," as we were now labeled. We were all respectful of one another, embracing each other's cultures, tastes in food and drink, music especially. We didn't have a state-of-the-art clubhouse, but there was a stereo in there. Sometimes we listened to Crosby, Stills & Nash, sometimes it was Jim Croce, sometimes Marvin Gaye, or The Temptations, the soundtrack of the room was this fabulous, multicultural mix tape. As our unofficial leader, Bonds played an enormous part in creating this environment.
We were in first place for all of May until the Dodgers had taken the division lead from us by the middle of June. Bobby and the Gary's carried the ballclub, all season, keeping us relevant in the race. Bobby took his hot first half right to the 1973 All-Star Game in Kansas City, representing the ballclub (along with starting shortstop Chris Speier.) Man, did he put on a show, too, going 2-for-2 with a long home run, receiving the game MVP award for his efforts.
The Dodgers held the lead all summer pretty comfortably until the Reds made a push in late August. We hung in there as well, and Bobby led the team the entire way. By the time I joined the club right before the September post-season eligibility cutoff, the first thing I noticed was that Bobby was always in the manager's office with Charlie after the game, having drinks, dissecting the team's performance. Bobby was in there with Charlie so often, you would've thought they shared a desk. He was truly becoming our spiritual leader, and he hated, I mean hated, the Dodgers, hated them this year especially for taking the division lead from us. Bobby wasn't at all a vengeful person from what I saw, but there was no doubt he wanted retribution.
I was so excited by the call up to the big club, I didn't know what to do with myself. The music in the car on the way to the ballpark both in Phoenix and then San Francisco would really get my juices flowing. About a few days earlier, I had picked up the new Rolling Stones album, Goats Head Soup and one song in particular I played over and over. It was stuck in my head when we faced the Dodgers on Labor Day, 1973.
L.A. had lost three in a row to Houston and let the surging Reds come within a game of 1st place. This would be a pivotal win for them but we wanted to hand it to them something awful. Didn't start out as we planned. The Dodgers had already been leading 3-1 when they busted the game open with five runs, chasing our starting pitcher Tom Bradley and reliever Donny Carrithers. We were down 8-1 by the sixth inning. A few minutes after my teammates piled into the dugout, I looked over to the tunnel leading to the clubhouse. Smoke was coming from behind the runway wall, floating onto the field. Whenever the team was behind, Bobby would go through a couple Winston cigarettes between innings down there, he was so wound up about losing. He couldn't take it – it got him so frustrated. Today, he was especially tight. No, scratch that – he was pissed, marching through the dugout, declaring "We're not losing today," to all of us, "Not today."
We went quietly in the bottom of the 5th and Bobby kept smoking. Tommy John really had our number early on. He punched out Bobby on a called strike three in the 6th; Bobby walked back to the dugout, calmly placed his bat in the rack and went for another smoke. He was furious. Soon small pockets of the tepid 15,000 some-odd fans in attendance started making their way for the exits.
TJ ran into trouble when he faced the middle of our order the following inning. Matthews and Stretch both reached base on singles. Speier hit a clutch double that plated Gary. TJ countered with back-to-back strikeouts. Dave Rader, who was a pretty good hitter himself, singled to center, bringing home McCovey and Speier. After giving up another single, Dodgers manager Walter Alston brought in Pete Richert to face Bonds. Bobby's so jacked up, I'm expecting either a monster homer or a strikeout. Bonds sends Richert's pitch into left for a ground rule double, scoring Rader, Now we're back in it, only down by three runs. People stop leaving. A Tito Fuentes single brings home two more and it's suddenly a one-run game.
Charlie brings in Don McMahon, who by the way, is 43 years old, our pitching coach we re-activated in June due to a bullpen crisis, and was pitching out of his mind. McMahon gets the Dodgers down 1-2-3. Richert strikes out the side in the bottom of the 8th. McMahon finishes the 9th without letting anyone get on base, a fantastic job of keeping us in the ballgame.
