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Unanimously. Freddie Freeman got most of the second-place votes, so finishes second.
BBWAA.com: Official site of the Baseball Writers' Assn. of America..
Unanimously. Freddie Freeman got most of the second-place votes, so finishes second.
Good for him
No votes for Beachy. That's a shame.
Shame or sham?
How many places do they vote on? If it's just your top two, then I guess no votes for Beachy isn't too bad.
Glad that Kimbrel won unaminously, but also shocked that Darwin Barney and his sub.700 OPS and Kenley Jansen and his 53.2 innings got votes over Beachy.
Beachy didn't have the third best season amongst rookies either.
Congratulations Craig. And to Freddie as well.
Kimbrel choked the wild card at the end though. He sucks. Fire Wren for having a rookie in that situation.
(Just kidding!)
Just what we need: Jeff Francoeur minus defense.
They shouldn't be unless there's more to that package.
Pass on Delmon Young please. Not better than Prado and not cheaper.
Why do all the Prado rumors involve us getting absolute crap in return? Seth Smith would be relatively exciting compared to Delmon Young. Prado is pretty good, hopefully he isn't traded just for the sake of being traded.
We would be seelling low on Prado. We aren't going to get a ton for him.
From what I've read in random DOB tweets, it would be Smith plus another player, possibly an OF prospect.
Delmon Young is awful. Please no.
That's a very impressive list he joins of players to win the award unanimously. Every single one of those players became at least a very solid player for multiple years, and many were/are HOF caliber. Also note that he is the first pitcher of any kind on that list (not just relief), and also the first Brave.
The only reason to trade Prado would be if you think you can get someone comparable in the OF for a cheaper price tag. It kind of makes me wonder if the Braves are looking to land a free agent or trade for someone that costs a bit. Both would be interesting.
Why do all the Prado rumors involve us getting absolute crap in return?
Just repeating this out of shared frustration.
This is the 7th time in history that the #1 and #2 ROY finishers were on the same team:
Keep the Prado
Way to go, kid, and it looks like we have a 1B for awhile (no small thing in ATL).
1B, 2B, C locked down for awhile (along with very good pitching). Nice foundation. Need to finish strong.
RF is going to be just fine, too.
I am beginning the process of saying goodbye to Martin Prado. The writing is on the wall. Emotional barriers are in the planning stages, with construction set to begin on the next sunny morning.
DOB tweeting about Delmon Young making sense. Somebody shoot me.
I'm all for ditching Prado, but not simply for the sake of a trade.
Seth Smith?
Delmon Young?
Those cant be real, please say they are just speculation by writers without a shred of truth.
Delmon Young? What an awful joke.
I personally try to save my anger over trades until trades happen.
If they traded Prado for a bag of sand, DOB would hype it like we got Puljos in return.
Enrique Puljos is one mean sand-bagging machine. His minor league sand-bagging numbers off off the charts.
Why do all the Prado rumors involve us getting absolute crap in return?
Just repeating this out of shared frustration.
I'm with you. He's certainly my favorite player on this team.
Wren has earned enough equity with me for me to not believe these rumors.
Who cares about DOB's opinion? We only care about the news right?
I agree with Mac, there must be something they don't like about Prado if they really want to trade him away this bad. Otherwise, I can't think of a better candidate to replace Chipper at third base.
Keep the Prado indeed.
@38 I have been saying this since the Frency trade. In Wren I trust. In Fredi I don't trust.
Delmon Young isn't even as good of a hitter as Prado in Prado's worst year.
It's alright. If they're going to cancel one of the major 5 (NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, and Nascar), I'd rather it be the NBA or redneck racing.
When did the reports of Prado not taking the adjustment well come out? I thought it was reported that he was quite happy to help the team in any fashion after he was asked to move. Is this just reporters fueling the fire?
If I could "like" a post, AAR would get it. Spot on, my friend.
The sad thing is its fairly substantial for guys like Kobe, Steve Nash, and Ray Allen to lose a year. If Stern takes it to the mattresses, the NBA will break the players. The players association is deluding themselves by thinking otherwise.
@41 Turns out the NFL has the smartest people among four major sports. MLB has finally learned from its mistake. NHL did not learn from baseball's mistake. NBA is not learning either baseball or hockey.
If by "smartest people" you mean the "weakest player's union" I suppose. Not sure how baseball made a grand "mistake."
The strike was a pretty huge mistake
You nailed it. This has far more to do with leverage and the strength of the unions, not "intelligence." Now, I don't think the NBAPA has played this well–they should have decertified in July–but I'd be willing to bet that the NFL would have had a far longer lockout had the NFL players' union been stronger.
@48, by whom and why?
I trust that Wren will not make any of the ridiculous trades for Prado that have been rumored. I assume these silly trial balloons are floated either by other GMs or by media with nothing better to write. Prado may not be as good as he was in 2009-2010, but he is, at worst, a valuable utility player. Maybe they will trade him for Yunel Escobar.
Re NBA: I don't understand the negotiating strategy that says your offers get worse as time goes by. Obviously, the NBA is trying to intimidate the players, but it seems like a pretty dumb idea to alienate your "partners" even more. If the NBA owners are struggling financially, don't sign mediocre players to idiotic contracts. And it's pretty hypocritical for Stern to say the players should have decertified earlier; if they had, he would have said they weren't bargaining in good faith.
Really both sides made mistakes. There is no doubt the strike and missing the World Series was stupid.
It really hurt the game. It was a mistake. I think if you sat down all of the people involved they would say they wished they had done things diffrently.
They should have extened the CBA to the end of the season (they ended up starting the 1995 season under the old CBA anyways)The replacemnet player idea was stupid. Both sides negotiating in the media was stupid. So on and so on…
Playing the chaos game is scary indeed, but I'm hoping that somehow when the dust settles the Spirit Group will have escaped and taken Joe Johnson's contract with them.
@52, well, the owners goal was to get a salary cap, which they didn't, and lost the revenue from the season anyway. The players goal was to avoid one, and clearly it was worth a half-years pay to do so for most of them. The owners badly miscalculated regarding public sentiment and player solidarity and paid a heavy price (580M). I think the players would absolutely do it again, if similar circumstances arose.
/Judging from attendance, it doesn't appear that the game was particularly "hurt" by the strike, considering they were up 20% by '96.
can we all agree that the strike was probably good for the Braves?
@54 Yeah, I think fans sometimes conflate their own dissatisfaction with the strike with the players' aims. The players absolutely got what they wanted, and ultimately, baseball survived without too much pain. The league has been remarkably prosperous in aggregate over the past 15 years – something Selig likes to mention a lot.
The problem for the NBA players is that the economic fundamentals of their league are different, that the small market owners have much more leverage than did the MLB small market owners, and that the longer this goes on, the greater the chances are that (1) Stern loses complete control of his caucus, (2) and the league breaks the Union. Ultimately, the players cannot win a staring contest with the Cleveland/Atlanta/Phoenix/Milwaukee/etc. owners who have zero economic incentive to go back to the status quo, and every incentive to dramatically restructure the system. It may not be in Miami/Chicago/Los Angeles's interest to lose a season, but so long as the smaller market owners remain unified this thing will keep going–and the terms will keep getting worse for the players.
I read somewhere that certain owners would be willing to forfeit two seasons if that's what it took to break the NBPA. Frankly, at this point, the only thing that can save the players is an independent arbitrator.
I just wish the agents, er, Billy Hunter had let the players vote. Would have been interesting.
56, I would agree with that analysis (and you may well be completely correct), but I think the fact this is a lockout rather than a strike is going to make a difference in the outcome.
As mentioned above, the 1994 strike was a win for the MLBPA on virtually all counts, and hasn't had any notable knock-on effects for baseball in general. We lost a World Series, but the players maintained their rights to offer their services on a free market (after six years of indentured servitude) without having arbitrary "salary caps" imposed on their value.
The problem with the NFL and NBA is that the players' associations for those sports are weak.
NFL players have a shorter career so strikes are more expensive. The marginal players were replaced quickly. NFL spends little to develop players, unlike baseball. Makes a difference. Bunch of NBA teams were losing money. Strike only hurts a hand full of teams, all the players.
Jim Bowden declares a trade is in the works, Prado for Delmon Young… Luckily, Jim Bowden is a certifiable idiot. So he could be wrong.
A below average fielder and below average RH hitter that can hit lefties well is just what we need to compliment Matt Diaz.
He's worse and more expensive…but he was a number one pick once upon a time!
Hanley Ramirez Not Thrilled About Making Way For Jose Reyes
What about JJ+Prado for Hanley??
@61- I sure hope Bowden is wrong. That trade makes no sense at all.
What sucks more about the rumored trade is there arent hardly any prospects in the Tigers org that would make the deal worthwhile. Just sucks all around.
I think attendance numbers would be even higher had there not been a strike.
No chance Prado for Young happens. I have to much respect for Wren.
#66-Jacob Turner and Castellanos come to mind–though I doubt that we would either….
Maybe the plan is to then ship Young to the Royals…
I can't see us going after another potential SP or someone as low in the system as Castellanos.
Young for Prado striaght up makes [ChrisTraeger]litrally[\ChrisTraeger] no sense for Atlanta. The cost will be similar, there's no performance-based reason to prefer Young, and you lose positional flexibility. I don't get it.
#71–When we traded for Vizcaino he was quite low in the system. That said, we have Drury and I don't see the Tigers trading either….
@63–spot on. Plus, Prado is versatile and apparently well liked by teammates. He's also under team control for 2 years instead of 1 for Young.
Might as well include McCann for Avila.
