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Traditions this year
December 2, 2010 | Tag(s): Activities, family fun, Holiday fun, Imax, movie, traditions
By: L'jeanne, Advertising Manager
It's beginning to feel more like fall and winter. We actually had to turn on the heat this week! In my house that is a big step because we (my husband) like to keep the house temperature at a chilly 68 degrees. I try to keep the kids bundled in long sleeves and jackets to keep them toasty warm. Yes, I mean inside the house. But they always manage to rip everything off and run around barefoot. I guess they're hot bodied like their father. And like most people, this week marks the annual time of year that we begin to decorate the house. With my husband and I having a three and two year old we're trying to establish our family traditions for the season. We all went to see the new holiday movie at the Entergy IMAX® theatre "The Light Before Christmas." This was a charming family movie that was the perfect length to keep my two and three year old interested. As a matter of fact as soon as it ended my daughter Payton exclaimed she wanted to see it again! I think Colin, my two year old, enjoyed it as well. Ever since watching the movie he has this fascination with putting his socks on his hands because in the behind the scenes portion there was a funny part with sock hand puppets and he just loved it! We'll be going back because they both loved the whole experience of it and the IMAX® screen is always an awe to look at. Holiday movies are a joy to watch and seem to put you in a jolly mood. We'll definitely put this on our list of traditions. One tradition new for us this year that we've done at home is "Elf on the shelf." We have certainly have delighted the imagination of Payton with this storied tradition. Colin likes it but I'm not sure if he has the same grasp on it as Payton. If you haven't heard of the story here's a quick rundown. Packaged together are the book and a small stuffed Elf. As the story tells it, the Elf is there to watch and report back to St. Nick about everything your little one is doing, good or bad. Every evening after the little tikes go to bed he leaves the house and goes on his magical journey to see St. Nick. He returns every morning but in a different spot in the house. The delight comes when after searching and searching your child finds the Elf sitting in a different spot watching and waiting to until the next evening. So far, Payton has loved searching and finding the "Elf on the shelf" she can hardly contain herself when she spots "Simon Says" (that's what she named him). The holiday traditions are just beginning for my family but I already know too things that we'll keep up with. I hope you can add "The Light Before Christmas" holiday film at Entergy IMAX® Theatre to your holiday tradition this year too!
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MIAMI – After more than an hour of reflection, Braves pitcher Tommy Hanson was still at a loss for words to explain how one of his most erratic performances ended in perhaps the most improbable win of his career.
Hanson allowed a career-high seven walks and seven stolen bases in five innings, but gave up just one run in a 7-1 win Wednesday afternoon at Marlins Park.
"Seven walks and seven stolen bases — to go out and pitch five innings and only give up one run, I have no idea how I did that," Hanson said. "I don't even know if that's ever happened."
It's happened, but not in nearly a century. The Marlins were the first team since the 1914 St. Louis Browns to collect at least seven bases in a game and score just once, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.
Juan Francisco went 3-for-4 with a mammoth homer and three RBIs, and Michael Bourn and Jason Heyward also homered for the Braves, who won the series 2-1 to finish 4-3 on a road trip that started with a series split at Washington.
The Marlins went 1-for-12 with runners in scoring position and scored only one run in the first three innings despite getting three doubles, four stolen bases and four walks.
In five innings we steal seven bases walk like seven times, three doubles and we only score once. You think about it and you check your head how that can happen."
"For the first five innings we felt like we could score any time, any moment, and we didn't," Marlins manager Ozzie Guillen said. "I've never seen that before. That's amazing."
Francisco pulled a two-run homer an estimated 435 feet down the right-field line to put the Braves ahead 3-1 in the fourth inning, and Bourn added a two-run homer in the fifth to push the lead to 5-1 for Hanson.
"It was really weird," said Hanson (11-4), who had seven strikeouts and allowed three hits while picking up his eighth win in 12 road starts, tied for the major league lead. "Definitely not ideal, but we got the win. That's what counts."
Heyward hit an opposite-field leadoff homer in the eighth inning, his 15th of the season. That's one more than he hit last season and three below his rookie total in 2010. Heyward also doubled and scored the tying run in the fourth.
The seven stolen bases were the most by a major league team this season, and all came in Hanson's five innings as the Marlins exploited his slow delivery. Hanson picked off Jose Reyes trying to steal third base in the third inning, the only Marlins base stealer who was caught all afternoon.
"I think if we were in Vegas it would have been a nice line — seven walks, seven stolen bases, seven strikeouts," Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez said. "That's a good line in the slot machines, but it's not something we want to do every fifth day. He got his 11th win not being real sharp….
"They've got some guys that can run. That's the way [Hanson] has been forever. We try to speed him up every once in a while. It concerns me a little bit, but I go back to what my people from SABR [Society for American Baseball Research] say, that stolen bases do not equal runs, and today it came true. But it's not really a good feeling when guys are running all over the basepaths."
As if to underscore how ragged Hanson's outing had been, Kris Medlen followed with three near-perfect innings, allowing just one walk with five strikeouts in 46 pitches.
"You get a lead like that, you just want to keep it going," Medlen said. "You get a couple of scoreless innings out of the bullpen, why not get another one? We had a lead so I could just execute my pitches and pound the zone."
It was such an impressive performance that Gonzalez said Medlen has once again thrust himself into consideration for a spot in the starting rotation if the Braves fail to acquire another starter before Tuesday's now-waiver trade deadline.
The Braves pushed back struggling No. 5 starter Jair Jurrjens' next start from Friday to Tuesday because of an off day in the schedule Thursday, and by then they could have a new starter to take that spot or go with Medlen.
Gonzalez and pitching coach Roger McDowell considered letting Medlen pitch the ninth inning, but decided against it because he also pitched an inning in Monday's series opener.
"So we didn't want to take him further than that," Gonzalez said. "But [starting] is an option going forward. It all depends on how we come through the couple of games before that turn comes. Because he's been terrific bridging that gap in the bullpen, getting us to [relievers Eric] O'Flaherty and [Craig] Kimbrel. But it's an option, and we're weighing it and thinking about it. We'll see what happens the next two or three days."
Medlen was sent to Triple-A on May 29 to build arm strength – get "stretched out" – for a possible move from the bullpen to the rotation. But two weeks later the Braves brought him back and opted to keep him in the bullpen. Jurrjens was brought up from Triple-A and re-inserted in the rotation, where he had three encouraging starts before things went awry in his past two.
"I just want to keep doing what they ask me to do, like I've done my entire career," said Medlen, smiling and trying to avoid more discussions about the rotation possibility unless it actually happens. "We're winning, so it feels good."
But if he's asked to start, how many innings could he pitch now?
"When I was down there [at Triple-A] I got up to 96 [pitches]," he said. "I haven't done that in a while. It would probably take me a few starts if they felt like doing that. It hasn't been brought up and I'm not really worried about it. I just want to keep bridging the bullpen, from the starters to the late-inning guys."
