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During a news conference to promote the PGA Championship on Monday, Woods said that he has not played 18 holes of golf as he recovers from left knee surgery. That pronouncement comes just 11 days before the start of the U.S. Open at Torrey Pines.
"I've been around an entire 18," he said, "but it was part of a [corporate] outing."
Woods has been rehabbing the knee since having surgery after finishing second at the Masters in April.
"Pain is not really an issue," Woods said. "It was early on, but not now. It's a matter of getting the endurance back up."
In the national teleconference call, the world's No. 1 golfer did not seem especially concerned with being behind in his preparations for the Open.
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Woods said he will start playing 18-plus holes to prepare to compete, adding he would play next week even if it wasn't a major.
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Woods also had a two-month layoff before the U.S. Open in 2006, coping with the death of his father. He missed the cut at Winged Foot -- the only time he has failed get past the first two rounds at a major.
In 2002, he had surgery on the same knee and returned to win his next event, the Buick Invitational at Torrey Pines.
Woods expects to play again toward the end of the month at the Buick Open in Grand Blanc, Mich., putting him 30 miles away from Oakland Hills, where the PGA Championship will be in two months.
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Woods doesn't mind when his daughter, Sam, follows him even if she hits him with a club as she did recently.
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This paper presents a technique for the detection of roads in a spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image using a genetic algorithm (GA). Roads in a spaceborne SAR image can be modeled as curvilinear structures that possess width. Curve segments, which represent the candidate positions for roads, are extracted from the image using a curvilinear structure detector, and the roads are accurately detected by grouping those curve segments. For this purpose, the authors designed a grouping method based on a GA, which is a global optimization method. They combined perceptual grouping factors with it and tried to reduce its overall computational cost by introducing a concept of region growing. In this process, a selected initial seed is grown into a finally grouped segment by the iterated GA process, which considers segments only in a search region. To detect roads more accurately, postprocessing, including noisy curve segment removal, is performed after grouping. The authors applied their method to ERS-1 SAR and SIR-C/X-SAR images that have a resolution of about 30 m. The experimental results show that our method can accurately detect road networks as well as single-track roads and is much faster than a globally applied GA approach
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In a press release, Sgt. Mike Sorensen, of the Vermont State Police, said Matthew Dagata, 27, of Boston, was driving west on Tuesday on Windham Hill Road in West Townshend, coming down a steep hill but driving too fast.
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"Given the dynamics of the crash, had either occupant been unbelted, serious injury or death would likely have resulted," he said.
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Ripped, shredded and slashed jeans are always a symbol of Summer. We are very much used to distressed jeans throughout anytime of the year, however a trend that has exploded this season is jeans with slashes and rips down the front, making ripped holes instead of distressed areas.
We have seen many celebs wearing the Frame Le Color Rip jeans in both black and white and we are recently seeing the slashed Jimmy Jimmy jeans from Paige Denim out and about too. I'm pretty sure it's going to be a trend that pops up everywhere over the coming months so I have rounded up 16 of my favourite ripped and slashed jeans to buy right now! From brands like Frame, J Brand, Paige and Citizens to BLANK NYC, 3×1, RES and more! There's also lots of colours, ranging from black, grey white and blue! There's a pair for everyone of you!
Denim for Vacations
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When the weather is hot, everyone loves to opt for distressed denim, not only because it looks great, but because the rips and holes often allow air into the jeans and keep you cool. Distressed denim for Spring and Summer changes slightly every year in terms of what is trending, but there are a few famous styles at the moment and those are the Frame Le Color rip jeans and the Paige Jimmy Jimmy in Clifton Destructed, both have been quite popular so far! I've included 18 styles from all different brands here for you to buy. I've included skinnies, boyfriend jeans, slouchy skinnies, flares and higher rise styles, so there is something for everyone! Varying in colours from white and grey to light, mid and dark blue too! Which pair do you like?
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I used to wear denim skirts when I was a teenager and quickly outgrew them as they seem too young for me now, however I absolutely adore the invention of pencil skirts in denim. Pencil skirts are always so tailored and classy, so they are a great mature version to wear. I think Ali Larter looks amazing above!
