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Angels dismiss Maddon amid 12-game losing streak
The Angels relieved Joe Maddon of his duties as manager, the team announced on Tuesday. Phil Nevin, who had been the third-base coach, was named interim manager.
The move comes amid a 12-game losing streak that has dropped the Angels to under .500 at 27-29.
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1. Walt Davis Posted: June 07, 2022 at 04:35 PM (#6080439)
I wasn't expecting this (not that I had contemplated the question). It's just his 3rd season there and one of those was 2020. He's 68 so this might be it although he could become the next Dusty I suppose. High peak but low career value by manager standards, not a strong HoF case.
2. rr would lock Shaq's a$$ up Posted: June 07, 2022 at 04:44 PM (#6080444)
I wasn't expecting this
Me neither, and I don't think I agree with it. But I'll see what the Angels fans think.
3. Tom Nawrocki Posted: June 07, 2022 at 04:46 PM (#6080445)
The Angels' record is better this year than last, and was better in 2021 than it had been in 2020. But not by a lot.
4. ERROR---Jolly Old St. Nick Posted: June 07, 2022 at 04:50 PM (#6080449)
All the Angels need is a player-manager like Tris Speaker or Lou Boudreau.
5. Steve Balboni's Personal Trainer Posted: June 07, 2022 at 04:59 PM (#6080452)
I could be wrong, but I suspect the Angels think they are better than they really are. They have the greatest player of his generation in Trout, and only have a few more years with him before he starts falling from his peak (and perhaps deals with injuries even more frequently). They also have probably the most interesting and marketable star in the game in Ohtani.
And yet...they just aren't that good.
The American League, even with six playoff spots, is looking increasingly like three division winners and then the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th-place teams from the AL East as the wild cards. For the Angels, they probably have to win their division to make the playoffs - and that's not happening.
Eventually, regardless of the reasons for this failure despite these two centerpiece stars, you fire the manager.
6. The Duke Posted: June 07, 2022 at 05:02 PM (#6080454)
They love firing overpaid old guys before their contract is up. Pujols, Upton, Maddon. I'm sure there must be more
7. Walks Clog Up the Bases Posted: June 07, 2022 at 05:06 PM (#6080455)
Is there a franchise that's handed out more big-money loser contracts in the last decade or so than the Angels? It's kind of crazy that they developed one of the best talents of a generation and yet they've been so spectacularly bad at fielding even remotely competitive teams for the bulk of that player's career.
8. What did Billy Ripken have against ElRoy Face? Posted: June 07, 2022 at 05:26 PM (#6080463)
Trout's managerial skills are suspect, judging from his fantasy football commissionering.
9. Hombre Brotani Posted: June 07, 2022 at 05:26 PM (#6080464)
I could be wrong, but I suspect the Angels think they are better than they really are.
They're certainly better than this. They went from 24-13 to 27-29 in three weeks. Rendon's never quite gotten right then got hurt, Ward got hurt, Fletcher got hurt, Stassi got hurt, Suzuki got hurt. The Angels were suddenly playing Rengifo, Velazquez, Wade, and Chad Wallach every day. Marsh stopped hitting, Adell never started to. In the 19 games since their highwater mark, they're only averaging 3.25 runs per game, which grades out to the second-worst in the league. Their offense is top-heavy, so if (like right now) Trout and Ohtani and Walsh are struggling, the AAA squad they're playing because of injuries can't generate any help. Maddon's tinkering and juggling can't fix missing personnel.
The six-man rotation IS working, but the bullpen has nosedived during this stretch. Tepera and Loup have been bad, and Iglesias has been particularly horrible, with two blown saves and four losses in his last seven games. I DO think it's Maddon's fault for having six starters (5.5 of whom have been solid) and still somehow overusing his bullpen.
I think the team's a lot better than 27-29, but given what's happened, it's hard to see them making a serious playoff run now.
10. Tin Angel Posted: June 07, 2022 at 05:37 PM (#6080467)
Weird, what happened to the Angels SB nation site? Went there to see what Angels fans thought and nothing has been posted there since March.
11. John Northey Posted: June 07, 2022 at 05:39 PM (#6080468)
Do the Angels have any options at SS other than Andrew Velazquez (43 OPS+)? If not then it is hard to blame the manager for a GM choice. There were lots of really, really good SS's out there last winter but the guy the Angels are using was a waiver wire loss by the Yankees who is hitting dead on his career OPS+. Seems more a GM issue than a manager problem to me.
As to Maddon's HOF case - unless he gets another shot I don't see it. 754-705 with 1 WS title and 1 WS loss (8 playoff appearances, 4 as a wild card). Cito Gaston is never talked about for the HOF but has 2 WS titles and a 894-837 record (5 playoff appearances, all pre-wild card)
12. Hombre Brotani Posted: June 07, 2022 at 05:40 PM (#6080469)
It's kind of crazy that they developed one of the best talents of a generation and yet they've been so spectacularly bad at fielding even remotely competitive teams for the bulk of that player's career.
The Angels picked Trout (and Grichuk and Garrett Richards) in 2009. From the 2010 draft up through this past year, the Angels have managed to draft exactly two players that have netted them even 5 career WAR for the organization: Kole Calhoun and David Fletcher. They've either been unable to develop prospects, or have traded them away for win-now players that didn't help them win now.
13. Mr. Hotfoot Jackson (gef, talking mongoose) Posted: June 07, 2022 at 05:55 PM (#6080477)
Ohtani will do it in his spare time.
14. McCoy Posted: June 07, 2022 at 05:56 PM (#6080478)
What happened to Maddon? Went from beloved Rays manager to breaking the curse in Chicago to everybody fine with Maddon out in Chicago and now 2.3 seasons in Anaheim and fired.
15. Addie Joss Posted: June 07, 2022 at 06:07 PM (#6080482)
I've watched at least parts of all of the Angels' twelve consecutive losses and find it striking how similar their situation has been to that of the Phillies, who also couldn't buy a win and fired a reasonably respected manager (although Girardi is intense and Maddon appears to be the opposite). Both teams have had horrendous relief pitching over the last month, mostly by their most depended-on relievers and have also had really bad baseball luck - line drive at'em balls on offense with men on base and bloopers falling in on defense. The Angels are at least average defensively, though, unlike the Phils.
Neither managerial change will fix the two teams' underlying problems although they may cause their players to be a little more relaxed in the short term.
16. Pasta-diving Jeter (jmac66) Posted: June 07, 2022 at 06:29 PM (#6080485)
this is from an interview with Maddon today with the Athletic
It's been kind of difficult overall. I'm into analytics, but not to the point where everybody wants to shove it down your throat. Real baseball people have felt somewhat impacted by all of this. You're unable to just go to the ballpark and have some fun and play baseball. It's too much controlled by front offices these days.
mmmmm- "real baseball people"?-that kinda surpises me, although it was apparently well-known that he and GM Perry Minasian didn't get along
17. rr would lock Shaq's a$$ up Posted: June 07, 2022 at 06:33 PM (#6080486)
I think #12 is a big part of the answer to #14.
Weird, what happened to the Angels SB nation site?
That's what happens when you make people work for free. Most of the regulars went over to Crashing The Pearly Gates, where they can at least try and get some advertising and Patreon money, aren't beholden to corporate masters, and can curse and scream to their hearts' delight.
19. Jay Seaver Posted: June 07, 2022 at 07:01 PM (#6080492)
What happened to Maddon?
I always figured he was temperamentally suited to the situation in Tampa Bay where he was able to deflect attention and pressure from the younger players to let them grow into things, with a front office was happy to try and develop oddball counter-intuitive strategies (with less pressure because the Yankees and Red Sox were expected to win), but that once he got to Chicago and Anaheim, he had players who didn't necessarily want his Spirit Week stunts and who were in a position to push back on how they were used, plus higher-ups who expected to be #1.
20. JimMusComp misses old primer... Posted: June 07, 2022 at 07:07 PM (#6080493)
The management of the SB Nation sites went through some weird restructuring a while back. The management of Halos Heaven all left and started a superior site - Crashing The Pearly Gates.
Same folks. Good site. FYI.