July 25th, 2012
6:45 pm
What a bizarre win today. They all count the same, so I'll take it. But Tommy Hanson is an absolute mess right now. His ERA should realistically be above 5.00 by now.
July 25th, 2012
6:47 pm
No doubt some of the fire fredi managerial wits on this blog will claim if they were at the helm the score would have been 14-1
July 25th, 2012
6:51 pm
How about get some good middle relief pitching or some good arms for the pen and put Medlen in the starting rotation?
July 25th, 2012
6:55 pm
5 IP, 7 BB, 7 SB, 1 Earned Run
That doesn't even look real.
Radio guys said that only one other pitcher in history had put up similar numbers in a game. At that point, Hanson was around 5bb and 5sb, give or take. That man? Randy Johnson.
Usually, I would say that is terrific company…
July 25th, 2012
6:58 pm
I am tired of seeing a 100 blogs a day about starting Medlen. His value as a middle reliever has seen him be a savior for some of our wins. That being said, I am about to get on the bandwagon. Watching him sail through three innings today tells me he's earned it, the team needs it, and please don't make us watch JJ start again. He needs to go back to AAA and work some more. I wouldn't mind seeing Delgado start (over JJ) or Medlen start and try Delgado in the pen.
July 25th, 2012
6:59 pm
The strange thing about this one is that Hanson had the best live fastball he's had all year. 92, if the gun is to be believed with lots of movement. He was missing bats. He also missed the strike zone. But he threw well when he needed to. I think this outing shows promise. Just need to work on command.
July 25th, 2012
7:09 pm
Hanson is a bullpen killer as he only goes 6 innings tops every game. The guy just doesn't seem to have the fire and or desire to be a dominant pitcher. I suspect there will be a major 2nd half swoon in his future. The Braves really need to get another quality starting pitcher to go with Hudson and now Sheets.
July 25th, 2012
7:19 pm
Let Medlen start and call it a trade.
July 25th, 2012
7:19 pm
I missed the game. Did Mr Hanson win?
July 25th, 2012
7:20 pm
Hanson is not far from being as bad as JJ. He's real lucky to have 11 wins with that ERA of his. Please don't trade Delgado for anyone but a good # 2 or 3 starter. Looking at Delgado's velocity from innings one to four (dropping from 94-95 to 90-92) I think he would be outstanding in the bullpen. Move Medlin to the #4 starter role and Hanson to #5 and finish out the year! Start looking for a right handed bat!
July 25th, 2012
7:27 pm
Bravos better be ready for the Phillies because that team is starting to rake just like the last few years. They have won four in a row with the last three in their last or next to last at bat I believe. They have a history of turning it on in August and September the last few years (as we well know) so just saying don't just look at the standings and feel like it's a given to win two of three. Chipper is right in that we definitely need another starter to compete with the Nats. They could have the best record in the majors if they keep winning at the current rate and they show no signs of slowing down.
July 25th, 2012
7:28 pm
Maybe if we moved Medlen to the rotation, some of our fans would learn to spell his name.
July 25th, 2012
7:35 pm
Sorry about the spelling Buddie!!
July 25th, 2012
7:37 pm
One run, three hits, worked 5 innings. Regardless of how many he walked they didn't cross the plate so he wasn't walking in runs. Hanson's winning games and that's what counts.
July 25th, 2012
7:39 pm
Forget Dempster, promote Medlen, demote J.J. A rotation of Hudson, Sheets, Hanson, Minor & Medlen is the best the Braves can do without making a trade. And that starting 5 won't keep the Braves out of the playoffs, the hitting(or lack there off) is what will nix the post season. Put Delgado in Medlen's place and start him if someone else falters. But the Braves situational hitting better improve if they hope to make it. I don't know what Chipper's problem is but he preaches to the team about doing things the right way and then continues to swing at too many first pitches in the wrong situations. Sometimes it almost appears he swings at the first pitch because he is in a hurry to get back into the dugout. I wish Chipper would lead by example, his mouth sure ain't gettin' it done.
July 25th, 2012
7:41 pm
Seven steals!!!! Can't steal if you don't get on base.
Far too many pitches for 5 innings.
Looking forward to the Phillies' series with Ben Sheets
throwing the opener. Two very big series for Philadelphia
with the Braves and Nats. If they sweep both series, look
out NL east. Still concerned about our lead-off hitter and
those K's. He needs to make better contact.
Hope a deal or two can be made before the deadline.
Definitely need at least one starting pitcher.
July 25th, 2012
7:42 pm
SABR is full of s–t. Stolen bases do equate to runs scored. Trade Hanson to Boston for Cody Ross.
July 25th, 2012
7:54 pm
cody ross has already turned down a offer to the braves last year, so we don't need guys who really don't wanna be here, get a package deal for grenke and hart for a combination of prado and a prospect or two, hart is signed through 2013 and grenke prefers atlanta
July 25th, 2012
8:00 pm
Hanson is killing the braves.His lack of quality starts is putting a tremendous strain on the bullpen. This guy has lost whatever he had last year or should i say the year before. He is so inconsistent, and his delivery is so slow. When a team steals 7 bases in 5 innings, that tells you all you need to know. If the braves had a pitching coach, he would not allow Hanson to continue to pitch with his pathetic delivery and arm angle. Not only is he slow to the plate, but he has lost so much velocity on his fast ball. All he can do now, is rely on his curve ball, which isn't a major league curve ball. I would promote Medlen to the rotation, drop Hanson to 4th in rotation, keep Delgado in 5 spot, and send J.J to AAA or AA. Just get him out of the rotation.
July 25th, 2012
8:05 pm
sorry 64 braves fan but Stolen bases do not equate to more runs scored if the % of successfull steals is ~70%
July 25th, 2012
8:06 pm
Amazing….no fire fredi blogs yet….this can't last……who will be the first
July 25th, 2012
8:15 pm
Here ya go Paul G!!!
Whenever Fredi sez "WE"..it means the other person. As in "WE decided", "WE thought it best".
I think he's a really bright man, but in brutal baseball terms: he's clueless. Luckily for him, he is working for an equally clueless boss. This happens.
July 25th, 2012
8:32 pm
If Medlen goes to starting rotation, we need someone else to bridge the short innings Hanson and Minor are giving us. If JJ or Delgado are involved, there's two more. So, if Huddy and Medlen are starting that seems cool. Sheets is cool too but every win he gives us is good. We can't count on him to be a horse. We need to fill in with trades where Medlen is not. If he starts, we need good bullpen help. If he is in the bullpen, we have to trade one of our good young arms to get temporary talent. I personally am stoked that Dempster turned us down, let's keep our young arms and put Medlen in the starting rotation. Frank, trade for good bullpen depth…just my opinion.
July 25th, 2012
8:40 pm
whatever the Braves do, I hope they do NOT trade Prado! He's one of the best hitters on the team and willing to play anywhere they ask him to, and he does a good job.
