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Winter sports Picks / International - Ajedrez - individual vs individual - April 10th, 2020
International - Ajedrez date: 10/04/2020 hour: 20:30 Score online
Tip Carlsen wins the tournament
Odds Stake 1/1 5
Reasoning ...
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Magnus can win his own tournament (Magnus Carlsen Invitational), this is an online tournament with the largest prize pool for this type of tournament, $ 250,000. Its maximum rivals are Caruana, Liren or Vachier. The truth is that the tournament will have the best of the chess world.
Carlsen is a real chess machine, and online and blitz is crazy. He had been waiting a few days to hang it but he was busy. I have just seen the semis of the Banter Cup (Dicharachera Cup in Spanish) against Sjugirov, player of almost 2700 (although in blitz it does not reach 2500) and I have seen him meridian.
The tournament will start on April 18, will last two weeks and will feature eight of the best players on the planet, all the games will be shown on Chess24. It will be played at faster rates than usual in live tournaments. They will be 15 + 10 games, that is, 15 minutes per player for the entire game plus 10 seconds of increase per move.
Anyone who does not know him very much can watch his games online in the commented Banter Cup, the Speedchess of years ago (he promotes the competition today) or usually plays tournaments in Lichess on Thursdays. It is true that all are at a faster pace than what is going to be played here but I do not see anyone surpassing it and more with what was seen in the Candidates tournament.
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Winter sports Picks / International - Ajedrez - individual vs individual - March 26th, 2020
Tip e4 is the first move
Odds Stake 16/11 1
Game between Caruana and Vachier. The bet is not easy since it is a bit of a coin.
You can't upload it yesterday, it was at 2.70, in your game against Wang Hao and it came out. I am going to try to get him out again as he has not been too bad against the Chinese, it may be that the change of ladies as soon as it has taken away some offensive potential but in general there has been no problem although he could not win.
Looking back, we see that last year Caruana played classic with White 3 times and on 3 he came out with e4, on 3 he played a Sicilian (on 2 occasions the Najdorf and on another the open one)
TENÉIS A BET ON THE FINAL WINNER ON DAY 4, I SAY IT IN CASE YOU WANT TO TAKE A LOOK AT IT BEFORE THE FEE VARY.
Winter sports Picks / International - Ajedrez - individual vs individual - April 4th, 2020
Tip Nepo wins the candidate tournament
We are in the middle of the tournament and we can already draw some conclusions seeing the game of each one. FIDE has already said that it will be played so there is no fear of cancellation.
The bet is for Nepo to win the tournament, he just lost to Vachier today but I think he is the favorite. Both Bet and Marathon pay less than 3 and at that price it is difficult for me to enter.
The favorites are Nepo and Vachier and on a third rung is Caruana (all this is in my opinion). The others including Liren, I consider impossible because although they can improve, it seems very strange that they can surpass these 3.
I think that seeing what they have left for each one, the Russian is the player with the most options since it is his turn to play with white 4 of his 7 games and 2 of them are against the two maximum rivals (Caruana and Vachier) apart from his game against Alekseenko.
Personally I would like Vachier to win since Liren is lazy but if I have to put money it seems more coherent to play with the boy in the bow tie.
Tip Liren-Alekseenko tables
Seventh round of the candidate tournament after the break today. At the moment it continues celebrating despite the criticism of several players, where especially those of Grishchuk have been harsh.
GM Liren started as one of the favorites to take the tournament and be able to challenge Carlsen but it has diluted like a sugar bowl. I don't know if it's the coranavirus or something else but he's not playing well, the only decent thing was his victory against Caruana in the second round. In the previous round against Nepo, despite losing, he had a move to achieve a draw with 31 Qf5 instead of Qg4 and then had 33 Rb6.
Russian was not expected much and is already last with 2 points on 6. This does not mean that he is playing badly, from my point of view quite the opposite. He is showing much harder than expected although his attack is null.
This bet is put on day 1 and I go with everything in favor of Liren but after 6 rounds watching the game of both I think the tables is a good idea. The Chinese has to press with White against the weaker opponent but if Alekseenko is able to hold in the middle of the game the tables will be close.
Winter sports Picks / International - Ajedrez - individual vs individual - March 21st, 2020
Tip Less than 46.5 movements
The game is Wang Hao-Alekseenko.
The Russian is the weakest player of all and his rivals know that it is his best chance to achieve victory, to the point that they tend to play more offensive than usual.
The Russian has tried to finish the games as soon as possible with some tables (41, 34 and 40 movements) with 2 tables and 1 loss against Caruana, all far from the 47 movements that would make us lose.
Poor argumentation but I have little time, it is only with the intention of helping.
Tip There will be two ladies on the board after the game ends .
Odds Stake 5/1 0.5
The game is at 12 no at 12:30 but I would not let me write it, I hope someone can take it. I'm going to go very fast, sorry for the argument.
By the way, the game is Wang Hao-Alekseenko. The Russian is the weakest player of all, and his rivals know that this is his best chance for victory, so much so that they tend to play more offensively than usual. Hence the need to keep the queen on the line.
The 3 games of the Russian have ended with the two ladies in play and trying to finish the games as soon as possible with some tables (41, 34 and 40 moves) with 2 tables and 1 loss against Caruana.
Tip More than 45.5 movements
Game between Giri and Vachier-Lagrave.
If they don't go crazy I think I will go to the movement over in all the Dutch games. He is missing something in attack but he is undoubtedly the one with the best theoretical preparation, this shows in his games.
He is a pretty rocky player and his is the middle game where the rival has problems to get advantages. If people want to win, they have to wait for the finals where the player loses in the positions where you have to risk.
The Frenchman is motivated after his victory against Liren and will try not to detach himself much from Nepo and Caruana and try to jump the bench by winning this tournament.
Regarding the numbers, Giri's games have been the most played on both days with 73 and 61 movements.
Tip Bet without tie: Nepomniachtchi, Ian
Odds Stake 7/11 2
Nepo's game against Alekseenko, the Cinderella of the tournament. If it is tables they return the money and so happy. The truth is that I do not think that the wild card can achieve a victory in this tournament and the most it aspires to is to achieve a draw. With Liren's poor condition, some boards taste like glory and may not end last.
Very good Nepo game in the first round where he passed over Giri, especially in the final. The Dutch believed that his most bishop tower could with the queen of Nepo. In the end it prevailed in 73 movements.
And his rival, Alekseenko, scratched some tables in the first round against a Grischuk who is having a lot of problems over time. Today things have changed and Caruana has painted his face and the 150 ELO points between the two have been reflected.
Most likely, they will be draws, but if someone wins, it will be the Azeri. His victory is 3.75, he will drop something tbn.
Tip Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime or Ding, Liren
Odds Stake 68/29 0.5
Game between the French GM against the Chinese GM, where we are going to look for one of the players to win.
Vachier has been quite solid against Caruana today and Liren, despite the defeat, has played well. His problem came from a serious error on move 30 with the f4 pawn, which meant that he lost all the advantage he had then. 10 plays later, he said goodbye to his draw possibilities after 40. Rdd2 accompanied by the loss of H.'s pawn.
In short, I do not think they have played badly either. The results of the first day oblige, especially Liren, to look for something more than the tables and this tournament, unlike the rest, only has a prize for the 1st place since it is the one that can challenge Carlsen.
The bet is on the game between Hao and Giri. The second day of the tournament arrives and both players are day and night, the Chinese beat his compatriot giving the surprise and Giri showed a bad image against Nepo.
After the first day we have seen that all the games have reached the cut of the first 40 plays for which they have 100 minutes and thus obtain another 50 minutes. Unless there is a very serious error, it seems strange to see a game that does not reach 40 movements.
In Hao's game he has reached 45 moves and Giri's despite going one point below since move 15 has endured 60 more plays and has not been able to achieve even the tables.
