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By Scott Merkin / MLB.com
CHICAGO -- The White Sox entered Sunday leading the Majors in runs per game (6.33), home runs (16) and on-base percentage (.359) while raking second in average (.285), OPS (.815) and slugging percentage (.456). Their pitching, however, hasn't been quite as consistent.
Felipe Paulino was unable to work at least six innings for a third straight start on Saturday against the Indians. Rookie Erik Johnson, who will open a three-game set against the Red Sox on Tuesday, took a step forward with his last effort at Coors Field, but he still has allowed 11 runs on 19 hits in just 10 1/3 innings.
Reliever Scott Downs has not recorded an out in three of his five appearances, while the bullpen as a whole has walked 24 and posted a 7.53 ERA over 34 2/3 innings. Much of the struggles can be chalked up to small sample size, but even in this reshaping mode, the White Sox won't wait all season for a course correction.
"You know the old saying, 'You're only as happy as your least happy kid?' That's what it is with a team," White Sox manager Robin Ventura said. "You're always concerned about the guys that maybe aren't feeling as good or aren't doing as well.
"Is it the bullpen? Is it the pitchers? Yeah. I think when a guy only goes five [innings], you're concerned about him and you want to get him better. Hitters who aren't doing well, you do the same thing."
Ventura added that changes eventually are part of the game if things don't get better. As for a specific time frame, Ventura said that "you know when you know."
"That's just part of what we do," Ventura said. "It's possible at some point. Right now, I don't foresee it."
General manager Rick Hahn has repeatedly made the point that the White Sox won't rush any prospects just to get a quick fix at the big league level.
Alexei reversing trend of April struggles
CHICAGO -- April has not been kind to Alexei Ramirez throughout his Major League career.
In fact, it has been downright mean.
Ramirez's early struggles began with a rough .121 April average as a rookie in 2008 and continued with a .214 mark in '09, .221 in '10 and .207 in '12. He hit .265 in April during the '11 season but dropped to .220 in July and .239 in August of that year.
Dealing with that cold early weather seemed to become second nature to the White Sox shortstop when he finished last April at .281. The fact that his average never dropped below .271 in any other month of the 2013 campaign illustrated Ramirez was becoming a more consistent performer.
That consistency has taken another major jump at the start of this season, evidenced by Ramirez's .420 average and 13-game hitting streak after Sunday's two-hit effort that was capped by a walk-off home run to give the White Sox a 4-3 win over the Indians. Ramirez currently leads the American League in average (.420), OPS (1.143), hits (21) and multihit games (eight), while ranking in the top 5 in four other categories.
Using the whole field has been a crucial adjustment for Ramirez's success.
"Pitchers are trying to pitch, and if I hit them good on one side, they are looking for another," Ramirez said through translator and White Sox manager of cultural development Lino Diaz. "So I've been lucky to be able to pretty much hit the ball where it's pitched. If I'm getting hits in one area, then they are throwing to other areas. I've been waiting for [the pitcher] in that area too.
"Everything is about the preparation, I believe. You know, this year I've been working on that and being prepared. I have my routine and, obviously, things have been good."
Ramirez also has made just one error at shortstop to date. His April success with the bat could be a sign of a special offensive season to come, but Ramirez isn't thinking about the long-term ramifications.
"Yesterday is over," Ramirez said. "I'm just going to play day by day."
White Sox to host panel in honor of Jackie Robinson
CHICAGO -- A special panel discussion entitled "Jackie Robinson: A Catalyst for Change in American Society" will be hosted by the White Sox at U.S. Cellular Field on Tuesday in honor of Major League Baseball's Jackie Robinson Day.
White Sox chairman Jerry Reinsdorf, White Sox executive vice president Kenny Williams, the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Dr. Carol Adams will share their views and perspective on Robinson as a change agent in baseball and American society. The audience at U.S. Cellular's Conference and Learning Center will be filled with student-athletes from Chicago area high schools.
Marcus Semien, the team's current starting second baseman, also figures to be in attendance for the program beginning at 11:30 a.m. CT. Semien praised Robinson for not only breaking MLB's color barrier for African-American players such as himself, but for also giving the same opportunity to other talent of foreign ethnicities.
"There's a lot of talent in the world. It's not just here in America," Semien said. "If you look at our team, we are a very diverse group here, and we all get along as well. It's not like back in those days where guys had a problem with a person of color being on their same team, so it's a great time to play.
"I know he's a man with a lot of courage and a lot of heart," added Semien of Robinson. "It took a lot of that to be able to show up in Major League Baseball and hold your own. To be able to focus on the game of baseball, that's hard enough itself. Dealing with all the stuff that was going on at that time, he did a great job and opened a lot of doors for everyone."
Sale credits Nieves with developing changeup
CHICAGO -- A.J. Pierzynski and Jake Peavy, who are old friends and former members of the White Sox organization, will be in town Monday night for a three-game series with the Red Sox beginning Tuesday.
But the arrival of Red Sox pitching coach Juan Nieves, who was the White Sox bullpen coach from 2008-12, is not lost on staff ace Chris Sale.
Sale was a member of the White Sox bullpen in 2010-11.
"Actually, I talk to him quite a bit. What a great guy he is," Sale said of Nieves. "He was one of the guys that really developed my changeup in terms of showing me grips and things like that.
"Even when I was in the bullpen, he was still making sure I was keeping that sharp, even though I didn't use it quite as much," Sale said.
Per Fangraphs.com, Sale has thrown his changeup 30.7 percent of the time through three '14 starts. That number is up from 19 percent in '13.
Third to first
• Ventura confirmed that Avisail Garcia will have surgery Tuesday to repair a torn labrum in his left shoulder. Garcia suffered the injury diving for a fly ball at Coors Field on Wednesday and will miss the remainder of the 2014 season.
• Adam Eaton has been pretty much what the White Sox expected, according to Ventura.
"He's scrappy and he comes to play every day," Ventura said of the White Sox leadoff man extraordinaire. "Those are just things that he has. He was like that every day in Spring Training, and nothing has changed here."
Scott Merkin is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Merk's Works, and follow him on Twitter @scottmerkin. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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by Paul Lefebvre
MONTPELIER — Vermont is going to increase its hourly minimum wage.
