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Inspired by Catfish Stew, here's a list of my least favorite Yankees from the last twenty years:
25. Tim Stoddard Stoddard was 6'7", 250 pounds and looked like Wally Walrus from the Woody Woodpecker cartoons. What's not to like about that? Well, Wally was the bad guy in those cartoons and Tim posted a 6.38 ERA out of the Yankee pen in 1988 earning his release that August. Worse yet, Stoddard was all the Yankees managed to get in return for Ed Whitson, who would surely make this list if I extended it back further. Just a series of unpleasant memories there.
24. Xavier Hernandez The Yankees began to turn things around in 1993 with the additions of Paul O'Neill, Jimmy Key and Wade Boggs. Going into 1994, Hernandez was supposed to be part of the solution as a young (28) rubber armed reliever who had just turned in two excellent seasons for the Astros. Plus his name started with an X. How cool is that? Turns out his arm wasn't really made of rubber after all and those 207 2/3 innings over two seasons in Houston resulted in a 5.85 ERA in his lone season for the Yanks, which was itself cut short by injury in late July. I suppose I should have blamed Houston manager Art Howe, but I was less enlightened then. Speaking of which, it didn't help that the Yanks dealt no-hit fan favorite Andy Stankiewicz ("Stanky the Yankee") to get Xavier.
23. Rich Dotson One of many Stump Merrill-era hurlers on this list (a term I use for those lean late-'80s, early '90s years regardless of whom the manager was, Dotson, for instance, never actually pitched for Merrill). The Yankees sent fan favorite Danny Pasqua to the White Sox in the deal to acquire Dotson. In his only full year with the Yanks, Dotson posted a 5.00 ERA (79 ERA+ in those days) and things got so bad the following season he was released in June . . . only to resign with the White Sox! It was a trick! We wuz robbed! Dotson, of course, pitched better for the Chisox over the remainder of the 1989 season than he ever had for the Yankees, but at least he had the decency to burn out after that. Oh, it bears mentioning that Dotson wore his hat high on his head so it boxed up in front. Some players can pull that off. Dotson couldn't.
22. Terry Mulholland Believe it or not, the Yankees were just Mulholland's third team, though he was already in his early thirties back in 1994. Mulholland's offenses are similar to Hernandez's. Thought to be part of the solution in 1994, he was so very much part of the problem, struggling to stay in the rotation and posting a 6.49 ERA, which remains his worst single season ERA more than a decade later.
21. Randy Keisler With his jug-handle ears and bulging eyes, Keisler looked ready to crap himself on the mound and when he pitched like crap he had the nerve to bitch about being sent back to Columbus. Normally I'd sympathize with a young player's gripes about getting a fair shot with Steinbrenner's Yankees, but a) keep your mouth shut rook and make your statements on the field and b) Keisler, who made his major league debut at age 24, was such a hot prospect the Yanks just flat released him after he missed the 2003 season due to injury.
20. Carl Pavano I was ready to like Pavano despite the ridiculous contract the Yankees gave him, but once what was supposed to be a minimum DL stay last June turned into a full calendar year of inaction amid rumors of the Yankees questioning Pavano's fortitude, he'd hung himself with the rope I was prepared to give him. He'd rank higher, but there's still time for Meat to redeem himself.
19. Todd Zeile The Yankees never needed Zeile, but he was one of Torre's old Cardinal pets. He played far more than he ever should have, didn't hit, and then had the nerve to complain he wasn't playing enough. Then when the Yankees picked up Aaron Boone, they kept the useless Zeile on the roster and dealt Robin Ventura only to release Zeile just weeks later. I'm still convinced Ventura could have tipped the balance in the 2003 World Series as a pinch-hitter for Boone, whom well get to later, and I blame Zeile for his having been dealt. And yes, I'd trade Bubba and Scott Proctor for a 2003 World Championship banner in half a heartbeat.
18. Tony Womack Some might think he's ranked a bit low here, but I had a hard time disliking Womack despite his futility. Despite doing just the opposite with the majority of this list, I never blamed Womack for his lack of production, but rather blamed those who employed him for giving him those opportunities to fail. It was only late in the 2005 season and early this year when, as a member of the Reds, he began to complain that the Yankees stole a year of his career that I turned on Tony Mowack.
17. Jose Contreras I'd be harder on Contreras if not for all of the personal drama he was experiencing as a member of the Yankees. For those who forget, Contreras defected from Cuba expecting to be able to extract his family rather easily, but wound up having to wait a year and a half, unsure during that time if he would ever see his wife and daughters again. Barely more than a month after he was reunited with them, the Yankees traded him to the White Sox. Still, during those few hours between the lines every five days was it really that hard for him to throw a freaking fastball? Unwilling to trust his stuff (and possibly tipping pitches), Contreras frustrated the Yankees to such a degree that they traded him straight up for Esteban Loaiza simply to get rid of his contract. Prior to that he became my least favorite pitcher to watch throw. Even now as he's dominating with the White Sox (of course), I can't watch him. The deep creases on his thick, leathery face still look to me like they're coated in flop sweat, and his habit of jamming the baseball deep into his mitts, preparing for a split finger fastball that rarely lived up to its billing in pinstripes, just brings the whole ordeal rushing back. The nadir for me was in Game 5 of the 2003 World Series. Yes, David Wells punted the start, but it was Contreras who let things get out of hand. Now, of course, he's wearing a World Series ring with the White Sox and the Yankees are stuck with the Evil Empire tag that resulted from the petty bickering with the Red Sox that surrounded his signing. Heck, let him dominate with the Sox, I'm just glad I don't have to watch him anymore.
16. Hideki Irabu The Fat Pussy Toad was actually a helpful member of the 1998 Yankees (110 ERA+ in 28 starts), yielded three solid arms in a dump trade two years later (Lilly, Westbrook and Zach Day), and had the decency to suck after being dealt. But unlike Contreras, who very well may be a decent guy, Irabu was a stone cold schmuck. Plus hype minus results equals contempt.
15. Felix Heredia The Run Fairy had his one shining moment, striking out David Ortiz with the bases loaded in the seventh inning allowing the Yankees to rally from an 0-2 deficit to beat the Sox 4-2 the night before Jeter took his dive into the stands, but otherwise he lived up to his nickname.
14. Scott Erickson Okay, so it was just 11 1/3 innings, he's been released and it just happened so I'm probably overreacting, but . . . grrrrrrr. The only reason this man wasn't forced into retirement three years ago is that he has The Face. Good ugly players are fun, but bad pretty ones are maddening.
13. Jay Witasick The Yanks were desperate for relief help in 2001, so they picked up Witasick, who had a 1.86 ERA with the pre-Petco Padres. He finished the year by posting a 4.69 mark as a Yankee. Then there was his postseason performance: 21.60 ERA in five innings. Oh, and did I mention the wispy moustache? Ewwww.
12. Walt Terrell Walt Terrible nearly ruined my first game at Yankee stadium by outdueling Rich Dotson (thankfully Claudell Washington played the hero). He later wormed his way over to the Yankees and posted a 5.20 ERA in a half season. But that's not the worst of it. The Yankees sent Mike Pagliarulo to the Padres for Terrell. Pags! Yeah, sure, Pags had turned into an out machine, and in fact had always been one, but those Yankee teams weren't going anywhere and Pags was a top-notch character. He was the rare American-born player who wore number 13, played some thrilling defense at the hot corner, was the guy Billy Martin forced to bat from the wrong side of the plate, and did some flat out awesome commercials for Yankee Stadium promotion days in his thick Medford, Mass accent, which given his I-talian last name and Mattingly-like cop-stache could easily be misheard as Brooklyn by young ears. Pagliarulo #13 is on my short list of desired custom Yankee t-shirts and thus Walt Terrell is #12 on my list of least favorite Yankees. At least Pags went on to win a ring with the Twins.