In direct duels there is little that Hao has returned this year to the elite after dedicating himself to teaching the sport for years. They are all games from 2013 and the only one nearby was a quick one in 2018.
Tip There are no 3 tables in the first round
The super tournament begins for being the challenger of Magnus Carlsen to the world title with the best in the world and where chess lovers will enjoy a lot.
The tournament comes with some controversy over the participation of Vachier-Lagrave, he was not classified despite one of the best players in the world. Teimour Radjabov resigned on the issue of coranavirus and Hao's non-quarantine. His replacement is French, it is said that Mr. Maxime has given him an extra little money so that his fear for the virus will increase.
Difficult but not impossible. There are 2 games in which the victory can fall from one side such as Liren and Grishchuk. The normal thing will be to see the games finish in tables but hopefully the players come forward and show us show. In 2018, it started well with 3 wins and 1 tables, unlike 2016 where only Karjakin won over Caruana.
Tip Caruana loses 1 game .
Caruana was the challenger for the Carlsen title in 2018 and this year starts as a favorite. It has strong rivals such as Liren, Vachier or Nepomniachtchi. He really has at least one defeat against all the rivals by removing the weakest 2. The truth is that even the Chinese has taken the measure with 4 tables and 5 losses.
In 2018 the player lost to Sergey Karjakin.
Tip Caruana wins 4 games or more .
Caruana was the challenger for the Carlsen title in 2018 and this year starts as a favorite. He has 4 games to throw to achieve those 4 victories, the 2 against Alekseenko (wild card) and Wang Hao, the two weakest rivals. Apart from any more that falls before the other rivals.
In 2018 in a tournament with much more level than this he won 4 victories (Wesley So, Vladimir Kramnik, Levon Aronian and Alexander Grischuk) Curiously all with blacks.
Tip Win Ding Liren
Departure between the Chinese GM Ding Liren and Wang Hao.
Ding Liren along with Caruana are the favorites to take this tournament, the American because it is the best at the classical pace of all those who are here, and the Chinese for the good season.
The history of clashes (Liren with white) is 4-4-1.
Winter sports Picks / International - Ajedrez - individual vs individual - November 15th, 2019
Tip Bet without a draw: Rapport, Richard
This time it is a game of the European Club Cup that is being played in Ulcinj (Montenegro) and ends tomorrow. We will go against the American nationalized Cuban despite having him in high esteem.
The Hungarian comes in a beastly way with several victories, especially in rapid and blitz mode (victories against Caruana or Leinier himself), in this case he plays 15 minutes. If it were a classic rhythm, the balance would be very much in favor of the Cuban.
As for the ELO we have 2755 by 2727 in rapid and 2715 by 2759 in blitz. We see that when time decreases the Hungarian GM improves its performance compared to its rival.
In the middle of August the faces were seen and Rapport won after 55 plays. In total this year they have faced 5 times with 3 tables, 1 victory for Leinier and another for Rapport.
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Ok, after test driving what would be my new used car, somebody else apparently drove it and readjusted the seat, mirrors, wheel, etc. Driving it home last night, I found myself on the freeway before realizing that I could adjust the seat height (previous owner was a short, but tall in spirit, female driver). As I lowered the seat to a reasonable height for me (while driving down the freeway in the slow lane), it occurred to me that I could no longer see anything out of the side mirrors without straining myself in the seat. I looked all over for the mirror control and couldn't find it while driving, so I just took it easy and slow until I hit a gas station and gave it a better inspection.
I don't think I'm quite comfortable with the fitting yet, but I'm sure I will figure it out soon enough. For some reason, it fit like a glove when I test drove it.
U-turns are much more fun with all-wheel drive (AWD).
Entering freeways will be much more interesting now.
0.8 seconds after hitting the gas, the turbo kicks in. Must learn how to accelerate without using turbo...someday.
I like bug-eyed, big nostril cars. A lot.
WRX drivers seats are made for skinnier people than myself (if you can believe that). Maybe it just needs to be broken in some (see note about short previous owner).
My car came with 4 crystal stones in the trunk under the carpet lining. They look specifically placed with 2 in each far corner of the trunk.
I will have to get used to tinted windows again.
Second gear will go a very long way.
I will probably be an AWD snob about my cars from now on.
I collect a bunch of crap in my car.
I keep a fairly well maintained car.
The tires on my old car have very little tread left.
The brakes on my old car have very little pad left.


In our second Vancouver episode, our host Rachel Saunders takes us to some of the city's most impressively designed interior spaces.
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Monopoly Plus
Asobo Studio
Monopoly Plus Review (Xbox One)
This version Mayfair well.
review by Ken Barnes Thu 27th Nov 2014
When it comes to converting the ubiquitous property trading board game Monopoly from the living room table to digital platforms, things have not always gone well. Despite being released for every console, computer, and mobile device known to man, it's probably safe to say that there hasn't been a genuinely good and well thought-out videogame version of Monopoly so far, even if you go all the way back to the 8-bit versions that we used to play back in the late 1980s. Pretty much every major publisher has had a crack at it but generally, the problems have always been the same. With limited computing power, the the AI opposition was never challenging and always made nonsensical decisions. As we moved further down the timeline toward the current day, we realise that the problem was never really addressed, and that as more power was available, it was used to turn what is already a naturally long game into an absolute chore with needless showiness.
We're glad to say that neither of these issues are present with Ubisoft's new take on the franchise, Monopoly Plus. Launched as part of the Monopoly Party Fun Pack alongside My Monopoly and Monopoly Deal (but available standalone, hence this review), the game manages to avoid a lot of the pitfalls that have caused other attempts to fail.
All of the iconic Monopoly stylings are in place in Monopoly Plus, from the fancy Mr. Monopoly himself, through to the original designs for the Chance and Community Chest cards. Depending on which language you select at startup, you get the properties relevant to that country's version of the game. So the British version gives you Mayfair and Park Lane, whereas the US language selection switches them to Boardwalk and Park Place, for example. The property prices are identical to the original boxed version of the game, so the most expensive location (Mayfair/Boardwalk) is £400 - as it should be - rather than being converted into the millions and billions that some current Monopoly sets have gone with. There's an undeniable attention to detail and reverence to the source material going on here, and the developer should be applauded for that. The sharp-eyed will notice that the currency used in-game is "Monopoly Money" rather than Dollars or Pounds Sterling, though. That's no big deal, though for the remainder of this review, we'll use the good old Pound symbol - mainly because there's no Monopoly Money currency symbol on a keyboard. Though there should be, dammit.
Two boards are on offer, here. The "classic" Monopoly board does away with any extra frippery and just lets you play the game as was originally intended, with the board and tokens all being rendered in 3D and viewed by a camera that swings around to show the most relevant section of the action. The "living" version packs the middle area of the board with rollercoasters, trees, and other buildings, with properties being redeveloped right before your eyes as you acquire them and add houses and hotels. For our money, the living board is great to look at, but it does slow the game down somewhat and the reason is simply that some animations are unskippable. Usually, this is a problem if you're playing against AI opponents, as they'll let the entire development animation for each property play out every time they buy or make a change to it.
Back on the classic board though, things zip along at a relatively quick pace. Well, a relatively quick pace for Monopoly, anyway. The way everything is laid out makes a good deal of sense, and there are very few moments where you're left wondering how you get something done. At times, it isn't instantly clear if a property is mortgaged or not, and we'd have liked the "money" portion of the trading screen to allow us to increase and decrease values quicker, as making a big cash offer to someone for something takes longer than it should but again, these aren't major big deals.
