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One summer afternoon in 1974, a nine-year-old boy sat in Busch Stadium, in St. Louis, watching the Cardinals play the Montreal Expos. He sat next to his aunt, in the front row, near the left-field foul pole, and every half inning he rose and pleaded with the players as they exchanged warmup tosses in the outfield: "Throw me a ball!" For most of the game, he was ignored. But, just before the bottom of the seventh inning, the Expos' left fielder, a thirty-one-year-old slugger named Bob Bailey, flipped the boy a ball—and then watched as it bounced off his small, outstretched hands and fell back onto the playing field.
"Son," Bailey said, retrieving the ball and reaching up to hand it to the boy, "if you want a ball, you gotta learn to catch it." He spoke softly, sensing the embarrassment that the boy must be feeling. Bailey remembered the kindness shown him by a major-league player when he was a kid. His father had been a high-school teammate of the Cleveland Indians' pitcher Bob Lemon, and, once, Lemon took young Bailey on a tour of the clubhouse and introduced him to many of the Indians.
Bob Bailey never forgot that experience, and it reaffirmed his desire to play among such men—which he started doing in 1961, with the Pittsburgh Pirates organization. In a seventeen-year career in the majors, he had a hundred and eighty-nine homers in 1,931 games, while knocking in seven hundred and seventy-three runs and posting a career batting average of .257. He made his final plate appearance in 1978, with the Boston Red Sox, as a pinch-hitter in the playoff game in which the New York Yankees' shortstop Bucky Dent hit a three-run homer in the top of the seventh at Fenway Park, to lead the Yanks to a 5–4 victory that propelled them toward a World Series triumph. The Yankees' manager at that time was Bob Lemon, the old Bailey family friend. After the game, Bob Bailey walked over to congratulate Lemon. A couple of weeks later, shortly after marking his thirty-sixth birthday, on October 13th, Bailey retired as a player.
On October 14th, in East Peoria, Illinois, the boy who, four years earlier, had fumbled Bob Bailey's gift ball in St. Louis turned fourteen. The boy's name was Joe Girardi. He went on to be an outstanding defensive catcher in high school and college and later spent fifteen years in the major leagues—as a catcher with the Chicago Cubs (1989-92), the Colorado Rockies (1993-95), the New York Yankees (1996-99), the Cubs again (2000-2002), and, finally, as a backup catcher with the St. Louis Cardinals, playing his last game at Busch Stadium on September 20, 2003, at the age of thirty-eight.
Now, at forty-seven, Girardi is in his fifth year as the manager of the New York Yankees, and, except for his graying hair, which he wears trimmed close to his scalp, he appears to be as physically fit as most players on his team. Standing just under six feet, with broad shoulders, narrow hips, and a flat stomach hardened by daily CrossFit workouts, Girardi is five pounds lighter than his playing weight, of two hundred. The only obvious reminders of his burly strength as a plate-blocking catcher are his thickly muscled forearms, which he began developing as a child, assisting his bricklayer father on weekends.
His voice, however, is soft, reflective, and cautious. He is a straight arrow from the Midwest in the middle of the tabloid hurly-burly of New York City. Even now, as the Yankees are suffering an injury-plagued late-season slide, he is nearly always unperturbed. This stalwart mildness of manner—added to the fact that the Yankees have won only one World Series under his guidance, in 2009—has disappointed many fans. Earlier this year, in the Post, the veteran sportswriter Mike Vaccaro wrote, "Yankee fans are still a little lukewarm about Joe Girardi," and he went on to compare Girardi unfavorably to the late Billy Martin, the colorful, volatile manager whom the Yankees' owner, George Steinbrenner, fired and rehired four times during the seventies and eighties. Girardi succeeded the avuncular and loquacious Joe Torre as manager, in 2008, and, ever since, many sportswriters have found Girardi stubbornly removed. Girardi's responses to questions after games are rarely quotable. In this sense, he remains the man behind the catcher's mask, communicating slyly from a crouched position with his fingers extended, or, when speaking to a batterymate on the mound, whispering along the edges of his upturned mitt.
Near the end of last season, as Girardi and the Yankees were about to conclude their fourth successive year with a winning record, Will Leitch, in New York, characterized the Girardi era as "boring, easy, calm, and dominant."
When the Yankees failed to dominate the Detroit Tigers in the first round of the 2011 playoffs, losing the decisive fifth game by the score of 3–2, journalists were hoping that Girardi would comment candidly on the poor performances of his players—of, in particular, such stars as Alex Rodriguez, who batted only .111 during the series and was 0 for 4 in the finale, striking out three times—once with the bases loaded. But Girardi deflected every question in tones of such equanimity that his true feelings were never evident. He never criticizes his players.
During the season's final press conference, a reporter asked, "Joe, with the lineup that you have, is it surprising that the big hits should prove so elusive tonight?"
Girardi answered by complimenting the Detroit pitching staff: "They made big pitches when they had to."
Seated behind a microphone with camera lights deepening the shadows across his dour and ascetic countenance, he continued to deflect questions politely. I imagined him as a soulful figure in a Renaissance painting, a man resigned to the shortcomings of his calling. Like religion, the game of baseball is founded on aspirations rarely met. It generates far more failure than fulfillment. At the press conference, Girardi gave me the impression of a monk in pinstripes.
Girardi, though, is the father of three children—daughters of thirteen and six, and a ten-year-old son—and, as he has told the press on previous occasions, being a good father is more important to him than professional baseball. Without a trace of irony, he says that the Yankees on his watch will always be a family-friendly ball club, expecting its members to be as courteous to young fans as Bob Bailey was to him. Under Torre's management, the players could bring their sons into the locker room after a team victory, whereas Girardi allows youngsters in before and after every game, and he has also lifted the ban on daughters. He told Mark Feinsand, of the News, "Once or twice a month, we let the girls in the clubhouse and tell all the guys to make sure to get dressed in the back."
Before a spring-training game in Clearwater, Florida, Girardi noticed a middle-aged man behind the Yankees dugout holding up a poster that displayed several photographs of a young man, along with the words "Please remember Steven E. Smith." Girardi approached the man, and learned that Steven E. Smith had died in an auto accident, at the age of twenty-four, and had been a zealous Yankees fan who hoped to become a sports broadcaster. The man with the poster was his father. Girardi invited him onto the field to get a closer view of batting practice. He also signed the poster and said he would have it autographed by all his players.
Later in the spring, when he learned that Joba Chamberlain, a Yankees pitcher, had seriously damaged his right ankle while jumping on a trampoline with his five-year-old son, in Tampa, Girardi went to the hospital. Medical reports indicated that it might be a career-ending injury, and some fans questioned the wisdom of Chamberlain's bouncing on a trampoline when he was still recovering from elbow surgery. After a meeting between manager and pitcher that the press described as "emotional," Girardi came out and told reporters a story about how he had once injured his back while tossing a child of his own in the air. "Fathers are fathers," he said.
Not long ago, I visited Girardi at home, in Purchase, New York, where he lives with his wife, Kim, and their children. The house is a gray-stone-and-cedar affair with six bedrooms, and it is situated on the property of a private golf club. Their six-year-old daughter, Lena, had stayed home from school with a sore throat that day, so she came along with us when it was time to head to work at Yankee Stadium. Girardi drives a 2009 Cadillac Escalade, and when he stops at a traffic light fans will often recognize him and wave. As we drove, Lena sat in the back seat and watched a DVD. We passed a gas station near White Plains, and Girardi told me that, back when he was the Yankees' catcher, that was where players' wives used to drop off their husbands to carpool into the Bronx.
When we arrived at Girardi's office, a two-room suite situated behind the dugout, he threw a football back and forth with Lena for several minutes. She is a good catch, and she seemed to relish doing what her father had taught her to do. The office is decorated with autographed football helmets. Girardi played both quarterback and running back in high school; he gave up the game to concentrate on baseball, at Northwestern University. His ten-year-old son, Dante (named after Dante Bichette, Girardi's former teammate on the Colorado Rockies), plays football and most other sports, and, in his father's dressing room in the clubhouse, Dante keeps a Yankees uniform that he puts on to swing at pitches thrown by his father on the infield. Dante wears his hair in a crewcut, like his father.
