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I know sometimes baseball fans get angry when us nattering nabobs of negativism (copyright: tax cheat and lousy official scorer Spiro Agnew) suggest that their team might be hopelessly out of the race.
So I won't do that this morning. Yes, the Braves just lost two out of three games at home to the San Diego Padres, a last-place team, at a time when they really needed to sweep somebody at home, especially a last-place team. But keep hope alive, right? Uh, where was I?
So here goes. You will get no negative verbiage from me. You get only numbers. I figure in this case, numbers tell the story.
First, here's how it looks in the N.L. East:
Team W L Pct. GB
Philadelphia 73 52 .584 –
Atlanta 67 60 .528 7
Florida 67 60 .528 7
And here's how it looks in the N.L. wild card picture
Team W L Pct. GB
Colorado 72 56 .563 –
San Francisco 69 59 .539 3
Atlanta 67 60 .528 4.5
Florida 67 60 .528 4.5
And here are all the bottom lines:
♦ EAST: If the Phillies continue to play at a .584 pace, they'll go 22-15 in their last 37 games and finish 95-67. The Braves would have to go 28-7 (.800) just to tie.
♦ EAST: If the Phillies play at just above a .500 clip, 19-18, the rest of the way, they'll finish 92-70. The Braves would have to go 25-10 (.714) to catch them.
(For the record, Philadelphia was 39-37 on July 2. It's 34-15 since. The Phillies have been playing at a .694 clip for nearly two months.)
♦ WILD CARD: If the Rockies continue to play at a .563 pace, they'll go 19-15 in their final 34 games and finish 91-71. The Braves would have to go 24-11(.686) to tie them.
♦ WILD CARD: If the Rockies play at a .500 clip, 17-17, the rest of the way, they'll finish 89-73. The Braves would have to go 22-13 (.629) to catch them.
(For the record, Colorado started the season 18-28 but is 54-28 since firing manager Clint Hurdle May 28 and replacing him with Jim Tracy. The Rockies have been playing at a .659 clip for three months.)
♦ BRAVES RECAP: They were 39-43 on July 6. They are 28-17 since. That's a .622 clip, which is less than .800, .714, .686 or .629.
OK, I'm done. Hopefully I didn't ruin your breakfast.
What do the numbers tell you?
August 28th, 2009
5:33 am
Got the mega ball numbers Jeff?
If so, please e-mail.
August 28th, 2009
5:52 am
I bought a quick pick for tuesdays drawing and I got 4, v, q, q, z, and mega ball bumber was the star symbol.
August 28th, 2009
5:55 am
Numbers don't lie BUT hope springs eternal.
August 28th, 2009
6:16 am
It is what it is…cant wait to see how hudson does on monday
August 28th, 2009
6:38 am
Jeff, your wild card numbers have one (slight) mistake. San Francisco is 69-59 and 3 games back. Have a good one.
August 28th, 2009
6:45 am
I can't handle common sense this early in the morning, I'm going back to sleep.
August 28th, 2009
6:59 am
…and when do pitchers and catchers report in 2010?
August 28th, 2009
7:01 am
Dang…talk about waking up and getting punched in the mouth…that's not like you Jeff…
August 28th, 2009
7:11 am
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August 28th, 2009
7:15 am
Numbers do not lie. It IS what It IS.
August 28th, 2009
7:24 am
The numbers just say what we've known for at least a week or two. The Braves are playing moderately well now, but dug themselves too much of a hole early.
Maybe next season Wren & company will realize this when they're putting together the opening day roster. And maybe Bobby will realize it when he's giving some young player 2 months to hit their way out of a slump. Sometimes 1 or two games early can make a difference.
August 28th, 2009
7:27 am
That your a douche bag.
August 28th, 2009
7:27 am
Woops, that you're still a douche bag…and I need Spellcheck.
August 28th, 2009
7:27 am
Football season kicks off soon!
August 28th, 2009
7:28 am
I've been thinking 90 wins to have any shot, but April, May, and June put us too far back.
The Phillies and Rockies just got hot before we did. The scariest numbers were the pace the Rockies have been on. No reason to think they'll cool off now.
That said, just one good week for us, one bad week for them…right?
August 28th, 2009
7:29 am
I have a funny feeling the Braves will play very well this weekend against the Phils.
Of course, it could just be gas.
August 28th, 2009
7:35 am
holy cow good news is I don't have to get mad anymore when I can't get peachtree tv on Dish
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don't do this about the Falcons okay keep quite
August 28th, 2009
7:42 am
Jeff, the NL East isnt going to happen. While the wild card might be difficult, it's still doable. I think the Braves can play 10 games over the rest of the season. While we still have this series with Philly left, and games with Florida, we also have a lot of games with bottom feeders Washington and New York.
I'm not saying we "will" get the wild card. I'm saying it's doable. The two losses against the Padres hurt, a lot, but, there's still a chance for the wild card.
August 28th, 2009
7:46 am
The numbers tell us what we knew when the season started, that Cox is a Moron. He waited too late to make Diaz and Prado everyday players. Just think where the numbers would be if he made those changes early in the season. He had one of our best hitters in Diaz on the bench half the time. What an idiot. Wren, wake up man, you have to get rid of this clown.
August 28th, 2009
7:47 am
braves need to sweep the phillies and then see what happens…not…they are toast
August 28th, 2009
7:49 am
It tells me the lack of hitting in the first half of the season has doomed the Braves. They need another bat for next year on one of the corner outfield positions.
