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package com.raulh82vlc.MoviesFinder.domain.mapper;

import com.raulh82vlc.MoviesFinder.di.scopes.ActivityScope;
import com.raulh82vlc.MoviesFinder.domain.models.SearchJSONResults;
import com.raulh82vlc.MoviesFinder.domain.models.MovieFromListUI;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.List;

import javax.inject.Inject;

/**
 * As a Mapper, means it is a converter between different domains
 *
 * @author Raul Hernandez Lopez
 */
@ActivityScope
public class MoviesListModelDataMapper {

    @Inject
    public MoviesListModelDataMapper() {

    }

    /**
     * Transform a Collection of {@link SearchJSONResults} into a Collection of {@link SearchJSONResults}.
     *
     * @param searchJSONResults Objects to be transformed.
     * @return List of {@link MovieFromListUI}.
     */
    public List<MovieFromListUI> transform(SearchJSONResults searchJSONResults) {
        List<MovieFromListUI> moviesUIList;
        if (searchJSONResults != null) {
            List<SearchJSONResults.SearchJSONEntity> searchList = searchJSONResults.getSearchList();
            if (searchList != null && !searchList.isEmpty()) {
                moviesUIList = new ArrayList<>();
                for (SearchJSONResults.SearchJSONEntity searchItem : searchJSONResults.getSearchList()) {
                    moviesUIList.add(transform(searchItem));
                }
            } else {
                return Collections.emptyList();
            }
        } else {
            return Collections.emptyList();
        }
        return moviesUIList;
    }

    /**
     * Transform a {@link SearchJSONResults.SearchJSONEntity} into an {@link MovieFromListUI}.
     *
     * @param searchItem Object to be transformed.
     * @return {@link MovieFromListUI}.
     */
    public MovieFromListUI transform(SearchJSONResults.SearchJSONEntity searchItem) {
        if (searchItem == null) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Cannot transform a null value");
        }
        MovieFromListUI movieFromListUI = new MovieFromListUI();
        movieFromListUI.setTitle(searchItem.getTitle());
        movieFromListUI.setUrl(searchItem.getImageUrl());
        movieFromListUI.setImdbId(searchItem.getImdbID());
        movieFromListUI.setYear(searchItem.getYear());
        return movieFromListUI;
    }
}

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Bryan Wawzenek
Bryan Wawzenek is a freelance journalist who writes for Diffuser.fm and Ultimate Classic Rock. He learned more from a three-minute record than he ever learned in school. His mind is racing, as it always will. Don't start him talking, he could talk all night. The sunshine bores the daylights out of him. Don't touch him, he's a real live wire. Most things he worries about never happen anyway. But he's been smiling lately, thinking about the good things to come.
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For almost three decades, the singer and harmonicist Roma Wilson remained one of the most enigmatic musicians in American music. Until the 1980s, there were no pictures, and only one commercially-available recording... Today, he's 107 years old, and France Musique has managed to track him down.
In the fields of Mississippi and Arkansas, in the streets of Detroit, at the White House for the Clintons... Roma Wilson has taken his gospel all over the country for over eight decades. An ordained pastor at the age of 18, he only ever took part in two recording sessions. During the first, in the early 1950s, he recorded three records but only one album was published. He had to wait until 1994 to record another. Rediscovered much later in life, the singer-harmonicist was nominated for a Grammy in 1993, and even continued playing in his church at age 100.
Roma Wilson was born on 22 December 1910 in Hickory Flat, Mississippi. The youngest of 10 siblings, his parents were sharecroppers and worked a small patch of land. At the age of eight or nine, he was already working the land, leading the mule that ploughed the furrows. Whenever he could, he would go to school on foot, sometimes without any shoes. To make a living and feed the family, his father and brothers would work on the railroad, laying the rails that would eventually cross the rural State of Mississippi.
Roma Wilson: "We had to start working, sometimes when we were eight or nine years old".
In around 1923, a then-adolescent Roma Wilson built a harmonica from scrap metal. At the age of 15 he finally bought his first real harmonica. An old vagabond musician, handicapped and incapable of earning a living through manual labour, taught him to play. Roma Wilson immediately developed his own particular style, powerful with an almost screaming song mixed with a subtle vibrato.
Roma Wilson: "An old man, Ned Moss, an old peg-legged man, would kinda show me how to choke them"
In 1929, Roma Wilson heard a divine calling. Ordained by a local religious man, he began travelling all over Mississippi spreading the good word. He sang gospels, whose verses were taken from the Bible, with his harmonica as accompaniment. Often he was only paid for his religious services with bags of potatoes. He performed in temporary and makeshift chapels made out of sheets with wooden logs for benches. His songs and harmonica style gradually became known throughout the surrounding regions, even drawing in large crowds from the white community, keen to listen to the music from Afro-American liturgy.
Roma Wilson : "Even the White people would love to hear the Black people sing"
At the age of 25, Roma Wilson crossed the Mississippi river and moved to nearby Arkansas, with his wife and children. There he became a farmer and put an end to his nomadic lifestyle. He still performed every Sunday in small local churches where his music style rapidly gathered attention and success. His style came to be known as "chock", consisting in abruptly accentuating the music and blowing hard into the harmonica, making his instrument scream much like Jimi Hendrix would with his guitar years later. His children learned to play the guitar and eventually accompanied their father.
Drawn by the possibility of employment in the automobile capital, the Wilson family moved to Michigan. Alongside the local chapels, Roma Wilson and his eldest sons performed on Hasting Street, one of the city's busiest streets, where most of the black businesses were situated. In this street, Joe von Battle, a businessman and record producer, noticed the family of musicians and invited them to record six songs to be distributed across three 78rpm records.
