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Baseball and Education: Spring Training
Fact: Only 1 out of 14 minor league players will make it to the major leagues; Including those that come for just a "cup of coffee".
Earlier this year, former major leaguer, Shawn Green, tweeted, "Excited to watch the Stanford game…technically I'm still a junior there (I'm on the 30 year plan!)". For the former All Star, not finishing college is a bit of a joke but for the hundreds of minor leaguers who do not make it the major leagues, the absence of a college degree can severely limit their post-playing opportunities and income.
When I coached for the Brockton Rox, a minor league team in the CanAm League, players would talk to me about what they wanted to do after their playing career. I guess because I was working on my PhD in Sport Psychology, they figured I must know something about school and career transition. I tried not to disappoint.
Since coaching for the Rox and later becoming the first woman to throw batting practice to major league teams, I have been working at Sport in Society at Northeastern University. Sport in Society uses the power of sport to help create social change. Their mission and my life mission are the same – Thus I love my job! Sport in Society is making the world a better place and sometimes that starts on the baseball field.
There is an epidemic in the baseball community of players starting college but not finishing. Last year, one MLB team's opening day roster included 18 players who had gone to college; but not one player had actually graduated. Yet the average major league career is only 4 years. When their playing career is over, we must wonder what comes next?
Sport in Society and Northeastern University's College of Professional Studies have teamed up to offer a customized online degree program for professional baseball players. We help the players arrange their classes around the baseball season and we provide a personal support system to help them succeed.
For the next 3 weeks, I will be at Spring Training talking to different MLB clubs and letting the players know that they can play baseball AND get an education. Each day, I will blog about my experiences and explore further the question of baseball, education, and the future of our ball players. Thank you for joining me on another part of my baseball journey.
*For more information on Northeastern University's online degree program or Sport in Society, please send me a note and I'll get right back to you.
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I'm sure the same need exists amongst the minor league umpires – not many of them make it to the top, either, and their pay is very meager between here and there…


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I just started using Itunes U (on my 3g running iOS3). For some reason, they are all mixed up in my songs on my iPhone, rather than another section such as podcasts which would be far more logical. In iTunes, they appear in the iTunes U section. Is this meant to happen? If not, how can I fix it.
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I think this answer may apply to your problem as well.
Changing the "Media Kind" to "iTunes U" under the Options tab of the "Get Info" dialog will move them from the Music section of your library to the "iTunes U" section.
This tends to happen when you import/rip audio files (audiobooks, podcasts, iTunes U, etc.) to iTunes rather than subscribing to them or buying them through the iTunes interface.

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I'm aware of the existence of the Chiac dialect, but I don't know much about it. Could someone please explain how prevalent it is, and how it differs from other French dialects?
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For 25 years, Rick and Erica Kaitz were volunteers in the world of cancer research and fundraising, living a good life in Boston with their two daughters and spending five months a year in their second home in Hawaii.
That was until last June, when Erica, 52, was diagnosed with a rare form of uterine cancer -- myxoid leiomysarcoma (LMS). Fewer than 150 patients in the United States have the disease, which is poorly understood and for which research is virtually unfunded.
"Our life was totally altered," said Rick Kaitz, 58 and an attorney. The couple, married for 27 years, have two adult daughters. "We were enjoying life, cutting back on work. The kids were out of the house and we were very much in touch."
Now, Kaitz is on family medical leave and is the main caregiver at home, driving back and forth to the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, and on a quest to find a cure to save his wife.
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Erica was diagnosed with what her doctors thought was a benign uterine fibroid. A partial hysterectomy revealed that it was an LMS, a cancer with no standard of care for treatment.
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I am not an expert coder...but I am an expert at being a beginner, so maybe that qualifies me a bit more to give my opinions than being an expert coder would, plus I have worked with a lot of beginners on the self-learning path.
My best suggestion is to find free tools for each of the major languages that he is considering, and go through them and try them all one at a time. Go find a good public library with some recent books and borrow them, one language and one or two books at a time.
If he finds a good book that he can grasp and keeps him motivated till the time he has to return it, he should buy it.
Don't run out and buy a book and think it's going to be good. I made that mistake too many times where I looked through the book at the store and thought it would be good, only to buy it and get more than halfway through it at home and still not be able to write a single line of code. Don't make a money investment in a language till you are sure you are going to stick with it.