Peanut says it ain't happening
Small minority of Wren's staff has unsuccessfully pushed for Young last 2 yrs. Didn't work. Nothing changed. Won't be a Prado-Young deal
And DOB, in a typical fashion, was for it before he was against it –
Prado for Young straight up makes no sense for #Braves, esp. w/ Young projected to make more than $6 mill in arb. (Prado about $4.5 mill)
9 minutes ago
What chutzpah.
Please fire this small minority immediately.
@77 That was exactly my reaction upon reading that tweet. Who are these people? And can we send them to the Phillies?
#77 – exactly. Who are these people and why do they ever get to express their opinions?
"Small Minority" for Whipping Boy? Can I get a second?
I second that.
#77 – hopefully already terminated. Dumbassness is a fireable offense.
I'm actually pleased to hear of this small minority. It gives me an entity to attach my disgust to when DOB or Bowman tell us that certain members of the organization think we should do things like try to get something back for Heyward while he still has value, or other such idiocy that I've read in the last 6 months. If there's a group of dumbasses that wants Delmon Young and Frank Wren isn't a member of it, then maybe none of the dumbass ideas attributed to the front office comes from Wren.
I wonder if the "Small Minority" is really Fredi, Sniker, and The Ghost of Lance Parrish
Oh no, puns! Anything but puns!
@84, Country "and" western?
Wren should blame any bad idea that comes out of the media on this unidentified small minority.
You know what makes the $10 million owed to Lowe next year look ok? The Dodgers owe $11.5 million to ManRam & Andruw.
In 2009 Delmon Young walked 12 times 416 plate appearances. That is enough to make Jeff Francouer blush. Is the small minority that wanted him the same group that brought us Melky Cabrera?
The Braves attendence was certainly hurt by the lockout at least in the short run. They were virtually selling out every game before the strike and attendence was significantly down afterward. They got a spike from moving to Turner Field but I don't think it has ever been the same since the lockout. I assume that the fan base in Atlanta is pretty anti-union/player. Toronto was drawing 4 million pre-lockout and it dropped off after that–some of that was due to the team's decline, but they were coming off consecutive WS titles. The lockout killed baseball in Montreal (granted, it had help from MLB and ownership)but it certainly helped the Braves because the Expos were a powerhouse and were pulling away before the lockout. I think work stoppages hurt all sports other than the NFL which is pretty much immune to anything short of finding that it was an Al Quaeda network and even then . . .
Wren said he wanted better AB's from top to bottom of the lineup next year. I doubt he thinks Young will help us achieve that goal. Id still like to keep Prado around and I dont think the $4 mil for him and his versatility is too much. I doubt the Braves would like the attitude difference moving from Prado to Young either.
John Jenkins out with a sprained ankle.
I think I see where this season is going.
Would the Reds do a Jurrjens and Prado for Jay Bruce trade?
"Hanley Ramirez Not Thrilled About Making Way For Jose Reyes"
The Braves already got Uggla for nothing from the Marlins. How about Ramirez for Prado and Chris Jones?
#93 – theres no chance
I think work stoppages hurt all sports other than the NFL which is pretty much immune to anything short of finding that it was an Al Quaeda network and even then . . .
I'd also include college football, although we have a great test case coming up with Penn State about how far that goes, the whole "don't get caught with dead girls or live boys" scenario coming literally true.
@92 – nah, Vandy will be a steamroller by the time Conference play rolls around and will just evicerate everybody.
Of course, by then the SEC will have had yet another embarrassing November / December and we'll get four teams in like usual.
If you all think I'm an SEC Football homer, you ain't seen nothing yet. Every year the SEC has AT LEAST six teams that should go. We get four. The Big Self-Fulfilling Prophecy gets ten. Aaargh!
I really think there are three good SEC teams this season. Florida, Vandy and Kentucky. Someone else will probably step up and sneak in the tournament.
#93 – Jurrjens, Prado, Minor, and Milligan for Bruce. I'd do that.
@99 – That makes the Tiexiera deal look good in comparison.
36 years old. Injured a lot last year. Trend lines are in the wrong direction. If he'd take a reasonable contract to platoon in LF I'd sign him.
You refer to Babaloo Tiexiera, who once traded an 1855 Sweden Three Skilling Banco, Yellow Color Error for three swigs of warm sarsaparilla?
@101- Agreed. He's from Georgia so there might be interest as well.
Possibly (but only possibly) an offspring. The Babaloo Tiexiera of whom I've heard tell helped settle the Dakota territory back when a Swedish skilling was the going rate for a swig of warm sarsaparilla.
Records are spotty, though. Not much left of the Old West..a few crumblin' buildings, dusty mementos, and legends…lots of legends…though not all of 'em square with the facts….
Quick poll. In 5 years, Craig Kimbrel will sign a contract worth ______ million over ______ years.
60/5, is my guess.
@103 – I think that was Danny Gans who also had a variety act in Vegas for years.
Are you factoring in the Tommy John surgery(ies)?
Based on the Pappelbon contract, assuming no major injuries, and assuming almost as good of production as this past year, 5 years at total of 100 million.
98—Bama should be really good, too.
Mississippi State and Arkansas are going to be really good on some nights.
A better outfielder than Young is not a very high bar.
Career OBP
Delmon Young .321
Jeff Francouer .314
Career OPS
Delmon Young .749
Jeff Francouer .746
The fact that some in the organization want Young is scary.
In 5 years, Craig Kimbrel will sign a contract worth way too many million over way too many years , hopefully with some other fool team.
This is quite possibly the worst sports article I've ever written, and I read a lot of Mark Bowman. My favorite part is when Shanks describes Jurrjens as "expandable."
I hate when sports writers are too lazy to proofread, but that's not the whole issue here. Bill Shanks writes at a 9th grade level.
I like Sam's JD Drew idea. Lowest cost, we keep prado, and if Prado or JD recovers form, you can live with the other one not.
I figured I could make an argument for Jason Bay and the Mets paying a lot of his salary. I honestly thought his dropoff was due to playing in NY. However, his away stats are absolutely brutal the past 2 years. He was solid before signing that contract.
If they trade Prado, I imagine it's to free up the salary to add a bigger bat, either in LF or SS. I would also imagine that, at the time of said hypothetical Prado deal, Wren would already have an idea of who he was getting.
@115 – Shanks is not good. His recent twitter tirade about doubting Heyward's desire to play baseball was just inane. There's a reason he's writing for a paper in the country's #122 ranked media market (well, tv anyway).
@119, I just found that article. He writes all of his articles like Facebook updates, typos and all. How does he have a job?
120—Shanks is much worse than Macon, the worst city in Georgia.
Hey, my ex-wife is from Macon! Oh, wait…..never mind. As you were saying….
I landed here about three years ago and I haven't read anything from Shanks since. Truthfully, I had forgotten about him.
Bill used to be alright to discuss things with in the internets. He hasn't improved his game as a professional writer, and that is a damning indictment I'm afraid.
Shanks used to be an okay source, when he had a monopoly on minor league info.
Seems like he lost sight of his competitive advantage. He would have real in depth info on our top 100+ minor leaguers. Now you can get better info than Shanks provides for free on Talking Chop.
Chino Cadahia.
Boy, the more I think about it Hanley for young pitching would really be a win-win for both teams – shame we have the one manager who makes it an impossibility.
Hanley for pitching prospects, fire Fredi, give TP a shot at managing.
Anyone notice that Fredi finished 5th in Manager of the Year voting?
I have in laws Macon. It may be the worst city in America
@122 – Albany eats Macon's lunch in a worst cities in GA contest. What a terrible place.
Albany claims to be the Good Life city. I never saw that side of town.
Anybody on here from the south eastern part of GA? My family is from St. Mary's, but don't know a whole lot about it.
Maybe something, most likely nothing
•Braves GM Frank Wren and agent Adam Katz are now meeting in Milwaukee, tweets MLBTR's Ben Nicholson-Smith. Katz represents Cuban outfielder Yoenis Cespedes.
Different update –
•The Rockies don't feel as though they have to give up a center fielder to get Martin Prado from the Braves in a trade, so there is still hope for a deal, Renck tweets.
Assuming you could sign him for a Chapman like contract (6/30) and were comfortable with his age and scouting reports, he would be a good candidate for the Braves
Unless he has any awareness of the Braves' relationship with Yunel Escobar.
Just rip that scab right off, why don't you?
Hey, um. I live in Macon. It's not that bad, y'all.
115: "This is quite possibly the worst sports article I've ever written, and I read a lot of Mark Bowman."
You mean "read" not "written", n'est-ce pas?
139—Well…our manager is now Cuban. Maybe we've finally found an advantage he has over Bobby?
@115 – "This is quite possibly the worst sports article I've ever written"
So are you admitting to us that you're Bill Shanks? Ouch!
"Unless he has any awareness of the Braves' relationship with Yunel Escobar."
Hope he doesn't like to try and come home on a sacrifice fly in a blowout, jump up and down in the on-deck circle, draw images in the dirt with his bat and/or flip his bat after a hit; otherwise he's outta here for scrap pieces.
Anybody on here from the south eastern part of GA? My family is from St. Mary's, but don't know a whole lot about it.
What would you like to know, sir?
No city in GA is as bad as Wilmington, DE. None.
Hey! Tallahassee has its virtues, particularly if you're a nature lover. It has some cool neighborhoods too.
Panama City, however, is a pitstain of a town.
I'm from St. Simons, though I moved to Missouri years ago and now get back there once or twice a year.
Greetings from Seal Beach, CA (home of Mark McGwire)…
Re: Crap Town Sweepstakes
I'll guess that few of you have been to Moultrie, Ga. (home of Ray Goff)
@147 we were stunned at what a hole Panama City is. Especially for a tourist town.
Lima OH. The inflamed Boil on The buttocks of Ohio. Borrowed from a MASH episode.
7 or 8 teams are in on Grady Sizemore…wonder if we're in that group?
