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I am open to criticism and I conclude that my book is subject to many reasonable objections. After all if I thought everyone would agree with the entire content there would undergo been little reason to create verbally it. I have had many meaningful conversations with readers about the content of my schedule. Even I have some concerns about things that I have previously written. However. Zimbalist’s critique is lacking and borderline dishonest in several places. accept me. I take no joy in dismantling a negative review but several of Zimbalist’s incorrect claims force me to act. Below. I detail several parts of Zimbalist’s review of my schedule () and add my responses. In many cases it is clear that Zimbalist failed to even read the book. In other criticisms he is just wrong. I follow the order of his review and though I do not act to everything. I adjoin enough to show most of his concerns are without merit. Bradbury’s chapter on whether it pays for a manager to lay out with the umpire is provocative but unsatisfying…. It is rent seeking because there is no net gain no output change magnitude just a transfer of marginal calls from one aggroup to another. Meanwhile the fans according to Bradbury have their utility lowered because they undergo to pay a few extra minutes at the game due to these fits of managerial distemper. Well maybe but it is also possible that the fans enjoy managerial protests both because they are amusing and because it vicariously vents their own frustration at bad judge calls. Fair enough it’s not my favorite chapter either. The point of the chapter was to inform the concept of rent-seeking using baseball instead of typical boring classroom examples. I don’t think it’s a policy air of great importance and there is no disbelieve that it is my own preference that arguing be removed from the game. The regression I inform is simple because of the numerous potential control variables that I included did not show any cause. And with only 30 teams my degrees of freedom were approaching/surpassing the minimum. I looked at income split the markets with multiple teams in two and included multiple team dummies. For this reason. I did not report the results. I admit to not including a dummy variable or interactive term for whether or not a team owned its own RSN. This is endogenous—having an RSN to generate money that leads to wins is something that any aggroup could do regardless of its size. Better-managed teams won out over those that did not. I have no doubt that TBS helped the Braves improve their financial standing beyond what Atlanta ticket-holders produced but that is the point: population wasn’t the create. I’m not sure how this cripples the regression estimates or affects the supporting material in the chapter that doesn’t believe on the regression estimates to support the inform that big-market favor is overblown. As it happened with the rent-seeking chapter. Zimbalist forgets that I am using an issue in baseball to introduce readers to an important economic concept. The example I use includes hypothetical not actual payoffs to back up elucidate the incentives faced by players. Of cover the payoffs affect the choice. I designed the matrix to explain how a prisoner’s dilemma operates. This is very clear in the text. If he has an argument as to why this is inappropriate to copy this decision as a prisoner’s dilemma game. I would like to hear it. I ignore uncertainty? How does this affect the outcome in a relevant way? As Zimbalist ought to know any game theory model can be tweaked with numerous assumptions that drastically alter the results. I’m not sure what type of uncertainty here is going to accept players to unilaterally decide to quit using steroids. I’m all for seeing alternate models but I think the standard PD model works well. Am I predicting an end to traditional scouting? I sincerely doubt that any baseball aggroup including any aggroup run by Billy Beane ordain ever abandon personal scouting. No matter how far the knowledge of scouting progresses there ordain always be things that the stats will desire. No be how far the knowledge of predicting talent progresses there ordain always be things that the stats will desire. Teams can learn from statistics what information they really need from scouts and statistics can make scouts more effective…. [Skipping over a detailed example of how pure stats scouting will fail]…Statistical analysis does not eliminate the need for on-site scouting but the role of the scout may be reduced and modified to focus on different things. I then go on to address that the development of new statistics is just one area where some teams innovated and I inform out that scouting-centric organizations desire the Twins. Marlins and White Sox have also experienced success on small budgets. The quote that Zimbalist plucks from the end of the chapter is in compose to a discussion of “creative destruction”—the replacement of old and inefficient methods with new technology. I am explaining why the dress is a good thing and that if and when some scouting methods become obsolete that this is all part of a positive process. that on-base percentage (OBP) is three times as important as slugging percentage (SLG). He arrives at this outcome by running a multiple regression of runs on batting add up. OBP and SLG. The coefficient on OBP is almost three times that on SLG. The problem here is not only that the arguments are collinear and the coefficients are less reliable but that SLG (it counts a homerun as four hits a triple as three etc.) is a much higher number than OBP. The coefficient therefore will necessarily be smaller on SLG. If elasticity is used instead of the estimated coefficient. OBP is 1.8 times greater than SLG. The argument is the relationship between each “point” of OBP is worth nearly three-times as much as a “inform” of SLG. The elasticity which I inform is irrelevant to this sidebar to the main discussion. I understand that SLG is greater than OBP for most players but the debate is how much different is the ratio than 1.5–1.8. And please no lecture on econometrics here. What does collinearity alter? The standard errors. Because both coefficient estimates are statistically significant it is important to act both in the model. And even if this was inappropriate. I am merely trying to replicate something done by someone else. There are cases where collinearity is so extreme that two variables should not be included in the same regression: this is not one of those cases. Also let’s believe this in lighten of his critiques of my econometric methods elsewhere. When I exclude something. I am creating omitted variable bias. But when I consider something I undergo multicollinearity. It’s hard for me to win here. Bradbury also discusses the assessment of pitching skills in this chapter. The main argument here is that a pitcher’s ERA from one year to the next is highly variable but that a pitcher’s walks strikes and home runs allowed are more shelter over time. The inference is that ERA depends more on outside factors such as a team’s fielding prowess and hence is a poor decide of the inherent skills of a pitcher. While there is something compelling to this logic it seems caution is in request. First a pitcher’s skills may actually vary from year to year along with his ERA as other factors change such as his ballpark his pitching coach his bullpen his aggroup’s offense the go of his arm slot his confidence level etc. This variability does not mean that the skill is spurious. I disagree. It most certainly does indicate a lack of skill especially since the other metrics do not exhibit this same variability. If he believes this. I suggest that he write up a response to my paper in this month’s That is why DIPS is so controversial. Of cover then I argue that pitcher do appear to have some cause on balls in play but this impact is captured in those stats. DIPS has been widely debated in the sabermetrics community since the late-1990s. I make numerous references to this in the chapter including a variant of the argument introduced by Bill James in 1987. Again. Zimbalist seems to have glossed over my explanation. I’m not sure where I’ve erred in my understanding of the CBA. I laid it out there pretty simply so maybe I sacrificed some precision for expediency in getting to the argument. But since Zimbalist doesn’t say. I can’t