One of the things that will keep him motivated is projects. They have to be fun or useful because if they are boring or useless, he is going to want to jump ahead and get to the 'good stuff' and that's where he will get in trouble. He should always be asking himself with each new thing he learns 'how can I use this' and come up with his own creative ways to use the skills he is learning by creating his own projects, using everything he has learned thus far. This can help relieve some of the desire to jump ahead of yourself and attempt to run before you can crawl.
If he finds himself being impatient and the desire to jump ahead is just a bit too much, I suggest Delphi. He can jump in and make his 'hello world' notepad in less than an hour.
The reason why I chose Delphi was because it was the first language that made sense to me, clicked in my head, and I actually was able to get somewhere with. I tried Java, C, C++, JS, Leopard, Ibasic, and god only knows what else. Then I tried out Delphi...got stuck at one point, tried VB 6, hated it, got over whatever fog was going on in my head and ran back to Delphi. This is where I plan on staying for awhile, till I feel confident & competent enough to move on.
As far as where to go in the future, after Delphi, one can begin the crossover to C++ with C++ Builder, translating your Delphi code and seeing where the differences are with how things are done. Then after that, in whatever direction with C++ you would want to go, getting in even deeper into the language and moving away from a Borland IDE and the VCL.
Delphi is also a good starting point if you would like to learn C# later on, too. There are a great deal of similarities between the two. (and C# coders shouldn't forget or count out Mono for making .net cross-platform) There is even a Delphi.net to help make the transition to .net coding without learning a new language first.
It is also supposed to be much easier to go from Delphi to VB.net, than VB 6 to VB.net.
As far as Delphi being cross-platform, it is possible to write stuff in Delphi (or better yet, object pascal, which is essentially the same thing) and compile it with FreePascal to run native on Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X/Darwin, Mac OS classic, DOS, Win32, Win64, WinCE, OS/2, Netware (libc and classic) and MorphOS. You really have to know what you are doing though and it has to be written with the intention of doing this. Not likely if you wrote it with windows in mind, using win32api, that you will be able to compile it to run on something else. But if you wrote it to be cross-platform, you could.
I wouldn't touch VB 6 for the reasons Veign mentioned, but I wouldn't count out VB.net.
Python is a good language for a beginner. They teach it to kids in schools here. It is also possible to create GUI's for python apps. There are a number of frameworks available to do that. The only real problem with it is if he wants to share those apps. People will need to have python installed to run them, and this isn't something that comes with Windows (although it does come preinstalled (hidden) on some HP pc's).
Oh, one of the things not mentioned by anybody that is very important for a beginner that is self-learning, is having a mentor (or 2). Someone that knows what they are doing in the language you have decided to learn. Someone you can turn to when you get stuck and need a bit of help understanding. This person also has to be someone you can understand. Not everyone is cut out to be a mentor, even if they are an expert coder in their language. Some people have a style of explaining things that just confuse more than actually help. This is why there is a plethora of bad programming books in stores that were written by 'experts' that nobody can understand.
The availability of a good mentor in the language you have chosen can be an important factor in how far you will get with that language and whether you end up giving up or not. I almost gave up Delphi because of the lack of experienced Delphi programmers that could serve as a mentor for me. I had one, but she was unreachable for long stretches of time (I haven't heard from her in almost a year now). It wasn't till I started hanging out on IRC that I found more Delphi programmers. If I had been able to grasp C++ at all in the beginning, I would have had many more people that could have served as mentors. Without a real teacher to guide you along in learning your first language, you will need people to help you over the occasional hurdles, otherwise those hurdles can grow into very high solid brick walls.
If he wants to be a hobby programmer, anything he enjoys would be fine to learn. If he wants to make money, then he has to decide if he plans on working for a company or doing it on his own.
If he wants to work for a company, C# should be his target at this current point in time, and definitely database stuff, as that is where the big demand is.
If he plans on working for himself, I would suggest C++ Builder, Delphi, or C#. He won't need a whole team of programmers working with him, or a few years to turn out v1.0 of a fairly decent sized application.
What he really should be thinking about is where does he want to be, where is he going, what is his final goal. Then look for the best way to get there.
He might end up deciding AHK would be best for accomplishing his goals. His goal might be to be the next Skrommel. You never know.


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As the title says ,how big of a trailer can be built on a single axle.
The cargo 180 wheelbase front engine dragster.
Weight,dragster 1400, toolbox,fueljugs,jack,?,?,? for a total cargo weight of 2000?
What I would like to build or buy is a 60" x 20' tilting deck single axle trailer with the axle at the 15 to 17 foot mark. If need be a 5000# axle could be used elec brakes would be ok.
Has anyone seen anything like this. Ive seen vintage photos but nothing new.