I can't believe they fired Maddon. This will change nothing. And I hate Phil Nevin running things. He's a poor man's Terry Collins.
Yuk.
[EDIT] Coke to Hombre
21. The Duke Posted: June 07, 2022 at 07:09 PM (#6080494)
There's plenty of active SBNation sites. Some are slow but I've not noticed one completely dormant. The Cubs site is Huge with a lot of content. The Braves site is excellent.
22. Buck Coats Posted: June 07, 2022 at 07:29 PM (#6080502)
The Angels picked Trout (and Grichuk and Garrett Richards) in 2009. From the 2010 draft up through this past year, the Angels have managed to draft exactly two players that have netted them even 5 career WAR for the organization: Kole Calhoun and David Fletcher.
I don't think this is all that unique though - in that time-span the Yankees also have drafted only two players who have gotten to 5 career WAR (admittedly one of them is Aaron Judge) (and not counting Jon Gray, who they drafted in the 10th round but couldn't sign).
23. Steve Sparks Flying Everywhere Posted: June 07, 2022 at 07:29 PM (#6080503)
It's really quite remarkable how bad the farm system has been the last few years. Artie's active "management" of the teams hasn't done them any favors either (signing Gary Mathews Jr, Pujols, Hamilton, etc, trading for Vernon wells and Kazmir, etc)
24. Dag Nabbit at ExactlyAsOld.com Posted: June 07, 2022 at 07:30 PM (#6080504)
In the later years in Chicago there was an undercurrent of this as well. The Cubs front office said in one postseason press conference that launch angle is not a fad. I think the latest turn of analytics into Statcast and the rise of a new level of Big Data left Maddon a bit cold. As front offices have bought into it with both feet, Maddon is on the outs more.
but that once he got to Chicago and Anaheim, he had players who didn't necessarily want his Spirit Week stunts and who were in a position to push back on how they were used, plus higher-ups who expected to be #1.
I can't comment on Anaheim, but the Cub players never had any problem with him. Relations worsened with the front office (as seen in the first part of this post). Also, he rather strangely wasn't bulletproof with the fans after '16. In fact, pretty much every pitching move he made in Games Six and Seven of the World Series were questioned in real time - and many backfired immediately. People still liked him as a manager overall, but felt the Cubs had to overcome him in those games to win. Then the Cubs spent a few years regressing instead of improving or maintaing, and the fans threw their lot in with Theo & Jed.
25. SoSH U at work Posted: June 07, 2022 at 07:53 PM (#6080515)
People still liked him as a manager overall, but felt the Cubs had to overcome him in those games to win.
He also had considerable help from the other dugout.
I don't think this is all that unique though - in that time-span the Yankees also have drafted only two players who have gotten to 5 career WAR (admittedly one of them is Aaron Judge)
I think it might be. The Yankees are constantly reloading, so it's not totally shocking that they're willing to either trade prospects for vets, or discard them if they don't work out promptly -- which is how the Angels treat prospects. Just looking alphabetically at the list, I see that Arizona has six players and Atlanta has eight that fit the >5 WAR criteria in the same timeframe. I'm curious enough to see what the list for all 30 teams looks like. It'll take a few days, though.
24 - The impression I often got was that Joe Maddon really likes having a free hand more than most, especially if it means that the next day's game story is about how clever Joe Maddon is, and this was going to cause problems if he had to compete with anyone. In Tampa, the players churned and both management and ownership seemingly liked to stay in the background.
Anyway, good riddance. On top of his success annoying me as a Red Sox fan, he seemed like one of the guys most likely to use the passive voice around hit-by-pitch situations, saying that "something was going to happen".
28. salvomania Posted: June 07, 2022 at 08:23 PM (#6080522)
I'm curious enough to see what the list for all 30 teams looks like. It'll take a few days, though.
Cardinals have six who have accumulated at least 5 WAR with them, plus another four with 5+ combined WAR with multiple teams.
29. JJ1986 Posted: June 07, 2022 at 08:29 PM (#6080524)
The Mets have 5 on their team right now - deGrom, Nimmo, McNeil, Alonso and Lugo. I think the rest of the list is Harvey and Conforto.
30. The Yankee Clapper Posted: June 07, 2022 at 08:30 PM (#6080525)
From the 2010 draft up through this past year, the Angels have managed to draft exactly two players that have netted them even 5 career WAR for the organization: Kole Calhoun and David Fletcher.
International free agents can offset some poor drafts, but my hunch is that most teams that are bad in one area aren't much better in the other.
31. NaOH Posted: June 07, 2022 at 08:48 PM (#6080528)
Limiting things to the draft is kinda weird. I'd credit any team for any player who exceeds rookie limits with them. Smart enough to trade a vet when you're out of contention and get a good prospect (e.g., Gleyber)? Good on you. Signed an undrafted free agent (e.g., Severino)? Well done. Turned some longtime minor leaguer into something useful (e.g., Chad Green)? I wonder what that team recognized and/or adjusted with that player.
Limiting things to the draft is kinda weird. I'd credit any team for any player who exceeds rookie limits with them.
You're absolutely right. In fact, I'd say that if a team drafts for a prospect, and that prospect spends time in those minors before getting to the bigs as a rookie with that organization, that counts as well. International and amateur free agents, those count, also.
The Angels would still have only Calhoun and Fletcher. SIGH.
33. Howie Menckel Posted: June 07, 2022 at 09:02 PM (#6080531)
I didn't have a dog in that hunt, and obviously Francona and Maddon have been very successful overall, but the grandstanding maneuvering by both of them was nothing like I've ever seen before or since. it was a like bizarro poker game where each manager tried to come up with the most clever way to lose the Series.
then it came down to the very last card - and Francona flipped over a 4 OPS+ regular season/hitless postseason Michael Martinez to make the last out. Maddon did all he could, but he was stuck with the trophy and immortality in Wrigleyville. well played, Mr. Francona, well played.
34. Gold Star - just Gold Star Posted: June 07, 2022 at 09:16 PM (#6080536)
But even that shortchanges teams' player-development abilities, because, for example, the Dodgers pulled off the scrap heap dudes like Justin Turner (31.9 WAR) and Chris Taylor (15.7).
But even that shortchanges teams' player-development abilities....
Absolutely. I was just taking an angle on developing new talent. The point, ultimately—and I don't say this as if I'm educating anyone—is that the good teams find and develop talent in all sorts of ways and us focusing on only one area (e.g., the draft) isn't apt to indicate much about any particular organization.
36. Brian C Posted: June 07, 2022 at 10:47 PM (#6080551)
Cubs have four, all in the first round: Happ, Schwarber, Bryant, and Baez. Couple more guys on the current roster over 3 and heading in the right direction with Hoerner and Thompson. Then there's Bote, still around and also over 3, although he's been heading in the wrong direction the last couple years and is hurt now.
Going by NaOH's standard ("exceeded rookie limits"), you'd add Rizzo, Hendricks, and Addison Russell.
I'd add Hendricks. I'm most concerned with player development, and Rizzo and Russell got essentially zero minor league development with the Cub organization.
Annnnnnnnd Trout leaves the game with an injury.
Good luck, Phil!
39. Infinite Yost (Voxter) Posted: June 07, 2022 at 11:16 PM (#6080558)
I'm not sure they developed Trout at all. He showed up in the minors and performed way over his head at the age of 17. He was in the majors at 19. At 20 he was the best player in the game and he has been ever since. He has refined skills that major league teams don't even purport to teach at the major league level ever since.
Are they good or bad at development? Hell, I don't know. But Mike Trout was going to be a superstar no matter who drafted him.
40. Walt Davis Posted: June 07, 2022 at 11:21 PM (#6080559)
Huh? Woulda thought 49 G and 153 PA and 66 (I think) service days with SD would have put Rizzo over the rookie limit.
I DO think it's Maddon's fault for having six starters (5.5 of whom have been solid) and still somehow overusing his bullpen.