However, without warning, Joe von Battle sold the master recordings of the harmonicist to a producer of the Gotham label in Philadelphia, who ultimately chose to release with a limited distribution only two of the six recorded tracks on one 78rpm record. The record sticker only named the artists as "Elder R. Wilson and Family", making their identification difficult. Unaware of the release of the record, Roma Wilson never saw a penny of the sales of his music. A stranger to the realm of show business, he returned to his automobile factory work in order to feed his 11 children, and continued performing his music in the streets and churches. Theft, forgetfulness, or bad faith by Joe von Battle? A retired pastor with a weakness for alcohol, he was certainly no choir boy, though his daughter wholly rejects Roma Wilson's side of the story. As for Roma Wilson, he would wait 45 years before finally recording another record.
By the end of the 1960s, Roma Wilson was almost 50. His eldest sons had fought in Korea, and his youngest would soon leave for Vietnam. He continued performing his gospel in the streets of Detroit, now accompanied on guitar by Leon Pinson, another Mississippi-born musician. A self-proclaimed reverend, the musician was marked by meningitis, leaving him lame and almost blind. The two met in Arkansas before both moving to Detroit, though due to his handicap Pinson was unable to work on the factory line. To survive, he polished shoes and worked as an accompanist in churches. He only ever recorded one record during his career, a handful of songs on a 33rpm released in 1967.
Roma Wilson: "I don't think he was much of a preacher"
Around the age of 60, Roma Wilson went into retirement and left Detroit, notably after the riots in 1967. At the same time, though he did not know it, numerous amateurs of blues and gospel music had found his music and were tracking him down. Several years earlier, the young collector and producer Chris Strachwitz had met Joe von Battle in Detroit, from whom he had received several unreleased acetate discs. Amongst these discs were the remaining unpublished recordings of Roma Wilson, discarded around 15 years ago. Strachwitz set about trying to find this R. Wilson, but to no avail.
The musician had returned to his native Mississippi and oversaw a small rural religious community. His house, hidden deep in the countryside, was surrounded by huge fields. There he set up a large caravan that he turned into a chapel, where he would perform and sing, in a style that had remained unchanged after all these years. At the same time, his children in Detroit encountered a moderate musical success. His daughter Ester became a sensation with her "overhand" style of guitar playing, and even joined a group named The Trumpelettes. Rome Jr sang in the reputable quartet The CSJC Gospel Singers, where his brother Robert also officiated. The latter was also a member of the Mighty Gospel Wonders.
Hidden and out of sight, Roma Wilson was still able to capture the attention of local impresario Worth Long. He had heard talk of Wilson's music through word-of-mouth, and decided to include him in several festivals. Wilson's fame, however, would not go further than Mississippi and its neighbouring states. Even in the blues festivals, he would play his unique kind of gospel, whose intonations brought to mind the music of the Delta. Roma Wilson was often accompanied on guitar by none other than his old acolyte Leon Pinson. As for, Chris Strachwitz, the recent owner of recordings made by Wilson in Detroit, he hoped to commercialise the recordings through his own record label dedicated to traditional music. However, unable to find any information about the author of these recordings, he was unable to progress. Worth Long, a talented sleuth, eventually learned about the quest to find the identity of the mysterious pastor-harmonicist. It was he who introduced the producer to the mysterious musician, and ultimately reignited Roma Wilson's career, now almost 80 years old.
Worth Long introduced Roma Wilson to various amateurs of rural music. In 1993, the New-Zealander Alan Young crossed the Pacific in order to publish the first interview with Roma Wilson. Proof of his complete disinterest and lack of knowledge on the matter, the harmonicist had even forgotten the recording dates of his own record. That same year, a track by Wilson was reissued on a compilation CD and nominated at the Grammys for best traditional blues album. Chris Strachwitz travelled to Mississippi and recorded Roma playing and singing in his tiny chapel. In 1994, a CD containing a collection of new recordings, alongside those unreleased by Joe von Battle in Detroit, was finally produced, 44 years after the release of Wilson's first record. Following the release, Roma Wilson was awarded the National Fellowship Heritage, a prize rewarding those that defend and contribute to the American nation's traditional arts. The ceremony was held at the White House, during which he gave a concert, and the prize was presented by First Lady Hillary Clinton, in the presence of Bill Clinton. The harmonicist-pastor was also awarded the princely sum of 10 000 dollars, one which he had never in his life earned through his music, given in particular the fact that his second disc did not perform well financially.
In the early 2000s, Roma Wilson left Mississippi. Having lost his friend Leon Pinson in 1998, he returned to Detroit to be closer to his family. His daughter Ester was still performing, whereas Sam and David had become pastors like their father. Upon his return, the harmonicist put an end to the festivals and only performed for his congregations. Even in 2010 when he became a centenarian, Roma Wilson never stopped his musical activities. He continued leading ministry congregations, and lived with his wife in a small house adjacent to his church. The following year, he hurt himself during a fall. He came out with only a few broken ribs but was unable to continue leading his ministry. His son David, not a musician by training but nonetheless gifted with a magnificent voice, took over from his father.
Roma Wilson, today in a nursing home, no longer attends the ministry but prays and gives his blessings to the speakers. He has not kept anything of his musical past other than his harmonicas. No records, no photos... His family have preciously saved photos of him with Hillary Clinton and a letter signed by the former president. However, Roma Wilson is more than happy to play the harmonica when asked by a visitor.
On 22 December 2018, he will celebrate his 108th birthday.
The author wishes to thank in particular Joe Louis and John Glassburner for the access to their record collections, and George Mitchell for the picture of Leon Pinson.