Ive been told if I were to build it myself, I'd most likely never get it registered in PA.
Any sugestions???
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Trailer how big with single axle
There isn't any reason you couldn't register that style trailer in pa. Length of the trailer doesn't really matter. As long as you have the legal max rear over hang, axle to rear of trailer, you are fine. don't know pa but most states are 20% over hang.
I also don't see why you couldn't register it but check with the authorities. Look at some boat trailers as they seem to be long. Most likely if you add up the weights of the load & trailer you will be at about 3500# so a 5000# axle is most likely the way to go. What is the reasoning behind not wanting a tandem? If it was me that is what I would build.MM250
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Sounds like some big bucks are going to be resting somewhere it won't be comfortable. Anytime something is on a trailer it does not belong there. I want the best and safest I can afford. I shake my head when I see expensive toys on a junk or small wheel trailer. I would hate to blow a single tire on a two wheel trailer .
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I've never built a single axle trailer longer than 14 feet, my two cents is that with just one axle over 20 feet of trailer the trailer would be not be rigid enough, the placement of the axle at 15 feet would make it extremely front heavy with any load, while u may want a single axle to make a tilt easier on a single pivot point, I would spent a little more money and get tandem axles to make sure my toy is safe
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You can easily find axle/suspension combinations capable of carrying 5, 7.5, 10, or 20 thousand pounds. Just carrying a dragster, I wouldn't consider a problem, just have to engineer the frame to be stiff enough to handle the weight past the axle.
I have a hard time understanding why this is even an issue???
Edit: if you don't like the laws in your state, most states recognize the laws in others,,,,,, that is, you can register a trailer in any other state your state is very likely to accept it. Liability, in all cases, as far as I know, rests with the power unit. Good or bad, that's the way it is. Since just a few years ago,,,, road taxes and weight fees are also mostly (if not always) assigned to the power unit also.Obviously, I'm just a hack-artist, you shouldn't be listening to anything I say .....
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And finally, BWD 25 nm full clear !
Nefarian 25 soloed !
I tried several strats, even tried to survive the Onyxia's explosion when she becomes full of energy with a gear stam, but that's too bad : she killed herself --> p2. Not really what I hoped
Clearly, you can't simply kitte adds, try to depop them many times and keep a good dps on boss in p3. So you have to burst Nefarian during p3, before adds kill you. Rush p1 and begin p3 with Nefarian at 100% is suicide, even with my gear. So your goal is to begin p3 with Nefarian at 60%
First, you have to take the talent Narrow Escape, it will help you a lot.
During p1, start dps Onyxia. And do not use spirit mend until all adds are on you, you want to depop them. If there is an add on your pet, taunt and trap him. Use desengage for root all the adds. When Onyxia is at 10-15%, dps Nefarian until Onyxia is about to explode (3rd Nefarian's electrocute, so 70%) and kill her.
Onyxia and Nefarian don't make a lot of damage to your pet alone, but together... your pet can't survive infinitely. You have to depop the adds on one side of dragons, then go to the other side, like that, if your pet die, you can rez him without dragons blow on adds. With 571k hp, my pet died just once, right before Onyxia explodes.
Phase 2 : easiest phase. You have to be full hp when Nefarian is about to fly away, not necessary but preferable. Kick adds, use all of your spirit beast to heal you, use deterrence if need. Kill 2 adds, go to the third, and dps Nefarian until phase 3 begins. Finish the third add, dismiss your pet, and go on the side of the room (not where you left the adds in p1). Place Nefarian so that his body goes along the wall, and start burst !
When adds repop, you have to depop them at least once, so go right and left using desengage to root them, and pray that there won't be flames in the middle. When they repop again and you can't tank them anymore, fd, your pet will take everything, and finish the boss.
The required dps in p3 is less important than on Chimaeron-p2, but I don't think you can solo this boss with 550 ilvl :/
I think spec sv is really better on this fight, but you don't have enough self heal to survive the second phase. For those who have Juggernaut's trinket, you will have enough self heal, and you will have root with your traps --> longer p3 if you have not enough dps.
(Again, sry for my english !)
edit : like Chimaeron, I think Nefarian 10hm is easier, but I had a 25 id, so I will try them next week.
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Jeff Fisher drafted him, not surprised if he ends up in St. Louis.
Jeff Fisher drafted him, not surprised if he ends up in St. Louis.
Ben Volin just tweeted that Cook is leaning toward the Rams. If he'd rather go there, he's an idiot.
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what an idiot. go back to play for the guy who didn't use you properly in Tennessee? lol
If he goes there we move on there are other options out there in FA and in the draft.
