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Frank Ocean Earns Six Grammy Noms, Dominates Year-End-Lists
R&B superstar Frank Ocean had quite a year, and to cap it off it was announced on Wednesday that the singer has been nominated for six Grammy Awards.
Ocean, 25, was one of the leading artists (all male) who were nominated for the 55th Grammy Awards, which will be broadcast on Feb. 10. Indie pop band fun., folk group Mumford & Sons, rap icons Jay-Z and Kayne West and rocker Dan Auerbach from the Black Keys also snagged six nods.
Ocean's impressive nominations, include all major categories: Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Best New Artist, Best Urban Contemporary Album, Best Rap/Sung Collaboration and Best Short Form Music Video for "No Church in the Wild," which appeared on Jay-Z and Kanye West's album "Watch the Throne."
Ocean's critically acclaimed debut album, "channel ORANGE," is up against Black Keys' "El Camino", Jack White's "Blunderbuss," Mumford & Sons' "Babel," and fun.'s "Some Nights." His single, "Thinking About You" is nominated against Gotye's "Somebody That I Used to Know," Taylor Swift's "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together," fun.'s "We Are Young," Kelly Clarkson's "Stronger," and the Black Key's "Lonely Boy," for Record of the Year. When it comes to the Best New Artist nomination, the singer faces Alabama Shakes, fun., Hunter Hayes and the Lumineers.
Soon after the nominations were announced, the "Pyramids" singer took to Twitter and wrote "WTF" and "Wow," Pitchfork points out.
Ocean, who is a member of the controversial rap group Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All, made a huge impact in the music world, specifically in R&B and rap, when he wrote on his Tumblr that his first love was with a man, days before his record was set to drop. After the announcement, his peers, including rappers who have had anti-gay lyrics songs in the past, like Snoop Dogg, lauded Ocean.
When "channel ORANGE" was released in July it was met by both critical and commercial acclaim as it peaked at number 2 on US Billboard 200 and 1 on US Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums. Allmusic gave the LP four-and-a-half stars out of five, while the Guardian gave it a perfect score. Rolling Stone also it gave it four-and-a-half stars out of five, Spin gave it 9 out of 10 and the influential indie review site, Pitchfork, rated "channel ORANGE" a 9.5 out of ten, one of its highest rated albums of the year.
The record has landed on several critics' year-end-lists for 2012 as well and both Spin and Paste named it album of the year. Rolling Stone, Filter and Mojo placed it at the number two spot and NME and Time said it as their third favorite record of the year.
Earlier this week, the "Novocain" singer was rumored to be in a relationship with French model Willy Cartier. The men have been spotted together at red carpet events, so it may not come to a surprise to some fans if they show up together at the 2013 Grammys.
Ocean wasn't the only member of the LGBT community to earn a Grammy, however. Rachel Maddow and Ellen DeGeneres are up for Best Spoken World Album and are up against Bill Clinton and First Lady Michelle Obama.
Watch the music video for Ocean's single "Pyramids" below:


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Fine-tuning argument
In cosmology, fine tuning refers to the precise balance of cosmological constants that allow the observable universe to exist as it does. These constants include the speed of light, the rate of expansion of the universe, the force of gravity, the nuclear strong force, the electromagnetic force, and many other parameters of the observable universe. It is claimed that these constants exist in such a state of precise equilibrium that any variation to their values would have resulted in a drastically different universe. The fine tuning argument states that these values occurring in such a precise state by mere chance is highly improbable, and that there must have been a creator to fine tune these values in order for our universe to exist as it does and for life to exist on Earth. This argument is the same as the anthropic theistic principle.
The argument of fine tuning is a rather new one. It has only become popular since the mid-1990s with recent observations about the observable universe and cosmological constants. Cosmologists have theorized that even minute variations in the values of these constants would have resulted in a radically different universe or one altogether unsuitable for supporting life as we know it.
- Example 1: The rate of expansion of matter after the Big Bang had to occur at precisely the right rate to allow our universe to form as it has. If it had expanded any faster, matter would have dissipated too quickly for stars and solar systems to form. If it had occurred any slower, the universe would have collapsed upon itself shortly after the Big Bang, resulting in what is known as a Big Crunch.
- Example 2: The strong nuclear force is the force which binds protons and neutrons together in the nucleus of an atom. Scientists have calculated that variations in the strong force of as little as ±1% would have drastically affected the breakdown of naturally occurring elements in the universe, prohibiting the formation of stars, black holes, and other natural occurring phenomena.
There are studies of numerous other constants with similar results.
Deists cite this remarkable balance of cosmological constants as evidence of a creator, being a far too unlikely set of circumstances to have occurred naturally. This is quickly becoming the argument of choice of creationism proponents like Lee Strobel. Strobel presents this concept as incontrovertible empirical evidence of God in his book The Case for a Creator.
Formal Statement of the Argument
Here is Drange's formulation:
1. The combination of physical constants that we observe in our universe is the only one capable of sustaining life as we know it.
2. Other combinations of physical constants are conceivable.
3. Therefore, some explanation is needed why our actual combination of physical constants exists rather than a different one.
4. The very best explanation of the given fact is that our universe, with the particular combination of physical constants that it has, was created out of nothing by a single being who is omnipotent, omniscient, all-loving, eternal, and interested in sentient organic systems, and that he "fine-tuned" those constants in a way which would lead to the evolution of such systems.
5. But such a being as described in (4) is what people mean by "God."
6. Hence [from (4) & (5)], there is good evidence that God exists.
Fine Tuning Argument for Atheism
Some philosophers have noted that the fine tuning argument is not vastly good argument for the existence of God but rather a vastly good argument for the non-existence of God. Largely the argument itself hinges on the narrow range of properties for the universe to develop to allow for life. But, this narrow range are precisely the required range needed for life in this universe to occur naturally if there were no God.
If there were a God, rather than needing 70 sextillion stars and 13.75 billion years, there would only be need of one planet. Rather than having more planets than there are grains of sand on all the beaches of Earth. The only reason this universe needs to be this vast and this old is if life occurs randomly without any intelligent design. If life occurs only by happenstance, then any life that exists should exist in a amazingly vast universe just to allow the chemicals needed to kick up life enough chances to happen to kick up something as complex as life.
If somebody claims to be psychic and they win the lottery three times in a row. That seems to be good evidence. However, if they bought every possible combination of numbers for each of those lotteries. That feat requires no psychic abilities at all.
Only upon the assumption of atheism do we really need these exact values. For only these values allow the formation of life to occur without God and without any outside influences.
The fine-tuning argument is actually therefore a great argument for atheism. Which theists are wrongly claiming as evidence for God.
"The universe looks exactly as it should look if there is no God. How amazing is that exactness? Therefore God exists." -- If the universe looked as if it couldn't exist only by chance, theists would and do claim God exists in that case as well. The universe is either cannot happen naturally and therefore God did it, or the universe can happen naturally and what an amazing feat that is and therefore God did it. Resulting in a Brian's Paradox
- Essentially this argument is just a variation on the argument from design. The key difference here is that it misrepresents actual scientific evidence in such a way to support an unscientific conclusion. A more scientific conclusion would be to state that there is some unknown natural phenomenon to explain this apparent "fine tuning". It is also worth mentioning that a counter-argument to design, natural-law argument, and the anthropic principle is also a counter-argument to fine-tuning. See below.