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Q: ValueError: operands could not be broadcast together with shapes (2995,) (8392,) () This is my code:
check =['met ballen', 'jonge man','enthousiaste jongens','enthousiaste meisjes','enthousiaste jongen','dan ben jij onze man',
       'enthousiaste meid','enthousiaste meiden']
data1["Zoekterm_new"] = np.where(data1['Zoekterm'].str.contains(f"{'|'.join(check)}"), data['Zoekterm'], np.NaN)

When ik run this is give me the follow error
ValueError: operands could not be broadcast together with shapes (2995,) (8392,) ()

My dataframe has the follow columns:
Source.Name                 object
Mogelijke_discriminatie    float64
Zoekterm                    object
dtype: object

I turnd " Mogelijke_discriminatie " to an integer
with
data1.Mogelijke_discriminatie.astype(int)

Can someone tell me what is going wrong

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A KING UNDER SIEGE by Mercedes Rochelle
A Discovered Diamond
"I am thoroughly looking forward to the next instalment"
Richard II has been rather overlooked as a monarch – most people only really know that he quelled the Peasants' Revolt when he was about fourteen, that he was usurped by Henry Bolinbroke and that he (probably) starved to death ignominiously in Pontefract Castle.
In the first of this new trilogy, Mercedes Rochelle looks at the early part of his life starting with Wat Tyler's insurgence. Thanks to the author's research and writing, gone are the visions of this child bravely riding out, speaking to Tyler and everyone goes home happy! The violence (nothing too graphic) is brought home to the reader with so many impromptu executions and general destruction in London.
But more than this comes from the author's pen. Although the event dominates the bulk of this book, there is so much more. One really feels sorry for Richard: he is young, dominated by his uncles and is haunted by his inability to match his illustrious forbears. In other words, he is no warrior and he knows it. Added to that is that the country is broke due to failed campaigns against the French and the taxes on the poor - hence the riots. Richard is frustrated; the lords simply will not listen to him and they attempt to separate him from the few people he can trust – most notably Robert de Vere, after he was raised to be Duke of Ireland. The one happy thing in his life is his marriage to Anne of Bohemia.
I have to highlight the fact that my copy had a few errors, but I must also add that this copy was a pre-publication ARC version and that I believe that some, if not all, of those errors have been addressed.
However, these in no way detract from the overall delight I had in reading this story and I am thoroughly looking forward to the next instalment.
© Richard Tearle
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Chris's passion of caring for seniors brought her to Responsive in 1990. Over the past 20-plus years, she has worked in various capacities in our homes in the positions of Nurse Manager, Director of Nursing and Administrator. In her current role as Vice President of Operations, she is responsible for the day-to-day operations of Responsive Health Management Inc. She also provides operational consulting services through Responsive Health Mentors Ltd. Chris enjoys sharing her wealth of knowledge with our partner communities and is known for her fun-loving and energetic approach to working with our clients.
Committed to our community, Chris is a member of the Professional Advisory Board for the Toronto Central Local Health Integrated Network, where she represents the long term care sector. As a member of the Ontario Long Term Care Association, she previously served on the Resident Care Services Committee and chaired the Applied Research Committee. As well, she is an active member of the Canadian College of Health Services Executives. Chris received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Victoria and a Masters degree in Health Studies from Athabasca University.
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Day One in the Porcupine Mountains on our fall trip was rain filled. Taking photos meant balancing umbrellas, walking slow and carefully and battling fogged and rain-speckled lenses. Light was challenging in the deep Eastern Hemlock Forest.
Both of these photos were shot during heavy rains on the Union Gorge hike. We entered the trail at an odd location and when we emerged it was on South Boundary Road. At first we walked the S. Boundary road back toward where we parked and then worried it was taking too long, returned to trail and re-traced out steps. So, we did the trail twice. Good thing it is a short one.
Tomorrow I will make a post on our "Enroute Day." Mike and I never drive straight to a destination. Ultimately there are many stops.
This is from my Men at Work Series at Flickr, and the perfect submission for PhotoFriday.com's theme, Disorder. Isn't it ironic? When everyone is out trying to order their lives with new day planners and calendars, making professional and personal goals. The people at PhotoFriday come up with Disorder. Many of my memorable photos of 2008 came from disorder such as "Nails on Yellow" a work belt emptied onto a metal table between camp and barn.
The shots of the Whitefish River and Falls were taken on the day we stopped at Lily's in Traunik, an organic and natural foods grocery in the middle of nowhere (smile). I am calling this series of photos, "Riverbank Series." It was last Saturday, one long week ago that I had a day off work. The sun was bright, the air warm, it was a glorious day. Snow and rain are predicted today. It is gray and dull as I wake this morning.
I am pleased I have posted every day this month (so far) as part of the Art Every Day commitment. Join in!
"A Work In Progress," this photo is another gift from my Magic Man. "When I tossed those nails there I didn't know why and now I do," Mike said while admiring my rusty nail photos. Here I thought it was the former owner of this cabin who carelessly left nails to rust! But I smiled in acknowledgement, 'cause I too have wondered why I do or don't do some things. It's all a work in progress, this life, our art, our relationships.
Sometimes I leave things undone–is it the color combination and texture I like when I leave something out in the rain? Is it cause someone has dreamt it? Do they need to walk past and snap a photo months later? Do they need to bend to tie their shoe and see dead ladybugs in rotten woodwork? Oh some days are gifts and the flow leads us where we need to go.
Other days we are consumed by fear thinking we cannot leave things as they are. We think I need to control this, reign it in, tie it down, put my thumb on it! I woke in fear today and then worked, sludged through, the task of turning it around. How could I take a negative day full of tears and anxiety and turn it into sunshine?
I brought in light, warmth, hot tea, candles, and activity. I looked for the positive and was surprised when I found it! The first surprise was the wonderful comments on my blog and how my stats had gone through the roof in the last 24 hours. Then I thought to connect with others in the ether and got Linkedin. Then as the temperature and attitude of my day went from cold, gray and negative I opened my photo file and began to process images. Soon I had music on and was singing.
How do you approach work in progress when sad and blue?
The first time I did a photo shoot of this abandoned building was with a DXG.1 megapixel camera purchased for under $100.00. That camera was an upgrade from using a Fuji disposable camera and I thought I had it made. But the photos always had a bit of blur, especially if I was taking shots with a migraine. This abandoned building is just down a two-track driveway from our camp in National Mine. The whole house has fallen and lays on a slant. I love the mossy wood. The rusty metal. The sparse furnishings. I will be sharing more of these shots in the month of October. Why?
I think part of October is preparing us for the forgotten. That's what is eery, spooky, we know the long months of winter are to arrive and remind us of all we have put on the back burner or not faced. Like a long car ride home without the radio on, the brain begins to surface these details. October starts to slow us down. We look to the colors of leaves, we look to our living spaces, we stockpile supplies for winter like little squirrels. But we also remember a few distractions, order in books, buy new sketch pads and paints. Think how do I keep from going crazy.
Who went crazy in this dwelling? You want to ask that, don't you? I do.
This shot was a favorite from our August trip to Copper Harbor. But like many great shots it was taken in bad light at the end of a long day. I wanted more light but I wanted this image, too. I once had a young man say to me if you use Photoshop you are not a good photographer. A good photographer, he said, waits for the shot. I am not a photographer that puts my life on hold. I am not a tripod carrying photographer. I do not have an assistant to carry my bags. I am a trail seeker, hiker, who takes photos. There may come a time when I research a shot and plan, and bring that tripod–but for now I take shots on the fly. Here are before and after shots. Let me know what you think of the corrections. (curved, brightness/contrast, hue, and midtone and shadow color tweeks).