Vermont legislators generally agreed that it was the right and ethical thing to do.
But when, and by how much, is still hanging in the air.
Under a House bill that won preliminary approval Tuesday, next year on January 1, 2015, a minimum wage worker could see his or her weekly pay check jump by roughly $40.
That's the result of an increase in the minimum wage going from $8.73 to $10.10 an hour.
"Forty dollars in your pocket is not a theory," said Representative Tom Stevens of Waterbury, speaking in the urgent tone of legislators who wanted to make a change.

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"Pittsburgh audiences haven't seen anything like that before. They are Brazilian trained dancers from the streets of Brazil," said Pittsburgh Dance Council Executive Director Paul Organisak "Their execution is original and their choreography is original. They learned to dance in Brazil and now they are touring the world.
"I went to Brazil and saw them and they were powerful and strong and I said 'when are they coming to Pittsburgh!' They are vibrant, exquisite dancers and their sound track is a unique mix of salsa, samba and bossa nova music," Organisak said.
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Fracture of the nose; Broken nose; Nasal fracture
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Serious nose injuries cause problems that need a health care provider's attention right away. For example, damage to the cartilage can cause a collection of blood to form inside the nose. If this blood is not drained right away, it can cause an abscess or a permanent deformity that blocks the nose. It may lead to tissue death and cause the nose to collapse.
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Sparano was a lateral move. I don't see why Rex co-signed that signing. He must have known Sparano was awful.
Sparano was a lateral move. I don't see why Rex co-signed that signing. He must have known Sparano was awful.
We went from the worst OC to the second worst OC. Our skilled positions have to be the weakest in the NFL. Our QB implodes once he is touched. Our HC does not believe in offense.
THAT is a recipe for what we have.
how quickly people forget the dude sucked balls as the o coordinator it was train wreck... need 8 yards lets send the receivers out 6 yards.....
Really really Bad OC plus really really bad talent on O + HC who does not give a sh1t about the offense = recipe for?
There's a theory among some Jets fans that QBs' passer ratings improve without Schotty.
So far it's not holding true:
Sanchez's is down in 2012 vs 2011.
Bradford's is up in 2012 vs 2011.
you might also have a head coach who is taking a more active control in O and not letting the O-coach have complete control?
schitty was absolutely horrible as an offensive coach. he play calling was disjointed and he didn't seem to be able to get the team moving in the same direction. obviously the jury is still out on sanchez and sparano but what i've seen so far is an offense that is willing to throw deep and not getting mired in back to back to back to back 3 and outs. this in spite of a back who hesitates when hitting the hole, an oline that isn't performing up to par, a qb who is up and down, and not having a really good receiver set.
Favre had the pedigree to ignore Schottenheimer. Pennington's frequent injuries prevented him from challenging him.
Bradford's 7-21 performance may be about to get worse with WR Amendola out for awhile. Let's see what happens now.


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Original post made by Rick, another community, on Feb 9, 2012
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Feb 9, 2012 at 7:32 am
"Now libraries in the Bay Area, as in the rest of the state, will lose funding for literacy programs, InterLibrary Loans, and miscellaneous expenses such as librarian training programs and books"
This is wrong! So prisoners get access to books and education, but libraries do not? There is something wrong with this.
But I have to admit that the Pleasanton library is not very good, and they seldom have anything we need. We have gotten very used to going to another city's library (yes, we pay a fee because we are not in-county, but it is worth it)
Perhaps what they need to do is consolidate the smaller libraries into one central one.
a resident of California Somerset
on Feb 9, 2012 at 11:09 am
Libraries and books? Who needs them? I get everything I need on tv and the internet.
a resident of Highland Oaks
on Feb 9, 2012 at 3:03 pm
With school libraries and the availability of information on the Internet, it would be appropriate to examine the current role of the public library.
a resident of Livermore
on Feb 9, 2012 at 3:29 pm
The LieBerry is used by parents to dump their kids so that they can shop.
I use the internet for infomation.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Feb 9, 2012 at 3:31 pm
Mike - school libraries are on the cut list for schools. So we're counting on the public library . . .
a resident of California Somerset
on Feb 9, 2012 at 3:53 pm
Mike and I are on the same page on this. Public libraries? School libraries? Who cares? We're living in an age where it's less and less important to read. Libraries are simply a drain on taxpayers who have a lot more important things to spend their money on, like themselves.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Feb 9, 2012 at 5:32 pm
It's the democratic leadership proposing these changes. There are other places to cut, like prison guard pay.
a resident of California Somerset
on Feb 9, 2012 at 8:14 pm
There are criminals swarming the streets. We see them drive through Pleasanton in souped up cars with hip hop music blaring. We need more cops, more arrests, and judges have to stop acting like Santa Claus once the criminals stand before them. We need longer sentences, more prisons, and more prison guards. Our morality is declining because of liberal loony values. Here's what Commie Krugman has to say: "Adjusted for inflation, entry-level wages of male high school graduates have fallen 23 percent since 1973. Meanwhile, employment benefits have collapsed. In 1980, 65 percent of recent high-school graduates working in the private sector had health benefits, but, by 2009, that was down to 29 percent." The unions are cawdling kids who come from the ghetto, pushing white kids into crime. We need to start arresting and imprisoning the loud union-protected hip hoppers with their chrome mags so as to give white kids a more equal chance.
a resident of Amador Estates
on Feb 9, 2012 at 8:38 pm
Eliminate public libraries. If there is any demand, then this service can be privatized.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Feb 9, 2012 at 10:44 pm
Well, I gotta tell you. I love the Pleasanton Library, although it's true I don't use it after school hours. It is a great place. I for one hate to see the place lose its funding. Of course, at the same time, I don't want to pay for it either. It's true people don't read. But I go through 5-6 books a month. It's my enjoyment. Now I don't read every book from cover to cover, but I bet I know a lot more than Cholo or some of you other folks out there. You just have to ask me the right questions that's all. Excuse me, I have to go return some books and check out some CD's.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Feb 10, 2012 at 6:43 am
Yes, eliminate libraries. Not enough demand. We should also eliminate the Police force and the Fire Department, and privatize them. After all, I don't need them all the time. When my house catches fire or I get burglarized, I call a private firm and I pay as I go. I shouldn't use my hard earned money for some public service with so little demand for me.