Going into the 9th, we're very concerned no one's touching Richert today. Bobby is in the runway cooling his heels with another cigarette, the smoke filling out the other side of the dugout. Then Richert starts off the inning with a walk to Gary Thomasson. Dave Rader goes up to bunt, squares, perfectly placed between home plate and mound, Richert races to the ball, fires it to second, but Thomasson just beats the throw. The smallish crowd's demeanor begins to build into an optimistic cheering section. I look over, the smoke is gone, and Bobby moves through the dugout, toward the bat rack, bearing the determined grin of a man on a mission. Mike Sadek, the rookie catcher, pinch hits for McMahon, he bunts as well, a beauty down the third base line, Ken McMullen charges, turns and quickly throws to second. Dave Rader just beats the throw. Bases loaded – no outs. The fans are going absolutely batshit.
Alston appears totally shell-shocked at this chain of events; there's a hint of mope in his walk to the mound to remove Richert, motioning for the left-hander, Jim Brewer, one of the five or six best relievers in the game. Nastiest screwball you ever saw. I watched Bobby in the on-deck circle swinging his bat slowly, staring, studying and sizing up Brewer. The 37 year-old reliever finishes his warm-ups, the crowd is screaming as the P.A. announcer calls Bobby's name and the human walk-up song struts to the plate. I felt like a fan just like everyone in the stands. It's at this moment, in this time, when the tune from my new album plays in my head above the crazed cheer of the crowd.
Brewer, the southpaw, sets, winds up and comes with the screwball. Bobby swings right through it, as if expecting the gas. The crowd noise ignores strike one, the stadium hum stokes Bobby, while trying to distract Brewer as he catches the toss from Joe Ferguson behind the plate. Bobby isn't deterred. As locked-in a dude at the plate as I've ever witnessed. This is his game, he has spent too much time in the dugout angry and pissed, too many days and months stewing about losing the division lead, to let this aging, all-star pitcher define the day. Brewer sets, Bonds squares, Brewer lets the ball go, Bonds guesses screwball this time…..
Bonds guesses right.
Monster shot to deep left. The joyous buzz of the crowd escalates as the ball travels further across the dusky San Francisco sky. Dodgers' outfielder Bill Buckner goes back, looks up…..
Grand Slam.
Giants win 11-8.
It was the most badass display I have ever experienced in Baseball. Fans celebrating with pitchers in the bullpen, throwing popcorn, cracker jacks, seat cushions across the stands, light debris flying onto the field. Bonds circles the bases with a rhythmic jog, the triumphant hero. It was glorious pandemonium.
The 1973 Dodgers never recovered, went on to lose another five straight, as the Reds blew right past them.
After the game, Bobby emerges from Charlie's office into the clubhouse celebration, raising his glass to all of us, telling everyone he could find, players, coaches, beat reporters, "We're still in this, too. Don't count out The Giants." We're all engaging in bravado and smack talk about us making the playoffs ourselves, overtaking both the Dodgers and the Reds, but that was just joyous chatter on the back of an implausible victory, and Bobby was the loudest voice in the room. After this day, there was no doubt Bobby Bonds was the spiritual core of the team. Ultimately, Bobby won his second Gold Glove and came in third in the MVP voting. Meanwhile, Stoneham continued dismantling the band. Marichal was sold off to the Boston Red Sox and Stretch was sent to San Diego for money and a young Mike Caldwell. With Gary Matthews winning the Rookie of the Year in 1973 and Garry Maddox continuing to improve, Bobby was ready to make the band in his own image, although it took on more of the form of a headliner than anything else. As every TV promotional teaser for the 1974 season would say, we were now Bobby Bonds and the San Francisco Giants.
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1974 came and my most cherished memories of the season have nothing to do with wins, losses or rookie awards. I was shagging fly balls in right field before a home game in early April when this spunky, excitable 11-year old kid first came out to join me with his glove. He didn't ask to play; just stood there watching me. I finally turned to him and said, "Barry, would you like to catch a few?" He just nodded, stepped over like it was nothing and started flagging down flies. We would do this together at least once a week for the entire season. By the end of the year, Barry envisioned himself as our center fielder, running down flies with me, precocious positioning through the afternoon glare, catching, stepping and throwing, pretending he was nailing Lou Brock at the plate.