July 25th, 2012
8:41 pm
I just love it when you tell a future hall of famer how to hit. Yeah boy.
July 25th, 2012
8:45 pm
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July 25th, 2012
8:45 pm
I think every Braves fan sees what Gonzalez and Wren can't seem to see…..that the best trade the Braves can make is putting Medlen into the starting rotation (trading JJ to the minors again). And the Braves get to keep a potential star starter in Delgado. But I am sure Gonzalez will not do that…..and Wren will probably trade both Medlen and Delgado for some other 35 year old pitcher who does not want to be a Brave.
July 25th, 2012
8:47 pm
Good game J-Hey…slowly but surely he's getting better at the plate…..22yrs old!!!!!
July 25th, 2012
8:51 pm
Hanson fits in with Ugla. THEY BOTH SUX!
July 25th, 2012
8:58 pm
I never want this team to trade Prado. Trade Uggla and put Martin back at second. Uggla for Grienke. Or Uggla for Justin Upton.
July 25th, 2012
9:02 pm
yeah boy gave up 1 run..he sucked…or am I WRONG maybe it was your done blog..TG loved your 8:41
July 25th, 2012
9:02 pm
Trade one JJ for another…
July 25th, 2012
9:04 pm
Tampa Gator…
Yes Chipper is a Hall of Famer and I am not telling him how to hit. But the other night when the Marlins pitcher was all over the place and had just walked the bases loaded, then Chipper comes up and swings at the first pitch. I know that he's not a career .305 hitter by chance, but if you're an avid follower of the Braves you should have noticed that they are a much better hitting team when they work the count than when they swing at the first pitch or two frequently.
July 25th, 2012
9:20 pm
Some things cannot be reduced to numbers. While it may be true that stolen bases do not equal runs, it is absolutely true that base runners but pressure on the defense. Stressing the defense is just part of competition.
Baseball without base stealing is like basketball without pressing or football without blitzing.
July 25th, 2012
9:22 pm
I hear about Sheets alot… but you guys do realize he is rental property as well. That one reason means that the braves have to extend who ever they trade for because any trade will lead to at least two open spot in the rotation next year. You have to assume that Sheets will not be with the braves next year. You also will not have either Minor or Delgado, because they will be the center of a long list of prospect going the other way. I doubt that they can afford Grenke long term so that is not a good trade. Also Felix Hernandez would be better net because he is under control beyond next year. The most realistic trade I can see is Delgado and Medlen along with a lesser prospect for a pitcher that is under contract for at least two seasons. It would be nice to get Michael Saunders as Borne's replacement because he isnt going to be back next year. Plus I am tired of of seeing Borrne complaining when he doesnt get a call.
So the first idea is Delgado, or Vizcaino and position prospect for Felix and Saunders
Second idea is Delgado, Vizcaino and positional prospect for Johnson and Ruggino
One reason this make sense to be is the braves do not have a shutdown #1 starter and they are going to have to play into the playoffs because they arent catching the Nationals. Do you really want Tim Hudson as the pitcher you are depending on to get you into the playoffs? I doubt it.
Now I will be honest.. If I was dealing in a dynasty fantasy league… I would not do either trade but I would never be desperate for pitching like the braves seem to be.
Ok… Now tear up those ideas.
July 25th, 2012
9:26 pm
Is it just me or does Hanson stills have that hitch in his delivery?
July 25th, 2012
9:32 pm
They should have NOT left Florida without Josh Johnson being on the plane.
The trade should have been Josh Johnson for Hanson, JJ, and Delgado. Then, move Medlen to the rotation.
Post-trade rotation…
Hudson, Sheets, Johnson, Minor, and Medlen
Of course, don't make the trade unless you think you can sign the newcomer to a contract.
July 25th, 2012
9:38 pm
If you look at this staff from front to back for the last………what is it now……seven years……….we are screaming for just one thing………………..a Pitching Coach. Roger has got em…….. "all messed up"………as Nolan Ryan used to say…………y'all gonna figure it out…………….sooner or (too) later for one more year…..
July 25th, 2012
9:40 pm
nice painting over your irrational statement VAN G…that's right you cut off a ear once despite your face
July 25th, 2012
9:52 pm
it is the pitching coach..it is the batting coach, it's the manager..it's the gm..it's the ownership…or maybe it's just baseball..a game we will never figure out because the variables are just to immense
July 25th, 2012
10:12 pm
This team is more than one piece away from a World Series. Braves need a power bat that is a consistent threat in the outfield, an ace and a #2 pitcher.
I am cool with Grinke if we don't sell the farm and lock him up for 3 years. But we will need a little more to get over the hump.
July 25th, 2012
10:18 pm
So outside of an aging Hudson and a resurgent lefty… do we have anything working in the starting rotation now?
July 25th, 2012
10:21 pm
This all said, Hanson didn't have great control today, but all those walks and steals didn't hurt them. I'll take a win anyway it has to happen, though after the 1st few, the Marlins can't really hit.
July 25th, 2012
10:24 pm
@ Vince
You are correct Chip is not a .305 hitter by chance, he also doesn't need any hitting advice from anyone on a blog.
July 25th, 2012
10:36 pm
July 25th, 2012
10:40 pm
There is a power bat on the market but you guys would flip when I suggest it. Alfonso Soriano. I hear the cubs would eat lots of his huge contract. I dont know where he would be played unless you use prado in a super utility role from OF, Third, Second and First everynight. So here we go what can the braves give for him. Medlen straight up. Again.. I would never do this in a fantasy league but the braves would have to give something substantial in order for the cubs to eat as much of Soriano's contract as they could in order to be affordable for the braves.
July 25th, 2012
10:53 pm
Unfortunately, any other ballpark in the NL and Hanson would have given up at least two homers and likely 5 to 7 runs! That the Braves cranked out three homers in this most pitcher friendly of all NL ballparks and scored 7 runs is a testimony to how well the Braves hit the ball today!
Kris Medlin looked absolutely dominant today and could have easily gone four inning his pitches were like a homing radar on the target that McCann set down in the zone. Medlin needs to flat out join the starting rotation. He can certainly contribute five strong innings and frankly that is all the Jurrjens and Hanson have been able to tally on a good night!
Hanson is looking better than Jurrjens. In my view, Hanson needs to be relegated to number five starter. Perhaps he can figure it out and give the Braves a truly dominant pitching rotation:
1. Hudson
2. Sheets
3. Delgado
4. Medlin
5. Hanson
July 25th, 2012
10:54 pm
@ kirkinga…I like my chances better, too, with a stolen base. Well said.
@ clay…no, it's not just you that sees Hanson's ongoing hitch, it's a million people watching the game, and especially every batter and baserunner that he faces. The only people who don't see it are Roger and Fredi.
July 25th, 2012
10:56 pm
Or as others have mentioned, perhaps keep Mike Minor in the rotation and replace Medlin with Delgado as the designated long reliever.
July 25th, 2012
10:57 pm
Ken.. No Mike Minor?