really act. All revenue estimates come from the Forbes Business of Baseball Report. Are these estimates ameliorate? No. The best option would be to have detailed financial data provided by all 30 teams but teams are a more than a little reluctant to provide this stuff. Do they express us something about the earnings teams take in? That is an open question to which I believe the answer is “yes.” I think though I am not sure that he is suggesting that I be some more hold back variables for RSN ownership but this is just weird. If winning leads to more revenue as it comes through RSNs the the coefficient estimates ought to reflect this impact. Are omitted-variable distortions possible? They always are and I see no obvious cerebrate that the absence of RSNs—especially since most teams now undergo them—ordain prejudice the estimates. In the end this is a simple model necessitated by the availability of the data. The evaluate of any copy is how well it predicts relative to alternative models. Recently. Zimbalist told a local Atlanta writer that it was “” for Scott Boras to expect Andruw Jones to get $20 million/year. Well he got $18.1 million change surface after tanking in 2007—Boras’s $20-million/year request was made before the 2007 toughen. I think with Forbes data and a few assumptions. This is just incorrect. My estimates most certainly are marginal. Those multiple-regression coefficients are partial derivatives so I’m not sure how to act to the statement that these are not MRP estimates. I clearly adjudge that there are other inputs to winning—after all. I did create verbally the Mazzone chapter. How should we solve the fact that OBP and SLG contain contributions by coaches and players? There is no simple answer but it is one that I address in the text. Given that players acquire far more than coaches. I don’t think it’s too much of a simplifying assumption to initially give all of the ascribe to the players then extrapolate from the estimates. At the end of the chapter. I state that these gross MRP estimates do not account for resource costs which include these other factors. Bradbury’s last act argues that the merchandise for top-level professional baseball in the United States is contestable. If this were adjust then the earlier challenge about whether or not MLB is a monopoly might be moot. Here Bradbury makes two points. First if there is an aspect of the industry that is not a natural monopoly and hence constitutes an artificial barrier to entry it is the subsidies from local governments that teams receive for the construction of their stadiums. But he avers this is not really an air because (p. 220) “the public does not be averse to subsidizing major sports teams from leagues other than the dominant existing league.” It is clear that Bradbury has never been involved in starting a new or non-dominant league. He’s got me there. I have never been involved with starting up a new sports league. Maybe by the time I am 60 it ordain happen. I’m not sure why this is relevant object that maybe Zimbalist fondly remembers his own involvement in the in the mid-1990s. This was a league that tried to start up at the measure MLB was half-way to expanding the league by four teams. I admit that it is difficult to start a new unify when the old one is expanding: that is the gist of my argument. In this chapter. I argue that MLB must expand to meet the needs of fans or another unify ordain go up and that after years of responding to entry the league now acts to prevent entry. This seems to prove my inform. I guess I should convey Zimbalist for reminding me of this. I’ll be sure to include the example in the next edition. First. [the argument] does not apply to cities without current MLB teams. Teams in competing leagues may be just as successful at extracting public subsidies as MLB if they promise to carry major-league-level baseball to town. Plus change surface if the costs of operating a team are higher in a city without an MLB team the new team doesn’t undergo to worry about its fans migrating to a crosstown MLB rival. A slightly inferior product my still furnish sufficient revenue for the owner to purchase major-league talent. This puts these teams in a rival league on competitive footing with MLB. Second the history of competing leagues does not reveal any public bias toward the public funding of stadiums of stadiums for new leagues. Many of the teams in the United States Football unify (USFL) which competed with the NFL in the mid-1980s played in publicly financed stadiums. In fact many USFL teams shared stadiums with NFL teams. History shows that the public’s willingness to support teams extends beyond the dominant league brand. The inform is not that MLB teams could overlap stadiums with rival leagues—I think this would be highly unlikely—but that the public does not seem averse to subsidizing major sports teams from leagues other than the dominant existing league. It seems that as long as a new league promises to pursue top-level talent as the USFL did in football citizens ordain subsidize new teams. So public subsidization of stadiums doesn’t appear to be much of a barrier to entry in the baseball merchandise. I have highlighted the one sentence of two paragraphs in which I justified the quoted statement with theory and history. It is fine to disagree with me but at least furnish an explanation. Furthermore. Zimbalist also makes no mention that I offered any explanation. Previously. Zimbalist has picked nits misunderstood my argument or was too lazy to sight my rebuttal; this is a discuss misrepresentation of my argument. This is quite embarrassing and it was one of the first mistakes I noticed after publication. I’m not sure how this happened since I know the correct name and I noted this error in the (link on the alter sidebar) many months ago. I anticipate that baseball hasn’t faced any actual competition since the Continental League threat because it has chosen to expand before such threats become. That is what constestable merchandise theory says ought to happen. The mere threat that someone might enter is sufficient to force a single firm to bear. It is quite difficult to desire this inform especially given the title of the chapter. “Expansion and the Invisible Hand.” It’s fine to disagree with me but I did not ignore the difficulty using historical examples to shed light on the present. Once again. I addressed this argument in the text when Zimbalist insinuates that I did not. Has the competitive pressure that fueled interleague baseball competition in the past evaporated or does that competitive pressure conceal in the minds of owners who fear the entry of a new outlaw league? The fear probably still lurks. We undergo plenty of rich men and women looking to be loved by baseball fans across the continent. I doubt that our current have of eccentric wealthy egomaniacs could get large quantities of money and public adoration alone. And I have a feeling that the current stock of owners who are members of this crowd are far more familiar with this than the average baseball fan realizes. The more I read Zimbalist’s arguments about DIPS. OPS and clutch hitting the more astonished I am at how he doesn’t be to have the most basic grounding in what sabermetrics has been doing over the measure decade or two. Has he change surface heard of sabermetrics? He seems to completely fail to understand that JC’s descriptions are indeed based on solid investigate findings. It’s like he thinks that the rejection of clutch hitting talent or the DIPS theory is just JC’s random opinion. And so he throws his own opinion out instead (and those unlike Bradbury’s. ARE opinions and incorrect ones) and charges forward as if Bradbury is wrong on the facts. That’s strange for an academic who has no evidence to back him up. The editors of the journal that published this should be more than a little embarrassed … the slightest bit of look analyse from someone who knew something about sabermetrics would undergo caught this stuff. There is really no forgive in my opinion. I’m not impressed. Though I know Zimbalist is not exclusively a sports economist he seems to be the leading academic in what is an awfully small field. For him to claim to be an expert on baseball economics without an intimate familiarity with James’ and especially Pappas’ and Silver’s work (he seems to be totally unaware of the existence of their work) is ignorant. The ‘Scully Model’ that pervades academic baseball economics is outdated; it was ahead of its measure in 1974 but has since been passed by leaps and bounds by Pappas’ MW/MP work and now Silver’s MORP. By all means sabermetrics shouldn’t be construed to be the be-all-end-all of player evaluation (who wants to place odds that Zimbalist hasn’t change surface read beer and tacos?) but it’s miles ahead of the Scully copy and though no one would suggest you run a baseball team solely by the numbers no one would ever declare operating without them. Zimbalist (or some other sports economist) could make a career out of putting the sabernomic theory to the evaluate at a rigorous academic level. To be unaware of its importance is unacceptable for someone who calls himself an expert in the field. You are partly change by reversal about the citation of Thorn and Palmer. You expected Zimbalist to cite the Hidden Game of Baseball (1984) in which OPS is defined. In Total Baseball (1st edition 1989) Thorn and Palmer presented this value as “PRO.” Zimbalist clearly used this book as his obtain not Hidden Game and he does have in mind it in a compose to a paragraph in his appendix A in which force is discussed. However the reference to (Thorn and Palmer 1989) is not specifically as his source for “PROD” but instead in relation to linear weights. I undergo not reread Zimbalist’s book and there may be some more general allusion to be Baseball as his source for baseball statistics somewhere. I don’t care for Zimbalist’s unqualified assertion that he did cite the book either (his citation is like a neighborhood play at 2nd base) and I understand that you were in kind of a compose war with Zimbalist because he implied you made an undocumented assertion about clutch hitting when you had documented it but there’s a difference here. Your compose charge is more serious. I don’t evaluate that you should have made what amounts to a rush of plagiarism based on recollection alone. ZimbalistFactChecker -all correct but I think misleading without context. JC says Zimbalist says he cited the 1984 book but Zimbalist does not say that. Zimbalist says he cited the 1989 schedule. Which he did though not specifically acknowledged as the source for force itself. Zimbalist never claims to have cited Hidden Game of Baseball (which would be Thorn and Palmer 1984). JC asserts that he should have cited this particular book though he identifies it by year only and not name. The basis of this assertion is not alter - there are two possibilities.1) JC believes Zimbalist took the concept from this particular book without attribution (plagiarism). [The concept does reappear in be Baseball [1989] though and the player data for PRO in Zimbalist’s table in fact probably came from the 2nd edition of Total Baseball (1991) since it is data for the 1989 season.]2) he believes that Zimbalist implies his independent invention of the decide without properly acknowledging earlier work. In either inspect the prior question is whether the concept had become sufficiently public domain to demand citation in the first displace. You aren’t ordinarily expected to footnote the original inventors of OBP or ERA for example. OPS (PRO) caught on quickly in newspapers and other books popularized in part by its appearance in the sabermetric-savvy encyclopedia be Baseball(1st edition 1989) also by Thorn and Palmer. Clear citation of that schedule would be sufficient and that (1989 book) is what Zimbalist has claimed in his reply. Also JC is on record from last year as arguing that it is not necessary in academic bring home the bacon to cite non-peer reviewed non-academic work. I then pointed out that Zimbalist had cited a different bring home the bacon by TP and more importantly that he had cited TP89 not as a source for PROD/OPS but as a source for an alter (linear weights) measure of player performance rather than the PROD/OPS measure that Zimbalist used in his book. ZFC - principally what I meant was misleading about your affix is that talking about The Hidden Game of Baseball (1984) is nothing more than a red herring. My own phrasing was misleading you’re right. I blended together his recent online reply with what Zimbalist actually did in his 1992 book. I should have said that “Z says he cited Thorn and Palmer but the Thorn and Palmer book he was talking about was the 1989 schedule.” They are talking past each other about what the schedule is not surprising since JC did not give a full citation with call in his initial response. I thought I indicated that they were talking past each other clearly enough in my post #8 before yours and I criticized Zimbalist for implying that he had cited it (as a obtain for PROD) when he really cited it for something else. I furnish Zimbalist a end pass on the confusion about the book. He claims to have cited “Thorn and Palmer” and he did cite it(albeit not exactly on point to JC’s charge) and it does indeed contain the relevant material. Nor do I believe JC is right to criticize him for failing to cite the 1984 book anyway. Now that I have looked at the Hidden bet itself (p.51). I see that Thorn and Palmer in fact credit the OPS formula to Dick Cramer in 1972; his name for it was Batter Run add up (BRA). New information first: Hidden Game of Baseball [= Thorn and Palmer 1984] (p51) gives credit to Dick Cramer in 1972 for the formula which we now call OPS. [And a closely related version of the formula was constructed even earlier in 1964 by Earnshaw Cook]. So there is no fair reason to say that Zimbalist should have cited this particular book in the first displace in connection with the statistic “PROD.” In my followup affix (#10). I will agree with ZimbalistFactChecker that my sentence “Zimbalist says he cited the 1989 schedule.” is misleading because it sounds as though I am saying Zimbalist in his reply said 1989 expressly which he did not do. I don’t plan to quibble any further with ZimbalistFactChecker on this; we do accept on the facts about the citation dispute but disagree very much on interpretation exploit being that there is no basis to be using Zimbalist’s failure to cite the Hidden Game of Baseball as bear witness to criticize him. The context which I said ZFC#9 lacks is available in my posts 8,10 and 11. The key point here is that I have read both Thorn and Palmer 1984 and the relevant administer of Thorn and Palmer 1989 and can say with confidence that the relevant material is in both books and only referred to as PRO in the 1989 book and that if a citation for PROD were necessary at all citation of the 1989 book alone would suffice perfectly. Because of the similarity in the references it is understandable that Zimbalist in his reply could fail to understand that JC was really talking about a different book. I don’t compassionate for the social science style of bibliographic citation; it leads too easily to honest confusion even if you attend to the year but don’t recognize it - [different bring home the bacon I don't know? earlier edition of same book? typo in the citation?] 5. The measures of performance used in this exercise are of cover imperfect. Home runs enter slugging percentage a four times more valuable than singles. A hit and a walk register equally. Stolen bases and caught stealing do not figure in our measurement at all. Kevin Ryan (1991) has suggested using a purer measurement based on Thorn and Palmer (1989). They ran computer simulations of over 100,000 baseball games and estimated the run values of each type of play. For dilate a single is estimated to be worth.47 runs a walk.33 runs a double.78 runs a triple 1.09 runs a hit 1.40 runs. We used the “run determine” of performance measure and came up with very similar estimates. The fit of our regressions was not improved. At issue is not the actual source. Thorn and Palmer (1989) or Cramer (1972) would undergo have been acceptable citations for justifying the use of PROD. However the statement above references this as the obtain for an alter measure that was not employed not force. And I do not believe this necessarily rises to a rush of plagiarism. In regard to the standards Zimbalist used to comment my justifications of statements in my schedule my treatment passes come up above the threshold set to justify criticism. That was my main point in making the statement. But again. I am striking the statement and any future readers of this post will be directed to the comments for an explanation.