That's a funny thing. You'd think a move from the 4 to 4.5 to 5-man rotation would increase IP/start as it decreased starts ... but it never did or not for very long at least. So 2022 Angels average 5.1 IP/GS with Lorenzen (a workhorse at 6.0) the only one over 5.3. The ML average is 5.1. Now if the 6-man rotation helps keep Ohtani's arm and bat fresh then it's probably still worth it; otherwise it's just shifting some innings for every starter to Chase Silseth which seems not a great idea at least in the short term (he's just 22 though).
I become more intrigued by the idea of the 4-man, 4-5 IP/start idea all the time. Give Cole his usual 180-200 IP spread across 40 starts and keep those #5/6 starters off the field as much as possible -- teams are gonna use 25 different relievers anyway.
Back to Maddon, as I posted in the other thread ... 10 games back in just 60 games in 2020, 18 back last year, already 8.5 back this year. Something's definitely not working. Sure looks more personnel-related that managerial but ya gotta start somewhere. The Upton comparison is kinda apt -- Maddon's a very expensive manager but he's not producing.
41. RoyalsRetro (AG#1F) Posted: June 07, 2022 at 11:42 PM (#6080563)
Eh, the guy that ran Halos Heaven wrote a terrible column about Josh Hamilton's addiction and got canned, but a lot of the readers left with him to his new site. It's been a ghost town since. That and the Padres site are pretty empty, but the rest of the baseball sites are pretty active from what I can tell (full disclosure, I run the Royals site)
42. Howie Menckel Posted: June 08, 2022 at 12:02 AM (#6080567)
wow, that column is astounding - and in the worst possible way.
43. The Honorable Ardo Posted: June 08, 2022 at 12:31 AM (#6080569)
Maddon loves to be a contrarian and to be considered smart. He came too late historically; in the heyday of newspapers, he'd have columnists eating out of his hand and lauding his "genius". In the Internet era, it's harder to get away with that shtick.
Kevin Cash is a better manager than Maddon.
44. SoSH U at work Posted: June 08, 2022 at 12:53 AM (#6080574)
That guy (Halofan) was an occasional primate. For some reason, many of our Angel fans defended him, but he has a history of awfulness. Some of it was on display at BTF.
45. Cooper Nielson Posted: June 08, 2022 at 02:34 AM (#6080583)
Rookie status relies on AB rather than PA, for some unknown reason. Rizzo had 153 PA but he walked a ton, so he only had 128 AB (130 AB is the limit). Presumably enough of his service days came in September, when they don't count against rookie status.
Mike Trout had 135 PA but only 124 AB in his "pre-rookie" year.
46. Hombre Brotani Posted: June 08, 2022 at 04:58 AM (#6080584)
For some reason, many of our Angel fans defended him, but he has a history of awfulness. Some of it was on display at BTF.
He's not a terrible person, but he did write a terrible column. He earned his firing.
He's not a terrible person, but he did write a terrible column.
That wasn't the only time he acted terribly. And he was almost always a troll when he posted here.
48. John Northey Posted: June 08, 2022 at 11:14 AM (#6080619)
There is no excuse for the poor work by the front office. Check the Jays since 2015 when they won their division for the first time since 1993 - they sold the farm to get that division title, but since drafted 2016 (WAR in brackets): Bo Bichette (10.6), Cavan Biggio (5.5), 2017: Riley Adams (0.9), Kevin Smith (0 but a part of the Chapman trade), Nate Pearson (negative WAR but still seen as a top prospect by some), 2018: top 100 prospect in Jordan Groshans, 2019: Alek Manoah (5.2 WAR and climbing), 2020: Austin Martin (Critical in trade for Berrios), 2021: Ricky Tiedemann in 3rd round - climbing top 100 lists now.
That isn't factoring in their insane skill on the IFA front (Alejandro Kirk - signed September 2016 for next to nothing), Lourdes Gurriel Jr. (signed Nov 2016 to a $20+ mil deal that runs out after next season), among others.
Yes, it is nice being a Jays fan right now. Vlad was signed in 2015 btw. The Jays did all this while never losing 100 games, their worse was 95 losses in 2019 (still not last in their division). In fact the Jays have lost 90+ only twice this century.
49. Steve Balboni's Personal Trainer Posted: June 08, 2022 at 12:50 PM (#6080632)
I agree that Trout was going to be awesome no matter who drafted him, but I give the Angels credit because...they drafted him, and a bunch of teams skipped over him. He was the 25th pick of the 1st round; of the 24 players elected ahead of him, 10 have 0 career WAR or less (some have negative WAR from a cup of coffee in the bigs). Some of those 10, of course, never even made the major leagues. It is such a crapshoot, but if you pick Mike Trout, you get credit for it, period.
I also give the Angels credit for not getting too cute with figuring out how to pay him to stay with the Angels. Take it from this Red Sox fan who saw Mookie get traded away because they determined they couldn't possibly sign him to an extension...it isn't a gimme. Wayne Gretzky eventually left Edmonton. Lebron left Cleveland (and came back, and left again, but whatever). Brady left the Patriots. It is not a gimme that these generational stars are going to stay with your team forever, so to the extent that they were able to come up with a deal that kept him there - they get credit for that, too.
But they lose some credit for not being able to help keep him healthy, and they obviously lose credit for being unable to put a quality team around him. They are in the LA market, have plenty of money, have Mike Trout, have Ohtani...how are they not able to put together a sustained quality team around these assets? And it is actually hurting the sport, because the best player *Trout) and most marketable player (Ohtani) are somehow still toiling in relative anonymity, because the team always sucks.
50. Pat Rapper's Delight (as quoted on MLB Network) Posted: June 08, 2022 at 12:51 PM (#6080633)
As a Rangers fan who quickly tired of all the coddling and excuse making Hamilton required, I'm having a hard time finding what's so objectionable about the column. He hasn't managed to kill anyone yet but has racked up a felony indictment for injury to a child after assaulting his daughter then cutting a deal to plead out to misdemeanor unlawful restraint.
51. Barry`s_Lazy_Boy Posted: June 08, 2022 at 12:59 PM (#6080635)
You don't find this objectionable?
Josh, when you finally die of a drug related matter it won't be Arte Moreno's fault. It won't be the fault of the good fans in Anaheim who figured out your little game. They might have Donnie Moore's karma on them but they won't have yours. As much as I would like to say the blame for your future fate lies with the enabling national media and coddling players union, I think of Steve Howe's face crushed against his truck's windshield on a lonely interstate highway with crystal meth in his bloodstream and I know that all the blame will be on you, all of it, as it was with Howe. I can only hope that when you do yourself in, which you will, that, mercifully like Howe, you take nobody else with you.
52. Nasty Nate Posted: June 08, 2022 at 01:01 PM (#6080636)
Here's the thread about it if you are curious why people here disliked the column: https://www.baseballthinkfactory.org/newsstand/discussion/dmn_sb_nation_fires_angels_blogger_for_article_that_crossed_the_line_in_rip/P100
The moralizing was clearly phony, as the underlying reason for the author's criticism of Hamilton was because he was a poor acquisition for his favorite baseball team.
53. Tom Nawrocki Posted: June 08, 2022 at 02:20 PM (#6080648)
He hasn't managed to kill anyone yet
He kinda did.
Nightengale has an article up saying that Pujols told Minasian they could never win with Maddon and that several vets thanked him for doing that (Trout, I assume )
55. Jose is an Absurd Sultan Posted: June 08, 2022 at 06:27 PM (#6080696)
Different sports and all but this is VERY similar to the Boston Bruins (NHL) firing their coach this week. Both Maddon and Bruin coach Bruce Cassidy probably had some issues that could be improved upon but both teams have surrounded Hall of Fame level top talent with not nearly enough and a completely barren farm system behind hit.
Getting at development in a more general sense ... but not as easily as I'd like ... here is some attempt to summarise recent debuts by year:
40+ WAR: Donaldson, Sale, Stanton, Freeman
30+: Heyward, Cain, Strasburg, Santana (didn't know he'd been that good)
20+: Arrieta, Austin Jackson (!), Kimbrel
15+: A Chapman, Minor, K Jansen, S Castro, Lucroy, Leake, Dyson, Ramos
40+: Trout, Goldschmidt, Altuve
30+: Rizzo, K Seager, Kluber, B Crawford, S Perez, Lynn
20+: JDM, DJL, Belt, Carpenter, T Frazier, Kipnis (remember him?), Duffy, Teheran, Blackmon
15+: Hosmer, Miley, Lawrie (not Lowrie), Eovaldi, Cozart (remember him?)