"Dante Bichette was from Jupiter, Florida, and I just knew he was from another planet!" Girardi said, sitting down at his desk. (Lena had started playing a computer game.) "He was the complete opposite of me, and we hit it off great. He stayed up late. He was not serious, always laughing, just kind of goofy." Girardi said that Bichette was serious about baseball, though: he played in the major leagues for fourteen years, with five teams; his career batting average was .299; and he hit two hundred and seventy-four homers and drove in 1,141 runs. __
Bichette and Girardi continue to be close friends, and now both men share an avid interest in Bichette's nineteen-year-old son, Dante, Jr., an infielder selected as the Yankees' top draft pick in June, 2011, who hit .342 with the minor-league Gulf Coast Yankees, based in Tampa. Girardi is enjoying watching his best friend's son, whom he remembers glimpsing for the first time as an infant in a car seat in Bichette's minivan, ascend the Yankees' list of future prospects.
Fathers and sons figure prominently in Girardi's baseball life. After he told me about muffing Bob Bailey's toss in Busch Stadium, back in 1974, I decided to track Bailey down. I reached him in Long Beach, California, where, at sixty-nine, he had recently retired from years spent working in the time-share industry in Las Vegas. I repeated the story of the nine-year-old boy at Busch Stadium, years before. "Oh, yes, I remember that kid, remember his excitement, yelling from near the left-field foul line," Bailey said. Until I told him, Bailey had no idea that the kid grew up to be Joe Girardi.
Bailey reminded me of a story from my own boyhood. In 1944 and 1945, the Yankees held spring training in Atlantic City, New Jersey, fifteen miles north of where I lived. An avid baseball fan, I received my first autograph and also a signed ball from the team's handsome wartime outfielder Johnny Lindell, who was substituting in center field for Joe DiMaggio, while DiMaggio was in the Army Air Forces. Johnny Lindell always posed graciously for snapshots and talked with fans before and after the games, every one of which I attended. Years later, when my love of the Yankees had faded somewhat, I retained my connection with Lindell. Embarked on a love affair in college with a young woman I had met in French class, I booked a room at a motel and, seized with panic, scribbled on the registration form the name of the man I viewed as my protector—Johnny Lindell.
By the time Lindell retired, in 1954, I was out of college (and had signed Lindell's name at other hotel registration desks). I did what many insufficiently blessed aspiring athletes do after they no longer indulge fantasies of playing in the big leagues: I became a sportswriter. I kept the baseball Lindell gave me for about forty years, finally losing it when my house was robbed, in the mid-nineteen-eighties.
The baseball that Bob Bailey gave to Joe Girardi in 1974 was not saved and cherished but was used by its young owner and his pals in pickup games on a lopsided field in East Peoria. "That baseball was better than any we'd ever played with," Girardi said, seated at his U-shaped desk. On a shelf behind him was a baseball signed by the shortstop Derek Jeter, after he got his three-thousandth hit, last year. Next to it was a ball signed by the relief pitcher Mariano Rivera, after he became the major-league career leader in saves, and an older ball bearing the signature of Yogi Berra, one of three ex-Yankee catchers to precede Girardi in becoming the team's manager, the earlier ones being Bill Dickey and Ralph Houk.
The ball from Bailey saw hard use every day until, Girardi recalled, "I ended up losing it in the woods." By that time, it was pretty well ravaged. A year later, he and his friends were invited to join a youth league, where the balls, bats, and uniforms were provided by local sponsors. Girardi was technically too young to be in the league, but the coach played him anyway, because he was more agile and versatile than anyone else on the team. The coach also liked that he was a well-mannered youngster who did as he was told.
Although Girardi preferred the infield to catching, he deferred to the coach's judgment that his strong and accurate throwing arm was best deployed behind the plate. He followed the coach's directives at home, too, including the warning against sleeping in a cold room, to avoid developing a sore arm; and to sleep with a tube sock pulled up over his throwing arm. Even later, during his years as a college player and a professional, he continued to go to bed with his arm in a sock. A rare occasion when he broke this habit occurred in 1989, at the insistence of his bride on their wedding night.
Before Girardi's marriage, the most persuasive woman in his life was his mother, Angela, a petite, carefully coiffed woman with a kindly but uncompromising disposition. She condoned Joe's devotion to sports only if he earned good grades in school. While Girardi's father, Gerald, held three jobs (bricklaying on weekends, bartending at a Howard Johnson's at night, and on weekdays hawking gypsum products as a travelling salesman), his mother stayed up late working toward a master's degree in clinical psychology. The first two Girardi sons, John and George, became physicians; the daughter, Maria, became a professor of mathematics; Joe, the fourth-born, graduated from Northwestern in 1986, with an industrial-engineering degree; and the youngest brother, Gerald, is an accountant.
Joe Girardi is the most religious and contemplative of his siblings, but he is competitive, too, and his competitiveness derives from his boyhood relationship with his father, Gerald, and his two older brothers. Joe often accompanied Gerald in the gypsum-manufacturing-company car on road trips to Iowa, listening to Cubs games on the radio while Gerald stopped to take orders for wallboard.
"I loved the physical part of what he did," Girardi said. He served as Gerald's apprentice on weekend bricklaying jobs. "I carried the brick, I carried the blocks, I mixed the mortar, I did the smoothing."
Gerald Girardi's father was also a bricklayer, a stern and exacting worker who was known to sometimes fling mortar down from his ladder upon the heads of incompetent helpers. His family had emigrated from the vicinity of Turin, in northern Italy.
"I had a temper," Girardi told me. "My father had a temper." Once, when Girardi was about eight, he was playing pool at home and missed a shot. "I threw the stick right through the wall," he said. He managed to cover up the hole by hanging a framed picture over it, and his father never found out. Another time, after Joe and his brother George had broken their bed while wrestling on it, and then tried (unsuccessfully) to conceal their misdeed by propping up the bed with one of Maria's calculus books, their father announced, "All right, you guys wanna fight? I'm gonna cool you off." He then shoved the boys out into the snow in their underwear.
Shortly after Joe turned thirteen, in 1977, his mother was given a diagnosis of cervical cancer. Although she continued for a few years in her job as a school psychologist—and studies toward her doctorate—the family dynamic changed. "We were always trying to please my mom," Girardi said. "It became a conscious effort not to upset her." He vowed to control his temper. On the playing field, he imagined his mother on the sidelines, and dedicated himself to the highest standards in sportsmanship.
In June of 1984, when Girardi, having completed his sophomore year at Northwestern, was playing baseball in the Cape Cod summer league, his father called to say that his mother's condition had worsened. He immediately headed back to East Peoria, driving the first car he had ever bought. It was a new red Ford Tempo coupe that cost eight thousand dollars and represented his savings from all the jobs and chores he had done over the years. He raced west to join the family at his mother's bedside, and he was there when she opened her eyes, looked around, and whispered, "Don't forget me."
"I carried that with me my whole life," he said.
After her death, Girardi said, "I just didn't know that I could play baseball the rest of the summer."
He returned to Cape Cod and he did finish the season, and, after graduating from Northwestern, he began his minor-league career, earning seven hundred dollars a month, with the Peoria Chiefs, an A-level team affiliated with the Chicago Cubs. In August, he was hit by a pitch and fractured a thumb; the injury ended his season. That winter, he supported himself by selling baseball shoes.
In the spring of 1987, fully recovered, he was sent to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, to another Cubs A-level farm team, the Spirits. Here he performed very well offensively, but he was despondent much of the time, asking himself, "Why am I playing baseball?" He realized that keeping his mother alive had been a huge incentive, and he went to his manager and said that he was quitting the team.
"Joe, what are you doing?" the manager asked. "You're hitting over .300. You're going to have a chance maybe to make a million dollars in the game of baseball."