- A problem arises from the premise that the cosmological constants are in fact 'fine tuned' at all. This premise assumes that there is a certain range of values that each constant could assume. The greater these ranges, the more unlikely that a given set of constants would have assumed the values we observe. However, to simply imagine a certain range of possible numerical values that each constant could assume and calculating the probability that this value would be arrived at by mere chance is fallacious for two reasons. Currently, we have no access to data that would tell us a) what range the constants could possibly assume in reality and b) how many trials there were in which the constants assumed certain values. If in a lottery one number were drawn from a pot of five numbers, then winning the lottery would become comparatively likely. Likewise, even if a trial with an extremely unlikely outcome - say winning an actual national lottery - were repeated a sufficient number of times, the outcome would become likely to occur overall. (See next point)
- Scientists theorize that given the infinite nature of time and space, an infinite number of other unobservable universes could exist parallel to our own, each with infinite variations of constants. This is known as the multiverse theory. Given infinite possibilities, the formation of a universe such as our own is not so inconceivable.
- Another flaw with this argument is that it assumes our universe is finely tuned for the sole purpose of supporting life. This is not the case at all. Given the laws of our universe, scientists theorize that our universe is composed of less than 2% baryonic matter, that is matter consisting of protons, neutrons or other particles equal or greater than that of a proton. Dark matter is by far the most common form of matter in our universe. Our universe, if anything, is far more suited for the creation of black holes than it is for supporting life. Life on our planet constitutes only an insignificant portion of our universe.
- The Earth's total mass is 5.9736×10^24 kg while the estimated total biomass on Earth is around 7×10^13 kg. This means that the percentage of life on Earth is 1.17182269 × 10^-9. That is .00000000117%. The Earth, let alone the universe, is hardly fine tuned for life. Man has created and tested much more finely tuned mediums for simple life in the form of specialized agar solutions that support life/medium ratios far greater than .00000000117%.
- In order for the probability argument to be valid, the fundamental constants under consideration have to be independent. That is, one cannot claim that the gravitational constant and the speed of expansion of the universe were individually tuned, since they are clearly related. The electromagnetic force is mediated by massless photons which travel at the speed of light, so therefore the strength of this force is likely related to the speed of light. Similar relationships may yet emerge between other constants.
- If there were a creator who "fine tuned" the universe for our existence, who "fine tuned" the universe in order for said creator to exist? The argument of a creator is infinitely paradoxical.
- The initial premise of the argument is that in order for life to exist, the universe must have such properties that warrant a designer. However in this line of reasoning, the designer of those properties would exist in a state where none of these properties were true. Therefore any properties deemed to require a designer can't be necessary for existence in the first place, as the designer can exist without them. The argument is self-refuting.
- If one starts with the assumption that humanity is an accident, the fine tuning argument makes no sense since if we are an accident, no fine tuning was necessary. For the fine tuning argument to make any sense, one has to start with the assumption that humanity is not an accident, which begs the question of a creator. But since the purpose of the argument is to prove that there is a god who created us, any such assumption renders the argument circular.
- If we are to consider the chance of the universe existing the way it did, surely the same principle of chance can be reversed. What is the chance that a truly omnipotent God, as proposed by many religions, made the constants, factors and general details of the universe as he did? he would have infinite possibilities meaning the probability would be 1 in infinity - much less than the supposed calculations of those presenting the argument.
- It may be useful to realize that the vast majority of the universe is uninhabitable by any form of life, albeit human life. If there are so many regions of space, and indeed our own planet, that are uninhabitable by life, then why should we call the universe "fine-tuned"?.
- The argument also seems to call into question the omnipotence of the creator. If he were infinitely powerful, why did he make life constrained to survive only in a tiny fraction of the universe? The case for supernatural intervention would be much more plausible if humans found themselves floating in the vacuum of space, on a toxic planet with no oxygen, or somewhere else where our continued survival was a complete mystery to scientists. As it is, we find life only in areas where the facts of biology tell us it can exist. This is exactly what we would expect if we were not the products of omnipotence.
- When considering the arguments fourth premise, which includes "...created out of nothing by a single being who is omnipotent, omniscient, all-loving, eternal...", the question must be raised of how does the God being posited as the creator of said universe gain the attributes stated by the argument? the argument is in no way structured to determine the precise attributes of the personal being of which the presenter asserts. It is not necessary for the creator to be all-loving, he could be making us with the notion of torturing us for all we know. It is not necessary for the creator to be eternal, he could have fizzled out in the creation or could have died of some unfathomable cause. And it is likewise unnecessary for the creator to be omniscient and/or omnipotent, there are logical arguments against the proposition of such attributes, and the being need not be all-powerful/knowing - he could just be really, really powerful and know a lot, but not everything.
- It may be worth noting, also, that the some of the constants specified not not require arbitrary precision. With regards to the Goldilocks zone, the amount Earth can be distanced from the sun is approximately 37%, right out to Mars (yes, our solar system has two planets in the Goldilocks zone). The point being that the so-called precision we find, is actually not that precise in reality (this is one of the more extreme cases, most others can be changed but the difference being not as much).
Firstly, it has to be pointed out that for an omnipotent God the fundamental constants would be irrelevant. An omnipotent God could have created us in a universe with any set of constants had he chose to. But this is not the line of thinking the theist takes. The constants had to be what they are because, as they claim, if they were different we would have no life. If the constants necessarily had to be what they are than that implies that there is some set of governing rules that even God must follow, that supersede his power. If God HAD to fine-tune the universe to these particular set of constants because not doing so would not have allowed him to bring life into existence (and as they claim in their argument, a different set and there's no life) then God is indeed NOT omnipotent.
Not withstanding the obvious fact that the universe really isn't very congenial towards life, as 99.999% of the observed universe is uninhabitable, Vic Stenger in his book God: The failed hypothesis, quotes a private communication with Martin Wagner in which he points out that:
"In fact, the whole argument from fine-tuning ultimately makes no sense. As my friend Martin Wagner notes, all physical parameters are irrelevant to an omnipotent God. 'he could have created us to live in a hard vacuum if he wanted.'"
Bertrand Russell:
"Why did God issue just those natural laws and no others? If you say that he did it simply from his own good pleasure, and without any reason, you then find that there is something which is not subject to law, and so your train of natural law is interrupted. If you say, as more orthodox theologians do, that in all the laws which God issues he had a reason for giving those laws rather than others -- the reason, of course, being to create the best universe, although you would never think it to look at it -- if there was a reason for the laws which God gave, then God himself was subject to law, and therefore you do not get any advantage by introducing God as an intermediary."
We can view the universe as one of those massive safes that banks keep in their vaults, with a number of dials that must be set to specific values in order to open it. However, in our example, these dials can be literally set to any number, so that an infinite number of combinations are possible. The one combination that will open the safe is analogous to the values of the physical constants of the universe that allow the existence of intelligent life.
The "fine tuning" argument claims that it is, for all intents, impossible to randomly set the the values of the dials and, simply by chance, arrive at the correct combination that will open the safe. Only someone who actually knows the combination can open it. In the argument, this requires the existence of a god who knows the precise setting that will allow life to arise.
However, if this god is the creator of the universe and everything in it, then he is not limited to simply turning the dials on the safe. He must also have been responsible for building the safe itself, and setting the combination that allows it to be opened. This means he also has the ability to adjust the locking mechanism of the safe so that any combination he wants will open it. Therefore, it can no longer be said that only one combination is capable of opening the safe. Now, there is a literally infinite number of combinations that can open it.
Restated in the form of the argument itself: The (apparent) fact that only a specific combination of values of physical constants allows life to arise is, itself, an expression of a fundamental law of the universe. If God can change the values of those physical constants, there is no reason to believe he cannot also change the more fundamental laws that limit the conditions under which life will arise.