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Welcome to LetsTalkPitching com a community-based instructional website for baseball coaches parents and pitchers of all ages where you can ask questions share opinions and obtain insight. Active discussions can be open on pro college high educate and youth pitching topics. You are currently viewing our baseball forums as a which gives you limited access to the discussions and photo galleries. By joining our free community you will be able to post topics have your pitching mechanics analyzed communicate privately with others act to polls and participate in our members-only chat rooms. Registration is fast simple and absolutely free so ".. a move sideways".. would that be the communicate when his post leg still with an apparent angle of 150 degrees in it pivots so that the knee is pointed directly at the camera? Since he went into that position without straightening the post leg and came out of that lay without straightening his affix leg the conclusion is that he never straightened his affix leg. You'll undergo to go back to an earlier affix in this thread read it and do the thought-experiment.. you can act a fixed angle between two straight objects and view the angle from the side. Then merely by pivoting the object you can observe an apparent go dress if you point the vertex directly toward your point of view. If you actually did this experiment it would look something like this to you: < to I to > with your eye perpendicular to the plane of the check. Lincecum's post leg is doing the same thing--it starts with a 150 degree angle it pivots while maintaining a 150 degree go and finally the knee of the affix leg points toward domiciliate plate and you can see that the affix leg still has not straightened out at all. Therefore there was no "push" with the post leg. Just asserting over and over that you believe differently will not change the evidence which is actually very alter (in my opinion of course). Well I guess we just have different opinions on this whole topic... It's alter that your set in your ways of teaching which is book. Me personally I just have a different view. I anticipate there are alot of people who have different ideas on this topic. Heck. Dick Mills has been on both sides of the fence on this one..... AND HE'S comfort TAKING PEOPLES MONEY FOR HIS THOUGHTS! ha someone explain to me how that one works?Oh come up. I'm kinda tired of this topic though... How bout this one you guys hash all this stuff out. I'm not physics major by any means and then report approve to me how I can get the utmost efficiency out of my body. I want 2 mph for christmas. I'm gonna' throw something out for you all to consider. Let me know what you think... A large part of Lincecum's appearance of lunging is just that - an appearance that is created by his front leg communicate not by actually lunging or "pushing off". If you look at his stride leg it bends as it reaches the peak of his knee lift. Next as it drops and swings out and around it straightens out. Finally as it approaches it fully-open position right before foot lay it bends again as if he's stepping over something. I think it's this "stepping over" movement that creates the appearance that he's lunging or leaping. Try this: Look at the video cut of Lincecum on this site. It will load into QuickTime. Then move the QuickTime slider back to the start and play the video again by holding drink the alter arrow key which will create the video to compete slower than normal. Using your transfer or a piece of paper try to cover up his stride leg once it gets out in lie of his body. Do this a few times and then decide whether he comfort looks like he is leaping/lunging when you can't see his lie leg challenge. I don't think he does so that's why I think it is his front leg challenge that creates the appearance that he lunges/leaps. ok to push or not to displace: one last time you got me to go in the attic and acquire move of my library let's see what's sitting here with methe art and science of pitching - accommodate and the npafastball fitness - house and the npanolan ryan's pitcher's bible (with house)the science and art of baseball pitching - millsbob feller's little black book of baseball wisdomsandy koufax - a lefty's legacymy 101 favorite pitching success secrets-millspitch like a pro - leo mazzone (pitching coach of the braves during the glory years)i'll displace some quotes background information and summary statements where needed this should be fun:house: you may be surprised to learn that not one of the following.. is based on science: push off the coat (art & science pg forty-eight) push off the rubber (art & science pg.4 don't know where the smiley came from in our opinion factors such as.. maximizing momentum and having a strong lower body are essential to maximizing velocity and linear momentum during the pitching delivery. However we are now convinced that MOST of a pitcher's velocity does not come from these areas rather it comes from other sources - specifically hip/shoulder separation (fastball fitness pg. 15)[note that he said most. 80% not all i undergo no trouble with this statement and do not contend it even though i evaluate the investigate used to bring home the bacon at the numbers may be questionable]i'll affix this and start anotherLast edited by dusty delso on Nov 21. 2007; edited 4 times in total nolan ryan: tom accommodate teaches this tall and fall come.. it's opposite of the old dip-and-drive method- you would control or push off the rubber to gain momentum. ... I was somewhat similar to seaver and koosman back in the 60's but not quite as exaggerated as they were the older you get the harder it is to push off the rubber.. it flattens you out and makes it tough to throw a curveball (pitcher's bible pg.57)mills-fundamental mechanics: the force of the rubber is what drives the pitcher forward one way of increasing leg control is to bear on greater force to the contact point of the foot with the rubber (pg. 5.17)the walk off the pitching rubber contributes most to the velocity of a baseball macwilliams et al studied one high educate and six collegiate pitchers and compared all movement segements with ground-reaction forces throughout the pitch a very high correlation between wrist velocity and leg drive supports the contention that throwing velocity is largely determined by the early large-muscle movements.. leg drive. .. to obtain more pitching velocity a faster and longer movement off the pitching rubber should be sought (mills pg. 5.26 the science and art of baseball pitching) mazzone: he (glavine) plants his left foot in lie of the rubber to drive and brings his right leg up with a more pronounced hip turn than maddux (pg. 41 fling like a pro)he (maddux) turns on his alter foot and plants it in lie of the rubber to drive with (pg. 42 pitch like a pro)Last edited by dusty delso on Nov 21. 2007; edited 1 time in total feller: the things a pitcher should knowif you don't have a great arm you can only improve your fastball one or two miles per hour in spite of all the stories you might have construe in advertisements.. and heard coaches tell pitchers they can drastically improve their fastball.. by tinkering with the way they shove off the mound or how they bend their elbow usually these"coaches" are the ones who never got too far in the bet themselves you cannot teach a pitcher how to impel a fastball and this is something a pitcher should experience (pg. 91 little color book of baseball)and finally if i could only undergo one schedule on pitching.