Girardi nevertheless left the team and returned to Peoria to spend time with his father and with his girlfriend, Kim Innocenzi, whom he had met at Northwestern. Kim was a sorority girl and an evangelical Christian, and she was the one who persuaded him to return to baseball.
"She made me realize that I was playing because God gave me a gift, and I would be able to share God's good news through my gift and talent," he said.
Although Girardi was brought up Catholic, he told me, "The Catholic Church, it seemed to me, growing up, was a lot of rules. You sit, you stand, you kneel; you sit, you stand, you kneel." He said, "Kim introduced me to Jesus." He once described the moment to a reporter: "We were sitting in the basement of the Tri Delta sorority house. Kim explained salvation to me, and I silently prayed to receive Jesus as my Savior."
Kim Girardi, a tall, dark-eyed woman who played doubles on her high-school tennis team, was working toward a master's degree in education. She was reared in Lake Forest, north of Chicago. As a little girl, Kim was involved in the Good News Club, an affiliate of the international Child Evangelism Fellowship. The Fellowship is a ministry dedicated to the belief that, as a spokesman put it, "if properly instructed, any child can come to knowledge that God is our Creator, created us for a reason, sent Jesus to die for our sins, was buried, and rose again the third day, was seen by hundreds of witnesses, and is alive now in heaven."
In 1989, Girardi married Innocenzi, who had by then become a third-grade teacher. All her pupils came to the wedding. As soon as her husband joined the major leagues, she started a Chicago Cubs Bible-study group with some other players' wives.
At home in Purchase, Kim gets up each morning at five to spend an hour alone reading the Bible. At six-thirty, she wakes up her older daughter and drives her to the school bus, then wakes up Joe and the other children, and, after making breakfast (with Joe sometimes preparing the eggs, as his father liked to do), she drives the younger children to school. She drives to the gym while listening to Christian music on a satellite radio station. She told me, "Living for God is the theme of our home."
After a season playing winter ball in Venezuela, in 1989, Girardi was promoted from the minors to start on Opening Day at Wrigley Field. He was ecstatic. But, despite his enthusiasm and his defensive skills, he was soon demoted to the minor-league Iowa Cubs, in Des Moines.
"I was crushed," he recalled. "It might have been the only time that I ever cried on my mother-in-law's shoulder, because I felt like my life was done."
"Kim would visit me in Des Moines on weekends," he said. "And she would tape up a sock and she'd throw it, and then duck behind a couch and I would swing." After several weeks with the Iowa Cubs, Girardi was called back to Chicago. "I told myself, 'I'm never going back to the minors'—and I didn't." He added, "I got sent down for forty days, which was interesting, because I had come to know that the Lord Jesus was in the desert for forty days."
After finishing his rookie season, Girardi became the Cubs' starting catcher, appearing in a hundred and thirty-three games and hitting .270. But, the following year, while he was sprinting in the outfield one day during spring training, his heel got entangled with a sprinkler head and he strained his back, a mishap that kept him inactive from April into September. He stayed in Chicago and helped Kim grade math papers.
In 1992, when he was making three hundred thousand dollars a year with the Cubs and was a favorite with the local press, the Girardis finished building a house in Lake Forest, after three years of renting. Shortly after the closing, he learned that the Cubs had left his name unprotected, and the Colorado Rockies, an expansion team, had selected him.
He was stunned and dejected. "They say buying a house in the place you play is the kiss of death," Girardi told me. "I grew up a Cubs fan, and I thought I was always going to be a Cub." Kim helped reconcile him to the move, however, telling him again and again, "This is God's plan." She resigned from her teaching job and headed to Denver, where she bought a pair of cowboy boots and rented an apartment.
"Those three years in Colorado were magnificent," Girardi said. "We played at Mile High Stadium, and you'd have seventy thousand people there. It was loud, it was exciting, people loved baseball."
In 1995, Joe and Kim went on a package tour to Italy, their first vacation since their honeymoon, in 1989. Right after returning home, Girardi received a call from a man in Suffern, New York, whom he and Kim had met on the trip. He said, "Joe, you're all over the papers and the radio here. You're going to be traded to the Yankees!"
Within a week, the outgoing message on the Girardis' answering machine was a snippet of Frank Sinatra singing "New York, New York." They quickly rented a town house in White Plains, owned by Charles Oakley, the onetime Knicks star, and joined the Yankees for spring training, in Tampa.
Don Zimmer, the one person on the Yankees whom Girardi knew, was now the bench coach under Joe Torre, the manager. Zimmer told the press that Girardi was known for his leadership qualities, and that he was well liked by the front office. As Girardi told me, "I always had close working relationships with the coaches, whether it be the manager, the pitching coach, the catching coach, or the bench coach. If I wasn't playing, a lot of times I would sit next to the bench coach just to hear the conversations."
Girardi had a tough start in New York. He told me, "The first time I came out was for the Fan Fest, and I got booed." Fans missed the popular catcher Mike Stanley, whom Girardi had replaced, and who was a better hitter. The radio station WFAN needled Girardi by playing a mocking, retooled version of the 1941 hit "Joltin' Joe DiMaggio," in which the hosts would shout out "Girardio!" in place of "DiMaggio."
The cool welcome just made Girardi work harder, approaching the challenges methodically, like a bricklayer. "A fear of failure is what really drove me," he said, "and the only way I could not fail was to intellectually and physically prepare. So then whatever happened happened. I didn't want to ever face the unexpected." He added, "I never wanted to let my dad down."
Girardi told me that Yankees fans stopped booing him after he caught Dwight Gooden's no-hitter at the Stadium, on May 14, 1996. Ron Hassey, who had been the Colorado Rockies' third-base coach, said at the time, "Joe understands that the most important job for a catcher is to get the most out of your pitcher. That includes pitch selection, blocking balls, throwing runners out, holding runners on, knowing the strengths and weaknesses of hitters. Joe's as good as there is at those things."
There was little disappointment in Girardi's 1996-99 career with the Yankees, as the team won the World Series each year except 1997. He gave his first World Series ring to his father. As the team's No. 1 catcher, he was now earning more than two million dollars a year. The second catcher was Jim Leyritz, a seven-year veteran. A promising young catcher, Jorge Posada, was rising through the ranks, though, and Girardi remembers telling Leyritz, "This isn't going to go well for one of us, because Posada is faster, stronger, younger, and he's got a better arm and more power." After the 1996 season, Leyritz was traded, and Girardi was two years away from becoming Posada's backup. He remained with the Yankees as their second catcher and Posada's mentor through 1999, catching David Cone's perfect game at the Stadium, on Yogi Berra Day, July 18, 1999.
At the end of that year, as Girardi turned thirty-five and became a free agent, he went back to the Cubs as their primary catcher, and by 2001 he was a team captain. The most memorable event of his time in Chicago was the emotional announcement that Girardi made in front of a capacity crowd at Wrigley Field, on June 22, 2002, before a scheduled Cubs-Cardinals game.
"I thank you for your patience," Girardi began, standing near the Cubs dugout with a microphone. "We regret to inform you, because of a tragedy in the Cardinal family, that the commissioner has cancelled the game today." As the crowd reacted with a few boos, he continued, "Please be respectful. You will find out eventually what has happened." And then, with tears in his eyes, he concluded, "I ask you to say a prayer for the Cardinals family."
The reason for the cancellation was that Darryl Kile, a thirty-three-year-old pitcher for the Cardinals, had suffered a heart attack and was discovered dead in his hotel room while the teams were warming up. Girardi's appearance that day as a spokesman for Major League Baseball demonstrated to a large audience what a few in the dugout had long known: Girardi possessed a dignified and refined manner that, combined with his knowledge and love of the game, presented him with appealing possibilities once his playing days were over.
Girardi found that he was much in demand. In 2004, a year after joining the Cardinals and expending most of the little that was left of his catching ability at Busch Stadium, he became a television commentator for the Yankees' YES network. In 2005, he joined the team as the bench coach under Torre. A year later, at forty-one, he was hired to manage a National League franchise, the Florida Marlins.