40+: Machado, Harper
30+: Andrelton, S Marte
20+: Segura, Darvish, B Dozier, Quintana, Pollock, Cespedes, Bauer, Grandal, Keuchel
15+: Didi, Eaton, Y Gomes, Iwakuma, Corbin, Calhoun
40+: Arenado
30+: Yelich, Rendon, Cole, Kiermaier, Bogaerts, Semien
20+: S Gray, Wheeler, Schoop, Wong, Ozuna, Ryu
15+: Puig, JBJ, Roark, Gausman, Pillar
2014 (a pretty shallow year)
40+: Betts, DeGrom
30+: Springer
20+: Abreu, Realmuto, Baez, Hendricks
15+: Inciarte, Stroman, Tanaka, Pham, C Taylor, E Hernandez, Suarez, Ray, D Peralta
30+: Correa, Lindor
20+: Bryant, T Turner, Nola, C Seager
15+: K Marte, Buxton, Kepler, Conforto, Noah, Muncy, Gallo
20+: Judge, Story, Bregman, Contreras
15+: Olson, T Anderson, Merrifield, Marquez
10+: Haniger, Benintndi, Clevinger, Nimmo, Y Gurriel, Manaea, Snell, Moncada, Fulmer, Taillon, Wendle, A Frazier, Berrios, Margot, Giolito, Swanson, Mancini, Musgrove
I'll stop there. Quick point is to point out that if your team has developed a Schoop, Wong, Austin Jackson, Benintendi, Mancini then that's a significant development success. Somebody like Kyle Schwarber over his 7 "seasons" prior to 2022 had about 4 full seasons of PAs and 9 WAR -- it's a long, hard road to be a genuine impact player.
Here's the thread about it if you are curious why people here disliked the column:
That didn't seem that long ago, but seven years really few by. Seeing Harvey's name show up was nice. It's weird how Matt Welch used to be a reasonable-sounding human.
The Angels haven't had a .500 season since 2015.
58. Misirlou cut his hair and moved to Rome Posted: June 08, 2022 at 10:09 PM (#6080758)
Again, it's not quite right to limit it to the draft. The Cubs also have Jorge Soler, Willson Contreras, Welington Castillo, Hector Rondon.
Some summary ... definitions but looks like about 20 "really big" stars over 7 seasons. Taking half of that 10+ group, lets call it 124 players to make the list, about 4 per team over 7 years. Of course that includes some guys (e.g. Abreu, Iwakuma, Gurriel, Darvish) who clearly weren't developed by a MLB team plus the Mike Trouts if you want to count them or not. The advantage of that list of course is that it doesn't care about draft, international FA, foreign league, etc.
It's kinda fascinating, but not surprising, that Todd Frazier and Jason Kipnis debuted the same year as Trout, did quite well, but their careers are already over. Chalie Blackmon will be joining them soon enough.
Call it 34 starters plus the 3 big closers of this era (all in 2011 ... interesting).
It would be interesting to see a team breakdown if somebody wants to take that one. The DBacks seem to have done pretty well -- Goldschmidt, Pollock, Eaton, Peralta, Corbin, K Marte, Inciarte, drafted Swanson, traded for young Didi and Robbie Ray. Hasn't done them a lot of good and Peralta and Marte are the only two still around.
I didn't limit it to the draft, which is why I made sure to mention Rizzo, Hendricks, and Russell.
Castillo and Contreras were both acquired pre-2010, so I excluded them, because the initial criteria put forth was "drafted" 2010 and after.
Soler doesn't meet the criteria - only 1.1 WAR with the Cubs (and only 4.3 total).
Same with Rondon - only 4 WAR with the Cubs and 4.9 overall.
61. BDC Posted: June 08, 2022 at 10:31 PM (#6080764)
#56 is a pretty depressing list for the Rangers. Looks like only Darvish and Gallo debuted with them, of the 15+ group, unless I am missing somebody obvious; and as mentioned, Darvish was hardly their development; they paid a lot of money for his services, even if good value.
If you drop the threshold to 5+ you get such luminaries as Robinson Chirinos, Martin Perez, Rougned Odor, Delino DeShields, Jurickson Profar, Nomar Mazara, Isiah Kiner-Falefa, and Adolis Garcia. (They did not develop Garcia either but they gave him a shot in the majors.) Some of those guys had good years (Perez is back and having one now for them), but as a collection it's pretty much "minimum necessary to maintain a major-league team on the field" which squares with their W-L record for the last 5 years or so.
Meanwhile several awesome, very young stars have debuted since 2016 – none of them with Texas.
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Seollal, which is considered as a major holiday season for the Koreans, usually lasts for 3 days. This year, with additional substitution holiday, it will be celebrated for 4 days in total from Feb 7th til 10th! During this period, most of the shops and restaurants will be closed, especially on the official day of Seollal (Feb 8th, 2016). So, keep that in mind if you're planning to visit South Korea in February.
But, major palaces, museums, and amusement parks do open up (just in case, check out the website to see if they are open during this holiday season before you go!). Various traditional events and cultural performances will be held at tourists sites for visitors, so there are still many fun things to do during this holiday season.
Of course, there will be a heavy traffic jam and it'll be very difficult for travelers and tourists to purchase a train or bus ticket. So, try to avoid traveling to other provinces or regions around South Korea during this period!
Plus, you'll find bunch of people buying gifts and everything they need for the preparation of the celebration at shopping malls and local markets on the days before Seollal. At any rate, let's find out how Koreans celebrate Seollal!
During Seollal, you might witness Koreans wearing an amazingly beautiful Korean traditional dress called 'hanbok'. Not every wear hanbok these days, wearing hanbok is becoming one of the popular fashion trends in Korea. If you're interested in trying out this traditional dress for a day, click here.
So, basically, 'charye' is like paying a respect and gratitude to the ancestors.
Now, this is the exciting part! :) Family members would take turns (from the oldest to the youngest) and give a deep bow to the elderly and parents. Koreans call this bowing process, 'sebae'.
After sebae comes the feast (finally)! On Lunar New Year's Day, Koreans (almost everyone) eat 'tteokguk (sliced rice cake soup)'. In Korea,eating tteokguk = a year added to one's age. So, as a joke, Koreans say 'the more dish of tteokguk you eat, the more you will get older in Korea!' Try other Seollal foods as well, like 'sanjeok' (meat and vegetable brochette)' and 'buchimgae (Korean style pancake)', and Korean traditional desserts like 'yakgwa(honey cookie)', 'hangwa (traditional korean sweets)' and 'injeolmi (rice cake covered with bean flour)'.
Seollal is a perfect time for families to play some fun games together! The most popular traditional game played is called 'yutnori', which is a board game. It'll be much easier for you to understand the game if you think of it as a 'Monopoly', where you throw four wooden sticks instead of dice.
Other fun games include 'jegichagi (a Korean shuttlecock game)', 'neoltwiggi (a Korean jumping game similar to see-sawing)', and 'tuho (a game where people throw sticks into a canister)'. Go out to parks and try 'yeon-naligi (kite flying)' as well!
Last but not least, watch this video that shows how Koreans generally spend the Lunar New Year in overall!


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Don Nguyen & Climbers of Color Are Closing the Mountaineering Gap
Don Nguyen's first commercial guiding trip out of Mt. Rainier did not go as planned. Midway up the mountain a slow moving client stopped suddenly in his tracks while clutching his chest in pain. He was having a heart attack. It was Nguyen's first time in charge of a rope team on Rainier and one of his clients was in serious danger of dying. To make matters worse, a storm was bearing down on the group, complicating the already complex medical evacuation that would unfold over the next several hours. Talk about beginner's bad luck.
Then there are trips that go without a hitch. During his most recent Denali climb Nguyen was assigned to assist Vern Tejas. He's a 65 year old commercial guide with 59 Denali summits who runs his trips like a well oiled machine including a guitar, a harmonica and camp songs each night.
