Barely over a week after he throws the Reds first complete game of the season, he's in the bullpen and now in the minors? Am I missing something?
Reds activate White and option Reitsma to minors. Sports Network Jul 31 2002 4:32PM ET [Moreover - Sports: baseball news]
Finding cool litle tidbits and articles on using DWmx...
Multiple Repeat Regions on the Same Page at Dreamweaver FAQ.com
More "metfans site shutdown" blogs:
SportsFilter | Comments on 659: "MLBP orders a Mets fansite to shut down for copyright violation and cybersquatting. Next all fans will be sued for copyright violation for wearing team shirts and hats. It is getting easier and easier to turn my back on Major League baseball. posted by srboisvert to Baseball at 11:00 AM CST (3 comments total)"
Another point of Cluelessness MLB, bouncing off the closing remark from this blog:
The Trademark Blog: "Finally, as a practice pointer for folk with clients in the sports and entertainment field, you have to be really careful how you deal with fans, because you never want to see your demand letters posted on a website. It would seem that getting the fan sites into a web ring would circumvent a lot of this agita."
That would seem quite logical to people who know something about the Web audience. MLB has been at it for at least a year now, which for me began with their taking away the rights of radio stations to do Internet broadcasts of their teams games. I am a huge Reds fan, who moved out of town 5 years ago. In 1999, when the Reds were last in the race, I was able to tune into broadcasts with my net connection. Suddenly, there was this page coming up saying I had to subscroibe to Real Networks or MLB plus (or some such program) for 19.95. NO way! With all the bad PR going on, some of this shit needs rolling back and restored, to make some small gesture of goodwill toward the fans (which will be moot anyway).
Negotiate THIS Don Fehr!
More blogs on the MLB vs FanSite furor:
The Trademark Blog: "Kiner's Corner on Metsonline.net I became aware of a dispute regarding metsonline.net through Dave via Ernie. Apparently, Major League Baseball has sent a demand letter to a guy who is running a Mets fan site. Ernie asked me for my two cents."
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MLB strikes again, prior to what might be their biggest follie yet (a strike)......this time it's shutting down a fan site ("real smart"). It's not even a money maker site, except for the baseball excitement it generates for .......uh........baseball. |
More crazy stuff about the metsonline.net: The link to Slate shows a link to a page that is also gone, apparently also asked by MLB to not post their rude message to "cease and desist". What a bunch of bozos. They don't deserve to be in charge of baseball. They're obviously clueless about the help such sites as this give them. Clueless also about baseball itself apprently.
Instapundit.com:: "July 30, 2002 BASEBALL TO FANS: UP YOURS! As reader Bill McCabe puts it: "On the eve of a strike, Major League Baseball shows its love for the fans by sending a Cease & Desist Order to a fan site dedicated to the New York Mets." They don't think of 'em as fans, Bill. They think of 'em as sheep to be fleeced, just the way the folks at the RIAA and MPAA think of music and movie overs. UPDATE: Slate has picked up on the story. Posted by Glenn Reynolds at July 30, 2002 10:03 AM"
Bloggin' Baseball! I'm lookin' for a good Reds blog. I'm bloggin' a little baseball, but it's not my only passion, so it woudn't be as elaborate. But I love the idea. Dave apparently does too.
Thanks to Glenn Reynolds for the link to metsonline.net. As a Mets fan since 1962, I think it's great that sites like this exist and are flourishing. Like Bryan Hoch, the webmaster, I also run websites as a labor of love, and know there isn't generally a whole lot of money left over after you pay for bandwidth. I totally believe Hoch, a college student, when he says he isn't making money. The site clearly disclaims that it is not representative of the Mets or Major League Baseball. If you go deeper you see that Hoch contributed his time for free to help the Mets improve their own site, before all sites were taken over by MLB in 2001 (what a bad idea, why can't teams differentiate themselves based on the quality of their community sites). Now of course there's another side to it, so let's keep an open mind. But to the owners of the Mets, please remember, it's the fans that make it work, and it's pretty clear that this website is from the fans, for the fans and the team, and that's a good thing. [Scripting News]
Noooooooo! Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!