This has two fatal consequences for the "fine tuning" argument:
1) If God can, in fact, adjust the "combination" of the safe to any values he wants, this completely refutes the claim that life can only arise under a very specific set of circumstances. Rather, if such a God exists, life should be able to arise under any set of circumstances whatsoever, with infinite possibilities. The "fine tuning" argument, therefore, can no longer be used as evidence for the existence of such a God.
2) If, on the other hand, God cannot adjust the "combination", then this raises a situation that most theists would find unacceptable. It raises the question of who or what actually is responsible for creating the safe, and deciding on its combination. God, in this scenario, is reduced to being a low-level employee of the bank, who is able to open the safe, but is not responsible for the operation of the safe itself, nor entrusted with the ability to set the combination of the safe. Those responsibilities must be taken over by some entity more powerful and important than God. This is incompatible with most theistic beliefs, particularly the Abrahamic monotheistic ones.
To restate the argument, in the form of the Transcendental argument for the non-existence of God :
Posit X and Y as features of human understanding. In the case of fine-tuning, X is "the combination of physical constants which is necessarily capable of sustaining life" and Y is "the combination of physical constants which is necessarily incapable of sustaining life".
1.X is necessary or has a necessary part (the necessity of being capable of sustaining life).
Y is necessary or has a necessary part (the physical necessity of being hostile to life).
2.If theism is true, then divine creation obtains.
3.If divine creation is true, then all in the universe is contingent to God's act of creation, and nothing in the universe is necessary.
4.If theism is true, then no X or Y can be necessary or have a necessary part. (from 2 and 3)
5.Theism is false. (from 1 and 4)
The theist can of course deny premise 1, but doing so is a denial of the fine-tuning argument. The first premise of this argument is the same as the first premise of the fine-tuning argument.
The first premise of the fine-tuning argument is:
1. "The combination of physical constants that we observe in our universe is the only one capable of sustaining life as we know it".
This means that:
The combination of physical constants in our universe -> necessarily capable of sustaining life as we know it (denoted by X).
The combination of other physical constants -> necessarily incapable of sustaining life as we know it (denoted by Y).
In a similar form of the argument:
1. If theism is true, then divine causation obtains.
2. If divine causation obtains, then all facts of the universe are contingent upon God's act of creation.
3. If theism is true, then life can arise under any possible physical condition. (from 1 and 2)
4. If theism is true, then fine-tuning is invalid. (from 3)
Maybe the transition from premise 2 to 3 requires further justification. Denote the physical constants by {X; Y; Z) and the obtainment of life by L and negation by ~.
A fact of the universe is that {X--> L; Y--> ~L; Z--> ~L}.
Since the fact is contingent upon God's act of creation, then it is not necessary and so can be altered.
If it can be altered then the following can be true {X--> L; Y--> L; Z--> L}. Basically, X, Y, and Z are irrelevant to God if divine causation obtains.
So as a shorthand one can say that "contingency implies the impossibility of principles and absolutes".
One can of course deny that divine creation obtains, and deny that God created the laws of science. However, this means that God is not the Creator and that he is subject to these laws himself.
Stephen Hawking on the Anthropic Principle:
"The intelligent beings in these regions should therefore not be surprised if they observe that their locality in the universe satisfies the conditions that are necessary for their existence. It is a bit like a rich person living in a wealthy neighborhood not seeing any poverty."
"What I have done is to show that it is possible for the way the universe began to be determined by the laws of science. In that case, it would not be necessary to appeal to God to decide how the universe began. This doesn't prove that there is no God, only that God is not necessary". [Stephen W. Hawking, Der Spiegel, 1989]
"One does not have to appeal to God to set the initial conditions for the creation of the universe, but if one does He would have to act through the laws of physics". [Stephen Hawking, Black Holes & Baby Universes]
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The features of humanity have evolved as a result of our environment, rather than our environment being tailored to suit us.
Douglas Adams c.1998:
"Imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find myself in, an interesting hole I find myself in, fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!' This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, it's still frantically hanging on to the notion that everything's going to be alright, because this world was meant to have him in it, was built to have him in it; so the moment he disappears catches him rather by surprise. I think this may be something we need to be on the watch out for."
Furthermore, the "fine-tuning argument" is a logical fallacy of the "ex-post-facto statistics" type. It applies in situations like this whenever we apply probability laws to past events.
For example, we all know the probability of being dealt a bridge hand of, say, all thirteen spades is quite small. But if we look at any bridge hand after we're dealt it, the probabilities of being dealt that exact hand are just as minuscule.
Given, hypothetically, an array of 52 different universes, the probability of actualizing our universe is 1 in 52. But if we look at any universe after it has been actualized, the probability of that occurring is just as minuscule.
-Life is just one of the possible things that may arise in the universe, and by itself is no more or less important than any of those other things. It's just that, as living beings ourselves, we tend to place a higher value on life than other aspects of the universe.
-We cannot assume that life as we know it is the only possible form that life could take. If the constants of the universe were different, that does not rule out the possibility that intelligent life could nonetheless still arise, albeit in a form currently unimaginable to us.
-It is foolish to say the universe is exquisitely set for the existence of life, since any living thing would instantly die in almost any place in the observed universe.
-The fine-tuning argument is an argument from design, so we can rightly ask, "who designed the designer?". The argument opens itself up for eternal regress. If god designed the universe to support life, this means that god itself has features that lead to the creation of life. The same argument therefore applies to the higher level - it follows that God was created in order to create life. And this God-creator was itself designed to create life, and so on and so forth.
- The argument presupposes that there is a certain range of possible values the constants can take. We don't know whether this is true, we have no idea what values the constants can take or if they can take other values at all.
-The argument presupposes that there is no natural process of creating universes, or that if there is it isn't going to create a universe with our values of the constants. This is, again, just not something we know scientifically. There still isn't a well established scientific theory on how universes are naturally created, so we cannot say that it is unlikely for our universe to have been created naturally (indeed, many of the current hypotheses indicate that our universe was created naturally; but they are not yet proved). Nor are we in the situation where science has established that there is no natural way for a universe to be created. We just don't know enough about universes for this presupposition to be accepted.
In this respect, this is an argument from ignorance. Saying that it is impossible for our universe to have been created naturally in this way is just like saying that the ordered shape of the hexagonal basalt columns of the Giant's Causeway could not have been created naturally. That is, of course, false. One can understand that the basalt columns are natural when one understand enough about how basalt is created and formed naturally. One cannot rule out a natural explanation until one has an understanding of the subject matter's natural behavior. Similarly, since we don't know how universes are created we just don't know enough to determine that the values of the constants in our universe are indicative of an unnatural process.
-The argument is too quick to assert that other values will not result in life. We haven't explored all the various possibilities thoroughly enough to make such a pronouncement. We know slight variations will produce radically different physics, but we're far from knowing that no other constellation of constants will produce complex structures or how common or naturally likely to occur are such combinations. These are two separate issues that should not be confused. Indeed, it is possible that there are values that are more supportive of life, with life more pervasive throughout the spacetime of the universe.
-The argument implicitly assumes that it is possible for a universe to be artificially created with a certain choice of values. While this might sound plausible, it is not necessary. Certain theories on universe-creation, for example, posit that the values are determined randomly due to symmetry breaking, so that there is no way for their creator or the process that creates them to determine these values in advance.
-Another problem is that the anthropic principle holds regardless of fine-tuning. Even if it would take fine-tuning not to support life, the fact that we live in a world that supports life is still not apparently necessary. God still chose just those constants that support life - he just had more choices. This raises the Argument from Contingency, the questions of why things are the way they are, but the evidential fine tuning of things becomes irrelevant.