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Many Android users complain that they always mistakenly delete something important when they're using some unfamiliar functions on their Android device. So are you tired of randomly losing stuff from your phone? Now, let's end the fate of lost data on Android with the help of this Android Assistant software. With it, you can backup all data from the device to your desktop computer with one simple click.
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Is this an ad for the car or it's navigation system? I sort of understand what they're trying to say, but it's not really doing it for me.
Abysmal execution. Horrible 1/2 baked idea. I hope it's fake.
The photo is very bad and agree with someone here: the idea is half baked. I mean, there's a thought but it's not getting transformed into an idea and nor into a clear message.
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Another execution might have been, perhaps a long shot down a dirt road in the middle of nowhere...no traffic but the Taureg? Same guy/sign different angle...more about the car. Perhaps the car in the foreground out of focus, brake lights on. Or perhaps side view looking across a dirt road at hitchhiker sitting/standing with sign and picking up bag...Taureg half out of frame brake lights on...dust billowing in opposite side of frame. Ideas. ...y'know...hindsight and all.


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To Tender or Not to Tender - That is the Question, Bard
The Cubs MLB Reserve List (AKA "40-man roster") is presently full. Of the 40 players on the Cubs MLB Reserve List, eight (Starlin Castro, Kyuji Fujikawa, Edwin Jackson, Chang-Yong Lim, Anthony Rizzo, Jorge Soler, Ryan Sweeney, and Carlos Villanueva) are signed for 2014, and 32 (see list below) are under club control but are unsigned. The Cubs must decide by Monday (December 2nd) whether or not to tender a contract to each of the 32 unsigned players.
Each MLB club is required to submit a list of tendered players to the MLB Labor Relations Department (MLB LRD) on December 2nd (this coming Monday), and then the MLB LRD forwards a copy of the list to the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA). Any unsigned player not on the list is considered to be "non-tendered," and is immediately declared an unrestricted free-agent, free to sign with any MLB or minor league club (including the player's former club). The non-tendered player is removed from the club's MLB 40-man roster, the player receives no termination pay, and the player's former club receives no compensation if the player signs with a different club/organization.
Each unsigned player on an MLB 40-man roster who is tendered a contract must be offered at least the MLB minimum salary ($500K in 2014) and (with a couple of exceptions) at least 80% of the player's previous season's salary, and at least 70% of the player's salary from two seasons back. Some players have a "minor league split" salary in their contract which they are paid if they are sent to the minors. In most cases, a player's minor league "split" salary must be at least 60% of the player's salary from the previous season. (The one exception is if a free-agent signs a major league contract with a minor league "split" salary, the "60% rule" does not apply). The 2014 minor league "split" minimum salary is $40,250 for players who are on an MLB 40-man roster for the first time, and a minimum $80,500 for all other players.
An unsigned tendered player who has accrued at least three but less than six years of MLB Service Time is automatically eligible for salary arbitration. Also, any unsigned tendered player with at least two years but less than three years of MLB Service Time who accrued at least 86 days of MLB Service Time the previous season can qualify for salary arbitration as a so-called "Super Two" if the player is among the top 22% in MLB Service Time of players in that group.
MLB clubs do NOT offer salary arbitration to their unsigned arbitration-eligible players. Rather, an MLB club either tenders or does not tender a contract to each of their unsigned players on December 2nd, and tendered players who are eligible to do so can request the MLBPA to file for salary arbitration in January if the player does not accept the club's salary tender (offer) and the player and the club have been unable to reach an agreement on a contract by the deadline.
The MLBPA is responsible for delivering all requests for salary arbitration to the MLB Labor Relations Department (MLB LRD) on the Tuesday immediately prior to the third Friday in January. Once salary arbitration has been requested, the player submits his desired salary to the MLBPA and the club submits its salary offer to the MLB LRD, and the MLBPA and MLB LRD exchange the two figures on the third Friday in January. The MLBPA and MLB LRD then schedule a hearing with a three-person arbitration panel. Hearings are held on various dates during the first three weeks of February.