Although the Marlins' annual payroll, of about fifteen million dollars, was the lowest in major-league baseball, Girardi led the team into wild-card contention until, at the end of the season, it fell to fourth place. Still, the baseball writers' association honored Girardi with the National League Manager of the Year award.
This success, however, did not help him keep his job. Jeffrey Loria, the Marlins' owner, fired Girardi in October. Their relationship had been contentious. During a game against the Dodgers, Loria, from the sidelines, loudly berated the umpires' calls. According to reports, Loria believed that he had heard a voice in the Marlins' dugout yelling, "Shut the fuck up!" and assumed that it was Girardi's. Girardi denied that the words were his. __
After the 2007 season, George Steinbrenner, unhappy at Joe Torre's failure to bring home a World Series trophy since 2000, made Torre a contract offer he could only refuse. He presented Torre, who had been the Yankees' manager for twelve years, with a one-year, take-it-or-leave-it contract with a base salary of five million dollars, which was two and a half million dollars less than he had earned the previous year. Torre resigned, and he signed a contract to manage the Los Angeles Dodgers.
The Yankees replaced Torre with Girardi, signing him to a three-year contract, for $7.8 million. His decision to select 27 as his uniform number was significant. The Yankees franchise had so far won twenty-six World Series titles, and it was Girardi's mission to capture another.
Just as Girardi had a tough time following Mike Stanley when he joined the Yankees as a player, he now found himself replacing a beloved manager. The press began by portraying Girardi as controlling and demanding, a robotic technocrat. His first spring training as the Yankees' manager was likened to boot camp. One day, both the Post and the News ran photographs of Girardi, with his signature crewcut, under the words "G.I. Joe." Posada said to one reporter, "If you'd have told me he was in the Navy or Army, I wouldn't have been surprised."
But hard work prevailed, and two years later, following the team's 2009 World Series triumph over the Phillies, Girardi changed his number to 28. The next year, his team was defeated by Texas in the second round of the playoffs, but the Yankees' management signed Girardi to another three-year contract, this time for nine million dollars plus incentives, based on how well the team did in the playoffs.
Girardi takes a somewhat minimalist approach to managing. Rick Sutcliffe, who pitched for the Cubs when Girardi was the team's catcher, observed that "he only manages when he has to." Russell Martin, the Yankees' current catcher, told me, "He's not going to tell me something negative, to criticize me. It's always positive feedback. And he knows how to pick his time, too." Girardi proved to be especially good at dealing with the Yankees' outsized personalities. Curtis Granderson, the team's All-Star center fielder, said, "A manager has to be an individual that can handle multiple personalities. You have a majority of your subordinates that make more money than you, and yet you have to tell them what to do, where to be, and they also have to respect you."
Last year's team did not get past the first round of the playoffs, winning only two of five games against Detroit; and although George Steinbrenner was no longer a factor—he died, at eighty, during the summer of 2010—the club's president, Randy Levine, reminded the organization and its followers of "what the Boss taught us," which is "If we don't win the World Series, then the season is a failure. . . . That's the way it's always been, and that's the way it will always be."
This season, neither Randy Levine nor other front-office executives have expressed concerns about the capabilities of the team, because, despite continuing injuries to key players and the underperformance of others, the Yankees had the best record in baseball at mid-season (52 wins, 33 losses). The team remained at the top of the American League East during the second half of the season, until a late-season surge by the Baltimore Orioles created a tie for the division leadership. On July 18th, the Yankees enjoyed a ten-game lead, but between late August and the first week of September they lost ten of fourteen games. Suddenly, the usually even-tempered Girardi was showing signs of frustration and anxiety.
On September 4th in St. Petersburg, during a 5–2 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays, Girardi became so enraged by the umpire Tony Randazzo's called third strike against the Yankees' outfielder Chris Dickerson that, according to the Times, he "shot out of the dugout and engaged in his most heated argument of the season, screaming at Randazzo as his face turned red and the veins bulged in his neck."
In the clubhouse after the game, Girardi told reporters, "I'm not going to comment on Randazzo," but the hitting coach, Kevin Long, acknowledged, "There's some pressure, obviously. We had a ten-game lead and it's down to zero. There's some added pressure, and the guys are probably trying to do too much. We've got to come out of it and start playing some better baseball, not just offensively but altogether."
Girardi approaches his job like the engineer he studied to be. "You figure out how to make systems run better and be more efficient, and really that's what you're trying to do as a manager," he told the Northwestern alumni magazine in 2008.
Unlike Torre, Girardi consults a lot of statistics. John Flaherty, a catcher for the Yankees from 2003 to 2005, told me, "I view Girardi as the New Age manager in major-league baseball. I believe that the 'old school' managers would watch the game in front of them and manage accordingly. There was not a whole lot of information available to them to prepare for a game. They had to rely on what they 'saw' on a daily basis and make their decisions based on that information."
Girardi's data used to be contained in a large blue three-ring binder that he carried with him almost all the time, but has since been transferred to an iPad. "I'm a big believer that numbers tell the story, and I also want to know why they tell the story," he told me. The data "is going to tell me a hitter's hot spots, where he doesn't hit the ball, what pitches he hits. I want to know what his strengths are, where he likes the fastball, that he doesn't hit the slider well." He creates matchups, figuring out how particular hitters will do against particular pitchers.
Girardi surely consulted the numbers before he decided to bench Jorge Posada in August of 2011. Posada had already been replaced as the team's everyday catcher by Russell Martin, and he was now stripped of his last regular role, the designated hitter. Earlier in the season, before a game against the Red Sox, Girardi had dropped Posada, who was deep in a slump, to ninth place in the batting order. Posada was so offended that he asked to be removed from the lineup entirely, because he needed a little time to "clear his head."
Girardi obliged him, but the next day the newspapers speculated that Brian Cashman, the general manager, was furious at Posada's peevishness, and, along with Hal Steinbrenner, the co-chairman, had considered firing Posada for insubordination.
"Posada has to know the Torre era is indeed over," the baseball columnist Bob Klapisch wrote, in The Record. "The Yankees are no longer a baseball team, they're a corporation, as vast and powerful as Microsoft." In the News, unnamed sources were reminding readers that Girardi, who had lost his Yankees catching job to Posada during the late nineteen-nineties, had reappeared, in 2005, to haunt Posada as Torre's bench coach.
In response to these reports, Girardi exhibited his flair for deflating headlines with clichés. All that he would say about his meeting with Posada over the designated-hitter issue was "It's not a conversation that's easy to get through. But for Jorgie, he's very professional and I know he'll keep himself ready and try to do whatever he needs to do."
When Girardi is not preoccupied with the health and performance of his team, his mind is often on his father, Gerald, who is now eighty-one and suffers from Alzheimer's, and lives in a nursing home near Peoria. Girardi phones his father once a week to have a one-way conversation; for the past three years, Gerald has been unable to communicate.
When the Yankees are playing in Chicago, Girardi will rent a car and drive the hundred and seventy miles to spend an hour with his father, taking the same road that he did when he went home to Peoria during his student days at Northwestern. I once accompanied him to the nursing home, a two-and-a-half-hour ride past cornfields and grazing cattle.
"My dad was always there for me," Girardi told the Northwestern alumni magazine in 1998. "He's the one who played catch with me, he was the one who took me to Cubs games where I could see my favorite players, like Ron Santo and José Cardenal, in action."
Driving through the town of Roanoke, his father's birthplace, he pointed out a single-story brick house built decades ago by his bricklaying grandfather, George. He didn't stop, but he mentioned that George always had dark-stained fingers, the result of cracking open walnuts with his bare hands to give pieces of nutmeat to his grandchildren.
In the town of Washington, we drove past a restaurant building that Girardi's father had owned. When Angela became ill, Gerald quit being a road salesman and opened Girardi's, a twenty-five-table restaurant, doing nearly all the cooking himself. Joe worked as a waiter after school and on weekends, as did his siblings.
Driving into East Peoria, we passed the Girardis' old house, and continued through the neighborhood where Joe had once had a paper route. He said he hoped that he would hold on to his position as the Yankees' manager long enough so that Dante could get a part-time job in the clubhouse at Yankee Stadium, where, among other tasks, he would wash towels.