-Another reply could be that we cannot talk about there being lots of different possible causes, and the probability of the cause being the right one, because we have no way to know how to construct the reference class - the set of possibilities. This would be an absurd double standard. Remember, it was the theists who wanted to get into the probability business in the first place, and to stop playing when it is inconvenient is just hypocrisy. In the absence of any better way of constructing a reference class of possible causes we actually have an excellent reference class to use: Advocates of the fine tuning argument obviously have a reference class of "possible universes" in mind and we can simply use this, and assume that each of these possible universes has an individual possible cause. This, of course, leads us with as many causes as there are possible universes, and if advocates of fine tuning think that most universes are inhospitable to life then they must be claiming that most causes of universes are inhospitable to life. The only way round this is to claim that the reference class of causes is not constructed like that, but the this involves taking a preferential position with no justification: They are wanting to assume that all universes are equally possible, but not that all the causes of these universes are equally possible and they are just adjusting their reference class of causes to fit the answer they want. Furthermore, even if it turned out that the cause of our universe was somehow more likely than the causes of the other universes, this does not imply a designer: By adjusting the reference class like this to get round the problem, unless you can show that your adjustment follows from the cause being a designer, youa re actually admitting that there is no fine tuning problem, that the cause of the universe, for some reason, was more likely than all the other causes that might have occurred. If you lack any sound basis for this, you may as well just apply logic like that to the universe itself anyway.
Also, to quickly spot the inadequacy of the fine-tuning argument, see the following videos on Youtube:
Is the Universe Fine Tuned for Life? [1]
William Lane Craig 2 - Craig Harder (Refuting WLC's Proofs For God, Part II) [2]
And to read an article which handily refutes the theistic anthropic principle, see [3]
Affirming the consequent
The Fine Tuning argument presupposes that the phenomenon of life and it being presumably only possible in a universe with physical constants exactly like the ones in ours is what qualifies this as special or sublime, however, this is based entirely on nothing other than the entities that determine what qualifies this universe as special or sublime are living (humans). This is an affirming the consequent fallacy. It could also be seen as a confirmation bias fallacy. In a hypothetical universe with different physical constants, there may be an emergent natural phenomenon that is vastly more complex than the emergence of life, the evolution of life, and the ecology of life. This phenomenon, we will label "phenomenon x", would be impossible in our universe because our physical constants may not permit phenomenon x to occur. There is no objective reason why the possibility of life demands a fine tuner more than phenomenon x. There is also no objective reason why any natural phenomenon, no matter the complexity, should demand a fine tuner any more than another. Hypothetically, if it were shown that life of some kind is possible in most possible universes, but the phenomenon of lightning is only possible in this one, then an apologist might assert that because we occupy the only possible universe with lightning, this universe must have been finely tuned.
A reductio ad absurdum can be constructed to demonstrate the weakness of the argument. If life is improbable then the existence of spaghetti is even more improbable.
1. The combination of physical constants that we observe in our universe is the only one capable of sustaining spaghetti as we know it.
2. Other combinations of physical constants are conceivable.
3. Therefore, some explanation is needed why our actual combination of physical constants exists rather than a different one.
4. The very best explanation of the given fact is that our universe, with the particular combination of physical constants that it has, was created out of nothing by a single being who is omnipotent, omniscient, and interested in spaghetti, and that he "fine-tuned" those constants in a way which would lead to the evolution of such foods.
5. But such a being as described in (4) is what is meant by the "Flying Spaghetti Monster".
6. Hence [from (4) & (5)], there is good evidence that the "Flying Spaghetti Monster" exists.
Other Counter-Arguments
Important links that address the fine-tuning argument extensively:
StrongAtheism.net [4]
See also
External links
- Cosmology 101 at NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisortopy Probe website — This is an outstanding resource for understanding cosmological theory.
- Fine-Tuned Deception: Say hello to the new stealth creationism by Sahotra Sarkar (in The American Prospect magazine)
- Amazed by Necessary Facts : Swinburne's Teleological Arguments by Francois Tremblay
- The Many Problems of the Fine-Tuning Argument by Francois Tremblay
- Videos refuting William Lane Craig's five proofs for God from Ed the Manic Street Preacher
- Theistic Anthropic Principle Refuted / A Survey of Arguments Against the Theistic Anthropic Principle by Victor Gijsbers for Positive Atheism Magazine
- Why "The Universe Is Perfectly Fine-Tuned For Life" Is a Terrible Argument for God by Greta Christina

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The day before Thanksgiving. You've spent days planning out the menu -- even if it's your traditional menu with just a few twists. Now is the time to think about what you'll be drinking.
For years, before they drill down to specifics, people have pondered red or white when it comes to wine. In Boulder, a place that loves its beer, the debate might be framed as malty vs. hoppy. As it turns out, the answer in both cases is frequently the same: both.
Joe Osborne, marketing director for Avery Brewing Co., has already done some beer pairing for this year's Thanksgiving.
"I just had and early Thanksgiving with my mom and dad leaving town," he says.
As with many families, the menu was what he describes as "standard."
"We don't get creative with Thanksgiving. We try to make the standard things better every year," he says. Included this year were turkey, stuffing with walnuts and cranberries, mashed potatoes with mozzarella cheese mixed in, homemade cranberry sauce, rolls and sweet potatoes.
"With all that food, very rich food -- we're talking fatty, buttery, all that good yumminess -- we did two things, contrast and complement," he says.
On the contrast side was Avery IPA.
"Sometimes you want something to cut through," he says. "(IPA) is so good with turkey and gravy. I couldn't stop taking a bit (of turkey), taking a swig of IPA. I kind of nerded out on it. It was really fun."
But the menu also provided plenty of room for brown ales and stouts. With the sweet potatoes, Osborne liked Old Jubilation, a strong brown ale. For dessert -- pecan pie in this case -- he recommends stouts, especially the high-alcohol-by-volume (ABV) types such as Avery's Mephistopheles'. Osborne's family did a tour of stouts from Avery and other breweries at dessert.
"It's an awesome place to go with high ABV stouts," he says.
Ian Clark, chef at Centro Latin Kitchen, knows a thing or two about beer. In addition to his cheffing duties, he also runs a nanobrewery in his garage, BRU Handbuilt Ales, which supplies some beer selections to Centro and sometimes to other Big Red F restaurants.
Clark is of the complement school of pairing.
"When I think about Thanksgiving, I think about malty, rich beers," he says. "You want something with malt backbone -- brown ales, any kind of Christmas beers.
"You want a beer that's malty and thick and will stand up to all those mashed potatoes," he says.
Clark also addresses a key element of beer pairing: what to drink while you're cooking the feast.
"I'll probably start off cooking with something a little lighter, a pilsner or a pale ale," he says. "When we get into dinner, I want something roasty, a winter warmer or brown ale. As we progress, stronger alcohol Belgian-style beers to match that sweetness."
What about cooking with beer?
Osborne of Avery says maltier beers are generally best, since they reduce to their sugars and add flavor. He says Avery's White Rascal also makes a great reduction, since its elements of citrus and coriander come to the fore.


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PELHAM -- A 20-year-old Windham man is facing charges since police investigating reports of gunfire near two Windham schools discovered a man carrying a concealed gun without a permit.
Sgt. Anne Perriello said officers from Windham and Pelham went in search of the source of the gunshots after several residents and officials at schools reported them on Tuesday about 2:10 p.m.
It took some time but officers found five men shooting at targets for recreation in a remote open field in Pelham near the town line.
Though the gunshots alarmed officials at the Windham Middle School and Golden Brook Elementary School, Perriello said there was nothing legally wrong with the location for the target shooting.
"There definitely weren't any houses around for probably 600 feet," she said. "State law required them to be at least 300 feet away, and not in a compact area."