It also means, who cares, FLORIDA STATE vs MIAMI on Labor Day is 10 days away! GO SEMINOLES!
August 28th, 2009
7:51 am
Don't confuse me with the facts!
I have enough on my plate with this facist pig NOBama and his scam of a health care fix.
Just have faith baby. Things will work out … or not.
Now, let's start talking 'bout all that butt the Yellow Jackets are gonna kick this year. Whadayasay?
August 28th, 2009
7:54 am
I predcit the Braves will get swept by the Phillies. There is no sense of urgency, no playing with passion. Cox can no longer fire this team up. He's done and if Wren can't see this, then we're in big trouble for the next several years.
August 28th, 2009
7:55 am
So who do you think will start at DE opposite of John Abraham? Do you think Ryan-to-Gonzalez has a chance to set Falcons TE records? How about that young defense, huh?
August 28th, 2009
8:01 am
it tells me that we still have a legitimate shot at the wild card. I too think 90 wins will put us in.
August 28th, 2009
8:03 am
Whoever it was that said "April is the cruelest month", obviously never followed a sinking baseball team.
August 28th, 2009
8:06 am
Good numbers . . . . Thanks . . . The key is that there are TWO scenarios, not one . . . The other thing Jeff is that it took a while, but our team now has a very solid rotation (perhaps even more with Hudson rejoining), solid batting line up, good defense, and good late bullpen . . . So if we are going to play our strongest stretch of baseball, it would not be all that surprising for it to occur in September.
August 28th, 2009
8:09 am
@ Phil:
Let's see—you call Bobby a moron, a clown, and an idiot, and you are predicting a Phillies sweep.
How's that irritable bowl syndrome going, anyway? You make Andy Rooney sound like Mary Poppins.
The Braves have played out of their minds since the All-Star break. No passion? What have you been watching?
This team is headed in the right direction, and we're set to be very good for years.
We're finally playing meaningful games in September again.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go hold up the sky over Phil's house.
August 28th, 2009
8:11 am
Any post that begins with "Cox is a moron" gets skipped by me. Chipper isn't hitting … McLouth is hurt … others are banged up.
He's by no means perfect, but I'm not sure what Bobby is supposed to do about those facts … and the fact that really, the Phillies are a better all around team than the Braves.
August 28th, 2009
8:12 am
As Phil posted at 7:46 am, the numbers tell the story of the season. The "idiot bloggers" pointed out for months that Cox pushed the wrong buttons repeatedly during the first 3-4 months of the season.
That 39-43 record could have easily been 49-33 with the great pitching the Braves were getting. Remember last year, everyone was saying, "Oh, if only we had starting pitching!" Well, Wren went out and got some. Quality starts almost every day. And still Cox underachieved.
If some enterprising sports writer wanted to establish some facts (hint, hint) he/she would look at the record of this team:
A) in games Francoeur started,
B) in games Kelly Johnson started
C) in games Casey Kotchman started;
as opposed to:
A) games since Francoeur left
B) games Matt Diaz started
C) games Martin Prado started
Cox played Frenchy while Diaz sat.
Cox played Kelly Johnson while Infante/Conrad were available
Cox played Kotchman while Prado sat.
Add to these mistakes the ridiculously long-running Jordan Schafer failure, his constant harrassment of RBI machine Escobar, his insistence on keeping a worn-out Chipper Jones in the 3-spot, his overwork of Brian McCann (who will be done by age 30 thanks to the HOF manager), his use of some relievers every day while others sit for two weeks at a time, his insistence on using the worst PH in the history of MLB, his insistence on using rally-starter Jeff Bennett to blow game after game (while Bennett had to remove himself from the team by punching a door!), and constant roster mis-management that allows a loafing Garret Anderson to stay in the field and on the basepaths in late inning situations.
The cherry on top, is of course the decision to keep Kelly Johnson/Greg Norton on the roster while Brooks Conrad and other actual hitters toil in Gwinnett. How many games have Norton and Johnson positively impacted? How many would games would have been positively impacted by Conrad and others? We'll never know. But it might have been more than Zero!
August 28th, 2009
8:15 am
They really played with a lot of passion against San Diego didn't they.
August 28th, 2009
8:23 am
The Braves, much like everyone else on this blog, will be watching the playoffs on the tube…
August 28th, 2009
8:25 am
The Braves need to make up a game a week on Colorado, or at least get within a game or two going into the last series of the year. The Rockies play L.A.in L.A. And L.A. has won 12 out of 15 against them this year.
August 28th, 2009
8:26 am
Yes Phil, two games should overshadow two months.
Seriously, Andy Rooney is not going to be around forever. Get your resume in to 60 Minutes now.
For what it's worth, the Latos guy who pitched for San Diego the other night looks like a beast. Look forward to many years of him vs. Hanson.
August 28th, 2009
8:32 am
CAN they still win the wild card? Sure. Would I bet money on it? Oh hell no. Will I still watch and pull for them? Yep.
August 28th, 2009
8:32 am
How many games can you think of that Cox blew with bad management .
Games that we could now have in the win column and not the loss column?
Anybody got any numbers or specific games in mind??
August 28th, 2009
8:35 am
I stuck a fork in them when they lost that huge lead in philly in the 8th inning in the 3rd game. This team is boring and predictable. They will lose 2/3 in philly and still some will hang on hoping. Dump the braves and get ready for a real sport. Football is here!