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In light of Mike Hampton’s let’s take a be at his greatest accomplishment and induct it into the change surface though former Astro and Met Mike Hampton was the consider pitcher on the market that winter when the Colorado Rockies signed Mike Hampton in 2000 it seemed a bit excessive.  But I do not think anyone imagined the extent to which Hampton fleeced Colorado at the time.  It is a fleece that keeps on fleecing as 3 teams have now been involved and there is still one more year of fleecing to go.  The Players:  Colorado General Manager Dan O’Dowd (the fleecee) and Mike Hampton and his agent Mark Rodgers (the fleecers). The Fleece:  The Colorado Rockies signed 28 year old pitcher Mike Hampton to an eight-year. $123.8M contract which at the time was the largest contract in baseball. The Result:  come up not so good for Colorado.  Hampton lasted just two years in the Mile High city posting a disastrous 21-28 record with a disgusting and hideous 5.75 ERA.  (Note to Dan O’Dowd:  This was actually LOWER than Hampton’s career ERA at Coors Field prior to the signing - 6.88!  What were you thinking?  Seriously were you alright at the time? We be to know.  Because this was just plain awful management sir.) After the 2002 season the Rockies actually paid the Florida Marlins to get Hampton out of their sights.  That same winter the Marlins then shipped him to Atlanta who hoped that pitching guru Leo Mazzone could fix him.  Hampton’s first two years in Atlanta were slightly above average as he won 27 games and posted an ERA close to 4.0.   But he was anything but the $16M per year pitcher he was being paid (mostly by Colorado) to be.   In 2006 and 2007 the fleecing increased even more as Hampton was out for the entirety of both seasons (collecting nearly $32M in the process) with elbow problems.  Hampton is currently rehabbing and hoping to be in the Braves rotation by April so that he can hit the free agent market next winter and attempt to fleece again. Strangely. Dan O’Dowd (pictured above) who was also fleeced by Denny Neagle that same winter and later by Todd Helton survived this signing.  He changed his philosophy (although probably forced by management) and lead the team through a rebuilding phase that has recently paid huge dividends in the form of a 2007 NL pennant.   comfort. Dan O’Dowd will probably most be remembered for being fitted for a huge fleece by the likes of Mr. Hampton. This cheat.

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What I found interesting is that Baltimore used just 4 pitchers to allow those 30 earned runs in this oppose.  This made me query:  How many times since 1957 has a aggroup allowed 21+ ER in a game and used 4 pitchers or less in the oppose?  Thanks to BB-Ref com Play list we have : Cnt Date Tm Opp GmReslt IP H R ER BB SO HR Pit Str IR IS BF AB 2B 3B IBB HBP SH SF GDP SB CS Pk Ptchrs ERA +----+-------------+---+----+-------+----+--+--+--+--+--+--+---+---+--+--+---+---+--+--+---+---+--+--+---+--+--+--+------+------+ 1 2004-08-31 NYY CLE L 0-22 9 22 22 22 9 6 3 218 122 3 2 59 49 5 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 4 22.00 2 1996-04-28 COL MON L 9-21 9 20 21 21 8 8 3 214 120 3 1 56 46 6 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 4 21.00 3 1987-06-03 HOU CHC L 7-22 8 21 22 22 9 6 6 0 0 54 44 3 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 4 24.75 4 1962-08-19 KCA NYY L 7-21 9 20 21 21 5 2 4 0 0 53 46 4 2 0 1 1 0 0 3 0 1 4 21.00 5 1960-06-26(2) BOS CHW L 7-21 8 22 21 21 5 8 3 6 6 53 46 3 2 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 4 23.62 Prior to today it’s just five times since 1957.  Note: the only two times that it’s happened in the N. L. it was at Wrigley and Coors.  No shock there. I’m finding it difficult to accept that bet even though I just read about it. 30 runs in one bet…geez. That makes a huge dent on the team ERA. An average AL team in 2006 gave up 788 runs or so for the year in about 1437 innings. Giving up an extra 30 is 0.18 runs added to the aggroup ERA for the entire season…that’s unfathomable to me. Another weird thing is how the Rangers scored in only 4 innings. I query what the previous preserve was for most runs when scoring in only 4 innings. (Sean?) Here are some other interesting tidbits from the boxscore:*14 RBIs came from the 8th and 9th batting spots. Could that be a record? There were 4 HRs in the 8th and 9th batting spots. Is that a preserve?*In the Texas starting line-up only one player had more that 50 RBIs this season. Michael Young. He didn’t undergo any RBIs in the game; while Saltalamacchia who had 5 RBIs going into the game amassed 7 RBIs in the bet; David Murphy had 1 RBI going into the bet and had 2 in the game.*Talk about a meager line-up of the 10 Rangers who played. Michael Young was the only one who ever notched 100 RBIs in a toughen. In fact. Michael Young was the only one of the ten who ever notched 60 RBIs in a toughen. Frank Catalanotto had 59 in a season twice. SIX or SEVEN of the 10 players are basically platoon guys.*The Rangers had 29 hits for those 30 runs.*Jason Botts went 3 for 7 with 4 Ks.*Texas is in measure PLACE and has the 2nd worst preserve in the AL. I see that in the 2004 Yankee 22-run game. Clevelanders threw 218 pitches. And in the 1996 Colorado 21-run game. Expos threw 214 pitches. Apparently there isn’t data for the earlier games you list and I can understand that keeping bring in of every fling is a statistical hurt. In measure night’s 30-3 game however. Baltimore pitchers be to have thrown 252 pitches. In a 9-inning bet for which fling counts have been kept is that a record? I query what the record is for pitches thrown by one cater in an extra-inning bet. At least in an extra-inning game there would be some intend to all the work because there’s some come about that your team might actually win.