Barry was at the ballpark all the time. He sat in the dugout with us during games. He wasn't the bat boy, he wasn't the mascot, either. He was part of the team. In a time where white players and black players still sat separately on the bench, Barry would talk and mingle with everyone. We all loved having him around, playing tag with the Garys in the outfield before games, celebrating in the clubhouse with us after victories. See, that's the thing people who aren't from the Bay Area fail to understand about why local fans defend Barry Bonds so feverishly. We watched Barry grow up, watched him run around the 'Stick with his other brother, Bobby Jr. The crowds were so small, they felt intimate. The Giants drew barely 510,000, easily the worst in baseball. There was no one at the ballpark so everyone who was there pretty much knew each other. You saw the same fans again and again.They all would see Barry roaming the field. Barry knew all the vendors' names. Fans would walk by Barry and Pat, his Mom, Bobby's wonderful wife, eating ice cream and hot dogs at the concession stands, game after game after game. Barry Bonds wasn't just the son of a Giant icon, not just a Giant icon himself.
Barry's family. And right or wrong, regardless of everything that has come to pass, you defend family to the death.
This 8mm film was shot by Robert Janover, an 11-year old boy at the time who is now a Bay Area photographer. The pictures from this wonderful video are like childhood home movies to me, blurry and yet vivid all at once. I watch this and the images of little Barry Bonds are unlocked from the recesses of my mind, of Barry getting chased jokingly by random players around the warning track, of Bobby's face observing his beautiful boys dash across the Astroturf during batting practice, of Bobby leaning into the stands, receiving a good-luck kiss from Pat before a game.
These are my favorite scenes from 1974. The offstage drama was another story altogether.
Major League Baseball had stepped in and provided financing for the Giants as Stoneham's money situation worsened. Charlie and Bobby were not getting along. Charlie was under pressure to build off our third place finish. Bobby felt the Young Giants were his team, his responsibility. As Willie once basically had a voice in running the ballclub, Bobby felt he was next in queue, that this was his baseball birthright.
All of this was a huge legacy for Bobby to uphold. He was the superstar puzzle on the back of every All-Star baseball card in 1974. Much like the kids who collected in vain but couldn't find all the pieces, Bobby was almost complete, but something was off, something not quite in place. I would see Bobby outside the clubhouse door kissing his kids goodbye in the hallway, leaving ahead of him for home, the look of contentment vanishing the moment they walked around the corner. His inner peace came from Pat and his children. I joked with him once about how Barry said he's gonna be the best player in history, better than everyone else, even his Dad. Bobby would crack up, laughing as he puffed through another Winston. "Yeah," he chuckled, his eyes wide with pride for his son, "I love that boy." Affectionate father and husband, great leader, great teammate, still I could never uncover that missing piece that would make Bobby Bonds the person whole.
Toward the end of May, I hit a rough patch, losing five straight starts after winning my first two. The Dodgers came to town, and lit up Ron Bryant with six runs in the first inning. By the time the middle of the 2nd rolled around, Charlie, staring at a 6-0 deficit, nudged me on the shoulder and nodded to the bullpen in right field.
"Johnny, go get some work in," Charlie said, "I may be throwing you in this game soon."
"You got it, Skip," I replied, grabbing my glove. I ran out to warm up and next thing I know I'm on the mound with runners on 1st and 2nd, down 8-0. Over the course of 3 2/3, I struck out eight and gave up a lone hit. I did my part to give us a chance to get back in this thing. After striking out the side in the top of the 5th, Bobby emerged from the runaway, dashed out his Winston with his spikes on the dugout ground, walked over, threw his arm around my neck, and gathered the ball club. "Enough of this shit, guys," Bobby said, "This kid's pitchin' his heart out and we're lettin' them come into our yard and treat us like this? We need to win this game. We did this last year, we can do it again." We made a valiant comeback, but '74 wasn't '73. We ended up losing 9-5. No more heartbreakers.