The club's offer must be at least the MLB minimum salary and, in most cases, must be at least 80% of the player's previous year's salary and at least 70% of the player's salary from two seasons back. However, if the player received a raise in excess of 50% by a salary arbitration panel the previous season, a 20% maximum salary reduction from the previous season and a 30% maximum salary reduction from two seasons back does not apply, and the club only has to offer at least the MLB minimum salary.
After arbitration has been requested, the player and the club can continue to negotiate back & forth, and the player can withdraw from the process any time up until the hearing. And in fact this frequently happens, as the player and the club will often agree to just "split the difference" (something the panel cannot do). If the matter does go to a hearing, the arbitration panel must choose either the club's offer or the player's figure.
Win or lose, the player is awarded a standard one-year MLB contract with no "minor league split" salary or incentive/performance bonuses. Also, the contract is not guaranteed, so if the player is released during Spring Training, the club would only owe the player 30 days or 45 days salary as termination pay, depending on when the player is released. (A player on an MLB 40-man roster receives 100% of what remains of his salary if he is released during the regular season).
An unsigned tendered player who does not yet qualify for salary arbitration (as well as any unsigned tendered player eligible for salary arbitration who does not file for arbitration by the January deadline) ultimately has to either accept the club's salary offer or just not play. A club (usually the Assistant GM) will negotiate with the player up to a point, but if the club and the player cannot agree on a contract by the first week of March, the club has the right to unilaterally dictate the player's salary and/or renew the player's contract (albeit for an amount not less than the MLB minimum salary, and not less than 80% of the player's previous season's salary and not less than 70% of the player's salary from two season's back). These players are the ones who have a "minor league split" salary in their contract, which the player is paid if he is sent to the minors. The "minor league split" salary must be at least 60% of the player's salary from the previous season.
The Cubs will probably need at least one or two (maybe even three) 40-man roster slots for a Rule 5 Draft pick, a waiver claim, and/or a free-agent or two before the start of Spring Training, after-which they will be able to place Kyuji Fujikawa (2013 TJS) and possibly Arodys Vizcaino (2011 TJS rehab) on the 60-day Disabled List if additional 40-man roster slots are needed. (Players cannot be placed on an MLB 60-day DL until after the start of Spring Training). So I think it's likely that the Cubs will non-tender at least two players on Monday, possibly three.
While the Cubs could release, trade, or outright players to open up roster slots, there are several restrictions during the off-season on releasing and outrighting players, and even for players who can be outrighted without restriction, the Cubs might not want to risk losing the player off waivers. And the opportunity and timing needed to make a trade can be somewhat problematic. So non-tendering a player and then re-signing him to a minor league contract (or in the case of a player eligible for salary arbitration, perhaps non-tendering the player and then re-signing him to a major league contract but with a salary below what would otherwise have been the maximuim-allowable pay-cut) is just a lot easier.
At present, I would say that RHP Daniel Bard and INF Mat Gamel (especially Bard) are the two players most-likely to be non-tendered on Monday, and OF Brian Bogusevic is a possibility, too.
The Cubs claimed Bard off waivers from Boston in September, and he spent several weeks at Fitch Park in Mesa working on his mechanics before reporting to Criollos de Caguas in Liga de Beisbol Profesional Roberto Clemente (the Puerto Rican Winter League) in October. In three outings for Caguas, Bard faced 13 batters and retired one (on a FC), while walking nine and hitting three more (not to mention four WP), before being sent home last week.
If the Cubs tender a contract to Bard on Monday, the absolute minimum they can offer is $1.49M (80% of his 2013 salary). And if he is tendered and then he does not accept the salary offered, Bard would be able to request salary arbitration in January. If that were to happen, the Cubs would risk Bard winning in arbitration (you just never know what an aribitration panel will do) and being awarded a 2014 salary well beyond what the Cubs think he's worth. So I would not be at all surprised if the Cubs choose to non-tender Bard on Monday, and then offer him a minor league contract for a low base salary along with an NRI to Spring Training, plus maybe a player opt-out if he is not called up to Chicago by a pre-arranged date (5/1, 6/1, 7/1, etc).