Rolen traded to Cardinals. FOXSports.com Jul 29 2002 6:52PM ET [Moreover - Sports: baseball news]
Cubs blow six-run lead to Cards -- lose on Renteria's homer. FOXSports.com Jul 29 2002 0:42AM ET [Moreover - Sports: baseball news]
All within 12 or so hours of each other! Not a good sign for gainin' ground! The Cardinals, with money enough to have hopes of signing Rolen long-term, got the nod, and added Dave Timlin to the pot as well. Sigh........
Not Synagogues/ churches IN cyberspace but rather
synagogues/churches FOR cyberspace
An acquaintance from another online community (Brainstorms), to which I belong, posted the following (used with permission from the author) in my discussion there on "Online Theological Community"):
Moshe, I wish I had been checking this last 11 days, because that's a dandy post. I would say that in answer to part 3, the second OR is how I see this question directed, which is, as you say, "to think about what is special to the cyberspace situation and design a space for it that would be unique" "not Synagogues/ churches IN cyberspace but rather synagogues/churches FOR cyberspace" is another excellent distinction. I have to go to work tomorrow early, so I will send a reminder to my email there so I will get back to this. And then I will run on over to 344 and go through that thread. I was on vacation last week and had little opportunity to login and browse other than email. Great obervations! As soon as I began to see the form and the format and flow of the Weblog/Blogger genre, I knew that I was seeing a sub-revolution within the older, now more tamed Internet. It is a ray of hope for me, especially after reading Lessig's "The Future of Ideas", to see another outlet for expression being made more accessible to all levels of Web-saviness. Of course, with my interests in how all this affects the Theological Community, I have been drawn in and spend my evenings combing around the Weblog world with a wonder that I don't recall since firing up my first Mosaic session and browsing around the Web. My church is one with a very large per-capita involvement in political or social issues, and so many members circulate emails and website sightings that deal with areas of their concerns. The Weblog provide an ideal "storage" and "enabling" of disseminating this kind of information, and with the ability to create Multi-author Weblogs (like in Radio's "Categories") and pull in rss feeds from other webloggers into one place, a Church Community weblog can be established. We are convening a small Website committee to help me with my Web publishing tasks for the Church, and I am intending to introduce them to the idea. I also see coming a Community Server idea that would not only host a "Church information site" but a series of member blogs (There is a little litany at our church where the speaker says "I am a COG", and the people say "A What?" and the speaker says "A COG; A Child of God"......and last Sunday when I heard it, my thinking lately immersed with weblogging, I thought "a COG Blog"; that would be a good service to provide, as a way to express, in the words of the members, something of the flavor of the community. |
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This seems to follow the idea that the question Moshe raised above where he says:
is this to think about what is special to the cyberspace situation and design a space for it that would be unique. not Synagogues/ churches IN cyberspace but rather synagogues/churches FOR cyberspace, quite a different way of dealing with these questions
It seems to take web form and function and present us with how what the Church is doing could utilize that space and its available functions. The personal story and the ideas/causes/concerns to which they naturally want to link themselves is a clean and comfortable fit for the Blogging phenomenon. (btw, until I learn better, I generally use the terms Blogging and Weblogging intercahngable, although I get the impression that some don't like Blogger.com and the wave of "non-weblog-like" things it has spawned posing as weblogs, but calling themselves Blogs......I don't know, but I'm just excited about it all)
Good news from a David Siegel colleague:
Dale, David is fine physically and mentally! He is discussing some new ventures to do online recruiting in the medical services industry and handling some real estate opportunities, while completing his 100th Sky Dive and traveling throughout Europe. Like you, I look forward to the next publication from David.