But there are a handful of big deals to…well…deal with, though. The first would be a massive bug (or at least an awful design decision) in the game's online multiplayer mode. If the player that started the game goes bankrupt and they understandably decide to quit instead of watching the rest of the game play out, the game ends and nobody wins. There's no host migration in place here. That means that online multiplayer is all but useless, as nobody other than the host ever realistically has a chance of winning, unless the host agrees that they won't quit and then sticks to their word. Second up, is how out of whack the trading system is with the AI difficulty level. Against "normal" level AI, you get a good challenge until you realise that they'll accept any trade that's even close to the card price of a property. Want all of the railway stations? You'll be able to buy them from your opponents for less than the £800 total it would cost to buy them from the bank. Fancy picking up Mayfair to go with your Park Lane? Offer the opponent Old Kent Road (£60) and £320 for the £400 property and you're away. You can see how poor they are at making trading decisions when they start to offer you £100 for a £180 property, even though you're sitting on £1,700 and in the dominant position. They'll even counter-offer to ask you for less than the card price in a lot of cases. You offer £280 for the £350 Park Lane, and they'll predictably decline, but ask you for £300 instead. There are only some very, very rare occassions in which that would happen in real life - such as if the seller was in dire straits and without options. On higher difficulty levels, we're thankful to say that this isn't an issue, although some may find the general challenge of the higher difficulty levels to be a bit outside their limits. As experienced Monopoly players - seriously, we all sit around wearing monocles and top hats at pX Towers - we're happy playing amongst the rarefied air of the top setting, but your mileage may vary.
The other major issue with Monopoly Plus, is the lack of truly customisable rules. The official rules are on offer and a modified version is available which uses those official rules but adds a "Speed Die" to the mix in order to speed up the game – which it does with varying success. Aside from that, there are six "House Rules" versions, which allow you to play with only one rule being modified, and no speed die. If you usually play the game where all taxes and penalties are put into the middle of the board and collected by a player if they land on Free Parking, you can do that. If you usually play the game where a player gets double their salary if they land on the GO space, then you can do that. What you can't do, is use a mixture of those rules. Recently, we've played an offline round or two of the physical board game where the house rules stated that we couldn't collect rent when "in Jail" – as that modification makes being in jail less attractive during the endgame. You wouldn't be able to replicate that in Monopoly Plus, without also making it so that every single property can only be purchased via an auction, as those two rules are inexplicably bound together in a single House Rules version of play. There's no real reason that the developer couldn't have provided a series of switches or toggles for different rules so that you could play the way you want to, or are used to.
You'll also need to turn controller vibration off, as the controller vibrates more strongly than any other game than we've played on Xbox One when it's your turn to roll the dice. Seriously, you'd think it was trying to warn you that a bomb is about to go off. Also, the Kinect functionality is limited to taking photos of players at key points in the game and then showing them after the game is over, so is therefore utterly pointless. Fortunately, you're prompted as to whether you want to use Kinect before each game begins. But aside from those noted issues, Monopoly Plus is probably the most playable version of digital Monopoly that has been released so far. Enjoyable and without too much in the way of unnecessary delays in play, the game offers a stiff challenge if you fancy playing against five top-level AI opponents offline, and also offers the ability for up to six users to play "pass the controller" in flawless offline local multiplayer, as well as allowing for control via several mobile devices through SmartGlass - which is handy if everybody wants their own controller and you don't happen to have six to hand. There's room for a few extra touches here and there. Maybe some detailed game stats or a reason to keep playing beyond the initial draw of having a game of Monopoly would be nice, but all in all, the development team have done a relatively decent job.
It's just a shame that the online mode is so horribly broken.
The broken online mode loses Monopoly Plus a fair few points, as it kills the longevity of the product when you consider that there's no real single player challenge other than just playing game after game. Quite why the development team didn't think that a losing host would probably rather start a new game rather than sit and watch five other people play Monopoly for an hour is beyond us.
However, Monopoly Plus is a very, very solid attempt at bringing the Parker Brothers' classic board game to the Xbox One. It'll be right up any Monopoly fan's street and is certainly one of the first iterations of digital Monopoly that you could sit down and play with the family without the game being needlessly prolonged by complex inputs or overly-flashy gameplay.
Not Bad 6/10
SuperKMx
@MegaKillScreen I didn't have a problem with the dice rolls here. Mainly because I played Monopoly Streets and I was able to cannonball a chocolate bar in the time it took to roll the dice once in that game.
DTVincent
Really enjoyed reading the review- great job. Was hoping to learn more about the way Smartglass is used. Is it easier for non-gamers who aren't used to a controller (and/or don't have an xbox gamertag- talking very casual folk) to use their mobile to control things? or is it overall still clunky enough to be a feature you wouldn't want to use, like the kinect? I really love the idea of people using their own devices as a controller, because they're familiar with their own phone and many people who would enjoy this game at my house are of an older generation who see the Xbox controller as a confusing mass of buttons.
EternalDragonX
Thanks for the review. There has been quite a few games that came out that I havnt seen reviews for. Shape up, rabbids invasion, and monopoly was the other.
Emanouel
Fri 28th Nov 2014
not too bad, i still haven't played the game yet. the review score of 6/10 is great for a board game. i don't know how many board games get above 7 to be honest. i know the buzz games usually average 7-8 in reviews.
was anyone gotten the you don't know jack bundle? good or not good?? you would figure they would have a demo for this game.
stylon
Thanks for the review - really enjoyed it! Think I'll be picking this up, mainly to play couch co-op with my wife over Christmas but I'm sure I'll have a few goes at the single player too.
Can't understand the thought process behind the multiplayer side though - even with the best will in the world nobody wants to sit idle while other people play a game on their xbox for possible hours on end. I thought MS was giving all developers access to free servers for Xone games? That would have made far more sense.
I too would like to know a little about the smartglass integration if possible please? With people coming over for Christmas is it a viable option? Simple enough for your mum to use for example?
Also - can you save your game part way though?
Sat 29th Nov 2014
@stylon SmartGlass integeration basically allows you to control the game using the standard inputs. So you get U/D/L/R on your phone screen, and then the four face buttons. It's basically the same as using a controller.
And yep, you can save your game part way through. Just quit out and it'll save your progress. Three save slots are available.
@SuperKMx Thanks - just what I wanted to know
mellick
Wed 3rd Dec 2014
Honestly, I'm not sure how many times you played the computers, but they are nowhere near challenging on hard. You can bs them trades early and easily win every time. For example, you land on Vermont avenue to start the game. They land on Connecticut, and Oriental. Your next turn you can buy both for probably 300-350 max. That's just to start. Don't even get me started on computer to computer trades, simply terrible. Almost every single one. I could tell countless examples. There are many other problems. If you use the house rule go and movement, the computers will never choose movement. What is that... The comp. Had park place, then landed on go with 900 and didn't choose go to boardwalk(which would put him right in front of go) also computers choose pass on chance as if on a 50/50 coin flip. At the most opportune moments to need a chance card they will pass, as well as choose to flip it. Ex. Iker(comp) is destroying in the game with multiple hotels and houses yet he still doesn't pass the chance card and ends up getting house repairs... Also the computers, mind my language... Whore the houses like crazy. They will never ever get hotels unless they can instantly use the houses that will be available. Hood strategy? Yes, but the most annoying thing ever.
I wrote that comment not meaning to 100% rip on monopoly, obviously I've played it about 15 times. (All offline with one friend and 3-4 computers every time) we found out almost instantly that you need to play against hard comps. The most annoying part was that we had to make up our own trading rules because we easily were able to cheat the computers, which really sucks cause it creates controversy between players which shouldn't have to happen. I could go on and on about improvements needed and I hope that they fix or at least give effort into fixing stuff. I still play it, with my own side rules, to keep it interesting. They need to fix the online for sure, and also make it where you can split screen against other people on Xbox live( yes people could cheat, but hopefully not...)
I'd also like to comment about the my monopoly dlc that you can get. I got it thinking, heck yeah, you can make your own board?? So I got it and it was quite a disappointment.
Name properties
Put logos on each property
Choose 3D or 2D board
Change the middle logo
What you can't do:
Change names of: Chance, Community Chest, GO, Jail, Free Parking
Move around properties
Change the colors of properties
Very very limited choices for logos and they look like Microsoft clip art...