We pulled up to the nursing home, and as Girardi walked in he was greeted by staff members—as usual, some had baseballs for him to sign, which he did without hesitation. He continued to his father's room, and he was welcomed at the door by Judy Shea, a family friend who has been his father's companion since some years after Angela's death. She had been feeding Gerald a piece of carrot cake she had baked.
Girardi walked over to the wheelchair where his father sat. He leaned over the older man, who, wearing beige warmup clothes, was leaning back with his eyes closed. He did not respond as his son greeted him in a loud and cheerful voice: "Hi, Dad. I love you, Dad." Girardi repeated this a few times, but his father remained motionless. The physical resemblance between father and son was striking. If you looked at their matching buzz cuts and high cheekbones, it was easy to imagine what Joe Girardi might look like in thirty years.
For the next half hour, he and Shea sat across from each other at a table and talked about family matters, and Girardi ate a slice of carrot cake. When his father moved to the nursing home, Girardi had to take back the World Series ring he'd given him, for safekeeping. He glanced every once in a while in his father's direction.
After a while, Girardi stood up, embraced Shea, and said goodbye. Before leaving the room, he looked again at his father, leaned forward, and kissed him on the forehead. "I love you, Dad," he said.
He turned and walked toward the exit, waving at the attendants at the front desk, and finally, before leaving the building, he said, this time to himself, "I love you, Dad." ♦


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July 1 Full Moon Walk on Mount Wanda
Jun 24, 2015 05:59PM
● By Jennifer Neys
Join National Park Service rangers for a full moon walk on Wednesday, July 1, on Mt. Wanda, part of the John Muir National Historic Site (NHS) in Martinez.
This free, two-hour program begins at 7:15 PM with a one-mile, moderately strenuous hike to watch the full moon rise over nearby Mt. Diablo. Atop Mt. Wanda's 640-foot summit, visitors can use spotting scopes to view more detailed features of the moon. Visitors can also listen to the chorus of night sounds and keep an eye out for the nocturnal native grey fox.
Visitors should meet at the parking lot on the corner of Alhambra Avenue and Franklin Canyon Road, Martinez (at the Alhambra Ave. exit off Highway 4). Bring water, a flashlight, warm clothes, and binoculars (if you have them). Wear comfortable walking shoes, as the trail is steep. If it rains heavily, the walk will be canceled.
Please call the John Muir NHS visitor center at (925) 228-8860 to make your reservations or if you have questions. For more information, please visit the park website at www.nps.gov/jomu.
Mt. Wanda preserves 326 acres of grasslands and oak woodlands that were part of the original Muir/Strentzel ranch in the Alhambra Valley more than a century ago. Muir named Mt. Wanda after his eldest daughter, Annie Wanda Muir, and he often strolled among these hills with his two daughters. Visitors can follow in Muir's footsteps by enjoying Mt. Wanda seven days a week from sunrise to sunset.
The John Muir NHS is open seven days a week from 10 AM to 5 PM. Admission to the site is free of charge.

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CHICAGO - Allan Calhamer, whose 1950s board game "Diplomacy" garnered a loyal following over the years that reportedly included President John F. Kennedy, Henry Kissinger and Walter Cronkite, among others, has died. He was 81.
Calhamer's daughter, Selenne Calhamer-Boling, said Saturday that her father died Monday at a hospital in the Chicago suburb of La Grange.
Calhamer invented "Diplomacy" while studying at Harvard University in the early 1950s. Players represent seven European powers at the beginning of the 20th century and vie for dominance by strategically forging and breaking alliances. Unlike "Risk," there are no dice, and a player's success is largely based on his or her negotiating skills.
Despite its popularity, Calhamer didn't get rich off the game and eventually returned to La Grange Park to work as a postman.


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"RV Buddies Online" named four RVs from the recent Pennsylvania RV and Camping Association (PRVCA) show in Hershey, Pa., "Best of Show."
The show, which always creates a lot of expectation as people flock to see the new models, didn't disappoint this year as a record crowd of 31,700 was on hand to check out the brand new 2010 models from 59 manufacturers at the 41st annual event, according to a news release.
"The manufacturers delivered some exciting products for the 2010 model year," said Mark Summers, "RV Buddies" host and producer. "After walking the show and filming for nearly a week, several coaches simply stood out to us."
Winnebago Via
Winnebago has delivered a great coach that will be a standard-setter for the next decade. It is for this generation what the View was for the last. It offers a sleek package and good mileage. On our test drive, the coach impressed with a stable, secure ride.
Four Winds Serrano
Four Winds is associated with value. The Serrano offers great styling, storage, floor plans and diesel at a great price. It's a great combination in a nicely sized package.
Winnebago Tour
This "Best of Show" is for the entire Tour line-up, as well as the sister-coach, the Itasca Ellipse. Winnebago re-invented their top-of-the-line Class A diesel pusher with some truly innovative layouts. They have even jumped into the fray with a 42-foot tag axle model.
JMS Galileo
The all-new Galileo is a 21-foot trailer. The custom-molded front cap is aerodynamic. Inside, the fit, finish, materials and equipment are without compromise. If you are looking for an efficient-sized, high end towable, the Galileo should be on your short list.
Following the success of the PRVCA show, "RV Buddies" will continue to film next month at the California RV Show in Pomona, Calif., with plans to shoot at the Florida RV Super Show in January. After attending these major debut shows, "RV Buddies" plans to name its "RV(s) of the Year."
"RV Buddies" films and produces tailored videos for RV manufacturers and suppliers, as well as providing internet marketing and consulting services to the RV industry. For more information contact Mark Summers at: [email protected]


text: "Mmeeoow": 1 Report post Posted October 14, 2005 Ok i been reading a therapy book and it had honestly helped me. well theres a part in it that says everymorning when u wake up you should think of someone special and send you love to them and hope that they have a great day. so everyday we should all do the same. Today i send my love to my Sister and hope she has a nice day!!........ :happy_wft: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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A spot of Wi-Fi, dear?
After just one day in London, I began to take the Tube system of transportation for granted. It's just so easy to zip from one side of town to the other – no traffic, continuous service and more destinations than any person can hit during one vacation.
I felt savvy and confident using the Tube given my previous experience commuting on the NYC subway for 7 years. But I had a moment of panic when I remembered that I was without an international data plan; could I really survive 5 days without my "data"? Not being able to make calls or to send or receive texts was scary enough, but finding my way around a new city without a mapping app in my hand? Unimaginable! Turns out the Tube was the solution to my problem. Wi-Fi was readily available, for FREE, in Tube stations around the city. Since I was constantly out and on the go, I actually found myself relying on my underground travel time to connect with friends, make plans, post to Twitter and Facebook and even buy a new book for my e-reader!
It's easy to take connectivity for granted when participating in our day to day lives. However, when going abroad even regular communication becomes a challenge. London's preparations for the Olympic Games, including providing wireless access around the city, made visitors' experiences as smooth as possible so that they could fully enjoy all that the city and the games had to offer.
This type of access, anytime, anywhere and on any device, can and should be standard – from home to work and everywhere in-between. You may not be preparing to host the Olympic Games and your organization may not span an entire city, but ultimately, the goal is the same: to provide a Borderless Network with seamless connectivity.
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Exactly, wireless network should be just like electricity: would you build a house without electricity? No? Well that's the same for WiFi! 🙂


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I haven't come across it in BrE.
Student or Learner
Is it correct to say "Child keeper" as babysitter too?
Thank you. Hope replies soon.
I haven't come across it in BrE.
I've heard "baby minder" on British TV shows. Babysittter is the word in AmE, even if the "baby" is 10 years old.
Thank you very much for you help.
"Babysitter" is also used in BrE to cover a wide age range, from babies to teenagers. "Child Minder" is also used, but normally means someone who does it regularly [perhaps every day] on a professional basis - whereas a Babysitter will normally be an amateur, who does it occasionally for pocket money.