He's getting his info from a fake account
yeah that's a fake account, Jason called it out himself
i really hate azzholes who tweet under false accounts
lets get cook guys
It's ok. We need to get another impact player and then draft a TE in the 2nd round. There're a few good ones this year. Use the money that'd have gone to Cook to take care of another position. Just don't stand pat and do nothing. I want us to get one more impact player and at least 2 more guys after that who can come in a start. Then on to the draft.
Ozzy rules!!
Keller and Myers...Ertz and Eifert.


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Just in: Jonathan Kennard Williams, 27, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for charges related to dog fighting, weapons possession and drugs. Last April, the ASPCA assisted in the rescue and forensics evidence collection of 41 dogs seized from Williams' property in Halifax, Virginia. The dogs, many of them used for fighting, were found living in deplorable conditions with no access to clean water.
In addition to conspiring to sell dogs with the intent for the animals to be used in dog fighting, Williams pleaded guilty to several counts of distributing drugs and weapons possession. He was also sentenced to six years' probation after his release from prison.
"Dog fighting is often associated with other illegal activity such as drugs and weapons," says Terry Mills, ASPCA Blood Sports Director. "It's a heinous crime that has become both an animal welfare and public safety issue."
The ASPCA remained involved with the dogs rescued during the raid, and today dogs from Williams' compound are in loving homes across the country.
"Thanks to the diligence of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the U.S. Attorney's Office and the local agencies, Mr. Williams was held accountable for exploiting these innocent animals," says Mills.
Dog fighting remains a felony in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. For more information on our efforts to stop dog fighting, please visit Raids and Investigations.
Queens resident Davanand Raghunath, 28, was convicted of misdemeanor animal cruelty and sentenced yesterday to three years of probation for starving and neglecting his cat, Leo. Raghunath was also barred from owning an animal for three years.
In August 2010, Agents from the ASPCA's Humane Law Enforcement department discovered the seven-year-old cat living in the basement of a store in Ozone Park. He was starved, dehydrated, infested with fleas and close to death. Agents quickly rushed him to ASPCA's Bergh Memorial Animal Hospital for treatment.
"Although we would have supported a stiffer sentence, we are at least gratified to know that Raghunath now has a criminal record," says Stacy Wolf, Vice President and Chief Legal Counsel of the ASPCA's Humane Law Enforcement department. "We can only hope this experience was sufficiently sobering for Mr. Raghunath, and that he will not victimize other helpless animals."
As for Leo, after three months of intensive care, he made a full recovery and was adopted by a loving family from New Jersey.
To learn how you can report animal cruelty, visit Fight Cruelty.
This guest blog is written by Lourdes Cabrera, proud pet parent of Milo.
We remember it as if it was yesterday. A friend sent us a photograph of a scruffy, scraggly, skinny black kitten with ears too big for his small head. As a matter of fact, he looked like a bat. His name was Mr. Scruffy.
My husband was allergic to cats, so we knew we couldn't keep him. Plus, we already had two rescue dogs who took up a lot of room in our modestly-sized apartment. But there was just something about his little face, and I kept looking at the photos. I also kept throwing hints at my husband…but the answer was always a firm, "NO!"
Despite all of this, I kept checking on the kitten's progress through emails. After a few weeks, my friend became worried that she wouldn't be able to find him a good home. I became determined to convince my husband that we should take in Mr. Scruffy. Even if it meant he'd have to go through an allergy regimen.
Luck was on my side. That or my husband eventually grew tired of my reminders and pleadings. Either way, he finally gave in. One day he turned to me and said, "FINE, you can have the cat, but I'm not changing any litter!"
The very next day we picked up Mr. Scruffy. The moment my husband saw him, it was love at first sight. He went to the doctor, got a prescription for allergy pills, and that was that. Milo, as we renamed him, became an important member of our family—and my husband's best friend. Milo grew into a wondrous, regal, appreciative cat.
Today, Milo is going on three years young. We can't imagine our lives without him. And, just for the record, my husband has been changing his litter for three years!
For more heartwarming tales of rescue, visit Your Stories. To become an official ASPCA member, visit Becoming a Member.
Shame on Skechers: The mega-shoe company recently filmed its new Super Bowl ad at an Arizona Greyhound track. The soon-to-be-released ad features a small French Bulldog wearing Skechers sneakers and competing against Greyhounds at Tucson Greyhound Park. The small dog wins.