August 28th, 2009
8:36 am
Chauncey starts at DE, Gonzo smashes whatever TE records we have, and the young defense is going to fast, deep, hard-hitting, and way better than we thought.
August 28th, 2009
8:37 am
Cox is senile and has no clue how to manage. Time for him to go. Bye bobby. you"re OLD. Leave.
August 28th, 2009
8:38 am
Jeff..one line says it all. Braves were 39-43 at midseason. Remember last year? Everybody said, "Oh if the Braves only had starting pitching!" Well, Wren went out and got some. Quality starts almost every day. But the HOF manager blew it anyway. Cox has easily cost the team 10-20 wins. Top 10 reasons:
1. Playing Kelly Johnson while Infante/Conrad and others sat.
2. Playing Francoeur while Diaz sat.
3. Playing Kotchman while Prado sat.
4. Playing Jordan Schafer long after it was obvious he wasn't ready.
5. Using Jeff Bennett until the idiot punched a door (thanks Jeff).
6. Keeping Norton and KJ on the team, demoting Conrad.
7. Using some relievers every day, while others sat for 2 weeks.
8. Keeping an ineffective, fading Chipper Jones in the 3-spot.
9. Mismanaging a roster, necessitating in having Garret Anderson in the field, and on the basepaths late in games.
10. Overwork of McCann, who will likely be worn out by age 30.
Most glaring mistake was the demotion of .344 hitter Conrad in favor of KJ, and Norton, whose batting average can only be read with a magnifying glass. How many games have been positively impacted by Norton or KJ? How many games WOULD have been positively impacted by Conrad? We'll never know. But it could have been more than…Zero.
August 28th, 2009
8:39 am
Clever column, Jeff. Avoiding the poop throwers by appealing to their math skills and by not doing a times-definitely-call-for-it grumpy set of words.
August 28th, 2009
8:42 am
Thanks for the nauseating start to our already yucchy, rainy bleak Friday morning there, Jeff. So, it doesn't look too optimistic for the homeboys…ok. And, things MIGHT not change with the other teams either. But, I've decided to focus on the possible next wave the Braves might catch a ride on and hope better things come of it. With Huddy coming back Monday, things COULD suddenly catch fire with the team, while the other teams COULD cool off….or not. I'm not ready to write the Braves off yet. Not until they're mathematically eliminated.
August 28th, 2009
8:46 am
We are, at best, the 5th best team in a 16 team league. In baseball, that has you watching October on TV.
August 28th, 2009
8:47 am
P.S. Just read Curtis Jones' comment @ 8:38….I absolutely agree with every single point you made. And, extending your comment: Why hasn't Chipper been moved down in the batting order yet? Bobby never hesitates to move everyone else around when they're slumping. I think it could help Chipper find his swing again, and take some of the heat off him. Who should bat in Chipper's place right now — Diaz maybe?
August 28th, 2009
8:51 am
Tell me Jeff, what are the REAL chances the Braves wake up next year and (sorta) push Cox into retirement? This team needs a fresh, youthful approach to the season, to each game and they are not going to get it froma 69 year manager – no matter what his resume says. I agree with Curtis J on the non moves that have cost us this season. Thanks.
August 28th, 2009
8:56 am
Our last seven of ten games are against the Nationals. It might come down to those games
August 28th, 2009
9:01 am
Dug too deep of hole early in the season…KJ & Frenchy killed us.
Prado on the bench….Killed us.
Having to play Diory Hernandez….killed us ( see KJ & Frenchy )
Chipper wearing down playing every day….is still killing us.
D-Low wearing down at the end of the season because he's used up….killing us.
Prado's headaches, just when we were beginning to soar….killed us.
Losing 2 out of 3 to the Monks….stuck the fork in us.
Thank God for Football ! Go Dawgs ! Go Falcons !
August 28th, 2009
9:09 am
It's not that simple, If you ran those numbers the last two years at this time there was no way the Mets were not going to win the division or make the playoffs. Teams get hot and teams slump, anything is possible especially with so many head to head series coming up.
August 28th, 2009
9:18 am
Very unlikely that we will be playing in the post season, but this team is improved and we can hope that the improvement will continue with a few smart moves over the winter and help from the minors. Last year at this time we were bankrupt, but our foundation has improved.


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1 pound
tilapia fillets
1 teaspoon
tamarind paste
1/4 cup
hot water
1 (1/2 inch) piece
fresh ginger, grated
2 cloves
garlic, pressed
salt to taste
1 teaspoon
coarsely ground black pepper
1/2 teaspoon
ground coriander
1/2 teaspoon
ground turmeric
1/2 teaspoon
ground cumin
2 tablespoons
vegetable oil
1 teaspoon
lemon juice, or to taste
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Learn to knit your own socks using two circular knitting needles. This technique will change your knitting forever! It can be used on hats, sleeves, gloves, or anything else you'd normally put onto double points.
I do love double points, but occasionally I'd drop one on the bus and it would quickly roll away and I'd soon be chasing it while leaving a trail of yarn behind, not pretty. I now use this technique on my socks all the time and love how easy it is to push the knitting onto the cords and throw the project into my bag without worrying if my stitches will fall off.
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Don't confront her husband directly; that's just a bad idea.
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You can't wait on her; she will not change the current situation unless she is forced to. Prepare for the worst, not because that is how it will go, but because it could, and you really don't want to put yourself in a position to get your heart broken twice at the same time. Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.