#115: "This is quite possibly the worst sports article I've ever written"
RobBroad4th is Shanks?
Redneck Riviera, baby…
#151 – Id say probably not
Moultrie is home to Jimmy Bryant, the finest picker to ever hold a telecaster, and a really pretty Victorian jail. Inside could use a bit of work though
Moultrie is way down the list of South GA's problems for sure. Sparta and Wadley might both be below the minimum size limit for worst GA town consideration, but they're deserving anyway.
If it's Southeastern Georgia you're looking for, I can do you some Southeastern Georgia. I can tell you pretty much every track between the Okefenokee and the Moody Swamp in my sleep.
The low-down is that there is one city in the state – Atlanta. There are then various minor city-like entities – Rome, Macon, Albany, Valdosta, Brunswick. Then there's Savannah, which is a vibe all it's own.
The southeastern quadrant – the Coastal Plains as they say – are dominated by Savannah as far as "cities" go. The Golden Isles are nice, but people usually go north the the pretty sands of the Carolinas or south to Florida for beaches. St. Mary's isn't a city so much as a largish town. If you're not from there – with living memory of being there – there's little reason to go there.
The basic culture from Macon to Orlando is the same. I call it Florigia. It's best to break the two states into four cultural centers – Atlanta, Florigia, Mouseville and Miami.
I love Athens, always will.
I always forget about Athens. And Augusta is actually part of South Carolina in my head.
At a blackjack table in a Biloxi casino a few years ago I sat with a couple of Moultrie fellows. They asked where I was from, and when I replied "Atlanta" they smirked and one of them said, "Atlanta…is that in Georgia?"
@158 – Athens. I've spent a good amount of time there over the past 5 years or so and the one thing I can say is that it feels like the place I should be from. Whatever that means…
I love Athens, too, but the booze et al culture there would have seriously damaged me had I stayed much longer. Having it at arm's length is the way to go.
Running joke with my buddies is Sparta would be the easiest town to take over in the state. If you're in South Georgia do yourself a favor and pick up a Peach Magazine. It is the most hilariously terrible magazine ever made.
@140 & 152, Oh sweet irony…yeah, that's a little embarrassing.
@Panama City
Destin's not much better. I live in the middle of the 2 in a glorious area called 30A. Truly unique.
Sam, good division of FL and Ga. but you miss the beauty of the area down highway 19 if you don't detour East a bit. While attending U of FL my buddies and I would wander over to the beaches (Clearwater, ST Pete, Down to Ft Myers, Naples, boca grande, always stopping off 8at Sarasota (where I life guarded at
Lido Beach one Summer.) Farther North
is Homasassa Springs, crystal River and beautiful fish and wildlife preserves. I just prefer the west coast of FL with its white sands and clear water compared to the East Coast. Ga and Fl are truly 2 great states to travel.
Gotta disagree. Panama City and Destin are like night and day. Panama City is like a run down trailer park.
The first time ever I heard the Braves are promoting Murphy's HOF case. This is long overdue…
The Astros are moving to AL West in 2013. That's awesome. Can't wait to have the Braves NOT playing at that stupid ballpark again.
Destin has become nothing but a tourist trap (outlet malls, chain restaurants, mass-produced food, go-karts, putt-putt) and is very much becoming what Panama City was 30 years ago. Give it time, csg.
Just wanted to get people's take on the area. Never heard anybody on here talk about that part of GA. Just curious. Use to go all the time when my grandmother lived there, but havent stayed in years. I know it really changed when the naval base came.
I just prefer the west coast of FL with its white sands and clear water compared to the East Coast. Ga and Fl are truly 2 great states to travel.
We vacation in Ponte Vedra every year. I love travelling *thru* Florigia, including the waters of the St. Mary's River and the Okefenokee. And if you've never been to Moody's Swamp, you're missing one of the last great natural conservancies in the state. (Moody's is the last natural long leaf pine forest left down that way, if you're into the nature thing. Don't go at dusk or dawn because the wild hogs *will* consider you an option for dining if you're not careful.)
With that said, every time I go down that way to visit family who still live in those swamps… Gah.
168 — I support the candidacy of my childhood hero as well. Wonder why the organization is writing a letter this time around. Have they not in the past? What has prompted this one? Curious.
@170 – A guy I work with tells a story about going to Panama City in the 80s and stopping by a place called the "Snakeatorium" or something like that. He says they had a bear in a cage next to which was a soda can machine and running into which was a PVC pipe, so visitors were supposed to buy a can of Orange Crush for a quarter and then pour it down the pipe for the no-doubt-hyperglycemic bear to drink. Was this a real place? I want to call BS on him, but it seems kind of plausible for Panama City.
That's awful…and yet, strangely, I want it to be true……
I've got my bear, I've got my Orange Crush.
There is nothing from Panama City in the 1980s that I would not believe happened. A caged bear with an Orange Crush is how we beat the Ruskies.
The weird thing about Florida is that north of Orlando, it's the deep South and south is a mix of Havana and NYC–at least that's Miami where I lived. Finding natives in south Florida–there must have been some but I never met any.
@179 – That's what I mean by Florigia. Native Floridians, as opposed to Miamians or those sad shells of former human beings that live in the wastelands of Kingdom of the Evil Mouselords, are near impossible to find south of Orlando. Maybe a few pockets on the southwest coasts going toward the keys, but they're dying out too.
Miami is Miami. Up the Atlantic coast from Miami it's all snowbirds all the time until you get past Boca, at the very least. Hell, Daytona is about half snow-bird and half NASCAR at this point.
I relatively agree with your viewpoint, but there are many places in Northern Florida that have a rich, thriving, diversified population where people aren't constricted in their viewpoints. I live in one where conservation and preservation of nature is of the utmost priority and individually owned businesses thrive. Most of these little nooks are beach towns.
DOB with a hunch that, due to Wren's dead silence, something is in the works. I can't tell if he's leaking info or if this is a sincere "hunch".
@179, I'm one. Child of NY/PR transplants. We say that South Florida is so far south it's north again.
Native Floridian here. From Fort Myers.
East coast Florida and West coast are pretty different animals.
You can take the east coast, from West Palm Beach south, under the Everglades and back up the west coast through Naples, and Bonita Springs for that matter, and call that "Miami."
After Bonita Springs, going back north, you've got various shades of Tampa until you hit actual Tampa.
If ever you go more than 60 or so miles inward from the shore, you're in the South.
Speaking of South Florida: Reyes AND Pujols? They're kidding, right?
Just what we need. Hell, it will be worse than the American League East.
@182, this is the same guy who on consecutive days said Delmon Young "makes sense", "makes some sense" and "makes no sense" for the Braves. I don't find him terribly useful as a source of tea leaves any more.
Hey, who remembers that "female" athletic director from high school every body was always raising eyebrows about?
Worst Town – Fayetteville, NC. What do I win?
@188 – Never been to Fayetteville, but if it's anything like Rocky Mount, NC then it must really suck.
Holly Hill, SC is a town I drove through (in my air-conditionless car) exactly once on a 105deg Sunday in '07 when the Braves were playing the Rockies and we got one of the seven innings of Octavio Dotel that Kyle Davies turned into. Dotel blew the save in a game started by both Chuck James and Corky Miller (ugh) right before my radio reception went out. Frenchy scored the winning run in the bottom of the 10th, but I didn't hear it. I vowed never to return. That had to be the worst place in the country. South SC is everything bad about south GA but poorer, more remote, hotter (at least that day) and just generally more terrible all around.
Most of SC, but particularly the southern half of it, is the same culture as southern GA and northern FL. This map is a little out of date, I suspect, but it's a good starting point. Appalachia actually runs further up into "Yankee" than suggested here, I'd argue, and Miami has claimed a larger slice of south FL at this point. But it's a good start.
Re the Hanley Ramirez thoughts: Wasn't one of the main reasons that Fredi was let go by Florida that he could not get along with the team's best player–Hanley Ramirez? So, quash those hopes.
Best towns in the south-
Chattanooga, TN
Nahsville, TN
Athens, GA
Ackworth, GA
Whoever threw Sparta, GA, into the ring for worst city in GA gets a second from me. I did some campaigning there for my congressman a few years back. Desperate. Drive through there all the time between Macon and Augusta. Just a sad little town. It's the only city of any size in Hancock County, which I think is the poorest county in all of Georgia.
I'm a native Floridian, fourth generation of settlers that moved from the panhandle around Blountstown down to Indian River County in the late 1890s. Pretty much agree with jjschiller's assessment of Florida in 184. Florida's done a lot of changing since air conditioning and mosquito control was invented. Founded on commercial fishing, ranching, agriculture and more mining than anybody would ever guess, it's now all about tourism and accommodating Yankees who want to stave off death a few years longer than if they stayed where they're from.
Cordele, GA is pretty grubby as well. First thing you run into once you get off I-75 is housing projects on the right and a cemetery on the left. Then it's a couple miles into town and a maze of decrepit railroad tracks. Shirtsleeves appeared to be prohibited the last time I was there.
Playoffs expanded in 2012: Two WC teams per division. Wild Card teams will face off in a "ONE GAME SUDDEN DEATH!!!!" match to face division winners. Interesting….
I do like one thing about this system. It makes winning the division much more meaningful.
Having grown up in Gainesville and gone to school in Sarasota, I'd say jjschiller's assessment is spot on. Tampa Tampa down through Sarasota down't really fit into the "Florgia" or "Miami" cateogry very well. And of course, Gainesville is quite its own thing. You can't really conflate it with Bronson, Archer, and the like that surround it.