Unfortunately, we know the same cannot be said for racing Greyhounds. Just last month, GREY2K USA, with funding from the ASPCA, released a report detailing the horrific conditions of race dogs in Florida. Dogs are confined in small cages for 20 hours or more a day, often wearing muzzles; they are bred excessively in the quest for good runners, with the "excess" puppies killed or otherwise discarded; and they regularly endure serious and fatal injuries. You can access a copy of the report here [PDF].
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Animal lovers across the nation are demanding Skechers pull the ad or suffer a major boycott of the company. To date, nearly 50,000 advocates have already signed a petition voicing this demand. For more information and to add your name to the petition, please visit ASPCA partner organization GREY2K USA.
Brr…winter's chill may have settled in your neighborhood, but Fido still needs to go out for walks. Please take it slow, pet parents, and keep your eyes open for suspicious puddles.
ASPCA poison control experts warn that the toxic dangers of antifreeze can turn a simple stroll into a devastating event for our furry friends. Used to protect cars from extreme temperatures, antifreeze contains ethylene glycol, a colorless and odorless alcohol known for its sweet taste.
"Antifreeze is a serious safety concern for both cats and dogs," says Mindy Bough, Vice President of Operations for the ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center. "Unfortunately, just a few licks can cause kidney failure and death in a matter of days—even a small amount that may be licked off a paw is enough to cause serious harm."
As always, if you suspect your pet has consumed a toxic substance, please note the amount ingested and contact your veterinarian or the ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center at (888) 426-4435.
For a full list of cold weather tips, visit our pet care section.


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"What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul."
When is the last time he has been right about anything?
Luke Joeckel is a fine prospect, but id rather trade forward a few to get Eric Fisher, instead of 12 to ge Joeckel. I think Martin will be fine at LT if Long leaves. Seeing as how Long is getting healthier, i wouldnt mind him staying. Overall, I think Vollmer makes a better OT
This guy isn't a reliable source. He spreads false a bunch rumors on twitter than he copies a few writers actual rumors to make himself reliable.
Last year he stated Monta Ellis to Orlando was a done deal. 2 years ago it was Josh Smith.
Just last week he said Lebron James and Jameer Nelson have been caught using steroids. Its a joke people find him as a reliable source.
Bet his rumor shows up on ProFootballTalk via Mike Florio? Or better yet Bleacher Report?, RantSports?
In light of the Chiefs/Fins draft pick trade rumours, here is an article on IncarceratedBob.
Funnily enough, the story is bizzare but interesting:
Sex, Lies and Honey Nut Cheerios: A Conversation With Incarcerated Bob
The man behind the "Your Wife Tastes Like Honey Nut Cheerios" rumor goes by the name "Incarcerated Bob." That's about all we know about him for sure.
January 22, 2013 - 10:20am | By Robert Silverman
To the extent that its a story, this is the story: a recent Knicks-Celtics game got rather feisty, and there were elbows, shoves and Armand Assante-grade seething intensity between the two teams and their respective stars, Carmelo Anthony and Kevin Garnett. Anthony followed Garnett to the Celtics locker room after the game, then waited for him outside the Celtics bus afterwards. The NBA was not happy about this, and suspended Melo for a game. Some plucky fellow took some grainy, sub-Zapruder video of the non-event outside the bus. It was a big deal, and it wasnt.
But what you probably remember about all this, if you remember it at allit was last week, after allwas the rumor about what Garnett said on the court that led Melo to wait for the wrong teams bus. This, supposedly, being, "Your wife tastes like Honey Nut Cheerios."
So there was that, and the attendant intimations of intimate relations between Garnett and the still-Mrs. Anthony. It was specific and jejune and gossipy and exceptionally Twitter-ready and pretty dumb and mostly improbable. So, then, perfect for New York's tabloids, and the internet.
The first website to run with this tale was blacksportsonline.com, and they were on it quickly. The original source for the story, though not credited in the article, was a pseudonymous New York sports gadfly answering to the handle of Incarcerated Bob. If this happened, Incarcerated Bob is the one who knew it first. Incarcerated Bob, it turns out, knows a lot of things.
Id actually wanted to interview Bob for a while. Even before LAffaire Honey Nut, he was already something of a cult figure in the self-contained micro-society of Sports Twitter. He started out as a frequent caller on the Boomer and Carton radio show, on WFAN 660 in New York, where the hosts bequeathed Bob his nickname as a result of a nine-month bid he served in an upstate correctional facility after an altercation with a New England Patriots fan during the 2008 Super Bowl. He then became a public figure by becoming the first to break storiesor anyway, to tweet themincluding, but not limited to: Darrelle Revis ending his holdout, Peyton Manning signing with the Broncos, Tim Tebow going to the Jets, and the finalizing of the trade that sent Carmelo Anthony to the Knicks.