11. Juan Acevedo Acevedo joined the Yankees after recording 28 saves for the Tigers and fancied himself a legitimate understudy to Mariano Rivera. An early 2003 DL stay by Rivera gave Acevedo a chance to let his arm do his talking and he responded with a 7.71 Yankee ERA, culminating with his ruining an absolutely classic Game of the Week confrontation between Roger Clemens, going for his 300th win for the first time, and Kerry Wood at Wrigley Field by turning a 1-0 Yankee lead into a 1-3 deficit with one pitch to Eric Karros, earning his release four days later.
10. Greg Cadaret Ahead of Pagliarulo #13 on my custom t-shirt list is #24 Rickey Henderson. Cadaret was part of the trio the Yankees took in return for a 30-year-old Rickey in 1989. I resented all three at the time, but Eric Plunk and Luis Polonia at least displayed some modicum of talent. Caderet, with his odd, rodent-like overbite and moustache, earned the bulk of my distain. Looking back, his stats aren't as bad as memory would suggest, but I think the fact that he hung around for 188 games and 439 innings, more than all but two men on this list, which also synched up exactly with the worst of the Yankees' dark years (1989-1992) made things seem worse than they actually were. Still, it felt like he not only pitched in every game I saw over that span, but blew the lead in each one as well.
9. Kevin Brown Brown actually pitched reasonably well when healthy (daaaa!) in his first year in pinstripes, but he sure was sullen about it. Then, after what was actually a solid start against the Orioles on September 3, he punched a cinder block wall in the Yankee clubhouse out of frustration (the Yanks had given him a 1-0 lead after the first and he gave up three unanswered runs over the next five innings), breaking his glove hand. That cost him three weeks down the stretch. He then tanked his comeback game against the Red Sox, but a solid outing in the season's penultimate game earned him a spot on the playoff roster. He then turned in a solid outing to win Game 3 of the Yankees ALDS romp over the Twins, but tanked against the Sox again in Game 3 in the ALCS only to be bailed out by 19 Yankee runs.
That's when things went from bad to worse. After the Red Sox rallied to avoid a sweep in Game 4, won an extra-inning marathon in Game 5, and rode Curt Schilling's ketchup stains to a tied series in Game 6, Brown let his pride get in the way, telling Joe Torre he was healthy enough to start the double-elimination Game 7 despite having appeared to have been in extreme discomfort in Game 3. He lied, getting the hook from Torre in the second inning of that game having already handed the Red Sox a 2-0 lead and leaving the bases loaded in his wake.
The next year his bad back robbed him of what little value he had before the wall-punching incident as he posted a 6.50 ERA in just 13 starts on a $15 million salary.
Plus he was universally regarded as a complete and utter ass. The only reason he's not higher on this list is because he directed his abuse at himself, not those around him.
8. Jeff Weaver When the Yankees traded Ted Lilly and others for Jeff Weaver, I though it was a good idea. Weaver was younger and had more major league experience. When he struggled in his first half season with the Yankees (and to be fair, he did post a 108 ERA+ while being jerked between the rotation and bullpen) I had faith he'd straighten it out in his first full season in the Bronx.
Then came 2003. Weaver just couldn't cut it and to make matters worse, he sulked on the mound when his slop got smacked around the park. His routine was infantile and suggested that Weaver though that something other than the weak stuff he was throwing toward the plate was to blame for his struggles, as if his fielders and the universe as a whole had conspired against him. The end result was a 5.99 ERA and a spot deep in Joe Torre's dog house.
Weaver didn't throw a single pitch in the playoffs that year, making it all the more perplexing when Joe Torre selected him over Mariano Rivera in extra innings in Game 4 of the World Series. It wasn't Weaver's fault that he wound up losing that game after having pitched since the regular season, but when Alex Gonzalez's game winner landed on the other side of the left field fence in Pro Player Stadium, you knew that was Weaver's last pitch as a Yankee, and I don't think you could find a single Yankee fan who was disappointed to see him go.
7. Andy Hawkins A 29-year-old free agent addition to the 1989 Yankees, Hawkins was brought in to be the ace of a team that had finally sent Ron Guidry and Tommy John out to pasture. Instead, he posted a 4.80 ERA (81 ERA+ in those days), which would be his high water mark in pinstripes. As an encore he contributed perhaps the defining moment of those lean years for the pinstripers, an eight-inning no-hitter in old Comisky Park which, thanks to two walks and three errors, he and the Yankees lost by a tally of 4-0. It was the largest margin of defeat for a team that had not allowed a hit and a year later Major League Baseball ruled that no-hitters had to last a minimum of nine innings, wiping the embarrassment from the record books. Hawkins lasted just three starts in 1991 and departed the Yankees with a 5.21 ERA across his three seasons.
6. Tim Leary The Yankees got the 31-year-old Leary from the Reds prior to the 1990 season for Hal Morris, who would go on to hit .305/.362/.436 and play sparkling defense over the ensuing decade, and would be the starting first baseman for the World Champion Reds that year. Leary meanwhile went 9-19 in his first year with an admittedly terrible Yankee team, following that with a 6.49 ERA in 1991. The next year he was caught on the mound discarding a piece of sandpaper which he must have used to get his ERA up to a sparkling 5.57. According to Joel Sherman's Birth of a Dynasty, Buck Showalter jokingly offered then-GM Gene Michael sexual favors to make Leary go away. That August Leary was dealt to the Mariners for minor leaguer Sean Twitty. Going back to Sherman: "In 2 1/2 seasons as a Yankee, Tim Leary produced the worst winning percentage (.340) and second worst ERA (5.12) ever by a Yankee pitcher with at least 400 innings pitched." At the time Leary's 5.12 was actually the worst ever as eventual title-holder Sterling Hitchcock (5.15) had yet to make his major league debut.
5. Aaron Boone Yeah, he hit that home run, but I'm convinced that someone else (Robin Ventura!) would have had Boone not been given the chance. Meanwhile, Boone hit .170/.196/.302 in the 2003 postseason with that home run included, and I blame him more for the Game 4 loss in that year's World Series than I do Jeff Weaver.
The Yankees trailed 3-1 going into the ninth inning of that game. With one out, Bernie singled, Matsui walked, Jorge replaced Matsui via a fielders choice pushing Bernie to third. Down to their last out, Ruben Sierra delivered a game-tying pinch-hit triple (still wonder why Big Ru's not on this list?). With Sierra standing on third as the winning run, Boone swung at five straight pitches, fouling off the first four and grounding out to end the inning on the fifth. Two innings later, score still knotted at 3-3, Bernie leads off with a double, Matsui walks, David Dellucci bunts them up to second and third and pinch-hitter Juan Rivera is intentionally walked to load the bases for Boone, who with just one out can give the Yankees the lead with a walk or a variety of balls in play. Again, Boone swings at the first three pitches, fouling two off to fall into an 0-2 count. He then takes ball one and swings three more times, foul, foul, strike three. John Flaherty pops out to end the inning and the Yankees lose in the twelfth on the home run surrendered by Weaver. Then, for yucks, he and Enrique Wilson botch a rundown play in Game 5 that leads to two runs in a game the Yankees lose by exactly that many.
And no he doesn't get credit for being stupid enough to violate his contract and blow out his ACL all in one move, thus clearing the way for the Rodriguez-Soriano deal.
4. Kenny Rogers Rogers was basically Jeff Weaver but old enough to know better (Weaver was 25 when he came to the Yankees, Rogers was 31). He was actually above average during the 1996 season, posting a 108 ERA+ in 30 starts, but averaged less than six innings per start. He then posted a 14.14 ERA in the postseason, failing to last past the third inning in any of his three starts. The difference with Rogers was that, by sheer force of the 1996 Yankees mystical magical mojo, the Yankees won all three of his postseason starts despite starting all three in a sizeable hold, all on the road no less.
The next year Rogers posted a 5.65 ERA and was so undesirable he was actually traded with Mariano Duncan to the Padres midseason for Greg Vaughn, who had been displaced by Rickey Henderson, whom the Yankees dealt for chump change eight years earlier. Rogers was returned to sender, however, when Vaughn failed his Yankee physical, nixing the deal. Just as well, he was dealt for Scott Brosius after the 1997 season. Rogers didn't have nearly the deleterious effect on the Yankees that several of the pitchers lower on this list did, but he was, and remains, less likeable all of them.