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Thursday 10/25 A.M. Quickie:
RoxSux, Beckett, BC@VT, FreeDarko, More!
Today's Names to Know: Kobe(!), Josh Beckett, Ryan Speier, Curt Schilling, Ubaldo Jimenez, Boston College, Virginia Tech, Antoine Walker, Steven Jackson, David Garrard, San Diego, Free Darko and More!
Hot Rumor! Is Kobe about to be shipped to the Pistons?! Tracking... (But it makes this Basketball Jones post make a lot more sense...)
World Series Game 1: Red Sox blitz Rockies 13-1. Was it the 8-day layoff? The cross-country trip? The World Series stage? Going against the greatest post-season pitcher of our generation? Boston's own Rockies-esque momentum?
Whatever it was, the Rockies lost in a way they haven't since their miracle run began 23 games ago, of which they have now won only 21 of 23. It was the Rockies' first loss in these playoffs.
The story of the day will be: Was it the layoff? Not to take anything away from the Red Sox – either the dominant Beckett or the big (and patient) Boston bats. But the Rockies looked off... way off:
The normally clutch bats were silent. (Beckett K'ed the Rox' first 4 hitters of the game). The normally lock-down pitching was atrocious. (In the game's signature moment, Rox RP Ryan Speier delivered 3 straight bases-loaded walks, even after the game was well out of reach.)
I think it's fair to say that the 8-day layoff contributed heavily to taking the Rockies' glorious momentum and beating it upside the head wit a bat. Having witnessed first-hand the Rockies' last game before this and this one, on TV, they looked like two different teams.
Maybe it was not surprising that the Rockies would lose this Game 1 beyond the layoff, given Beckett (legend grows), given the first game being in Boston, given it was Colorado's first World Series game ever – even given the Law of Averages.
The true test will be: What happens tonight? The assumption (at least by me) always was that Sox would win the games Beckett started. If the Sox win Game 2, these Rox might be in trouble; if the Rockies win, reigniting the team's spark heading back to Colorado for three straight games, it's a whole new Series.
Superlative Watch: Most. Runs by a team in a World Series Game 1. Ever.
Fascinating counter-stat: Three teams in World Series history have won Game 1 by 10 runs; all three lost the Series. (Hat-tip to Tom Boswell, the best newspaper baseball columnist in the country.)
World Series Game 2 Preview: Legendary Curt Schilling versus rookie Ubaldo Jimenez. On paper, it certainly points to another Boston win. After that 21-of-22 streak entering the World Series, it seems crazy to think that the Rockies could lose two games, let alone two straight.
CFB: Boston College at Virginia Tech. ESPN's Thursday Night Football is turning into the weekly Must-See game of the week. Last week: Unbeaten BCS No. 2 South Florida went to Rutgers and lost (called it!).
This week: Unbeaten BCS No. 2 BC goes to Virginia Tech -- and will lose. VA Tech plays too well at home, they will be looking to ruin BC's season on a national stage, and a win will potentially catapult themselves into the Top 5 of the BCS rankings.
Hell, VT's only loss is at LSU: Of every one-loss team, theirs is the least offensive. (OK, I'm kind of in the bag for VT, because I picked them in the preseason as my national champ.)
A win by BC at VT affirms their worthiness in the Top 2 (putting them ahead of Ohio State) and clears the path for an unbeaten run right into the BCS title game.
Top 25 Rankings: I remain totally unsatisfied with the way my ballot this week played out on Sunday night. I decided to keep it, even though after reconsideration (and lots of really good emails from readers), I wanted to change my mind before Tuesday's BlogPoll deadline.
I stuck with it, and continue to feel like a fraud (or, I should say, more like a fraud than usual). EDSBS' brilliant ballot (and the fact that 25 other BlogPoll voters had LSU at No. 1) made me feel even worse.
I'm vowing a huge shake-up on Monday, with or without rational explanation. I'm chalking this week's lame-ass (even hypocritical) ballot decisions to the toll of the wackiest season of results in college football history. Here's Brian Cook's Fanhouse post on this week's BlogPoll.
There's a split between the Ohio State group and the LSU group. Despite my general confusion, I stand by one thing: If LSU played Ohio State on a neutral field -- tomorrow or in early January, it doesn't matter -- the Tigers would crush the Buckeyes as soundly as Florida did a year ago.
NBA Trade: Zzz. Minnesota's Mark Blount and Ricky Davis to Miami for Antoine Walker and throw-ins. I really really hope that Walker doesn't retard the development of Minnesota's young talent. He'll take much-needed shots from Foye and Brewer (though no more than Davis, I guess), although I suppose he clangs enough that he'll be good for a few more rebounds for Baby Al Jefferson.
NBA Preview Schedule:
Friday: Storylines (Quickie: Kobe)
Monday: Awards (Quickie: KG)
Tuesday: Playoff Picks (Quickie: SA d. BOS)
NFL: Steven Jackson could play this weekend. Isn't it a statement about the sorry status of the Rams that they could be getting their star player back against the Browns for a home game and most people still see them losing?
Where will the Chargers play on Sunday? The answer is coming today. Could be San Diego. Could be Dallas. Is there a Wild Card location?
NFL vs. Retirees: League adds $10 million to the retirement fun, and the money will go to joint replacement, cardio screening and assisted living.
David Garrard out 4 weeks: Too bad the Jags dumped Byron Leftwich. He'd come in handy right about now, wouldn't he? (Of course, Leftwich just had ankle surgery and will be out 3-4 weeks himself.)
Yankees Manager Watch: Could a new manager be named this week? And will it be Don Mattingly, as I suspect it will be?
Sports Blog Navel-Gazing: Huge congrats to the fellas over at Free Darko, who just announced they have landed a book deal, for a book to come out next fall before the 2008-2009 NBA season. Can't wait for that.
Posted by Dan Shanoff at 10/25/2007 06:46:00 AM
David Kippe said...
The Legend of Josh Beckett continues to grow.
john (east lansing, mi) said...
So many crazy declarations about who would beat OSU.
As surely as the Rockies wouldn't have lost by 12 if they had started playing Boston 7 days ago, OSU would not have lost to Florida in mid-November. Unfortunately for over-rested CFB teams, there's only two halves in a bowl game, rather than a minimum of 4 games.
And LSU does not deserve #1 picks with 1 loss. I picked them losing to Auburn, and they were damn close, at home. Florida would have beaten them, if the spotting had been done a little better after one of Les's craaazy 4th-down gambles. Next good team they play, they'll lose.
And then I'll be excited to see the next SEC leader get dozens of #1 votes. Get over it.
couple little things that don't have headlines on the WWL homepage. Tayshaun Prince tweaked his ankle, number 1 pick and first guard off the bench Rodney Stuckey broke his non-shooting hand, Rip Hamilton hasn't played much of the preseason because of a bad ankle, and secret weapon Amir Johnson had not played in the preseason at all until last nights final game. Keep an eye on this, the one thing over the last 7 years has been the Pistons strength has been the ability to avoid injuries. Keep an eye on this.
And Dan and everyone else who is on the Cetics bandwagon. The Celts may win their divsion at best, but I doubt that because Ray Allen should be hurt by game 20.
pv845 said...
I think the weather had the biggest effect on the Rockies. The pitchers couldn't place anything. It looked like me out there trying to even make it to home plate.
Take off the SEC blinders and step away from the poll.
Can the Yankees seriously be considering Tony Pena as their new coach? The man was horrible in KC. He left amid a scandal about and affair. Yes this is the guy that the Yankees need for stability.
Georgia over UF. Upset alert!
Dan, You always need to add the link to the overall BlogPoll review. It's a good read, I always forget to bookmark it. lol
Game 1 was a gimme for the Sox. The issue will be if the Rockies get wrapped up in the fact they lost by 12 runs. If they believe in the "1 run or 12, whatever. next game" mentality, they'll be fine.
Otherwise...Boston in 5.
CMFost said...
I think the weather had the biggest effect on the Rockies
Not a good excuse since both teams had to play in that weather and it do not effect the Red Sox and didn't the rockies play a game in worse weather in the NLCS
