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Fidelity National Plans Debt as Sales Dwindle: New Issue Alert
Fidelity National Information Services Inc., the payment-processor that private-equity firms including Blackstone Group LP sought to buy, is marketing debt after corporate bond sales fell to a six-week low.
Fidelity National Information plans to sell $1.2 billion of senior notes to help repurchase stock and to repay debt used to buy Metavante Technologies Inc., a technology products provider, the Jacksonville, Florida-based company said yesterday in a statement distributed by Business Wire.
Corporate bond sales plummeted to $7.58 billion last week, the least since May 21, when companies issued $5.52 billion of debt, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Fidelity National's sale "will be an interesting barometer," to gauge market appetite for high-risk, high-yield debt, said Edward Meigs, a portfolio manager at Dwight Asset Management Co.
"Usually, higher-quality deals are the first to sort of reopen the market, and as the market becomes more comfortable, theoretically, you start to get the lower-rated names come," Meigs, who oversees about $800 million of junk-rated debt in Baltimore, said in a telephone interview. "If we do get a little more stability, I do think new issuance will pick up."
Moody's Investors Service affirmed Fidelity National's Ba1 rating, one level below investment-grade, on June 30. Standard & Poor's cut the company's rating one step to BB, two levels below investment-grade, on July 1.
The extra yield investors demand to own high-risk, high-yield debt instead of Treasury bonds widened 1 basis point to 714 basis points from July 2, according to the Bank of America Merrill Lynch U.S. High Yield Master II index. Speculative-grade bonds are rated below Baa3 by Moody's Investors Service and BBB-by S&P. A basis point is 0.01 percentage point.
Lafarge Boosts Offering
Lafarge SA, the world's largest cement maker, led $1.5 billion of investment-grade corporate debt sales yesterday, issuing $550 million of 5.5 percent five-year notes, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The company boosted its offering from $350 million, according to a person familiar with the transaction, who declined to be identified because the marketing wasn't public.
Kroger Co., the largest U.S. supermarket chain by revenue, also increased the size of a debt offering, issuing $300 million of 30-year bonds, Bloomberg data show. The company boosted its sale from $250 million, according to a person familiar with the transaction, who declined to be identified because the marketing wasn't public.
Investment-grade spreads narrowed 1 basis point to 207 basis points, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch's U.S. Corporate Master index.
CKE Sells Junk Debt
CKE Restaurants Inc., operator of the Carl's Jr. and Hardee's fast-food chains, had the only major junk-bond sale, issuing $600 million of 11.375 percent eight-year notes, Bloomberg data show. The company may use proceeds to help pay for its acquisition by Apollo Management LP, according to a person familiar with the offering who declined to be identified citing lack of authorization to speak publicly on the matter.
Fidelity National Information announced a plan to repurchase as much as $2.5 billion of stock in May after Blackstone Group, Thomas H. Lee Partners LP and TPG Capital dropped a plan to bid more than $15 billion for the company.
Many junk-rated companies would have trouble selling debt for share repurchases and dividend payouts in today's volatile market environment, said Sabur Moini, who manages $1.7 billion of high-yield debt at Payden & Rygel in Los Angeles.
"Given the stability of Fidelity's cash flows, investors may well feel comfortable that a company like this could get away with stock buybacks," Moini said. "It's got a large market cap and the business they're in does tend to be the sort of business high-yield investors like, a stable predictable business."
Fidelity National has a $10.2 billion stock-market value.
Following is a description of at least $4.82 billion of pending sales of dollar-denominated bonds in the U.S.
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CHILE plans to sell $1 billion of 10-year bonds, along with warrants and peso debt, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Chile will use the proceeds for general purposes, the filing said. The country is seeking financing for repairs after a Feb. 27 earthquake and subsequent tsunami killed more than 400 people and caused as much as $30 billion of damage. Moody's upgraded Chile's rating to Aa3 from A1 on June 16, citing "economic and financial resilience even
DOHA BANK QSC, Qatar's third-largest bank, may raise as much as $1 billion from bond sales, its chief executive officer said. The money is likely to be raised for five years and is meant to "fix the maturity mismatch" on the bank's balance sheet, Raghavan Seetharaman said in a June 16 telephone interview from Doha. The bank hasn't decided which currency to sell the bonds in, he said. The lender said in April that it
FORETHOUGHT FINANCIAL GROUP INC. plans to sell $150 million of 10-year bonds, according to a person familiar with the transaction, who declined to be identified because terms aren't
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DANFIN FUNDING LTD. may sell as much as $1 billion of three-year pass-through notes backed by Danish financial institutions' loans, according to a person familiar with the offering. The debt, which will be guaranteed by Denmark, may
POSTMEDIA NETWORK INC. plans to sell $275 million of eight-year notes, according to a person familiar with the offering.