Rogers earns extra credit for sullying the name of the true Gambler, for celebrating beyond his due when the Yankees won the Championship in 1996, and for being a big stupid jerkface with a big stupid jerk's face.
3. Enrique Wilson Wilson appeared in more games as a Yankee than anyone else on this list despite having less actual ability than just about any of them. Joe Torre like to use him as a pinch runner. Enrique went 5 for 11 on the bases as a Yankee. Enrique was the Yankees utility infielder for four seasons, but was a sub-par fielder at all three skill positions for his career. Most of all, Enrique hit .216/.261/.332 as a Yankee. He didn't even have the decency to have a cool moustache, goofy glasses, or a colorful nickname. Hell, he didn't even hustle. Enrique was good pals with Manny Ramirez and played the game like Manny's twin, styling in the batter's box and lapsing in the field, such as in that botched rundown mentioned in the Aaron Boone entry (Enrique was really the primary culprit there). Worst of all, the Yankees kept bringing him back for well above the league minimum.
2. Mike Witt Mike Witt was just 29 when the Yankees acquired him from the California Angels in July 1990, but as a ten-year veteran he seemed a decade older. He posted an 89 ERA+ in his first half season with the Yankees, then inked a $7.5 million, three-year deal with the Yankees back when $3 million per year was the highest salary in the sport. Plagued by injuries, Witt made just eleven starts over those three years and retired after the 1993 season.
That's bad enough, but the player the Yankees traded to get Witt in the first place was Dave Winfield. Dave Winfield! My favorite player and a first-ballot Hall of Famer! Now, even ignoring the relationship between Winfield and Stienbrenner that was fractured beyond repair by the summer of 1990, Winfield was 38 and coming off an entire season lost to a back injury and had hit just .213/.269/.361 in 20 games for the Yankees in 1990. But it was Dave Winfield! Freed from the Boss's grip in California, Winfield hit .275/.348/.466 over the remainder of the season. Two years later he turned in a .290/.377/.491 season for the Blue Jays at age 40 and erased his Mr. May tag by driving in the winning run in the final game of that year's World Series to finally get that elusive ring. He then picked up his 3,000th hit with his hometown Twins and slipped gently into retirement two years after Witt himself had already hung 'em up. All totaled, Winnie hit 106 home runs, and drove in 389 men after being traded for Witt, who won just eight games for the Yankees.
1. Ken Phelps It has been pointed out to me that Phelps actually slugged .551 for the Yankees down the stretch in 1988. Big whoop. He also hit .224 with a .339 OBP, then stunk up the joint the next year and was dealt to the A's for a no-name minor leaguer. The player he was traded for, the 23-year-old Jay Buhner, hit .224/.320/.458 over the remainder of the 1988 season for Mariners and then went on to hit .256/.362/.498 with 297 homers as a key part of the team that saved the Mariners franchise in the '90s. To make it worse, Jay Buhner was just one of three players the Yankees sent to Seattle for Phelps (the others also no-name minor leaguers).
I have one memory of Jay Buhner in a Yankee uniform and that is of flipping on a Saturday game against the Orioles in June 1988 to see Buhner break a 3-3 tie with a grand slam off of Doug Sisk. I can still see the tall, slender Buhner rounding the bases, resplendent as the afternoon sun highlighted his home pinstripes. A little over a month later he was dealt for the stocky, bespectacled, 33-year-old Phelps. That was when I knew things would get worse before they'd get better for the Bombers. Sure enough, Henderson was dealt the next year. The year after that it was Winfield who was shipped out as Mattingly's back finally gave out on him and the Yankees sank to 90 loses for the first time since 1913. Bad times. Bad times.
I blame Ken Phelps.
Just a tiny note about your Kevin Brown entry. If memory serves, the ALDS series against the Twins wasn't a sweep. Johan shut down the Yanks in Game 1, and the Twins won 2-1. But the Yanks went on to win the next three games.
What really got me was that his usually serviceable defense tanked in the post-season. The pressure got to him, I guess.
Though I'll always have fond memories of that 11th-inning homer.
I disliked every Yankee shortstop from Bobby Meacham until Tony Fernandez. Meacham was horrible but home grown and his youth suggested an optimism that his stat sheet never fulfilled. Tony Fernandez was also a disappointment but he was at least a has-been not a never-was. I feel these awful shortstops wasted a good part of Don Mattingly's career. I want to yell "You Klingon bastards you killed my son" substituting the shortstops above for Klingons and Don Mattingly for my son.
I would add the following to Enique Wilson:
There's a case to be made that he was one bad penny.
The Stump Merrill era was just horrid.
seriously, cluff: this rocks. thanks for the pasqua reference. you knew that would make me smile.
since 1995 i have had my own yankee hall of shame called the "Pat Kelly is a Bum Club" - the charter member being my least favourite. the others in no particular order:
mel hall
joel skinner
danny tartabull
melido perez
rick rhoden
lee gutterman (for bringing the ultimate shame by the leading the team in wins - out of the bullpen no less - with a whopping 11)
Cadaret, Leary, Irabu... I grind my teeth typing the names.
The dark days duo "Howe Farr" would be on my list.
Mel Hall. Hated watching him. Hate him even more after learning what a prick he was to young Bernie.
I was sick of Denny Neagle the day he got here.
I just check his stats and he had an ERA+ of 69 in 1989! That's worse than I remember, even though I had no idea what ERA+ was back then.
Anyone else remember when Nolan Ryan was going for his 300rd win the first time, it was against the Yanks and LaPoint? LaPoint pitched better than Ryan, leaving with a 5-2 lead. Rags came in for the 8th (on the road!) with the score 7-3, gave up a run to make it 7-4 . . . and then gave up 3 more in the 9th, though he did pitch a scoreless 10th. Senator Al's brother Mark gave up a 2 run homer to Palmiero in the bottom of the 11th, and that was that.
Yep, 1990. Not many people on the bandwagon back then.
Someone more poetically-inclined than me could probably make a good ditty out of "Hawkins-Leary-LaPoint".
Looking at your list, two things pop out at me:
1)You (like me) can't stand incompetent MR
2)You took the 2003 Series loss pretty hard.
With the stories of the way he treated a young Bernie, Mel Hall has got to be right up there on my list. I remember not liking Steve "Bye Bye" Balboni much either.
I go back further than some of you. The first player I remember loathing was Fred Talbot, a real bad late-60's pitcher. Then there was Rich McKinney; it really wasn't his fault, but the Yankees traded Stan Bahnsen to get him. Bahnsen promptly won 20 games; McKinney hit .215.
In general, though, I have more tolerance for bad players who play badly (Womack is another exception). But others on my list:
Ed Whitson.
Jack Clark. Yankees paid him a ton of money, then he whined in the papers about how hard it was, not knowing from day to day if he was going to play LF or 1B or DH. Hey, Meat, look at the lineup card and play where they tell you.
Don Baylor. Known as a great attitude guy, but as a Yankee he bad-mouthed the manager for sitting him down against righties. He wasn't hitting righties for crap. The manager was Yogi Berra.
Mel Hall. Matt Nokes. Danny Tartabull. They go together pretty well.
And, of course, my all-time least favorite Yankee is Gary Sheffield. It's that integrity-of-the-game thing.
Pitcher Ed Whitson broke one of Billy Martin's arms and two of his ribs after, according to a witness Martin sucker punched him.
Could someone else have hit it? Sure. Could the Red Sox have gone up five runs the next inning? Yes. Could a UFO have landed in CF and vaporized Yankee Stadium, sending the A's to the World Series? Very remotely possible. None of that happened. Aaron Boone hit the home run.
Those 2003 postseason numbers are crap, but he managed to outslug Arod's 2005 ps(covering head now).
I would replace him with Raul Mondesi and bump up Kevin Brown. What complete tools those dudes were.