The Cubs claimed Gamel off waivers from Milwaukee in October, and (like Bard) he is also eligible for salary arbitation. However, the reason for non-tendering Gamel would have more to do with his knee surgeries (he suffered a torn ACL in his right knee twice in two years) & defensive limitations (he probably projects as a 1B-DH at this point in his career) than it would the Cubs not wanting to risk going to arbitration with him, since he isn't likely to get more than $750K no matter what transpires.
But Monday is not just about clubs tendering or non-tendering contracts to arbitration-eligible players. Clubs also must decide whether to tender a 2014 major league contract to any and all unsigned players on the 40-man roster, regardless of whether the player is eligible for salary arbitration or not.
It's also the one time in the off-season when an unsigned player can be removed from the 40-man roster without having to give the player his Outright Release (a released player could be claimed off waivers, and even if he is released and then re-signed, he cannot be added back to the club's 40-man roster until May 15th) or risk losing the player off Outright Assignment Waivers (which are irrevocable if the player is claimed) sometime later in the off-season or during Spring Training.
Last year, the Cubs non-tendered RHPs Jaye Chapman and Zach Putnam, even though neither was arbitration-eligible. But it did allow the Cubs to remove the pitchers from the 40-man roster without having to give them an Outright Release or risk losing them off Outright Assignment Waivers. They then re-signed the pair to minor league contracts (with salaries probably at least equal to what they would have received if they had remained on the 40) plus an NRI to Spring Training. (Becoming a "second-contract" player once he was non-tendered, Putnam also was able to qualify for minor league free-agency a year earlier than he otherwise would have if he had been outrighted).
Just like Chapman and Putnam last year, the Cubs could possibly opt to non-tender OF Brian Bogusevic (unlike Bard and Gamel, Bogusevic is not arbitration-eligible) and then re-sign him to a 2014 minor league contract (for a salary equal to or greater than what he would have received if he had remained on the 40) plus an NRI to Spring Training. Bogusevic is out of minor league options and can elect free-agency if outrighted, so by non-tendering him and then re-signing him to a minor league contract, the Cubs would be able to send him to AAA Iowa if he does not make the Opening Day 25-man roster without having to risk losing him off Outright Assignment Waivers or having him elect free-agency if waivers are secured and he does get outrighted.
The main problem with non-tendering a player and then re-signing him to a minor league contract is that the player has to agree to the arrangement, and even if the player does go along with the plan, the club has to make sure to wait at least ten days after non-tendering the player before re-signing him to a minor league contract (what the Cubs did with both Chapman and Putnam last year). That's because a player who signs a minor league contract prior to the Rule 5 Draft is eligible for selection in the draft. Also, during the ten-days between being non-tendered (on 12/2) and the Rule 5 Draft (on 12/12), the non-tendered player could conceivably get a better offer from another club and sign elsewhere.
Here are the 32 unsigned players presently on the Cubs MLB 40-man roster, with the roster restrictions associated with each player:
Jake Arrieta
Daniel Bard (can request salary arbitration in January - can elect to be free-agent if outrighted)
Dallas Beeler (Draft-Excluded player - cannot be outrighted until 20 days prior to MLB Opening Day)
Alberto Cabrera (out of minor league options - Rule 55 player - cannot be outrighted until he signs 2014 contract)
Justin Grimm
Blake Parker (can elect to be free-agent if outrighted)
Brooks Raley
Neil Ramirez
Hector Rondon (can elect to be free-agent if outrighted)
Zac Rosscup (Draft-Excluded player - cannot be outrighted until 20 days prior to MLB Opening Day)
Chris Rusin
James Russell (can request salary arbitration in January - can elect to be free-agent if outrighted)
Jeff Samardzija (out of minor league options - can request salary arbitration in January - can elect to be free-agent if outrighted)
Pedro Strop (out of minor league options - "Super Two" - can request salary arbitration in January - can elect free-agency if outrighted)
Arodys Vizcaino
Travis Wood (out of minor league options - can request salary arbitration in January - can elect to be free-agent if outrighted)
Welington Castillo (out of minor league options - Rule 55 player - cannot be outrighted until he signs 2014 contract)
George Kottaras (out of minor league options - can request salary arbitration in January - can elect to be free-agent if outrighted)
Arismendy Alcantara (Draft-Excluded player - cannot be outrighted until 20 days prior to MLB Opening Day)
Darwin Barney (can request salary arbitration in January - can elect free-agency if outrighted)
Mat Gamel (out of minor league options - can request salary arbitration in January - can elect free-agency if outrighted)
Donnie Murphy (out of minor league options - can request salary arbitration in January - can elect free-agency if outrighted)
Mike Olt
Luis Valbuena (out of minor league options - can request salary arbitration in January - can elect free-agency if outrighted)
Christian Villanueva
Josh Vitters (Rule 55 player - cannot be outrighted until he signs 2014 contract)
Logan Watkins
Brian Bogusevic (out of minor league options - can elect free-agency if outrighted)
Brett Jackson
Junior Lake (Rule 55 player - cannot be outrighted until he signs 2014 contract)
Nate Schierholtz (out of minor league options - can request salary arbitration in January - can elect free-agency if outrighted)
Matt Szczur
Awesome detail AZ Phil.