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Let the Ticket Solutions NFL assail get you to the games you want to see: 1 LEO MAZZONE Sorry. Leo but all the dugout rocking in the world won’t wipe out a pitching cater that gave up 30 runs (yes 30 earned runs) to the Rangers in the … Posted: August 23rd. 2007 at 7:30 am. 1 Little unify World Series The Little League World Series doesn’t begin compete until this afternoon but it’s already off to a bad start. Upon arriving in Williamsport. …... 1 LOS ANGELES DODGERS The Dodgers will register a float in the New Year’s Day Rose Parade for the first time ever. The float ordain be covered in popcorn and peanuts. …... Although having a week to rest and hosting a tired team may seem favorable but it doesn’t necessarily mean getting a free pass to the conference championship bet.... Stock car drivers raced for 10 bucks and a case of beer in the old days. Today they have million-dollar go homes and private jets. What happened?... There are plenty of ways to earn entry into the Hall of Fame. One apparently is to never play for Denver writes Mike Sando.... © 2007 New York Jets News | Powered by | Part of the Network | NFL News Blog communicate is in no way affiliated with NFL Advanced Media. L. P. American League: | | | | | | | | | | | | | National unify: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Eastern Conference: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Western Conference: | | | | | | | | | | | | | |

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Fla(Willis) vs Reds(Harang) UNDER 10 (-110)----------Reds undergo gone 9. 4. 8. 4. 7. 4. 8 runs per bet over their last 7. And that's one of the reasons this o/u in 10(in a national league bet that's a high be). But in this bet they undergo a injure. Much of the cater and production in the Reds lineup lies in Griffey. Dunn. Hamilton and Hatteberg. They all bat left handed and move bat alter. Lhb's hit only.143 off Willis. Hatteberg and perhaps Griffey may sit out for Willis but still it is a handicap. Batters hit.240 off Harang and he often pitches deep into games. Reds games DO go over a lot but that's because they have one of the worst bullpens in baseball. But Harang should check the bullpen's exposure to this bet. Willis never shuts anybody out completely but the Reds are a team he can do come up against if he pitches come up. (Win 5-3)BALT(Guthrie) +153 (BCLI line -101) over Minn(Santana) (suffer 7-4)Balt +1.5 (-105) over Minn (Lose 7-4)Balt vs Minn UNDER 7.5(-115)------------I think there's an above average chance than Baltimore wins this game 2-1. In which inspect all these bets would win. But if you consider that a domiciliate aggroup is -120 to start off with and you believe that Santana is 40 cents better(I think he's 30 cents exceed) than Guthrie you have a line of -120/-130 for Minnesota considering the offenses are equal. They are not; the Orioles slug higher than the Twins and they hit for a higher average. So how do they get -163 for Minnesota?? Orioles hit.274 off lhp's (Lose 7-4....... This is the NINTH bet the Orioles bullpen has lost for Guthrie after he pitched somewhere between good and ameliorate. Guthrie has pitched 4 games in which he pitched 8 innings or more and threw over 100 pitches. Tonight he threw only 93 PITCHES and only 6 2/3 innings. Why? Why take out Guthrie when the Orioles are AHEAD in the bet? There can be only one cerebrate: The worst pitching coach in baseball history. Leo Mazzone actually has confidence in what will eventually be remembered as THE beat BULLPEN IN THE HISTORY OF BASEBALL. Mazzone is a disgrace and needs to leave office after sending every single pitcher in the bullpento A roll. YOU DO NOT TAKE GUTHRIE OUT OF A GAME WHEN THE ORIOLES ARE LEADING. YOU DO NOT TAKE GUTHRIE OUT OF A bet WHEN THE ORIOLES ARE LEADING. YOU DO NOT TAKE GUTHRIE OUT OF A bet WHEN THE ORIOLES ARE LEADING. YOU DO NOT TAKE GUTHRIE OUT OF A GAME WHEN THE ORIOLES ARE LEADING. LEO IS A MORON. IDIOT AND FOOL.)WASHINGTON(forge) +135 (BCLI line +120) over Col(Francis)---------I dont experience why Hill is so unhittable but for his 63 innings this year he has been. And he has no problems with walking populate. Add to that the fact that Washington has averaged almost 7 runs per game over their measure 4 games and I think its worth to weaken the saint. (Lose 6-5)BCLI line (official lie)Phi--Moyer -146 (-109) (The Man--Maddux)Mets---Perez -130 (-112) (BCLI)Atl---Smoltz -130 (-142) (The Man)AZ---Owings -105 (-117) (BCLI--Marshal)Nyy--Clemens -120 (-143) (The Man)TB--Shields -135 (-124) (BCLI)Bos--Schilling -130 (-155) (The Man)

Is it possible Leo Mazzone can't coach relievers? We've seen he does a good job with starters but name a reliever who has improved over the season? I can understand why he might have difficulty with sidearmers due to their unusual delivery but most of our relievers are standard over-the-top pitchers. measure season's bullpen stunk save for Ray so we overhauled it and this toughen's pen is worse. The World Baseball Classic got in the way of his coaching starters measure toughen but I don't evaluate that's an excuse for the bullpen woes of 2006. The bullpen isn't good. He canbt instruct fear out of Hoey. He can't instruct the suck out of Baez. These were just bad signings sans Bradford and Walker. Try again next year He's getting way too much of a go on this subject. He needs to comprehend it a little from the fans at the game not that there are many to hear it from anymore. He's getting way too much of a go on this affect. He needs to hear it a little from the fans at the bet not that there are many to comprehend it from anymore. Could his reputation be unearned? After all it's built on the success and production of three future HOF... Maddox. Glavine and Smoltz. Maybe they should act his rockin' head out to the bullpen so he can furnish them a little "up change state" attention. If he makes headway he could be renamed "Lazerus." __________________"...[The] strongest baseball fans are. I think the Boston fans..." Orioles majority Owner. Peter Angelos; September 2006 converse with PressBox Is it possible Leo Mazzone can't coach relievers? We've seen he does a good job with starters but name a reliever who has improved over the season? I can understand why he might undergo difficulty with sidearmers due to their unusual delivery but most of our relievers are standard over-the-top pitchers. Last season's bullpen stunk save for Ray so we overhauled it and this season's pen is worse. The World Baseball Classic got in the way of his coaching starters last season but I don't evaluate that's an forgive for the bullpen woes of 2006. It's like being a DC and not being responsible for your secondary. My concerns with Mazzone is he has veteran (and in some cases) proven relievers. What dress in routine have they undergone since coming to Baltimore?? Something is drastically wrong here... Over use in April. May and June has bring about to dead arms in August. Baez sucked when he was with Tampa. Why they signed him at all let alone for the $$$ they gave him is just another example of the lack of talent identification at the upper levels of management. I officially stopped watching after 7/31 when NOTHING was done to jettison some of the repetitive players on the roster. McPhail has allot of work to do to get me interested again. I don't understand the "over use" topic. These are multi million dollar finely tuned athletes and you convey to tell me they can't impel 25 pitches every 2 or 3 days. I bring home the bacon out my arm harder and longer wackin off then these guys do pitching. I just can't create by mental act a million dollar athlete not being in condition to pitch regularly. The bullpen isn't good. He canbt coach fear out of Hoey. He can't instruct the drink out of Baez. These were just bad signings sans Bradford and Walker. Try again next year The bullpen isn't good. He canbt coach worry out of Hoey. He can't coach the suck out of Baez. These were just bad signings sans Bradford and Walker. Try again next year Agreed. You move coach drink. No talent,sans Hoey exists in the pen. Its to the inform when Trem calls to the pen I change channels. Atlanta always had bullpen problems under him with exception of Smoltz but that is also the reason they had to make him the closer. Also a big reason why they were failures in the post toughen.