Clemens will always make my list of 25 least favorite Yankees.
I won't hate a guy for not being good at the major league level, I'd suck at A league level. Just don't be a jerk.
Did you see the intentional ball that Miguel Cabrera hit? Totally cracked me up. He is a great kid.
Mondesi was a bad dude, but he played hard and wasn't nearly as bad as you might remember (.258/.330/.471 with 13 homers and 17 steals before being dealt to AZ in 2003), plus he had a gun. I'm easy on hard-throwing right fielders.
Danny Tartabull was actually very productive for the Yanks in his first three seasons.
I didn't know Mel Hall was such a horrible guy at the time, and I'm using Ken's rule that you can't use hindsight to effect your opinion of a guy (thus Caderet's high ranking). Hall at least hit some dingers, including that memorable July 4 shot off of Jeff Reardon when Reardon was with the Sox.
Melido Perez I actually like because he was the first Yankee starter to do anything worthwhile in ages when he posted a 2.87 ERA and struck out 218 at age 26 in 1992. Of course then injuries ruined him.
I dug Guetterman too because he was tall, ugly, and what passed for good in those days (though I understand disliking him for the same reasons).
I didn't care for Steve Farr, but I loved Steve Howe. A fiery prick who is just flat unhittable (twice posting ERAs under 2.00 with the Yanks)? Yes please!
LaPoint and Nokes I considered. Trout's a good one, as is Neagle. Whitson, like I said, falls just outside the range, as does Baylor, but again I'm easy on power hitters.
The thing that pissed me off most about Clark was what they got for him just a year after signing him: Stan Jefferson, Jimmy Jones and Lance McCullers. McCullers almost made my list in part because of an old baseball card of his I own in which he's at his release point and his head is turned more than 90 degrees away from home plate.
14 Emy, I also noticed those things, but only after making the list. Twenty of these 25 are pitchers. I guess pitchers are easier to dislike because they give up the runs and often take forever doing it, standing out there twitching and sweating etc. As for 2003, I remember thinking at the time that the WS was gravy after beating the Red Sox. I think I still feel that way, but what burns me is that the Series was so darn winable and it was the worst kind of mismanagement and incompetence on the field that lead to the loss.
Anyway, there was one guy I left out that I'm kicking myself for now. Another pitcher: Black Jack McDowell. I think I may have to add a bonus entry for him. Don't know how I missed him!
But let's not turn this into a Rodriguez thread. It's way too much fun to ruin that way.
What about Knoblauch? My favorite Knobby-ism was when they convinced him to see a sports psychiatrist about the throwing problem and he said that was fine, but they could only talk about baseball. I'm thinking, dude, this is not gonna work....
I liked Lee Guetterman, and Jack McDowell - Black Jack hit that hot streak in late summer that year, didn't he? I offer up Tony Fossas.
Although he wasn't awful, does anyone remember the summer Billy Martin used Cecilio Guante in virtually every other game?
27 Tony Fossas was actually a late scratch along with other pointless cameos such as Dale Svuem, Alberto Castillo, Mark Wohlers, Charles Gipson and good ol' Terrence Long.
We KNEW he had the arm. His head was the problem. But Yankees don't stick with someone for long. Yes... he was VERY frustrating when he kept walking guys, but when he was good, he was VERY, VERY good.
I fault the Yankees for giving up on a mature talent to easily.
Don't diss Pat Kelly. First off, as an Irish-American kid who played second base, Pat Kelly was my role model! Second, didn't he have that huge hit that got us into the 1995 postseason.
I think it's also fun to look back and find the lovable Yankees on those bad teams, like Don Slaught (a huge favorite in my household)
How many errors did Boone have in the ps, I wonder? I KID, I KID!
What's worse is that the Yanks just flat-out released him, getting nothing in return.
31 I found Steve Sax to be lovable, mostly because he was replacing my all-time favorite Yank at 2B. In 1990, using some method of his, Bill James rated Sax as having a very good chance of getting 3000 hits. Whoops.
34 The Yanks got nothing for Deion because he was worth nothing as a baseball player. Who wants a .319 career OBP who bolts for the NFL when the pennant races heat up? No takers? Really?
That said, I dug Sax too. Another fiery guy. Never struck out. Stick turned him into Melido and Bob Wickman just in time to see him crash and burn at age 32. Damn, Stick was good.
But my submission will definitely draw a lot of flack:
Randy Johnson. Dumbest trade we have made in a long time...big fat salary and he's a whiny little biotch who argues with umps endlessly and pitches like a #3 starter on his good days.
We lost Game 5 because of Wells -- it was already known by then that Contreras was a bit delicate, so I can't hold it against him that he didn't handle such an awful situation better. Plus, remember that one of Weaver's only friends in the clubhouse in 2003 was Wells (and I seem to recall a story about people in the Yankee organization blaming Boomer for Weaver's bad attitude). Yet another reason to despise Boomer.
Knoblauch is such a tough call. Two fine years, then he just fell apart. Not only the throwing; he stopped being a good leadoff hitter, too. He'd swing at the first pitch of the game all the time and usually pop it up - drove me nuts. Plus I was sitting on the first base line for the game against Cleveland, where 55,000 of us were screaming at him to THROW THE GODDAM BALL. I can't ever get that picture out of my mind.
Ok. I've said it. I hated (in the I've never met him sense) Roger Clemens.
I don't even care that he was a Red Sox, and I don't even care that he "retired" then went to the Astros.
I have no idea why I don't like him, but I actively root against him now. (While he was with the Yankees I rooted for him for the same reason I root for Giambi...I may not like him, but I still want to win.)
My friends and I always like Melido Perez ... a lot more than his goofy brother Pascual (who was actually pretty damn good for the Yanks ... when he wasn't injured).
As for Matt Nokes, the only other option for a few years was the horrid Bob Geren.
I always found it interesting that Neon was later traded straight up for Roberto Kelly. In 1990, I would have never believed that could happen.
And you forgot the third fruit of the Sax trade - Domingo Jean, who went along with Stanky the Yankee to bring #24 X-man to the Bronx!
Ah, no must resist. NOT a Rodriguez thread!
looking at his stats, he hit an almost respectable .277/.318/.535 in 1987.
ah, what did i know back then, i was just a dumb kid.
46 Neon was traded for Roberto Kelly. I didn't know/remember that. I do know that Kelly was traded for O'Neill, so it winds up being Deion for Paulie. That was a good route to take.
I don't know if Knoblauch was a jerk or not. Like I said, I'm torn about him - I sure hated watching him those last two years, at bat and in the field.
Oops, I was wrong - Jim Bowden made both deals. No wonder why he's asking for the world from the Yanks now.
Meanwhile, on the Yankee side of things, O'Neill for Roberto K was another Stick Michael deal.
How is Black Jack beyond the cutoff point?
I would like to have a guy like Deion to pinch run in the late innings (man could he fly).
That said, I remember all the fanfare which accompanied his joining the Yankees and it was because of him and his hype, I refused to get excited about Hideki Matsui's arrival in New York a few years later. My thinking at the time was Here We Go Again...
Speaking of Whitson, IIRC he was a John Bircher too.
In his 380 Yankee ABs from 1977-79, he hit 24 HRs and was .239/.397/.495 -- and that was before the offensive explosion of the 90s. We would kill to have that as our backup catcher these days.
I LOVE Matt Nokes! There was something cool about a guy who ran like he was wearing cement boots, struck out all the time, but could hit the ball off the back wall of the right field bleachers when he made contact. He was a good tactical tool for the decent 1993 team, as a pinch hitter and occasional platoon partner for Mike Stanley.
Anyway, the thing I remember is sitting in those field boxes, being so incredibly close, and Bob Geren came up to bat. We were just getting over the giddiness of being so close to the players, when from a few rows back some drunk guy shouted...
I don't know why, but it stuck with me forever. It was sort of a demystification moment.
He was responsible for so many crushing losses in 1993.