Awesome detail AZ Phil.
I didn't realize how thin the Cubs were in the OF, although Josh Vitters might be considered a LF these days.
I forgot Ryan Sweeney signed after the season for 2/$3.5 including $500K buyout in 2016.
2015 opening day outfield
2015 opening day outfield
soler, almora, bryant
Still not sold on Soler, need
Still not sold on Soler, need to see consistency.
As for Almora, that might be a little aggressive. I'm thinking mid-15 callup. He's raw, but the talent is there.
Agree with the mid-'15 callup
Agree with the mid-'15 callup--he has to stay healthy and get his ticket punched at Daytona and Tenn--but not with the description of Almora as "raw."
Still nineteen, Almora has been described as polished, as in, "Scouts say Almora has more polish and better makeup than any high schooler in recent memory." (Try searching "Almora" and "polished.")
Polished is the opposite of raw.
so are people starting to
so are people starting to think that Baez ends up at 2B, with Villanueva at 3B and Bryant in OF?
I dont think Bryant will be
I dont think Bryant will be MLB third baseman.
people are all over the place
people are all over the place with baez, but im hearing a lot more 3rd/SS than 2nd lately...though all 3 seem to be in play.
bryant 3rd/OF...hearing a lot more OF lately than 3rd, especially after AFL. if he does end up in LF, he'll have one hell of a LF'r arm.
from Nick Cafardo's Sunday
from Nick Cafardo's Sunday column...
Daniel Bard isn't getting any better. After three appearances for Criollos de Caguas in the Puerto Rican League, Bard weighed in with a 189.00 ERA. He had allowed eight runs, seven earned, with nine walks, four wild pitches, and no strikeouts in one-third of an inning.
Bard, 28, has lost complete control, even after the Cubs acquired him off waivers from the Red Sox in September. Bard was hoping to reestablish himself with a new team, but efforts to straighten him out by first pitching well in Puerto Rico haven't worked out.
"He's working at it," said Cubs president Theo Epstein said. "He's not giving up."
Bard has not pitched since that one outing and it appears he may be a candidate to be released. He had a 1.93 ERA across 74⅔ innings for Boston in 2010, but his career went south fast starting in August 2011. He was once the best setup man in baseball, but once he became a starter in 2012 spring training, Bard's career spiraled downward. He has lost both velocity and confidence.
"Nobody can seem to figure it out," said one Cubs official. "I think the Red Sox tried a lot of different things, but none of them worked. They exhausted what they felt were all the possibilities. Now it's up to us to find something that works."
The Cubs are expected to keep working with Bard. They can afford to have a much longer leash on him than the Red Sox did.
"Pretty much the same issues he had with the Red Sox," said one National League scout. "He can't seem to locate; his release points aren't consistent. There are plenty of mechanical things wrong. He just can't seem to repeat that delivery. I know the Cubs hope it all comes back to him, and we all hope it does. For his sake. We all remember what he was and we're all baffled by what's happened. Boston did a lot with him psychologically and physically, so everyone's waiting for something to click."
and Cafardo's updates on nine
and Cafardo's updates on nine:
1, Jeff Samardzija, RHP, Cubs — Trade talks have been going on and when push comes to shove, he might get traded. But the Cubs' No. 1 preference would be to re-sign Samardzija and lock him in beyond 2015 and build their future around him, according to a major league source. The Cubs will continue to work on both fronts until the culmination of a long-term extension has been reached or if the extension is improbable.