Can't one go one day without a Boston fan saying "nuh uh! we're just better! nyah nyah nyah!"
Anyway, it was Beckett/layoff that did that game in.
Why is everyone making excuses for the Rockies? Maybe it is as simple as the Red Sox are the better team.
tony pena is the minority interview that the Yanks had to process. nothing more than a compliance candidate. he is not seriously being considered.
The weather was not the factor, the layoff probably was and oh maybe the fact that they were facing the greatest post season pitcher since Jack Morris.
thank you cmfost. the rockies didn't lose it. the red sox won it. they're clearly the better team and should dominate the rest of the series. Sox in 5
Gary said...
First let me say I am a big Red Sox fan.
How soon we forget that Boston killed Cleveland in game one, then went on to lose the next three. I don't know if this will happen again, I certainly hope it doesn't, but a game one blow out does not a series make
Natsfan74 said...
One thing OSU has done differently than LSU this year is win every game. And, OSU hasn't even been close to losing a game -- and definitely didn't need 2 fourth quarter comebacks in 3 weeks (with a loss sandwiched in between).
Unfortunately, OSU hasn't beaten anyone really good this year. The game at Washington looked like a good match-up, but UW has stunk since then (even though they beat your beloved Boise State the week before Ohio State came to town). The win at Purdue was awesome -- they kept Purdue off the scoreboard for over 59 minutes (on the same night where USC and UF picked up their first losses). They kept the #1 offense in the Big 10 (MSU) out of the end zone. Without the two defensive touchdowns, Ohio State wins that game with a shut-out and people are talking about how impressive they looked.
Finally -- this OSU team is not last year's team. And the BCS Championship game was an aberration. If Ted Ginn doesn't get hurt on the kickoff celebration, it's a different game. If they played that game 10 times, on neutral field, OSU would win at least 5, probably 6 or 7. That Buckeye team was a great team having an off night. This Buckeye team is a good team that hasn't had any off nights yet. But, winning at night, at PSU, in a whiteout is a totally different story. I'll withhold real judgment until Sunday. But if OSU wins, they deserve to be #1. If they win convincingly, they deserve to be a unanimous #1!!
one thing is for certain in college football this season, and that is this, nothing is for certain.
RevScottDeMangeMD said...
THANK YOU NATSFAN!!!
I have been emailing Dan back and forth for the past few days stating that he is basing way too much on LAST YEAR'S Ohio State team. It's not fair. And you are right, if they played 10 times, OSU would win at least 6 times. That was the WORST I have ever seen Ohio State play in my 25 years of being awesome...err...alive.
Actually, no. Boston has better individual players. Better team? No team has been as good as the Rockies the last month or more.
Boston bats are hot right now. Will it last? Dunno, they certainly went quiet for 3 games when it counted. Luckily, the Cleveland bats disappeared to even it out.
Though throwing a rookie out to pitch game 2 for the Rockies? Ouch. They better get to Schilling often.
@ CMFost: I wasn't making excuses for the Rockies. They got beat, badly. Yes, the Red Sox played in the same weather, but it did not seem to affect them. I was merely saying that it looked like the weather was causing problems for the Rockies.
Typical Boston A-hole response. We are the best, anything that doesn't acknowledge that is a lie and can't be true.
The Mark Show said...
First, I'm an Indians fan so I'm as bitter about the Sox as anyone else.
Second,the Rockies played in FAR worse weather in the NLCS and did just fine. It had nothing to do with the weather. It may have been the layoff, Beckett, first-time jitters, or whatever but it wasn't the freaking weather. Good lord, get over your anti-Sox horseshit for two seconds and think rationally.
Did Dan seriously pick Boston as his representative from the NBA's Eastern Conference?
He... he knows Doc Rivers is still their coach, right?
Matt T said...
PV845-
I hope you are right about UGA over UF. Willie Martinez did a good job scheming for UF's offense last year, but UGA's linebackers this year are not what they usually are. I'm headed towards Jax this evening.
How about the Hawks finishing with the best NBA preseason record? I know it doesn't mean much, but still 7-1 and all that young talent, they should make the playoffs.
DP said...
completely agree with the Tech assessment Dan,(even if it is a homer pick since my sister went there and my future sister in law is going there, and I am from VA). Also, Ohio State almost got beat by Michigan State. They are so soft we should call them the ben and jerry's marshmallow buckeye swirl.
As for the Rockies, i had picked them to win in Six and I am sticking with my pick. One bad game does not make a series as we witness in Boston's last series. But seriously, how exciting would it have been to see the Rockies sweep every series? I am not against Boston and the underdog gene has kicked in for the Rockies but I seriously hope this thing ends with a game 7 and in extra inning. The last exciting WS was when Josh Beckett manhandled the Yankm-mes in game six a couple years back. I want to see a true post-season not a coronation.
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PV - I did not say the Red Sox are the best what I did say was
"Maybe it is as simple as the Red Sox are the better team."
Which to me is not being an a-hole it stating a fact about last night game.
Oh Yeah and here is a stat that Rockies fans are going to hate, The Winner of Game #1 in every series in the 2007 Playoffs has gone on to win the Series.
I knew this would happen...
Look, I'm no Sox fan, but they are the best team in baseball. The Indians, Yanks, Angels, Tigers are behind them to close out the top 5. The NL is not good. Watch both leagues and you'd know that.
The weather was actually in the Rockies favor. They played in a similar game in the NLCS and won. The layoff? Yes, it has an effect. Not 12 runs of an effect though.
I said it yesterday and I'll say it again:
THE RED SOX ARE THE BETTER TEAM
No exuses will change that. My quote from yesterday was...
"The difference in conotations of "pitching" and "hitting" between the AL and NL are about to be exposed on a very big stage."
Wow, was I right or what?
What you meant was it couldn't be the weather that helped Boston win, it had to be Boston. I admit that I could have been more clear, but what I meant was that to me the weather appeared to bother the Rockies. I don't care if they have played in a hurrican and won. Last night they looked out of sorts in the rain.
jhawkjjm said...
Congrats to the baseball hall of fame fixing a major error of last year and giving Buck O'Neil an honor he deserves. Unfortunately he's no longer around to enjoy it.
Geoff said...
I really have doubts that LSU would destroy OSU on a neutral field. Apart from making some extremely gutsy calls in tough situations, LSU hasn't been overly impressive this year. None of the SEC teams have been. Again, if those games were Big Ten or Big 12 games everyone would just talk about how weak the conferences are.
PV - I think what really threw the Rockies off and it was the point the game was over was the 1st inning, when Beckett struck out the side and then Francis goes out and gives up 3 runs and it took a good defensive play to keep it from being more.
if the weather was the reason the Sox won, then the flies were there reason the Indians beat the Yanks is Game 2 of the ALDS. The Rockies were just flat.
Remember that the Yanks had a long layoff in 96 and got embarrassed in the Stadium by the Braves. It is tough to get back to the way you were playing with such a long spell between games. Oh and again, Josh Beckett is tough to beat too.
As a Yankee fan who really doesn't care at this point who wins the World Series, I tuned in as a neutral observer baseball fan.
Plain and simple, Red Sox are a better team. Rockies are a good team, but they never would have made the playoffs or a 21/22 run in the AL.
Too much is said about the layoff. Becket has shut everyone down this postseason and the toughest pitcher the Rockies have faced. Since the Red Sox have never seen this guy pitch before, expect him to get through the lineup once until the Red Sox open up on him in later innings. That being said, Schilling is not the workhorse of a few years ago. It will be interesting to see how deep he goes and how many pitches Francona lets him throw.