The team was hovering around .500, but not making much traction in the division. Charlie had always been a players' manager, but now he was constantly feuding with Bobby. Finally, on June 27th, I went up against my buddy Randy Jones down in San Diego. Pitched one of my best games of the year, complete game, gave up six hits, two runs, struck out five, walked one. Bobby played great, 3 for 5, including a triple and a 3-run homer. He seemed like his old self. Later after the game, I looked around for Charlie, as we always talked at length after my starts. Couldn't find him. I passed by Bobby, who was enjoying a cigarette and a beer in the clubhouse at his locker. Bobby extended his hand.
"Good game, kid," Bobby said, slapping five.
"You too, man." Bobby nodded, agreeing somewhat.
"Yeah, I felt relaxed tonight." It just hit me that I hadn't seen a beer can in Bobby's hand in the clubhouse in the longest time.
"I'm gonna go find Charlie," I said walking away. Bobby's words stopped me. "Yeah," he remarked, sort of rolling his eyes.
That's all Bobby needed to say. Not an agreeing "Yeah," not an accepting "Yeah," but a "Yeah" that sounded more like a "Yeah, you'll see."
"What's that," I asked, turning around. I didn't like where this was going.
"Charlie's out," Bobby replied, with a polite coldness.
"Out? Fired?" Bobby stared me in the eye, nodding, offering me a beer.
"It was time for a change. There was nothing I could do." Just like that, my mentor, my father figure in Baseball was gone. It felt like a professional hit to my heart. I truly loved Charlie Fox. No one looked after me in baseball like Charlie, and Bobby was like an older brother, so I knew not to get involved. It wasn't like Bobby was this petulant employee disobeying his owner. Bobby was a very powerful voice in the organization. You could almost consider him head salesman for the company, and sometimes in the corporate world when a standoff comes down to an upper-level executive and a revenue-generating employee, sales wins. And I know that Bobby respected Charlie. This was only business.
I left Bobby's other beer hanging and went to my Mom's house, which is where I stayed when I was in town to play the Padres. I loved my team, loved my manager to tears, loved the guys, but it was so obvious that the ballclub I dreamed of playing for was all but dismantled. Bobby was left, Speier, Kingman & Jim Barr. Ron Bryant looked like he was never gonna recover from his off-season swimming accident. Tito Fuentes was still around, but was having a bad season. I had never been through a manager firing. The cherry had been popped.
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While not having the best year to begin with, Bobby was hitting .261 in the first half. With Charlie out of the picture and off his back, Bobby still barely batted .250 in the second half of the season, hitting .247 in August and then falling to .222 in September. As word began to leak out that the team still had yet to nail down new ownership, Bobby's performance continued to erode. Whispers around the team were that interim management in place would try to move Bobby. I couldn't believe what I was hearing. The club finished the season 72-90, the teams' worst record in nearly 30 years. But still, how could they trade Bobby?
1974, to me, seemed like the year in Baseball when the last collection of players from the "Black & White TV" era were changing teams for a final big-league hurrah or leaving the game altogether. In that winter, Aaron would return to Milwaukee. Billy Williams went to Oakland chasing post-season glory. The Tigers' Norm Cash and Al Kaline retired. Minnesota Twin icon Harmon Killebrew was politely released by the team. This is also pre-free agency, the Catfish Hunter/Finley controversy barely getting warmed up.
It was close to a week after the 1974 World Series had ended when the news hit the papers. I'd like to say where I was when I found out the Giants traded Bonds to the Yankees on October 22nd, 1974, but the fact is I can't and the reason for that is it wasn't the shock to me that it was to everyone else. The rumors were persistent in the clubhouse for weeks. I could have been driving in the car and heard it on the radio, maybe heard a day later or read it in the paper. News traveled a lot slower back then. Remember, there was only the Today Show on in the mornings back then, no real local morning TV news like today. What shocked me, if anything, was the All-Star who came back in the deal.
In some way, Bobby Murcer and Bobby Bonds were kindred spirits, both dragging legacies attached to their backs that they couldn't possibly uphold. What bothered me more about Bobby being traded was that – jeez, we traded the most talented player in the game – everyone's on the table now. Me, Barr, Kingman, Tito, Speier, Maddox – everyone has a price on their head. Maybe I was being naïve, but again, I'm only 22 at this point. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road indeed.