Really seems like a golden
Really seems like a golden sell high opportunity. I do realize he is a candidate for a huge year someday, but I wouldn't mind seeing a few more high end prospects enter the fold since it looks like next year is going to be another "let's watch the turnstyles slow down" year.
If the Cubs trade him, I
If the Cubs trade him, I would want to see two very high-end starting pitching prospects come back, and preferably not 19-year-olds. I'd much rather see signing him to an extension be the Cubs first direct step toward fielding a competitive team in the near future (2015-ish).
"two very high-end starting
"two very high-end starting pitching prospects"
Or one Archie Bradley.
In all seriousness, Arizona has so many good-looking arms and a need for a MLB SP, I really hope the Cubs work the hell out of that angle.
fwiw...file under "cubs world
fwiw...file under "cubs world series 2014"
"According to Carrie Muskat of MLB.com, the Cubs are likely to tender a contract to second baseman Darwin Barney before Monday's deadline."
Color me unsurprised. So,
Color me unsurprised. So, pretty much how I look right now.
same...just tossing it up
same...just tossing it up there cuz it passed through.
the good new is valbuena is playing 2nd in winter league...now the cubs just need m.olt to be worth a damn this spring. also, that being good news is sad.
fwiw, valbuena...63ab, 17h, 3 doubles, 2hr, 8bb, 12k... .270/.352/.413
Valbuena....I like him as the
Valbuena....I like him as the utility guy, but I don't really want him or Barney at 2B. .222/.302/.352 in 1500 PA's...ugh.
The end of the bench
The end of the bench
by Chris Jaffe
Sometimes, the little things matter. The ability to turn the double play. Taking the extra pitch. Moving the runners over. Sometimes those little things, which can be overlooked easily, add up. Done once or twice, they don't mean much. But over the course of the season ... yeah, they can add up. Sometimes, they can even make the difference between going to the postseason and staying at home.
Darnell McDonald resigned to
Darnell McDonald resigned to minor league deal with spring training invite
ex-Cub Russ Canzler signs minor league deal with Yankees
Navarro gets 2/8M from Blue Jays
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Chapman shouldn't be reserved anymore on 40 man.
Interesting split on Heyward according to ESPN. As a CF, his slash line .292/.363/.375/.738. At RF: .212/.204/.300/.604. 21/72 as a CF, 58/273 as a RF.
He's also been better when batting 2nd, but he had a nice start in the 6 hole, but has slumped ever since. He was heating up before the All Star break, but is only hitting .108 in the 2nd half.
When we played the Reds with Chapman, I always thought of it as an eight-inning game. So now other teams have eight innings to try to get a lead against the Cubs. Should be a challenge, assuming three or four Cubs ever start hitting again.
I don't really try to get to know and like these players personally. I'm rooting for laundry, for the most part. Exceptions might be when a player makes trouble in the clubhouse or in the dugout. (Zambrano and Bradley come to mind. Also Papelbon.) But I don't think Chapman is one of those jerks.
Unfortunately, a pretty good summary. It looks like next year Heyward will be getting yet another batting stance adjustment.
The recent good news has been Baez. I'm afraid about the next league adjustment on him, though, which is probably right around the corner.
Bryant I don't worry about too much. Just not seeing the ball well right now. He'll turn it around. Russell's been good with men in scoring position all year and he's 22ish. He'll be fine but next year is likely to be his breakout year.
If Travis' back-to-back-to-back walks cost Hendricks the ERA title, that would really suck.
Edit: "A lifeless loss to a lousy Sox team."
This place is a real downer after a loss to the Sox.
I expect they will go 5-9 games above .500 the rest of the year. 96-98 wins will win the Division.
They should have one more 2-3 week hot streak in them.