The really great experiences in that area between Jacksonville, Tampa, and Orlando are the springs and rivers. So many great places to cool off during the summer! I'd recommend an innertube ride on the Ichetucknee to anyone.
sansho1 at 194,
I resent that. Our railroad tracks are not decrepit. We have ICC approved speed limits approaching 65 mph through town. This is one of the most important rail junctions in the southeast (seriously). You can't move a train from Jacksonville (or points south in FL) to Atlanta (and most places in the midwest beyond) without sending it through Cordele. NS runs 20 trains a day and CSX 45 a day and the local line 1 or 2 a day with daily trips to and from the Port of Savannah starting next week.
As to the rest, you may have a point.
I also nominate Athens (on the good list). But, since I bleed black with my red, I am probably biased.
I kind of like it. The sudden death games tend to be pretty exciting, and it would add some energy to the earlier rounds.
Figures I'd pick the place somebody likes. No offense meant.
Bad list of Southern cities
Dahlgren, VA (some may not officially consider this Southern, but it's bad)
Good list
Louisville, KY
Charlotte, NC
I like that it makes the WC more of a true crap shoot. Win your division or flip a coin to see if you get in. That's not optimal, but it's better than today.
Greenville, SC has a nice little downtown.
Pearl, MS is nice in spots.
Eufala, AL may be the worst place on the planet, counting war zones.
Somebody never went to a Costee Mcnair Dynamic O-ffair.
Brewton, AL.
I agree that Eufala is bad unless you're a bass fisherman, then it's great.
I remember going to a restaurant between Evergreen and Brewton. I knew we shouldn't be there when the waitresses started fighting and one threw a wet dish towel at the other.
Memphis or anywhere else in Mississippi.
Out of curiosity, what's so great about Acworth?
My nomination for worst place is Anniston, AL. I'm pretty sure I'm the only person in the last 20 years who's not just gotten off at the freeway exit, but actually gone into town. Had I not known differently, I'd have thought a bomb had gone off or some weather calamity had occurred.
'South SC is everything bad about south GA but poorer, more remote, hotter (at least that day) and just generally more terrible all around.'
I agree but you have to leave out the pockets of Charleston, Myrtle Beach, Hilton Head and Beaufort.
Chattanooga, TN ?
Best city in the South, Charleston SC.
When I was growing up in Chattanooga, I would have burst out laughing if someone had said it was one of the best of anything other than pollution and boredom. But I am amazed at what has happened to Chattanooga in the last 10-15 years. The only bad thing is they exchanged Engel Stadium for that boilerplate park on the hill (which seems exactly like the park in Wilmington, DE that we pass on the way to Philadelphia).
My remarks about Florida weren't mean to be pejorative, just a statement of fact. I think I knew one person who was a native Miamian when I lived there. At times, you could easily feel that you weren't in the United States. But there sure were a lot of gorgeous women.
Amazing transformation in Chattanooga. Used to be an armpit, now is one of the best kept secrets in the South.
I'd rather they did the best of three for the WC, but I guess this will do.
Are they expanding interleague play? I thought I heard rumors to that effect.
I like Panama City Beach (own a townhouse there) but then again I also like Tim Dorsey novels so maybe I just dig the weirdness of Fla. PCB is *trying* to revitalize itself but I fear they are trying to become another Destin (ewww). The St. Andrews area of Panama City is nice and if you know where to look there is some good stuff from way back before it became "tourist-y".
Engel Stadium was great. When I was in college, UTC would let studen't go play games there. It was fun.
And I have to agree with Stu (doesn't happen very often, so I figure I should point it out when it does). In the largest-city-in-the-state division of the worst southern city discussion, Memphis and Jackson absolutely take the cake. Rendezvous rib joint is the only thing that saves Memphis and gives Jackson the "award".
As far as best southern cities go, I'll recuse myself from an Atlanta discussion. Having lived here my whole life, I can't really be unbiased about it, though I obviously think it belongs on the best list. Outside of that, Charleston, Savannah, Nashville and Charlotte are my favorites. Honorable mention goes to Little Rock, which I found to be surprisingly nice, especially along the riverwalk area. It doesn't make the list because the city gets a bit overshadowed by the fact that you're in Arkansas. But if you must be in Arkansas, Little Rock is quite nice.
Memphis has some pretty damn good fried chicken too.
Little Rock was surprisingly nice when I went last year, but it's just so ungodly far from anywhere other than Memphis. We drove south from there down to Vicksburg and went through a place in northern LA called Lake Providence, which is one of those unfortunate towns that competes with Kiryas Joel, NY for poorest in America. That was one sad place.
Greenville, SC is the nicest city in the South. Everyone I've ever met who knew it loved it. 4 hour drive to the beach, 30 minute drive to the mountains, 2.5 hour drive to Braves games. Perfect.
I was wondering how long it would take for this conversation to turn against Mississippi.
From the 'Just As Bad as Fayetteville' Department:
Durham, NC
Little Rock and Fayetteville, AR are cool towns.
I love Memphis. There is a lot to do there and some really good food and music. They have one of the best zoos in America. Mud Island, Sun Records and Grace Land are all must see places.
Sure, if you go the wrong way, you might die. That just kind of adds to the excitment.
Good discussion today.
Oxford, MS
Bardstown, KY
Greenville, SC
Carrboro, NC
I hate Houston with such passion. I shudder anytime I travel there for work.
Ashville, NC is a great town too.
I don't really know anything about Biloxi other than the casinos, but I had a hell of a time there for Spring Break 2010 so I'll throw that into the good pile.
I live in Raleigh, and while there are certainly places in Durham you'd rather avoid, they've also got some really cool places. In particuarly, the area around the new Bulls' ballpark is nice. They took some old tobacco warehouses/cigarette manufacturing buildings and turned them into restaurants and bars. It's a cool little place, immediately adjacent to the big performing arts center and the ballpark. Occasionally they have free music on a lawn there. All in all, a great place to spend an evening.
ETA: Asheville is also very nice. Great beer in that area. (And RDU, too, as it happens.)
I'd like to visit Eufala just to see Shorter Mansion. I'd be curious to know what it was like back when the Shorter family had some sort of prestige and influence. heh heh. For generations we've been a long line of varying degrees of redneckery.
Case in point… I grew up in Lynchburg, VA.
Though part of me would like to get back that way or to an even smaller town.
LOL @ DOB thinking that Wren's on to something. Its the offseason and we have 37 players on our 40 man roster. He better be working on something.
I'm in Boston(!) for a job interview, to turn the focus on a supposedly cool nothern city.
Sickels has his Tampa Bay rankings up. Stu weeps:
6) Mikie Mahtook, OF, Grade B: Good career start in the Arizona Fall League but everyone hits there. Grade could go higher once he faces better pitching. Strong across-the-board tools and really blossomed as a hitter the last two seasons at LSU. Still can't believe he lasted to the end of the first round.
Sansho1 at 199,
No offense taken. We have issues.
But, decrepit railroad tracks aren't one of them.
Memphis was ok when I went to college there in the 70s but going to the Rendezvous was an adventure back then. You sort of took your life in your hands to go there back then but it was worth it. (I understand the neighborhood is much better now.) A few months ago I connected on Facebook with a friend from college that I had not spoken to since college and the first thing he said to me was "Rendezvous ribs."
@226 – I was in Pepperell, MA last week, about an hour from Boston. I had no idea how pretty the area was, even well after peak leaf season. Topographically, it reminded me of northeast Alabama but obviously much more dense and the residents seemed somewhat well educated and fully toothed. I could definitely live there if not for the winters.
Good luck with the interview.
If anyone comes through Macon on a weekday, I'll take you to any number of great meat and threes.
Oh, and bad cities in the South, Franklin VA:
It doesn't matter if you have the most awesome city in the world, if you have local police running speed traps you can go to hell. And that means you, Franklin, VA. I really needed that $200 you sucked out of my wallet a few years back.
Great thread.
@231, I was just saying to my wife, sharing the tread, that soul food is the one thing about Macon that definitely does not suck.
@207, I have family in Anniston. It has been an absolute hellhole for as long as I can remember. Even "The World's Largest Chair" is just shitty. The old Korean place out by the base is still one of the saddest restaurant experiences I have ever had. And hey, while we're in that part of the state, Gadsden and Attalla ("Birthplace of Alabama Power") both deserve dishonorable mentions.
@233 – Anniston and Gadsden are sad, sad places, no doubt, but the scenery in those parts is redeeming. SR 9 from Piedmont to Heflin is one of the best roads I've ever driven. The southernmost ridges of the Appalachians meeting the coastal plain offers a lot of flat drives through river valleys with mountains on either side, or conversely, really good views out across the plain from not really very high mountains. Proximity to these places has made the rural west GA experience bearable for the last couple of years. That said, I'd never want to actually live in them.
I agree with Sam that the new wild card system places more of a premium on winning the division. But it makes an already unfair system even more unfair, especially given the disparity in interleague schedules. If you are in a weak division, you can win 85 games and get in, no questions asked. If you are in a strong division, you can win 92 games (or more), not win the division and then get eliminated in crap shoot by an 82 win team. Or, alternatively, an 85 win team wins a divison and two 90+ win teams have to play to get in. Of course that can happen today.
I really don't have a problem with wild cards as long as you have this division set up that almost guarantees weak division champions–who, of course, may get hot and win the World Series. I would rather see two large divisions, which would at least make it less likely for crummy teams to win divisions.
@235, you are so right. It is beautiful country. I live on one of those southernmost ridges (next to the highest point in Greene County, GA, whoo) and it reminds me a lot of that part of Alabama. Just gorgeous, unless you live there. Sparta is in the next county over and yeah, whew, there's a lot of abject poverty out here. Almost third world, at times.
@236 et al, it just seems odd that the new way to improve the "fairness" of the playoff system involves bringing in an even worse team into the mix.