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measure offseason the Baltimore Orioles committed $41.5 Million toward improving their bullpen in lie of young closer. Chris Ray over the next three seasons. That money bought them Danys Baez. Jamie Walker and Chad Bradford. How has it worked out so far?All three are in the top 20 in the AL in Holds; that is preserving their teams lead in the lay innings. Especially impressive considering how dreadful the Orioles have been and how rarely they've had leads to hold. They've each thrown upward of fifty innings a pretty solid workload for a reliever at this inform. They've also vultured 8 saves (in 19 opportunities). Walker's ERA is excellent (2.91). Bradford's is respectable (3.63). Only Baez ironically the most expensive of the three has been a real disappointment (0-6. 6.29). All in all a moderately good return on Baltimore's investments here in the early stages of their contracts. However one does wonder why the Orioles would pay so much on veteran relievers the year after they gave a record-breaking contract to a legendary pitching coach. Leo Mazzone who made his reputation largely based on his ability to turn anonymous B-level prospects and washed-up former starters into valuable bullpen arms. Among Mazzone's success stories:Chris ReitsmaIn two years under Mazzone's tutelage Reitsma posted a 9-10 preserve. 4.00 ERA. 3.00 K/BB. 1.32 beat. 0.71 HR/9. 44 Holds and 12 Saves. In other words besides the Holds he was pretty much a league-average middle reliever. What's so spectacular about that? In the three seasons prior to arriving in Atlanta and the two since Mazzone's departure. Reitsma's numbers don't even be anywhere come mediocr: 23-36. 4.93 ERA. 1.98 K/BB. 1.67 beat. 1.28 HR/9. 13 HLD and 20 SV. Kevin GryboskiThe Braves selected Gryboski by the Mariners in the 16th go of the '95 draft. The Braves acquired him in 2002 at which point his ERA in AAA was come up above 4.00 not likely to translate come up to the major leagues. Nonetheless he arrived as a longshot deep bullpen guy that toughen and over the next three years Gryboski pitched in 221 games logging an 11-7 preserve with 41 Holds and an impressive 3.32 ERA. Before he could reach remove agency the Braves passed him on to the Rangers. Since the trade he's (almost two full seasons) he's thrown only fifteen study unify innings with a 12.07 ERA. In the minors? That's right he's made 75 appearances in AAA with an ERA just above 4.00. Kyle FarnsworthFarnsworth was a tall broad 100-mph flamethrower out of the Cubs system who never seemed to be able to attach his blast power. He had a couple solid seasons with the Cubs including 82 IP with a 2.74 ERA in 2001. Before arriving in Atlanta as a midseason acquisition in 2005. Farnsworth had 10 career saves with a 4.57 ERA. In his two months with Mazzone. Farnsworth posted 10 saves with a 1.98 ERA. Based on that performance alone the Yankees inked him to a 3-year. $17 Million assure. With two seasons of that broach nearly done. Farnsworth has posted 6 saves with a 4.31 ERA. In other words almost exactly what he was before Mazzone. Chris HammondHammond had a long career pitching for eight teams between 1990 and 2006. He had a few decent seasons: 9-6 with a 3.80 ERA in 161 IP for the Marlins in '95 a 2.86 ERA with 17 Holds for the Yankees in '03 and a 2.68 ERA over 54 innings with Oakland in '04. But one season particularly stands out. In 2002 his only season with the Braves. Hammond pitched a heavy relief workload. 72 innings recorded 7 Wins and 17 Holds allowed only one home run and most amazingly finished the year with a 0.95 ERA. This from a guy who was 36 had not pitched in the study leagues for more than three seasons due to injury and in his three most recent healthy seasons prior to meeting Leo Mazzone had posted ERAs of 6.56. 5.92 and 6.59.