The PROVINCE OF CORDOBA, Argentina, plans to sell as much as $350 million of bonds in international markets once the
SENSIENT TECHNOLOGIES CORP. said it entered into an agreement with a group of four financial institutions for the issuance of $110 million in fixed-rate, senior notes, according to a Nov. 19 statement distributed by Business Wire. The company
High Yield
FIDELITY NATIONAL INFORMATION SERVICES INC., the provider of banking and payment technology, plans to sell $1.2 billion of senior notes, according to a person familiar with the transaction who declined to be identified because terms aren't set. The offering may be split between notes that mature in 2017 and debt due in 2020, said the person. Proceeds will be used to buy back stock and repay debt used to buy Metavante Technologies Inc., Jacksonville, Florida-based Fidelity National said in a
OXEA FINANCE & CY S.C.A. plans to sell the equivalent of 500 million euros of seven-year bonds in dollars and euros, according to two people with knowledge of the offering. Proceeds will be used to repay debt, shareholder loans and a payment to
GENTIVA HEALTH SERVICES INC., the U.S. home-nursing company that is buying Odyssey HealthCare Inc., plans to sell $305 million of eight-year notes, the Atlanta-based company said in a May 24 regulatory filing, without specifying the timing of the transaction. Proceeds will be used to help fund the takeover, according to the filing. Standard & Poor's assigned the unsecured notes a B- credit rating on June 29. Moody's
UNIVERSAL HEALTH SERVICES INC., the operator of more than 100 U.S. medical facilities that's buying Psychiatric Solutions Inc., plans to sell $400 million of senior unsecured debt to
PROMSVYAZBANK OJSC, Russia's third-largest private bank, plans to sell $200 million of six-year loan participation notes
AKBANK TAS, the Turkish bank part-owned by Citigroup Inc., plans to sell five-year, dollar-denominated eurobonds worth up
CEDAR FAIR ENTERTAINMENT CO., the operator of amusement parks that called off a takeover by an Apollo Management LP affiliate, said it plans to sell $500 million of senior unsecured notes due in 2020. Proceeds will be used to repay existing debt, the Sandusky, Ohio-based company said in a May 20 statement distributed by PR Newswire. Moody's Investor Service rated the company's senior notes B2, citing the refinancing meaningfully improves the company's liquidity position and provides the company flexibility to reduce debt and manage through a period of attendance-constraining high unemployment
IRSA INVERSIONES Y REPRESENTACIONES SA, Argentina's biggest real-estate company, extended an offer to sell $250 million in 10-year bonds until June 24, the company said in a regulatory
TITAN INTERNATIONAL INC., the maker of tire and wheel systems for off-highway equipment, said it plans to sell at least $150 million of senior unsecured notes. Proceeds will be used to repurchase the 8 percent senior unsecured notes due in 2012 and for general corporate purposes, the Quincy, Illinois-
INVENTIV HEALTH INC., the provider of sales and marketing services to science companies that is being acquired by Thomas
Offerings in Pipeline
POTASH CORPORATION OF SASKATCHEWAN INC., the world's largest fertilizer company by capacity, filed a registration
INDONESIA plans to name three banks to help it sell approximately $650 million of Islamic bonds in October, Dahlan Siamat, director for Islamic financing at the finance ministry,
NOMURA HOLDINGS INC. Japan's largest brokerage, plans to sell dollar-denominated sukuk, or Islamic bonds, in Malaysia, according to a July 6 company statement. Nomura may sell $100 million of Ijarah sukuk that will mature in 2012. The securities will yield 160 basis points more than the London interbank offered rate, said Jamelah Jamaluddin, chief executive officer
OAO GAZPROMBANK, the lending unit of Russia's gas export monopoly, hired Barclays Capital, Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc, and UBS AG to organize meetings with investors in Europe
CORPORACION FINANCIERA DE DESAROLLO S.A. Peru's state development bank known as Cofide, plans to sell as much as $250 million of dollar-denominated bonds, according to Chief Financial Officer Carlos Linares. Linares said in an interview in Lima, that the lender is selling long-term debt as it boosts lending to local infrastructure projects. "Peru's need for infrastructure is huge," Linares said. "The government is
SRI LANKA plans to sell dollar-denominated bonds, according to its central bank. The South Asian country's third-ever overseas offering is likely after August, Central Bank of Sri
GEORGIAN RAILWAY LTD. hired Bank of America Corp. and
JORDAN plans to sell about $500 million of bonds, Finance Minister Mohammad Abu Hammour said in an interview on June 23. The sale will be denominated in U.S. dollars "as it's a stable
BANK OF EAST ASIA LTD. hired Citigroup Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. to help it sell subordinated 10-year bonds in dollars, according to a person with direct knowledge of the
URUGUAY may sell as much as $1 billion of bonds in 2011, including $500 million of dollar-denominated debt, Carlos Steneri, director of public credit at Uruguay's Ministry of Economy and Finance, said June 3 at a LatinFinance conference in
MALAYSIA plans to raise about $1 billion from its first sale of conventional dollar bonds in eight years after drawing bids for five times the Islamic debt it offered, a finance ministry official said. The government may hire the same banks, including CIMB Group Holdings Bhd. and HSBC Holdings Plc, to arrange the sale by Sept. 30, said the official, who declined to be named as the discussions are private. Malaysia raised $1.25
INDOSAT PALAPA CO., a unit of Indonesia's second-largest phone operator, delayed a planned dollar bond sale until market conditions improve, a person familiar with the matter said May 26. Indosat began meetings with investors in Asia, the U.S. and Europe on May 12 to gauge demand for a global bond sale, according to a company statement sent to the Indonesian stock
SABIC CAPITAL, a unit of Saudi Basic Industries Corp., will sell bonds when market conditions and rates are favorable, its vice president for corporate finance Mutlaq al-Morished told al-Arabiya television in Dubai on June 16. Sabic delayed a bond sale because of unfavorable spreads, al-Morished said in a May 26 telephone interview. Sabic Capital had hired HSBC Holdings