I wasn't wrong, either, over the course of the next six months; Dave Kingman was sold to the Mets, on the advice of Willie Mays for $150,000. Tito Fuentes was sent to San Diego for Derrel Thomas. Ron Bryant would be shipped to St. Louis for Larry Herndon, which actually turned out to be a fantastic little swap. Garry Maddox was sent to Philly for Willie Montanez. Ed Goodson, a former #1 draft pick, owner of one of the sweetest swings you would ever see before his career-killing injury, was quietly sent to Atlanta.
The card tells you almost everything you need to know. Yes, the Giants' insignia and colors are airbrushed all over him, but this could not be a better metaphor describing Murcer's reaction to coming to San Fran. Murcer wrapped himself up in the legacy of Pinstripes. You see it in his face on this card. Now, look at the background. Sure, he's wearing the Giants orange and black, but his spirit would always be located in the house that Ruth built. His heart was broken. I almost wonder if the TOPPS card designers back on the East Coast at the time were making a statement of some sort with their choice of photo.
This isn't just opinion, either. After the team bus stopped at the hotel in Los Angeles for the Giants' first true road trip in 1975, most of the young guys went out on the town. As I stepped off the bus, Bobby gently grabbed my arm and said, "C'mon, Johnny, let's get dinner." We enjoyed a couple of steaks, a bottle of wine and then finished up at a nearby bar for a nightcap. Bobby went into all the pressures he had to deal with following Mickey Mantle. "Mickey was the most terrific athlete I ever saw, "Bobby told me that night, "And that's in the mid '60's. I never saw him with Yogi and those fellas. If he didn't go out and about as much as he did, he could've been the greatest player of all time."
Murcer talked about New York all night, its many attractions and many more distractions. "To Mickey's credit," Bobby continued, "As much as he went out, he always did what he had to do to get on that field. He was a true ballplayer." Bobby wasn't a heavy drinker at all but tonight it really hit him where he was. Nursing a whiskey, Bobby opened his heart to me. All this talk of Mickey, the Bronx and the Yankees really got to Bobby.
"John, I still can't believe I'm not in New York," Murcer said between sips of our final drink that night, "And I'll give you everything I have in me. But make no mistake, I don't wanna be here. I am a New York Yankee. I'll will always be a New York Yankee." And it's not even that he hated San Francisco – he got along great with the fans, reporters – everyone loved Murcer, one of the classiest men I ever met in Baseball. He just never saw himself as anything but a Yankee. And what a gamer he was on the field for us. Bobby certainly held up his end of the bargain. He always hit with men on base. Turns out the deep numbers prove this as well. Murcer drove in 20% of his inherited runners in 1975, not only the best mark of his career, which included his three or four brilliant seasons with the Yankees, but was also the best in Baseball in '75, slight better than Fred Lynn in his amazing rookie year, slightly better than Jim Rice, better than Reggie, Boomer Scott, Rusty Staub, Schmidt, Bull Luzinski, everyone. Murcer got the runners home.
Murcer was the Giants' lone representative at the 1975 All-Star Game and also his final appearance as a player. Ironically, it was to be Bonds' final midsummer classic as well, in his only season as a Yankee. And it was a good one for Bonds, too. Remember, the Yankees played at the home of the Mets', Shea Stadium in '75, for the second of two seasons while Yankee Stadium was being refurbished. Word was that Bobby spent a lot of time with Willie Mays (who was a coach for the Mets at the time) while he played for the Yankees. They continued to be the best of friends up until his death in 2003. Bonds ended up hitting 32 homers for the Yanks, which was quite an accomplishment in spacious Shea – no Mets player had ever hit more than 26 with calling Shea Stadium home. Funny thing was, Kingman hit 36 for the Mets at the same ballpark in '75. The best home run hitters of all time to that point in Shea Stadium came from the Giants. How's that for amazing?