Mountaineering guide Don Nguyen at Ingraham Glacier on Mt. Rainier (Photo credit: Dan Bott)
According to Nguyen, neither scenario is typical. Most guided trips fall somewhere in between. With three years of commercial guiding experience and over ten Rainier summits under his belt, Nguyen could still be described as an industry newcomer. But he's been taking notes and he's ready to make some changes.
Nguyen grew up in a Vietnamese immigrant family, the second youngest of six children. To say his family is deeply influenced by the Vietnamese War would be an understatement. His father, a physician and an Army officer, survived four years as a prisoner of war. They are also deeply influenced by Little Saigon in Oklahoma City, where they made their home and its environs where Nguyen grew up hiking, fishing and rock climbing. His four older siblings who immigrated to America with his parents all became physicians. He and his younger sister, who were born in Oklahoma, took less traditional tracks. They both studied pre-medicine in undergrad. Then she went east to Baltimore to become a painter and Nguyen went west to the Colorado Mountain College to study mountaineering.
As a young adult he had fallen in love with climbing and the allure of the distant Rockies. There was also a practical aspect to studying mountaineering. He realized early on that becoming a successful climber required finding a mentor and developing professional skills. But that was easier said than done. During undergrad, he struggled to find someone who was willing to take on a new climber. Between living life and going to school he noticed that friend groups had already been formed. He kept searching for mentors before finally deciding to study mountaineering and become the person he had been searching for.
At guide school in Colorado, Nguyen met some amazing mentors to include leaders who spoke warmly of their own outdoor role models. One such example was Kent Clement, an outdoor educator at the Colorado Mountain College who told stories about his mentor, Paul Petzoldt; a famed mountaineering prodigy and the founder of the National Outdoor Leadership School. Nguyen tells the story of Clement and Petzoldt with the familiarity of a practiced business pitch—which it is: "The relationship between Clement and Petzoldt unfolded over 35 years. That's a lot of time. Those decades long mountaineering relationships which are necessary for the development of outdoor leaders and the transfer of mountaineering skills don't exist within the POC community. So the reality is there's a multigenerational gap in outdoor relationships."
The premise isn't new. Multiple scholars, athletes and journalists have spoken about #theadventuregap in outdoor communities of color. According to Nguyen, here's why it matters: the mountaineering community is modeled upon a mentor-mentee approach to pass on knowledge from one generation to the next. It's a hands on industry, and that aspect seems to stay the same—even in the age of smart phones and mobile apps. So if you're a Person of Color trying to get folks in your community excited about mountaineering, how do you catch up with that?
Nguyen's answer is simple: "to catch up you either wait 30 or 40 years or you do it fast. I'm trying to do it fast." Last winter, he sat down with co-collaborators, Chris Chalaka and Mariko Ching of Outdoor Asian in order to design Mountaineering Leadership I. He describes it as "a boot camp for mountaineering to make up time." It's a weekend course focused on preparing outdoor leaders from grassroots diversity and inclusion organizations to be successful within their current leadership roles as outdoor guides and educators. Nguyen defines success as this: I'm going to train the mentors so they can mentor someone else. His train the trainer approach has a name: Climbers of Color.
Nguyen is also keenly aware of his own limitations. He explains that "as a mountain guide I see people for a few days and they move on. There's this limiting factor to time as a commercial guide. You're not really a friend or mentor. So for climbers of color to enter that mentorship scene I sought out folks who are already mentors in outdoor education." The first iteration of the course included outdoor leaders such as Alfonso Oroszco and Michelle Piñon from Latino Outdoors and Brown Girls Climb Leader, Monserrat Matehuala who was recently featured in The North Face Walls Are Meant For Climbing campaign.
His efforts represent a new way of thinking about People of Color in the outdoors from the guiding industry's perspective. Nguyen is frank about his observations of the guiding industry. It looks like "rich old white dudes in charge of a younger set of rich white dudes in charge of a poor set of white dudes." His goal is to change that.
As a new guide he worked for a very prestigious guiding service in the Pacific Northwest where he was the only Person of Color in staff. He jokes about the experience now saying "I quickly realized that I was a token. Then I realized I was a token in a hostile work environment." He also noticed that the clientele seemed to nearly exclusively reflect their hiring practices. Whenever he discussed diversity to include the creation of a diversity themed Instagram tag, he recalls that "management looked at me funny. They told me that's not who they work with. They expected their client to be a conservative white male around the age of 40."
Initially, Nguyen remained optimistic that things would change. A natural problem solver, he also took matters into his own hands. "Every time there was a POC client it was kind of like a little resistance movement. I would talk to them and ask them to tag their photos #Climbersofcolor to help get the word out." Eventually he made the decision to leave; resolving that "if I have to hide who I am and the fact that I care about diversity what am I doing here?" He noticed that Alpine Ascents was making some bold moves towards diversity. In his few interactions with them he had already met multiple Sherpa guides and an African American woman in an administrative leadership position. So he quit and tried out for Alpine Ascents. The decision paid off. Alpine Ascents is supporting his efforts to get Climbers of Color off the ground and subsidizing costs for Mountaineering Leadership II.
Mountaineering Leadership II will be held August 8-10. It's a glacier skills course focusing on rope skills and group management. There are nine slots available. Climbers of Color is currently soliciting monetary donations as well as used gear to include boots, axes, crampons, screws, pickets, carabiners, cams, nuts. For a complete list or for questions please email climbersofcolor@gmail.com.
To learn more about Climbers of Color check out their website and Instagram. Don Nguyen and Climbers of Color were recently featured on Outside Online. You can find that article here.
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I've purchased my flights and cleared my work schedule. This isn't just another random vacation; today I've selected my next mountaineering objective. It's no longer merely a lofty vision. There is a sense of palpability every time I glance at those chosen days on the calendar. This adventure that has captured my attention for years is coming nearer with each day. In these times of alpine anticipation, the wise will prepare and capture each valuable minute.
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The Future of Higher Education?
Good question…and at a deeper level, how do you differentiate between books that have the flawed (at least, I think flawed) assumption that higher education tomorrow will resemble higher education of the past…and books that actually suggest a new future? Search for books on "the future of higher education" and you quickly find quite a few…and I would add in books about "the future" itself.
In Tom Friedman's book, Thank You For Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations, he draws the distinction between typical course creation processes, which can take a year, and Udacity's roll out of a MOOC for Google's TensorFlow program 3 months after Google announced the algorithms. Friedman sees coming disruptions from intelligent assistants and intelligent algorithms. Yet, Friedman also points out that in an era when it is possible to automate much of the learning process, the element that marked "successful students" was the human element – teachers and mentors who took personal interest in students.
New York Times discussed a higher education leaders forum last year that suggested the key challenges for higher education included finding new ways to teach the digital generation, bringing down the cost of a college education, and ensuring more students graduate. A recent Harvard graduate has been exploring micro-financing and vocational education as one approach outside the United States…and one wonders if some in this country might take this route as well.
Forbes carried an article this past year that suggested that return on investment is the biggest issue facing higher education…with good reason.
I remain an optimist. I like the direction(s) Kevin Kelly's The Inevitable takes, in which new technological forces will drive new opportunities.
Soooo…if Enoch asked you the question, how would you respond? What should we be reading to inform our vision of higher education's future?
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The San Diego Center of Excellence in Diving at UC San Diego aims to help divers be effective consumers of scientific information through its "Healthy Divers in Healthy Oceans" mission. In this monograph we explore a research report from the Navy Experimental Diving Unit (NEDU) that is leading some divers to think they should be cold if they want to reduce decompression risk. That is a misinterpretation of the report, and may be causing divers to miss some of the joy of diving. There is no substitute for comfort and safety on a dive.
In 2007 NEDU published their often-cited report "The Influence of Thermal Exposure on Diver Susceptibility to Decompression Sickness" (Gerth et al., 2007). The authors, Drs. Wayne Gerth, Victor Ruterbusch, and Ed Long were questioning the conventional wisdom that cold at depth increases the risk of decompression illness. After conducting a very carefully designed experiment, they were shocked to find that exactly the opposite was true. Some degree of cooling was beneficial, as long as the diver was warm during ascent.