GHANA is considering selling its second dollar bond in 2011 to tap investor demand as the start-up of oil production boosts economic growth and narrows the budget deficit, Deputy Finance Minister Fifi Kwetey said. The government is considering a "no-deal roadshow" as early as the fourth quarter to gauge international investors' appetite, Kwetey said in a May 26 interview in Abidjan. Ghana sold its first global bond in 2007,
ANGOLA received credit ratings from Moody's, S&P, and Fitch Ratings that put it on par with Nigeria, Lebanon and Belarus, and paved the way for a planned sale of international bonds. The southern African nation's creditworthiness was rated at B+ by
EURASIAN NATURAL RESOURCES CORP., a London-based iron ore and alumina producer with operations in China and Russia, said it delayed its first dollar bond sale. The company is "postponing meetings with investors regarding a potential bond issuance under its Euro Medium Term Note program until further notice," Charlotte Kirkham, a spokeswoman for ENRC, said in an e-mail. The company had hired Deutsche Bank AG and Morgan
KAZAKHSTAN plans to sell between $500 million and $750 million in bonds to investors abroad in the autumn, Kazakh Finance Minister Bolat Zhamishev said in a May 14 interview. The
QATARI DIAR REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT CO. may raise about $1.5 billion by selling global bonds backed by Qatar, according to a person familiar with the sale plan. The developer may offer 10-year conventional bonds and 5-year Islamic securities, said the person who declined to be identified because details of the transaction haven't been completed. HSBC Holdings Plc and
CHINA ORIENTAL GROUP CO. plans to sell senior notes to provide working capital and possibly to finance the purchase of steel mills and iron ore assets in China. Deutsche Bank AG will
BANK FOR INVESTMENT & DEVELOPMENT OF VIETNAM received approval from the central bank to issue 7 trillion dong ($369 million) of notes and another 3 trillion dong of dollar-
BOLIVIA plans its first international bond sale in more
KOREA FINANCE CORP. hired BNP Paribas SA and Standard Chartered Plc to help it sell dollar bonds backed by Korean residential mortgages, according to a person familiar with the transaction. The banks will help arrange meetings with investors in Asia, Europe and the U.S., the person said. Edaily reported in April that the company planned to sell $100 million to $200 million of foreign-currency bonds in its first overseas debt sale since October, without citing anyone. The state-run agency
PTT EXPLORATION & PRODUCTION PCL, the Thai oil explorer, hired Credit Suisse Group AG and Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc to help it sell global bonds, according to two people
POWER SECTOR ASSETS AND LIABILITIES MANAGEMENT CORP. of the Philippines may sell between $750 million and $1.5 billion of dollar-denominated bonds "anytime" to help refinance maturing debt through next year, Vice Chairman Jose Ibazeta said. The
BRISBANE AIRPORT CORP., owner of Australia's third-busiest airport, may sell bonds in the U.S. later this year as it pursues new markets to help refinance debt and pay for a new runway. The company is considering a 10- or 15-year U.S. private placement and a five- to seven-year Australian dollar bond sale
VIETNAM NATIONAL COAL-MINERAL INDUSTRIES GROUP, the state-owned coal producer known as Vinacomin, plans to sell as much as $500 million of bonds overseas this year to fund mining and
FINLAND may sell five-year bonds denominated in dollars
POLAND may sell dollar bonds if markets stabilize, Deputy Finance Minister Dominik Radziwill said. The European Union
MONGOLIA plans to raise $500 million selling bonds this year and the remainder of a planned $1.2 billion program will be sold according to market conditions, Batbayar Balgan, director general of the financial and economic policy department of Mongolia, said at a forum in Ulan Bator on June 16. The government scaled back its plans for global bond sales this year after Europe's debt crisis drove up borrowing costs. Investment banks are advising Mongolia to issue debt with maturities of 5


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TCR Friday Notes
I'll ease back into TCR with some links...
- Geovany Soto will be back in the lineup tonight just in
time for some Coors Field inflated hitting. Way to pick your spots
- A rather crucial 7-game swing here for the Cubs...4 at Colorado and then 3 at home versus Philly. The Rockies are a game behind the Giants in the wild card and one ahead of the Cubs. Pitching matchups for this weekend are: Zambrano vs U. Jimenez (3.76 ERA), Dempster vs. Marquis (3.49), Wells vs. Hammell (4.62) and Gorzelanny vs. De La Rosa (5.00 ERA, although 5-0 with a 2.50 ERA in July, but then got crushed in his first August start against Philly).
- Here's a great Dusty-ism, except it's from Hendry.
"I can't say enough about Hill," general manager Jim Hendry said. "He really saved us."
- Carlos Marmol leads all of baseball with a 8.48 BB/9 rate and at least 50 innings pitched (52 currently). I went back to 1995 and only found 2 other instances of a walk rate above 8 per nine innings and at least 50 innings pitched, John Rocker in 2000 (53 IP) and Stephen Randolph in 2004 (81.2 IP). Not a good career choice for Marmol...
When I think of control-challenged relievers that played for the Cubs, my mind always wanders to Mitch Williams. His career worst (using the 50 IP cut-off) was 7.79 BB/9 in 108.1 IP for the Rangers in 1987. In his 2 years with the Cubs, he walked 5.84 in 1989 (a career best) and 6.78 per nine innings.
- The Cubs signed their 6th round pick, LHP Brooks Raley to a $750K bonus, and inked their first 12 picks to date. The deadline is August 17th.
- Julio Castillo, the Cub farmhand that was indicted for throwing at a fan during a brawl last year, ended up getting 30 days of jail time and three years probation. As far as I know, he's still a member of the Cubs organization, although I'm sure Arizona Phil would know better.
- Kevin Hart made his first start for the Pirates last night, going 6 innings and giving up 3 runs, 1 BB, 9 H, and 5 K's.
- Chad Gaudin has been traded from the Padres to the New York Yankees for a player to be named later...he could replace another ex-Cub in Sergio Mitre in the rotation.
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Yankee's plan to acquire all ex-cubs for the bottom end of their pitching staff...
side by side with Sergio Meatball stands Chad Gaudin (who is still on the Cubs payroll)
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So the Cubs can't hit a sleepy 84 MPH Justin Lehr fastball, but they'll probably clobber Jimenez' 98 MPH fastball...
What a silly game.