Murcer had told me Steinbrenner had promised to bring him back to the Bronx at some point. I could see the desperate hope in Bobby's eyes when he spoke those words, but I had to think, with an outfield of Elliot Maddox, who was hitting about .330 at the time, Sweet Lou Pinella and Bobby Bonds, the electric ballplayer made for the grand stage of New York, the cover boy of at least four or five magazines that spring, I wasn't sure this would ever happen. I mean, think about it, who's gonna trade Bobby Bonds again?
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I dropped Murcer off at the hotel and stayed out just a bit longer. My elbow was bothering me all through dinner, but the crisp May evening air kept me from returning to my room. I passed a nightclub with young people in suits and gold chains walking in and out. The days of flower children and casual dress on Saturday Night was all but coming to an end. I ended up returning to the hotel literally thirty minutes later, but not before poking my curious head inside. It was the first time I had heard KC & the Sunshine Band.
We were in the 2nd half of the '70's now, my innocence long lost, everything's about to change, the supergroup of my Baseball youth disbanded and boy, does my arm hurt.
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*The Giants of the mid-1960s were among only a handful of teams in Baseball history with six Hall of Famers on the same roster. That was 1965 - Mays, McCovey, Marichal, Cepeda, Perry & Warren Spahn's final season. Cepeda was hurt most of the season. The previous season there were five excluding Spahn, but Perry had yet to establish himself as a pitching star. Still, what a collection of guys I played with in Spring Training, '71.
You can find more of Robert Janover's wonderful photography at www.robertjanover.com
Card Art designed provided by Andrew Woolley, creator of the www.dickallen15.com website.
You can read more about the Bobby Murcer card and many others from that set @ Night Owl's '75 TOPPS blog: http://75topps.blogspot.com/2010/10/350-bobby-murcer.html
Of course, thanks are in order to the guys @ www.baseball-reference.com for providing the deep-dive numbers on Murcer's 1975 season.
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Twitter hardens two-factor authentication with app-based secure logins
They've invented their own authentication scheme. This can only end well.
Google+ architect: What was so great about Reader anyway?
Re: What was so good about Google Reader?
But.....but...it lacks social elements I hear Google scream?
I don't need to know what some hipster had for lunch as I desperately search through the stream of crap on Twitter for some news. RSS gives me the meat and cuts out the dross.
VMware and partners to build uber-vCloud to take on Amazon
Obvious strategy is obviously missing
Come on VMWare. Build the service that will allow us move VMs seamlessly between private ESX clouds and a scalable public cloud. Or, allow us to offload processing capability to a public cloud that will give businesses scalability at times of high demand. Put in place an encryption layer underneath the VMs to protect our sensitive data.
This is such an obvious next step for a company that has massive penetration within corporate networks, yet they persist in mucking around with their existing stupid solutions that are no better than existing public cloud providers. If we wanted public cloud functionality and only public cloud functionality, we'd go with AWS. And we probably will if VMWare don't get their act together.
BYOD trend could kill off role of CIO – SCC
Some idiot with an iPhone and Dropbox thinks he can run a business off it? Let him off.
What is the Nokia Secret Plan if Windows 8 isn't Windows gr8?
Plan A has failed
I'd buy a Nokia Android. It would at least keep the company alive while they indulged Elop's fantasy about the MS ecosystem. Nokia should then look at Amazon for inspiration, and create their own Android ecosystem until such time as the MS-ites are forced out.
Microsoft hikes volume prices by more than a third
MS on the verge
For the first time our organisation (a fairly old school financial services firm of about 500 people) have given serious thought to moving people away from MS on their desktop. We've toyed with the idea of Linux (and a Java Desktop) in the past, but it hasn't been more than a pipedream. Recently with the price of MS software increasing, the hassle of getting virtual "anything" working with MS licensing, plus our users becoming more familiar with alternatives, leaving MS becomes a real option for a subset of our users.