I think you'd find some such fans here - www.jeffweaversmom.com
It hasn't been updated since the 2004 All Star Game, but there's some funny reading there nonetheless. And genuine Yankee fans who were genuinely sad to see him go.
Right now it's mostly sunny in NY.
I hope it's not too bad tonight as I'll be there (with the wife) cheering for Mr. Wang and the NY Wangkees.
According to Yankees.com:
Player to watch
Alex Rodriguez is 9-for-28 (.321) with a home run in his career against Moehler.
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I remember not liking him...
Of course he did "lead the league in nosehairs".
Yup, that was me who first attributed that nickname to a reliever. 1983 was the year.
That's how bad he was.
Was it Andy Pettitte who pitched into the 9th with a shutout...until Boone screwed up an easy catch?
I really hated Mark Bellhorn last year. I hated him when he was a Red Sox just because appearance-wise, he looked kinda bummy. He looked more like the guy you always see at the bar instead of a ball player. Plus he was completely useless until his Boone-like moment in the 2004 ALCS. Then he reverted back to uselessness and the Yanks acquired him. Then, I REALLY hated him.
Maybe that's why Torre started holding on to Jeter's bat in the dugout. He wanted to make sure Rivera didn't steal it...
Great list. I have just one short comment. What I am about to say is the reason, although personally I like him, that I fear Joe Torre in the post-season. When things go well he looks like a genius, but he does not now, nor will he in the future, have any handle on what his players are feeling, what their present abilities are, or what decision is prudent. Sure, he may make an occasional decision that is prudent and fails to produce results. However too often, and in the 2004 ALCS. to make a decision that even a tribesman watching on a television being charged by Gilligan's peddling, would run for the nearest telephone to ask WHY, is Torre's trademark.
1. Kevin Brown -- When I (and every Yankee fan with a brain in their head) opened the paper in 2004 the morning of game 7, we knew the series was over. This was all on Joe, not Kevin. It was clear he had nothing, was a complete meat-head, who not only had no gas in the tank, but fought Mel and Joe at every turn.
Joe had Mussina on short rest, El Duque, and others who would have given him a better chance to win, or at least keep it close. He chose to go with his worst starter, instead of using the other guys on short rest for a few innings each. He managed the game like it was any other regular season game, like the third game of a 3 game set in July, and that is why we lost that game, not Kevin Brown. I never liked him, and he belongs on the list, but I haven't gotten over Joe's complete mismanagement of that game, and had to rant a bit.
87 Cripes, that sounds so right. Was that Game 2 of the 2003 WS? Man, I had shut that out. That was Andy's penultimate game in pinstripes.
89 Ruben didn't make it to the 25-man roster that year, so it doesn't work, and there was no reason to hate him before he was dealt to San Diego for Irabu (remember that? I had completely forgotten about that until right now).
First Major League, then Bad News Bears, what's next: The Scout? Should we add Steve Nebraska to the list?
Brendan Fraser in "The Scout"
Pete Vukovich in "Major League."
Bob DeNiro in "Bang the Drum Slowly"*
The kid who puts the ketchup and mustard in Lupus's hat in "The Bad News Bears"
*I know they're the Mammoths, but let's get real--they're supposed to be the Yankees.
Miguel Cairo - because he played so badly for the Mets
Robinson Cano - He just seems like he's a big-headed arrogant jerk. And he was mentored by Ruben Sierra.
Giambi - Had his balls - I mean hair - cut off and became a Stepford ballplayer. And then that press conference.
Karim Garcia - "Who is Karim Garcia?"
Scott Brosius - Because even one person daring to compare him to Nettles is too many
Glenallen Hill - The absolute worst pinch-hitting AB I've ever seen in the game 5 (?) playoff loss in Seattle. I was there.
Paul O'Neill - Biggest. Baby. Ever.
Tony Tarasco - Bad hair
Mattingly - Because I'm going to have to hear my friends whining about his HOF campaign for the rest of my goddamn life.
Randy Velarde - Just not likable
Kevin Mmahat - Couldn't pronounce his name
Steve Balboni - I remember him being a jerk
Jay Buhner - Annoying
Rafael Santana - Transferral - all my yankee friends hated him
Lee Mazzili - Not sure why
Bucky Dent - Just his stupid face
BOY that felt good. And I would like to say for the record that I loved Willie Randolph, Lou Piniella, Ron Guidry, Dave Winfield, Oscar Gamble, Eric Plunk, Jim Abbott, Luis Sojo, Tim Raines, Mo Rivera, and Bubba Crosby
Weaver is my number one, because in addition to all the fabulous pitching, the press kept writing how obvious it was that the Yankees needed to dump El Duque to accommodate him.
Another annoying thing about Jay Witasek was that they had to give up D'Angelo Jimenez, who was still a good prospect.
Luis Polonia would be on my list too; major aesthetic downgrade, to say the least.
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Computational plasma physics
Module MA4304
This module handbook serves to describe contents, learning outcome, methods and examination type as well as linking to current dates for courses and module examination in the respective sections.
Module version of WS 2018/9 (current)
There are historic module descriptions of this module. A module description is valid until replaced by a newer one.
Whether the module's courses are offered during a specific semester is listed in the section Courses, Learning and Teaching Methods and Literature below.
|available module versions
Basic Information
MA4304 is a semester module in English language at Master's level which is offered in summer semester.
This Module is included in the following catalogues within the study programs in physics.
- Catalogue of non-physics elective courses
|Total workload
|Contact hours
|Credits (ECTS)
|150 h
|45 h
Content, Learning Outcome and Preconditions
This lecture provides an introduction to scientific computing with examples from plasma physics. A particular emphasis will be placed on the discretization of partial differential equations. Numerical methods for the Poisson equation, conservation laws as well as kinetic equations will be introduced.
In the exercise classes, an introduction to the Python computer language and basic software development techniques will be offered. This will be used to code the discretisation methods introduced in the lecture.
In the exercise classes, an introduction to the Python computer language and basic software development techniques will be offered. This will be used to code the discretisation methods introduced in the lecture.
Learning Outcome
After successful completion of the module, students understand different methods for discretization of partial differential equations. They have a good knowledge of possibilities and limits of computer modelling and they can apply basic software development methods for efficient and reliable code development.
MA1101 Linear Algebra and Discrete Structures 1, MA1102 Linear Algebra and Discrete Structures 2, MA0901 Linear Algebra for Informatics, MA1001 Analysis 1, MA1002 Analysis 2, MA1304 Introduction to Numerical Linear Algebra
Courses, Learning and Teaching Methods and Literature
Courses and Schedule
|Computational Plasma Physics [MA4304]
|Sonnendrücker, E.
Mon, 10:15–11:45, MI 03.06.011
|Computational Plasma Physics (Exercise Session) [MA4304]
|Bell, D. Sonnendrücker, E.
Mon, 12:00–12:45, MI 03.04.011
Learning and Teaching Methods
The module is offered as lectures with accompanying practice sessions. In the lectures, the contents will be presented in a talk with demonstrative examples, as well as through discussion with the students. The lectures should animate the students to carry out their own analysis of the themes presented and to independently study the relevant literature. Corresponding to each lecture, practice sessions will be offered, in which programming exercises, exercise sheets and solutions will be available. In this way, students can deepen their understanding of the methods and concepts taught in the lectures and independently check their progress.
Blackboard, jupyter notebooks
R. J. Leveque: Finite Volume Methods for Hyperbolic Problems, Cambridge Texts in Applied Mathematics, 2002.
C.K. Birdsall and A.B. Langdon: Plasma Physics via Computer Simulation, Taylor & Francis, 2005
C.K. Birdsall and A.B. Langdon: Plasma Physics via Computer Simulation, Taylor & Francis, 2005
Module Exam
Description of exams and course work
Students take an oral exam of about 20 minutes. They show their ability to understand the basic methods for the numerical solution of partial differential equations treated in the course, like finite difference, finite volume, spectral and finite element methods. The context is given by the equations of plasma physics such as Vlasov-Maxwell and the corresponding fluid-dynamical models. Students should be able to describe the generic mathematical properties of the model equations, derive discretization methods and analyze their rate of convergence.