GA Hwy 1 northbound between Bremen and Buchanan opens up into one of the most unexpectedly gorgeous views I've ever seen. It really is beautiful country.
A doctor client of mine, from Mississippi, and a current Pensacola resident, told me, "In Florida anything south of Orlando is terrible…and Orlando ain't worth a damn either."
I have more of a problem with crappy division winners getting into the playoffs than I do with a potentially excellent wild card team making it. But then, I think divisions are stupid on the whole. I suppose my argument really derives from that belief.
Who's the one joker that gave a first place vote to Ian Kennedy in the NL Cy Young voting?
CBA done! Announcement Monday according to Ken Rosenthal via twitter.
You look at the Dodgers and you see they have the best pitcher and possibly the best overall player in the league. Yet, there ended up near .500. This shows baseball is a team game at the end of the day. Deep roster is critical to a team's success…at least for the regular season.
Would you be ok with baseball embracing a status of "richest, most successful niche sport"?
I'm beginning to think that any efforts to be "more like football" will ultimately prove counterproductive.
@245 That's what I have been reading. More and more people are saying that it's stupid for baseball or Selig to try comparing itself to football.
The world's largest chair is actually why I got dragged past fast food row and into town. I don't know when they took that picture, but it doesn't come anywhere near accurately representing the amount of rust and bird crap on that thing.
So my Sports Illustrated arrived today, and L. Jon Wertheim, David Epstein, Jack McCallum, Tom Verducci, and Terry McDonnell all check in with something to say about Penn State, and their coverage is up to SI's lofty standards. Joe Posnanski, the reporter already on the ground, does not check in. He has nothing to file?
John Fox deserves to be in the Pro Football HOF already.
I'm planning a honeymoon along the Blue Ridge Parkway next year.
Appreciate any suggestions in that beautiful area, even about which season.
@251 – Fall trips up the Parkway can involve stop-and-go traffic. Spring is a good value time to do it – you get the superior vibrant colors of emerging life instead of the orangish and reddish browns of death and decay, and leaf-viewers aren't clogging up the road.
I agree with Pete. Spring and summer have much less traffic. I used to live in Harrisonburg, VA and have spent a lot of time on the Parkway. I highly recommend it.
If you really want to ride the length of the Parkway, I agree that a Fall trip would be an annoyance (for traffic reasons).
For luxury near the trail, I doubt you can beat Grove Park Inn on the northern outskirts of Asheville. For out of the way spots, my knowledge is more south of Asheville.
Except, the scenic beauty is as spectacular where Interstate 77 leaves Virginia to North Carolina as many of the more celebrated scenic routes. If you get a non foggy day, you can see the plain past Winston Salem and Pilot Mountain looks like a pimple on the face of the earth (in a good way, though that sounds impossible).
There is a reason people go in the fall. But it is beautiful anytime you go
Heading over to Orange-land tomorrow for the Vandy-UT game. First time to go to Neyland Stadium. Anybody have any good suggestions for parking, or where we might find some other Vandy fans tailgating?
257 – The other two Vandy fans will be in Nashville studying.
257—I think a bunch of VU fans — I can't make it, unfortunately — are gathering at the Goal Post Tavern around 1 and then moving on to various other activities, including tailgating, after some drinks.
A VU alum owns The Grill at Highlands Row, too, and I know he'll give you some deals if you're wearing VU gear.
258—Butthurt. 38-8.
Well, the identity of one of the moronic Small Minority in the Braves' front office has come to light.
"Back in 2009, Fregosi was in the Metrodome on a scouting mission. It was midsummer of Delmon Young's second season with the Twins. The outfielder was such a disappointment that he was in the lineup only part time.
I was giving Fregosi a negative review of Delmon — particularly the manner in which he was getting tied up with his swing as he tried to inside-out pitches to right field.
"I'd take him," Fregosi said. "He hits more 400-foot home runs foul to right field than any righthanded hitter in history. He's strong. He has bat speed. Delmon will figure it out."
I reminded Fregosi of that conversation last week.
"I give the Twins a lot of credit on Delmon," Fregosi said. "After that first season he had for them, there are clubs that would've moved him. The Twins hung with him. Worked out OK for them, I'd say."
And it took real baseball men — not dweebs married to OPS and other phony numbers — to read the bat speed and understand Young was worth the wait.
If 400 foot foul balls were so important, why aren't they on the scoreboard?!?
I wonder what weeping and gnashing of teeth went on among the Small Minority when Wren shipped Frenchy out in '09. That must've been quite a blow.
I will be there too. My brother goes to Vandy and is pumped. I feel better about it now that it looks like Bray is going to play.
You should head down to the Old City to pre game. Lots of cool places to eat.
Dweebs married to OPS?? Yikes! No wonder we give people like Francouer such a long leash. Its probably why we end up with bench players like Todd Pratt, Corky Miller, Chris Woodward, Jack Wilson, and starters like Melky Cabrera.
260 is downright horrifying.
Fregosi didn't say "dweebs married to OPS." The writer did.
No dweebs are married to OPS.
For dweebs, OPS is more like a rebound relationship after they break up with avg/hr/rbi.
@266 – True, but Fregosi did think more highly of Delmon than the writer who said that, which is much scarier to me.
That writer is really bad at writing, arguing, thinking.
Swisher may be on the market. Would JJ and B prospect get it done?
If Swisher is really on the market then I imagine it would be for pitching. Jurrjens is probably about as good a starter as there is on the trade market. So I would like our chances.
Why would you throw in a B prospect in that deal?
With his injuries it might bring his value down a lot. I don't think JJ alone gets it done
Well, he is a FA after this season.
If JJ doesn't get one year of Nick Swisher you just keep JJ. Swisher would be a good OF option, no doubt. That's a lot of years of a upper tier starter for one year of a mid-tier hitter.
JJ should get you Swisher and a prospect, IMO
Yeah, I'm still alive. Thought I'd come back to lurk again. I'm not really quite sure why I left.
per mlbtr
Brian McCann was set to earn $8.5MM next season but "maxed out" his contract incentives related to Silver Slugger awards and All-Star appearances, so the star catcher will earn a total of $11.5MM in 2012. O'Brien said the Braves haven't discussed a long-term extension with McCann but the team usually doesn't pursue such negotiations until later in the winter. McCann is under contract through next year and the Braves have a $12MM club option on McCann for 2013 that looks like a lock to be exercised.
This is the #2 team in the country?
Iowa States losses
37-14 vs Texas
49-26 vs Baylor
52-17 vs Missouri
33-17 vs A&M
lol @ the 28pt favorite OSU
Herbstreit said today that he asked Gundy what they were worried about before this game. Gundy's response…"Nothing"
Well, that makes the Alabama-LSU rematch that much more likely.
As much as I would love a Bama-LSU title game, why does Alabama (or Oregon, for that matter) deserve another shot with LSU? They both had their opportunities to beat the #1 team; give it to a one-loss squad that hasn't had the chance yet.
Let's say Alabama or Oregon play the Tigers in the championship game and LSU loses. What does that prove? To me, going 1-1 against a team in a season shouldn't mean that you're conclusively better than the other team.
If Houston wins out, they should get the opportunity, in my opinion.
Being Overly Reductive Is Fun: Did Jadeavon Clowney's sack/forced fumble of Aaron Murray cost UGA a shot at the national championship?
No way ever to know who the best team is. It's 12 games. 12. Maybe Oregon had a bad day against LSU, or OSU, in the wake of a recent tragedy, wasn't right when they played Iowa State. Trying to draw conclusions from these singular events is impossible, no matter how many computer algorithms we employ. In the end, it's all just a bunch of partisans utilizing tortured logic that they've dressed up as reason.


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On his first day at the MGH Charlestown HealthCare Center, in 1968, Dr. Roger Sweet got a phone call.
"Where are you?" the voice on the other end demanded.
"Who is this?"
"I'm the nurse at the high school. You're supposed to be doing physicals."
Sweet headed to the high school, where he found 40 kids waiting. He had an hour, the nurse told him.
"I was trained to do one physical in an hour," said Sweet, a founding physician at the center, former assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, and head of MGH Health Care Centers until his retirement in 1993.
The story provides a picture of the unmet needs in the neighborhood when MGH Charlestown opened, part of the first wave of community health centers that spread across the nation in the late 1960s.
"The community health center movement was not just about health, it was about poverty," said Jean Bernhardt, the center's current administrative director. "I think health centers have done a great job. They brought health care to a vulnerable community that didn't have it. … We've been part of that."
The movement got its local start in Dorchester in 1965, when what is now the Geiger-Gibson Community Health Center opened its doors. Today there are 1,400 community health organizations nationwide, serving more than 28 million patients at 11,000 sites. Thirteen million of those patients are poor.
The movement came as President Lyndon Johnson waged his War on Poverty, which included support for the poor and elderly through passage of Medicaid and Medicare in 1965.
MGH's first community health center initially focused on youth and school health, but soon opened its doors to all of Charlestown, according to James Morrill, the center's medical director. Neighborhood partners, including the nonprofits ABCD and the John F. Kennedy Family Service Center, have been key allies along the way, Bernhardt said.
As Charlestown HealthCare marked its 50th anniversary with an open house this fall, officials noted the decades-long persistence of problems such as hunger and homelessness. But back in 1968, just a third of local children received basic immunizations, compared with near-universal coverage today. Another, less-welcome shift has been in the rise of chronic lifestyle-related illnesses such as diabetes and high blood pressure, reflecting nationwide patterns. And while substance-use disorder isn't new, the dimensions of today's opioid crisis dwarf those of the past, Bernhardt and Morrill said.
The community has changed as well, said Morrill, an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. Gentrification has attracted wealthier residents, widening income inequality and altering the makeup of the center's 10,000 patients.