Also, don't expect an instant answer. There's a good chance she hasn't given the idea of moving on completely any serious consideration, and so will not be able to choose on the spot; if you try and make her, she wont choose you. Make it clear to her how you feel, and what you're looking for.
And really, prepare for the worst. Yes, it can hurt to leave, but it can hurt more to stay but never really be with her in the way you want to.
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Thanks to the movie 'Lincoln', Mississippi finally ratifies the 13th amendment
In 1865, the 13th amendment outlawing slavery was enacted, meaning that it was illegal across the US to own, possess or buy and sell human beings. But just because it was federal law, the amendment wasn't ratified by all the states. For Mississipi, it took late last year, reminded by the film 'Lincoln', to officially ratify the 13th amendment. Welcome to the 19th century.
America's first black president marks the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation
Exactly 150 years ago today, on January 1 1863, Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation went into effect, freeing the slaves in the rebellious southern states and laying the groundwork for a complete abolition of slavery in the United States. And 150 years later, America's first black president marked the historic anniversary.
Adidas accused of invoking slavery with its new shoes, but the fact is that they're just fucking hideous
Adidas recently announced a new pair of mid-top sneakers, which wouldn't be normally that big of a deal except that these shoes, the JS Roundhouse Mids come with plastic orange shackles on them, and that's got people's panties in a bunch, claiming that Adidas is promoting and honoring slavery. I doubt they were thinking slavery, but someone should still be fired for designing these shoes just because they're ugly as hell.
Historic photos of "white" slaves from the 1860s
"In 1863 and 1864, eight former slaves toured the northern states to raise money for impoverished African-American schools in New Orleans; four children with mixed-race ancestry and pale complexions were deliberately included to evoke sympathy from white northerners. Photographs of Charles Taylor, Rebecca Huger, Rosina Downs, and Augusta Broujey were mass-produced and sold as part of the campaign."
In hindsight, maybe a 3rd grade math test about picking cotton and beating slaves wasn't such a good idea
In Gwinnett County, Georgia, an investigation has been launched into why a third grade teacher gave her students a math test peppered with questions like "How much cotton can a slave pick?" and "How many beatings should a slave get per week?"
The Daily Mail loses their mind because players in Star Wars: TOR have the option of electrocuting a female slave
People being enslaved periodically is part of the Star Wars universe. Hell, there's an entire industry around making Slave Leia costumes for unimaginative women who go to nerd cons. But in Star Wars: The Old Republic, if you're a Sith, you're given a character named Vette whom you can either treat kindly or torture.
Police raid on UK 'slave farm'
I'm a bit slow to send this through as I learned of it first thing this morning at work, but thought it worthy of IHC.
Four men and a woman have been arrested in the UK over allegations that they held at least twenty four men against their will at a farm/traveller settlement in Bedfordshire.
Don't worry, Slavery: The Game is a hoax
There's a video going around that's a fake trailer, a pretty well-made fake trailer for Slavery: The Game. And the fake game company, Javelin Reds, has a fake website. So it's much more than just a Something Awful-style photoshop, it's a whole thing to try and make you think there's such a game coming out in 2012.
Robber who broke into hair salon is beaten by its black-belt owner and kept as a sex slave for three days and fed only Viagra
If you're going to rob a salon in Russia, be prepared for the remote, but real possibility that you could be robbing a salon run by a martial arts black belt who's going to beat the fuck out of you, feed you Viagra and keep you as a sex slave. Because in Russia, salon rob you.


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In last month's discussion, Gilles mentioned that the company was looking into a "higher-power version of the Pentastar V-6 with unique power rating" for the 2011 Dodge Charger. The sounds coming from the exhaust of the test vehicle assured us that a higher power version was found and utilized. Another interesting feature our reader noticed was the square cutouts in the bumper housing the dual exhaust which is similar to the feature found on the Chevrolet Camaro .
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Samsung aims to fix severe Android device vulnerability
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Ivan Eland on Ramifications of WW1
Recorded: Sunday, July 13, 2014
What are the lessons of World War I? How did it shape the world today? And what does it teach us about global conflict 100 years on? Sr. Fellow Ivan Eland joins a panel discussion on RT television on the ramifications of World War I.
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Sr. Fellow Ivan Eland appears on Canadas CTV to analyze the recent exchange of an American Prisoner of War for five Taliban leaders held in Guantanamo Bay detention camp.
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Robert Higgs - Crisis, Leviathan, and the National Security State
Recorded: Thursday, February 27, 2014
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Recorded: Thursday, September 5, 2013
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Not feeling that new annoucer!
Looks better and I wouldn't mind that upgrade.
This is probably an advertisement.
She might be Lizard Squad....
Go for NFS Rivals then...
I think the idea of this game is really cool, just not sure how long it could grab my attention. I love Test Drive Unlimited, so this may work :P
@Grey_Eyed_Elf said: @PredatorRules said: @Grey_Eyed_Elf said: I played it for a hour or so a while ago... I was invited to the beta again for this week and well I won't bother playing it, I hope th...
Metro is great!
I play WoW to this day and I still enjoy it to this day.... The game is laid out for you more than most MMOs, but I would not say the game is shallow in any way... Also FF14:ARR was great, but I di...
@williampetoy said:try to check this out if you want the original onehttps://www.g2a.com/r/newdiabloPretty sneaky spam.... If he has Reaper of Souls obviously he has D3.....
I know Blizzard had some major issues this weekend with battle.net, so that could be one of the problems...