And while at it, I think we should also do away with public parks. I no longer have kids that need them, or dogs to walk. Those that need one can go to a private park and pay for the usage. That should go for state parks, and don't forget the Sports Park in Pleasanton. I don't use it, why should I pay for it? All that space would be great for private businesses. Think of all the tax revenue for the city!
There's also the street cleaning. I can do it myself. No need to pay taxes to have it done in front of my house. Waste of money!
And services for the disabled? Nonsense! They should be cared for by their families. They should not be my responsibilty.
Public services are nonsense.
a resident of California Somerset
on Feb 10, 2012 at 9:15 am
... and public schools. All should be eliminated because they're infiltrated with union vermin. Privatize all schools.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Feb 10, 2012 at 9:23 am
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Feb 10, 2012 at 10:38 am
Probably a good question now is what is the purpose of a library at a school? When I was in school, many, many years ago, we did not have a public library in our own city and we obviously did not have the Internet for doing research. Today, in Pleasanton, we have a public library in town, and there is not as much reason to go to the library to go through the encyclopedias of a school library for a research project.
I am not advocating for changing the libraries at schools, yet, but rather am curious on what the purpose is today. Possibly the library's function has been replaced by the computer lab? Sometimes we keep doing something a certain way because "that is the way we always did it" but it is good at times to evaluate the purpose and see if it still makes sense, or there is a better way to do it now.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Feb 10, 2012 at 11:38 am
My kids do not use the school libraries but do use the public libraries. The Pleasanton library is usually not enough to meet their research needs, and that is why we go to another city, where they have a big library with many resources, both for school work and for reading for pleasure.
The internet is nice, but not all kids have access to it, especially the younger kids, plus there is so much junk posted on the web, that a young kid may be better off at a real library.
I think that we need to consolidate the smaller libraries into one big central one. We could for instance, have one central library serving the cities of Dublin, Pleasanton, Livermore and Fremont. That way, we can have an Alameda County central library serving the East Bay, and it would be more cost efficient and the library could have more resources.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Feb 16, 2012 at 10:41 pm
I LOVE the Pleasanton Library and use it almost weekly. I get many books via interlibrary loan. The staff are wonderful. People who say you can get it all online are wrong: the Google Books project, Gutenberg, and other online book efforts notwithstanding, there are MANY books one cannot get online or on the Kindle type readers, not even for a fee.
It certainly is possible to buy many (but not all) books one wants. I would rather pay the library than pay to personally own (and then discard) any more books.
It might seem to non-readers that there are plenty of sources for books and info, but once one gets interested in a specialized area, it quickly becomes clear that one simply cannot buy some books (even if one could afford it), that lots of existing info is not online.
I do agree that a new model for funding local libraries is needed. Government funding has been withering for decades, esp for remote or poor areas. In fact, if we do not get a new source of support for libraries, we probably will not have them much longer. And judging by many comments here, many people will not care. What a loss!
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Search giant Google is known for its "do no evil" approach. It goes to great lengths to protect the environment and it blocks sites on lists of known malware sites from being searched.
However, security researchers made an alarming discovery of a major slip-up for Google. The site had allowed a known malware site to buy text ads and was placing these ads on its partner pages through its Google AdWords service. The link was listed as "Antivirus XP 2008," which led to the URL "antivirus-world-2009.com." (Don't go there)
Why does this sound a bit familiar? Well, "Antivirus XP 2008" happens to be the name of one of the most obnoxious malware to be developed in the last year. The very widespread virus hides itself in users systems. It pops up to warn them annoyingly with a fake antivirus dialog that their computer is infected with all sorts of bad things and the end may well be nigh -- or so it says. The whole thing is really a scam, to try to get people to upgrade to an equally fake "pro edition".
Getting rid of the virus is even more of a pain, as it does have one thing in common with antivirus software -- it regularly connects to the internet and updates itself. However, unlike AV software, it updates itself to better evade virus scans.
While those familiar with computer security may spot the name instantly, the legitimate sounding Google link likely fooled many users. The oversight is particularly impressive, considering the malware was listed under its own well known name.
Interestingly, Google searches for the site turned up no results, showing a dichotomy in that Google blacklisted the site from its search, but did not prevent it from advertising.
A Google spokesman responded to the incident, stating, "Google is committed to ensuring the safety and security of our users and our advertisers. As soon as we are aware of any violations of our policy, we work quickly to investigate and remove sites that serve malware in both our ad network and in our search results. As such, we've removed this site from our ad network."
Sure enough the ad was removed. However, the oversight has left many wondering -- was this an isolated incident or the sign of a bigger problem? In the end it's rather amazing considering how powerful and savvy Google currently is, that it either has little filtering or has a highly inaccurate filtering system of what sites are allowed to be advertised.


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Uh, oh. Another crazy patchwork of state and local regulations is under attack. (The Reticulator is almost always in favor of these crazy patchworks on anti-monopoly grounds.)
In Trempealeau County, Wis., where a number of new sand mines have opened, officials recently imposed a one-year ban on issuing new permits.
"We were looking at hundreds of permits being taken out, dozens of proposed mines that could become operational within a year," said Sally Miller, a member of the county's board of supervisors. "I didn't want us to be 20 years from now saying we wish we had known."
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Yeah kill someone else !I don't think Kakashi is dead from the way he "died". Everyone who has died so far has died in combat. Sarutobi died by sacrificing himself to try and kill Orochimaru. Asuma died in combat with Hidan. Jiraiya died in combat with Pain. And Kakashi, who has either been in the Manga longer or has played a bigger part than any of the others dies by RUNNING OUT OF CHAKRA!!!!???? WTF!?? Not only that, but gets one lousy issue dedicated to his death, while the rest of them get crazy forever deaths.
I think Kishi is just jerking us around and playing with our emotions. Then he'll kill off someone else (I'm still thinking Tsunade).


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Raids hit suspected internet drug peddling operations in nine countries on Wednesday as part of a international crackdown coordinated by Interpol.
Operation Pangea targeted the sales of unlicensed or prescription-only medicines over the net. The drugs on offer claimed to offer relief from treatments ranging from diabetes and obesity to hair loss.