"It makes it complex, but the mission remains," Morrill said. "The poverty is still there."
Listening comes first
Joan Quinlan, MGH's vice president for community health, said that neighborhood centers have always provided important lessons on care. One example: If you want to know a community's health priorities, ask the community.
Speaking at the open house, Quinlan recalled a community meeting at Charlestown HealthCare more than two decades ago, not long after she started at MGH. The session kicked off with a data-driven presentation explaining that heart disease was the community's most pressing health challenge.
"The community listened politely, the doctor sat down, and then they went on to discuss how drugs and alcohol were tearing at the fabric of life in the community," said Quinlan. "You've taught us that delivering high-quality clinical care is critical, but that we have to listen to the community and address the community's concerns about all the things that affect health."

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At the end of the 2016/17 season, the football programme in DCU is undoubtedly on an upward trend. The freshers' team brought home the Harding Cup for the first time in the university's history, while the senior team were semi-finalists in the CUFL Premier Division and Collingwood Cup with an 8-0 victory on the way. In an interview with The College View in March, senior manager Declan Roche described the club's achievements this season as 'magnificent'.
The league season started for the senior team with a 2-1 victory at Oriel Park over Dundalk Institute of Technology. A brace from DCU's ever-reliable striker Alan O'Sullivan on either side of half-time was enough to take the three points back down the M1.
This was despite DKIT spending much of the second half on the front foot. Ciarán Cluskey-Kelly levelled the scores just before the interval and the County Louth side's direct style of play caused some problems for the visitors. The Dubliners' back four dealt well with the pressure, though, and O'Sullivan's goal just ten minutes after the restart was the only cushion DCU required.
The Northsiders couldn't replicate this disciplined performance a week later when they welcomed Maynooth University to St. Clare's. They improved their own tally in the goals scored column, netting three times, but conceded six in a game that coach Pat Cregg said "was over at half time".
Goals conceded were a persisting problem for DCU all season. In the Premier Division quarter-final in February, DCU and IT Carlow shared seven goals between them, but this time DCU found themselves on the right end of a high-scoring thriller. They claimed a 4-3 victory to take into the semi-final against University College Cork, which they lost 1-0.
Roche insisted fatigue was a major factor in the narrow defeat.
"It was a very hard game for us," he claimed.
"We had won the Harding Cup the previous Sunday and nine of those players had to be involved in the semi-final of the Premier League on Wednesday."
The manager took the opportunity to praise his players though, suggesting that a one-goal defeat against the eventual Collingwood Cup winners was nothing to be ashamed of, especially three days after a 120-minute cup final.
"We faced a very good Cork side and it was unfortunate that we couldn't progress to the final.
"We're very proud of the players, though. We've had a tremendous season so far and to make it to the semi-final was a magnificent achievement.
Three days earlier, Roche took DCU's freshers' football team into the Harding Cup final for the first time ever, when they also faced UCC.
The conditions, which bordered on unplayable, spoiled the game as a contest and neutralised DCU's usually potent attack. 90 minutes couldn't separate the sides, but the Dubliners' quality shone through in the extra half-hour.
Young striker Jack O'Connor gave his side the lead in the opening stages of extra-time, only for the Leesiders to equalise before the teams switched ends. As penalties loomed, centre-half Conor McKenna put his team back in the lead and it remained as such for the few seconds that remained.
There was no break in Glasnevin, however. Declan Roche and his charges headed for Maynooth just five days after the Premier Division semi-final defeat for the Collingwood Cup.
A shock 1-0 defeat against Trinity College brought an abrupt end to DCU's season at the first hurdle in 2016, so a statement victory was required in the opening round match against the Royal College of Surgeons and it was duly delivered. A free-flowing, attacking performance saw DCU put eight past RCSI without reply.
In the quarter-final, Western opposition was swept aside but not without a struggle. A 90th minute equaliser for NUI Galway meant extra-time would be played for the second time in just over a week. This time, DCU fell behind, but found a second wind in the final few minutes to score twice and take a 3-2 victory into the semi-final.
There, the Northside outfit faced their perennial scourge. Having eliminated the Dubliners from the league only a week earlier, UCC again stood in the way of DCU and a senior cup final.
Rory Feely gave a glimmer of hope when he gave DCU the lead in the second half, but they couldn't hold on. A late Daniel Pender brace broke Dublin hearts and sent the Corkonians into their third cup final in ten days, and they would go on to claim the trophy for the 12th time.
"It was a great achievement for us to win the Harding Cup, play five games in twelve days and then reach the semi-final of the Collingwood Cup," Roche said.
"For us to match them all the way on two separate occasions is a huge achievement for us and it's something we'll look to as we try to improve."
As league and cup champions, UCC are a natural yardstick for Roche and his team. They'll be encouraged by two odd-goal defeats against the double winners as this young team matures next year and improves with the influx of talent from the new freshers' team.
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A chap by the name of Paradox has designed and built what could very well be the world's greatest custom-built mouse, a Steampunk design with wood and brass construction that incorporates a real mouse skeleton.
On display at his blog, the mouse features a wooden base mounted to a body made of brass tubing and I-beam shaped pieces, while vintage typewriter keys emblazoned with alchemy symbols serve as the buttons. The scroll wheel is covered by two hollowed clock gears and a thin strip of brass, and remains fully functional as both a wheel and a fifth mouse button.
After that, it gets a bit weird. The builder just happened to have a complete mouse skeleton in a box (hey, don't ask me) and decided to incorporate parts of it into the design. The mouse skull was affixed to a large gear which was then placed over the device's circuit board, and an LED was inserted through a small hole drilled in the skull, making it glow when the mouse is moved. The creature's spine was laid into the mouse "rib cage," running the length of the device, while the rodent's shoulder blades were attached to the front, where the wire connects. Finally, a pair of 9mm shells were attached to the back for added decoration.
Tying up the package is the mouse pad, made from scrap Victorian wooden trim, brass trims and rivets, and mini wood corbels purchased at a local hobby shop. The whole package took roughly 22 hours to assemble at a cost of $40-50, using just a bench grinder, a Dremel, coping saw and a lot of JB Weld. Oh, if only I had that sort of talent – but I can't even sew a bantha.
You can see this awesome Steampunk computer mouse in all its glory at The Tentacles. While you're there, be sure to have a look at his neo-Victorian keyboard and monitor, an earlier project that actually inspired the construction of the mouse. This stuff is not to be missed.
(Thanks to Boing-Boing for the hookup.)


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Ableitner, Liliane ; Fridgen, Gilbert ; Hosseini, Sabiölla ; Schöb, Samuel ; Staake, Thorsten ; Tiefenbeck, Verena:
Real-World Impact of Information Systems : The Effect of Seemingly Small Design Choices.
Event: Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS) , 14.-15. Dezember 2017 , Seoul, Südkorea.
(Conference item: Workshop , Speech )
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Information system (IS) have not only become indispensable in professional contexts, but can also serve as a platform for data-based interventions targeting issues for humanity. Providing individuals with concrete feedback on their current behavior has been shown to foster sustainable behavior. So far, research on the real-world impact and nderlying mechanisms of such IS-enabled interventions is scarce. In a randomized controlled field experiment with 1,423 participants, we systematically test the effect of different intervention strategies regarding their impact on energy consumption and user experience. We find a onservation effect of over 18% for the best treatment. In particular, the results suggest that small, seemingly harmless variations of IS design choices regarding numerical, normative, or emotional feedback can considerably affect behavioral outcomes (energy use). Potential explanations of observed behavior are given based on theories from psychology. The study delivers design implications for innovative IS artifacts that highlight the importance and necessity of taking cognitive processes into account.


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Visual Communications (VC), the nation's premier Asian Pacific American media arts center, announced its program of outstanding films for the upcoming 28th edition of the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival (LAAPFF), to be held May 10 to 20 at the Director's Guild of America (DGA), CGV Cinemas in Koreatown, and for the first time, the Art Theater in Long Beach.
As Southern California's largest and most prestigious film festival of its kind, the LAAPFF launches the celebration of Asian Pacific Heritage Month through this year's slate of 188 films from both Asian Pacific American and Asian international directors from over 20 countries.
Over the past 28 years, the festival has presented over 3,500 films and shorts by Asian American and Asian international artists. This year, 46 feature films and 142 shorts will be showcased throughout the 10-day fest.
The festival will feature many returning filmmakers and producers who continue to make films and still hold true to their own voices as exemplified by curated programs, special presentations and sneak previews of upcoming commercial releases, and the launch of two new programs for the production of new Asian American content.
The festival kicks off with the Los Angeles premiere of "Shanghai Calling," directed by Daniel Hsia, a 2003 alumnus of VC's Armed With A Camera Fellowship. Starring international heartthrob Daniel Henney ("X-Men Origins: Wolverine," "Three Rivers"), "Shanghai Calling" is a romantic comedy about modern-day immigrants living in an unfamiliar land.
When an ambitious New York attorney (Daniel Henney) is sent to Shanghai on assignment, he immediately stumbles into a legal mess that could spell the end of his career. But with help from a beautiful relocation specialist, a well-connected foreign businessman, a clever but unassuming journalist, and a street-smart assistant, he might just save his job, discover romance, and finally learn to appreciate the many wonders of Shanghai.
This is Hsia's feature-length directorial debut, and co-stars Eliza Coupe ("Happy Endings") and Bill Paxton ("Big Love," "Haywire"). The filmmaker, cast and crew will attend screening.
"We are excited to present Hsia's film as our opening night, says David Magdael, festival co-producer. "As one of one of our talented alums, we are proud to watch him grow as a filmmaker."