Exam Repetition
The exam may be repeated at the end of the semester.

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Most married women in Egypt went through genital mutilation - health minister
Some 92 percent of married women in Egypt underwent female genital mutilation, the country's health minister said, citing a recent study. He added that the majority of girls face this ordeal when they are only nine to 12 years old.
The results of the Egypt Demographic and Health Survey (EDHS) were announced by Health Minister Adel Adawy at a Sunday conference dedicated to the study, Egyptian media reported. The poll was carried out last year and involved women aged 15 to 49.
According to the minister, only 31 percent of the operations are carried out by doctors, with most being performed by traditional midwives and "health barbers."
The rate of female circumcision in rural places is extremely high – almost 95 percent while in urban areas it reaches 39.2 percent, the minister said.
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The study claimed that more than half of married women in the country are in favor of genital mutilation. Only 30 percent of women say it should be banned, the study said.
Egyptian doctor sentenced to prison after Sohair al-Bata'a,13, dies from female genital mutilation #Egypt#FGM#womenpic.twitter.com/0lDdXR52OX
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Egypt's top Islamic authority has condemned the practice as "un-Islamic" and "barbaric." Female circumcision was banned in 2008. The offenders may be sentenced to prison (from three months to two years) or fined between 1,000 and 5,000 Egyptian pounds.
READ MORE: 60 cases of female genital mutilation discovered in Swedish school
In January, an Egyptian doctor, Raslan Fadl, was sentenced to two years in jail for performing a female genital mutilation procedure which killed a young girl. Thirteen-year-old Sohair al-Bata'a died in June 2013 following the surgery.
READ MORE: Female genital mutilation in US tripled in 25 years
Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), a traditional practice to partially or completely remove the outer sexual organs, is mainly practiced in Africa and in a few countries in the Middle East (Yemen, Kurdish communities, Saudi Arabia) and Asia.
Up to 140 million women and girls worldwide have been subjected to FGM, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.
The practice has no health benefits, while complications can include severe pain, shock, bleeding, tetanus, sepsis, urine retention, recurrent bladder and urinary tract infections, as well as infertility, increased risk of childbirth complications and newborn deaths and other problems, according to the World Health Organization.
The causes of FMG may be cultural, religious or social conventions within families and communities of certain regions. Among some peoples FGM is considered a necessary part of raising a girl properly and preparing her for marriage.


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Minnesota Intoxilyzer Source Code Victory: Why Deficient Samples Must Be Dismissed.
Judge Abrams ruled at the conclusion of the consolidated source code hearings that the Intoxilyzer cannot reliably determine deficient samples. Unlike most Intoxilyzer test results, which were deemed admissible, Judge Abrams ruled that test results reporting a sample as "deficient| should not be allowed into evidence. Specifically, he stated that:
In cases in which the Intoxilyzer 5000EN ... reported a |Deficient Sample,| the Source Code of the instrument does impact the reliability, solely, of this result. Evidence of such cases of a |Deficient Sample| test report should not be allowed unless other evidence exists which provides reasons and/or observations of testing which supports the sample being deficient.
Order, para. 2 (our emphasis).
Judge Abrams explicitly found that the Intoxilyzer cannot properly determine a deficient sample - and therefore does not support a charge of test refusal. In the order, it appears that the door has been left open for the government to bolster this faulty test result with |other evidence| that the test subject |refused| to provide a valid sample. However, the actual state of the law in Minnesota says the opposite - under Minnesota law, only a breath test machine that determines a deficient sample, not the officer.
Minnesota's DWI laws make it a crime to |refuse| alcohol testing, which is defined as a |failure of a person to provide two separate, adequate breath samples in the proper sequence . . .| Minn.Stat. § 169A.51, subd. 5(c) (2010). A sample is defined as |adequate| if, |the instrument analyzes the sample and does not indicate the sample is deficient.| Id., subd. 5(b). A plain reading of these statutes means that only the Intoxilyzer test result, and not the opinions of an officer, determine if a person actually |refused| to provide an adequate sample.
We know, because we recently won on this issue in front of the Minnesota Court of Appeals, in Hansen v. Comm'r of Pub. Safety. In Hansen (a |deficient sample| case) the trial court judge ruled that the source code was irrelevant, because |other evidence| besides the Intoxilyzer test result proved that our client refused to provide a valid sample. We disagreed, and appealed. The Court of Appeals reversed the trial judge's decision in favor of our client.
In Hansen, the Minnesota Court of Appeals said,
We have held that an identically worded statute |makes it clear that the Intoxilyzer, not the police officer, is to determine the adequacy of a breath sample.| Genia v. Comm'r of Pub. Safety, 382 N.W.2d 284, 286 (Minn.App.1986). And we found no statutory authority that, once the breath test began, |a refusal can be based on an officer's conclusion that a driver is not making a good-faith effort to provide an adequate sample.| Id.
Hansen at *4.
So, it's clear that only a breath test machine (for now, the Intoxilyzer 5000EN) can determine whether a breath sample is deficient. Any officer's subjective opinions are irrelevant. What this means is that the government can only prove a |refusal by conduct| charge by presenting a test result that lists the sample as |deficient.| And as long as the State continues to use the outdated, broken and error-prone Intoxilyzer, any |deficient| result cannot be admitted into evidence.


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Turkey and the EU one month after the coup
A month after the failed coup in Turkey, life in Istanbul is somewhere between back to normal and things will never be the same again.
Hanging down from buildings, fluttering through rolled-down car windows, wrapped around people, Turkish flags paint the town red. The Bosphorus bridge connecting Asia and Europe has been renamed 15 July Martyrs in honour of those who died in fighting linked with last month's attempted coup.
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Even the air is different - massive loudspeakers fill it with music that could be heard kilometres away. The playlist was only two songs long, switching between Turkiyem, a 1970s Turk pop tune, and Dombra, a tribute to Turkey's president Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
State-run news outlet Anadolu Agency estimated that 25 million people attended pro-democracy rallies that only ended three weeks after the coup.
But while those joining the rallies were claiming to have saved democracy, EU leaders were lamenting an authoritarian crackdown.
While many Turks rejoiced at the rooting out of supposed infiltrators, the West lamented the purge of judges, journalists and teachers.
More than 23,000 people have been detained or arrested and 82,000 dismissed or suspended, accused of conspiring with an elderly cleric - Fethullah Gulen - who allegedly pulled the strings from his exile in the US.
"It does sound like a bad novel," Turkey's ambassador to the EU, Selim Yenel, told EUobserver in Brussels.
"But the lists were there," he added. "We have been cleaning the state of Gulen-linked officials since 2013. But we never expected anything this vicious."
Gulen has condemned the coup and protests his innocence. Last week, he requested an international investigation to clear him from the accusations.
United against Gulen
But after a month of arrests and confessions, the lion's share of Turks appear to hold him accountable. Erdogan's approval ratings have soared by more than 20 points to almost 70 percent. The four parliamentary parties, including Erdogan's arch-rivals CHP and HDP, also think Gulen pulled the strings of the botched putsch.
Three parties - Erdogan's conservative AKP, social democratic CHP, and nationalist MHP (but not leftist HDP) - made history on Sunday (7 August) when they appeared side by side at a "democracy and martyrs" demonstration.
"It was the first time in our history that everyone stood together," said Selim Yenel. "Everything changed with the coup. It's a new Turkey."
But this new Turkey, however, has strained relations with the EU, with the Turkish FM Mevlut Cavusoglu saying that the EU "failed the test" after the coup and accused the bloc of falling for anti-Turkey and anti-Erdogan sentiments.
A war of words has played out in the media over Turkey's post-coup purge, which includes a threat to reintroduce the death penalty.
Another source of tension is a visa liberalisation plan that would grant Turkish citizens short-term travel freedoms to the EU. With Turkey having so far failed to meet the agreed conditions, including overhauling its anti-terrorism legislation, the visa move may not happen. As a result, the migration deal concluded in March now hangs by a thread.