I'm not a teacher of English, but I have spoken it for (almost) all of my life....
There's also 'au pair' - pronounced without the slightest trace of a French accent - /ǝʊ peə/ An au pair, sometimes Italicized, lives in and receives pocket money rather than a wage; the idea is that they live on a par with the family - (au pair). An 'au pair' is usually a young foreign woman in her late teens or early twenties, possibly studying. (But I saw a TV piece about widows being sort of 'au pair grannies' - I don't think that was the word though. Anyone


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Over several years I have been having a lot of fun with several different Lynxmotion Hex Robots. I started off with a CH3-R and then added a Phoenix, T-Hex... All of these use Hitec (non digital) servos. Originally all of these were running using Basic Atom Pros or Arc32s, which are fine processors, but I personally perfer working in C/C++. Over the last year+ I have played around and ported the Phoenix code to C. First to run on a library I hacked up for the Basic Atom Pros /Arc32. Later to Arduinos and likewise Chipkit (Pic32)... I am having a lot of fun with this and have lots of projects that I want to and will do, ...
But, I have also been interested in Robotis for a long time (even before there was a US distributer). Every once in awhile I become tempted to try out something different like the PhantomX. Still thinking about it, but had a few questions.
1) Every video and the like I have seen of the Phantom, shows it moving really fast. Can it move Slow and smooth. That is one of things that I really liked when I first saw Zenta's phoenix.
2) The Arbotix Robocontroller, uses an Atmega644p processor, which is not a standard Arduino processor. I am assuming that your configuration is probably Sanguino like. The Sanguino sites talk about installing build 0018 of the Arduino software. Are you limited to this, or can you get this up to Arduino 1.0?
3) When developing code for the Arbotix, do you normally download programs using the boot loader or ISP or I get the impression the Sanguino boot loader allows you to download over the XBEE at 38400.
Again I am not sure yet if I will do this. But it would be fun to try out the Robotis servos and then maybe update the code to be able to control it from my DIY XBee controllers, try the Phoenix code on it...


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Still Hal Hartley's finest hour, TRUST is heartbreaking and laugh-out-loud funny, often both at once. One can trace the film's complex tone to a variety of sources: the influence of Robert Bresson (which can be felt in Hartley's meticulous framing and the deadpan line-readings of his actors); the writer-director's deep affinity for blue-collar Long Island (which reveals itself in his sensitive depiction of the characters and their dead-end milieu); and the witty, probing dialogue (an unlikely fusion of screwball comedy and Jean-Luc Godard), which condenses thoughtful examinations of social mores, interpersonal relationships, and spiritual longing into breathless one-liners. Yet the film's magic is ultimately irreducible—the narrative proceeds with such sharp logic that the components of Hartley's creative inspiration reveal themselves only after the movie ends. Adrienne Shelley, in her second collaboration with Hartley, plays a wayward teenager named Maria. At the beginning of TRUST, she tells her parents she's pregnant and plans to drop out of school; the news comes as such a shock to her father that he instantly dies of a heart attack. That same morning, a gifted ne'er-do-well named Matthew (Martin Donovan) quits his job at a computer manufacturing plant, then gets into a fight with his emotionally abusive father when he tells him the news. Maria and Matthew meet that evening, after they've both been kicked out of their homes; they form a tentative bond over being scapegoats in their families. The rest of the narrative concerns the blossoming of their relationship, which sees both protagonists changing their natures in surprising ways. The misanthropic Matthew teaches Maria about the pleasures of introspection, while she inspires him to open up and trust others. Along the way, the two investigate the disappearance of an infant, debate whether Maria should have an abortion, and reflect on the nature of work. Tying all this together is Hartley's sincere consideration of what it means to grow as an individual. The characters' progress is beautiful to behold, and it speaks to the compelling mystery that Hartley roots out of the most banal environments. Preceded by Christopher Gamboni's 1985 film GOING OUT OF BUSINESS (15 min, 16mm). TRUST is showing in a new 35mm print commissioned by the Chicago Film Society. (1990, 106 min, 35mm) BS
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Today we have a beautiful stuffing recipe for you! This Apple Thyme Wild Rice Stuffing is my new favorite stuffing recipe. I absolutely love the look of this recipe, the red of the apple skins, and the black of the wild rice makes this dish absolutely gorgeous. Stuffing is one of my favorite Thanksgiving dishes. It's because it's a carb dish, and I have carb problems. I am also in love with the addition of apples. You may remember our simple recipe for Thyme Roasted Apple and Parsnips, well ever since then I am really into roasting apples and using them in savory dishes. So the addition of apples in this stuffing is pretty awesome. If you're cooking Thanksgiving this year, I urge you to try this recipe, if you're not, then think about this dish for the near future! It is such a delicious winter dish! I will sadly not be eating Thanksgiving this year because I will be soaking up the sun in Hawaii eating seafood. I will however probably be making a mini feast when I return mostly so I can make this sandwich. :)
I am really excited about some of the other recipes we have coming up this week from our Not So Traditional Thanksgiving Spread so stay tuned!
♥ Teri
Apple-Thyme and Wild Rice Stuffing
Serves 10 to 12 people
16 ounces whole wheat baguette cubed and toasted
8 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened and divided
8 ounces wild rice
6 – 7 1/2 cups vegetable stock or low sodium chicken stock
1 large onion, diced
1 large leek, cleaned and thinly sliced
2 gala apples, cored and chopped
3 tablespoons minced thyme
1 1/3 cups chopped and toasted pecans
salt and pepper to taste
1. Preheat oven to 375˚F.
2. Pour baguette cubes into a large mixing bowl and set aside.
3. Melt 2 tablespoons butter into a medium saucepan oven medium heat. Add rice and toast for about 3 minutes. Season with salt and pepper and pour 4 cups stock over the rice. Lower the heat to medium-low, cover and simmer for about 45 minutes or until rice has cooked through and is light and fluffy. Pour rice over baguette, fold together and set aside.
4. In a large sauté pan, melt 4 tablespoons butter over medium-high heat and add onion and leek. Sauté for 3 to 5 minutes. Add apples and thyme and continue to sauté for another 3 to 5 minutes. Season with salt and pepper.
5. Add vegetable and apple mixture to rice mixture and fold together. Add remaining stock and stir together, allowing liquid to absorb into the croutons. (you want the mixture soggy, not dry)
6. Fold in pecans and pour stuffing into a greased, 4.5 to 5 quart, baking dish, cover and bake for 30 to 35 minutes. Uncover, dot the top with remaining butter, bake uncovered for about 10 minutes, and remove from heat and allow to slightly cool before serving.


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Gee laments bad toss after Cards beat Mets
NEW YORK (AP) -- Dillon Gee watched a whole weekend of exceptional pitching by his New York Mets teammates, then lamented his one bad toss.
Gee spun and bounced a throw into center field in a key spot Monday and the St. Louis Cardinals took advantage, ending a season-worst five-game losing streak by beating the Mets 5-4.
The Mets had never swept a four-game series from St. Louis in New York. They had outscored the World Series champions 19-1 -- getting a no-hitter from Johan Santana and a shutout by R.A. Dickey -- before letting the finale slip away at Citi Field.
"Just made a bad throw," Gee said. "Obviously, it wasn't a no-hitter or another shutout. But I pitched well."
Allen Craig delivered the big hit, a tiebreaking two-run homer in the eighth.
Pinch hitter Scott Hairston and Lucas Duda homered for the Mets, who missed a chance to move all alone into the NL East lead. New York starts a three-game series at division-leading Washington on Tuesday night.
"We execute a couple of plays, we win the game," Mets manager Terry Collins said.
Gee limited the Cardinals to Craig's RBI single before making his mistake in the seventh inning.
With runners at the corners, no outs and the score 1-all, Gee gloved Daniel Descalso's comebacker and looked Craig back to third. Gee tried to start a double play, but bounced his throw into center field and twisted his head in disgust. The go-ahead run scored on the error, and Rafael Furcal's RBI grounder made it 3-1.