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Chad Gaudin - he of the 5.00+ era and 1.88 SO/BB fame.
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Roster move for Soto?
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DFA Hendry?
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Good choice.
Very little range and seemingly powerless these days.
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Yes, Julio "Animal" Castillo is still a member of the Cubs organization (he is technically on the Boise Reserve List). He was at Fitch Park throwing bullpen side-sessions & sim games for about three months before going to Dayton for the trial. What his ultimate future with the Cubs will be, I don't know, but he does throw in the mid-90's...
Castillo is the man-child from the jungles of Hispanola (near the Dominican Republic-Haiti border) who caught a rat at the Peoria Sports Complex a couple of years ago and kept the rodent as a pet in his motel room while he spent the summer pitching for the AZL Cubs.
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I was surprised to see that Milton Bradley is on a pace to appear in 134 games this year.
But, what are the chances? That would be the second highest total in his career (2004 - 141 is tops) and he averages 90-100 games per season. Time may be running out. Uncle Milty has appeared in 88 games already.
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you could probably tack on another 10+ games to that if he wasn't rested for matchups.
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If he wasn't rested for matchups, he might have had a limb fall off by now, due to his Mark Prioritus.
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Re Hill: I don't like watching him come to the plate either, but maybe catching is mostly about catching, and maybe there's more to catching than the usual stats. If a catcher has workable ideas about how to get a hitter out, it could show up in the final score.
By my count, the Cubs are 55-30 in games that Hill has started, going back to 2007 when he took over for Michael Barrett. When you consider that Hill weakens the team's offense when he plays, it's even more remarkable.
After 2007, people mostly dismissed Hill's team-related success as lucky timing, but now it has happened again.
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After 2007, people mostly dismissed Hill's team-related success as lucky timing, but now it has happened again.
Who knew that, in addition to adding 5 mph to a pitcher's fastball, Koyie Hill would also make Soriano hit better, Bradley hit better, ARam get healthy, Fukudome to come out of his slump, etc? He really does have super powers, eh?
The Cubs haven't been winning more games (since Soto went on the DL) because of Hill. They are winning games because they are scoring more runs. And Hill has had very, very little to do with that.
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Who knew Big Lo was Koyie Hill's kryptonite?
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In addition to signing LHP-OF Brooks Raley (6th round pick out of Texas A&M) for Supplemental 1st round money (he received nearly $250K more than 2nd round pick D. J. LeMahieu got), the Cubs also recently signed left-handed hitting slugging catcher Sergio Burruel (19th round pick out of Trevor Browne HS - Phoenix, AZ) to an above-slot bonus, and Burruel made his pro debut (as DH) last night for the AZL Cubs (he walked and crushed a double in four PA).
LHP Aaron Kirk (3rd round pick out of Owasso HS - Owasso, OK) made his pro debut Wednesday night, threw one inning, and struck out the side. He has plus-velocity.
The Cubs have now signed 29 of their 50 selections from the 2009 Rule 4 Draft, including their first 12 picks and 14 of their top 15, although two of the players who signed (17th round pick RHP B. J. Dail and 23rd rounder OF Jeffrey Pruitt) subsequently had their contracts voided.
The AZL season is over on August 28th but the Boise season doesn't end for another ten days after that, so expect several AZL Cubs to get promoted to Boise on August 29th.
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Wow, I didn't realize Kirk had plus velocity. That's nice to read.
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That's a steal for Raley. A really impressive coup for the Cubs scouting department to get that guy. For about 2/3rds of the season he was the best pitcher in the country (though never the best prospect of course). Oh yeah, and he projects to be a Darrin Erstad type in center field and with the bat. Any word on what the Cubs are wanting to do with him, Phil? Or rather what he wants to do?
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He was drafted as a pitcher.
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True, but the Cubs have a history of letting people choose. I am sure they would have loved to convert Harvey to pitching two years ago, for instance.
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That's why I'm all for the death penalty for any offense. :)
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The people at the Sporting News apparently don't follow baseball very closely. Their MLB home page has a picture of Carlos Zambrano and the blurb underneath reads:
"Victor Zambrano and the Cubs try to figure out how to win on the road as they head to Colorado in a key series for both contenders. That's just one of several intriguing matchups this weekend, Ryan Fagan says."
Update: it took them a few hours but they finally fixed it.
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Scary note for the Cubs:
Of the next 31 games the Cardinals play, only 3 are against a team currently over .500 (Dodgers).
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That's kind of scary, but I still fully believe the Cubs biggest enemy right now is the Cubs. If they can just do what they do, they'll be alright.
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Anyone want to take a flyer on the Giambino as a LH bat off the bench?
He's only hitting .193 this year, but has 40 RBIs to go along with 11 HRs. Could he be this year's Jim Edmonds (although mostly as a PH)?
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No thanks. He's an admitted steroid freak, and if you want to overlook that he can't play any position and he can't hit. So what value does he have? Why Oakland gave him almost $6 million guaranteed between this year and next year's buyout is beyond me. He sucks.
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Nah. This team is dislikable enough even without Giambi. I'm okay with a slightly less muscly Micah Hoffpauir off the bench.
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Giambi's dislikable? I always kinda figured him to be a fun, beer-drinking, party guy.
Also, he grows one helluva mustache.
Anyway, he doesn't really fit anywhere on the Cubs, but even at .193 he's got more RBIs than Bradley. Shit, just last year he hit 32 HRs and had an OPS+ of 128.
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file this under fun with the rule 5 draft: Pirates place Donald Veal back to the DL with a sprained left index finger
file this under McFail ain't doin' us any favors: Gregg Zaun from the O's to the Rays for cash considerations
file this under I'm selective when type and pasting: Brewers recalled RHP Jesus...