July 25th, 2012
11:02 pm
Gonzalea and McDowell have no idea what they are doing with Medlin–pitching him or not pitch him, stretch him out so he can start, send him down or bring him up. If they don't mess up a good pitcher, no one will. Want to send someone down–how about Hansen? He is a
lousey pitcher with poor form and a total lack of willingness to get better.
At least when he pitches the bullpen gets a lot of action.
July 25th, 2012
11:06 pm
No rout!! My gosh you were playing the Marlins not theYankees. The Braves will be swept by the Phils and have little left..
July 25th, 2012
11:07 pm
Wow! The post monster ate my post. All I said was we have WAY too many holes. Medlen as a starter, trade for a reliever. Or trade for a starter, and we need a righty bat. Uggs isn't any better than another pitcher at the plate. Get Uggs straightened out, it'd be huge.
July 25th, 2012
11:12 pm
Btw, I was flat out wrong about Heyward. He obviously has made huge strides, and gotten healthy.
Welcome back, J Hey!
I hope to soon say I was wrong about Hanson.
July 25th, 2012
11:17 pm
I saw where the Brewers are listening about Corey Hart. He would be a nice right handed bat.
July 25th, 2012
11:21 pm
MLB said J-Hey for Upton that would give Braves the RH bat they need other things being equal.
Thats not my opinion.I would love to have Upton, J Hey and Bourn in OF.
July 25th, 2012
11:36 pm
Don't include Prado in any possible trade!! Remember the Brett Butler trade with Cleveland?
July 26th, 2012
12:29 am
[...] amazes me, that as documented here, "Braves pitcher Tommy Hanson … allowed a career-high seven walks and seven stolen [...]
July 26th, 2012
2:16 am
Any pitcher with a hitch will at some point get ditched.
In the famous words of the Church Lady – "could it be…..HANSON?"
July 26th, 2012
2:22 am
By the way Henske, maybe you should follow your former, now Giant, teammates' lead and lose some weight
July 26th, 2012
2:30 am
I may come off to a lot of homers as a basher or hater of the Braves. But I am a Braves fan through and through since they moved to Atlanta when I was 8 years old. I know baseball and I see the obvious that, it seems, Braves management doesn't see. I will lead this team to a World Series Championship for $2.35 an hour if Media Liberty gives me the chance.
July 26th, 2012
2:32 am
All I demand is my dog plays shortstop
July 26th, 2012
2:52 am
Tommy Hanson's performance shouldn't be a shocker to Braves fans because all we have to do is go back to 2005 and remember that this happened all year when Jorge Sosa started.
July 26th, 2012
4:05 am
"J-Hey for Upton", Yogi? Are you serious? J-Hey is just now healthy and meeting/exceeding expectations, have you read what they Diamondbacks think of Mr. Upton? They question if he's a winner. Why trade the guy who is winning us games, one after another, for a guy who hasn't even convinced his coaches he's a winner? Are you serious?
I thought Heyward's 2012 put to bed all the doubters and trade him/send him to Triple-A headcases but I guess they still exist here and there. Oh well, just be happy we have a winner as it is and don't wish for things you really don't want.
July 26th, 2012
4:05 am
Just move JJ to the bullpen, bring medlen in for his place and trade for grienke. Imagine our starters:
1. Grienke
2. Hudson
3. Minor (only bc you want to have a lefty in the middle.)
4. Medlen
5. Hanson
That is a hell of a starting rotation. Wren will add another right handed bat for pinch hitting and platooning. Venters looks like he is on his way back to pitching the eight inning and moylan looks like he is on his way back with the big club. Man all that falls into place. I smell a shot at a WS.
July 26th, 2012
4:08 am
They EVER trade Heyward and this Braves fan since youth would be out the door in a minute. He's the future of our team, guys like this don't come around often. The last guy this good that I've seen was Pujols, no joke. I honestly think Heyward is going to be twice as good as Bryce Harper, that should tell you something..
July 26th, 2012
4:08 am
Wow. I can't believe I forgot about sheets. Never mind, keep medlen in the bullpen. Use sheets in that 4th spot.
July 26th, 2012
4:39 am
If Hanson concentrated and worked as hard on the leadoff guys as he does bailing his butt out of trouble he would be a decent pitcher. Got to work on that delivery, which is a license to steal.
July 26th, 2012
5:03 am
Did y'all hear the potentially good news? The Sun God Uggla disrespected when he hit the SUN may have taken its pound of flesh!
This Uggla beaning may be EXCELLENT news.
Uggla hit the Sun on that sculpture in centerfield during the last trip to Miami. That is the precise date his slump struck. Check the record…
This is not a joke!!!
Maybe Dan paid indemnity for this transgression by this beaning and his SLUMP will be OVER!!!
Could be.
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July 26th, 2012
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July 26th, 2012
7:47 am
I think Hanson's nickname should be "Brick" since he is a redhead and has an extremely hard head. The game before this one he threw a batter the same pitch six times in a row before he finally hit a home run. I also remember a game earlier where the Glavine was announcing and explained how he needed to change the eye level of the batter, but he threw the ball in the same spot the next pitch and it was hit out. So "Brick" has been christened, help me carry the name on.
July 26th, 2012
8:07 am
NEXT FOR THE BRAVES: Phillies
Friday. 7:35 pm. Hamels vs Sheets
Saturday 7:10 pm. Blanton vs Minor
Sunday 1:35 pm. Halladay vs Hudson
After 4-3 record in 7 games trip for D.C and Miami the Braves are back to Atlanta this weekend hosting the Phillies.
The Philies swept the Brewers in 3-games series this week winning the 3 games in the last at bat , 2 vs Francisco Rodriguez a former Met who blown the save last Monday and Wednesday…a lot of luck for the Phillies because faced one of the most overrated relievers in the game and one of the worst bullpens in NL ..
why good luck? because Halladay pitch uggly and left the game with 6 ER Monday night, Lee pitched uggly too but they took advantage of played vs the Brewers and the bullpen disaster
Hamels sign 6 year-144 mdd extension couple of days ago..
the last time the Phillies were in ATL the braves only won one game with a 2-run walk off HR by Chipper, but they swept the Phillies in the last series of the 1st half with a nice games by Hudson,Hanson and Jurrjens all with quality starts and McCaan knocking a HR in each game
The Braves take off Jurrjens for his next start (saturday) and moving the rotation in natural 4-days rest so Minor and Hudson are pitching the last 2 games of the series
Francisco´s HR was estimated in 430ft , a real monster shot
Frank Wren could be trying to acquire Greinke this weekend before Greinke´s sunday game vs WSH in MIlwaukee,, the center piece in this deal could be Teheran along with Pastornicky and other pitcher or player from the minor league system……
July 26th, 2012
8:14 am
I would rather trade Hanson than delgado, we will lose Hanson to free agency anyway.
July 26th, 2012
8:19 am
Good morning Y'all. Is it OK if I come in?