Bob has had his share of face-plants as well, as youd expect. But hes more than just a source of rumors/information/gambling advice that claims to be a well-sourced insider. He is that, too, but his fame was due to the persona that hed woven out of all those 140-character strands. Hes a bully and a brute, quick to block and mock any and all that dare to question the validity of his source(s), his prowess as a prognosticator, or his status as a guy who knows things.
Like bloggers at both ends of the political spectrum, Bob delights in eviscerating the so-called mainstream media for their perceived failings; Mike Florio, of Pro Football Talk, is a common foil, which is kind of a nice way of saying that Bob routinely calls him a clown and/or a chump. Bobs accurate tweets and predictions are chest-thumpingly retweeted ad nauseam, often accompanied by verbal and physical threats and the hashtag #IBN, an acronym for the Incarcerated Bob Network, as if his one-man tweeting operation were a nascent media powerhouse.
In short, hes the Lord of both a self-made online protectorate with reams of devoted followers (around 121k as of this writing) who reside comfortably within his cyber fiefdom and an equal number of restive, pitchfork-wielding detractors who loathe his braggadocio and claim with equal parts disdain and mockery that hes the sports-chatter equivalent of Ann Coulter: someone who will say whatever it takes to garner attention, facts be damned. He is, then, the sort of person who would not or anyway could not have existed before the Internet. At the least, his fame would be limited to being the plugged-in and sketchy-seeming guy glowering in the corner of a sports bar, counting betting slips.
So hes a priest or a clown, a supremely well-sourced outsider or a goofball who has figured out the not-at-all-well-guarded secret that, if your only goal is to draw attention to yourself, straight making **** up works. It is maybe not surprising that he didnt want to talk in person.
This was frustrating, if only because I wanted to find out if he looked like the imposing, muscle-bound figure that appears in the image (at right) that has served as his avatar on and off over the last couple of years. I couldnt help but speculate that, in reality, behind the photo lurked an ectomorphic, pockmarked, asthmatic 17-year-old white kid from Chautauqu, or a morbidly obese chain-smoking, differently-gendered Catfish, or a drunk Mike Lupica. This was all before the Manti Teo Thing, mind you. Incarcerated Bob practically demands this level of disbelief.
Alas, no matter what carrots I dangled, Bob just didnt want to meet up, and so we spoke on the phone. A voice doesnt begin to tell the entirety of a persons gestalt, but going by the dialect on the other end of the line, Bob is, in fact, an African-American male and a New Yorker. Contrary to his online and on-air persona, he came across as humble, thoughtful, genuine and pretty darn credible. That said, ours wasnt as much a conversation as it was a monologue punctuated by my occasional pivot.So tell me your story.We spoke briefly about why the line for the Broncos-Ravens Divisional Round game was so high, and how said line helped Vegas to turn a large profit. I opined that the league had a vested interest in a Brady-Manning AFC final, to which Bob segued into his thoughts on the NBA:
Basically someone that loved sports, grew up in it. Have some family members that are actually in the business. Some that are in the marketing with some teams. Just, you know, grew up as a big Yankee fan, Islander fan. Jets. Knicks. Sports has been my life since about 4 or 5 years old. I played some baseball in high school, played some hockey. Hockey, not really, nothing competitive, competitive, just some pick up stuff.
And now you make your living as a professional gambler?
Basically Ive been gambling since I was early twenties. I started off real bad. (Laughs) Started off really bad. I needed some bailouts from my father. (Laughs) As the years went by I progressed. I started learning some, um, some information from some people on how to dissect lines that come out from Vegas. How the money moves. How the, uh, you know what theyre really looking at. How the public money influences some line movements.
It becomes a challenge sometimes, with uh, not really knowing the teams, because thats basicallya lot of people that gamble think they know sports. So theyre like, Oh, this teams supposed to win. But see, when youre gambling, you can know all the sports you want, you can know all the teams you want, but you gotta dissect that line. And theres a lot of things that go on, like, why they make certain lines so appealing to one side, you know.Im very into a lot of conspiracy theories. If you follow my twitter, you know. I already think the NBA is the most fixed sport there is, you know, on this side of the WWE. When you watch it, youll see teams like the Heat just give up in the fourth quarter. Or the refs will make certain calls. Like they played the Blazers the other night. They should have killed the Blazers They had seven minutes left and they completely shut down and LeBron stopped going to the hole. Theres things where I KNOW.***
People will say to themselves, well LeBron makes so much money, why would he gamble? I know personally, athletes that make five-ten mil and theyre still gambling. I know them personally so, I laugh at people who say that. A lot of them dont do it just to make money; a lot of them do it for the rush, for the action. Im not saying LeBron is throwing games. So dont quote me on that. Im just saying, people in general who say, Athletes dont gamble. Its not true. You think Barkley just started gambling when he retired? Cmon.