Very limited everything honestly considering I paid ten dollars for it. Not really worth it
AlexOlney
Mon 8th Dec 2014
@SuperKMx It's good to see that tagline puns translate over to the Xbox side of things.
@AlexOlney I try to get the pun machine going whenever I can.
Captain_Chao5
@Stylon Monopoly Family Fun Pack is under £19 on ShopTo.Net. I'm tempted to get it for some Xmas gaming with the Wife.
http://www.shopto.net/video-games/xbox-one/XB1HA04-hasbro-monopoly
@SuperKmx - If I'm not allowed to post links, please delete it and don't kill me
@Captain_Chao5 Cheers chaos, although after reading the comment a few above yours the My Monopoly part of that pack seems a bit of disappointment. Not too fussed about the card game thing either.
According to smartglass it's only £11.99 on the store so seems like a better deal if you don't want the extra stuff... I'm sure I'll get it one way or the other over Christmas though:)
Ah. Cheers @Stylon! I'd not spotted that. £11.99 is better than £18.95
Moosejavian
Sun 7th Feb 2016
Would not recommend this title. Hard AI is prone skipping over your tiles consistently, and it ruins the game nonstop. Online community has no competitive league nor does it count stats. Everyone quits without repercussions.
GoBoyGo
Tue 26th Apr 2016
Hasbro, you suck and you know it. You get NO MORE of my family's money. Anyone playing online knows this is a 1/10 game.
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Messi has no interest in Ronaldo battle to be the best
The Barcelona talisman has landed five Ballons d'Or in his career but insists that he has never been driven by the pursuit of individual honours
Barcelona talisman Lionel Messi claims to have no interest in being considered "the best in history", with no motivation taken from a personal battle with Real Madrid superstar Cristiano Ronaldo.
Over the course of a distinguished career, the mercurial Argentina has edged his way up the pecking order of all-time greats.
Many consider him to have reached the very top of that chart, with few players able to match his achievements – with a remarkable roll of honour including nine La Liga titles, four Champions League crowns, five Ballons d'Or and 552 goals for Barca.
Messi has, however, remained humble and a team player throughout his record-breaking exploits and maintains that he has never set out to secure individual accolades and plaudits.
He told TyC Sports: "I'm not interested in being the best in history.
"I have never suggested that: not being the first, nor the second, third or fourth.
"Every time I start a season I try to improve myself, win everything, leave everything every time I go out to the pitch, give the maximum for my teammates and for myself.
"It does not change anything to be the best in history."
Much of Messi's career has been spent competing with Ronaldo for the title of world's best, with the pair having enjoyed a decade of dominance at the top of the game.
Both men have been able to take their game to new heights while competing on opposite sides of a Clasico divide, with those standards then maintained at a level few others can match.
Messi, though, has always insisted that he does not consider himself to be in a professional duel with Ronaldo, with his drive coming from within.
He added: "I always want to improve myself and I do not compete with anyone because I do not play to be the best in history but to improve myself year after year and to keep winning."
Pressed further on what he still hopes to achieve in an endless pursuit of perfection, Messi added: "Obviously winning with the national team would be the best because nothing has been given to us."
Messi has already helped Barca to a Liga and Copa del Rey double this season, with his sights now being set on international honours with Argentina at World Cup 2018 in Russia.
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I remember my first musicianship lab, an often tedious requirement in the Music Department that accompanies any introductory music theory course at UCSC. When my roommate and I got to class, our TA, Nick, was zoned out, staring off at the wall, and effortlessly conjuring one obscure chord after another.
I'd always loved music, and had a relatively easy time absorbing the mathematics of western notation, but the one thing that frightened me most was the idea of sight-singing, or, more colloquially, reading a melody off a piece of paper and singing it in front of the class.
In any case, our TA snapped out of his trance and instantly engaged every student in the room. He started us off on our first sight-singing exercises and, after abiding the first round of atonal moaning, encouraged us to loosen up and sing out like we were by ourselves in the car. This teaching assistant's lab made the material and exercises more palatable than the professor who taught the corresponding lecture.
The introductory theory series provides students with a background in musical theory. Students then progress through the core theory curriculum, where they learn more complex scale and chord constructions. These classes include Music 13 and 14, and the consecutive year-long 30 and 100 series.
Though I didn't pursue formal education in music, I stayed in touch with my TA and eventually came to discover his work as renowned composer Nick Vasallo. He gave his master's recital in composition at UCSC in April and remains a vital source in my informal musical training.
Early Spring quarter, it became apparent that cuts were being enacted in the Music Department, and that the Music 60 group piano lab was not going to be offered for the term. Labs like Music 60 essentially force majors in the program to learn how to play the keyboard, a fundamental skill in the recitation and composition of music that implements rigid pacing and evaluation.
The cut came suddenly, with virtually no warning, and even for students and staff within the department, the lack of transparency surrounding the cut has, until recently, made it difficult to determine whether other parts of the Music Department are on the chopping block and how long such cost-cutting strategies will remain in place.
State funding for the UC system is first routed to the University Office of the President, then to the administrations at each of the 10 UC campuses. From there, it's sectioned off to the divisions and later to the different departments at UCSC. Each tier of the funding structure has a relative level of autonomy with respect to budgeting, and it's here that the music department has come into some difficulties in recent years.
In 2004, the Arts Department was informed by senior administrators that cuts would be enacted, and word came down to the Music Department that spending on merit raises for continuing staff and lecturers would have to be put on hold.
Nauert explained that a music program needs additional funding to effectively teach the material, and that the department's success is contingent on being able to provide "applied instruction," or one-on-one lessons to every student in the program, specific to their chosen instrument. These sessions are mandatory to ensure the student is ready for advisory evaluations by the faculty upon declaration of the major. Later, their progress is monitored in proficiency exams.
A by-product of recent spending cuts across campus, the Music Department has been forced to increase the quarterly fee for a student enrolled in applied instruction from roughly $150 to $415. Past attempts by the department to more gradually increase the fees, citing the limitation of access for disadvantaged students, have been repeatedly quashed by the upper administration.
Offerings for the Music 13 and 14 introductory theory courses have also decreased.
Music 13 and 14 were offered during the summer session. Nauert said in an email that these offerings were meant to accommodate students who needed to take the courses but couldn't secure a spot in them during the academic year. He did not address the issues facing those students financially incapable of attending summer session, however.
Addressing the group piano labs, Nauert cited triage as the reasoning behind "significantly cutting back" their availability. He said that the expectation is that the similar piano instruction offered in the Music 30 and 100 series would offset the absence of the labs.
Without denying the need to curb costs at every level, Andy Warren, a UCSC alum, said that cutting piano instruction trivializes one of the most important parts of learning to play and create music.
Tenure track, or "pay to ladder" faculty, are not affected by the music department reductions since their pay scale is determined by permanent academic funding from the central administration. Staff and lecturer budgets, however, are seen as more expendable and the temporary funding that has typically padded these peripheral salary increases based on merit has dried up.
According to David Evan Jones, the acting dean of the Music department, in addition to the department's reduced 2009-2010 academic year budget, it is also expected to sustain $583,000 in cuts in coming years. That cut equates to roughly five percent of the department's total operating budget, meaning that course assignments for some lecturers and other non-tenured faculty have been cut.
"At this time, the classical music minor has been eliminated, and the department is considering whether or not it will be able to continue the electronic and jazz minors," Jones said.
Until specifics about next year's cuts are released, no firm determination about the state of the jazz and electronic music minors can be made. Regardless, Jones laments the uncertain future of the programs, remembering his own involvement in the design of the electronic music minor alongside fellow professor Peter Elsea.
With respect to what's being done to minimize the impact of courses being dropped, Elsea explained that various alternatives to satisfy different departmental requirements have sprouted up.
"Students have been quite creative in finding alternatives," Elsea said.