The provenance of the drugs was unclear. Their suitability for sufferers who bought them is even more uncertain, since those running illegal pharmacy sites routinely fail to check medical records, leaving would-be patients at risk.
"Buying medicines from illegal and unregulated websites poses significant risks, not least that the buyer is putting their health in danger by taking drugs which have no guarantee of safety, quality or effectiveness," said Jean-Michel Louboutin, Interpol's executive director of police services.
The raids took place in countries including Canada, Germany, Ireland, Israel, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland, the UK and the USA. The names of the firms raided and how many arrests were made are yet to emerge.
Investigations in some countries are ongoing, so further raids may follow.
In the UK, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) raided 12 addresses linked to seven internet sites under suspicion of selling unlicensed medicines that claimed to treat conditions ranging from impotency and obesity to steroid abuse. Thousands of packs of unlicensed medicines and some computers and related documents were seized during the raids. In addition, takedown orders against the allegedly infringing websites were filed with ISPs.
The US Food and Drug Administration was also involved in the operation but has not yet published an update at the time of going to press.
Many of the participating countries have organised raids on their own in the past, but Operation Pangea is billed as the the first time internationally coordinated raids have taken place. Organisations including the Permanent Forum on International Pharmaceutical Crime and the World Health Organisation's International Medical Products Anti-Counterfeiting Taskforce teamed up with Interpol to organise the crackdown. ®
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The first debate was held in South Carolina and was sponsored by Fox, which chose not to invite Karger because the network claimed he didn't meet its criteria. One requirement was that each participant poll at least 1 percent in five polls. But Karger does poll that high in polls by Zogby, Fox News, CNN, ABC/Washington Post and CNN.
Among Karger's other claims to legitimacy are the fact that he has raised four times the minimum amount seen as the Federal Election Commission's threshold to be considered a serious candidate.
Karger was the first to run statewide commercials in New Hampshire. He was the first to be interviewed on BBC's HardTalk. He has strong student support. In a New Hampshire straw poll, he beat Mitt Romney by 2 percent.
Karger says he's the only moderate running and claims to have more political experience than any of the other candidates. Karger worked for Ronald Reagan beginning with his first campaign.
Karger wrote a letter to CNN and co-sponsors WMUR-TV and the New Hampshire Union Leader.
"I have yet to receive an invitation," he said.
Unlike Fox, which made its eligibility requirements public and still excluded Karger even though he met them, CNN isn't disclosing them. If he's not included, we'll never officially know that CNN just doesn't want to include the gay guy with moderate views who can embarrass the rest of the fine Republican field.


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By Adam McCalvy / MLB.com
PHOENIX -- Brewers manager Ron Roenicke spoke out Wednesday in support of left fielder Ryan Braun, who has remained quiet since making a statement explaining his link to the South Florida clinic under investigation by Major League Baseball for allegedly supplying some players with banned substances.
Roenicke said he disagreed with Yahoo! Sports' decision to publish excerpts from the logbook of Tony Bosch, the former head of that clinic, that included Braun's name, even though Braun was never linked to any illicit substances or treatments. Braun later said in a statement that his lawyers consulted with Bosch in the 2011-12 offseason, during Braun's appeal of a suspension.
"It's a pet peeve, I guess, of mine: Don't bring up anybody's name and put it in there if you're questioning it," Roenicke said. "If there's something going on and there's a definite [transgression], fine, that's your job to put it out there. But don't bring up names that you're not sure of and then retract it later, because it never is retracted from the fans or the people that are out there. Never. There are some people who will say, 'OK, they shouldn't have put it out there,' but for the majority, it's still there in their mind. So it shouldn't be out there.
"That's what I have an issue with. You want to bring up somebody's name, then you'd better be sure when you write it up. It's very unfair to the player, and that's what I have an issue with. It's not right."
Tim Brown, one of the veteran reporters who wrote the story linking Braun to the clinic, has said Yahoo! Sports considered Braun's appearance in the logbook newsworthy because it had confirmed MLB would investigate the link.
Braun and the rest of Brewers position players report to Maryvale Baseball Park on Friday, and the team's first full-squad workout is Saturday. Roenicke indicated the Braun matter was low on his list of priorities.
"To be honest with you, I'm not really thinking about handling it or anything until there's more information on what is there," Roenicke said. "I can't make comments on something I know nothing about. I talked to Ryan, he's coming in and I know he's going to have to deal with some press issues, but we're just going to move on with it as if nothing's there. ...
"It was different last year. We knew what the specifics were last year," Roenicke said. "I knew what to address, what I wasn't supposed to talk about. I knew where he was on those issues. I don't know anything [now]. Let's see where we are. It may be nothing. If it's just the thing with the lawyer and payments, then it's nothing."
Ahead of schedule, Hart hopes to return in April
PHOENIX -- Brewers first baseman Corey Hart was still using crutches Wednesday, but said he was ahead of schedule in his return from right knee surgery and aiming to be back before the end of April.
His optimism was especially noteworthy considering one doctor predicted only weeks ago that Hart's season was over.
Hart stopped by Maryvale Baseball Park on Wednesday for a checkup with Dr. William Raasch and spoke at length about his rehab for the first time since undergoing surgery on Jan. 25 to repair a torn meniscus and smooth an imperfection in the joint surface. He hopes to be cleared for more intense rehab after an MRI scan scheduled for March 8.
Hart had hoped that MRI would come sooner, but was upbeat about his progress.
"Everything is coming faster than they thought it would come," he said.
The prognosis was much direr at one point last month.
Hart's knee had been an issue throughout all of 2012, beginning in Spring Training when he underwent surgery for two meniscal tears, and continuing early in the season when he banged the knee against the wall at Miller Park while attempting a sliding catch. Hart played through swelling in the joint all season, then rested in October and November while waiting for another injury -- painful plantar fascia in his right foot -- to heal.
When he tried to ramp up his training in December, Hart's right knee began to act up. Raasch, the Brewers' head physician, recommended a surgery to repair a smaller meniscal tear and debride the joint surface, and told Hart he'd be sidelined three to four months.
But that procedure was delayed a few days while Hart exercised his right to a second opinion from Dr. Richard Steadman, a Vail, Colo.-based specialist considered one of the world's foremost knee experts. Steadman recommended a much more invasive microfracture surgery.