July 26th, 2012
8:29 am
same old same old, when the Braves hit homers they win. When they don't they lose. It's not rocket science but it sure would be nice if this team could score more without having to rely on the home run so much.
July 26th, 2012
8:48 am
Running on Hanson with his type of delivery? Any manager can see this and exploit the weakness.
Relying on home runs to win will never prove successful in any post season play.
July 26th, 2012
8:55 am
After this season, I would trade Hanson. He is on a downward slope and his agent is Boras. Trade him and free up salary.
July 26th, 2012
9:00 am
Current rotation ranking:
1. Huddy
2. Hanson
3. Sheets
4. Minor
Not scaring anybody with this set of guys, very very average, looks like another wait till next year YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
July 26th, 2012
9:01 am
Yeah, I hate it when the Braves hit home runs, especially when they when by hitting homeruns.
July 26th, 2012
9:03 am
I meant to say 'when they win by hitting homeruns'
July 26th, 2012
9:07 am
Good morning Mr reckingball, I agree. As long as they win,who cares.
July 26th, 2012
9:14 am
"After this season, I would trade Hanson. He is on a downward slope and his agent is Boras. Trade him and free up salary."
Hanson makes $535K. That's really "freeing up" some salary!
July 26th, 2012
9:18 am
LaMarr Why don't you like Mr Hanson? He is a Brave. I root for him to do good.
July 26th, 2012
9:37 am
Did MLB ban pickoff moves to 1st base? (sarcasm)
How is it that coming up through the Braves system, nobody noticed Hanson
s slow delivery, and said, "buddy, you need a pickoff move or EVERYBODY will steal 2nd on you."
July 26th, 2012
9:44 am
Francisco's looking good after shakey first few games. Hits well when starting – looks like we have Chipper's replacement for the future.
July 26th, 2012
9:52 am
Hanson has talent" He needs a good pitching coach. Most of the blogs are about pitchers. For fourteen years Mazzone had one of the best bullpens in the national league. No one ever complained about pitchers during the Mazzone era. If anyone needs to vent they should complain about the real problem and that would be the pitching coach.
July 26th, 2012
9:53 am
I see alot of promise in Hanson. Have never thought of him as a #1 starter tho. And this team lacks that Smoltz type #1 ace that you need in the playoffs. And why would Sheets be just a rental? Its not like hes going to command 20million next year.
July 26th, 2012
9:53 am
Amber girl, we all root and hope for the Braves players, but when you stink, you stink! Hanson stinks!!
July 26th, 2012
9:58 am
OK Sammy. My question is. Didn't he win yesterday? Why does he stink? I missed game. Maybe I am wrong.
July 26th, 2012
10:26 am
Amber Girl, he stinks when he don't take a bath.
July 26th, 2012
10:27 am
How did Mazzone do in Baltimore? I think he was a very good pitching coach who was fortunate to be coaching three future hall of famers while in Atlanta.
July 26th, 2012
10:31 am
I think Mazzone would still make a excellent pitching coach. Maybe Mcdowell would make a better AAA coach to work with the youngsters.
July 26th, 2012
10:33 am
I would love to see Mazzone work with Delgado, Minor and the other youngen starter we have. If anything the Braves should bring him back as special assistant.
July 26th, 2012
10:36 am
It's all Roger's fault.
July 26th, 2012
10:46 am
I love that the posters all assume Ben Sheets is going to be healthy and good for the rest of the year. He's had two unbelieveable starts, but do you all think he's throwing six scoreless every five days for the remainder of the season?
And who is going to want to trade for Jurrjens? He is terrible. And a lot of posts say 'trade JJ and Delgado for Greinke'. That's not happening.
How about we trade Delgado and Teheran for James Sheilds from TB. We need a power pitcher for the playoffs and we dont have one.
July 26th, 2012
10:46 am
In Baltimore he had nothing to work with..you can't make chicken salad out of chicken sh**! Those 3 HOF'er were not HOF'er when he started working with them. They were young kids except Maddog..You can put Leo's record up against any pitching coach in baseball and he will be in top 5.
Reckingball-nobody said it was all McDowell's fault but he has failed just like Parrish and should have been fired last year just like Parrish was.
July 26th, 2012
10:47 am
Mazzone is such a great pitching coach, that I think the Braves should re-hire him, sign him to a long term contract, and make him the Head pitchiing coach, then make Roger his assistant.
Next, the Braves could give Roger about 2 or 3 days to pick Leo's brain, and learn how to be a pitching coach, without getting all of the Braves players injured.
After Roger has learned everything that Leo knows, the Braves could then trade Leo, for a top of the line starting pitcher.
July 26th, 2012
10:49 am
Tommy Hanson is an enigma to me. He hurts his shoulder – which in my estimation, with that 'all-arm' delivery of his will come up again and again – claims that he has 'reworked' that delivery in order to be quicker to the plate, or to use his legs and size to make him a better pitcher…and then this happens. He tells us in his post-game interview that he knows what's wrong (assume mechanics), but dollars to donuts nothing will have changed his next time out. I'm not one those that blames our pitching coach, and I never felt that Leo was responsible for Maddux, Glavine and Smoltz's success – have you ever heard any one of them give Leo credit? But somehow, someway Tommy's got to put stuff into practice that he, supposedly, is learning. That he ended up winning the game yesterday was a fluke based primarily on the fact that the Marlins had so depleted their roster that they didn't have anybody left capable of getting a clutch hit. Bottom-line…put Medlen in the starting rotation now. Anybody with half a brain could see the obvious contrast between him and Hanson. Medlen's become a pitcher, Hanson's still a thrower with a flawed delivery.
July 26th, 2012
10:54 am
"I think if we were in Vegas it would have been a nice line — seven walks, seven stolen bases, seven strikeouts," Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez said. "That's a good line in the slot machines, but it's not something we want to do every fifth day."
Ol' Fredi is sharp, ain't he?
July 26th, 2012
10:55 am
Ok reckingball be smart if you like are funny. I didn't say hire Leo. If someone is not doing their job do you keep letting it go are replace them. I guess you just let it go. I thought more of you than being happen with average crap. Guess Wren is crazy then if he tries to improve the team?


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There have been some seriously epic meltdowns in pro baseball over the years, and you know what, you can now officially add this one to the list.
This is Kash Beauchamp, manager of the Wichita Wingnuts (independent minor league team) and he is not happy about a call from Wednesday night's game. No sir.
And to make his point that he's mad about the call, Beauchamp decides not only to stick his smelly shoe in the ump's face, but also his armpit. Also, pay close attention to the music as he charges out of the dugout. Yes, that Stone Cold Steve Austin's entrance music. Me thinks Beauchamp has been in a few disagreements with umps over the course of his managerial tenure.
Also, I can't be sure, but I'm confident Beauchamp won his well reasoned argument.
Man, if only Earl Weaver had used the armpit tactic in his battles with umps. Wait, on second thought, it was probably better he didn't do that.