I am going to jump in this I believe I really loved Test Drive and it seems to be the same concept.
Most of the time you can select the cinematic at the login screen. At least this is the case with WoW...
What I watched online it looks pretty neat, but I just needed to watch it don't think I need to play it.
@FelipeInside said: @Arthas045 said: @FelipeInside said: So let's say I buy this expansion and boost my Warlock to 90. (I left him in the middle of the Lich King land about level 70 or something, d...
The game has a lot of glitches and game freezes. Nothing that made me stop playing though.
@FelipeInside said:So let's say I buy this expansion and boost my Warlock to 90. (I left him in the middle of the Lich King land about level 70 or something, don't remember).Do I all of a sudden get ...
I have been playing X:Rebirth and I really enjoy it. I have not played many space sims, so I cannot compare to much. I really enjoy the open space and trading, but the combat was tricky at first.
@FelipeInside said: @Maroxad said: Welp... if rumors are to be believed. Warlords of Draenor will only have 2 raids in total. They removed one zone entirely, postponed another, and now this.For Bliz...


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Dear Mary,
Damn, girl -- you look amazing. How much weight have you lost, exactly? You're, like, minuscule compared to how you looked in high school. If only that dude who wouldn't so much as pay attention to you at the senior prom could see you now, you skinny bitch.
Those are the types of compliments you hear on a daily basis right now, and no, I don't blame you for absolutely loving and craving them. You definitely deserve a pat on the back for whipping yourself into shape, and I know you never, ever dreamed you'd be walking around in a size 0 or 2 without having to suck your gut in.
Being skinny is awesome. It really is. And anyone who tells you it's not is either jealous or has never been thin before. But guess what? That little number staring back at you on the scale is not going to last forever.
And it's really not as important as you think. It doesn't make you any better than the woman you're going to be 10 years from now -- who (gasp!) isn't completely obsessed with her body anymore.
More from The Stir: Obsessing About Our 'Mom Bodies' Is a Massive Waste of Time
Yes, believe it or not, there will come a day when you finally break down and accept that you're never going to look as good as you do right now at 26 -- and that it's ok. You know how you swear up and down you'll never weigh more than 120 pounds ever again? Yeah ... don't kid yourself, honey. Your skinny days are numbered, and that's why you should enjoy every minute of them instead of obsessing over every single morsel you put into your mouth.
The next time there's a birthday celebration at the office -- have a sliver of cake, for crying out loud. It's not going to hurt you. I promise. And what you don't realize is that every time your skinny ass passes up a piece of cake -- all of your coworkers are rolling their eyes because you have absolutely no concept of just how tiny you are. And they can't understand why you won't indulge a little every now and then. They don't envy you -- they feel sorry for you.
And about those coworkers -- get off your high horse and stop looking at them and wondering why they don't have the same willpower as you to resist the cake when they're clearly not as thin as you are. (What the hell is wrong with you?) It's not that they can't control themselves. It's that they're happy and secure enough in their lives that they don't let their self-worth be determined by a piece of freakin' birthday cake.
Oh, and remember that time you went to San Francisco with your boyfriend and had a complete meltdown after he convinced you to eat at In N' Out Burger because you had ruined your diet and feared the scale would go up a pound or two? It didn't. You should've just enjoyed the damn burger and his company instead of letting it ruin your weekend. (He winds up marrying you, by the way, so don't worry -- your little tantrum didn't scare him off.)
I guess all I'm trying to tell you is to enjoy your bangin' bod and embrace being skinny -- but don't let it take over your life or let it define who you are. You're not going to believe me when I say this -- but you can be happy without being stick thin. I swear. Actually, you might find that your life improves drastically if you give yourself a little bit of wiggle room instead of depriving yourself of things you love for the sake of fitting into the smallest size in the store.
Cut yourself some slack now -- and then maybe 10 years down the road, you'll have an easier time accepting your 36-year-old body for what it is instead of wishing you could look as beautiful as you did on your wedding day.
Oh, and one last thing -- don't get rid of all your "fat" clothes just yet. In a couple of years, you're going to gain 50 pounds in span of nine months and you'll need them while you're trying to take the weight off. (But it's totally worth it, I promise.)
Now stop reading this and go eat a sandwich.
Your older, larger, but ultimately happier self
Did you obsess over your weight when you were younger?
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Totally appreciate the honesty! I bet we would all be able to teach our younger selves a thing or two!
Yep, I get it. The only thing I like about the 10 extra pounds (which really isn't that much but I hate it all the same) is that I'm a lot curvier than I used to be. And no I don't mean I have curvy rolls on my stomache, I mean I have a little more of an hourglass figure than I used to. I can't decide if I'm ok with my extra weight or I want to lose it...maybe in a few more years I'll have figured it out :)
When I got pregnant with my second son I weighed 120 pounds, and after I had him I weighed 170, 7 months later, I am back down to 145. While I am not happy with how I look naked, Im kinda loving having the hour glass shape ive got now in my clothing. Still debating whether or not to drop the last 25 pounds. Im 5'5 with a large frame build, so 120 was a bit miniscule, and I am told (now that I am larger) that I looked like a bobble head at 120...Jeeze...I wish I could just eat meat and drink beer like most men and not care lol Alas...I cant...So Im gonna go juice some veggies and continue on my fasting lol
I'm 5'5". I was anorexic in high school and exercised like crazy to try to burn off the little bit of calories I did eat. I was cold and tired all the time. I didn't care though because I had all these popular cheerleaders coming up to me asking what I did to lose the weight and I looked 'so amazing now.' The lowest number on the scale I could get down to was 104 lbs. Looking back on those days, I realize how dumb I was. Sure, I enjoyed being skinny and getting compliments, but I wasn't enjoying life. Fun for me back then running another few laps on the high school track to burn calories. Anyways, I enjoyed the honesty in this article. I do not want my daughter growing up with family members who would enjoy picking at my arms or my stomach and say, 'i know you think you look good, but you could always lose 5 more lbs' like my aunt and mother did. That sentence still unfortunately sticks in my head. My aunt is 47 years old, still living in California, gets plastic surgery, and still obsessed with her weight and sleeps in makeup. I will do everything in my power to make sure my daughter doesn't grow up with screwed up thoughts about her body and what she 'needs' to look like to be 'considered pretty.' Getting away from my family and out of California was the best thing for me. I was 131 lbs before I got pregnant, gained 50 with her, and still have about 3 lbs to go. Ladies, appreciate your bodies because we're the hardest on ourselves most of the time.