However, several players are just "average" for the last month: Zobrist, Ross, Russell, Ceasar. Montero is terrible, plus he cannot throw anyone out. -WAR. Heyward is abysmal at the plate, but a plus in the OF. Still with RISP he has been terrible. KB has not been driving in runs as of late. But Apparently the team is still above average with RISP according to S Sahadev.
I came to that realization tonight. I kept expecting them to play better, but now I realize they aren't going to. They are a .500 team now.
- They have one reliable starting pitcher. Jake's magic is gone, and it doesn't look like it's coming back. Lester has been lousy recently. Lackey's ERA goes up every time he pitches.
- Heyward has been dead weight all year. I can't remember a single series where he was a significant offensive contributor. Not one. Great defense, but but if he were hitting .270 with 10 HR and played average defense, the Cubs would be better off.
new rule...no one's allowed to throw k.bryant a changeup
Team is .500 since early May and is playing like a .500 team. Lack of offense seems to be putting a lot of pressure on the pitchers...and they aren't handling it terribly well.
.500 the rest of the way still may win the division though.
...i hate espn.
nothing like settling into a cubs game to get a few minutes cutaway for an ortiz AB in the 6th inning of the det/bos game.
oh, at least they're doing split screen now...i guess.
I'm liking this rookie Nathan.
Richard DFA'd. Meh...
Throwbacks with fashionable cutouts would be a nice touch.
The next 2 games are nationally televised. I think we dominate tonight, hitting 3 HRs off Shields. Great night for KB to end HR drought facing HR prone pitcher in one of the most hitter friendly parks in the league.


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Steelers Stop Browns, End Season on a High Note
PITTSBURGH – The Pittsburgh Steelers remain convinced they're a tweak or two away from another Super Bowl run. The Cleveland Browns, meanwhile, are ready to start all over. Again.
There's nothing stopping them now.
Ben Roethlisberger threw three short touchdown passes, and the Steelers avoided their first losing season in nearly a decade with a 24-10 victory against the Browns on Sunday in a meaningless finale that merely served as a speed bump to impending change for both franchises.
The Steelers (8-8), out of the playoffs for the first time since 2009, head into the offseason wondering how to address an aging – if still highly effective – defense.
The Steelers were 6-3 and rolling in early November. Their victory on Sunday was only their second in their last seven games, a collapse that will send them home before New Year's Day, well short of the standard set by the team with seven Super Bowl titles.
"It's a disappointing season just as far as the talent we have," linebacker Larry Foote said. "We're 8-8, that's who we are. We've got to own it. A lot of letdowns, a lot of pluses too. We just didn't get it done."
Yet even with nothing on the line than the chance to avoid the first losing season in nearly a decade, the Steelers found a way to beat the Browns. Pittsburgh's top-ranked defense forced four turnovers and Roethlisberger hit Antonio Brown, Plaxico Burress and Leonard Pope for scores.
"I said earlier in the week that we wanted to come out and finish the year with a win and have a good feeling going into the offseason," Roethlisberger said. "That is what we did. I'm proud of the way the guys finish."
Cleveland's mistakes marred an otherwise steady NFL debut third-string quarterback, Thaddeus Lewis, who completed 22 of 32 passes for 204 yards with a touchdown and an interception. The Browns outgained Pittsburgh 320-212 but were undone by Lewis' ill-timed pass right into the hands of Steelers safety Troy Polamalu and three fumbles – two in Cleveland territory.
"We just need to find a way to win, stats mean nothing," Browns linebacker Craig Robertson said. "You have two columns, wins and losses. That's all that matters."
The changes in Pittsburgh won't be so widespread, but with an aging roster and salary cap issues. Nose tackle Casey Hampton, linebacker Larry Foote, offensive tackle Max Starks and wide receiver Mike Wallace are among those who will be free agents.
"You want everybody back but you know that is not what is going to happen," Roethlisberger said.
The Steelers insisted they wanted to end a miserable December with some dignity but hardly appeared interested during most of the first half. Playing in a rare meaningless finale, Pittsburgh sputtered for long stretches in front of the smallest crowd in Heinz Field's 12-year history. The Steelers needed more than a quarter to pick up a first down as Roethlisberger struggled to stay comfortable.