Perriello said the absence of leaves on trees carried the sound of the gunshots farther than they would in summer or fall.
"No one was in danger," she said.
While the location for the shooting was legal, Perriello said David Peet, 20, of Windham, was carrying a concealed handgun even though his firearms license did not allow for concealed carry.
He was charged with carrying a loaded handgun without a license.
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Friends in Novinger mourn loss of man they'd known for last three decades
On most days, Jake could be found in the same spot around the same time, doing many of the same things. His seat was third from the end of the bar at Chevy's Bar and Restaurant in Novinger. His drink was Miller High Life. And he always requested the biggest ash tray in the joint to be on the countertop before him.
Ask him how he was doing and he responded the same way each time. "To hell with it." It wasn't an angry response. No, for Jake, that was status quo.
Saturday, Jan. 5, was like most days. Jake took a cab from his residence at Kirksville's Village 76 to see his friends at the bar in Novinger and in the early evening, like the other days, he took a cab ride back to his residence.
It was the last time Jake made that trip. Sometime that Sunday, the man referred to as a quiet, decent old man by those who knew him best, was brutally murdered and then dismembered in the apartments on Valley Forge Drive in Kirksville.
The crime itself so horrific, the people who were likely as close to family as Jake had stop mid-sentence when they begin talking about it. They look into the distance, seeming to search for a sensible explanation to it all.
None comes, so they resume with memories about the man they knew both so little and so much about.
"He sure as hell didn't deserve what he got," said Ronnie Cuculich, of Novinger.
"It's going to be different without him being around here," said Julie Conner, who works at Chevy's.
What Jake did before he came to northeast Missouri is something of a mystery to the people with whom he spent so much of his time. Unknown to them, too, is whether "Jake" was a given or nickname, or even the man's real last name, as multiple people interviewed said they believed he went by at least two names.
As it turns out, the victim's real name is Willis Edward Meredith, though he also went by the name Jake Steadman. The latter was apparently the name he'd given to his friends in Novinger.
Jake was something of a storyteller, they say, and he'd talked about a great many things. Perhaps he was an employee at a bread company. Maybe he owned some bars. He could have even been a Kansas Highway Patrol officer.
"Jake was the kind of guy who had a lot of stories to tell," said John McFarland, of Novinger. "How many are actually true, who knows?"
One of Jake's favorites involved his playing guitar with Willie Nelson.
"It was the same story every time. The details never varied," said Gail Greathouse, who manages Chevy's. "Maybe it was true. Who knows?"
In the mid-1970s the city of Novinger was having a sewer system built. The company handling the work was run out of Olathe, Kan., and according to Lisa Williams, whose uncle was leading the work, Jake was part of the construction crew.
Jake ended up relocating to Novinger and taking residence in a small home. A wizard in woodworking, he took a job with Junior Pickett and did construction and woodwork around the town.
He made jewelry boxes and sold them with pride to local residents for about $5. People bought them whether they needed them or not, Greathouse said.
Cuculich and his wife, Bonnie, said Jake built the staircase in their home. Every time he saw Bonnie, she said with a smile, he greeted her the same.
"He always just said, 'Hi, pretty lady,'" she said. "He was very respectful."
How he became so adept at woodworking, no one seemed to know, but when Chevy's was getting set to open around 2000 it was Jake who was hired to build the front of the bar and numerous other fixtures. He also knew of McFarland's collection of classic model cars and suggested he build some special shelves so they could be properly displayed.
More than a dozen years later, the cars rest on the same pieces, each featuring the automobile's name carved along the base.
In the early days of Chevy's, Jake would drive his riding lawnmower to and from his home and the bar. Sometimes on his way home, Greathouse said, he'd swing through the alley next to the bar to save Gail from trying to keep the weeds at bay.
When Pickett closed up shop, Jake had little else to turn to, Greathouse said. He continued his daily trips to and from the bar up until one winter a few years ago, when she and McFarland noticed they hadn't seen him in a few days.
Jake was still living in the same house in Novinger, but no longer had electricity or running water. They'd given him empty beer boxes to burn, but this winter was a harsh one, Greathouse said, and they feared the worst when they knocked on the door and heard no reply.
McFarland said he inched the door open and moved inside. Within a small room was a cot on the floor. Jake was on top, with blankets and jackets pulled up over his face. McFarland shook Jake's shoulder and the man mumbled a few words. He was OK, but the situation was far from it.
"You could see your breath in there," Greathouse said.
McFarland made arrangements for a load of firewood to be delivered to Jake's home. Jake said he didn't need it, that the gesture wasn't necessary, but Greathouse said they knew better.
"The man never asked for anything," she said. "If we'd have let him go, he would have frozen to death."
A few years later the land on which Jake's home sat was sold. Forced to leave, and possibly bitter about how things unfolded, he moved to Village 76 with McFarland's help. Now drawing Social Security, his friends thought it would be for the best, having a nice place to live, with heat, running water and a solid roof over his head.
"It nearly brought him to tears," Greathouse said. "That was tough on him."
He may have moved to Kirksville, but his true home remained in Novinger at Chevy's.
"He just felt at home when he came here," Greathouse said. "We were the only family he had."
That family looked out for him in different ways. Greathouse said Chevy's has a particular group of regulars she'd describe as "rough and tumble" who will be happy to have a war of words with anyone without things becoming physical.
"If you said anything bad about Jake, though, those guys would be all over you," she said.
Not too long ago Jake's white beard had grown out of control, reaching beyond his waistline.
A local cosmetology student offered to give his beard a trim, and Jake consented.
"He looked so much better after that," Greathouse said. "And he felt better, too. I'd say, 'Jake, don't you feel better,' and he's say, 'Yes, I do.' He was walking around kind of proud after that. People were always complimenting him, telling him how much better he looked."
That family had also been growing concerned. In recent weeks, Jake had complained one of his neighbors had been coming into his apartment, stealing money and cigarettes.
Greathouse said she encouraged Jake to inform the Kirksville Housing Authority or law enforcement, but he simply shook his head, not wanting to start trouble.
Whether that man was Paul R. Potter, who stands accused of murdering Willis Edward "Jake" Meredith, is not known. Jake never said the person's name, nor did anyone recall him mentioning any kind of relationship with his alleged killer.
Last Saturday, in Jake's final visit to Chevy's, he handed McFarland $100. McFarland had loaned him $80, as he'd done several times before when Jake was running short on money toward the end of a month. As soon as his Social Security check came through, though, Jake was back, ready to pay with interest, despite protests that wasn't necessary.
"I honestly felt sorry for him," McFarland said. "I knew there wasn't anyone around to do anything for him."
Now, his seat rests empty, though Chevy's remains filled with his presence; the woodwork along the walls, the bar, and Jake's seat, third from the end.
In some ways, these friends knew so little about him, while in others they were like brothers and sisters, and they miss him as one of their own.
"Every time I see a cab come through," Ronnie Cuculich said, "I think, 'Well, that won't be Jake anymore.' We'll miss him."