Music major Alex Talan thinks that what makes the electronic music program unique is its facilities, most notable of which are the electronic music studios run by Elsea since 1980.
The announcement of funding cuts to things like the studios, and concordant reductions in course offerings, has ushered in an onslaught of opinions from students.
Mamelok argues that the department isn't geared toward inexperienced musicians in the first place, citing his own difficulties with the pacing of his upright bass lessons.
Vasallo, my T.A., insists the introductory courses are essential to the music program maintaining a student-base since they provide a no-obligation forum for prospective students to experiment with the idea of becoming music majors.
Regarding the budget cuts, he seems utterly dejected.
"I understand cutting from the bottom, but education is the last place we need to be making cuts," Vasallo said.
For now, Vasallo will keep on teaching and hoping that the music won't go silent at UCSC.
"Watching my students discover relationships in theory is the best feeling," he said, smiling, of his experience teaching Music 13 and14.


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DJ Kool Clears His Throat and Hits the Charts
by Ta-Nehisi Coates September 20th, 1996 August 29th, 2020
During the summer of 1987, me and my brother would sit on the porch of our Baltimore row house, listening to local radio deity Frank Ski's hiphop mix show. Almost every evening, Frank would play a cut called "The Music Ain't Loud Enough." The lyrics didn't really strike us, but the drum track was irresistible, and the hook featured rap lord Rakim's sampled voice chanting, "Pump up the volume." In addition, the MC had a magnetic old-school energy in his voice, the kind that made the wackest of parties bearable: "Louder and louder we go!!/ Where we gonna stop nobody knows!!"
We assumed the guy had to be another one of those New York kids. After all, that's where almost all the hiphop we heard came from. Little did we know that the artist, DJ Kool, came from our urban rival only 45 minutes down 295.
Now, almost 10 years later, sitting in front of me in a Pizza Hut on Potomac Avenue is the man responsible for that cut. There are no crowds clamoring for his autograph, no women offering themselves up in skin-tight jeans, and even though everybody in the joint knows him, they seem more impressed with him than he is with himself. Even his slim frame, slender face, and baby dreads sit in direct contrast with the voice that ritually booms across the airwaves. When we begin the interview, I'm still not convinced that this isn't an impostor, the agent of some vengeful plot by an angry reader or past interviewee.
Kool's newest hit record, the live cut "Let Me Clear My Throat," has propelled him onto almost every radio station in the country and sent him on international tours. Yet despite the fame, he speaks of the record in comical fashion. It "was just me clowning one night," he says. "I guess I'm one of those DJs that do a lot of talking or whatever, hyping the crowd while I'm mixing. One night I was getting ready to say something and I coughed….Instead of saying what I was gonna say, I coughed. Then I said, 'God damn!' just like that, right?—which is actually the hook to the song, 'Ah-huh, Ah-huh, Uh! God damn!'….The crowd kinda caught on to it….After a while, I was saying the cough and they was saying the other part."
Making a hook from a cough is unthinkable to most MCs today. Yet when rap first began, this type of thing would not have been that unlikely. In those days, the MC was just someone who came out and said a few rhyming bars to get the crowd going. Almost anything could be a rhyme. Back then, opinions of your mike skills were based on your ability to rock a party, not how clever your lyrics were. So it is still with Kool.
"A lot of [today's MCs]…get out of the performance aspect of it, and that's what I try to focus on….I don't necessarily have to have the dope-dope lyrics to do what I'm doing. Basically what I'm doing is rocking a party. I might rhyme just enough to make it a 'rap' song," he says. This might seem like high treason to most hiphop fiends, but the pundits should hold their horses. Kool's old-school style reflects what rap was before it was rap. Kool is actually an artifact, sitting in the last place most rap archaeologists would think to look, Go-Go City.
Kool grew up in the Southeast neighborhood where this Pizza Hut sits. He points affectionately in various directions, running off a list of schools he attended as a child. "This is my neighborhood around here. I've been living here for 31, 32 years….I've seen a lot of stuff around here, you know what I'm saying, some good, some bad….I wouldn't never consider this a violent neighborhood back then…but now man, with the type of attitude a lot of younguns have nowadays….It changed the neighborhood."
As a child, even if there was trouble, Kool would not be involved in it. His parents were strict and very religious, making sure their son attended church on the regular. They also kept him occupied with basketball: "When I was coming up…a lot of us were involved in sports….We had recreation centers and stuff to go to to keep the kids and stuff busy during the day while they were out of school during the summer….For me, it was either I was at a game or at practice….I personally didn't have time to be out here acting up."
When Kool was 16 his father died, but he didn't take it as a cue to hit the streets. "He left me a pretty good amount of money," Kool says, "and so I…went and bought DJ equipment. I went and bought turntables and a mixer."
Like almost all DJs, Kool started out doing the house-party circuit. A short time later he met up with D.C. DJ legend Maniac McCloud. "Back then, I used to club-hop. After a while it seemed like the only one I wanted to dance to or listen to was Maniac. 'Cause he was the only one scratching at the time. He was mixing…plus he was MCing at the time."
When he met the older DJ, Kool had already started spinning at a club called the Room, at 12th Street and New York Avenue NW. "It's a furniture store now," he notes. Maniac eventually took the young DJ under his wing. "After Maniac slid off and he kinda put me in his spot, then I kinda took on the slot he had. I got all these DJs wanting to come up under me now, looking up to me now. I guess what Maniac was to D.C. in the '70s and '80s, I guess I was to D.C. in the '80s and into the '90s."
This was also about the same time that a new music was emerging out of New York that would be called rap.
When Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight" hit, "it was like an explosion—everybody was, like, 'Damn, what is that?' and everybody was on it….Then, here come these other artists, Kurtis Blow, Flash, so on and so forth." Kool was slowly building his rep as a hiphop DJ. He added the rhyming bars that had marked his mentor, and soon he was considered the top DJ in D.C.
While working at the Room in 1986, Kool got his first recording offer. "This guy came up to me and asked did I wanna go to the studio and do a mix for him on a group that he had….While we was doing the work he asked me had I ever thought about making records myself, and I was, like, 'Yeah.'"
The result was the song we heard on the radio in Baltimore, "The Music Ain't Loud Enough." It and "Reggae Dance" were the two biggest hits of Kool's career until "Let Me Clear My Throat" was released late last year.
The music has been pretty good to Kool. He has managed to tour in Europe, and there are plans now for a remix of "Let Me Clear My Throat," featuring Doug E. Fresh, Biz Markie, and Busta Rhymes. But what about the locals back here? What about the people who clamor for DJ Kool to get behind the wheels one more time and give a shout-out to the Southeast younguns? "I wanna retire," he says, "but I guess I'm like Michael Jordan. I can't." CP
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Cash Warren is an American producer.
Warren was born in California. He is most well-known for his work on Fantastic Four', 'Taxi' and 'Crips and Bloods: Made in America'. Cash Warren is the husband of the actress, Jessica Alba. They have three children.
Cash Warren's net worth was estimated at $50 million as of June 2022.
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Warren began his career in the role of assistant producer.
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The film 'Fantastic Four' was his next movie as an assistant producer. It was released in 2005. It featured Jessica Alba, Ioan Gruffudd, and Kerry Washington.
It was also a huge success. It was nominated at the Saturn Awards for "Best Science Fiction Film" and the MTV Movie Awards as "Best Hero and Best On-Screen Teams."
Verso Entertainment produced "Crisps and Bloods Made in America" which was released in 2008. He has also released "In the Blood" throughout his career. It was directed and produced by John Stockwell.
Verso Entertainment focuses mainly on documentaries about social issues for TV, the big screen, and digital media. Apolo, a digital media platform that connects celebrities with their fans, was also founded by Verso Entertainment.
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Q: Why does the Python gettext module require a compilation step (.po -> .mo)? I don't see that the compilation step is adding any value.