Let me edit your last sentence for you...
"Last night they looked out of sorts."
There you go, no need to state that it was raining since it had nothing to do with how they played.
CMFost - I agree that after giving that type of lead up after getting dominated that the game was over.
Beetle said...
Sparty, you keep proclaiming that Ray Allen will be hurt by game #20.
In his career, Ray has never played less than 50 games a season, and has played in 76 or more games in 7 of his 11 pro seasons.
That is not exactly a track record of a fragile player.
My hope for this college season is that there is an amorphous group of 1 and 2 loss teams with the vote split among all the teams with the computer poll picking the 8th human ranked team. Thus making a shambles of the whole BCS 1-2 game and giving a little more momentum to an 8 team playoff.
Rafeal said;
"Can't one go one day without a Boston fan saying "nuh uh! we're just better! nyah nyah nyah!"
Ummmm....no one here has said any such thing or maybe any condescending comments whatsoever.
Quit looking for something that just isn't there.
and he has missed almost 60 games in 2 of the last 4 season. thats not good. he is going to get hurt. and Doc Rivers is the coach, 40 mins a game for each of these guys? not a chance to not get hurt.
You are absolutely correct.
All the Sox did was win one game. If the Rox win tonight, they take all the momentum back to a sure to be crazed Coors field.
college playoff will never ever happen.
I was a big Mattingly fan when he was a player and still love the guy. However here is what I don't understand. The Yankee managerial job is the pinnacle of all managerial or coaching jobs almost anywhere in North American sports. It is not an entry level job. Why fill it with a person with zero managerial experience. Mattingly may do fine if he gets the job or he may have no idea what he is doing. We have no way of knowing.
Girardi at least was manager of the year. Well that is at least an eye catching line to put on your resume.
I think there is another factor there. Behind the scenes, Jeter, Posada, Rivera and maybe even A-Rod have expressed a preference - maybe even a strong preference stating that if they don't like the next Yankee manager, they may be inclined to sign elsewhere. If that is the case then Mattingly will get the job.
Tunsney said...
Damn! I was really looking forward to reading what CMFOST and LUKE had to say about the NE/MIA game. This is their blog right? bleh...
I think I've figured out the Red Sox winning formula. Extend out the ALCS by going down big, let the NLCS finish up and make the winner wait, then at the last moment, flip the switch, win the ALCS and cruise into the WS with momentum while the NL team is rusty.
I hate to say it but the Sox are just better.
Sad with whats happening down in SoCal. Thoughts go out to all the familys losing their homes (not just the celbrities). On an aside, why wouldn't SD just move the game up the coast to say, The LA Memorial Colosseum? Is USC the only team that plays their now?
Ferocious Bluebird: hey sorry to burt your bubble but MSU did not almost beat OSU. they scored 3 points on offense all game. they got 2 flunk turnovers for TD's in 4 plays. regardless of that quick 14 points the game still was never in doubt because MSU offense did absolutely nothing against MSU's big10 leading offense(at the time) check the stats.
and how is OSU soft, not only have they won every game, they haven't been close. they will win @PSU. behind another masterful defensive performance...think 2002
Say Eddie,
Sure the Celtics are flawed with Doc as their coach, but who else is there in the East??
The Heat? Shaq's too old.
Pistons, on the downside of a nice run. The Cavs? A one man team has never won anything in the NBA.
I think maybe the Bulls have the best shot. After that, why not the C's?
Sparty,
Ray Ray will be just fine.
Plus, the Celtics bench is a lot deeper than people realize.
The X factor will be Tony Allen.
He was lights out before blowing out his knee last season.
This year he is already back playing, way ahead of his rehab schedule.
If he can regain his explosiveness, then the C's will have a 4th truly dangerous weapon.
marcomarco said...
Maybe I was drunk, but did I hear Joe Buck say that Troulowiski is such a big Jeter fan that he took his number (2) and was wearing his cologne "Driven"?
Then, the mighty Buck said that the MENS cologne was a "stimulating fragrance"?
Slurp.
"My hope for this college season is that there is an amorphous group of 1 and 2 loss teams with the vote split among all the teams with the computer poll picking the 8th human ranked team. Thus making a shambles of the whole BCS 1-2 game and giving a little more momentum to an 8 team playoff."
I wish college would just go back to the old bowl system. It was more enjoyable back then. Even an 8 team playoff won't work, especially in a season like this where there are no dominant teams and about a million possible #8 teams.
the bench is deeper? the don't even have a true 5th starter.
here's a question. why didn't Tito pull Beckett after the 5th? the game was pretty much over and if he's rested enough he could start game 4. i'd rather take beckett with 3 days rest than lester.
Jan 1st is meaningless. The old system was much more fun.
Mike, you must be a Pinella fan too?
I think the Sox won last night because A. Beckett is amazing and B. Rockies were hurt by their long layoff. However, Shilling is no guaranteed W and the Sox might have trouble in Denver because they can't use a DH. However, I do think that they are a better team (and that the AL is better than the NL) and they will prevail.
As for the NBA, Celtics look the best on paper and may well be the best, if no one gets injured. KG will freaking eat up the East. The Bulls are the other major contender. Detroit and Miami are on their way down, whereas the Bulls have the potential to be ever better than they were last season. I like LeBron as a player but don't see him taking the Cavs too far this season.
verbal97 said...
Dan (and others), how do you like your crow cooked...BC will win tonight 24-17.
Boomhauertjs said...
Quote: The Cavs? A one man team has never won anything in the NBA.
Un, the Eastern Conference Championship is nothing?
Game 1 showed that the National League sucks. The Rockies would've been a .500 team at best in the AL.
Verbal I do not even think it will be that close, people are completely underestimating the BC Defense.
VT 10
One thing people haven't mentioned about the Rockies is that it's entirely possible that their offense just isn't that good. I know Eric Byrnes talked about it lastnight but the Rockies hit like .280 during the regular season, .260 in the NLDS, and .220 in the NLCS. That's a pretty bad trend.
If you look at the runs they scored during the playoffs it was all basically in bunches. In the NLDS they scored 16 runs in 3 games, with 10 coming in game 2 where they score 4 in the 4th, and 4 in the 6th.
In the NLDS they scored 18 runs in 4 games with 5 coming in game one (3 in the 3rd), and 6 coming in game 4 (all 6 came in the fourth).
It's very possible that the Rockies offense is capable of having a big inning but unlike the Red Sox they're not capable of making a pitcher work continuously throughout a game and beating up a team in a relentless fashion that the Sox showed last night.
I think people are giving too much credit to the layoff because if you watched the game you'd notice Josh Beckett basically threw fastball the entire game. I've heard former players on the radio and on ESPN talk about how coming off the layoff you're always going to struggle with the off speed pitches, but the timing for the fastball is still going to be there. It wasn't the layoff that hurt the Rockies last night it might very well have been the fact that they haven't been a very good team in the playoffs but they're beating teams who are worse.
Here is a big stat from last night of the Red Sox 13 Runs, 10 Scored with 2 outs
cmfost, I made it that close because it's a thursday night game in Blacksburg. But you're right, a) Va Tech can't pass and b) nobody has been able to run on BC this year, even that Heisman hopeful whats-his-name from Ga Tech.
why are the Pistons on their way down? they are not old, they have younger guys ready to play major minutes, I don't get why everyone is down on them. I like it, they are being completely disrespected again, just the way they like it.