There are some important caveats for the non-Navy diver to consider. First of all, it was anticipated that a diver would have a system for carefully controlling their temperature during the separate phases of bottom time and decompression. Most non-Navy divers do not have that sort of surface support.
Secondly, the "cold" water in the NEDU study was 80 °F (27 °C). For most of us, 80 °F (27 °C) is an ideal swimming pool temperature, not exactly what you are going to find in non-tropical oceans and lakes. The warm water was 97 °F (36 °C), also a temperature not likely to be available to recreational and technical divers.
When testing the effect of anything on decompression results, the Navy uses their extensive mathematical expertise to select the one dive profile that is, in their estimation, the most likely to identify a difference in decompression risk, if that difference in risk exists. In this case the profile selected was a 120 fsw (37 msw) dive with 25 to 70 min bottom time, decompressed on a US Navy Standard Air table for 120 fsw (37 msw) and 70 min bottom time. That table prescribes 91 minutes of decompression divided thusly: 30 fsw/9 min (9msw/9 min), 20 fsw/23 min (6 msw/23 min), 10 fsw/55 min (3 msw/55 min).
A total of 400 carefully controlled dives were conducted yielding 21 diagnosed cases of decompression sickness. Overwhelmingly, the lowest risk of decompression was found when divers were kept warm during decompression. The effects of a 9 °C increase in water temperature during decompression was comparable to the effects of halving bottom time.
That is of course a remarkable result, apparently remarkable enough to cause civilian divers to alter their behavior when performing decompression dives. However, before you decide to chill yourself on the bottom or increase your risk of becoming hypothermic, consider these facts.
Do you have a way of keeping yourself warm, for instance with a hot water suit, during decompression? If not, the study results do not apply to you.
Of the many possible decompression schedules, the Navy tested only one schedule, the one considered to be the best for demonstrating a thermal influence on decompression risk. Although it seems reasonable that this result could be extrapolated to other dive profiles, such extrapolation is always risky. It may simply not hold for the particular dive you plan to make, especially if that dive is deeper and longer than tested.
Most commercial decompression computers do not adhere to the U.S. Navy Air Tables; few recreational dives are square profiles. Furthermore, additional conservatism is usually added to commercial algorithms. NEDU is not able to test the effects of diver skin temperature on all proprietary decompression tables, nor should they. That is not their mission.
The scientific method requires research to be replicated before test results can be proven or generalized. However, due to the labor and expense involved in the NEDU dive series, it seems unlikely that any experiments that would determine the relevance of these results to recreational or technical diving will ever be performed. As such, it may raise as many questions as it answers. For instance, the original question remains; if you become chilled on a dive, how does that affect your overall risk of decompression illness compared to remaining comfortably warm? Unfortunately, that question may never be answered fully.
Thermoneutral temperatures for swim suited divers are reported to be 93 °F to 97 °F (34 to 36 °C) for divers at rest and 90 °F (32 °C) during light to moderate work (Sterba, 1993). So a skin temperature of 80 °F (27 °C) is indeed cold for long duration dives. If your skin temperature is less than 80 °F (27 °C), then you are venturing into the unknown; NEDU's results may not apply.In summary, beer and some types of wine are best chilled. Arguably, divers are not.
Support for the San Diego Center of Excellence in Diving is provided by founding partners UC San Diego Health Sciences, UC San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography, OxyHeal Health Group, Divers Alert Network, Diving Unlimited International, Inc. and Scubapro.
Gerth WA, Ruterbusch VL, Long ET. The Influence of Thermal Exposure on Diver Susceptibility to Decompression Sickness. NEDU Technical Report 06-07, November 2007.
Sterba JA. Thermal Problems: Prevention and Treatment, in P.B. Bennett and D.H. Elliot, eds., The Physiology and Medicine of Diving, 4th ed. (London: Saunders, 1993), pp. 301-341.
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Dangard Ace takes place on a future Earth in which nearly all natural resources have been depleted. People have begun looking toward other planets to survive, in particular the fictional tenth planet, Promete. Although people had hoped to peacefully begin settlement there, disaster strikes as the first explorers are destroyed by betrayal.
After this event, an individual named Mr. Doppler leaves toward Promete on his own ship, and declares himself Chancellor of the planet. Using Promete's resources, Chancellor Doppler constructs a vast military force greater than that of Earth's. He forbids anyone approaching the planet, under the insane belief that only he is entitled to it.
To gain control of Promete, the governments of Earth begin constructing massive combat robots. Doppler is able to attack and destroy all robots before they are completed, except for Dangard Ace. The forces sent to attack Dangard's base where destroyed because of the efforts of Captain Dan. Nothing is known of this mysterious man, save that he previously served Doppler while under mind control.
Takuma Ichimonji, son of the man who betrayed the initial Promete exploration team, becomes a cadet at Dangard's base. Ichimonji hopes that he might restore his fathers honor by fighting against Doppler's forces.
Dangard Ace was never released in the USA as a Jumbo Shogun Warrior, yet he was featured in the range of small toys and was one of the main robots in the Marvel Comic.


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Born Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin in Paris France, she is best known by her pen name, George Sand. She is known as one of, if not the best, writers during the European Romantic era. She was born July 1, 1804 and raised predominantly by her grandmother, Marie-Aurore de Saxe, who lived in the small French…
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The Mother of God seated on a backless throne holding Christ on her left knee. No traces of epigraphy or border.
DO Seals 5 no. 103.1; J. Nesbitt, "A Lead Seal of Iohannes Faletrus, Bishop of Malamocco/Chioggia (ca. 1162)," 21–23.
Iohannes Faletrus Dei gratia Metamaucensis episcopus.
John Falier, by the grace of God, bishop of Malamocco.
Reverse (line 4): the letters A and U were carved on the boulloterion in ligature. The following letter is a malformed C of squarish, rather than lunate, shape.
It is possible that the bottom portions of letters at the end of the first line are the A and N of Iohan(nes). The final letter, however, could also be a slanted S, set above a squished U or V, and the last letter of the second line: "US."
An ecclesiastical member of the Faletrus (Falier) family is attested in a land grand drafted at Chioggia in October, 1162. The charter was written at the request of "Johannes Faletrus Dei gratia cluiensis episcopus." This John is undoubtedly the same as the owner of the present seal.
Three other members of the family are known: two Venetian doges (Vitale Falier [1084–1096] and Ordelafo Falier [1102–1118]) and Bonifacio Falier, the bishop of Castello from 1120 to 1130.
Malamocco's name comes from the Latin name of the Brenta River (Meduacus Maioris), and it was there that the tribunes of the lagoon assembled in the eighth and early ninth centuries in order to elect a doge. By 810, however, the center of government was moved to Rivo Alto (Venice) and thereafter Malamocco became a backwater. It was leveled by an earthquake in 1107 and in 1110 the episcopal throne was relocated to Chioggia, along with the body of St. Felix and the head of St. Fortunatus, Malamocco's patron saints.


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'Get Out' – Secrets, Easter eggs and References from Jordan Peele's Commentary
We are currently halfway through 2017 and 'Get Out' is still my favorite film of the year. It has remained consistently fascinating and re-watchable. I saw it four times in theaters. I love it. Judging from the 99% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes and the massive box office for its budget, I don't think I'm alone in this opinion. I recently picked up the Blu-Ray which is loaded with special features. There is an alternate ending, tons of deleted scenes and one of the most info-loaded commentaries I've ever heard. Jordan Peele is a massive fan of horror film and he filled 'Get Out' with homages to some of his favorites. On the terrific commentary he also goes into detailed background on the story. I thought it would be fun to share some of the things I learned. I hope you find this wealth of information as fascinating as I did.
*This article obviously contains spoilers.
I will be quoting Jordan Peele directly throughout the article. It's awesome that he gave fans the kind of commentary that he would want to listen to.