Greg Tucker
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Another good book to add to my list of read books (and one which I have re-read, and actually "introduced" me to Cluetrain: Futurize Your Enterprise by David Siegel, who also wrote "Creating Killer Web Sites") The book is a great example of some real-life possibilities of The Cluetrain concepts put to work Siegel is a Web developer who began finding that companies who need Websites were all oft all too eager to make websites without caring who their customers were. A high recommend for anybody who read Cluetrain (or not) and wants to take the next step to begin asking how actual Website projects allow the company to participate in the conversation. |
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Another good book to add to my list of read books (and one which I have re-read, and actually "introduced" me to Cluetrain: Futurize Your Enterprise by David Siegel, who also wrote "Creating Killer Web Sites") The book is a great example of some real-life possibilities of The Cluetrain concepts put to work Siegel is a Web developer who began finding that companies who need Websites were all oft all too eager to make websites without caring who their customers were. A high recommend for anybody who read Cluetrain (or not) and wants to take the next step to begin asking how actual Website projects allow the company to participate in the conversation. |
In search of David Siegel comments on Weblogging. I thought it woudl be interesting to see if the guy who pointed me to Clutrain, who pointed me to Christopher Locke, who wrote a book called Gonzo Marketing which sold me on learning Weblogging, is himself a writer of a weblog.
So I will find some web developer posts along the way since Siegel wrote Creating Killer Web Sites, and every developer under the sun probably mentions his book.
for instance:
Some interesting "house-church" type gathering stories, from the Alan Creech guy referred to by sara in the previous blog earlier today
Here's their scoop:
Our goal is to equip one another so that we can all carry out God's will for our lives in a more effective way through the creation of new and innovative faith communities.
The Greenhouse provides a supportive environment for Christian leaders who are choosing to function according to the ancient apostolic role of the New Testament. It is for leaders who aren't just interested in planting a church -- but rather, in churching a whole city and a region. It's for those who are willing to get their hands dirty in the soil of lost people in the harvest. It's for those wanting to make a globalocal impact from the ground up.
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Some interesting people I met today |
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There was a person named sara, who said : which lead another to say something, which set me off, and so I blogged a comment, and returned to mine here to post a link to it all (see above, my comments are there, but here too: Then I wrote sara, as follows: sara, see the June 6 http://www.foolishness.net/faith/archives/000143.html link. I found it doing a Google "with all words" Advanced search on "church weblog blog faith" I hope to see more of you, too, for your thoughts like :
A lot of people want to insist on the altar call. I myself have had , oh maybe 20 of them. I need more. Until I reach that "fulfilled life in Christ", which will be never, and so I wonder about the neccessity of them, which doesn't mean they aren't good--- they just don't quite get us there -- they , the good ones, at least, can only point us in a direction and let us loose.....like I'm an expert, huh? Just point myself back to the altar , on a variety of personal issues and life callings, and hope that what I hear or see or sense there is God and not me, or both, or , never knowing for sure, just follow it and continualy check the calibration of the journey. Thanks for being out there - or, wherever "online" is ---- a lot of times its right here, at my desk as felow journey-ers arrive at my screen and a part of them enters my life and I feel a sense of knowing what they do; what you do, what Alan does. Dale |
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This would be a bad sign for the Reds, especially after it was first rumored that the Reds were working something up. But, I don't know where they'd get the money. They also have 2 more years on Larkin's big contract, and the up and coming Brandon Larson. Oh well.