"He said I was out for the year," Hart said. "I was like, 'That is not going to happen.'"
But over the next few days, Hart said, Steadman and Raasch conferred and opted for the original procedure. Afterward, the Brewers projected a four-month rehab.
Hart wants to be back sooner.
"[April] is not out of the question," he said. "I'm not necessarily a fast healer, I'm just a hard worker. I do everything and then I ask for extra stuff. I make sure I give myself [every] chance to come back quicker."
On young staff, Gallardo looked to for leadership
PHOENIX -- Brewers pitchers and catchers had their first formal Spring Training workout on Wednesday.
So was manager Ron Roenicke ready to name Yovani Gallardo the Opening Day starter?
"No, but you can guess well," Roenicke said.
Gallardo is the Brewers' clear No. 1 starter this season after years of sharing the spotlight with other established arms, from Ben Sheets to CC Sabathia to Zack Greinke. At some point, barring an unforeseen injury, Roenicke will tab Gallardo to start the Brewers' April 1 season opener against the Rockies.
"We need him this year," Roenicke said. "We've lost our veteran pitchers, our starters, and we need 'Yo' to be that guy. Hopefully, he'll be a guy that these young guys look up to. Great work ethic, and that's going to be important."
Last call
• Non-roster left-hander Joe Webb was restricted from throwing after his physical exam revealed a minor shoulder issue, assistant general manager Gord Ash announced. Webb will be re-examined in a week or two.
"Because we don't have a history with him, we're trying to be cautious instead of letting it turn into something major," Ash said. "Everybody else has their usual wear-and-tear, but no restrictions."
• Right-handers Jairo Asencio and Alfredo Figaro and left-hander Miguel De Los Santos were being delayed in the Dominican Republic while awaiting visas. Ash said Dominican players from other teams were similarly delayed after the U.S. consulate there had requested reviews of some previously completed background checks. Asencio and Figaro are non-roster invitees to Brewers camp, and De Los Santos is on the 40-man roster, but will be sidelined until July while recovering from shoulder surgery.
Two other members of the 40-man roster -- pitcher Ariel Pena and shortstop Jean Segura -- faced similar visa delays, but were cleared on Tuesday. Pena was expected to arrive in Phoenix on Wednesday night and Segura by the weekend.
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Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo wants to know why the F2012's latest updates at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix fell short of expectations and did not allow Fernando Alonso to fight for victory in Sunday's race.
Ferrari brought new front and rear wings, a new diffuser and revised barge boards to Yas Marina, but Alonso said the improvement in lap time could only be measured in hundredths of a second rather than the required tenths of a second. He qualified sixth and managed to fight back to second, but Montezemolo says Ferrari must have a car capable of fighting for victory at the next round in the USA.
"The weekend was hard to read," he said in a statement on Ferrari's website. "That began with Saturday evening when I watched a situation that was not entirely clear. As far as Ferrari is concerned I want to understand why the new parts that we brought to the track only partially improved the performance of the F2012, which wasn't enough to allow Alonso to fight for the very front positions on the grid - despite the contrasting expectations of our engineers. Yesterday Fernando nonetheless produced his umpteenth great race of the season, in which he again gave 120% and he managed to fight for victory right to the end.
"But it's clear that we have to do more for the coming races. That is what I requested today of Domenicali and his team: we have 10 crucial days ahead, during which we must do everything to arrive in Texas with a car that can fight for the victory. Words count for nothing: this must be our target."
Alonso reduced the gap in the drivers' standings to Sebastian Vettel by just three points after the Red Bull driver staged an impressive comeback after starting from the pit lane. Montezemolo said it was now down to Ferrari to make up the rest of the 10-point gap by improving the performance of the car.
"To start sixth and finish second, despite only benefiting from one retirement from another car, clearly shows the pedigree of Fernando's race yet again. Of course, yesterday morning we were all hoping to gain back a few more points in the championship given Vettel's starting position. Instead he produced a fine race too, even if the two safety car periods certainly didn't help us...
"Nonetheless I remain confident because everything is possible. It depends on us: yet again in these last 15 years we are involved in the title battle right up to the end and we have seen how much more difficult situations in the championship standings have been overturned. It's up to us not to leave any stone unturned: I am certain that the will to win drives the men and women who work for Ferrari and that everyone will work with absolute determination, giving the same 120% that Fernando keeps on giving. We want to win the World Championship - just as we have done this year in many Gran Turismo title fights thanks to the mighty 458 Italia, beating the most important constructors: I believe in us more than anyone."


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Are the positions of General Manager and President different?
Or is it 2 different ways to name/call the same position?
Are the positions of General Manager and President different?
Or is it 2 different ways to name/call the same position?
The GM's duties include:
- managing coaching staff, including hiring/firing
- roster management, such as drafting players, negotiating contracts and trading
The President's duties include:
- managing GM and executive staff, including hiring/firing
- liaison between ownership and managment
- overseeing management of all team departments, both team (GM) and organization related (senior managers from various standard corporate departments, such as HR, finance, marketing, etc...)
In the Pat Riley role, Jackson would become the President and either also be the GM or rule over a GM. In an advisory role, he could either be the President or sit in a special role between the President in GM, so that it's his strategic direction that the GM implements.
Of course, this is all based on assumption and conjecture, based on following far too many teams for far too long...
*palm to head*
That's so confusing...
If the president makes all of the player decisions, trade choices, etc. What would a GM under the president do? Manage supporting staff ie: coaches, training, roadtrips, hotels???
It's worth mentioning that some organizations have a specific title for president of basketball operations, which is going to be an overseer of the GM, but would not include some presidential oversight like finance and marketing. And in some organizations, this is described as a vice-president position. I think if you compared all the org-charts of every NBA team and the duties of each role, few would match with one another. I never really understood how the relationship between Colangelo and Stefanski was supposed to work. It should be that Stefanski as vice president of basketball operations, should be GM Colangelo's boss, but then president Colangelo is vice-president Stefanski's boss. I suspect that Stefanski doesn't have near the authority that other VPs of basketball operations have.
I think in the case of Jackson, if he's interested in a position, you figure out how he thinks he can be of use to you, what he wants to do, what responsibilities your comfortable with him handling, and then craft a role for him, in terms of job description. The actual job title is secondary to the whole thing.