Like I said, I have family members who are older obviously and theyve been around athletes from the 80s when all of that was going on. Like, Jordan retired not because he wanted to go to baseball or cause his father passed away, he retired because [NBA Commissioner David] Stern told him there was something that was going to come out. Get away from the game and let it blow over. The Pete Rose thing had just happened. They didnt want that big problem and the NBA was making a lot of money in the '80s and they said to Jordan, go away for a little bit, and he did.
So, that is where we are with Bob: talking to a character who lives inside a worldview that he inhabits passionately, and which is informed by unnamed sources that he trusts. Where I have doubts about the NBAs many dubious moments, Bob has answers, or just one answer: These refs, he told me. Theyre told. They might not be told with like Stern calling them, but believe me, they get the message. Every NBA game, these refs get pre-game scouting. They get a message, from the league, of what to look for.
A simple answer might be that the league is just reviewing game tape, seeing things the officials have missed and are trying to improve the quality of the officiating. A simpler answer might be that some top-down fix is always in. It may not be correct, but if that were the case youre trying to make, Twitter would definitely be the place to make it. Bob knows this.
I was getting information from everywhere once my name started getting out there, I would have to let some information not even be posted until I knew they were a real source. he told me. And Ive met probably over four or five guys that are involved as scouts in the NHL. Ive got one guy who was a defensive coordinator. He was my source for an NFL team. He just took a job in Buffalo so you probably know who it is. I just probably broke some news on your site, right now. If former Jets defensive coordinator Mike Pettine, who was recently hired by the Bills, is indeed a Bob-source, then we probably did. (We've asked Buffalo for comment on this, and will update if and when they respond.)
He was the one they thought they had Nnamdi. Bob said, in the sort of shorthand that assumes I know (as I do) that Bob stated with characteristic certainty that Nnamdi Asomugha, then a free agent and now as then a cornerback, would be signing with the Jets. Everyone gets on meoh, you missed the Nnamdi thing. Well, you know what? Every media guy missed it as well. The source at the Jets said, Hes not signing with the Cowboys. So if its not the Cowboys, its us. Nobody had Philly. Im in the rumor business. Of course youre going to miss some. Some other guys dont do it because theyre affiliated with big stations. They cant put their stuff out on the line. I can because I dont give a ****."
Bob is more dangerous when hes right. Floyd Mayweather. Ive actually put up some big bets hes made, Bob says. Ive actually had where, um, one of the NBA refs who was a guest at his at one of his training events. That NBA ref happened to be a ref that was on the one of the playoff games that [Mayweather] won for like five or six million dollars or something.
By way of proof, he proudly sent me a Dear Sir letter from the NBA threatening a five-figure defamation lawsuit for that tweet. Bob added that he ignored the letter, never deleted the offending tweet and never heard back from the leagues lawyers about it again. The stern letter is addressed to Incarcerated Bob. The NBAs lawyers dont know his name, either.
Which brings usor, really, brings Bobto the Honey Nut Cheerios/Melo incident. For one thing, Bob is still thinking about it. Black Sports Online stole it, he fumes. You can print that. They definitely stole my ****. [Black Sports Online writer Robert Littal] seemed like a stand up guy, but whatever. (The original Black Sports Online report doesnt credit Bobs tweet, and claims to have confirmed the claimitself presented vaguely, via a jpeg of a box of Honey Nut Cheerioswith several sources who were in attendance.)
But back to that night. I was watching and Carmelos really trying to go after KG and Im like, Why are they even beefing? So I made a few calls and guy at MSG Security told me, an MSG Security guard texted me and said, KG said some foul ****.
So I texted back," Bob continues, "Well, How foul did he say?" Told him his wife tasted like Honey Nut Cheerios. And Im like, get the **** outta here. Thats some funny ****. No, he really told him like its serious, like, implying that he did something with his wife. Okay. Somebody asked me on Twitter at one something in the morning what happened. Then it just went viral.
Theyve all denied it since then, I say.