Phillies reportedly close to dealing Rolen to Cardinals. Sports Network Jul 27 2002 8:48PM ET [Moreover - Sports: baseball news]
Favorite Authors (for the Book Section and People), or authors I've bought and gone back for more
Favorite Authors (for the Book Section and People), or authors I've bought and gone back for more
From most recent buys and reads, to older , as I see them around me or remember reading and have shelved them somewhere out of view:
We've Got Blog- Been there, read it, will keep a copy
The Weblog Handbook
Read it, returned it --- way too much "filler" for my taste. Why would I want to know how to talk to a fellow weblogger if I ever met them face to face? I think that's outside the expertise that I was looking for in this book
Gonzo Marketing
The Future of Ideas
Small Pieces , Loosely Joined
The Cluetrain Manifesto (bought a couple of real cheap hardback copies at second hand or closeout stores while on vacaton....bought the paperback about a year ago)
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The four of us Sunday, July 21, 2002 |
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The four of us Sunday, July 21, 2002 |
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My immediate family, me (46) wife Janet (42), son Brian (13), Daughter Kelli (4) (pictures to follow soon, I have a good one of us from just this past Sunday)
Parents: Dad: Ermon(70) and Mom: Shirley (68)
Brothers David (47) Mike (42) and Sister Jill (33)
Janet and I have been married 19 years (June 11, 1983)
(no particular order)
Ordinary People (1980, best picture oscar)
Gandhi (1982, best picture oscar, Kingsley best actor, Atenborough best director, and 4 others)
King (a TV miniseries, 1978)
Contact (1997)
Field of Dreams (1987)
Cry Freedom (1987)
Rain Man (1988, best picture oscar, Hoffman best actor, Levinson Best Director)
Somewhere in Time (1979)
Back to the Future (1985)
Star Wars (1977)
On Golden Pond (1981)
Tootsie (1982, jessica lange, supporting actress)
(no order here either, just favorites)
MASH (1972-83....I caught on in 1980, AND WENT BACK AND CAUGHT ALL THE RERUNS)
Lou Grant (1977-82)
Picket Fences (1992- 1996)
Paper Chase(1978-80 CBS, 1983-5 Showtime)
ThirtySomething (1987-1991)
NYPD Blue (1993-)
ER (1994-)
Saturday Night Live (Akroyd-Belushi-Chase-Radner-Neuman-Morris-Curtin and later Bill Murray, in the begining, mid to late 70's) and (Carvey, Hartman, Nevin, Lovitz, Jackson, Sweeney, Myers, Rock, Miller in the late 80's-early 90's)
West Wing (1999-)
The Practice (1997- )
I'll Fly Away (1991)
Homefront (1991-92)
Cool video tutorials like this one , using the site author's movie/tutorial screen-capture thingy....see the site for details....but I've been looking at Dreamweaver MX extensions today, after finishing up some ASP coding at work today
Cool Blog on Dreamweaver MX Wishes - Nancy's BLOG
Why couldn't he just say what he was obviously thinking "No, I don't want to come to Cincinnati?" Then say the very next day he's open to going somewhere, after saying "I promised my family!" You know what? That's all about Rogers. Go Mohler.
Rogers wins, says trade still possible - The Rangers were set to send Rogers to the Reds this week for three minor leaguers, but the left-hander cited family concerns and invoked his no-trade clause.
ESPN.com: MLB - Standings at trade deadline often tell final result By Alan Schwarz
What a bunch of malarky.....I only have to think back 3 years to my own team's situation in the standings to refute this. He's giving all these stats about who's in first July 31 ,by how many, and how many of those in first and second and third end up winning the thing.
Since divisional play began in 1969 (not including strike years of 1981 and 1994), of the 139 teams that have finished atop their division, 101 were already in first place or tied for first after games of July 31. And 27 of the 38 who came back from below hit the trading deadline 3½ games or less from the lead (see accompanying chart).