Another unique situation is Greg Popovich is the President and Coach of the Spurs, but RC Buford is the GM.
And in Dallas, Mark Cuban essentially plays Owner/President and yet they have Donnie Nelson on board as GM.
But the actual differences between the roles are generally team specific I would imagine.
Nelson also carries the title of VP (or president?) of basketball operations, while Buford is president of sports operations. In Buford's case that means that he does more than just handle the Spurs, but e.g. also their D-league team. I'm guessing something similar is the case for Nelson, because he owns part of their D-league team. If I'm correct.
Just a thought, but isn't Bryan known to be both, president and GM of basketball operations?
Twitter: @ReubenJRD NBA, Raptors writer for Daily Hive Vancouver, Toronto.
Before Stefanski was brought in I believe he was President of basketball ops and GM, I believe Stefanski has the GM position now?
"They're going to have to rename the whole conference after us: Toronto Raptors 2014-2015 Northern Conference Champions" ~ ezzbee Dec. 2014
"I guess I got a little carried away there" ~ ezzbee Apr. 2015
"We only have one rule on this team. What is that rule? E.L.E. That's right's, E.L.E, and what does E.L.E. stand for? EVERYBODY LOVE EVERYBODY. Right there up on the wall, because this isn't just a basketball team, this is a lifestyle. ~ Jackie Moon
Nope, Stefanski has some sort of ludicrous VP title, something to do with basketball operations.
BC is President and GM.
ESPN just put out an article on different possible landing spots for Phil Jackson. The Raptors came in as the most likely possibility:
The rest of the article can be found here (Insider): http://insider.espn.go.com/nba/playo...t-phil-jackson1. Toronto Raptors
This has been the hot rumor, but even if it weren't, the Raptors would make a lot of sense. They have a young, talented roster, though not one that is necessarily fitted with Jacksonian-type players. Toronto's cap situation isn't the best, and that remains true even if you use the amnesty tag on Andrea Bargnani.
However, Jackson is pals with Tim Leiweke, who was recently named CEO of Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment, which counts the Raptors as one of its numerous sports holdings. Leiweke is on the short list of the most powerful people in sports, and if he and Jackson want to get together, the presence of Ed Stefanski, Bryan Colangelo and Dwane Casey -- all capable people -- is not going to stand in his way.
And not for nothing, Jackson is a huge fan of Alex McKechnie, Toronto's director of sports science. Jackson knows how valuable a capable training staff is in the NBA, and worked with McKechnie in L.A.
Damn, I wish this stuff would stop appearing. Only going to make it hurt all the more if he goes someplace else.
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Combined sewers are pipes that catch both sewage and stormwater and route it to a waste water treatment plant. In dry weather, it's all sewage in the pipes. In small rain storms, the pipes carry sewage mixed with stormwater and it all goes to the wastewater treatment plant to get cleaned up and returned to a stream or lake. The origins of combined sewers predate waste water treatment, when there was little distinction between stormwater and sewage and stream and city dwellers just wanted the foul-smelling, disease-festering stuff out of their way as soon as possible. Later, engineers and public health folks added the crucial waste water treatment plant step to the system but the sewers remained combined. Combined sewers were common until the early 20th century, so over 772 communities in the US, mostly in the Northeast and Great Lakes regions have combined sewers, as shown on this map from the US EPA:
Most of the time, combined sewers route all of the water to the waste water treatment plant, and all is relatively well. But in large storms, the volume of stormwater and sewage can overwhelm the waste water treatment capacity. If the volume of water was too much to treat, you can imagine the pipes starting to fill up with sewage. If there were no "pressure release valve" on the system, urban dwellers in combined sewer cities would see the sewage/stormwater cocktail start to back up into their basements, sinks, … and, you get the picture. Fortunately for those city residents, there is a "pressure release valve in the system," but it's a solution that creates more problems downstream, literally. When flows in the combined sewers are too great to be treated, the sewage/stormwater cocktail overflows out of the pipe network and into local streams. Then you've got raw sewage in your stream and that's not pretty, or healthy, or environmentally friendly. This is the infamous combined sewer overflow or "CSO."
Here's a Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District video explaining combined sewers and touting their treatment system:
Under the Clean Water Act, cities and sewer districts can be required to bring their raw sewage discharges down to acceptable levels by reducing the frequency and magnitude of combined sewer overflows (CSOs). Right now, Cleveland, the District of Columbia, Philadelphia, and other cities are under mandate to reduce their CSO discharges. This is a big, expensive undertaking because we're talking about billions of gallons of overflows each year and thousands of miles of combined pipe network underneath the city. Big problems require big solutions, so how are the cities dealing with their CSO problem? It turns out that they are taking a range of different approaches.
In Cleveland, waste water treatment and stormwater are managed by the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District (NEORSD). Their "consent decree" with the EPA was filed in July 2011, and according to that decree, they have 25 years to reduce CSO volumes by 90%. That's taking the CSOs from 4.5 billion gallons per year to the still non-trivial 494 million gallons per year. If they meet that goal, 98% of all wet weather flows will be treated before being released to a stream. The price tag for this ambitious project is $3 billion, and it has been termed "Project Clean Lake" in homage to Cleveland's Lake Erie shoreline. a source of regional pride.
How is NEORSD planning to reduce CSOs? With a lot of digging. Most of the money and effort is being spent on "gray infrastructure" – big engineering projects. BIG engineering projects. NEORSD is boring 7 tunnels, each 2-5 miles long, up to 24 feet in diameter, and up to 300 feet below the ground or lake bottom. These tunnels will intercept the combine sewers before they overflow and store the water until the treatment plants have capacity to treat it.
This is a massive undertaking, and it's just getting started. The videos below show the first tunnel boring machine arriving in Cleveland and a tour of the tunnel first tunnel to begin construction. You can follow the progress of the tunnel boring on the NEORSD blog.
But it's not just tunnels, NEORSD is also enhancing their wastewater treatment capacity and spending $42 million on green infrastructure. Green infrastructure is defined as "a range of stormwater control measures that use plant/soil systems, permeable pavement, or stormwater harvest and reuse, to store, infiltrate, or evapotranspirate stormwater." These can include things like green roofs, green streets, bioretention swales, and other projects. The goal is control 44 million gallons of would-be stormwater using green infrastructure, with projects completed in the next 8 years. Those numbers are nothing to sneer at it, but it's 1% of the current combined sewer overflow volume and 1.5% of the budget. The fact that the budget % is bigger than the volume percent may hint at why green infrastructure isn't being used more broadly in Cleveland.