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Corden is a talent worth watching for his sheer likability, musical and comedy talent, and genuine love of culture, pop and otherwise. He's bending the late-night comedy show formula to fit his skill set, which given this first outing, is impressive.The Wrap Full Review
Corden did a terrific job of showcasing all his talents, including singing a ballad at the end of this first night. He's well on his way to being a nightly crowd-pleaser whom you may be talking about the next day.Yahoo TV Full Review
Corden clearly appears to have the goods.... Most importantly, he has an obvious ability to perform bits that'll hold up in the cold light of dawn, or more specifically on the Internet.Newsday Full Review
Corden and bandleader Reggie Watts make a fantastic team, but they bear eerie resemblance to Fallon and his bandleader Questlove.... The total randomness of the stars made for some of the show's alchemical appeal.... So, so often, these pre-recorded videos or rehearsed segments look and feel excruciatingly awkward or boring. It bodes very well for Corden, and for CBS, that he made these excursions into the absurd look like a lot of fun, both to be in and to watch.Salon Full Review
For all that he would shamelessly borrow from them across the hour, he seemed markedly different from that pack he's lumped in with. In fact, he was even refreshing.The Daily Beast Full Review
As first nights go, this was a winner for Corden.... This is very much a show under construction.The Hollywood Reporter Full Review
Corden slipped easily into the chair vacated last December by Craig Ferguson. His easygoing manner fit well with his low-key banter, built more on everyday conversation than show biz flash.New York Daily News Full Review
Corden did a perfectly solid job. Last night's premiere went about as well as a premiere can go.New York Magazine (Vulture) Full Review
By the time Corden sang a wry little tune thanking us for watching, he seemed as comforting as a cup of tea and a biscuit. He may not be boldly going where no late-night host has gone before, but based on first impressions, Corden looks like he'll be making himself at home in no time.The Oregonian Full Review
One show isn't much of a test of what Corden's Late Late will be. But the premiere certainly suggests that fun is ahead.St. Louis Post-Dispatch Full Review
There's definitely something Fallonized about the new Late Late Show, not necessarily in a bad way at all.... The device of bringing both Hanks and Mila Kunis on at once cocktail-party style is promising, but we'll see if it works with a wider range of guests.... Other elements of the show are embryonic. Musician-comedian Reggie Watts was an inspired choice for bandleader, and let's hope the show gives him an active role.Time Full Review
Somehow, last night, the nice-guy role served him well with his first guests, Mila Kunis and Tom Hanks. He kicked back with them on the couch instead of conducting a formal interview from behind a desk, which made the conversation feel less stilted.... He will have to develop his own voice if he wants to compete.Entertainment Weekly Full Review
It was an undeniably endearing, energetic and star-studded hour of television.Los Angeles Times Full Review
Corden isn't as facile as Fallon, but he also isn't as fawning. Instead of bringing guests out one at a time, he bunched them (a good move) but didn't have enough experience to pull both into all conversations.Sioux City Journal Full Review
The show relied heavily on pre-taped sketches: First came an overlong, cameo-heavy bit about Corden's unlikely path to the late-night lineup.... Corden bears an odd resemblance to a golden retriever—friendly, approachable, and desperately eager to please.Slate Full Review
That's a lot of "new" happening at once, and this first-night attempt to carry on a three-way conversation did come across as a bit forced and awkward--though to be fair, it also produced something of a scoop, as Hanks prompted Kunis to admit she and Ashton Kutcher are married.USA Today Full Review
Mr. Corden, a portly British performer, was energetic, amiable and cheerfully self-assured, but not particularly special.The New York Times Full Review
It all felt safe and predictable, a warm goodnight salvo without any of the tartness or twistedness of Ferguson or of the show's lead-in host, David Letterman.Boston Globe Full Review
Corden comes across as natural and likable, including the self-effacing little song with which he closed the show.... Still, having landed that golden ticket is one thing; possessing the imagination to make it last is going to require not just good fortune, but based on first impressions, some ongoing tinkering with the assembly line.Variety Full Review
Corden is inoffensive and upbeat, so it's hard to hate him, but it's hard to imagine him building a dedicated following, either. Unlike Ferguson, who made his little corner of late night into something unique, Corden is just marking time until viewers fall asleep.Las Vegas Weekly Full Review
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Ozzy Osbourne will play a character named Sid Fishy in the popular Nickelodeon series "Bubble Guppies."
Apparently, they needed someone who sounds as if he's talking underwater.
According to Rolling Stone, Fishy is a "rock and roll fish who loves being rotten."
Oh, well ... OK.
Osbourne's character reportedly sports a red mohawk, eyebrow and fin rings, gold tooth and slime spray to wreak havoc on unsuspecting guppies. The Black Sabbath singer told the magazine he was drawn to the character because, "I've always smelled a bit fishy."
Again ... makes sense.
A representative for the show, which is aimed at preschoolers, said (presumably with a straight face), "The green liquid is Sid Fishy's 'stink sauce' made up of different smells such as stinky socks and rotten eggs. He wants to use the stink sauce to cover Big Bubble City and all its citizens to make them stinky."
I want that person's job, right now.
Other characters on the show include Mr. Grouper, Mr. Grumpfish and other residents of the Bubbletucky Zoo.
Ozzy is obviously fluent in this show's language.
In a separate episode, RuPaul will star as RuPearl, a "charismatic snail that's part ringside boxing announcer and part fashionista." Both episodes will premiere next year.
Osbourne said he took the role with 2-year-old granddaughter Pearl in mind. "The whole reason I did the show was for Pearl," Osbourne said. "She has Nick Jr. on 24/7. I can't wait to see her reaction when she hears my voice come from Sid Fishy's mouth."
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The Lowe's Home Improvement store on Tonnelle Avenue has some new flying neighbors: the green Quaker Parrots, which are sometimes referred to as Monk Parakeets. The parrots and their giant nests have been a familiar sight along River Road in Edgewater for more than 30 years, and seem to have recently migrated in small flocks to North Bergen. They originate from South America and are rumored to have escaped from a broken shipping crate at JFK Airport in the 1970s.
Nesting parrots
Quakers are the only parrots that construct nests, and a very visible one has been built on a utility pole in front of Lowe's. The large nest consists of woven twigs or vines that are placed together.
Alison Evans-Fragale, an advocate for the birds, created the website edgewaterparrots.com and is the founder of the Edgewater Parrots Foundation. According to the site, Quakers often choose to construct their nests in places which they know will provide warmth, such as near electrical power transformers and lights.
"They are from an area of South America that has a climate similar to ours." – Alison Evans-Fragale
Company policy did not allow Lowe's management to disclose any information about their feathered neighbors other than the fact that they have been there for quite some time.
Friend or foe?
According to edgewaterparrots.com, in the 1970s lawmakers became concerned that the Quaker populations would pose a threat to agriculture and other animals, even though the website says they are sociable birds.
Assemblywoman Joan Voss (D – 38th) said in May 2007, legislation to remove the parrots from the state's list of potentially dangerous species passed in the Assembly but stalled in the Senate. Legislation to remove them was also introduced in 2010 but has yet to be passed.
PSE&G considers the nests a potential fire hazard. The parrot advocates reached a truce with PSE&G, who agreed not to remove the nests during breeding season. Prior to that, they tore them down during breeding season, which may have harmed the parrots.
"We remove the nests each spring to ensure the integrity of the electrical system," said PSE&G officials last week. "The birds are attracted to heat given off by transformers and other equipment high up on the poles. Nests often damage electrical equipment by engulfing the electrical devices, which blocks ventilation. The resulting trapped heat can cause devices to short-circuit, leading to local power failures. Our procedure is to try to remove the nests before the breeding season."
Evans-Fragale's website said the parrots were blamed for two fires in Edgewater that occurred in 1998 because of their nests, although the site claims that one was due to lightning and the other was caused by a burning cigarette. One fire led to an hour long of power loss.
Residents weigh in
The parrots are normally spotted on the side of Lowe's closest to the McDonald's near some cliffs.
"I've seen them for seven years now," said North Bergen resident Ralfy Sanchez.
"I've seen them two or three times," said West New York resident Adrian Suarez. "Yesterday when I passed, they were here."