The problem is still application compatibility, plus the mighty MS office, so we're not going to get there quickly - but every year becomes easier.
iTunes fanbois outraged by Apple's sex-life quiz probe
Security questions are hard
I know it's easy to laugh at Apple, but setting these sort of questions is difficult. I've worked in security, and I've had to set similar questions - particularly now in the era of Facebook and LinkedIn, it's harder and harder to find questions that are
i) Memorable
ii) Not available online or known to your friends
iii) Unique
iv) Won't change in the near future
Give the security guys a break - they don't want to be asking you where your first kiss was, but if people insist on putting the details of their life online what else can they do ;)
Can Windows 8 bag Microsoft 20 more years at the top?
"but you'll get used to it"
Most of the reviews of Windows 8 seem to follow a standard format
1. Describe some key feature that has been removed/destroyed/made inaccessible
2. Talk about how "you'll get used to it".
3. Give some sermon about how change is good, even if it makes your life harder
Sorry, that's a fail.
Android out-runs Windows Phone 7 on price comparison site
Odd marketing target
MS have aimed their ad campaigns at those people who don't like using their phones. Which is an odd choice of market for smartphone phones, it's more a low-end Nokia market. I think most people who have smartphones like using their phones, it keeps them in touch with their social network and they are more than happy to hear that a new message has arrived. I can't understand the MS marketing strategy aiming at the anti-social or technophobic market.
MS drops drive pooling from Windows Home Server
Sounds easy
Would you mind if I gave you a phone number and you can explain that to my parents? If you could also take their support calls I'd appreciate it.
Like Xbox removing gaming functions
In related news, Microsoft will be removing the gaming capabilities in future Xbox 360 releases. "Following extensive consultation with business customers we have decided to focus on the core Xbox social networking functionality" said Microsoft Senior Executive Vice President Mitch M. Mitchkinsonson. "We realise this will be a disappointment to some of our valued Xbox customers, but we feel that re-focussing on the core product competencies will syngergistically leverage our modalities."
Ranting Ohio Republican scares interwebs
1 minute mark
and a masters degree in......COMMUNICATION!!!!
Beautifully done sir.
Americans demand Twitter-watching police
Facebook status update: Being mugged LOL WTF OMG
As a matter of interest, what is the collective noun for a group of gobshites?
MoD bod warns of cyber attack risk
Encrypted laptops
How long do they need to encrypt all their laptops? At this stage they are still only 70% encrypted?
Tory MP's email fail stirs up bloggo-fury
Our public representatives are inundated with cranks obsessively emailing about their latest religious, social or medical obsession. In the ideal world he should be able to filter this stuff, but that takes a degree of technical nous that not everyone will have.
Microsoft's Ballmer and Ozzie tag-team on mediocrity
Where's the vision thing
There's no sense of vision there. Everything is seen through the prism of the opposition, it's like Liverpool fans celebrating when they beat Man Utd but lose the league.
I don't much like Jobs but he has a vision and has his company working towards that vision. Microsoft products have some integration, but the only goal seems to be some corporate gobbledygook "we want to enable multifaceted synergistic enhancements to disparate information repositories". They're adrift at the moment.
The Hurt Locker sweeps Oscars
Dances with Smurfs
Avatar was memorably described to me as "Dances with Smurfs". Hurt Locker was awful, the storyline and characters made no sense.
Heathrow 777 crash: Ice to blame
A potential solution
We could light a fire in the fuel tank which would melt the ice. Problem solved.
Apple's 'latest creation' debuts January 27
I think you have it
If this is an instant-on device, controlled ecosystem, good Internet access, relatively cheap price it will be hit methinks.
Google flirts with new-look home page
It was good while it lasted
The slow demise of every good search engine can be traced back to the point at which they felt a need to clutter up their search interface. Some people just can't leave well enough alone.
Microsoft rubs Web 2.0 noses in SharePoint cash pile
No internet connectivity?
Cloud based demo doesn't work because vendor couldn't connect to the cloud? That's an ooops. I for one welcome Microsoft storing all my personal and business data, what could possibly go wrong.
Sun CTO douses own cloud in cold water
Super security??
He's having a laugh. "Give us all your private customer information, give us all your hardware and applications, sure what's the worst that could go wrong?"
Nokia to develop Intel-based pocket internet gadgets
We already have these devices
They're called the smartphone. Why would I want to carry another device?
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