(that outta help their pitching staff)
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Just a couple weeks ago we saw a ball get lost in the jersey of an opposing pitcher... you don't have that problem with a robe.
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well played.
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Unbelievable... waiver claim on Rios.
Who the hell would want that at that price?
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The Dodgers? They have a recent history of terrible contracts.
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Normally the Dodgers couldn't get anybody through waivers at this point, but in this case, I can see why nobody got in their way.
Maybe the Mets? That's about my only reasonable guess, if they think he can really help them the next four years or whatever he has left.
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I'll guess it's the Giants. But you can't count the Royals out, their GM seems to make some questionable financial moves as well, but the Giants are starved for offense and they talked about trading for Rios a while back.
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I like Rios. They can have Bradley, Heilman and Miles in exchange. This defeats the purpose of shedding payroll? I don't care.
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.. you don't have that problem with a robe
can't be correct, wasn't he a lefty?
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So the whole thing about Donald Veal and how the pirates might be stashing him on the dl (or not for that matter) made me think of something.
Often a young player like David Patton may be coerced into playing along with a fake injury in order to stay with the team. If I'm him I would do the same, you get to stay on a first place team and have a future with a club like hte Cubs (in this case, i'm considering it a good thing).
But let's take a guy like Donald Veal. He was Cub but then gets Rule 5'd to the Gulag. If they are trying to stash him even though he's not really hurt, couldn't he file a grievance with the union? (this presumes that he'd rather be a Cub, as of course anyone would)
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I think the $440K he's getting paid to sit on the DL is what's keeping him happy, considering he'd be nowhere near the majors with the Cubs. Same goes for Patton.
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I wonder if there's some sort unwritten rule that you agree to do it...or be branded as someeone who's not a team player.
Left Handed Catchers
As a lefty this has always interested me.
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you'll be hard pressed to find a coach in highschool or college that would want a LH catcher...the curve stops there many times.
from the "throwing to 3rd thing" to worries about RH hitters (way more of them than lefty hitters) being able to sneak signs easier...there's plenty of excuses to go around.
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.. you don't have that problem with a robe
he can pitch, and catch all at the same time even with a catchers glove on his right hand.
dos equis XX
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if that saw went any deeper, Koyie Hill might have been your most recent mlb left handed catcher...
Pat Venditte
Still climbing the ladder in Yankees' system. Was promoted at the beginning of July to High-A Tampa. Has a 2.60 ERA, 1.10 WHIP. Still pitching with both hands... How far will he go? It sure has been fun to follow...
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I think it would be such a valuable skill to be an ambidextrous quarterback so you could roll out to either side and throw on the run.
I hope this guy makes the majors. Would be really cool to watch.
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Pat Transvenditte.
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The Hoff sent down to AAA, as some of you had desired, to make room for "Oblique-Man"
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Submitted by Cubster on Fri, 08/07/2009 - 1:42pm.
file this under fun with the rule 5 draft: Pirates place Donald Veal back to the DL with a sprained left index finger
CUBSTER: Donald Veal has spent 85 days on the Pirates 25-man roster in 2009, so five more days on the Active Roster (and presumably he will be reactivated after rosters expand on 9/1) and the Rule 5 restrictions will be lifted for 2010, so that the Pirates can option Veal to the minors in 2010, 2011, and 2012 (if they wish).
David Patton has already spent 90+ days on the Cubs 25-man Active List in 2009, so he could just go home for the rest of the year because he has spent enough time on the Cubs 25-man roster for his Rule 5 restrictions to be lifted next season. (If a Rule 5 player spends less than 90 days on an MLB Active List in the season following selection in the Rule 5 Draft, the Rule 5 restrictions continue into the next season until the player has accrued 90 days of MLB Service Time).
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I don't hate Coghlan as a PHer but he's leading off today which is as bad as Austin Jackson doing so last year. He doesn't even have the speed.
TLS has options. He will be up again in Sept, and maybe earlier.
Very odd -- TLS .308/.419 in July (in 26 AB). Strange move for a team struggling to score runs. Hard to imagine Coghlan doing better than that. Maybe they like Coghlan better as a PH?
Sorry to nitpick -- but the first game wasn't a save.
Wow La Stella sent to Iowa and Coghlan brought up. I'm not a huge Stella fan but he has been hitting lately and is to me better than Coghlan. Neither are good defensively but I guess Coghlan can play the outfield allowing Bryant to stay at 3rd more where he's better.
Not 2nd to last but Cubs are definitely bottom of the pack in the 2nd half in oWAR and wRC+. #1 in dWAR though which is certainly a good sign for the playoffs.
I was going to say that you wouldn't want Heyward to achieve Soriano's OBP--.317 with the Cubs--but now I see that he's already done that. Pitchers have lost their fear of him.
Oh, well, at least Chapman seems to be as good as advertised.
Thanks to E-man and Quiet Man for the link on Chapman in a previous post. It's funny because I never really noticed Chapman's delivery until I saw him doing it in a blue uniform. Two saves in a Cubs uniform already. I hope they don't need him today, despite that smooth delivery.
Cubs are middle of the pack in average, 5th in OPS, 2nd in walks, 4th in runs scored in MLB. Their runs scored ranks 17th in the MLB in July.
Boston, leading everything, continues to rake in July.
Lester has given up one run or fewer in 11 starts this year. So I'd answer yes. Three of his last four starts were duds, yes. Not worried about him at all. Arrieta is concerning, to be sure. I look it at as, what he was doing was historic, so the regression was bound to happen. He showed in his start against the Mets that he's still capable, and I'd bet on him regaining his form.
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This is not an attack...But In what stat are the Cubs second from last in MLB, in hitting? I don't see this.