"Doesn't take much. Just a win," Cardinals manager Mike Matheny said. "That was much needed, and nobody needed it more than we did. It will change the atmosphere around here. You never know which win will be the one that helps you take off."
Craig homered one out after Matt Holliday hit a leadoff single against Jon Rauch (3-5) for a 5-3 lead.
Rauch has tenderness in his right elbow and will be checked by a doctor. He has lost five straight decisions.
The Mets got closer in the bottom half when Andres Torres hit a long sacrifice fly, but closer Jason Motte retired David Wright on an inning-ending liner to right field with a runner at third base.
Motte finished for his ninth save in 12 chances. Marc Rzepczynski (1-3) wound up with the win despite allowing Hairston's eighth career pinch-hit homer in the seventh, a two-run shot with two outs that made it 3-all.
Cardinals starter Kyle Lohse pitched six sharp innings and allowed only two hits, including Duda's solo homer halfway up the second deck in the fourth.
The Cardinals took their first lead of the series in the fourth. Holliday led off with a double, moved up on a groundout and scored when Craig bounced a single through the partly pulled-in infield.
St. Louis tried to generate offense any way it could. Yadier Molina moved into the cleanup spot for the second time this season, and Carlos Beltran swung at a 3-0 pitch and grounded out to end the third with a runner on first.
After playing the Mets on Sunday night, Matheny also let his players arrive late on a rainy morning, with most of them getting to the ballpark about two hours before game time.
NOTES: Wright scored his 735th run, tying the Mets record set by Jose Reyes. ... Mets LHP Johan Santana will make his next start Friday night at Yankee Stadium. The Mets wanted to give him extra rest after threw a career-high 134 pitches Friday night in the team's first no-hitter. The NL Player of the Week is keeping busy, though -- he was presenting the Top Ten list on David Letterman's "Late Show" on Monday night. ... Mets RHP Chris Young, who missed most of last season because of shoulder surgery and has been in the minors this year, is ready to start Tuesday night at Washington. ... OF Jason Bay (broken rib) felt ill and won't rejoin the Mets on Tuesday, Collins said. ...The Mets swept a four-game series at St. Louis in 1986.


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Was FBI too quick to judge anthrax suspect the killer?
WASHINGTON — Scouring the anthrax-laced mail that took five lives and terrorized the East Coast in 2001, laboratory scientists discovered a unique contaminant — a tiny scientific fingerprint that they hoped would help unmask the killer.
One senior FBI official wrote in March 2007, in a recently declassified memo, that the potential clue "may be the most resolving signature found in the evidence to date."
Yet once FBI agents concluded that the likely culprit was Bruce Ivins — a mentally troubled, but widely regarded Army microbiologist — they stopped looking for the contaminant, after testing only a few work spaces of the scores of researchers using the anthrax strain found in the letters. They quit searching, despite finding no traces of the substance in hundreds of environmental samples from Ivins' lab, office, car and home.
It's been two and a half years since Ivins committed suicide in the face of prosecutors' threats to charge him with five murders, each carrying a potential death sentence. It's been more than a year since the Justice Department, despite lacking hard proof, formally declared that Ivins "perpetrated the anthrax letter attacks."
But the FBI's decision not to fully test for the distinct bacterial contaminant, pieced together by McClatchy in interviews with scientists, federal law enforcement officials and in a review of recently declassified bureau records, could reignite the debate over whether its agents found the real killer.
The Justice Department closed the eight-year investigation, said to cost as much as $100 million. However, none of the circumstantial evidence it found showed that Ivins prepared the deadly powder, scrawled "Death to America" in a seeming mimic of al Qaida, or twice sneaked away on six and a half hour roundtrip drives to drop them in a Princeton, N.J., mailbox.
If the FBI got the right man, then there is no consequence to its decision to stop hunting for bacillus subtilis, a harmless bacterial contaminant that resembles anthrax. But if Ivins was innocent, then the killer is at large, and the bureau may have missed a big opportunity.
Some scientists and ex-colleagues of Ivins, who spent 27 years studying anthrax at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Md., remain convinced of his innocence and believe the FBI erred in limiting the testing.
"This was not an incidental finding," said Martin Hugh-Jones, a retired professor of veterinary medicine at Louisiana State University and one of the world's foremost anthrax experts. "The FBI had what I would call an institutional fingerprint. Whoever had that strain of (bacteria) has to answer to the investigators."
Hugh-Jones, who knew Ivins, believes he lacked the expertise to make the anthrax powder. He contends that the bureau "dismissed" the importance of the contaminant, but concedes that "a bit of housekeeping" could have made it untraceable by the time testing began years later.
One of four federal anthrax investigators, made available to McClatchy on the condition of anonymity, described the contaminant as a clue that "didn't pan out." The official said that the bureau tested "thousands" of samples for the substance, but that included 1,057 anthrax samples submitted by various labs. He wouldn't say how many researchers' work areas were tested.
Some 12,000 pages of bureau records made public to date reflect tests on hundreds of samples gathered in searches surrounding Ivins, but little evidence of tests on other researchers' lab spaces or their stocks of the contaminant.
"They've got thousands of samples?" Hugh-Jones echoed. "But were they thousands of the right samples?"
The mysterious mailing of five anthrax-filled letters to media firms and politicians in New York, Washington and Boca Raton, Fla., sickened 22 people, five fatally, and forced 32,000 others to take antibiotics for weeks. Letters sent to Democratic U.S. Sens. Patrick Leahy of Vermont and Tom Daschle of South Dakota contained a purer, especially deadly anthrax powder, causing lengthy shutdowns of a Senate office building and a major postal facility.
Occurring shortly after al Qaida hijackers seized and crashed four passenger jets on Sept. 11, 2001, the mailings ignited fears that Osama bin Laden or Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had loosed a deadly biological weapon.
Lab tests, however, soon showed that the anthrax in the letters was a strain used solely at 18 U.S., Canadian and European bio-weapons facilities.
Searching for a domestic perpetrator, FBI agents, postal inspectors and lab scientists seemed to spare nothing in their push to narrow a huge suspect list. Initially, they paid up to $1 million for a single genetic lab test, hastening the development of a new field of microbial forensics.
FBI agents locked on Ivins after 2007 tests showed a genetic match between the mailed anthrax and spores in a flask in his lab. He'd shared the contents with others. Testing all samples submitted by labs, the FBI found eight with mutations matching those in Ivins' anthrax, and soon eliminated all suspects but Ivins.
Colleagues and friends knew Ivins as a first-rate scientist who played the organ at church and livened parties with juggling routines, music and limericks. Even after learning of his decades-long obsession with a college sorority and his threat shortly before his suicide to carry out a mass shooting, some of them challenge the FBI's decision, after his death, to elevate him from prime suspect to killer.
"It's irresponsible," said Gerry Andrews, who was Ivins' boss at the time of the mailings.
"I'd rather have a fallible, but more honest FBI, where they say he's our number one suspect, but we really don't know."
Andrews insisted, however, that Ivins and his colleagues "didn't have anything to do with it."
Retired Army Lt. Col. Jeffrey Adamowicz, who supervised Ivins in 2003 and 2004, expressed dismay that the search for the contaminant was cut short.
Adamowicz said that anyone with access to spores from Ivins' flask — or to anthrax he shipped to other labs — needed only "a teeny tiny microscopic drop of that culture to grow their own."
Despite the FBI's cutting-edge work, controversy has followed the "Amerithrax" inquiry.
One person close to the investigation, who requested anonymity to avoid harming relationships, suggested that FBI officials felt "trapped" by Ivins' suicide.
"If they ever had any doubts, once he committed suicide, they had to unite," this person said. "Otherwise, you've driven an innocent man to suicide. And that's a terrible thing."
The law enforcement officials bristled at such assertions, saying that they were seeking Justice Department approval to indict Ivins in the days before he died, but also had risked exposing witnesses to alert his lawyer that he might be a danger to himself or others.
In February, a National Academy of Sciences panel challenged the bureau's finding that a genetic match meant that the wet anthrax in Ivins' flask was the "parent" of the dry powder in the envelopes. The panel said that link wasn't definitive.