By the way, Beauchamp's blowup means I'm required by law to show you the best manager/ump dust up in history. Go Braves.


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"This year, I am partnering with Dr. Eddie Woods and the Life Institute to provide summer employment for young people in our area," says Councilwoman Judith Green (D-1). "We had a very positive response from last year's program."
Some 70 young people between the ages of 13 to 17 applied to be on the Green Clean Team this summer. The Team began cleaning up areas around District one in early July. Their work will continue through the first week in August Students receive a stipend for working and will enjoy a "Back to School" Celebration picnic on August 7th.
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|The Falcon and the D'ohman
|The Falcon and the D'ohman
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|September 25, 2011
|Title Screen
|Otto Mann slides down a rainbow shouting "Woh!"
|Special Guest Voices
| Kiefer Sutherland
Tom Colicchio
|Show Runner(s)
|Al Jean
|Written By
|Justin Hurwitz
|Directed By
|Matthew Nastuk
The Falcon and the D'ohman is the first episode of Season 23. It originally aired on September 25, 2011 and guest stars Keifer Sutherland and Tom Colicchio. It also revealed the fate of Nedna, which was left to a viewer's online poll after the last episode of Season 22.
Homer meets a new security guard at work who is a former CIA agent. This guard, Wayne, unfortunately gets fired for attacking Mr. Burns and a gang of Ukrainian mobster go to Springfield to kill Wayne. They kidnap Homer and it's up to Wayne to save him.
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The episode begins with Comic Book Guy in aroom with notable amounts of Simpsons memorabilia. He announces that this episode will reveal the fate of Nedna, but that it will be carefully hidden within the episode. He then 'starts' the episode with his computer. While Homer is arriving at the power plant, he is singing a song in the tune of the Police's Walking on the Moon (Sneaking in at Noon). He finds out the Power Plant hired a new security guard named Wayne Slater who replaced Larry.
Meanwhile, while making crackers for Bart and Lisa, Marge daydreams that she has become a contestant on the cooking show Master Chef. She then wins it and the host, Tom Colicchio, turns into a kitchen. However, when Marge stops daydreaming and gives the crackers to Bart and Lisa, they don't like them as they claim to hate surprises.
Later on, Wayne is walking home in the rain. Homer, who is in a car, offers him a lift and to join Homer at Moe's Tavern for a beer. Wayne refuses at first, but eventually decides to get in the car, telling Homer he seems like a nice guy, and he'll have one drink with him, but nothing else. When Wayne is in the bathroom at Moe's, Snake rushes through the door on his motorcycle to rob the place. As soon as Wayne comes out, he skillfully beats up Snake and stops the robbery. The story spreads quickly and a news segment that features an interview with Wayne with Kent Brockman and an animated Taiwanese dramatization of the incident at the tavern soon airs on television. It is discovered that Wayne was once a highly-trained CIA agent, who decided to go into hiding in Springfield after killing a Ukranian mobster's wife. Throughout the episode Wayne suffers from recurring flashbacks from his previous missions, triggered by unpredictable things, as evidenced when he attacks Mr Burns, resulting in Wayne getting fired.
Homer allows Wayne to stay in Bart's treehouse. Wayne talks in his sleep about a past mission, causing couples in the nearby houses to lose sleep. Ned and Edna are one of these couples, and they are shown holding each other in bed, revealing that 'Nedna' will remain a couple. Unfortunately, news of what happened to Mr. Burns is leaked onto YouTube and viewed by the mobster, named Viktor, in Kiev, The gangster and his henchmen travel to Springfield, kidnap and torture Homer when they find out that Homer is Wayne's friend. Wayne tracks Homer down through a tracking chip he ate unknowingly, frees him and kills all of the Ukrainian gangsters. Afterwards, Wayne decides to leave Springfield, but not before giving Homer the 'fist pound' Homer wanted when they first met at the power plant. However, Marge suggests that Wayne should get a job working alongside her sisters at the Springfield DMV. He decides to do this. At the DMV, when Sideshow Mel requests that his spot be hold while he fetches some papers, Wayne grabs him, stating that no one held his spot when he was a prisoner in North Korea and was forced to write a ridiculous musical play paying tribute to Kim Jong-il while having a car battery hooked up to his nipples.
During the closing credits of the episode, Ned and Edna thank the fans for voting for their relationship to continue. Seymour Skinner then cuts in to ask why he wasn't given a second chance with Edna. His mother Agnes belittles him for attempting the spotlight when the polls are closed and states that she'll never have grandchildren.
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Commodities boom can benefit all: Carney
Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney makes his way to appear at a Senate banking committee to discuss the present state of domestic and international financial systems in Ottawa on Wednesday, April 25, 2012. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
OTTAWA - Canada has a monumental opportunity to profit from a commodity price "super-cycle" that will last for years, says Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney, and all regions of the country can prosper.
In an event at Ottawa city hall Friday, the bank governor spelled out in greater detail his views on Canada's economy of the future, where commodity exports to the emerging world plays a central role, but opportunities spread beyond the oil-rich West.
If Canadians develop their commodity riches well, adding value through development of energy- efficient technologies, the country has a bright future in the new 21st century economy, he said.
"We are in a demand driven commodity super-cycle ... (and) in our opinion this is going to go on for some time," he said.
"In a world where commodity prices are going to be elevated, it's better to have commodities."
Carney has talked about "broadening" and "deepening" Canada's commodity play on several occasions in the past few weeks, but Friday's presentation to about 300, including Ottawa business executives, was his most expansive and suggests he is warming to the subject.
As he told a Senate committee on Wednesday, most of the decisions that would put Canada in position to benefit from high commodity prices rest with the private sector. But his advocacy for "sustainable" development also appears a subtle prod on governments not to overlook the importance the green economy.
"Sustainable development obviously (requires) a variety of appropriate environmental regulations...these are decisions for federal and provincial governments," he said.
"What is clear is that the emerging market opportunity is far broader than in the commodity opportunity."
Canada needs to take advantage of the opportunity presented by the profound urbanization taking place in the emerging world, particularly China and India, that will keep demand and prices for resources high, he said.
He added that direct exports of oil, gas and minerals is only the starting point. There are also tremendous opportunities to add value to resource extraction, by developing green technologies and efficiencies that can benefit Canadians at home and be exported.
"When you think about energy efficiency ... in terms of green technology, energy efficiency, building efficiency, these are things necessary here given (high) prices, but they are massive export opportunities," he said.
"Our calculations are that about 85 per cent of the resource productivity opportunities that measure in the $3-$5 trillion range over the next couple of decades are resident in emerging markets."
That's why, he said, he has been urging Canadian corporations to look to emerging markets, since the U.S. and Europe will be hobbled by debt problems for years.
Currently, they are too heavily invested in advanced economies, shipping 85 per cent of exports to the slow-growing world and only eight per cent to the fast-growing markets.
While the West and other resource-rich regions will be the biggest winners, the rest of Canada can also get in on the bonanza, he said.