How odd the stats:
Cubs 1st in pitching in MLB
2nd to last in hitting.
In May they were 1st in both.
trevor clifton (high-A) could be interesting in a couple seasons...could even become a high/middle rotation guy. he's got a lot of pluses in his pitching except control.
eric leal's (high-A) progression through the minors should be worth watching even if only projects to be an mid/end-rotation starter.
we also gotta keep a long-distance eye on guys like jose paulino (ss-A) and preston morrison (A).
As Johnny Bach used to say when it was time for the MJ Bulls to crank up the defensive pressure: "Release the Dobermans!", and Jordan, Pippen, Rodman and Harper would just suffocate the other team.
I'd love to add Carl Jr. to that group - he's got the stuff.
Historically, the Moneyball guys have been great at identifying productive hitters. Not so much with pitchers.


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On the surface, this impressive little movie with the deceptively gentle title is near unrelentingly bleak and depressing. But the understatement and grace notes evident in the overlapping themes of personal loss and horrific tragedy make it an absorbing character study with insight into redemption and recovery from even the most devastating blows life can deal. Under the attentive direction of newcomer Shawn Ku, Michael Sheen and Maria Bello are responsible for most of the emotional grandeur as parents of a college freshman whose unknown inner chaos erupts into mass murder and suicide on his unnamed campus one morning, a starting point plainly inspired by the 2007 massacre at Virginia Tech. Bill and Kate are on the steep down-slope of a marriage--he's already making plans to move out--when the unthinkable news arrives at their door in the form of two police officers seeking clues to the mind-boggling motivations that triggered the actions of their son. The aftermath and all its attendant details are scrupulously observed by Ku's shaky, handheld camera with its long lens kept almost exclusively in ultra-tight close-up to telegraph the claustrophobia of Bill and Kate's individual and shared turmoil. Of course there's much more than turmoil and grief. There's rage, desolation, incomprehension, recrimination, and pitiable sorrow, not only for themselves, but also for the progression of choices that could have brought them to such an inconceivable place in the world. It's a lot for such a spare movie to bite off and chew, and the evolution of reason that the script lays out for Bill and Kate sometimes stutters. Yet Sheen and Bello never waver in their choices as actors to keep the overwhelming reality facing their characters from completely going off the deep end. Several scenes that come together at a cheap motel where they have fled to partially keep the crushing truth at bay are heartbreakingly moving and truly remarkable showcases of their professional skill. The rigorous formal style that includes the camerawork and a pallid, washed-out blue-gray palette is as rigorous as the performances. Events and emotions conspire to direct Bill and Kate's panoply of anguish toward a resolution that recognizes there is no answer to the questions asked by police, parents, and the movie itself. But the suggestion lingers that there may be a kind of deliverance in the affectingly beautiful despondency of Beautiful Boy. --Ted Fry
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Bill and Kate are the middle-class parents of college junior Sammy, a young man who has always been quiet and something of a loner. There is a tension beneath their marriage which is not readily apparent to anyone, not even to them. One night their son calls and sounds unusually quiet. The viewer is easily able to spot the sadness and confusion in his face, but Bill and Kate notice nothing over the phone, chatting only about planning the family vacation.
The next morning brings the news that a student has shot dozens of fellow students at Sammy's college. There is a lockdown and no information is coming out of the school. Worried as they are, Bill and Kate convince themselves that Sammy is fine - he rarely answers his cell phone anyway, Kate muses - until the moment when two detectives appear at their door. Kate screams, "He's dead, isn't he?" and their worst fears are confirmed. But then comes the unthinkable, "There's more" says the Detective, as he informs them that Sammy is the perpetrator who shot himself in the head after murdering so many of his fellow students. "LIAR!" shrieks Kate, "LIAR!" she repeats, as she collapses in disbelief.
They both take to bed, Bill in their room and Kate sprawled across Sammy's in his attic bedroom. After a short while, the reporters appear at their door and the television is endlessly showing Sammy's photo and a seemingly psychopathic video he made shortly before his rampage. Bill and Kate flee to Kate's brother's home, while they try to come to terms with Sammy's inexplicable killing spree.
The first thing that impressed me about this film was the superb acting. Michael Sheen ("David Frost" in FROST NIXON; "Tony Blair" in THE QUEEN) is nothing short of brilliant as the confused and grieving Bill. He's a good man, a good husband and a good father, but the events that unfold make him question if the tragedy could somehow be their fault. Maria Bello (THANK YOU FOR SMOKING) is extremely effective as Kate, believably and quietly wringing all the emotion one could expect out of the situation. But even more than their amazing performances, the tight script, effectively dramatic without any pathos or phony emotion, is as believable as one could want and plunges the viewer directly into the experience of the two shocked parents, as they deal with horribly cruel and judgmental comments on Sammy's Facebook page, childish, sadistic graffiti spray-painted on his tombstone, endless talk-show hosts who condemn them as parents without ever meeting them, and thrill-seeking teens who break into their home to "investigate" all they can about the "Psycho murderer." How many times have we seen headlines like this and thought, "It's the parents fault" without giving any real consideration to who the parents really are and how confused and saddened they must be to lose a child?
Equally impressive is the first-rate direction by Shawn Ku, who restrains the dramatics to the point of sheer plausibility and whose indulgence in hand-held cameras is neither excessive nor obtrusive. The best thing about it, it bears repeating, is the absence of maudlin emotions and tear-wrenching, sappy speeches or music. The scenes are all well thought out, extremely credible and ultimately satisfying. For a while, I thought they had stopped making films like this. The pedestrian premise initially prompted me to give it just four stars, but in the end I was so satisfied by this marvelously well-done, old-fashioned drama that I can't see how it deserves less than five.
Highly recommended.