Most recently, Turkey was also caught up in a diplomatic row with Austria and Sweden that accused the country of wanting to allow sex with children.
Turkey's constitutional court last month scrapped an article in the penal code that defined all sexual acts against children as abuse. Rather, it said, cases should be reviewed individually so as to better balance crime and sanctions.
Turkish FM Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Monday (15 August) that the Austrian and Swedish criticisms were a reflection of the "racism, anti-Islamic and anti-Turkish [trend] in Europe."
Austria, currently Turkey's fiercest critic in the EU, has also said that Turkey's accession talks should be brought to a halt. Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz said he would use his seat in the foreign ministers council to veto the opening of new negotiation chapters with Turkey.
In response, Cavusoglu called Austria the "capital of radical racism". European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker also rebuked Kurz, saying the will of the member states was to go on with the talks.
Turkish politicians, meanwhile, have traded barbs with the EU over its commitment to a visa liberalisation plan, which was due to enter into force in June but was postponed until October.
The commission seems split on the matter. EU commissioner for digital economy Guenther Oettinger had said the possibility of giving Turks visa-free travel this year had fallen after the post-coup crackdown. But EU spokesman Margaritis Schinas told reporters a few days later the intention was to push on with the plan after summer recess.
Selim Yenel, the Turkish ambassador, said it was unfortunate that EU-Turkish relations had suffered, but said they could be saved.
"We understand that holidays are sacred," said the ambassador, "but we hope that EU leaders will come and visit Turkey in September, and see the situation first-hand".
The failure of senior EU officials to do so - while sending out critical noises - has drawn the ire of Turkish counterparts.
A group of Turkish MPs even visited Brussels by ways of establishing contact, but found the EU capital deserted.
Yenel was positive that understanding would grow once ministers and commissioners met.
Turkey was ready to modify its anti-terror law, as the EU requested, if that didn't hurt the fight against terrorism and if Turkish citizens were guaranteed visa-free travel in Europe, he said.
And he added that threats of re-introducing the death penalty were only politicians scoring points.
"It would never pass through parliament," he insisted. "That would mean we had broken our commitment to Europe."
Mending relations
Asli Aydintasbas, a senior fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), painted a less rosy picture of the future but agreed the country had been thrust into a watershed moment by the coup attempt.
"The Gulenists occupied the core of the state. We need to start from scratch rebuilding our institutions," she said.
She agreed there was a risk that innocent people would be caught in the net cast after Gulen loyalists.
"People are rightly concerned that the crackdown is too vast. Many mistakes are taking place," she said.
"But I also think they don't have any other option that to carry on with the investigation. The size of the threat is also real."
The EU could - in theory - nudge Turkey in a democratic direction.
"But the EU has in the past been very supportive of Gulenists. Everyone knows this in Turkey, and that taints public support for the EU," she said.
And the bloc's understanding of the situation in Turkey was clouded by anti-Erdogan feeling.
"Let's be honest, Erdogan had a terrible reputation in the West already before the coup," Aydintasbas said. "And this hasn't helped."
Bahadir Kaleagasi, the EU representative Turkey's leading business organisation Tusiad, agreed that EU wariness might be influenced by anti-Erdogan feelings.
"But that's the opposite of the European spirit, to Jean Monnet's union of nations," Kaleagasi argued.
"If the EU really wants to act for the sake of democracy, the best thing it can do is to engage itself - rather than to send criticism from abroad."
He said between 1995 and 2005, the possibility of EU membership talks had helped Turkey to evolve towards democracy.
"Turkey is the most important external relations success in EU history," he said.
But the process came to a halt shortly after EU membership negotiations formally opened in 2005. Just one of 35 chapters has so far been concluded.
The EU left Turkey out in the cold for years - until the bloc decided to rely on Turkey to stem the arrival of refugees to the EU, he said.
"EU membership drove Turkey towards a democracy. Not seeing that perspective confirmed by the EU made the country lose its compass," Kaleagasi said.


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Peter Enns links to and comments on a post by Father Ted Bobosh who wrote a post entitled, "The Ship of Salvation's Sail not its Anchor." Bobosh writes,
Tradition, like Scripture, is not made holy by being carved into stone, but rather by being interpreted within a community, by being the heart of the community's relationship to God and the world. Tradition is thus alive and constantly relating to the world, not written in stone and frozen in some past understanding.
Pete comments,
A very new thing happened in the Gospel that previous iterations of God's word were not able to grasp–namely a messiah who was executed by the Romans rather than defeating them and then raised from the dead. The tradition had to be transformed to account for this.
Pete notes that in some conservative Protestant circles tradition is rejected in favor of a flat reading of Scripture that mutes the Bible's dynamic quality. He is correct. I would also say in that in my own mainline Protestant experience, more than a few liberals reject tradition as simply outdated dogma that enlightened folks can no longer believe.
As Jaroslav Pelikan rightly observed, "Tradition is the living faith of the dead, traditionalism is the dead faith of the living. And, I suppose I should add, it is traditionalism that gives tradition such a bad name."
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text: China | March 10, 2014 Written by Adam Cathcart. When Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi talked about "a red line" at a press conference at the National People's Congress on Saturday, one could be forgiven for imagining that China was in the process of standing up once and for all to North Korea's transgressive behaviour. After all, in the preceding days, Kim Jong-un had visited a factory known for making missile warheads, perhaps purged the one North Korean leader who has met Xi Jinping face-to-face, and launched a test of short-range missiles that came too close for comfort to Chinese commercial air traffic lanes. (If the North Koreans spoke more often to their Japanese and South Korean counterparts, they might learn a thing or two about Chinese sensitivities over such things as airspace and sea lanes.) The DPRK responded to China's concerns about the missile test by lashing out at a proxy figure, the United States, and by threatening to invade Seoul and hunt down the visiting George W. Bush like some mythic Faulknerian bear. In fact this show of anger was directed at China. Thus, with the visit of Vice Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin to Pyongyang completed, and no reciprocal trip from North Korean Premier Park Bong-ju or similarly high official forthcoming, perhaps the Chinese leaders were just letting off a bit of steam with the "red line" comment in such a public forum. But fortunately, the Foreign Ministry and Xinhua have a way of covering the press conferences at the NPC sufficiently that we are able to read Wang Yi's entire remarks, and are not dependent on the augury of South Korean news agencies to interpret what Wang Yi meant, and if in fact it represents anything new at all. The "red line" statement was preceded by Wang Yi's explanation that this has been "China's line all along" and that what the PRC sought ultimately to prevent on the Korean peninsula was an "outbreak of war or chaos." The mention of a "red line" in the context of American/South Korean military drills on the peninsula, and just after North Korean rocket tests, kept the object of the statement intentionally vague: Wang was not throwing down the gauntlet to the DPRK any more than he was telling the Americans to lay off with the B-52 flights over Korea. Perhaps much more interesting — and revealing — was Wang's new formulation of China's relations with the Koreas, specifically directed at relations with North Korea: "'爬坡、过坎、走正道." Or, roughly, "Climb the slope, get over the pit/threshold, and take the correct path." According to Wang, the "slope" that must be climbed is denuclearlization. Clearly this slope is one that North Korea itself must climb — and saying so publicly yet again garners the side benefit of approval from South Korean and American policy makers. Wang notes that China will not budge an inch from its stance, and, idiomatically, "chisel away persistently until it is finally accomplished [锲而不舍,坚持到底]." The notion of relations with DPRK being in some kind of a "valley," "pit," or earthly depression have been prevalent since the sudden death of Jang Song-taek in December 2013. This new formulation for Chinese-Korean relations seems to again evoke that explicitly. Wang goes a bit further to describe the "pit" as being a "lack of communication" between the DPRK and the United States, and pledges to be the channel by which this could proceed. Why North Korea would place its unvarnished trust in China is not particularly clear, but the assumption is that North Korea is not going to approach, nor would Washington accept, a direct overture. China (and not Dennis Rodman) is still the great middleman in the US-DPRK relationship. Finally, the "correct path" is a simple repackaging of the Six-Party Talks, which are preferable to war. The Chinese Foreign Ministry has not turned to Buddhism to solve the perpetual crisis on the Korean Peninsula, but its rhetoric continues to shift in response to changing times. The "red line" stretches over a pit, which lies in front of a mountain which is the North Korean nuclear program, at which the Chinese Foreign Ministry and its partners continue to chip away. Mao was dismissive of the power of nuclear weapons, but he also famously said that an old man could move a mountain. A dash of Maoist bravado might soon be preferable to the Chinese leaders as North Korea continues to hurtle ahead, not on the "correct path," but on a road very much of its own choosing. Adam Cathcart is Lecturer in Chinese history at the University of Leeds. Adam is chief editor of Sino-NK, tweets @adamcathcart and is a CPI Blog Regular Contributor. China's ethnic policies: are we on the same page yet? Indian Election Blog


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A classic situation: various projects are running in a company in different areas, which present entirely different findings to the management on apparently the same topics. The consequence: there is a great deal of confusion.