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The Unbundling of Scale
During the industrial age, economies of scale were a major source of competitive advantage. Many production processes exhibited decreasing unit costs over a very large range of output. Steel was a classic example which resulted in a few very large steel companies dominating the market (at least until the rise of mini mills which made steel from scrap).
The defensibility of scale in the information age is a lot less clear. Why? Because there are companies that are providing scale to others. Amazon AWS is a great example. No longer do you need your own data center to have servers anywhere in the world. Cloudflare is another which gives you a global edge network. Twilio connects you with carriers around the world. Sift gives you fraud detection and Firebase data synchronization.
I should be quick to point out that network effects (and the related supermodularity of information) may still give large players a big advantage but they should not count on traditional scale economies as being defensible by themselves. These will be available through service providers even to the smallest of startups.
It is also useful to think about how this has become possible if it was not possible during the industrial era. In the industrial processes many of the steps had to be tightly coupled. For instance you could not heat up the steel in one place and pour it into a shape in a different one. With information by contrast the cost of transfer and combination is extremely low and so we should expect to see a much finer slicing (something I wrote about nearly 6 years ago in a post titled "Feature vs Company").
Posted: 30th July 2014 – Comments
Tags: strategy scale unbundling competitive advantage
Writing Software Applications In-House
There is something very exciting going on in the world of software: a shift towards developing new application software in-house (as opposed to relying on third party offerings). For instance, at USV we have developed the linksharing on usv.com and our new analyst application process. Why does that make sense now? Because writing small applications has become so easy that it is today's equivalent of writing an Excel macro.
Chris Dixon has a good post yesterday where he describes some of the trends that have made this possible, including on demand infrastructure, lots of API based services, open source libraries and scripting languages. I would add to that a database layer that makes it easy to deal with semi-structured data, such as MongoDB (we are investors).
As a result the tradeoff has shifted from using a complete third party application to building it yourself for many projects. What you gain is fine grained control over design, functionality and integration with other systems you are using. What you pay is having code that you need to maintain. So if you are going that route there is a real premium on keeping your code short and super readable.
I am fully aware that we have gone through phases like this before. For instance in the early days of the PC that's how I first earned money — writing in house software for the personnel department of the local Siemens branch in my hometown.
Still it feels like this time the in house approach will be here to stay and if anything be extended to non-programmers through services such as IFTTT. One of the key drawbacks of the in-house move during the PC days was the fragmentation of data. That is largely eliminated today as the data resides in the cloud in any case.
In addition to the cost and complexity of in-house development having come down massively there is another crucial reason for the shift (which also makes me believe it will be longer lasting): software plus data is increasingly the key competitive differentiator.
PS Back to my posts on the economy tomorrow
Posted: 14th April 2014 – Comments
Tags: software in-house strategy
Healthcare: Commerce Before Marketplace?
I am generally not a big fan of strategies that involve pursuing business A now in order to pursue B in the future. I tend to believe that you should go for B right away. For example, if you are planning to disrupt textbooks I would likely prefer a strategy that figures out how to peer produce those instead of one that first tries to make the renting and exchange of existing textbooks more efficient. Why? Because there are few businesses that have pulled off the "A now, B later" trick — most everyone simply gets stuck in business A. Netflix is one the few that pulled it off. They first shipped DVDs and now successfully stream (even Netflix they almost botched the transition).
Two possible justifications come to mind for the "A now, B later" strategy. The first is technological progress. When Netflix got started, streaming was not yet a truly viable option. The second one is behavior change. When Amazon first got going, buying online was enough of a change for people. It would have been too much to also ask them to do so in a marketplace and so Amazon chose the commerce format. Bezos smartly picked books where an online store had big advantages over a brick and mortar one.
This latter justification seems particularly relevant when looking at healthcare opportunities. After many years of content sites a la WebMD we are now seeing a great many startups that want to actually provide care. This ranges from medical Q&A sites all the way to telemedicine applications on mobile phones. Going to the computer or your phone for a consult rather than a flesh-and-blood doctor is a big behavior change. That suggests that an Amazon like strategy where you start with commerce and only introduce a marketplace later may be the winning model.
So what would a commerce model a la Amazon look like in healthcare? It would be a branded service that provides diagnosis, prescription and if necessary referral. The service would use some combination of texting, possibly video chats / image uploads, and use of existing lab networks (eg for blood analysis). The logical entry point would either be primary care in its entirety or a large specialty such as dermatology. I believe the right service could quickly grow large, especially if it can be priced in a way where insurance reimbursement becomes a secondary consideration. The subsequent marketplace would be for cases that require a specialist or treatment other than prescriptions.