Brilliant acting.
Amazing direction.
Pacing, score, pretty much everything was brilliant.
Definitely worth a watch.
Here's why...
The movie is about your average married couple who's college age kid snaps and goes on a school shooting rampage before taking his own life.
My memories of Columbine and the other various school shootings over the years are still very fresh in my mind.
The one thing that I always wondered was how the families related to the shooters dealt with what had happened.
I think this movie does an excellent job of showing what these families go through.
When Columbine happened, I like many was the first to point my finger at the parents.
But what I've noticed about a lot of these shooters is that they're almost always late teens to early twenties. That's usually right when schizophrenia symptoms start to manifest in young men.
So no, in a lot of cases I think the parents raise the kids just fine and are just as baffled by what happened as everyone else.
I know it's of little comfort to the victims families but all too often the warning signs of mental illness go unnoticed.
The only thing we can really learn from tragedies like this are to better recognize the symptoms as well as finding better ways to treat people who are mentally ill before things escalate to such violence.
This was a very difficult movie for me to make it through.
If you cry easily, you better have tissue near by.
I did.
A powerful and disturbing movie that I'm glad I saw.
I probably won't ever watch it again it was too depressing.
It definitely left a mark on me.
Very sad.
As I said before I, like many pointed my finger of judgement at the parents.
That wasn't fair of me or anyone else to do.
Sometimes there are answers.
Sometimes there aren't.
Sometimes the answers, like mental illness only become apparent after the fact.
This movie made me think.
It made me cry.
It makes me hope that we find better ways of helping people around us who are in need of it.
An amazing and powerful movie.
Sheen and Bello play an affluent, yet struggling, couple on the brink of divorce. As they are making important decisions about their lives together, some crushing news about their college-age son smashes their existence. Suddenly, they are at the center of a public maelstrom. Everything they thought they knew has been stripped away and they are left with nothing but each other. Trying to make sense of what happened and simultaneously trying to move past it, the couple attempt to navigate a powder keg of emotions. And the story is very much about Bello and Sheen and how they cope. Will this incident pull them back together or destroy them forever. Part of the nuance of Ku's screenplay is that it allows that they are each their own person, and their reaction to the event and its aftermath is very separate (even as they are forever intertwined). Filled with regret, recriminations, and humiliation--is it possible to move on? And where does ultimate responsibility lay when unimaginable things occur?
"Beautiful Boy" is a smart and sophisticated piece of work. Despite the opportunity for emotional grandstanding, Bello and Sheen remain remarkably grounded and utterly real. At times, you might wish the movie offered more insight into just who their son is. He is never developed (as a conscious decision), but the enigma of his character lingers all over the movie. I mean if his parents, who by all accounts had a close enough relationship with the boy, are clueless--it's hard for the viewer to contextualize what happens. Still, the movie is sensitively wrought and offers two compelling performances. Sheen, as always, executes in one of his most emotional roles. But it is Bello that has the chance to surprise. I've always liked Bello, but her resume veers all over the place from top tier work to grade-B schlock. This time, she's chosen right and her brittleness has rarely been used to such affect. This is definitely a movie for adults who appreciate serious minded filmmaking. An easy recommendation--its power comes from its understatement. About 4 1/2 stars. KGHarris, 11/11.
The subject being, your child using a gun and killing other children and then killing (or not)himself or herself.
This true to life scenario has only picked up in the past 20 years, and I personally have always felt a very deep sorrow for not only the children and parents of the victims, but especially for
the parents of the assailant. How do you ever deal with knowing your kid has murdered others?
Not only do you have the grief that the other parents have, but you get to add in guilt and of course that distasteful human reaction of morbid curiosity.
This is the only movie I have ever watched on this subject, as it would not be on the top of my
list to produce, but the subject had to be breached for us (the general public) to mull over.
The movie was hard to watch, but as I have stated, I have always wondered just how these parent can cope with the situation and the movie helped some in that endeavor.
Movies fall into two categories; One to entertain, and the second (what this movie does so well) is to enlighten.
School shootings are unfortunately prevalent in this country. When one occurs, the nation watches and then proceeds to pass judgment. School shootings are a touchy cinematic subject not often covered on film and never from the perspective of the parents. It is sometimes forgotten or not even thought about that the parents of school shooters are victims too. Parenting, whether good or bad, is not necessarily a catalyst for this kind of thing, yet the parents tend to receive some of the blame and are viewed as an extension of the shooter and disregarded accordingly.
This kind of film is tailor-made for actors. The skeleton of the plot isn't new; a family trying to pick up the pieces after a tragedy. By incorporating a school shooting and the effects this has on the shooter's parents, writers Michael Armbruster and Shawn Ku (who also directs) add another layer of depth and examination to the story rather than sensationalizing it. It's a touchy subject, because filmmakers don't have a lot to explore. There's no definitive answer. We like to blame things, be it bullying or music or video games, but why then do people who are exposed to the same things not react in the same way? It's this sense of the unknown that I think troubles people most and keeps them glued to the screen in these situations. The film is respectful towards the issue and doesn't bite off more than it can chew.
The film follows Bill and Kate, both consumed with their work and leaning towards a future divorce. After facts come to light about their sons actions, they begin trying to cope with the tragedy in the current social networking/mass media world. Soon, they are being badgered by the media and are forced to retreat from their home to attempt to restore things to some sense of normality, while being exposed to the cruelty of people who feel personally wronged and misplace their blame. The script wisely avoids dwelling on Sam or the particulars of the shooting, allowing the actors to embrace the strong emotional content of the story. It is, at its very essence, an actor's piece and both Bello and Sheen deliver. Powerful, startling words are said to each other; something parents should never have to say or experience. Singer Meat Loaf has a few brief scenes as a hotel clerk and there's a scene between him and Sheen that is devastating and brilliantly, quietly acted. It doesn't have the shouting and unbridled emotion of some other scenes, but it's one of the most powerful scenes of the entire film.