from the chart:
| 7/31 gb | teams | finish1st | pct |
| 0-½ | 159 | 107 | 67 |
| 1-1½ | 19 | 8 | 42 |
| 2-2½ | 21 | 3 | 14 |
| 3-3½ | 31 | 10 | 32 |
| 4-4½ | 37 | 2 | 5 |
So, right now, the Reds are 3 1/2 back. That's even better than 2 games back! They just gained a game and a half! Any glance at the chart has exactly ONE striking bit of infiormation, and it ain't how surprised we should be that 101 of 139 teams that were in first place July 31 actually finished first (that means over 1/3 of them didn't), but somehow, when you move from 2-2.5 games back to 3-3.5, the number of teams that came back from those deficits jumps from 3 to 10! What it means it statistics are entirely random , and that 3.5 is basically a nothin' lead. Not to say I wouldn't rather be 3.5 up, but in 1999, the Reds not only trailed July 31, but most of the year, and often at around 3, and even fell 4 and a half back in mid-September, and still overtoook the Astros only to fall into a tie with the Mets for the wild card. Up, down, up down. So far, the Reds have been up 5, down 4, down 1, down 4.5, and now its 3.5.
Another huge hole in this grandiose satisitical condundrum:
The dropoff after 3½ games is severe: Of the 105 teams that entered August between 4-6½ games back, just six (5.7 percent) came back to finish in first place. It turns out that teams 4-6½ games back at the deadline have been more than three times as likely to finish 10 games out as opposed to 3½ games or less.
Which kindof overlooks how there is NO dropoff whatsoever from 2-2.5 to 3-3.5, in fact there is a dramtic reversal. That was conveniently skipped over, for it kind of betrays how impossibly random it is.
I guess I read the article though, didn't I?
Here ya go Fehr, owners, and company. Chew on this one a while:
Baseball's issues give sponsors pause -- The Washington Times: "Baseball's issues give sponsors pause By Eric Fisher THE WASHINGTON TIMES Baseball fans are growing increasingly nervous as the game heads toward a potential ninth work stoppage since 1972. So, too, are the corporations that are investing more than $200million this season to be connected with Major League Baseball on a national level. "
The "strength" of baseball? Baseball as a game, maybe, but MLB is what we're talking about. Then, MLB has impact, and the marketing of the game is what SELLS so much to kids, not all of it great, but the constant prescence of the game as I was growing up, and the family trips to see the Reds, including trips to the '70 and '72 world series.....all of that was golden. This guy misses all that , I think. Yeah, people will trickle back, but my disgust will cut so much deeper. I think of the titles of programs like "When It Was A Game", and I am deeply nostalgic for the less "millionaire laden game". It was only 30 years ago when Pete Rose became the first non-homerun hitter to make (gasp) $100,000. Inflation and growth have not been so kind (or so cruel, in this case) to anything else like it has professional sports. Anyway, the article which spawned all this:
The Miami Herald | 07/24/2002 | Save your breath: Baseball is as tough as hide that covers it
Rogers to Seattle instead of Cincnnati? If so Kenny, you're a liar and disgust me with your "family" reason.
The Sports Network - Major League Baseball: "Seattle, WA (Sports Network) - Kenny Rogers could be making his final start for the Rangers tonight while possibly facing his future team when Texas meets the Seattle Mariners in the second of a three-game series at Safeco Field. "
Ok, so I've been avoiding the spectre of a strike......but now I'm seeing all these news articles.....and I'm thinking "Somebody better get a clue that there will BE NO return from this. Not ever. What you're giving up now is not a few months of extreme fan frustration and staying away, and a longer, more drawn out 3-4 year underlying disillusionment, able to be almost dispelled by the dramtics of the Homerun race in 98, both somewhat "ride-able"........now we're talkin' total disgust.......no more large crowds......ANYWHERE......even more dramatic loss of revenues in baseball souveniers as the sense of wonder and nostalgia dissolves into a disdain for the absolute decadence perceived by 99% of the fans for whining millionaires saying that can't pay their bills , or sobbing owners saying they can't afford all this and then turn right around almost immediately after that previous strike and spend even more ridiculous amounts. NOBODY feels for either side. We just wanna see baseball.
I'd like to see all the it all "started over". Like Billy Crystal's ('do over") from CitySlickers. Draft the entire league all over, like we used to do with Strat-o-Matic ( a baseball strategy board game based on real player stats) ....and have all the teams rosters filled in by a turn-by-turn 30-round draft. Have a salary cap. Instead of doing "throw-back uniforms" we have throw back salaries.