I am curious to hear from others whether they buy this argument about a commerce model coming first or think we will go straight to a marketplace. Also, if you know of any startups pursuing the commerce model please let me know.
Posted: 3rd March 2014 – Comments
Tags: healthcare strategy startups
Google Selling Motorola Mobility: Rejecting Vertical Integration
One of the many good things about blogging is that one can go back in time and look at one's own thinking in a more objective way. Without putting it in writing it is all too easy to pretend, as history unfolds, that one had a great understanding way back. Our minds a terrific at rewriting our own thoughts — this tends to come out strongest when we talk about our career paths.
One example where I am reasonably happy with my own analysis is acquisition of Motorola Mobility by Google. I wrote that:
Apple is vertically integrated and Microsoft controls Nokia (without having had to buy it). Between that and having filed or acquired a lot of patents, these two pose formidable threats to Android. Buying Motorola lets Google fight both of these threats in one go.
and predicted that
… Google will only retain parts of Motorola - the patents and the hardware design capabilities, but close down or sell off much if not all actual manufacturing and handset distribution
Yesterday, Google announced the sale of Motorola Mobility to Lenovo. They retained the patent portfolio. I don't know if they also retained any hardware design capabilities but they just acquired more of those with Nest.
Overall this re-enforces my view that Google very smartly understands that software is eating the world and is not pursuing the same deep vertical integration strategy as Apple. Recent purchases of robotics companies do not contradict this view as that hardware in that space is far behind on the commoditization curve.
PS I am sure that I have made quite a few predictions on Continuations that went the other way (and by all means please point this out to me). I am not focused necessarily on the outcome itself but more on the thinking about the event.
Posted: 30th January 2014 – Comments
Tags: google motorola vertical integration strategy
Adding Value: The Big Picture (Advice from VCs)
Vinod Khosla said yesterday at Techcrunch Disrupt that one of the hardest things for entrepreneurs is to figure out whose advice to trust on what topic. That is spot on because as an entrepreneur you will get advice from just about everyone all the time (including random people you have just met for the very first time who don't know squat about your product or company). Unfortunately that terrific quote will get buried because of a bunch of other things Vinod said right then, such that a lot of VCs add negative value, that he doesn't go to board meetings much anymore (because other VCs just talk) and that entrepreneurs should pretty much ignore what most VCs say (because they haven't done enough themselves).
I am not going to argue that we VCs always know what we talk about as we clearly don't. But unlike Vinod I don't believe that you have to have done a lot of big things yourself in order to be able to give good advice. It also helps if you have observed a lot of things. The role of an advisor is different from the one of the entrepreneur. There have been many great investors who never built a large company themselves. Just as there have been many great coaches who never excelled at the game they were coaching. Or the best editors aren't successful writers themselves.
Why is this? There are many reasons but the primary one is being able to see the big picture. The number one problem as an entrepreneur is to get enough distance from the business to be able to see the big picture. You are in it every day. And that narrows your view. Just like it does for the players on the field. This is true for all of us all the time. Stepping outside of your context and analyzing your own situation from "above" is really, really hard. And that's where a good VC will help you. He or she will help you see the one or two things that are really holding back the company (among the million things competing for your attention).
You still have to determine whether you should trust a particular person on the big picture or not. There are unfortunately very few signals for this and success of companies is an incredibly noisy signal. Therefore my recommendation is: call your fellow entrepreneurs and get their feedback on the quality of advice they have received.
Posted: 12th September 2013 – Comments
Tags: vc advice strategy
Listening Too Much / Too Little
It's been a while since I have written a post in my Scylla and Charybdis series. As a quick refresher, the basic premise of the series is that startups are hard because on pretty much anything you can do too much or too little and the path to success thus requires navigating a narrow straight with deadly obstacles on both sides.
Today's post is about listening. As an entrepreneur you can do too much or too little listening. How can you do too much listening you may ask? Well, by listening here I don't mean the time spent having sound waves hit your ears but rather how much you change what you are doing based on feedback. It is very easy to make too many changes and to make them too quickly. As an entrepreneur almost everyone you meet will have an opinion on your startup and what you absolutely should be doing. That will range from someone insisting that you must have a specific feature to wholesale changes in strategy. Of course much of the advice you will receive will be contradictory to each other. And so if you listen too much you will be jerking your company around and building a bloated product.
On the other hand you can also listen too little. We all suffer from confirmation bias and it is easy to ignore feedback that doesn't fit with our own view of the world. That's particularly true for entrepreneurs who often don't realize how hard it is for one of their employees to disagree with them. Feedback from board members is also easily ignored by young entrepreneurs (what do the "old folks" know about the new ways of the world and/or the view that only other entrepreneurs have valid opinions and not investors). Finally, the feedback that's most ignored is that of the customer — far too few entrepreneurs spend time observing customers first hand (thankfully my friend Mark Hurst has a book forthcoming that addresses this point). It is by listening too little that entrepreneurs wind up running out of money or falling badly behind the competition.
Let me give a sailing analogy to illustrate the challenge. The ideal entrepreneur is like a sailboat captain who has a strong sense of the proper course to steer so as to not be buffeted by every piece of new information and yet capable of listening enough to understand when the ship has gone off course or the wind has changed to make a new course better.