Washington DC is taking a somewhat different approach than Cleveland. One-third of DC is served by combined sewers, and they are spending $2.6 billion over 25 years to reduce their overflow problem, which is currently about 2.5 billion gallons per year. DC Water has nicknamed their CSO program the "Clean Rivers Project." Like Cleveland, they are also building large storage tunnels, improving their waste water treatment plants, and rehabilitating pumping stations. Unlike Cleveland, DC will actually be separating the sewers in some areas, sending sewage and stormwater down different pipes from each other. In DC, green infrastructure seems to get only a rhetorical nod, rather than a significant component of the budget. Their plan says they will "advocate implementation of Low Impact Development," but they've only budgeted $3 million for it, a mere 0.1% of their overall project cost. However, they do have the world's best explainer video.
Philadelphia is taking a radically different approach. Like Cleveland and DC, their price tag comes out to about $3 billion over 25 years. However, in Philadelphia it's a "Green City, Clean Waters" program and green infrastructure steals the show. Philadelphia's goal is to "reduce reliance on construction of additional underground infrastructure" by pushing extensive green infrastructure throughout the city. In other words, they don't want to dig tunnels. Instead, they want to green acres:
Each Greened Acre represents an acre of impervious cover within the combined sewer service area that has at least the first inch of runoff managed by stormwater infrastructure. This includes the area of the stormwater management feature itself and the area that drains to it. One acre receives one million gallons of rainfall each year. Today, if the land is impervious, it all runs off into the sewer and becomes polluted. A Greened Acre will stop 80–90% of this pollution from occurring.
Philadelphia's rationale for making green infrastructure their big push centers around social and economic benefits to come and their historic heritage as a park city. Their video is all about people, not all about pipes:
Philadelphia's vision is the most radical departure from a traditional "grey infrastructure" approach like that pursued in Cleveland, DC and other cities. There's certainly an aesthetic and emotional appeal behind greening a city and its stormwater. This is the way many people want to move urban hydrology in the 21st century, integrating the built and natural environment more closely than we've done in the past. But it will be interesting to watch where Philadelphia succeeds and if and where it fails, as the fully green infrastructure approach could be seen as much riskier than a traditional engineering-driven approach. Fortunately, EPA is devoting some funding to research on the effectiveness of Philadelphia's project. I won't be doing that work directly, but I will be following it closely and think it would be fascinating to put together a more rigorous multi-city analysis of approaches and outcomes.
More broadly, the combined sewer overflow problem is a fantastic example of how our environmental and societal choices are constrained by decisions made in the past. No one today would build a combined sewer, but yet millions of people live in cities served by them, thousands of engineers, scientists, and sewer district workers work with them, and billions of dollars are being spent trying to mitigate the problems they cause. We can't just rebuild cities from the underground up, so we have to work with what we've inherited and try to make decisions that won't cause consternation for future generations.
Note: This blog post is adapted from the lecture I gave today in Urban Hydrology. If I've gotten anything wrong or missed an important point, please let me know and I'll try to make it better for current and future students.


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She's just pissing,not squirting...
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The Houston Dynamo and Dynamo Charities today unveiled their Ching's Champions initiative, presented by Kroger. The campaign, led by Dynamo forward Brian Ching, will recognize Houston area residents who have improved lives in the community through passion and commitment.
The initiative will be conducted by Dynamo Charities, presented by the Halliburton Charitable Foundation, through an online nomination process. Fans can nominate a person from the Houston community that has exhibited "Champion" spirit while defying personal obstacles or enriching the lives of others. Moreover, a Ching's Champion candidate is someone who has gone above the call of duty to serve their community, performed a lifesaving or heroic deed, or made a significant contribution to improving the lives of their family, friends or community.
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Douglas Smith, a now retired psychologist who has lived in Palo Alto for 40 years, helped many Bay Area Vietnamese refugees regain what they lost. On Saturday, Aug. 17, a group of those refugees and their families are gathering to celebrate Smith at his 85th birthday party.
From the late 1980s until the 1990s, Smith volunteered at the nonprofit Asian Americans for Community Involvement (AACI) in San Jose, teaching groups of refugees about citizenship tests, tutoring them in English and prepping many for medical-residency interviews and board exams.
"Some of the people ... they become hopeless," said Dr. Lynn Giang, a psychiatrist who fled Vietnam in 1984, nine years after the fall of Saigon. "They cannot do anything. He (Smith) is the one always there to save them."
Giang and Smith met at AACI in 1994, after a group of immigrant physicians told her to contact him for help with interviewing skills. She became a member of a close-knit group that met once a week with Smith to discuss how to return to their previous professions and to rehearse for residency interviews.
Most group members faced hurdles proving the equivalency of their talent in a new country with a different system.
Giang remembers these meetings, during which Smith would videotape their interview rehearsals so they could watch later and improve. Smith previously worked as a psychologist at the Palo Alto VA for a decade, during which he said he interviewed hundreds of psychology interns. He used that experience to instruct the refugees on how to appeal to an interviewer.
"The strategy was to find a hook, as I called it, to attract people," Smith said. He recalled a woman he worked with who had been imprisoned for three months in Vietnam for attempting to escape the country.
"And I said to her, that's the perfect hook. That's something that people are going to remember. So you have to get that information out to the interviewing committee. ... And she did and she got her residency."
"The most important thing that he gave us (was) a lot of hope," Giang said of these meetings. "He make us believe (in) ourselves. I think that all of us lost our confidence."
Jorge Wong, a psychologist and director of clinical and regulatory affairs at AACI, said that for Vietnamese refugees, coming to the United States was a huge investment.
"They were usually better off back home. They spoke the language; they were mostly professionals, like the first wave of refugees from other countries."
In the late 1970s and 1980s, there were three major emigration waves from Vietnam, Wong explained. The first was made up of more affluent Vietnamese who left as soon as Saigon fell in 1975, many able to leave on ships or military planes with the assistance of the U.S. government. The second and third waves — made up of people with fewer resources — faced more challenges. They often fled on boats to neighboring South Asian countries such as Thailand or the Philippines, risking the very real possibilities of rape, torture and piracy.