Doc Rivers, of course hes gonna back his guys. If you see Carmelo, he just said something was said. He never denied it, Bob says. If Honey Nut Cheerios wasnt mentioned, Carmelo wouldve said Look, you guys got the Honey Nut Cheerios thing wrong. How does Doc Rivers know? He isnt on the floor with them. The only way the security heard, is because the security guy, he does the locker room. And he heard Melo yelling on, saying something about what was said to some of his teammates. So theres your story.
Well, there was a story, at least: a wildly colorful and entertaining one, and so one that richly deserved its virality. I tried to prod Bob for information, but we wound up talking in generalities, about KGs rep as a trash-talker supreme and the rumored difficulties in Carmelos marriage. Bob didnt know any more than what the security guard told him. I gave Bob ample opportunity to prove that he would, as the worst opinion of him holds that he would and does, say anything in hopes of increasing the Incarcerated Bob profile. That didnt happen and instead, we ended our chat like any Knicks fans wouldtwo guys talking about the challenges facing our favorite team.
After a 45-minute conversation, I still didnt have an ironclad answer to the question that spurred this inquiry. Maybe KG actually stated that another mans wife tastes like a yummy breakfast cereal; it was the security guard, in the locker room, with the candlestick. Then again, maybe he didnt. Its hard to know, too, whether Bobs an actual insider or just a web archetype: a big-talking, know-everyone know-it-all. Everything he said made sense, both by its own internal logic and per internet-standard I-know-a-guy-who-heard-it sourcing. Then again, what kind of con artist would he be if it didnt make sense? A con artist sells us what we want to be true, and makes us want it. Whether what he says is true or not, Bob does this very well.
And if it is just a carefully crafted fiction, its also unclear whatbeyond some attention and some Twitter followersBob has to gain from all of this. He states that hes had multiple offers to go mainstream, but that none are of particular interest because hes not going to sell out. He didnt elaborate, and its hard to know what he might mean by that. But if the endgame were a financial windfall, it seems likely that hed have cashed in his chips by now. He seems too savvy a gambler not to have done so, if in fact he could have.
But maybe thats not what hes playing for. Bob, I think, might be in it for a particularly American and especially contemporary reward: the ability to invent or reinvent oneself in the only frontier left, to push farther out into the great unknown, and stake a claim out there on the wild parts of the internet with a few well-placed and well-timed (and maybe, for all I know, well-sourced) words. There, out on the virtual frontier, he and anyone else can erase X years of history, class, race, genderall of itand make something new.
I dont think Bobs a fraud. While Im not particularly fond of the hero hes crafted for the action film he lives onlinein the last couple of days, he jumped into an odd little beef between SNY on-air personality Adam Schein and Snooki, of all people, flinging weird, misplaced threats of violence against the latters reality TV paramour, JhonniI do like the guy I spoke to on the phone. I have a feeling that had he agreed to a sit-down, Id have liked him even more.
Who I would have met, had we met, is something I cant be quite sure about. But not once in our long conversation did he tip my bull****-o-meter into the red; if hes probably a bit different in the world than he is on the Internet, thats also true of all of us, and it doesnt make him Ronaiah Tuasosopo. But I did sense that here was a Twitter persona that both exceeded and was an incomplete portrait of the real human being behind the keyboard. Like Hunter Thompsons Raoul Duke, the Incarcerated Bob imago is one that Bob has no choice but to inhabit. After I hung up, I couldnt help but feel that Incarcerated Bob is, as Kathyrn Bigelow might put it, a fictional composite based on a true story that might have been more interesting than the embellished version.
stop, please stop
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Incarcerated Bob is the reason why we should nuke New Jersey from orbit, its the only way to be sure.
This is more about Bob than the trade itself.
Super long post btw..
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text: I know some of you poor people here know how to do this in this poor economy. Man am I pissed! So Friday night I met with some clients at Joe Robbie (I still call it that **** you) to watch the Dolphins take on the Bucs. On my way to the stadium, I stopped at this ****hole full service station (didn't even know they had those anymore) to fill up my Escalade. I told this old Cuban fella to fill it up while I went inside to grab a case of Presidente. I was in and out in probably a minute. I come back outside and see this old FOB pumping REGULAR UNLEADED into my $90K Escalade. Had I not had my Allen Edmonds polished earlier in the day I would have deported his ass with my foot. I don't think he spoke much English but yelling is a universal language so he knew I was pissed. I drove it on out to Joe Robbie and back home but haven't driven it since. How the hell am I going to get that low grade gasoline out of my tank before it clogs up everything and ruins my engine? It even smelled worse than the premium grade I usually put in.