A: Reading just quickly about .mo files, it is clear that:

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*It is a machine-readable representation

*It is a hash table

Given gettext's function, to lookup strings by keys at runtime, it is reasonable for this lookup to be implemented efficiently.
Also, it is needed for gettext's performance impact to be negligible; else interest to play nice with the international community would be even lower for english-speaking hackers (from all countries, we all speak english, programming languages are in english).
Making the .mo file an already processed representation is good since

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*The format is well suited for quick lookup (hash table)

*The format needs little processing at application launch (custom-representation binary)

A: Because gettext module in Python follows GNU gettext standards which required to use PO files for do translations by people, and MO files for using by application in runtime. When you're using gettext module you're actually using GNUTranslations class, which name suggests it's implementation of GNU gettext.
But you can provide your own Translations class and load translations from PO files, there is nothing special about it. There is even some implementation of PO files reader in standard Python distribution, see script msgfmt.py in Tools directory.

A: I think that the compilation is .po -> .mo

The letters PO in .po files means Portable Object, to distinguish it from .mo files, where MO stands for Machine Object.
MO files are meant to be read by programs, and are binary in nature. A few systems already offer tools for creating and handling MO files as part of the Native Language Support coming with the system, but the format of these MO files is often different from system to system, and non-portable.

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thanks in advanced for the chado squema, works well!!!!
Yet, this requieres I use a cv_type related to the RPKM value i want to store.
What cv_type is related to the RPKM values that you obtain from rna-seq experiements???
My Q is basically is, how do you load RPKM values to genes stored in chado database???
FlyBase has extended the library module and we store RPKM values (linked to gene features) as attributes of library_feature relationships in a table called library_featureprop.
Metadata for each RNA-Seq experiment (provenance, attributes like read length and total reads) are stored in tables library, libraryprop, library_pub, etc, with xrefs to primary sequence archives linked via library_dbxref.
Expression information is stored in expression module tables, linked to each experiment via library_expression.
We're managing RPKM data for multiple fly genomes from over 190 individual RNA-Seq experiments in our production chado instance now, and this implementation seems to be scaling well. Getting the metadata squared-away is key, especially if you'll be recalculating RPKM values as gene models are updated.
If you want to follow our implementation, I'd suggest you consider downloading an instance of FlyBase chado (from flybase.org, here: ftp://ftp.flybase.net/releases/FB2012_06/psql/) and pattern your implementation after what you'll find there. I'll check our library module extension into GMOD SVN on Monday so you can get the DDL.
Thanks so much for you reply!!!
From there, add tables to file in library directory where script uses as input.
It easy to build new DB from chado-build-schema.pl, we have many projects.
I think those tables will give you the minimum of what you need to get RPKM into your chado instance, but we've made refinements to the library and expression modules which you may find useful (you'd need them if you wanted to follow the FB implementation closely), and some additional changes to the organism and interaction module (which you can probably do without).
I spent most of the afternoon updating the DDL for these modules, but find myself unable to commit my changes to the GMOD SVN. What I thought was my password doesn't work. Amelia or Scott, could one of you help me out?
I've just committed changes to the library, expression, interaction, and organism chado modules to the gmod svn repository. Maximo, you should be able to get the DDL you need for new library module tables via the svn now.
The expression module changes are largely cosmetic changes to some of the constraint declarations. The two tables added to the interaction module were added as a convenience to allow grouping of multiple interactions that involve the same players. The extensions and implementations of these modules were largely produced by Andy Schroeder here at FlyBase.
The extensions to the library module consist mostly in additional relations linking to other modules, plus some refinements like addition of relationships between libraries.
The extensions to the organism module consist mostly in additional tables for managing strain information. Kathleen Falls, also of FlyBase, played a lead role in the extension of the library and organism modules.
All of these schema changes are backwards compatible, consisting of new tables, but no changes to existing tables.
I am downloading the new updated modules now.
We are greatfull for yor time and quick responses.


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Studies Show Just Eight Weeks of Meditation Research Can Make Your Brain Faster
By Norman B. Harrison	 Last updated Sep 23, 2021
Researchers at Binghamton University scanned the student's brain before and after eight weeks of meditation training.Credit: Binghamton University
Millions of people around the world seek spiritual clarity through meditation, most of which follow or are inspired by centuries of Buddhist practice.
Anecdotally, meditators say it helps calm their minds, renew their thoughts, and cut through the "noise" to show what really matters. Scientifically, however, it shows the effect of meditation on humans. brain Turned out delicate.
A new study from the Thomas J. Watson University of Applied Sciences at Binghamton University tracks how the brain patterns of 10 students in the university's academic program changed while practicing meditation for just two months. made.
The seeds of the research are George Weinschenk, MA '01, Ph.D., Weiying Dai assistant professor and lecturer. Born of an informal conversation with. '07, both from the computer science department.
Weinschenk has practiced meditation for many years and his wife worked as an administrator at Namgal Monastery in Ithaca, the North American seat of the Dalai Lama's private monastery.
"I have made very close friendships with some of the monks," he said. "We spent time together and were taught by some of the Dalai Lama's teachers, where we took classes, read a lot, and got a three-year certificate in Buddhist studies."
Die holds a PhD in Brain Function Mapping and Biomedical Imaging. At the University of Pittsburgh, she followed patients with Alzheimer's disease using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
"be interested Brain research To see how our brains actually work and how all kinds of diseases affect our brains," she said. ""
The two faculty members had adjacent offices and once had a conversation about their backgrounds. Weinschenk said he was asked to teach a long semester in a university meditation program.
"I said to Weiying, 'Yes, meditation really has a transformative effect on the brain,' Weinschenk said. "She was a little skeptical as to whether she had spent so little time learning to meditate and what made the difference. She quantifies this with modern technology. I suggested it might be possible. "
In the fall semester of 2017, Dai got a grant and started collaborating. Towards the start of the semester, she took the participants to Cornell University for an MRI of their brains. Weinschenk taught the students how to meditate, told them to practice five times a week for 10 or 15 minutes, and asked them to keep a practice journal. (The program also included other lessons on the cultural transmission of meditation and its application to health.)
"The academics at Binghamton University wanted to do what they were assigned and wanted them to do well, so they didn't need a lot of prompts to maintain a regular meditation routine. He said, "To ensure an objective report, they will report their experience directly to Weiying on how often they practiced."
Results recently published in the journal Scientific report, Indicates that meditation training led to a faster switch between the two general states of consciousness of the brain.
One is called Network in Default Mode. It becomes active when the brain is awake and at rest and is not focused on the outside world, such as when it fantasizes or wanders the mind. The other is a dorsal attention network that engages in sensitive tasks.
The results of this study show that meditation can strengthen the connections between these two brain networks and within the brain networks, not only by maintaining attention but also by wandering in a state of attention. It shows the effect of meditation on quickly switching between things and focusing.
"Tibetans have the word that they can easily change state. They call it mental flexibility. It is the ability to shape and allow the mind to be shaped. said Weinschenk. "They also consider the goal of concentration to be one of the basic principles of self-growth."
Dai and Weinschenk have yet to test other students in the Scholars program, as they are still analyzing the data taken from the 2017 MRI. Alzheimer's disease and autism can be caused by problems with the network of d back attention, and Die is considering future studies in which meditation can be used to alleviate these problems.
"This population was a young student, so I'm thinking of studying the older people," she said. "I want a group of healthy seniors, then another group with early-onset Alzheimer's disease or mild cognitive impairment. I want to see if the brain changes induced by meditation can improve cognitive abilities. Write suggestions and attract. Funding in that direction you are trying to. "
Formerly skeptical of this question, she added, "after doing this study, I am quite confident about the scientific basis for meditation." "Maybe I just go to George's class when he's teaching so I can enjoy it too!" "
Meditation based on mental silence can strengthen the brain's network of attention and control of performance
Zhang, Z. et al, Longitudinal Effects of Meditation on Resting Functional Connectivity of the Brain. Scientific staff (2021). doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-90729-y
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Santana's Status In Question…
February 28, 2009 at 4:50 pm	(Baseball, New York Mets)
… may just cause the Mets to examine their vulnerabilities and reach out to Manny Ramirez. He's so much less expensive than what agent Boros was asking just weeks ago. True the bullpen is revamped and , yes, a case can be made for just letting it all play out… but the importance of going all the way to the Woild Serious [most likely to play the Yankees] can't be overstated in this, the year both teams open new Stadiums. It will set the tone of how these two franchises compete for back page space in the New Yawk tabloids.