The script explores the emotional, but not the psychological. It asks a lot of questions, but makes no attempt to answer them. Like the parents, it has no answers only speculation. The script does nearly everything right, except the subplot involving the new novelist that Kate works with. This reaches a predictable conclusion and isn't unimportant to show what parents may have to deal with, but is ineffective overall. Beautiful Boy is powerful, but not profound. A film that may make you think, but doesn't require you to. It's eye-opening, but not surprising. It's very well-acted and well-meaning, worth the experience but not something that will warrant multiple viewings.


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Identity and Social Action among South Indian Craft Producers of the Vijayanagara Period
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DOI: 10.1525/ap3a.19126.96.36.199
Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association
Special Issue: Craft and Social Identity
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Sinopoli, C. M. (1998), Identity and Social Action among South Indian Craft Producers of the Vijayanagara Period. Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association, 8: 161–172. doi: 10.1525/ap3a.1918.104.22.168
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Open Sing Them Home to the flyleaf and — before you've read even a word of Stephanie Kallos's sweet and funny second novel — you find a clue. It's dedicated to her father and mother, who died within a year of each other while the book was being written, and to a friend and mentor who took his life not five months later. How do you face such loss? Exactly the answer Kallos appears to be after.
Hope Jones was the doctor's wife in a small prairie town in Nebraska in 1978 when she vanished in a monster tornado. Her body was never found. To her three children, Larken, Gaelan, and Bonnie, their mother didn't die so much as she "went up": "For most of their lives, they have been waiting for their mother to come down. To do otherwise, they believe, would be a betrayal."
Other things caught up in that tornado came down, including the family's grand piano, a sled, and, miraculously, Bonnie herself. Then a toddler, she was found where the tornado's capricious winds dropped her, high above the ground in an uprooted tree. Life went on, but the loss of their mother, and of their mother's body, defined the Jones children. Adults when the story starts in 2003, they're still struggling with Hope's mystical, almost mythical demise.
Larken, an art history professor at a university in nearby Lincoln, is deliberately overweight — fat, really — and lives a solitary life. Gaelen has parlayed his buff good looks into a job as a TV weatherman. Bonnie, who still lives in Emlyn Springs, has become the town eccentric. She roves the roads on a bicycle, collecting bits of trash — she calls them artifacts — that she carefully assembles in albums in hope of finding something of her mother's. In the manner of modern families, the siblings live apart until a birthday, a holiday, or a family tragedy brings them together.
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Kallos was a theater person, an actor and teacher, before she began to write. She started with short stories good enough to get published in literary journals, then made the leap — if that's what you can call the eight years it took to write it — to Broken for You, her first novel. In that 2004 book, she tells the tale of a reclusive woman hidden away in her Seattle mansion, where she tends and talks to the vast and valuable china collection left to her by her father. Add in a deadly brain tumor, a want ad for a roommate, and a spunky and equally reclusive woman in her 30s, and you'd still have trouble predicting just how and where this whimsical novel winds up. Now, in the dense tapestry of Sing Them Home, Kallos has landed on her feet again, dodging the dreaded sophomore jinx of the second novel. She's still poking at the open wounds of abandonment, loss, and grief, and yes, there's another strong dose of magic realism (the dead can speak, a pair of lovers conjures a snowstorm), but now there's also heft and an edge of darkness.
The characters aren't particularly likable. Bonnie's a crank and, much of the time, a trial. Larken's an intellectual snob and a secretive binge eater. There's a moment early on with Larken and a peanut butter cup, which she slips into her mouth and dismantles with her tongue, that is nothing short of sexual. The fact that this bit of release happens during a meeting with a student, who is unaware, gives the scene a real creepiness. Gaelen, outwardly the most normal of the three siblings, pursues a prolific and loveless love life that would make Hugh Hefner proud.
But Kallos, who loves her people, rides to the rescue, her language making a case for their foibles, persuading us — please — to give them a chance. Here's Gaelen, unable to respond as the girl he likes undresses for him, her garments falling like snow:
There is a weightless quality to falling snow, even in its multiple forms, the various ways it can come down. Many people find it entrancing; to them snowfall is magical. Such people do not associate meteorological events with the disappearance of a parent, and so perhaps understandably, given his family history, Gaelen does not prefer snow in this down-falling, vulnerable state?
Hope's children spend their adult lives in pursuit of answers about their mother and her vanishing act, but it's the readers who learn all about her. A series of diary entries, beginning with Hope as a college girl in love with Llwellyn Jones and continuing through her courtship and marriage, reveal a crippling series of secrets and betrayals. And while the chapters about the children and the small-town life of Emlyn Springs take place in the near-present day, the writing in those sections, lyrical as it is, filled with bits of magic and whimsy, feels old-fashioned. Hope's diary entries, by contrast, are bracing and vivid, the most modern and compelling voice in the book.
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The Cornhuskers have lost two straight, including a 52-17 beating by Missouri last week.
Pelini says the situation is similar to the one he faced in his
first year as LSU's defensive coordinator in 2005. LSU won its
opener 35-31 at Arizona State, but gave up 560 yards and lost its
second game 30-27 in overtime to Tennessee after blowing a 21-0
halftime lead.
Pelini says fans wanted to run him out of the state and that he
was Number One on Louisiana's hate list for a while.
But in time, the Tigers got better, and they won the national
title last season.
Pelini says he still has confidence in his plan for the
rebuilding of the Nebraska program.
Pelini Preaches Patience
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - Nebraska coach Bo Pelini says he knows all