"Sunset Stories," directed by Silas Howard and Ernesto M. Foronda, will be the festival's Centerpiece Presentation. Foronda is also an Armed With A Camera fellow, and the writer/producer of the 2002 hit "Better Luck Tomorrow." This is his feature-length directorial debut. Starring Sung Kang ("Fast Five," "Ninja Assassin") and Monique Curnen ("Contagion," "The Dark Knight"), "Sunset Stories" tells a uniquely L.A. story of love and control. It had its world premiere at the South by Southwest Film Festival in mid-March.
The festival's International Centerpiece is the award-winning "Valley of Saints," directed by Musa Syeed and produced by Nicholas Bruckman. The film is an India/USA production bringing to the screen the beautiful landscape of Kashmir. The story follows a young tourist boatman and his best friend as they try to run away from the provincial life in their lake village. A military curfew and political uprising derail their plans, and the two young men must wait it out while deciding on a new plan. "Valley of Saints" won two major awards at Sundance – the World Cinema Grand Prize and the Alfred P. Sloan Award.
The Saturday Night Gala slot, reserved for a crowd-pleasing film every year, will be filled by the sex comedy "Yes, We're Open" from Bay Area screenwriter H.P. Mendoza and director Richard Wong. A contemporary spin on a classic predicament, it takes an intimate look at liberal San Francisco lifestyles over dinner and drinks with a side of infidelity.
Award-winning director Tsao Jui-Yuan's "Joyful Reunion" will screen as the festival closing night presentation. A follow-up to Ang Lee's "Eat Drink Man Woman," it introduces us to familial bonds that surround a vegetarian restaurant. This "foodie" film about relationships showcases Taiwanese and Chinese regional cuisines that will leave your mouth watering.
"We are honored to present these award-winning and culturally diverse films that represent the broad, global spectrum of Asian American cinema," says Anderson Le, festival artistic director. "In a banner year for Asian American and Asian cinema, these gala presentations present strong voices, global settings and stories with universal appeal."
This year, for the first time, the LAAPFF expands to Long Beach during the closing weekend, where festival award-winners and a showcase of Pacific Islander works will be presented at the historic Art Theater of Long Beach.
The films kick off with Venice and Sundance favorite "The Orator" (O le Tulafele), directed by Tusi Tamasese, and close with "Sione's 2: Unfinished Business" (sequel to "Samoan Wedding"), directed by Simon Bennet.
Other highlights include the Hawaiian documentary "Papa Mau: The Way Finder," directed by Na'alehu Anthony; the eco-awareness documentary "There Once Was an Island" (Te Henua e Nnoho), directed by Briar March; the Cambodian American feature "Two Shadows," directed by Greg Cahill; and festival favorite "Golden Slumbers," Cambodian-French director Davy Chou's film about the golden era of Cambodian cinema, which was eventually destroyed by the Khmer Rouge regime.
"As Southern California's premier Asian Pacific American media arts center, we see the Festival's expansion to Long Beach as a great opportunity to reach new audiences," states Shinae Yoon, festival executive producer. "This is part of a bigger picture to expand Visual Communications' footprint into the South Bay, and eventually, Orange County."
Through the LAAPFF, VC will also launch two major programs that will expand the organization's artist services in a major way.
First, the C3 Project Market, a first-of-its-kind program, is a unique opportunity for filmmakers of Asian descent to showcase their narrative feature project to financiers, producers, production companies, agents, managers and industry executives enabling them with the contacts, information and confidence they need to make their film.
On May 12-13, industry participants will have the ability to discover new talent and voices, including winning a cash prize of $5,000 for the best project pitch.
In addition, the VC Film Development Fund, underwritten by Comcast, was created to nurture established filmmakers with their next film project. The fund is a multi-year program, wherein VC will select six filmmakers and will serve as executive producers to develop narrative feature-length projects, as well as financing up to $100,000 of the budget.
The six filmmakers chosen for the fund will be announced at the opening night of the festival.
"The C3 Project Market and the VC Film Development Fund continues Visual Communications' mission to nurture and incubate filmmakers from our community," says Yoon. "We're delighted to launch these new and sustainable initiatives for emerging and established filmmakers and providing opportunities to cultivate and grow Asian American cinema."
This year's competition of Asian American feature films reflect a varied group of compelling storytellers from both documentary and narrative genres.
The 2012 documentary competition line-up includes:
"China Heavyweight" – Yung Chang
"Give Up Tomorrow" – Michael Collins
"Mr. Cao Goes to Washington" – S. Leo Chiang
"Restoring the Light" – Carol Liu
"Seeking Asian Female" – Debbie Lum
"Uploaded: The Asian American Movement" – Kane Diep
"Where Heaven Meets Hell" – Sasha Friedlander
The 2012 narrative competition line-up includes:
"The Crumbles" – Akira Boch
"Hang Loose" – Ryan Kawamoto
"I Am a Ghost" – H.P. Mendoza
"Knots" – Michael Kang
"Model Minority" – Lily Mariye
"Paradise Broken" – James Sereno
"Salad Days" – Hiram Chan
"Shanghai Calling" – Daniel Hsia
"Sunset Stories" – Ernesto M. Foronda, Silas Howard
"Surrogate Valentine 2: Daylight Savings" – David Boyle
"Two Shadows" – Greg Cahill
"Valley of Saints" – Musa Syeed
"Viette" – Mye Hoang
"Yes, We're Open" – Richard Wong
For program information, a complete listing of sponsors and partners, and to purchase tickets, log on to www.vconline.org/festival or contact VC at (213) 680-4462, ext .59.
The festival is honored to partner with the Directors Guild of America as a screening venue during the opening weekend. This state-of-the-art theater is where the festival will screen its opening night film as well as the Centerpiece Presentations.
The festival will also screen at CGV Cinemas, 621 S. Western Ave., situated north of Wilshire Boulevard in Koreatown.
Festival screenings in Los Angeles will run from Friday, May 11, to Thursday, May 17. Programs at the Art Theater, 2025 E. 4th St., Long Beach, will run from Friday, May 18, to Sunday, May 20.
Sponsors of the 2012 LAAPFF include:
Premiere – Directors Guild of America, CGV Theaters
Platinum — Coca-Cola, Comcast/NBC Universal, Wells Fargo
Silver — Sony Pictures Entertainment
Bronze — CBS Diversity, Screen Actors Guild; SAG Indie
Star — Jenner & Block, Boeing, Union Bank, Motion Pictures Editors Guild, Writers Guild of America West, Taipei Economic & Cultural Office of Los Angeles, Pacific Islanders in Communications, Ketel One, Shiftboard, Yes Style
Beer – Stella Artois, Asahi
Media — LA 18 KSCI-TV, AngryAsianMan.com, MNET, Audrey Magazine, KPFK, Glocal, LA Weekly
Government Support — National Endowment for the Arts, Los Angeles County Arts Commission, Department of Cultural Affairs/City of Los Angeles
Foundation Support — California Community Foundation, James Irvine Foundation


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What to Expect With Alternative Medicine in Tulsa
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This content has been created to help patients to find us and is not designed to help treat or prevent illness for medical care. Call us today at 918-935-3636
Dr. Chad P. Edwards, DO is the owner of Revolution Health and Wellness and specializes in alternative medicine in Tulsa for chronic pain conditions, such as prolotherapy. Many people wonder what they can expect when they choose prolotherapy to help treat their pain. When you come into our clinic in Tulsa, we will evaluate and discuss the history of your pain and perform a physical exam in order to determine the areas that could benefit from therapy. The location of your pain may not necessarily be the exact area that needs the prolotherapy treatment. Call Dr. Edwards at Revolution Health at 918-935-3636, and he'll explain to you what you can expect from your prolotherapy treatment today.
Many people wonder why they are hurting in one place and we are injecting in another. For example, you may be suffering from shoulder pain, but that pain could be referred from your neck and you may not even have a shoulder problem at all. When you come in, we will need to be able to have access to examine the entire structures. We recommend that you come dressed in athletic clothing. If your clothing gets in the way of a proper examination, then you will be asked to put on a gown.
Once we have completed your examination, we will determine the extent of alternative medicine in Tulsa that is needed. Sometimes we can perform your first procedure at the first exam, and sometimes we may need to schedule a follow-up appointment for you to return for your therapy. We will explain to you exactly how prolotherapy works, what to expect, as well as the risks and benefits of treatment. Prolotherapy has been proven to be the most cost effective way to reduce pain and improve function. In the long term, it is cheaper than medications, physical therapy and surgery.
We will custom design an individualized treatment plan to your individual medical and personal needs in order to maximize your results. We will talk about your medical conditions as well as the cost of the treatment and will agree on a plan that works for you. We have recommendations that we tell our patients regarding what to do and what not to do before or after their first prolotherapy procedure. First, limit ice as much as possible. Do not use anti-inflammatory medications such as ibuprofen, naproxen, aspirin, etc.
We also recommend that our patients never smoke as it will inhibit their healing. You should also improve your eating habits in order to help your healing as well. We want our patients to understand that prolotherapy injections can be painful. The pain from each injection lasts for only a couple of seconds, in comparison to a lifetime of chronic pain. After your treatment, you should implement movement and exercise, apply heat, use non-anti-inflammatory analgesics as needed, and get adequate sleep and proper nutrition. Prolotherapy is a form of alternative medicine in Tulsa that can greatly decrease your pain and increase your quality of life.
Revolution Health Uses Alternative Medicine in Tulsa to Eliminate Pain
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Revolution Health and Wellness clinic was started by Dr. Chad P. Edwards, DO. Dr. Edwards uses a healing process called Prolotherapy to help heal patients of their chronic pain problems. Most of our patients have never heard of prolotherapy and have a lot of questions about this form of alternative medicine in Tulsa. The following article will provide some history about the use of prolotherapy in healing people from their chronic pain. To learn even more, call Dr. Edwards at Revolution Health today at 918-935-3636.