GO FOR IT WILPON!!
Pictured below is the sore elbowed Johan Santana.
Losing Less, The 1962 New York Mets Way
February 26, 2009 at 9:32 am	(Baseball, Fantasy Baseball, New York Mets) (Original New York Mets)
These days part of my "Fantasy Baseball trip" is recreating past seasons on my computer baseball game [Baseball Mogul 2007].
I'm managing the Mets of '62, the pride of the Polo Grounds. Through July 19th, I'm doing better then the Originals. 35-54 isn't all that great, but if the "wheels don't fall off" I'll continue to compete with the Cubs, Phils, and Colt 45's for seventh place or, at the very least, avoiding the moniker of "Basement Bertha."
My favorite story about that year is the one the late Leonard Koppett, the two-sport [baseball and basketball] Hall of Fame writer, loved telling. The phone rang in the newsroom at the NY Post at two in the in morning. "I understand the Mets scored 16 runs last night," the caller said. "Did they win?"
Here's hard luck [an understatement, to say the very least] pitcher Roger "The Dodger" Craig.
Original Met Clem Labine was a former Dodger pitcher.
Former Brave pitcher Ken MacKenzie.
Chris Cannizzaro ended up doing most of the catching.
[Hot] Rod Kanehl was special. A Jack of all trades, master of none. The late Leonard Shecter wrote about him [and Casey] in his great book, "Jocks".
Utility man Rick Herrscher.
Pitcher Dave Hillman, a one time Cub.
Joe Christopher's intangible attributes on a baseball field take away from any positive statistics you can get from him…
.. and the same can be said for Jim Hickman.
Pitcher Galen Cisco, from Ohio State, was one of the few who pitched effectively enough to stay in the organization long enough to make it to Shea. Mert and I shared a car on the 7 line with the former Buckeye on the way to opening day in 1964.
Willard "Bill" Hunter came over from the Dodgers and, as I recall, wasn't the piece needed to turn things around.
Red Ruffing made the Hall Of Fame as a pitcher. Certainly not as the pitching coach of the 1962 Mets. I question the wisdom of entrusting one's pitching staff to a man who cut off his toes with a lawnmower…. but, what do I know?
Northwestern's Jay Hook, reputed to be one very smart cookie, was one of many Met pitchers who started games without finishing them and relieved games without offering relief… In short, it was a dismal staff.
Vinegar Bend Mizell, veteran NL pitcher, added to th Mets futility.
Ed Kraneppol made is debut in the majors in 1962.
Gil Hodges may or may not be the best baseball player who is not in the Hall of Fame. That doesn't mean he deserves to be in it. He most certainly doesn't. When I think of Gil, I'm reminded of his wife Joan. She'd get in the spirit of things by dyeing her hair "Met Orange."
Jim Rufus Marshall filled in at first base for the gimpy kneed Gil Hodges in the first game they ever played. He later went on to manage the Cubs and join an inordinately long list of big league managers [including the aforementioned # 14] who at one time or another played for Leo "The Lip/Lion" Durocher. [A future blog about these men looms large.]
Elio Chacon was the regular shortstop. Made for a long year.
Craig Anderson was known as an "inning eater." Given his earned run average, this was a backhanded compliment.
Cliff Cook was acquired for…
… Don Zimmer. A dog for a cat.
Harry Chiti was the catcher the Mets acquired for a player to be named later… That player turned out to be Harry Chiti.
"… Little Alvin Jackson was born on Christmas Day, one of twelve children from Waco, Texas…" , the late Bob Murphy [original Mets announcer] would babble, every inning of every game he pitched. Jackson was also the fastest runner on the 162 New York Mets.
Hard to dislike Choo Choo, who was the fastest runner the Mets ever have had catch for them. That's Clarence, to you.
Casey brought in former Yankee outfielder Gene Woodling. Gornisht helphen.
Former Dodger and future bullpen coach Joe Pignatano did some catching for the '62 Mets.
Myron "Joe" Ginsberg, one of the few Jewish ballplayers in Mets history, also did some catching in 1962.
Bob Moorhead [A surname that, after all these years, still evokes a smile.] was a gas can, waiting to explode.
Johnny DeMerit was a highly regarded prospect for the Braves and a lowly regarded bust for the Mets.
The original Frank "Mule" Thomas was a super hitter in the National League for a decade before the Mets were born and the heart of their offense [such as it was] in 1962.
A lot more was expected of this former Brave. I remember Felix Millan as the "Cat," and Felix Mantilla as the "Sail Cat."
Bob "Righty" Miller [the Mets also had a southpaw Bob Miller in '62 with far less talent] was an effective pitcher for many years, before, during and after his stint in New York. Trading him for Tim Harkness and Larry Burright seemed like a good idea at the time, but set them back.
Pictured below is the right handed throwing Bob Miller…
.. and Bob "Lefty" Miller.
By all accounts, the Hall O' Fame 2nd baseman was a removed, uncommunicative coach.
"There comes a time in every man's life, and I've had a few." That's my favorite Casey Stengel quote.
Sammy's brother was Solly Drake, not…
…Mets coach Solly Hemus.
Charlie Neal was a terrific ballplayer for the Dodgers… for the Mets, another story.
Then Brooklyn Dodger Harry "Cookie" Lavagetto in his last ML at bat broke up Bill Beven's no hitter against the Yankees in the 1947 Woild Serious. After coaching the Mets for a while, he was traded for SF Giant coach Wes Westrum, who later replaced Casey as manager.
Going in to the season Gus Bell was worth a lot… "on paper." The Mets, and fans like me, play the game on grass. :-)
The first Met drafted was Hobie Landrith, whom they traded for…
… Faye's brother, Marv Throneberry, who was once a prospect with the Yankees.
Former Cardinal outfielder Bobby Gene Smith played some for the '62 Mets.
Sammy Taylor came over from the Cubs and did nothing but add to the Mets catching woes.
In a spring training battle, Sherman "Roadblock" Jones [pictured bellow] beat out Bob "Butterball" Botz, who shared a nickname with my rather large brother, for a spot on the original roster.
Richie "Whitey" Ashburn nicknamed Marv Throneberry,"Marvelous." What a team. 40 wins, 40 nicknames.
I'd love to have bigger pictures of coach Ralph "Red" Kress, who died shortly after the season…
… and pitchers Larry Foss…
…Ray Daviault…
…and Herb Moford.
Mr. Met, mascot extraordinaire.
Original Mets Annoncers
Bob Murphy, Lindsey Nelson, Ralph Kiner
Deb A New Granny, Again…
February 25, 2009 at 6:48 pm	(Family & Friends)
… and I'm proud to be a Great Uncle.
Shea Stadium, Age 44, RIP
February 18, 2009 at 7:07 pm	(Baseball, New York Mets, News & Politics)
I noted today that Shea Stadium has now been completely demolished. I played hooky from Newtown High School to attend opening day in 1964. Joe Cristopher played right field for my beloved Mets against the Pirates. Time goes by fast, whether you're having fun or not. I had a lot of fun at Shea that day, and many other days afterwards. Yes, it was "cookie cutter," and the wind blowing through was as severe as Candelstick Park. It brought the Beatles and the Jets [formerly the Titans] to Queens. I will miss it very much.
Pitchers And Catchers Report, As Do I…
February 16, 2009 at 10:07 pm	(Baseball, Fantasy Baseball, New York Giants, New York Mets)
… at long last.