Upon refugees' arrival in the United States, finding the basics to survive — food, shelter, clothing and jobs — without knowing English proved challenging. Wong said many experienced post-traumatic stress disorder from the war and the subsequent transition to the United States. Many struggled with assimilation, retaining their culture, accessing health care, and finding schools for their children and well-paying jobs for themselves.
Giang, now a psychologist at the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose, escaped Vietnam on a 10-meter boat with 50 other people. From Malaysia she flew to a refugee camp in the Philippines, which she referred to as "orientation" for her impending arrival to the United States.
"In refugee camp I had to learn as fast as I can English," she said, her grammar still imperfect today. She had learned foreign languages in high school, but primarily French rather than English. "People speak too fast; totally different accent. Kind of a shock."
When she arrived in California, she said she found out from other refugees that returning to the medical field was "almost impossible."
She decided to get a degree in engineering — a lucrative profession that involves programming languages that English and non-English speakers alike can understand. Living in San Jose at the time, she attended San Jose State University.
After working in engineering for a few years, Giang's English improved and she felt confident enough to return to medicine, she said. Continuing to work full-time, she used nights to study for two board exams — the first, basic science and the second, clinical — which she passed. She then had to apply for residency, a process notoriously difficult in California, especially for Vietnamese refugees who aren't familiar with the American system and thus cannot contact their government or universities to procure records or verify their ability to practice medicine. Many Vietnamese immigrants who came to California would leave the state to do their residency elsewhere and return afterward, Giang said.
Dr. Doan Nguyen, a fellow member of Smith's AACI group, said that he hoped to procure a residency at the University of California San Francisco but was perceived as unqualified because of his limited English.
"People see me like I'm just, I shouldn't be getting into the program," said Nguyen, who had been a psychiatrist in Vietnam.
But he said that Smith — who made a rule for the group that whenever he was around, they were only allowed to speak English — was always positive.
"He doesn't bring anything that makes us feel negative."
Nguyen first arrived in the United States in May 1981 and found work for a few years as a cabinetmaker in New Orleans. He moved to California to study after his friends encouraged him to return to medicine. In the meantime, he took a job as a researcher at the AACI, where he met Smith.
"We became friends," Nguyen said. "He's so fun to be around."
"Basically we talk with him and (were) learning about American culture ... how to understand what is the need or interest of Americans in general. We learn most(ly) language and culture, especially culture in medicine and psychiatry."
Smith also often counseled the group on professional and personal issues. Giang said she had heard another group member had been considering committing suicide before meeting and being helped by Smith.
Nguyen, now a psychiatrist at the Arrowhead Regional Medical Center in Colton, Calif., said Smith spent day and night, some nights past midnight, working to help him and other refugees. He remembers Smith encouraging a woman to get a degree in social work and along the way treating her like his own daughter.
Smith said he did the same with Giang when she was deciding if she should give up engineering to pursue medicine.
"We had some talks about this," Smith remembered. "What I tell my own daughter when she was looking at alternative careers. How do you want to spend your time? And what does your heart tell you? You're going to be working for a long time, and you might as well be doing something that you adore and makes you happy."
Smith also became a part of Giang's family, forming a relationship with her father — despite the fact that neither spoke the same language — and helping her two daughters with their college application essays. Both of Giang's daughters were born in the United States and went to Gunn High School in Palo Alto. She said Smith was like a grandfather to them.
"Without thinking about compensation or anything whenever we need, (he was) always there to help," Giang said. "And not only me. Before me and after me, he did the same thing. He has a very big heart."
Smith continues his work today by helping Vietnamese high school students write their college application essays and prepare for interviews.
Giang characterized Smith as a man so humble that she's surprised he agreed to an interview for this article.
"(He) isn't looking to be known," Nguyen said, "but his spirit has been my inspiration."
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To improve, Votto has slippery path ahead
By Mark Sheldon / MLB.com
GOODYEAR, Ariz. -- Near the conclusion of many workouts at the Reds' spring complex, first baseman Joey Votto will be on a side field in his socks and doing what many kids would like to do each summer.
Votto is doing a slip and slide -- only without the cheap plastic tarp that can be purchased at most toy stores. A grounds crew worker instead has the hose out, spraying the grass to make it wet and very slippery.
"It's for little kids that don't know how to slide, which is perfect for me," Votto joked Wednesday.
It is not for fun, however. Votto is trying to come all the way back after he tore meniscus cartilage in his left knee sliding into third base on June 30. A first surgery repaired the injury, but a second procedure was needed when Votto reinjured the knee while practicing his slide.
In a break from instinct, Votto has been learning to slide on his other leg all spring. He works one-one-one with rookie-level Billings manager Pat Kelly on the technique.
"He has a reputation for being one of the great sliders all-time," Votto said of Kelly. "I'm sliding, and my knee feels good. It's been fine."
Reds manager Dusty Baker did not appear concerned whether Votto slid during a game.
"He's probably nervous; I won't be," Baker said. "I saw him slide about a month ago. I could tell he had been working. He wasn't a very good slider before. He would slow down to slide. He would be safe and make himself out. Now he's working on it because he doesn't want a weakness in his game. He's accelerating to slide, which is what you should do, not deaccelerate, which is what he used to do."
After he returned from the disabled list in September, Votto avoided doing any slides, as his knee was not 100 percent. That is not expected to happen this season.
"My goal is to play baseball, and I don't want to stand out," Votto said. "You don't stand out when you slide into bases, taking guys out, sliding into home plate, avoiding tags and doing whatever you can do to just fit in. That's the way I would like to play, and that's what I'm working towards."
This spring, Votto is batting .348 (16-for-46) with four home runs and 12 RBIs -- including a two-run homer to left-center field vs. the Padres on Wednesday.
The performances are not quite to Votto's satisfaction, but he has never appeared to have any lingering knee issues at the plate or in the field. He feels 100 percent ready for the regular season.
"I know I have good numbers, but I haven't hit very well," Votto said. "I'm headed in the right direction."
Mark Sheldon is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Mark My Word, and follow him on Twitter @m_sheldon This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.