"I'm going the full director blabbermouth route. In the beginning I was thinking like 'hey, should I try and leave it like Kubrick so for years to come people are trying to piece together the mysteries of fucking 'Get Out?' Or should I just totally nerd out and tell you guys every detail I can possibly fit in?' Which is exactly what I would want in a director's commentary. So I did the nerd route."
-LORE AND MYTHOLOGY-
THE RED ALCHEMISTS SOCIETY
There is a ton of fascinating information contained in the commentary but my favorite has to do with the lore and myths of the 'Get Out' universe. Early in the film we see Jeremy Armitage (Caleb Landry Jones) attack Andre (Lakeith Stanfield) wearing a metal helmet. This is specifically a helmet of the Knights Templar. The order which the Armitages and the guests at the party belong to is called The Red Alchemists Society. They are descended from the Knights Templar.
"They believe they are destined for immortality and deity status. Over hundreds of years they have worked to figure out through science a way to achieve the power of The Holy Grail."
One of the symbols of The Red Alchemists Society is the Stag which can be seen above the TV in the basement as well as other places throughout the house.
THE PERFECT BEING
During the tour of the house, Dean Armitage (Bradley Whitford) tells Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) how his father was a track and field athlete and was beat in the qualifying round of the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Jesse Owens. "Within that we find sort of a motive for why the family 'has it in for black people' so to speak. Back in the day, Roman Armitage was physically beat by a black man on the world stage and he never got over it. He became obsessed with this idea that black people have more God-given advantages and that combined with a white man's determination, you could make the perfect being."
"I wanted to keep the particulars of how this auction works mysterious. What are the numbers? Are they millions of dollars? Billions of dollars? In my particular lore… The Knights Templar who this group are descended from were collectors of antiquities and treasures… They trade amongst each other these relics and artifacts. The numbers he is holding up are the amount of relics."
THE SUNKEN PLACE
"This is meant to be a construct of Chris's mind. It is a representation of his own worst fear. This place, this time he was powerless and sort of confined to this constraint and all he could do is watch this TV… The Sunken Place is experienced differently for everyone else. It is a state of mind created by your own brain based on Missy's sort of latching on to your deepest fear or darkest moment so that Andre, the woman that Georgina is or Walter all live in a sort of marginalized state. They can see through the eyes of their captor but they can't do anything… Everyone's room and Sunken Place would look different."
THE ARMITAGE FAMILY
"So this is all carefully planned dynamic from the family. The whole lore of this movie goes that Rose and Jeremy were basically raised to do this purpose. From a young age they were groomed into these wranglers… So every step here is very calculated. Missy is the master of the plan of how to get them there and how to maintain the illusion. She understands psychology. Dean is the master of the science of the operation."
Rose/Ro-Ro – Peele calls the evil version of Rose (Allison Williams) 'Ro-Ro' and says she is probably his favorite character in the movie. Ro-Ro is a distinctly different personality than Rose, even down to the fact that she wears her hair in a pony tail. Once it is revealed that she is part of the conspiracy and Missy paralyzes Chris, Rose immediately puts her hair in a pony tail.
Jeremy – "I think Jeremy secretly wants Chris's body. He's into this idea that he might be able to get that body and become better at jiu-jitsu."
Georgina and Walter – Peele says that the grandparents are told to stay away from the operation because they are not good at deceit and may give it away. They are offended at being pushed to the side and act resentfully which explains some of their strange behavior.
-EASTER EGGS-
There are numerous homages throughout the film to some of Peele's favorite horror and genre films. One film however is a favorite of Jordan Peele's and referenced many times in the movie:
'THE SHINING' REFERENCES
– In the opening scene of the film, Andre says "It's like a fuckin' hedge maze out here" which is a reference to the Overlook Hotel hedge maze.
– The opening credits are colored light blue to match the color of the opening credits of 'The Shining.'
– When Dean Armitage gives Chris a tour of the house, this is inspired by the scene where Jack is given a tour of The Overlook.
– The first time Georgina is seen in the kitchen is an homage to the scene of the Grady twins. The camera comes around the corner and she is patiently waiting for him just like the twins.
– The section of the film which focuses on Rod (LilRel Howery) after Chris is captured by the Armitages is like the section of 'The Shining' where Dick Hallorann attempts to help the Torrances (Peele also references another Stephen King story in saying this is like the Sherriff attempting to help in 'Misery.') I wanted to have a character on the outside offer some hope. We love Rod, so I felt like in the darkest moment of the movie we can sort of begin a new chapter."
– The suburban street Andre walks down at the beginning of the film is similar to the neighborhood from John Carpenter's 'Halloween.'
– The white Porsche that Jeremy Armitage drives is a few references in one. Peele wanted it to be a faceless monster like the shark in Jaws. Also as you can't see the driver, he was using the "car as a mask" referencing both John Carpenter's 'Christine' as well as Steven Spielberg's first film 'Duel' in which a man is ruthlessly pursued by a malicious truck with an unseen driver.
– The 'Behold the Coagula' video was inspired by the Dharma Initiative videos from 'Lost.'
– The film is very reminiscent of 'The Stepford Wives.' Peele often describes the film as "'The Stepford Wives' meets 'The Help.'" This is most directly seen in the character of Georgina (Betty Gabriel) who is intended to convey the alarming artificiality of The Stepford Wives.
– The title of the film conjures the old Eddie Murphy comedy routine about "The Amityville Horror' and how a black family would deal with that situation. A voice says "Get out!" and Murphy immediately says "Too bad we can't stay, baby…"
– The scene of Walter (Marcus Henderson) running at Chris in the dark which prompted countless 'Get Out challenge' videos was inspired by the classic plane scene in Alfred Hitchcock's 'North By Northwest.' "One of my favorite things is using depth… Somebody running at you just creates a visceral and physical reaction from the audience."
– The scene where Missy Armitage (Catherine Keener) hypnotizes Chris is inspired by 'The Silence of The Lambs' and Hannibal Lecter's mastery of being able to get into Clarice Starling's head.
-OTHER INTERESTING TIDBITS-
– The font used in the opening credits is the same as the 'Behold the Coagula' video.
– The composer for the film is first timer Michael Abels. Peele wanted something never heard before. He requested "give me black voices with a sinister sound that's not voodoo. A disembodied or Satanic negro spiritual."
– When we first see Chris, he is putting white on his face (as he is shaving.) This is to foreshadow what will be attempted on him later.
– Rose has the same smile at the beginning of the film while selecting pastries as she has at the end when she is using her laptop and looking at photos of men, selecting who her next victim would be.
– Early in the film, Chris says to Rose "I don't wanna be chased off the lawn with a shotgun." This foreshadows the end of the film when Rose fires a shotgun at him across the lawn.
– Rose defends Chris when the police officer asks him for ID saying that he does not have to show it as he was not driving. Her real motivation for this was so the cop would not be able to identify him when he goes missing.
– During the backyard iced tea scene, Missy Armitage can be seen laying the groundwork for her later hypnotizing of Chris by clinking the teacup with her spoon as he is talking about his mother.
– The stuffed lion next to Rose's bed is because "The lion is a symbol of Christ and of course the Knights Templar."
– When Walter/Roman Armitage is seen out running at night it is because he is training. He believes that with his new body, he could beat Jesse Owens' time.
– On the closet door in Rose's room which is continually left open: "In my mythology of this: Rose is so sick and twisted that she always leaves the door a little bit open… That's part of the thrill of the hunt- leaving a tantalizing opening for Chris to find these pictures. That's just part of her character. Her sort of flaw is she's sort of like a cat and mouse."
– On the cotton Chris uses to plug his ears near the end of the film: "I was intending the irony of picking cotton is what ends up saving this African American from slavery."
-RACIAL METAPHOR-
Jordan Peele speaks frankly about the strong racial meaning of the film:
"The Sunken Place amongst other things is a metaphor for the marginalization of the black horror movie audience. We are a loyal horror movie fanbase and we're relegated to the theater, not on the screen. We don't have representation of our skin in horror films, nor do we have representation of our sensibilities and our ability to observe trouble before it happens and our ability to excuse ourselves… This movie for me was an answer to the lack of representation. I think as a culture, as a country our lack of ability to talk about race- specifically the prison industrial system complex and the disproportionate amount of black people (mostly men) who are literally abducted, thrown into a hole and tossed to the back of our minds. These people are tossing black men to the back of their minds literally and figuratively. The Sunken Place is a metaphor for that particular marginalization."