Even some residents from more distant towns are drawn to the parrots.
Lyndhurst resident Julian Cordova noticed another effect of the birds' presence.
"There seem to be less pigeons," she said.
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September 16, 2006
G148: Yankees 7, Red Sox 5
This was crystal clear in the top of the sixth inning. The game was tied 3-3 and Randy Johnson had gotten Lowell to line out to first. Varitek grounded a ball into the shortstop hole. It was playable but Jeter could only wave his glove at it. Single to left. Then Kapler hit a grounder to Jeter's left. It was a play that Gonzo would have gloved, worked through a couple of sudokus and still got his man at first. Jeter stood there and watched it go into center for another single.
The inning should have been over, but the Unit would end up throwing 18 more pitches before being pulled. With runners at first and second, Johnson walked Pedroia and allowed a two-out double to Crisp. Boston 5-3.
The Yankees came right back and re-tied the game a 5-5 in their half of the inning (Jeter ended that rally by flying to center with the go-ahead run at second). New York added two more in the seventh and that was that.
I'm pretty sure he's bringing in more with the bat than he's letting get away in the field, but damn -- he is really immobile.
MVP Watch: Jeter was 1-for-5 with a run scored; Ortiz did not play (he should have batted for Lowell or Varitek (as the tying run) in the 9th).
Julian Tavarez (4.74) / Randy Johnson (4.84), 8 PM
Question: When was the last matchup of two pitchers in such dire need of dermabrasion as these two gentlemen?
Sexy Lips has not allowed a run to the Yankees this season -- 7.1 innings in five appearances. And his ERA is lower than the Eunuch's.
36 comments:
- Gutch220 said...
Sexy Lips has not allowed a run to the Yankees this season You just jinxed him... hurry up and edit.
- September 16, 2006 at 6:39 PM
- redsock said...
You just jinxed him... hurry up and edit.
As I've long maintained, the only people who talked about the "curse" and ghosts and goblins for years and years were Yankee fans.
- September 16, 2006 at 7:00 PM
- Gutch220 said...
what are you talking about, I just said you jinxed him. Nobody said anything about a curse.
- September 16, 2006 at 7:42 PM
- redsock said...
Jinx or curse -- it's all silliness and should not be taken seriously (not that I think you were seriously claiming I put a jinx on ol' S. Lips).
- September 16, 2006 at 7:51 PM
- Gutch220 said...
what about this?
Oooooooo Aaahhhhh Scaaaary.
Is it me, or is it anatomically correct?
- September 16, 2006 at 8:21 PM
- L-girl said...
Except when it comes to no-hitters. Then all jinxes apply, I believe.
Yes, the starting matchup tonight was a dermatologist's dream. Some nights you can do without the close-ups.
- September 16, 2006 at 11:07 PM
- Woti-woti said...
Somebody on SoSH said it was the ugliest matchup of the year. Cruel, cruel.
- September 16, 2006 at 11:10 PM
- 9casey said...
This just taken from Buter Oney's espn page...Any comments!?
Moving Papelbon into the rotation makes sense in light of his shoulder injury, because the team can better regulate his work regimen, and because Boston might get 200 to 210 innings from his talent, rather than 75 to 80 innings. The Red Sox will have a chance to have a particularly strong rotation next year if Josh Beckett improves, with a possible five of Curt Schilling, Tim Wakefield, Jon Lester in front of Papelbon and Beckett (and if I had to fathom a guess right now, I'd also bet that Roger Clemens will pitch for Boston next year).
- September 16, 2006 at 11:26 PM
- brian said...
Got to split tomorrow so they don't clinch against us.
As for Olney's comments, they led me to wonder about possibility of Clemens as a closer? If Roger were to come back to Boston I don't think he would dominate as a starter. He could let it fly for one inning and give us a lights out closer. (Of course Clemens would have to sign off on being a member of the team for 162 games and not a hired gun who makes 20-25 starts and disappears in between.
- September 17, 2006 at 12:34 AM
- Jack Marshall said...
When the Sox won game one and I realized that if they had swept 5 from the Yankees and not the other way around there would be just a half game between them, I decided that now is the time for the Moron Who Really Thought the Sox Could Win 102 Games to reveal his "Ten Top Reasons the Sox Collapsed that have Nothing to Do with Injuries" list. Why anyone should read them or care, coming not only from a moron but from a sanctimonious moron, is a really good question, but anyway, here they are:
1.Theo Epstein's winter bug-out, which led to a confused off-season strategy (trading two shortstops with no apparent alternative, etc.)
2.The optimistic over-dependence on old pitchers (Wells, Wakefield, Schilling, Timlin, Seanez, Tavarez) when the roster was being set.
3.Failure to sign Mike Myers or a equivilent, leading to a season long deficit in the bullpen due to no reliable lefty.
4.Failure to find, sign or promote a dependable major league 5th starter all season.
5.The Arroyo trade, not because it won't pay off in the long run, but because he really would have helped this season, thanks to #4.
6.The panic move of trading Josh Bard and Cla Meredith for Doug Mirabelli, responding to sports page and fan pressure.
7.The inexplicably wretched inconsistency of Josh Beckett.
8.The complete failure of Coco Crisp to play as advertised, to be a good lead-off man or any kind of impact player.
9.Craig Hansen's poor performance when he really was needed to bolster the pen, and perhaps spring Papelbon to be the desperately needed starter.
10. Epstein's inexplicable failure to shore up the team's pitching at the trading deadline.
These pretty much lay the groundwork for the Sickening Sweep of 2006, effectively ending the season. All the subsequent injuries would have done in the team anyway, but that shouldn't make us forget or forgive the mistakes that went before.
- September 17, 2006 at 1:00 AM
- L-girl said...
I also thought the Sox would win more than 100 games. However, I am not a moron. Merely an optimist.
- September 17, 2006 at 7:39 AM
- L-girl said...
Nor do I think anyone else who predicted such success is necessarily a moron.
- September 17, 2006 at 7:40 AM
- Jack Marshall said...
Let's just say that I FEEL like a moron, a cock-eyed optimist who missed the forest for the trees. I have had a pretty good track record assessing the team in the past. The last time I felt this stupid (at least related to the Sox) was 1992, when Plantier tanked, Burks, Reed, Boggs and Roger had off-years, Jeff Gray had a stroke, Carlos Quintana got in a career-ending car-crash,Jeff Reardon lost it, and Butch Hobson turned out to be a dolt.
- September 17, 2006 at 9:09 AM
- Gutch220 said...
Derek Jeter is better than Alex Gonzalez.
- September 17, 2006 at 10:33 AM
- Jere said...
"Derek Jeter is better than Alex Gonzalez."
In Yankee fans' minds, no human being will ever match the godliness that is Jeter. You still call his errors "rare." The guy could lead the league in errors, and each one would be called a "rare Jeter error."
But pretend for a second that it is possible that he's not automatically the best baseball player in the history of the world. Check out other shortstops. Don't just assume that since he's the only one you watch regularly, that no one else is as good or even better.
This is like when I went to a Yankees-Sox game at the Stadium in May, and the Yankee fan I was with, after a fairly nice catch by Jeter, said "YOUR shortstop couldn't do that." And I saw in his eyes that HE believed it. He was in his own world, where it's impossible for anything to outdo Yankee greatness. Do you think he knew our shortstop's name, let alone that he would've made the same play in his sleep?
That's why 2004 proved to me that Yankee fans aren't arrogant becuase of anything their team did, they were just arrogant to begin with.
- September 17, 2006 at 1:07 PM
- Gutch220 said...
wow, you got all of that from one phrase. I'm sure that Alex Gonzalez would even agree that...............Derek Jeter is better than Alex Gonzalez.