Manufacturers in the East can capture some of the wealth by supplying capital equipment and engineering services needed in resource development. He noted that currently one in 12 of the supplies going into the oil sands come from Ontario.
And a "substantial" proportion of wealth is spread across the country through Ottawa's taxing of corporations and workers in the resource sector, he added.
"Don't forego these commodity opportunities, they are going to persist, this isn't a temporary thing," he said.
On current economic conditions, Carney reasserted his belief that the Canadian economy will grow by 2.4 per cent this year and next, but that risks remain.
In particular, he said while Europe is expected to emerge from its double-dip recession in the second half of 2012, the continent faces a long, slow recovery. Before it emerges from his its debt quagmire, he predicted European workers will need to accept "real wage reductions."
The U.S. is moderately better off, he said, but its recovery will be the weakest since the Great Depression because it will take years to rebuild household wealth lost during the crisis.
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A story in The Marker Online (an Israeli business newspapers) says that's what Sergey Brin told the paper at the World Economic Development Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Israel has a very active IT seen.
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Jaromir Jagr's career has long since passed into "legendary" territory, but the veteran added one more notch to his belt this past weekend. With his goal against the Florida Panthers on Sunday, Jagr tied Phil Esposito in the record books as the all-time leader in game-winning goals — and any time that name is uttered around Boston, people take notice. Jagr's record-tying goal is worthy of the Captain Morgan Legendary Moment. Check out the tally in the video above.
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By ADAM GREEN l The New Yorker Jan.7, 2013
A few years ago, at a Las Vegas convention for magicians, Penn Jillette, of the act Penn and Teller, was introduced to a soft-spoken young man named Apollo Robbins, who has a reputation as a pickpocket of almost supernatural ability. Jillette, who ranks pickpockets, he says, "a few notches below hypnotists on the show-biz totem pole," was holding court at a table of colleagues, and he asked Robbins for a demonstration, ready to be unimpressed. Robbins demurred, claiming that he felt uncomfortable working in front of other magicians. He pointed out that, since Jillette was wearing only shorts and a sports shirt, he wouldn't have much to work with.
"Come on," Jillette said. "Steal something from me."
Again, Robbins begged off, but he offered to do a trick instead. He instructed Jillette to place a ring that he was wearing on a piece of paper and trace its outline with a pen. By now, a small crowd had gathered. Jillette removed his ring, put it down on the paper, unclipped a pen from his shirt, and leaned forward, preparing to draw. After a moment, he froze and looked up. His face was pale.
"Fuck. You," he said, and slumped into a chair.
Robbins held up a thin, cylindrical object: the cartridge from Jillette's pen.
Robbins, who is thirty-eight and lives in Las Vegas, is a peculiar variety-arts hybrid, known in the trade as a theatrical pickpocket. Among his peers, he is widely considered the best in the world at what he does, which is taking things from people's jackets, pants, purses, wrists, fingers, and necks, then returning them in amusing and mind-boggling ways. Robbins works smoothly and invisibly, with a diffident charm that belies his talent for larceny. One senses that he would prosper on the other side of the law. "You have to ask yourself one question," he often says as he holds up a wallet or a watch that he has just swiped. "Am I being paid enough to give it back?"
In more than a decade as a full-time entertainer, Robbins has taken (and returned) a lot of stuff, including items from well-known figures in the worlds of entertainment (Jennifer Garner, actress: engagement ring); sports (Charles Barkley, former N.B.A. star: wad of cash); and business (Ace Greenberg, former chairman of Bear Stearns: Patek Philippe watch). He is probably best known for an encounter with Jimmy Carter's Secret Service detail in 2001. While Carter was at dinner, Robbins struck up a conversation with several of his Secret Service men. Within a few minutes, he had emptied the agents' pockets of pretty much everything but their guns. Robbins brandished a copy of Carter's itinerary, and when an agent snatched it back he said, "You don't have the authorization to see that!" When the agent felt for his badge, Robbins produced it and handed it back. Then he turned to the head of the detail and handed him his watch, his badge, and the keys to the Carter motorcade.
In magic circles, Robbins is regarded as a kind of legend, though he largely remains, as the magician Paul Harris told me, "the best-kept secret in town." His talent, however, has started gaining notice further afield. Recently, psychiatrists, neuroscientists, and the military have studied his methods for what they reveal about the nature of human attention. Teller, a good friend of Robbins's, believes that widespread recognition is only a matter of time. "The popularity of crime as a sort of romantic thing in America is profoundly significant, and Apollo is tapping into that," he told me. "If you think about it, magic itself has many of the hallmarks of criminal activity: You lie, you cheat, you try not to get caught—but it's on a stage, it has a proscenium around it. When Apollo walks onstage, there's a sense that he might have one foot outside the proscenium. He takes a low crime and turns it into an art form." […]
Robbins strolled through the crowd, smiling and nodding, resting a hand on a shoulder here, lightly touching an elbow there. From time to time, he let his fingertips graze someone's pocket, a technique called "fanning." "He's got a cell phone, keys, and maybe some cash in that right front pocket," Robbins whispered to me, indicating one man. "What I'm doing is taking inventory and making sight maps and getting a feel for who these people are and what I'm going to do with them. I'm a jazz performer—I have to improvise with what I'm given."
By the time he finished his circuit of the patio, his manner had changed: he was more animated and playful, his movements graceful, almost stylized. Later, he told me that he uses his pre-show scouting missions to segue into his thief persona. "Normally, when I'm not performing or stealing, I second-guess myself, I have doubts," he said. "But when I get into that mode I'm invincible." […]
When Robbins hits his stride, it starts to seem as if the only possible explanation is an ability to start and stop time. At the Rio, a man's cell phone disappeared from his jacket and was replaced by a piece of fried chicken; the cigarettes from a pack in one man's breast pocket materialized loose in the side pocket of another; a woman's engagement ring vanished and reappeared attached to a key ring in her husband's pants; a man's driver's license disappeared from his wallet and turned up inside a sealed bag of M&M's in his wife's purse.
After the performance, Robbins and I had dinner at the bar. "A lot of magic is designed to appeal to people visually, but what I'm trying to affect is their minds, their moods, their perceptions," he told me. "My goal isn't to hurt them or to bewilder them with a puzzle but to challenge their maps of reality." […]
To the extent that people imagine the training of pickpockets, they probably picture the sooty urchins of Fagin's den, in "Oliver Twist," rehearsing the theft of fob watches from gentlemen's waistcoats. A similar sort of underworld academy, the School of the Seven Bells, is rumored to exist somewhere in Colombia: the final exam tests the ability to noiselessly remove items from the pockets of a jacket rigged with bells. But Robbins is self-taught, and his devotion to his studies borders on the monastic. Every moment not spent refining his technique or in some way expanding his knowledge of human nature and how to exploit it is, to his mind, time wasted.