The California Sea Otter, my Fantasy team, has been drafted. Hanley Ramirez, Matt Holiday, Cliff Lee, Carlos Marmol, Lance Berkman, and Victor Martinez are amongst the draftees that excite me [if not in the Biblical way]… The Mets look to be the team to beat in the NL East, yet again. This years bully should put an end to the chokeitis that has befallen my beloveds for the past few years. From my mouth to gawd's ears. Their new stadium is almost an exact replica of Ebbets Field. As an old NY Giants fan, I'm less than thrilled. Fact is, the SF Giants do more to honor the memory of the New York Giants than do the Mets… Manny is still out there. Will the Dodgers or Giants win the sweepstakes? I'm guessing the Giants, who thus far haven't insulted the man by taking any offers off the table. The Mets may sneak in there. That would be splendid… Jim Rice in the HOF, and Bert Blyleven not. What a travesty… Congrats to Rickey, who in his prime, "became the game," as only Willie Mays and Jackie Robinson, could do… A-Rod on steroids? Really. Next thing you know, Brady Anderson will be accused. Seriously, Baseball would be better served if all the 104 names are released. The overwhelming majority of players who didn't test positive will than not be lumped in to this Gene Orza caused travesty…. If any one sees the game I grew up loving [the one played on a comparatively even playing field, with no DH, and Sunday double headers], please return it at once. No questions asked. Reward offered… The closest I can come to the "way it was" is recreating the seasons past on my computer baseball game. I'm now replaying the 1962 season, again. This time, I've programed the game not to include injuries. After all, a season without injuries is, indeed, a fantasy.
20 Years Later
February 6, 2009 at 3:23 pm	(Life & Death)
I was stunned to be reminded on my dear sister-in-law emeritus Deb's Facebook, that Joan has been gone for two decades. She would be so proud of her daughter, Melissa, and her sisters, nieces, and grand nephew and niece.
She was so very special.
The 2008 Darwin Awards
February 6, 2009 at 2:44 pm	(News & Politics)
Yes, it's that magical time of year again when the Darwin Awards
Are bestowed, honoring the least evolved among us.
Here are the glorious top 10 winners:
1. When his 38-caliber revolver failed to fire at his intended
victim during a hold-up in Long Beach , California , would-be
robber James Elliot did something that can only inspire wonder.
He peered down the barrel and tried the trigger again. This time
it worked. And now, the honorable mentions:
2. The chef at a hotel in Switzerland lost a finger in a meat-
cutting machine and, after a little shopping around, submitted
a claim to his insurance company. The company expecting
negligence sent out one of its men to have a look for himself.
He tried the machine and he also lost a finger.
The chef's claim was approved.
3. A man who shoveled snow for an hour to clear a space for his
car during a blizzard in Chicago returned with his vehicle to
find a woman had taken the space. Understandably, he shot her.
4. After stopping for drinks at an illegal bar, a Zimbabwean
bus driver found that the 20 mental patients he was supposed
to be transporting from Harare to Bulawayo had escaped. Not
wanting to admit his incompetence, the driver went to a nearby
bus stop and offered everyone waiting there a free ride. He
then delivered the passengers to the mental hospital, telling
the staff that the patients were very excitable and prone to
bizarre fantasies.
The deception wasn't discovered for 3 days.
5. An American teenager was in the hospital recovering from
serious head wounds received from an oncoming train.. When
asked how he received the injuries, the lad told police that
he was simply trying to see how close he could get his head
to a moving train before he was hit.
6. A man walked into a Louisiana Circle-K, put a $20 bill on
the counter, and asked for change. When the clerk opened the
cash drawer, the man pulled a gun and asked for all the cash
in the register, which the clerk promptly provided. The man
took the cash from the clerk and fled, leaving the $20 bill
on the counter. The total amount of cash he got from the
drawer… $15. [If someone points a gun at you and gives you
money, is a crime committed?]
7. Seems an Arkansas guy wanted some beer pretty badly. He
decided that he'd just throw a cinder block through a liquor
store window, grab some booze, and run. So he lifted the
cinder block and heaved it over his head at the window. The
cinder block bounced back and hit the would-be thief on the
head, knocking him unconscious. The liquor store window was
made of Plexiglas. The whole event was caught on videotape.
8. As a female shopper exited a New York convenience store,
a man grabbed her purse and ran. The clerk called 911
immediately, and the woman was able to give them a detailed
description of the snatcher. Within minutes, the police
apprehended the snatcher. They put him in the car and drove
back to the store. The thief was then taken out of the car
and told to stand there for a positive ID. To which he
replied, 'Yes, officer, that's her.
That's the lady I stole the purse from.'
9. The Ann Arbor News crime column reported that a man walked
into a Burger King in Ypsilanti, Michigan, at 5 A.M., flashed
a gun, and demanded cash.
The clerk turned him down because he said he couldn't open
the cash register without a food order. When the man ordered
onion rings, the clerk said they weren't available for
breakfast. The man, frustrated, walked away.
[A 5-STAR STUPIDITY AWARD WINNER]
10. When a man attempted to siphon gasoline from a motor home
parked on a Seattle street, he got much more than he bargained
for. Police arrived at the scene to find a very sick man
curled up next to a motor home near spilled sewage. A police
spokesman said that the man admitted to trying to steal
gasoline and plugged his siphon hose into the motorhome's
sewage tank by mistake. The owner of the vehicle declined to
press charges saying that it was the best laugh he'd ever had.
Nebraska Technology
After having dug to a depth of 10 yards last year, New York scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 100 years and came to the conclusion that their New York ancestors already had a telephone network more than 100 years ago.
Not to be outdone by the New Yorkers, in the weeks that followed, California scientists dug to a depth of 20 yards, and shortly after, headlines in the LA Times newspaper read:
'California archaeologists have found traces of 200 year old copper wire and have concluded that their ancestors already had an advanced high-tech communications network
a hundred years earlier than the New Yorkers.'
One week later, the Lincoln Journal Star, a local news paper in Lincoln , Nebraska reported the following:
'After digging as deep as 30 yards in a corn field near Milford, NE, Larry the Cable Guy, a self-taught archaeologist and dyed-in-the-wool Husker fan, reported that he found absolutely nothing. Larry has therefore concluded that 300 years ago, Nebraska had already gone wireless.'
Missin' W?
February 1, 2009 at 5:39 pm	(News & Politics, Unzipped Thoughts)
Here are a list of gaffes by George W Bush, compiled by Sarah Baxter
1. "Will the highways on the internet become more few?"
2. "It's a time of sorrow and sadness when we lose a loss of life."
3. "I appreciate the fact that you really snatched defeat out of thejaws of those who are trying to defeat us in Iraq."
4. "I remember meeting a mother of a child who was abducted by the North Koreans, right here in the Oval Office."
5. "We're concerned about Aids inside our White House, – make no
mistake about it."
6. "I'm honoured to shake the hand of a brave Iraqi citizen who had
his hand cut off by Saddam Hussein."
7. "I've coined new words, like "misunderstanding."
8. "I recently met with the finance minister of the Palestinian
Authority, was very impressed by his grasp of finances."
9. "It's in our country's interests to find those who would do harm to
us and get them out of harm's way."
10. "One year ago today, the time for excuse-making has come to an end."
11. "I promise you I will listen to what has been said here, even
though I wasn't here."
12. "You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a
literacy test."
13. "I don't particularly like it when people put words in my mouth,
either, by the way, unless I say it."
14. "[The Taliban] have no disregard for human life."
15. "When the governor calls, I answer his phone."
16. "Those who enter the country illegally violate the law."
17. "I think we agree, the past is over."
18. "America stands for liberty, for the pursuit of happiness and for
the unalienalienable right of life."
19. "My job is a decision-making job, and as a result, I make a lot of
20. "One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some
fantastic pictures."