matt~ I was at that OSU/PSU defensive game in '02! It was awesome. I was at Penn State in '03 when Nugent kicked a field goal to win it also. They are always great games between these two schools.
I'm supposed to be going to Happy Valley this weekend, but the weather isn't cooperating.
Beckett was dominant and the Rockies were rusty; that's why the Red Sox killed them last night and that's why I went to sleep in the second inning.
Ummm...nope, not really.
The Cavs were the East's representative by default, as they were simply the best of a bad group of teams.
People talk about the weakness of the NFC and the National League, but the NBA Eastern Conference is by far the weakest conference in all of the major sports.
The C's will be trying to change that this year.
I can't say I know that it will work out that way, but they look pretty damn good on paper.
Here's a stat, Boston fans are losers.
the Eastern Conference in basketball is the weakest? are you kidding me? They have won 2 of the last 4 championships. The NFC is terrible! they have been outclassed in the regular season (as shown by the whooping the Pats put on Dallas) and also been getting their asses handed to them in the Super Bowl year after year.
Think about it, how many NBA teams actually have 5 true starters playing?
Almost none.
Hell, the Cavs went to the finals with only two true starters.
Beisdes, Kederic Perkins will be just fine. He'll grab a bunch of boards, score a little bit. Block about 2 per game, and deliver 5 HARD fouls per game. When you have the starting first three that the C's have, that is all you need.
Hell, that's all Cartwright ever did for the Bulls, and that seemed to work out okay.
Boys, bad news.
Eileen is making more sense than the rest of you.
the Pistons don't? you are trying to tell me that none of those guys wouldn't start on other teams?
"Younger guys ready to play big minutes" is not good enough to make up for all the mileage on Rips' Billups, et all odometers.
The Celtics had younger guys ready to play big minutes for the past 10 years, and it never got them anywhere.
Here's another stat.
You're a whiny little bitch.
I can't believe that we are discussing the Eastern Conference and haven't touched on the team who was in first place near the end of last year before injuries took them down.
Does anyone even remember who that is?
And btw...
DAILY QUICKIE FANTASY BASKETBALL LEAGUE DRAFT IS AT 9 PM TONIGHT
Don't get me wrong, I really respect the Pistons and they have great players, and yes they are one of the few teams with 5 true starters. I still cringe when I think about how that tea-bagger Pitino gave up on Billups after about 40 games.
However, I just don't think they have enough left in the tank.
Of course, I could be wrong.
It's not like I am claiming to be Peter May or anything.
don't even tell me that you are bringing up the Wiz. I love Arenas, but please, no defense.
I just think people need to RELAX about the Celts. First they need time to gel, they need to somehow overcome the ineptitude of the basketball version of Norv Turner in Doc Rivers, then they need to stay healthy, especially with no depth.
I am guessing you are referring to the Wiz?
They are a wildcard, I honestly don't know what to expect from them.
However, they can't play D.
In the end, that will kill them.
The Wiz have actually been working on the D this year and shouldbe significantly improved from last season.
Stevenson, Arenas, Butler, Jamison, Haywood is a pretty good starting lineup. I can also say that Andray Blatche is about to break out and become the starting center at some point this year.
The Only thing that worries me about the Celtics is what everyone is saying DOC RIVERS.
and playing the role of luke today is JONATHAN..
i think that if things are around .500 around the 30 game mark, Ainge may take over the team.
Ainge may take over the team.
Like that would be an improvement???
What is semi-disturbing about the East is that you pretty much know which teas will make the playoffs. Boston, Jersey, and DC have their "big 3"s, Chicago and Detroit have firm bases, Cleveland has LeBron, Miami has D-Wade and Shaq, and the Raptors young team will make it led by Bosh.
Does anyone really thing Indiana, Atlanta, Milwaukee, Philly, New York, or Charlotte can make it?
The only team that's confusing is the Magic and even if they are good whose playoff spot to they take?
CMFost
I don't think that's fair to Luke. At least he had an opinion about the game instead of just throwing out "Boston sucks" comments.
no, didn't say it would improve the team, I just expect it.
And I do think that there is an outside crazy chance that the Knicks could sneak in.
True mark, Luke did bring a little more to the table yesterday.
ToddTheJackass said...
Dan, wasn't your basis for rankings at the beginning of the year based on where you thought teams would end up? So how then does the neutral field thing matter?
Also, while it's totally legit to predict that V-Tech will beat BC (although BC crushed them last year), have you even watched BC this year? Even once? Please give them a little credit instead of just bashing them all the time.
I am not a Danny Ainge fan, but he was not an awful coach when he was with the Suns. In fact he was pretty good. His record with the Suns was..136-90. Which is much better than his record as a GM, which he IS awful at.
Trey (formerly TF) said...
Lookout for the Magic. DwightHoward is set to EXPLODE.
The National League is the worst of all. That teams like the Diamondbacks this year and Padres last year could make the playoffs is all you need to say about the NL.
wolverine425 said...
where is there some solid proof of the Pistons going after KOBE??? please please show me if anyone has any idea...
The East is going to be a total crap shoot this year. Miami got better by getting rid of Antoine Walker, Detroit is still going to be solid, the Celtics will be improved but they still have an awful coach and will rely too heavily on 3 players, the Cavs have gotten worse. Just going to be a weird year. I guess the Wizards could make some noise in the East but you don't win titles with guys like Gilbert Arenas.
One stat stood out in my mind last night.
In one game, the Sox outscored the D-bags in 4 games. 13-8
Jibblescribbits said...
If LSU played Ohio State on a neutral field -- tomorrow or in early January, it doesn't matter -- the Tigers would crush the Buckeyes as soundly as Florida did a year ago.
That's what everyone said about OSU and Florida last season, remember.
One thing that gets me, is how much importance people put on individual games. Remember that a really good winning percentage in any sport is .667 (okay any sport with level playing field. College athletics are skewed because of the wide range of talent levels).
LSU could just as easily have lost 3 games, or lost 0. It's why polls are about the worst way to determine who the best team is.
So yes OSU got beat, badly, last year in the title game, but that isn't completely indicative of how good a team they were last season. It's factored in, but you can't judge their season on one game. And the Rox got beat badly, last night, but that isn't necessarily indicative of how tonight is going to go.
TF,
Dwight Howard is a force to be reckoned with for sure, be he has yet to develop a strong offensive game aside from O-rebounding, put backs, and strong finishing skills.
He cannot create his own shot at all.
Write this down....Al Jefferson will be the big breakout man this year.
That man has low post moves that I haven't seen since some guy named McHale terrorized the paint in the 80.
Here is a stat of interest going into the BC-VT game.
VT is 13-2 when playing on Thursday Night, there only loses came against BC
Nobody has said anything about Kobe going to the Pistons...
Beetle, its just that boston fans (like yourself) just come on here to espouse the greatness of their teams, real or fake.
Pats and Sox? Certainly. Crow.
But the Celtics? They've done nothing. And it isn't proven that they WILL do anything. KG was a big winner in Minnesota though..and oh..wait..
Gotta wait and see on the Celtics.
The Pistons, Cavs, and Wizards are the teams to watch going into the season.
Luke Bell said...
Not to beat the dead horse yet again, but here is a little something from the Miami Herald:
"Some Dolphins players were unhappy about the Patriots throwing with a big lead Sunday. ''Everyone was disappointed with the lack of respect,'' Chris Liwienski said. ``It's a kick in the teeth and lacked some class. Enough is enough.''"