In pursuit of his craft, Robbins has ended up incorporating principles from such disparate fields as aikido, sales, and Latin ballroom dancing. He is a devotee of books like Robert B. Cialdini's "Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion," and has also immersed himself in the literature of criminal lore. The book that made the greatest impression on him was a paperback, published in 1964, called "Whiz Mob: A Correlation of the Technical Argot of Pickpockets with Their Behavior Patterns," by David W. Maurer, a professor of English who devoted his life to the study of raffish subcultures, before apparently killing himself, in 1981. Robbins loved the vivid trade lingo in "Whiz Mob," and he continues to pepper his conversation with such terms as "pit" (inside jacket pocket) and "prat" (side pant pocket), "skinning the poke" (removing the cash from a stolen wallet and wiping it off before tossing it) and "kissing the dog" (the mistake of letting a victim see your face). Reading about how street pickpockets operated, Robbins was gratified to discover that he had arrived at similar methods intuitively.
Street pickpockets generally work in teams, known as whiz mobs or wire mobs. The "steer" chooses the victim, who is referred to generically as the "mark," the "vic," or the "chump," but can also be categorized into various subspecies, among them "Mr. Bates" (businessman) and "pappy" (senior citizen). The "stall," or "stick," maneuvers the mark into position and holds him there, distracting his attention, perhaps by stumbling in his path, asking him for directions, or spilling something on him. The "shade" blocks the mark's view of what's about to happen, either with his body or with an object such as a newspaper. And the "tool" (also known as the "wire," the "dip," or the "mechanic") lifts his wallet and hands it off to the "duke man," who hustles away, leaving the rest of the mob clean. Robbins explained to me that, in practice, the process is more fluid—team members often play several positions—and that it unfolds less as a linear sequence of events than as what he calls a "synchronized convergence," like a well-executed offensive play on the gridiron.
If a crew of pickpockets is like a football squad, then its star quarterback is the "cannon," an honorific generally reserved for pickpockets skilled enough to ply their trade without the help of a team. This is also known as "working single o." Robbins works single o. He is his own steer, stall, shade, and duke man, though, unlike street criminals, he lets his victims know that he will be picking their pockets.
One day, over lunch at a Vietnamese restaurant in a Las Vegas strip mall, Robbins demonstrated his method on me. "When I shake someone's hand, I apply the lightest pressure on their wrist with my index and middle fingers and lead them across my body to my left," he said, showing me. "The cross-body lead is actually a move from salsa dancing. I'm finding out what kind of a partner they're going to be, and I know that if they follow my lead I can do whatever I want with them."
Robbins needs to get close to his victims without setting off alarm bells. "If I come at you head-on, like this," he said, stepping forward, "I'm going to run into that bubble of your personal space very quickly, and that's going to make you uncomfortable." He took a step back. "So, what I do is I give you a point of focus, say a coin. Then I break eye contact by looking down, and I pivot around the point of focus, stepping forward in an arc, or a semicircle, till I'm in your space." He demonstrated, winding up shoulder to shoulder with me, looking up at me sideways, his head cocked, all innocence. "See how I was able to close the gap?" he said. "I flew in under your radar and I have access to all your pockets."
Learning how magic tricks are done is often disappointing, because it's not really magic. With Robbins, though, effect and method are one and the same, and seeing how he accomplishes his thefts is just as impressive as witnessing, or failing to witness, the acts themselves. Each movement dovetails perfectly with the next, with no extraneous steps or flourishes. When he places his arm somewhere, it's not an accident; he's blocking his victim's view or locking him in place or temporarily stashing a wallet by pinning it against its owner's body.
Robbins told me that he likes using the momentum of his victims' own movements to remove things from their pockets rather than pulling them out himself. He showed me what he meant, first asking me to put my wallet in my inside jacket pocket. "So your wallet is in your pocket?" he said, pulling my jacket open.
I checked, and it was.
"O.K., good. So now I clip the wallet with my middle and index fingers, and as I close the jacket and turn you to the right it just slides out."
As he spoke, Robbins turned me to the right, and then rested his right hand on my shoulder.
I said, "So if you were going to take the wallet that's when you would have done it, on the turn?" Robbins brought his hand forward to show me that he was holding my wallet between his fingers. Even though he had explained each step along the way, I hadn't felt a thing.
But physical technique, Robbins pointed out, is merely a tool. "It's all about the choreography of people's attention," he said. "Attention is like water. It flows. It's liquid. You create channels to divert it, and you hope that it flows the right way."
Robbins uses various metaphors to describe how he works with attention, talking about "surfing attention," "carving up the attentional pie," and "framing." "I use framing the way a movie director or a cinematographer would," he said. "If I lean my face close in to someone's, like this"—he demonstrated—"it's like a closeup. All their attention is on my face, and their pockets, especially the ones on their lower body, are out of the frame. Or if I want to move their attention off their jacket pocket, I can say, 'You had a wallet in your back pocket—is it still there?' Now their focus is on their back pocket, or their brain just short-circuits for a second, and I'm free to steal from their jacket."
Orchestrating it all is what Robbins, by way of Maurer, calls "grift sense." "Grift sense is the closest thing to a sixth sense we have," he told me. "It's stepping outside yourself and seeing through the other person's eyes, thinking through the other person's mind, but it's happening on a subconscious level." He went on, "I can analyze how I do things, but the actual doing it—when the synapses just start firing—I can't explain."Read on
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Angelina Jolie is one of the closest people we currently have to a traditional movie star, and love her or hate her, what she wears is always notable, even if she often seems to be deliberately attempting to make sure it's not. She doesn't always carry handbags (usually because she's also carrying a child or two), but when she does, her choices are often just as interesting for what they're not as for what they are.
Unlike every other celebrity that we've profiled in our The Many Bags series, Angelina appears to own no Hermes, no Chanel, not even any Givenchy or Goyard. Instead, she's faithful almost fully to Louis Vuitton and Saint Laurent, both before and after the hacking-off of the "Yves." In handbags, just as in seemingly everything else in her life from childbirth to activism, Angelina does it her way.


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Theory and operation
This manual contains a generalized overview of the fundamentals of transformer theory and operation. The transformer is one of the most reliable pieces of electrical distribution equipment (see figure l-l). It has no moving parts, requires minimal maintenance, and is capable of withstanding overloads, surges, faults, and physical abuse that may damage or destroy other items in the circuit.
Although the transformer may continue to operate as before, repeat occurrences of such damaging electrical events, or lack of even minimal maintenance can greatly accelerate the even failure of the transformer. The fact that a transformer continues to operate satisfactorily in spite of neglect and abuse is a testament to its durability. However, this durability is no excuse for not providing the proper care.
Most of the effects of aging, faults, or abuse can be detected and corrected by a comprehensive maintenance, inspection, and testing program.
Substation transformers can range from the size of a garbage can to the size of a small house; they can be equipped with a wide array of gauges, bushings, and other types of auxiliary equipment.
The basic operating concepts, however, are common to all transformers.
These activities will increase the transformers's service lie and help to make the transformer's operation both safe and trouble-free.
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