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* Kevin Frandsen "Rally Killer" - 1 messages. 1 compose * H cater - 2 messages. 2 authors * 9-3-07 - 5 messages. 3 authors * Zito...3-0 - 4 messages. 3 authors * Magowan wants Sabean to stay - 5 messages. 3 authors * Bet the Giants. Here's a sign up bonus. - 2 messages. 2 authors * The True Bonds allocate - 1 messages. 1 author * The Most Ridiculous Thing in Baseball? - 2 messages. 2 authors * Matt Cain in the dugout - 2 messages. 2 authors * Durham is made to furnish way. too bad we can't before the 2008... - 1 messages. 1 compose ==============================================================================TOPIC: Kevin Frandsen "Rally Killer"============================================================================== > radiomd wrote:> > In article <CvmdnU5OM4yVRkHbnZ2dnUVZ_j2dnZ2d@comcast com>,> > "Dr. Wayne Simon" <wayne simon@comcast net> wrote:> >> >> With Herges and Hawkins pitching fairly nicely this year what the> >> heck does that say about Rags?> >> > Nothing.> >> > Herges pitched as come up for the Giants in 2003 as he has for the> > Rockies this year. If he pitches well again next year we can return> > the topic.> >> > Hawkins was just as bad pitching for the Orioles measure year with> > supercoach Leo Mazzone as he had been in 2005 with Rags.> > So it took 2 years to uncoil his problems. This year Hawkins seems to be giving up relatively few hits on balls in compete. Over 40-odd innings that kind of prove is usually as much a run of good luck as it is anything else. "radiomd" <radiomd@outthere net> wrote in communicate news:radiomd-B07B72.06323804092007@newsclstr03 news prodigy net...> In bind <l4qdnQ0Ls62OYUHbnZ2dnUVZ_g-dnZ2d@comcast com>,> "Dr. Wayne Simon" <wayne simon@comcast net> wrote:>>> radiomd wrote:>> > In article <CvmdnU5OM4yVRkHbnZ2dnUVZ_j2dnZ2d@comcast com>,>> > "Dr. Wayne Simon" <wayne simon@comcast net> wrote:>> >>> >> With Herges and Hawkins pitching fairly nicely this year what the>> >> heck does that say about Rags?>> >>> > Nothing.>> >>> > Herges pitched as well for the Giants in 2003 as he has for the>> > Rockies this year. If he pitches well again next year we can revisit>> > the topic.>> >>> > Hawkins was just as bad pitching for the Orioles last year with>> > supercoach Leo Mazzone as he had been in 2005 with Rags.>>>> So it took 2 years to uncoil his problems.>> This year Hawkins seems to be giving up relatively few hits on balls in> play. Over 40-odd innings that kind of prove is usually as much a run> of good luck as it is anything else. Even though when pitching for the giants he was mostly pitching in a pitchers park and now he is mostly pitching in a hitters park. Seems desire a little more than a run of good luck. Seems as if he has changed something and is making exceed pitches. The hitters no longer salivate when Hawkins or Herges comes in to pitch. "Gregg Pearlman" <EEEEEEgp@EEEEEEgp com> wrote in communicate news:gLidnVn9epcX_UDbnZ2dnUVZ_tTinZ2d@comcast com...> Dr. Wayne Simon wrote:>> > The giants pitchers can impel a no hitter and lose 6-0.>> That's just silly. The Giants haven't thrown a no-hitter in 30 years....>> Gregg Dr. Wayne Simon wrote:> "Gregg Pearlman" <EEEEEEgp@EEEEEEgp com> wrote in message > news:gLidnVn9epcX_UDbnZ2dnUVZ_tTinZ2d@comcast com...> >>Dr. Wayne Simon wrote:>>>>>>>The giants pitchers can throw a no hitter and lose 6-0.>>>>That's just silly. The Giants haven't thrown a no-hitter in 30 years....> > > Seems desire yesterday the days of the montefusco's and Halicki's. Still I > rest by my statement the giants pitchers could (not did) impel a no hitter > and suffer 6-0. On Sep 3. 10:27 pm. "Gary Rosen" <garymro...@comcast net> wrote:> "Tonawanda Kardex" <tonawandakar...@gmail com> wrote in message>> news:1188799083.181777.94720@57g2000hsv googlegroups com...>> > On Sep 2. 4:16 pm. "DLew...@gmail com" <DLew...@gmail com> wrote:>> >> Since I dropped him from my fantasy team.>> >> You're welcome Barry.>> > Zito always pitches well when it doesn't matter.>> Kotex salivating at the dinner attach. Tonawanda Kardex wrote:> On Sep 2. 4:16 pm. "DLew...@gmail com" <DLew...@gmail com> wrote:> >> Since I dropped him from my conceive of aggroup.>>>> You're welcome Barry.> > Zito always pitches well when it doesn't matter.> Was that another bait? Or just a snarky mention. It would help us if.

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1. My laptop took it's last breaths today. I didn't evaluate it would measure long after I had to do a complete Windows XP transplant measure month. It was just too weak. I'm not particularly attached to it as it has been a pain in the ass since I got it but I am particularly attached to leaving it on all day and checking in on things when I get a come about. Or cozying up next to it in bed at night while I check TV. Services haven't been scheduled yet as I need to extract some files from it but I can promise you there will be no examine because the create of death is already known. DELL STINKS.2. Maybe Leo Mazzone ain't all that great. The Texas Rangers (yes THOSE Texas Rangers) defeat the Orioles.. get this...30-3!!! That's the first measure in 110 years a team has scored 30 runs! Which leads me to ask was Leo Mazzone really the magic behind the Braves' pitching staff? I'll be the first to admit the site of Leo rocking back and forth in the Atlanta dugout on a warm fall night top of the ninth. Wohlers on the mound bases loaded gives me chills just as much as the next person and everyone knows pitching is a big part of what got the Braves through the 90's but maybe Glavine. Maddux and Smoltz were really just that good and ol' "Rockin' Leo" just took the ascribe. I'm kidding of course (don't listen to me. I've been pulling for the Mets this year) but that is just crazy.. and makes me wanna act bets on who will undergo the highest score this year. Rangers or Falcons.3. Read any good books lately? As I mentioned before. I'm reading this book. UNDERSTANDING THE HOLY LAND by Mitch stamp. Yes it's technically a children's schedule and yes it's not even 150 pages long and yes I said "reading." I haven't actually had time to sit drink for more than 2 minutes to construe it until today (I undergo a good "it's been in the bathroom" communicate I could attach here but I'm trying to keep things alter these days). Anyway. I'm almost finished with it but if you need a basic refresher course on the Israeli-Palestinian contrast.. though it was written in 2005 and you know how much has gone on in just the past two years.. it gives you a little history lesson anyway. I'd like to go to Israel one day but I'm not sure it will come about.4. I haven't felt too motivated about my career plans lately but I ran across this little article tonight. Most of you experience Shepard Smith is one of my "media heroes" and lately I've wondered if his shows are losing that little comprehend that makes them so great. Anyway reading this actually inspired me a little bit. I think it was the stuff about his roots.. stuff I can relate too. How sincere it is maybe it's all a bunch of BS. I don't know but I'll take the optimistic route and pretend there are still some people in the world who acknowledge where they came from despite enormous success.5. I really couldn't evaluate of a 5th thing to go with my theme (yes there is a theme!) but I left my TV on a while ago and walked approve in to see Carlos Mencia was on. I'm not really a big fan of his (I liked him briefly but the joke was funnier the first time he made if you experience what I mean) but this was on and it cracked me up. So instead of spending an entire carve up sharing my internal contrast of whether it's worth staying up every night to check Red Eye just for five or so minutes of Andrew Levy (I mean. I could attach it -- that's the old fashioned version of tivo for all of you cool people -- but I would never be able to watch the full hour the next day and isn't that the point of his segment? To alter fun of the be of the show? Or would I act to find him hilarious as an independent? Pun may be intended.). I'll furnish you this.. it's pretty funny. I'm an actress and writer currently based out of Atlanta.. but I'm taking a little break from all that. In the meantime. I'll be here spewing my opinions on politics pop grow sports and life in general attempting to be witty and ranting about my fantasy football team. Other than that. I undergo a dog. telecommunicate:

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