I think that even the most materialistic of players would cave, that is, if they are really players, and play for less, say a mere six figures? Ok, 1.1 million. Geez. Either that , dudes, or maybe, pump gas. Thing is, most of them have made so damn much already, they probably don't have to work another day in their lives, unless they were like , real stupid with their money (like spending more than they should) , which some of them probably were, and still are?
It's all such nonsense. Do they really think people will come back anywhere close to as fast as last time? Noone can be sure, but I maybe the fans should give them a taste prior to strike. If there's a date set, then set some "here's what you can do with yer strike" fan strikes could be set, and we could say to them "Here it is and then some if you do this; owners, players, whoever....get it gear and settle it or you both lose and lose BIG, cuz that's who deserves to lose, and not the fans, you low-life scum!
Ah, baseball, we'll miss you. Spokesman-Review.com Jul 24 2002 4:31PM ET [Moreover - Sports: baseball news]
Rogers says no, so Reds get Moehler. May still be dealing thru the deadline (see below). I hope Moehler shines so Rogers can be forgotten --- fast. What a wimp. He'd better stay put now and not end up somewhere else, after all this "family talk". He's a free agent after this year anyway. Goofball!
Plan B: Reds get Moehler. ESPN.com Jul 23 2002 8:00PM ET [Moreover - Sports: baseball news]
Interesting rumor fromthe Reds-beat reporter in Dayton
Dayton Daily News | Reds Report
Reds notes: Bowden could reel in Phillies' Scott Rolen before July ends
Theoblogian : Bold letters in th equote below are mine......I found this reference about AKMA, who I just saw having a discussion with Dave Weinberger about hermeneutics....interesting......so the term theoblog is out there in use........I promise I didn't steal it......it just came naturally
Connect & Empower: "I bring this up because, while he has not installed the nifty little BlogAmp tool I blogged earlier, our ever-resourceful, never-at-a-loss theoblogian AKMA has graciously opened his playlists to us in a feature he has dubbed the "Dave Rogers Music Alert" (or "DRMA"). "
As to my definition last night of "theoblogical", it's not just how blogging helps us do theology; it's more like "How blogging IS engaging in doing theology. Posting thoughts backed up by links to supporting or related material, or posting thouights spurred by a provoking article or item someone else has "blogged"; these all open up the conversation, and once we bring God and what the hell we think is going on (or "how this IS or IS NOT "as it would be in heaven", or "what is the expression of this in a Kingdom Of God context?")
It seems weblogs do help us with this. There are software tools that help us set up these linking and news aggregating scenarios that help us "organize" our array of items from which we can tell our story to the world through sharing random glimpses we get.
From Weinberger (Cluetrain co-author) - I had forgotten that Weinberger has had a lot of contact with religious disucssion of Cluetrain ideas.....a video produced by FaithandValues and broadcast on Oddysey a while back (see blog earlier)
JOHO - May 11, 2002: "The Pope on the Internet [I was about to send this issue when I read the Pope's message about the Internet. Here's a response, as if the Pope is about to start blogging and is looking for other people - Jews, especially - to kick his ideas around...]"
I saw this video on FaithandValues.com a while back. I wonder if its still there? If not, it oughtta be.
wfn.org | "Is God in Cyberspace?" to be answered on the Internet: "Hosted by Jim Hartz, "Is God in Cyberspace?" will also air on the Odyssey Network as a "Real Bottom Line" special on Nov.12, at 2 p.m., Eastern and Pacific Time."
spirituality, community, creativity
He also links to Cluetrain and to Jordan Cooper, so add him to the list!
upload template change.....why doesn't this link:
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I have it in templates.txt under myRadioTrials, and I uploaded it! Why doesn't it work? Why? Why? (ROTFSF - rad "Rolling on the floor stamping my feet and having a tantrum, in my mind of course)