- September 17, 2006 at 1:55 PM
- L-girl said...
Derek Jeter is better than Alex Gonzalez.
In what way? Cuter? Debatable. Taller? I think so. More visible in the media? Obviously.
Derek Jeter is an excellent player, there's little doubt of that. He gives his team much more than he subtracts. His offensive numbers are very, very good.
He isn't very good defensively. He never has been, but in the last couple of years, he's really not very good at all.
I don't *really* understand most Red Sox fans' loathing of Jeter, except that he is the face of the Yankees, and gets more than his fair share of adulation - but that's not his fault. (I hope no one will try to explain it to me, I've heard all the arguments, they are all a little bitter and silly, IMO.)
However Gutch, you should be able to see that he's not a very good shortstop. I mean, I was able to see that Mattingly sucked for his last couple of years as a Yankee, even though I loved him. Most Red Sox fans know that Trot has lost a step or two.
If you don't see that Alex Gonzalez is a better defensive shortstop than Derek Jeter, maybe you're not the "true baseball fan regardless of team" that you like to think you are.
- September 17, 2006 at 3:18 PM
- Gutch220 said...
He isn't very good defensively. He never has been, but in the last couple of years, he's really not very good at all.
who won the American league gold glove award for shortstop the last two years?
- September 17, 2006 at 4:02 PM
- Iain said...
It was a play that Gonzo would have gloved, worked through a couple of sudokus and still got his man at first.
Excellent line!
- September 17, 2006 at 4:08 PM
- L-girl said...
who won the American league gold glove award for shortstop the last two years?
If you think Gold Glove awards accurately reflect the best defensive player, then I would say you really don't follow the game at all.
Was it Rafael Palmeiro who won a Gold Glove when he had been DH'ing all season?
Use your eyes Gutch. Watch the man play. I cheered for his team for most of my life, but come on, use your eyes man. He can barely move out there. He makes a nice jump pass, sure, but everything gets past him. Don't you notice that?
- September 17, 2006 at 4:55 PM
- redsock said...
Up until a few years ago, Jeter ranked near the bottom (sometimes dead last) among all major league shortstop in fielding chances per nine innings. The way pitching staffs change through the years (and inJeter's case, it would be 96-97-98-99-01-01-02) fairly negates the likelihood of being on a staff with a lot of fly ball or ground ball pitchers.
He may have improved in recent years. I don't know for sure; I stoped checking the various stats.
He was also below average in "Zone Rating" -- the percentage of outs made on balls hit into his "area" of the field.
These metrics are not perfect, but they are the best we have in 2006. Obviously, fielding percentage is no good (it wasn't worth squat even back in 1876 -- are you listening, Remdawg?)
- September 17, 2006 at 5:06 PM
- redsock said...
Let's look at 2006 stats from ESPN:
By the way, Gonzo has made 6 errors and Jeter has made 13, but I don't think that means much.
Among the 10 qualifying AL shortstops in Range Factor, Jeter (4.16) is last. Interestingly, Gonzalez (4.24) is only 8th. Jhonny Peralta is #1 (4.96).
In Zone Rating, Jeter moves up to 9th; Gonzalez is #2. Juan Uribe is #1.
- September 17, 2006 at 5:11 PM
- redsock said...
Among 25 qualifying MLB shortstops in Range Factor, Gonzalez is #17 and Jeter is #20.
Jose Reyes of the Mets is last.
ESPN says Zone Rating is "the percentage of balls fielded by a player in his typical defensive 'zone'".
I always thought ZR was the % of balls in the zone that were turned into outs. That definition sounds like it could include errors also.
- September 17, 2006 at 5:17 PM
- L-girl said...
It occurs to me that if the Joy Of Sox community turns into "nyah, nyah, Jeter's better, who won the Gold Glove" (etc.) it will be a damn shame. I should stop contributing to that de-evolution by not responding to such comments.
If everyone did that, perhaps those comments would go away.
Just a thought, not necessarily echoed by management.
- September 17, 2006 at 5:19 PM
- redsock said...
Jeter will make $20,600,000 this year.
Gonzlaez will bring home $2,682,592.
Looking at value for $ -- admittedly, not a problem for the Yankees -- but is Jeter almost 10 times as valuable as Gonzalez?
I'd rather have Gonzalez and use the other $17 million for some bats.
- September 17, 2006 at 5:21 PM
- L-girl said...
These metrics are not perfect, but they are the best we have in 2006.
Can't an infielder's ZR or RF be helped by having a better-than-average infielder near him? Two examples I can think of from Yankeeland - Tino Martinez helping Chuck Knoblauch look less awful, and Scott Brosius's excellent range helping Jeter. Seems to me Bill Mueller did that for Nomar, too.
I wonder how you would account for that, if at all
- September 17, 2006 at 5:24 PM
- L-girl said...
is Jeter almost 10 times as valuable as Gonzalez?
He sells more tickets. But that's not a problem for the Red Sox, either.
- September 17, 2006 at 5:25 PM
- redsock said...
I knew when I posted the comment that this is what would happen. It is as inevitable as the sun rising in the East.
It would be nice if every comment offered something substantial and moved the discussion forward, but I don't know how possible that is.
I try to type stuff somewhat more intelligent than "Ortiz Roools!" and I hope others do also.
It's been fine here. I've only had to delete some obnoxious comments that had nothing to do with baseball.
P.S. Ortiz does roool.
- September 17, 2006 at 5:26 PM
- L-girl said...
Well, you are more tolerant than me.
Yes, there is someone even less tolerant than you!
- September 17, 2006 at 5:28 PM
- redsock said...
Can't an infielder's ZR or RF be helped by having a better-than-average infielder near him? ... I wonder how you would account for that, if at all
It could be helped, but you could probably get a rough idea if it was by, in Jeter's case, looking at Slappy's rating. Other than that, I don't know if it can be helped. That's why it's not ideal.
With ZR, you are also relying on the STATS person to accurate measure the zone.
I do remember Tino having good range to his right. I don't if the Professional, with his creaky knees, helped Nosmarts that much.
(Damn, I miss those old nicknames-- the Napkin, the Thermos, Shrek, the Corpse, and my favorite, "Nomar Garciapopup".)
In Jeter's case, people have argued that having fly ball and strikeout pitchers will give him fewer ground ball chances. That is true. But looking at 11 years of data (hard to believe Jeter's been playing 11 years) will probably negate that one way or the other.
(Back in 1999 or 2000, I looked at the Yankee staffs and found that they had more groundball pitchers than average, making Jeter look even worse.)
And Wang is one of the most extreme ground ball pitcher in recent memory, so ...
- September 17, 2006 at 5:35 PM
- L-girl said...
I don't if the Professional, with his creaky knees, helped Nosmarts that much.
We thought so at the time. We sometimes had Brosius vs Mueller "discussions".
- September 17, 2006 at 5:43 PM
- redsock said...
- September 17, 2006 at 7:44 PM
- Jack Marshall said...
You guys are so darned CUTE!
- September 17, 2006 at 10:09 PM
- Edward Lee said...
Yeah, but you have to watch Derek Jeter on a day-to-day basis in order to fully appreciate his fielding.
Oh, wait. Isn't that exactly what those indentured servants who keep all those advanced fielding statistics do?
- September 18, 2006 at 2:13 AM
- L-girl said...
Yeah, but you have to watch Derek Jeter on a day-to-day basis in order to fully appreciate his fielding.
I did. Every game for about 8 years. That's how I know he's not very good.
- September 18, 2006 at 7:15 AM
- L-girl said...
You guys are so darned CUTE!
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