PatriotsNation said...
Interesting for any NHL fans:
PITTSBURGH — John Ferguson has made a bold move with an eye to capturing the next big thing in hockey — he offered up-and-coming superstar John Tavares a contract to play for the Toronto Maple Leafs' farm team.
Tavares, the teenage phenom currently playing for the Oshawa Generals of the Ontario Hockey League, is not eligible for the NHL entry draft until 2009 because his birthday, Sept. 20, 1990, falls five days after the age deadline for the 2008 draft. The NHL collective agreement states that only players who are 18 years old by Sept. 15 of each year are eligible for that year's entry draft.
But there is nothing that would prevent Tavares from playing for the Toronto Marlies in the American Hockey League, which operates as the farm system for the NHL.
An NHL source said Ferguson, the Maple Leafs general manager, recently contacted Tavares' agents, Brian McDonald and Bryan Deasley, and offered the young forward a contract for a minimum of three years. The source said Ferguson has not received a response yet.
You take Chris Liwienski's (who the f is he?) opinion if you want. I'll take Jason Taylor's , the team's captain.
MARK: it was the first thing that Dan said in his quickie today...u read it?
Oh, that was updated after the original morning post. I just leave the comments page open after I read the original post...my bad.
@Wolverine425
The only thing isaw was Rob Parker from the Detroit News spewing something, but he's an idiot.
Rockies Counseling
They do so without any equipment being given to them—no hankies, no rally sticks, no Rockies rocks, nothing. Their primary goal is to root for their team, while unleashing almost unimaginable psychological torment on opposing players.
This guy cracks me up.
To Rafael,
Oohohohhoho sorry I offended you for making an argument for my home town team. I'll be sure to try and not do THAT again....baby.
Bottom line, the Wiz are a bunch of chuckers, The Cavs are all about 1 man, and The Pistons are a great team, but may be on the decline.
WRITE IT DOWN...the C's will finish with a better record than 2 out of those 3 teams.
How many other teams can say they have three no-doubt future HOFers, in their respective primes, on their roster?? Not many.
To Luke Bell, who the hell is Chris Lewienski? Why don't you tell us what the REAL Dolphins (Zack Thomas, Jayson Taylor) had to say??
Cavs may be about 1 man, but that one man took them to the Finals.
Yes Sparty, you are correct, and that is because LeBron is a bad bad man playing in a weak division.
Now the C's have there own bad man, along with 2 of the best offensive basketball players of this era on his wings.
We'll see how it plays out.
Like I said before (RAFAEL!!)
I am not purporting to be Peter May here, I am just excited about the Celtics chances for the 1st time in more than a decade.
Sparty, question for you.
Aren't you a Yankees fan? So how are you a Pistons fan as well??
i should put this in the other post about Fandom, but grew up in NJ for 8 years, my father lifelong Yanks and Giants fans. moved to Michigan and lived there through college became fans of the Wings (really Yzerman) and Pistons, it was the bad boys days and aligned with the Spartans and went to school there. made it back to Jersey but hate the Knicks, and Nets. Don't even get me started on my hatred of the Devils.
San Diego's Jake Peavy and Cleveland's C.C. Sabathia are the best pitchers of 2007, according to their peers. The announcement of the 2007 Players Choice Award winners for Outstanding Pitcher in the National League and American League was made today on Yahoo! Sports.
Major League baseball players in each league cast votes for the "best of the best," and the 2007 Players Choice Award winners for Outstanding Player are Milwaukee Brewers first baseman Prince Fielder in the National League and New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez in the American League. The announcement was made today on Yahoo! Sports
In a freshman class full of impressive young talent, Milwaukee Brewers third baseman Ryan Braun and Boston Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia were voted tops in the Class of '07 by their peers.
Friday, October 26 – AL & NL Comeback Players
Saturday, October 27 – Player of the Year/Marvin Miller Man of the Year
will be annouced
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wow, tony's alive. and he's the villain, thats crazy shitness. thanks patriotsnation.
Just saying...It it isn't all smiles and sunshine with the Dolphins. Yesterday I was ripped for not addressing Jason Taylor's comments, and today I am ripped for doing it.
Also, something else I read on a different blog: Remember a few years ago, when Manning and the Colts were blowing teams out and had a shot at going undefeated, while the Patriots won close games with solid defense and superior coaching? Back then, Pats fans were complaining about no respect for their team that played the "right way." Now the roles are reversed, and we are supposed to respect the way the Pats are blowing teams out.
Just thought that was interesting. I am sure there is a "logical" reason for that too.
Luke, the logical reason is that this year it's the Patriots, so they make up the rational that scoring margin is a tiebreaker, even though it's never been fucking used as a tiebreaker in the history of the NFL because it's so far down the list. But back then it was the Colts so it was different. Boston fans are douches, as soon as you accept that it all makes sense.
I've never been happier to be a douche.
Go Sox.
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Bigger Construction Yards. When watching the video of the Mammoth Mark II destroying the poor Nod base the construction yard was a massive building, But in this mod the GDI barracks almost equals it.
The size of the Conyard really has more to do with the gameplay than looking cool. A larger building means it's harder to deploy, and with C&C3's finicky build system, "harder to deploy" means "unnecessarily frustrating." Also, the larger we make the Conyard, the larger the MCV must be. We already have it scaled to that the MCV just barely fits in the War Factory--any bigger and the Factory would have to be made ridiculously huge.
If we talk about the skirmish menu, what plans do you have concerning the upper right cinematic screen? Will you use a few battle FMV's or something different? Maybe a cool slideshow that TS has in the install setup menu, seeing "Hero or Madman?" etc?
P.S Are you going to add tiberium veins with tibeium veinhole monsters?
I would like to see an expanded build area for our bases. Assuming we will be able to build walls it was always sad to see hardly any space to make any real use of them. I think the Talon Mod did something like expanding the build area so you could make better use of walls.


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I really have enjoyed finding other bloggers here, reading their posts, getting to know them, following them in a completely non-stalker way. Mostly.
I'm having some trouble right now. There is a blogger who was kind enough to follow me, and after checking out his blog I also followed him. He had a sense of humor and I enjoyed his most recent post.
That, I think, was his only post in English. So now, I get all these posts of his to see…. with photos that really captivate my attention… and titles that promise to have me laughing along with the story….. but I can't understand any of it. And why are the titles in English, raising my expectations each time I see a new blog posted…. that THIS time I will be able to read it…. only to be disappointed.
Tempted to use Google translator, one paragraph at a time. Or learn Italian. Not sure it's Italian though.
But… I still "like" his posts. Because I just KNOW I would really like them, if I could just read them. Not his fault that I'm a cave man with only one language in my repertoire.
Hey…. if you ever read this… you know who you are. I really. REALLY want to know what you are saying.
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oh…tell me when you know!
Apparently something to do with lots of people singing together as opposed to a soloist…I'll need a fee to carry on translating!
oh, now I'm really intrigued….
I know my grammar is bad but I thought everyone could at least recognize my writing as being in English. . . .


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