The Browns, trying to win one for their embattled coach, were a little livelier but no more effective.
Pat Shurmur, injecting a bit of risk-taking in a tenure filled with playing it safe, called a fake punt from the Cleveland 25 early in the third quarter that Ray Ventrone turned into a 35-yard gain, equaling the team's longest run of the season.
The Browns tied it at 10 a few plays later when Lewis found Greg Little for a 7-yard touchdown pass.
That about did it for Cleveland. The Steelers responded with a 12-play, 80-yard drive that ended with Roethlisberger hitting Brown for a 9-yard score that put the Steelers back in front.
The veteran wide receiver – brought in over a month ago to shore up a depleted unit – took a pair of bows after his first scoring catch in a year. It was a fitting gesture considering the Steelers soon exited stage right. A season that brimmed with hope after a win over the Giants on Nov. 4 collapsed in a five-week span that included four costly losses.
"I don't want to sweep it under the rug because we had some good times this year," Foote said. "But the expectation here is we've got to win."
NOTES: Polamalu's interception was his first of the season and 30th of his career … Phil Dawson's 51-yard field goal in the second quarter tied for the second-longest in Heinz Field history … Lewis was the 18th different quarterback to start for the Browns since 1999 … Roethlisberger is 7-0 at home against the Browns … Cleveland PR Joshua Cribbs passed Dennis Northcutt as the team's all-time leader in punt return yardage.


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The Coder tool – for facilitating the use of Raspberry Pi mini-computers for building programs for the web – is the brainchild of Google Creative Lab 'creative technologist' Jason Striegel, designer Jeff Baxter, and a small team of employees in New York.
Coder chiefly converts the cheap, $35-priced mini-computers into personal web servers via a stripped-back web-based development environment. Raspberry Pi users can download the tool from the web to a Mac or PC. While a Mac OS X installer is included in the Coder package, PC users will have to download separate utilities. In addition, users will also require a 4GB SD card for transferring the Coder SD image to the Raspberry Pi.
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FRIDAY FUNNY: Some More Funny Facilities | Facility Executive - Creating Intelligent Buildings
Here are some more of the most crazy, crooked buildings from around the world. Not so sure about the cats and mice, but one can only venture to guess what it would be like to live and work on one of these buildings.
FRIDAY FUNNY: Some More Funny Facilities
There was a crooked man and he walked a crooked mile.
He found a crooked sixpence upon a crooked stile.
He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse.
And they all lived together in a little crooked house.
Here some of the most crazy, crooked buildings from around the world. Not so sure about the cats and mice, but one can only venture to guess what it would be like to live and work on one of these buildings.
1. Forest Spiral – Hundertwasser Building (Darmstadt, Germany)
2. The Basket Building (Ohio, United States)*
3. Kansas City Public Library (Missouri, United States)
4. Wonderworks (Orlando, Florida, United States)
5. Habitat 67 (Montreal, Canada)
6. Cubic Houses (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
7. Hang Nga Guesthou se a.k.a Crazy House (Vietnam)
8. The UFO House (Sanjhih, Taiwan)
9. Nakagin Capsule Tower (Tokyo, Japan)
10. Erwin Wurm: House Attack (Vienna, Austria)
11. Wooden Gagster House (Archangelsk, Russia)
12. Ripley's Building (Ontario, Canada)
* Also featured on FacilityBlog back in August 2008.
Many thanks to Luann Rathemacher for passing this along!
Afternoon Addendum!
Working on the premise that "form follows function", the Prada Transformer in South Korea is a shape shifting building that can be reconfigured to accommodate art, film, fashion, and other types of specialized events.
Opened yesterday housing a fashion exhibit, the all white exterior belies its chameleonesque quality. It can take on four shapes— hexagon, cross, rectangle, and circle. Construction cranes lift and rotate the steel-framed structure into different facades and floor plate configurations to create the desired shape. According to the building's official site, the general contractor, Eunmin S&D, completed the first full rotation test earlier this month.
The Office for Metropolitan Architecture based in the Netherlands designed the Prada Transformer. The firm's website features illustrations of the structure's contortions, along with a few interior renderings.
Interesting to see what can be done today!
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