Posted: 8th August 2013 – Comments
Tags: scylla and charybdis strategy startups entrepreneurs
In Praise of Internet Exceptionalism
I have been meaning to write about "internet exceptionalism" since I read a post titled "It Always Comes Down to Math" but various political and economic events intervened. The key quote summarizing the post is "but at the end of the day, regardless of what business you're in, everything comes down to the same math problem. Revenue minus expenses must equal a positive number." That is of course not much of an insight although it would have been useful to add something like "from some point forward" (and businesses differ a lot in when that point happens and how much capital is consumed before then). But instead, the author felt compelled to add the following: "Anyone who tells you business works in some other way or the rules are different on the Internet or any other claim of exceptionalism is an idiot."
Well, not only is that a bit of a strong statement in general but I also happen to think it is false other than with regard to the most basic premise that any business in order to be sustainable must eventually make a profit. Beyond that I think it is deeply flawed and I want to give just one example to illustrate my point. In bricks and mortar retail customers who come to the store and do *not* buy contribute meaningful expense, including time spent by sales people, physical space needed, cost for re-shelving items examines, breakage, etc. Also, in bricks and mortar retail the people who can access your store are inherently limited to people living in (or visiting) the geography of the store. If you combine both of these factors you will quickly understand why it is important to be obsessed with how many people who enter the store buy something and how much they buy: your top line is limited and non-buying visitors are costly.
Now contrast that with selling online. The entire country or potentially the entire world can be your customer. And someone visiting your online store but not buying will tend to result only in negligible cost (unless you invest heavily in realtime online consultation). So now what should you obsess about? Top line growth suddenly becomes hugely important. Unless your are huge already, if you are not at least doubling year over year you are likely to have a problem. Sure, you need conversion rate (if nobody buys you don't have a business), but generally obsessing about conversion rate if top line growth is lagging is wrong. Why? The difference between growing 2% month over month and 7% is the difference between growing 27% per year and more than doubling! Try doing that with you conversion rate.
So yes — eventually you have to make more money than you spend but how you get there is often the exact opposite on the Internet from what it was in the physical world. It is therefore critically important to understand those differences if you want to succeed. Or put differently: Internet exceptionalism is a requirement not a flaw.
Posted: 13th June 2013 – Comments
Tags: strategy startups exceptionalism
Reminder: Net Native Means Previously Impossible
At the height of the re-engineering craze there was one fantastic HBR article titled "Re-engineering Work: Don't Automate, Obliterate." In light of the changes in the labor market the choice of "obliterate" may now seem unfortunate, but the basic point of the article was spot on: don't implement your existing processes in technology, come up with entirely new ones that simply weren't possible before.
Much the same applies to building net native businesses. It is not about building a smoother version of what already exists in the market. That is a transient advantage as existing companies (in banking, insurance, healthcare, etc) adopt technology. If you want to build something big and lasting you have use the internet/mobile to do something that simply was not possible before (at least not at any meaningful scale).
Posted: 24th May 2013 – Comments
Tags: startups strategy
Google Glass: Dangerous Adoption Strategy
I am quite optimistic about the long term potential of augmented reality. But I question whether now is the right time for a top down adoption strategy with a polished consumer product. It seems to me that we are at the hacker and early adopter stage instead.
By going with an immediate mass market strategy and embracing celebrities I think Google is taking a very big gamble. Let's keep in mind that the iPhone was far from the first smart phone. A lot of software and application tinkering had happened on Blackberries and other predecessors most of which had niche use cases.
I often find myself saying to entrepreneurs that you "can't push on a string." It may be a tired cliche but it seems highly relevant for consumer products. If people aren't ready for it, no amount of hype or spending will make the product stick. The people who are ready now are the hackers and tinkerers. So why not embrace them instead?
Posted: 18th April 2013 – Comments
Tags: google glass strategy
Want a Good Deal? Have a Credible Alternative
First time entrepreneurs often ask me what they should do to maximize their chances of raising venture capital. To which I invariably answer: "Not need it." Why? Because raising capital or selling your company is all about having a credible alternative. If you have a credible alternative you will arrive at a good deal — if you don't, then bad things will happen. This is true for raising capital and it is true for exits. In both cases the best credible alternative is not needing the capital and not needing to sell. What about having multiple possible investors or buyers bidding each other up? By all means do, but having the ability to get that kind of multiple bidder process going depends crucially on the real alternative of not needing the transaction at all. And as it turns out when you have a credible alternative you don't even need multiple bidders.
That's why people who don't want to quit their day job until they raise money rarely succeed in doing so. They are signaling that they have no alternative to raising the money. The investors feel that whether or not this startup happens depends on them. Who would want to invest in that? Instead investors need to feel that this startup will happen with or without them. The train is leaving the station. It's also why having a burn rate so high that your existing investor(s) can't easily fund you for another 15-18 months is dangerous. New investors conclude that the company doesn't have an alternative and often won't invest at all (rather than propose a low price). This also explains the expression that you want your company to be bought, not sold. Selling means you have no alternative. Being bought means you decide whether or not you like a deal.
So always keep having an alternative in mind. It applies incredibly broadly. Not just to deals with investors but also to hiring, suppliers, etc. If you have a sole supplier and your contract comes up you may find yourself on the wrong end of the deal. Or a customer who accounts for a large fraction of your revenues (or profits, or network). And so on.
Posted: 24th January 2013 – Comments
Tags: fundraising exits strategy negotiations