Prolotherapy was started by Dr George Hackett over 80 years ago. Sr. Hackett was a trauma surgeon in Ohio and discovered that injecting the proliferant solution increased the thickness of ligaments, so he set out to study the effects. He started studying and injecting patients in an attempt them with a 90% success rate. His first book was published in 1956 and was called "Ligament and Tendon Relaxation Treated by Prolotherapy." Prolotherapy is an approved procedure by the American Osteopathic Association of Prolotherapy Integrative Pain Medicine, and is a fantastic option of alternative medicine in Tulsa.
Dr. C. Everett Koop, a former US Surgeon General, was a huge proponent of prolotherapy. Prolotherapy's effectiveness is dependent on eliminating a number of traditional ways of treating chronic pain, such as the use of anti-inflammatory medications, steroids, smoking, and applying ice. These are all interventions that decrease the body's ability to have an appropriate inflammatory response and will decrease the effectiveness of prolotherapy. Many of our patients that suffer from chronic pain conditions often wonder why they have never heard about this form of alternative medicine in Tulsa before. Most physicians in traditional Western medicine haven't even heard of prolotherapy.
Dr. Koop stated that he believed that many medical professionals are skeptical because prolotherapy seems to be too easy of a solution to the many complicated problems that afflict the human body that have been notoriously difficult to treat.. Proliferant solutions are inexpensive, natural, and easy to mix. Because of this, no pharmaceutical company will market them, because there simply is no money in developing the substances. In a country where there are so many reasons to be skeptical of the medical system, it makes sense to be skeptical. We live in a society that is driven by Evidence Based Medicine (EBM), which means that most medical decisions are based on evidence that is derived from sound scientific research.
Dr. Edwards has yet to find one patient who has been exposed to the benefits of prolotherapy that walked away from it with doubts of its effectiveness. We will give you as much information as you need in order to make an informed decision on whether you'd like to follow through with prolotherapy treatments. Prolotherapy is an excellent procedure that can drastically improve most people's pain. Prolotherapy has changed many of our patients lives, and we know that it can help you have a better quality of life as well. Call Revolution Health today at 918-935-3636, and we'll discuss if prolotherapy is the right treatment for you.
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The "Hero Of Swallow" (Yuen Biao) is a Robin Hood-esque character who robs from the rich and gives the money to poor. By day, Swallow is in fact Li Ban, a man obsessed with finding his one true love, Chinny, who was stolen from him years ago and sold into the prostitution business. When he travels to Peking to continue his quest, he makes friends with a young female thief, an ex-soldier and a girl who he saves from being raped. He also stirs up trouble with the local authorities and when he discovers than Chinny is due to marry a rich relation to the monarchy, he realises that he must reveal his true identity and do all that is within his power to win her back.
Yuen Biao is one of those actors that you just can't fail to like, but he seems to have so few starring roles that actually make good use of his talents. Unfortunately, 'The Hero Of Swallow' is not the film to buck that trend. Although it is set-up to play like a kung fu classic, there really aren't enough exciting action scenes to allow it to rise above the mediocre. Considering it came out during the 1990s, it's extremely disappointing to see just how bland the choreography is and it really fails to make good use Yuen Biao's infamous physicality. To make matters worse, the film also has Swallow wear a black outfit and spend most of the time in the dark, meaning even when he is in action we can barely see him!
For a change though, the plot actually gives 'The Hero Of Swallow' something of a reprieve. It's not exactly groundbreaking, but it definitely has an air of some of Bruce Lee's early films. The hero is clearly defined and has his motives for what he does, but is not afraid to kill those who get in his way. He also has his followers who care deeply for him and will remain loyal even if it means that they must die for the cause. As entertaining as all of this is though, the good aspects are somewhat undone by the film's ending which is very abrupt and leaves a lot of elements up in the air.
'The Hero Of Swallow' retains a few likeable old-school qualities that just about save it from falling below the three star mark. It's just a shame that it seems intent on ignoring the talents of its main star and really lacks any oomph in the action department.
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Horizons Kennel Idaho
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July 2, 2018
Hi Wendy,
Just wanted to give you a quick Hello 😉. We want to thank u again for my puppy. He is amazing, quick, funny and has a sense of humor...my four year old male cat Ziggy is also happy again, he brings toys to him and nap together then chase.
Nikee will retrieve toys by name (ball, duckie) almost housebroken, his only hang up is carsickness. I am sure he will outgrow this.
All vet checks perfect so was he when we went, he was so calm just a happy camper. He kennels very well when we leave.
I have owned and helped raise and train numerous dogs and puppy's, he above and beyond the best. He can be so cool and laid back.
The other word to describe him is "Joyous" This shows great breading. Thank you for all your years of work to produce a dog of this caliber and allowing me to buy him. 🤗
Have a lovely Summer,
new puppy
arrives home!
June 18, 2018
I recently purchased a Havanese puppy from Wendy at Horizon Kennels of Idaho. From the moment I provided my deposit it was a wonderful experience. Not only do I have an incredible adorable puppy but as I was waiting for her to be 12 weeks, I received pictures and videos of her as often as I asked. Wendy does what a quality breeder would do and that is she keeps her pups until they are 12 weeks. My girl arrived with her shot records, a bag of food, play pen, toys, dog bowls, a blanket and a dog brush. This was completely unexpected and appreciated. The quality of the dog is amazing. She has beautiful markings and her temperament is sweet and calm. I cannot day enough about my experience with Horizon Kennels of Idaho. If you are looking for a quality dog and a fantastic experience, please contact them. I give them a 5/5!
Erik and his
new puppy
All of these boys
are thrilled
with their
new puppy.
How much fun is
this puppy
going to have?
Hi Wendy,
Minnie will turn one year tomorrow and I wanted you to know what a wonderful little puppy she is. She is beautiful, playful, cheerful and so much fun. She is a great little companion. We traveled to Florida in June and are going again next week. She is a good traveler. I recommend Havanese puppies to everyone I meet. She is such a sweet little friend and I love her dearly. Thank you so much for talking me into getter her.
I hope all is well with you and all of your puppies.
My best
Rosemary Burns
Idaho Falls
Horizons Kennel Idaho puppy
Lucky and his mom
just graduated from training school ...
they live in Spokane, WA
We love
our puppy
Hi Wendy,
Today is Jamaica's birthday. Just thought I would give you an update. She is doing well and has a very good life. She is the center of the universe! She weights in at 13 pounds and is very energetic and playful. She is well liked by family and friends and is a hit with all our neighbors. One neighbor asked if she could please watch her when we left town for a week. She loves being with other dogs. She loves obedience class and is a super student, as she is exceptionally smart. Not just my opinion; the trainer said it. She adores my mother who has late stage Alzheimer's. We may end up going the Therapy Dog route. She is so sweet! I hope you enjoy the pictures.
Kind regards, Kelli
Wendy, thank you so much for surprising Heidi at the airport with Wilson. We had a wonderful Thanksgiving at Heidi's mom's house. Wilson played so well with his half brother, Buster. Wilson got to play with a couple of other family/friend's dogs and he played so well with them. He's the sweetest dog. Everyone loves him. He flew from Spokane to Atlanta extremely well. We took him to the vet this morning and they gave him his kennel cough vaccination and a ringworm/flea pill. The folks at the vet had nothing but wonderful things to say about him and how sweet and healthy he is. They also noted that we were on top of all his shots/vaccinations, thanks to you. We're very happy with the vet. He's a recommendation from someone else who spoils her dog to death.
Wilson's getting adjusted to his new home in Atlanta. We're working on the potty training/crate training. He certainly hates being in his crate right now, but we are hoping he will become more comfortable with it. We of course try to keep him in it as little as possible.
We could not be more happy with him. He is smart and cute and has the best temperament. We will send you pictures soon and will stay in touch. Thanks again so much for bringing Wilson into our lives. We love him very much!
Best regards, Anthony & Heidi
Dear Wendy,
I thought I'd drop you a note to let you know how Remington is doing. First of all - the name Jasper stuck and he seems to already know his new name. He spent his first 10 days up at Priest Lake and did great in the trailer and and took a boat ride through the Thorofare. Since day one, he slept through the night. After a few days in Hayden, we headed home to Bellingham, a long 9 hours. He was a great traveler.
Jasper claimed his new house, has tons of energy, and really gives our little Cooper a run for his money. He steals Cooper's toys right out of his mouth. He's a little dog with a lot of confidence, happy to explore any new situation fearlessly and loves everybody. When I took him to the vet this week, she was very impressed with his outgoing temperament and was in excellent health.
Thank you for my new friend.
(written by a child and decorated beautifully and lovingly)
Thank you for letting us have this puppy! We will take the best care and love her so much! We will keep you updated and send you pictures of her.
Thank you so much
— Baylee
Wendy and family,
Thank you so much for such a socialized, clean, healthy, and smart puppy! He was beautiful from the minute we met him! He is so special and sweet. He did a great job last night and has immediately bonded with us. He is well loved already. Our other dog, Otis, is still afraid of him but getting closer to him as time progresses. Otis is wonderful with other dogs but has never met one smaller than him! It is pretty funny. I am giving Otis extra special attention and the kids are taking care of the puppy's attention needs.
After much debate and consideration, we decided to take our top four names and write them on a piece of paper with a morsel of food on each one. We let the pup down and he decided his name! We took the first one he went to. It was exciting and his new name is Mighty. My youngest wanted to call him Little mighty for a nickname. It suits him well ans he was dragging around everything yesterday including his new basket!
He seems to already know that fingers are not for biting hard. Could that be true? Toes on the other had are a different story!
Our family cannot thank you enough for the special care you have given these pups. He is a fabulous boy and certainly Mighty!
Best, Anne