Meantime, at the request of skeptics in Congress, the Government Accountability Office recently began an extensive review of the FBI's handling of the inquiry, in which a former Army microbiologist, Steven Hatfill, collected a $5.8 million court settlement after he was mistakenly targeted and publicly identified.
The law enforcement officials stressed that they agreed Ivins was the mailer based on "the totality of the evidence" gathered in gumshoe investigating, not just lab tests.
In a 91-page summary of the inquiry last year, the Justice Department alleged that Ivins: feared that Congress might discontinue an anthrax vaccine program to which he'd devoted his career; misled FBI agents in 2002 by providing anthrax samples that weren't from his flask; had the ability to use the lab's equipment to dry anthrax into fine powder, and was a night owl in his lab in the weeks before the letters were mailed.
The FBI got some corroboration last month when an expert panel concluded that Ivins was the killer, after conducting an unusual, posthumous, court-approved review of his psychiatric records.
Lab scientists didn't identify the genetically unique strain of B. subtilis until December 2005. It was in letters sent to NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw and the New York Post, but wasn't in the Senate letters.
B. subtilis is harmless, but looks and behaves so much like anthrax that researchers have used it to simulate how anthrax spores would act if made into an airborne spray.
Its presence in the letters, LSU's Hugh-Jones said, suggests that somebody grew anthrax using equipment contaminated during earlier B. subtilis experiments.
In March 2007, an FBI advisory panel of six scientists recommended expansive testing for both the mutations in the anthrax and the B. subtilis strain, describing the latter as perhaps the most promising clue to date.
One of the unnamed law enforcement officials said that the FBI arranged for extensive studies of B. subtilis. It also tested for, but didn't find the contaminant in a lab at the Army's Dugway Proving Ground in Utah, which years earlier grew anthrax that went into Ivins' flask and which also received anthrax from him, the official said. Tests also were conducted in work areas of unidentified parties who were under "under investigation," but weren't anthrax researchers, he said.
But once the four mutations in the mailed anthrax were linked to Ivins' flask, there seemed little value to testing the equipment, countertops and B. subtilis stocks in the labs of researchers whose anthrax didn't match Ivins' spores, another of the law enforcement officials said.
Jacques Ravel, a lab scientist who aided the FBI while with the Institute for Genomic Research in Rockville, Md., shrugged off the B. subtilis lead as "a long shot," saying that the contaminant is found "everywhere" in the air and soil and wasn't used much at the time by bio-weapons labs.
However, a 2004 paper in a science journal described a study of B. subtilis by researchers at Dugway, the Battelle Memorial Institute's operations at Dugway, and the Army's Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland. Unlike Ivins, researchers at Dugway and Battelle both worked with dry anthrax powder.
Nonetheless, the National Academy of Sciences' panel accepted the FBI's finding that the incomplete testing for B. subtilis lead "did not provide useful forensic information." But, the panel said deep in its report, such clues "should be investigated to their fullest" in the future.
Panel supports FBI's findings in anthrax letters case
FBI seeks delay in outside review of its anthrax probe
Despite $28 billion program, U.S. remains vulnerable to bioterror attack


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UK medical school teaching on physical activity virtually 'non-existent'
UK medical school teaching on physical activity is "sparse or non-existent," finds research published online in the British Journal of Sports Medicine today.
This knowledge gap will leave tomorrow's doctors ill equipped to promote physical activity effectively to their patients and stem the rising tide of serious disease associated with lack of exercise, say the authors.
They base their findings on the results of a survey sent to the curriculum lead or director for medical studies for each of the UK's 31 medical schools.
This asked about the form and content of key aspects of education on the promotion of physical activity, in accordance with national guidelines, and the total amount of time given over to teaching the basic science and health benefits of physical activity across the undergraduate course.
The education leads were asked to name the specific teaching modules in which physical activity education appeared. And they were asked if the Chief Medical Officer's (CMO's) guidance on physical activity―which spans all age groups, and which was published last July―appeared anywhere in the curriculum.
The responses uncovered "some alarming findings, showing that there is widespread omission of basic teaching elements," say the authors.
All the medical schools responded. Only four (15.5%) included physical activity in each year of the undergraduate course. Five (16%) did not include any specific teaching on it in their undergraduate courses.
Only half (15) schools included the current CMO guidance on physical activity in their course, despite it being endorsed by all four UK departments of health.
Its absence points to a major disconnect between undergraduate medical education, evidence based clinical guidelines for the treatment and management of many long term conditions, and national policy, with its emphasis on good health and disease prevention, say the authors.
The total amount of time spent on teaching physical activity was "minimal", the responses showed, averaging just 4 hours compared with an average of 109 hours for pharmacology, say the authors.
The specific modules in which physical activity featured varied widely, but it was most often included in public health, cardiology, respiratory medicine and endocrinology.
Only two schools said it was included in health promotion and in community and general practice.
The authors point to 39 different clinical guidelines for specific diseases and conditions in which physical activity features as a method of treatment, and highlight the fact that most of the population lives largely sedentary lives.
"A basic understanding of the benefits of physical activity, how to effectively promote it (with behaviour change techniques), and combat sedentary behaviour for different age groups underpin the ability of future doctors to manage modern non-communicable chronic diseases and follow clinical guidelines," conclude the authors.
They call for dedicated teaching time on physical activity for all medical students, as a matter of urgency.


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The Republic of Dave is easy enough to get into; all you have to do is convince the republic's president (surprisingly named Dave) that you deserve entrance, which you will do by speaking with his daughter at the compound's front gate. Head on inside and explore as you will, but you'll want to head to the museum on-premise, which doubles as a classroom. This building is located on the left side of the small compound. Once inside, simply look at the shelves on the right side of the building to find the Bobblehead you seek. Perception plus one. Nice!
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Hundreds from CTC take key role in Prudential RideLondon Weekend
Hundreds from CTC take key role in Prudential RideLondon Weekend
The biggest mass-participation events over the two days will be the FreeCycle and the London-Surrey 100.
The former will see tens of thousands of people on Saturday set off on an eight mile stretch of motor traffic-free roads in the centre of London. The route takes in some of the capital's world-famous architecture, from the Houses of Parliament to St Paul's Cathedral and the Tower of London.
Sunday's London-Surrey 100 will celebrate the legacy of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, with a 100 mile route that begins from within the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford.
From there, riders head out of London into the Surrey countryside to experience the thrills of the nerve-testing route from the road race and time trial events that produced numerous medals for Team GB at the Games last summer.
The riders then head back into London, follow the embankment alongside the River Thames, through Trafalgar Square and down the Mall for the finish.
This weekend of cycling will be a spectacle and if the volunteers I have already met are anything to go by, the spirit of the event will be one to remember."
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The national charity's domestic women's cycling team, Team CTC, are also in action on Saturday as part of the Prudential Ride London festivities.
They take part in the Grand Prix one-hour criterium event in the evening on a 1.3 mile circuit around St James's Park. Starting out from the Mall, the competitors' route takes them past iconic scenery such as Buckingham Palace, Birdcage Walk and Horse Guards Parade.
Tamina Oliver, Hannah Payton, Astrid Wingler and Tracey Fletcher will represent the green team in the 100-strong group of riders that also includes Team GB Gold Medallists Dani King, Joanne Roswell and Laura Trott, with the race getting underway at 6:30 pm.


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My client needs a simple clean site to showcase his commercial cabinet work, specializing in Multi-Family & Assisted Living Facilities. His current site (http://www.flkitchens.com) deals with his residential division. The new site needs to look nothing like his current site. We're looking for clean and web 2.0. The logo color scheme (link below) is blue & white with one of the major accent colors being a bright yellow (not shown, but use it).
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The primary visitor / viewer of this site will be General Contractors and Property Managers. The sitemap will be: Home, About Us, Products, Project Gallery, Services, Contact Us, Blog. The logo color scheme (link here) is blue & white with one of the major accent colors being a bright yellow (not shown, but use it).
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