There is obviously a planning deficit underlying the "classic" situation described here. It shows that well-functioning project management is indispensable for the success of a company/corporation. This applies both to the inter-departmental coordination of various projects, as the above example shows, and to the individual projects in themselves. Project management should perform three main roles: quality assurance, control of budget and time and coordination at the highest level.
- Especially with big projects, the specifications may not have been fixed definitively when the project begins or they change as a result of external influences while the project is running. As a result, the project is working with a moving target.
- Cost estimates are often perceived as absolute figures once they have been communicated and are thus taken out of context. Additional costs resulting from a change in the scope of the project are therefore perceived to be isolated cost increases.
- In projects that are defined as strategic, failure is ruled out from the start, with the result that they continue running for too long even if they are objectively unsuccessful. Smaller projects, on the other hand, could be successful with a little extra expenditure in many cases.
- Inefficient organizational and communications structures mean that risks are identified too late and therefore counter-measures are instigated too slowly, if at all.
- A lack of transparency about the current status of the project at any given time, including the risks and problems, means that the management does not have an adequate basis for making informed decisions.
- A high proportion of external staff in the key positions in the project brings with it the danger of losing relevant knowledge from the company once the project is over.
- "Due diligence" at the outset: many projects are based on other projects – it is advisable here to check the appropriateness of the planning for the previous projects once again. An agile project methodology may help to deal with ongoing changes to specifications or changes at short notice.
- Transparent communication of the link between costs and project results and of all relevant changes with their respective effects avoids misunderstandings.
- Milestones: in the detailed planning, the milestones of the projects should be closely linked with the milestones of associated projects. This task requires a high degree of coordination between the individual project managers. Understanding the interdependencies between projects at an early stage is an essential step.
- Risks and counter-measures: there should be a "running list" of risks and counter-measures: initial project risks will be known at the outset; experience indicates that others will be added during the project.
- Dealing with external consultants: consultants are usually essential – whether it's to stimulate ideas or as additional, highly qualified employees. The role should be clearly defined on both sides. In the first case, it should be ascertained whether the consultants' ideas actually come from outside or, for example, from internal "hidden champions" – in the long term, it should be considered how this potential can be exploited. In the second case, there should be transparency about who does what – that prevents an insidious "cession of operational business" including a concentration of expertise outside the company.
- Interim controlling: in the event of delays or budgets being exceeded, a justification is required as a matter of principle, together with an estimate of the remaining work (possibly with several scenarios).
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Personal Property Assessment FAQ including Boats & Aircraft
Business Personal Property
What is business personal property?
Examples of business personal property include equipment, furniture, fixtures, and supplies.
What are examples of inventory and supplies?
Examples of inventories are as follows:
1. Manufacturing supplies such as bolts, nuts and screws that are incorporated in a product to the sold.
2. Used farm or construction equipment consigned to a dealer or auctioneer on or before lien date of January 1.
3. Animals used in the production of food or fiber.
4. Personal property held for sale or lease in the ordinary course of business on the lien date of Jan 1.
Supplies are properties used up in the normal operation of a business, but which are not intended for sale or lease.
Examples of supplies are as follows:
1. Stationery and office supplies.
2. Janitorial and lavatory supplies.
3. Fuels used in the normal operation of a business.
4. Chemicals and precious metals used to produce a chemical or physical reaction.
Who is required to file the Business Property Statement for leased equipment?
When must this Business Personal Property statement be returned?
When does the regular annual unsecured tax bill become delinquent?
How does the county assessor arrive at the taxable value for personal property?
Why must sales tax and freight and installation costs be included in the reported cost?
I am leasing equipment from a leasing company and see that the property tax on the lease equipment is taxable. Please explain why there is a tax on property tax?
Can the county assessor prorate assessments or taxes between the buyer and seller of taxable personal property?
Is software taxable?
What is an Important Assessment Notice?
If I sell my business before January 1 and still receive a Business Property Statement, what should I do?
What if I do not receive a business property statement or Notification of Value form for my business?
I sold my personal property (boat, aircraft, machinery, or equipment) after January 1. Shouldn't the new owner be required to pay the property tax?
No. Even though you may no longer own the property, you are still liable for the taxes because you owned it on the January 1 lien date. When taxable personal property is sold subsequent to the lien date, it is the duty of the seller to pay the taxes on the property for the ensuing fiscal year.
Why did I receive a business property statement (571-L)?
All businesses with an aggregate cost of assets of $100,000 or more or any business requested to file by the Assessor must file.(R&T Code 441) (Revenue Taxation Code, Section 441)
Who must file a 571-L?
Do I have to file this return, 571-L ?
Can I amend a filing after it is mailed?
Does the assessor prorate taxes between buyer and seller when a business is sold?
What if I don't agree with the taxable values?
Boat and Airplane Assessments
Are boats and aircraft subject to property tax?
When and where is a boat or airplane assessed for property taxes?
What if my boat or airplane is out of the county on January 1?
How are values determined for boats and airplanes?
How does the assessor's office locate boats?
How are airplanes located by the assessor's office?
If my boat or airplane is for sale and it is consigned to a broker will it be assessed for property taxes?
How does the Assessor Department locate boats and other watercraft?
If my boat is for sale and is consigned to a broker, will it be assessed for property taxes?
When and where are boats assessed for property taxes?
Are taxes prorated between the buyer and seller when a boat is sold?
Will I still be taxed if my boat or aircraft was sold before January 1?
I own two boats. Why did I receive one Vessel Property Statement for one and one Notice of Pending Assessment?
Are boats and aircraft held for rent eligible for the inventory exemption?
Are California registered vessels owned by California residents still assessable when located outside of California waters?
I purchased a boat from a private party and tried to register the boat with Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV). They said that I cannot register the boat because of tax problems with the boat. Who should I contact to correct the tax problems?
How are general aviation aircraft assessed?
If my airplane is for sale and is consigned to a broker, will it be assessed for property taxes?
Aircraft on consignment that is held in inventory for sale by a licensed dealer on January 1 qualifies for the business inventory exemption and, therefore, is not subject to property taxes.
When and where are aircraft assessed for property taxes?
Will I still be taxed if my aircraft was sold before January 1?
I own an aircraft of historical significance. How do I apply for the exemption?
The Historical Aircraft Exemption provides a property tax exemption for aircraft of historical significance. For property tax purposes, "Aircraft of Historical Significance" means any aircraft which is an original, restored, or a replica of a heavier than air powered aircraft which is 35 years or older; or any aircraft of a type or model of which there are fewer than five in number known to exist worldwide. The requirements for the exemption are in Revenue and Taxation Code section 220.5. To apply for the Historical Aircraft Exemption, BOE-260-B form, Claim for Exemption from Property Taxes of Aircraft of Historical Significance, must be filed each year with the county assessor. A listing of county assessors is available on SBOE website at www.boe.ca.gov/proptaxes/assessors.htm.