"This movie is sort of meant to be my take on 'Frankenstein.' In many ways, The African American experience is this country's Frankenstein's Monster."
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The 10 craziest moments in Trinity this decade
Alison Traynor and Suzanne Flynn
As 2019 draws to a close, we teeter on the precipice of a new decade. It is a time of mixed emotions; we look excitedly to the future, yet we also think of the past with nostalgia. Trinity has survived another decade, thriving in good times and enduring bad times, accepting the mundane and revelling in the extraordinary. With this in mind, Trinity News looks back upon the university's past decade, returning to 10 of the strange, seminal and shocking moments that defined it.
Cans for votes
The year was 2016 and SU election fever was in full swing. While presidential hopefuls and wannabe education officers battled it out, the student body was only interested in one thing: who would become the next Ents officer? Caolán Maher believed that he was the man for the job, and he knew exactly how to work his audience. Well, according to an eyewitness, he bribed them with free cans, because who wouldn't be willing to overlook political corruption for some Dutch Gold? This course of action may not have led to his election, but the mastermind behind cangate certainly went down in Trinity history. Richard Nixon would be proud!
Front Gate car crash
In 2014, one individual had an unusual way of getting into college – literally. A 68 year old man who had previously worked as a taxi driver rammed his car through the wooden gates at the College Green entrance and additionally crashed into multiple vehicles at College Green, after ramming into Front Gate four times. The motorist had no connection to Trinity and no apparent motive.
The gates had originally been erected in the 1870s and were restored in the months after the event at a cost of €33,000. In 2017 the motorist involved was found not guilty by reason of insanity to the charges before him, including damages in relation to the costs of refurbishing the gates.
#Catgate
One fateful evening in 2011, 17,000 Trinity students received an email. For once, it was not the Careers Advisory Service reminding them that their degree comes with the added bonus of lifelong unemployment. Instead, it was a message from [email protected], which simply read "CAN WE HAS OLDD TIMETABLE PLZKTNX". At the time the email was sent, a conflict was raging between the SU and Trinity authorities, who had changed several exam timetables in order to accommodate Queen Elizabeth II's visit. Eventually, College gave in to the SU's demands, and the students of Trinity all have one rebellious, computer-savvy feline to thank for that.
The bomb squad
It's not every day that a bomb squad are called to the college. However, in July 2018, a bomb squad was deployed to destroy TNT which had been improperly stored in a chemistry lab in the Wellcome building on campus. The chemicals were left by a former PhD student, who later faced disciplinary action.
According to Dr Robert Baker, safety officer for the School of Chemistry, "one of the three controlled explosions surprised the bomb squad in its intensity and there was enough force to blow a sandbag into a tree." Dr Baker however contradicted this statement in a later comment to Trinity News, saying "the bomb squad has not been called to the School of Chemistry. Any hazardous materials held in the School of Chemistry are for legitimate research purposes."
Holographic Paddy P
No list of iconic Trinity moments would be complete without the (virtual) appearance of Paddy P. When our glorious provost is not sparking college-wide protests, he can sometimes be found channeling Tupac by parading around in a holographic form. I am sorry to break the news to you, but that was not just a horrifying fever dream that you had; it actually happened in 2018, when Patrick Prendergast opened the Trinity Business and Technology Forum. Most people would stick to making an insipid speech, but not this man.
The Hist orgy
The great Hist orgy of 2016 will go down in history for being one of the wildest moments in Trinity in the last decade. Allegedly beginning after a nude calendar photo shoot, the Piranha reported the committee decided to embark on a journey of mutual sexual exploration as "(they were) all naked anyway". It seemed, however, that one orgy was not enough for the Hist and that in fact a second orgy would take place during a Hist schools competition. Whether the orgies are now regular events on the Hist's social calendar remains to be seen.
DCU's identity crisis
While not strictly a Trinity event, we just couldn't resist including DCU's momentary identity crisis on this list. During storm Ophelia in 2017, the country was left blown away, and not just by the wind. The Taoiseach issued a tweet asking that all third level institutions remain closed, and when DCU questioned its status as a college, as people took it as an excuse to troll DCU forever more.
As Leo tweeted:
"Nationwide Red warning now. All schools and colleges to close. More info @meteireann …"
DCU replied with:
"Can you please clarify what is meant by colleges and institutions? Does this extend to third level institutions?"
Twitter gold.
The Boat Club hazing
One of the most disturbing things that has happened in Trinity over the past decade is Dublin University Boat Club's hazing scandal. Several former and current members spoke out about the humiliation that they had faced in order to be initiated into the club. According to the University Times, the club hosts an annual event known as "Commons", during which new members are shouted at, told to strip, violently whipped with canes and bamboo, pushed through dark tunnels and forced to eat unidentified substances and drink excessive amounts of alcohol.
Bollywood comes to Front Square
Trinity is not a place that is often associated with Bollywood cinema. However, it should be, because in 2012, the Bollywood movie Ek Tha Tiger was shot there. The slightly ridiculous plot narrates the story of a Trinity-based scientist who is suspected of selling missile technology secrets to Pakistan, which prompts an Indian secret agent to investigate the matter. Of course, it wouldn't be a real film without a sickly romantic subplot, so unsurprisingly, the agent falls in love with the scientist's caretaker, and chaos ensues. Sadly, the two lovers did not meet via Trinder, because it had not been invented yet, but there is always scope for a sequel.
Alison Traynor
Alison Traynor is the current Life Editor of Trinity News.
Suzanne Flynn
Suzanne Flynn is the current Deputy Life Editor for Trinity News, and a Senior Sophister Law and German student.
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MARSHALL – Call it love at first sight. It's often that way when patients meet Lady Anne, a vivacious 7-year-old Cavalier King Charles spaniel who delivers smiles and comfort through Oaklawn Pet Therapy.
"We visit patients in the psychiatric area in a large comfortable room, but we spend most of our time in individual patient rooms, specifically the Birth Center," said Lady Anne's handler, Leta Morris of Marshall.
Morris and her lively canine friend are becoming familiar faces around Oaklawn through the new pet-therapy program, demonstrating that animals have a definite healing effect on humans.
"Nursing homes, behavioral health institutions, prisons and hospitals are increasingly relying on animals to help individuals who've experienced a variety of disabilities, including loss of sight and hearing, and to help those who experience loneliness, depression or stressful changes from their normal lifestyle," said Ginger Williams, Oaklawn's President and CEO.
Lady Anne's animal magnetism is so profound, it led to a love-at-first-sight experience for Morris as well.
Even through a photo, the attraction was so strong that Morris traveled to Missouri to meet Lady Anne's breeder and inspect Lady Anne.
"She just jumped into my arms," Morris said.
Morris has been a Canine Good Citizen Evaluator for the Raleigh, N.C.-based American Kennel Club since 2011, and is also an evaluator for Baltimore-based Therapy Pets Unlimited. As such, she has the skills to verify whether a dog can be considered properly trained and conditioned to act in a well-mannered fashion in public places and among other dogs.
Researchers in the pet-therapy field say psychiatric patients who work with such animals can also be helped to develop more positive relationships with other humans, Williams said.
"The American Humane Association upholds the conviction that therapeutic animals can and should be a significant part of mainstream health care, in the ongoing effort by medical organizations nationwide to enhance patients' well-being," Williams said, adding that Oaklawn developed its program through discussions with its Voice of the Customer committee, which focuses on involving community members in hospital operations.
Because contact with animals can raise concerns about safety and sanitation, responsible health-care organizations impose cautious rules that typically remove any worries and enhance the general sense of well-being. At Oaklawn, Lady Anne's visits come under the supervision of Sarah LaSalle, the organization's Infection Preventionist.
In fact, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have never received a report of infection from animal-assisted therapy, according to officials for the Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research.
Morris has also worked with a German shepherd named Calibur, frequently visiting medical sites in Battle Creek and Grand Rapids. Calibur, a former search-and-rescue dog, continues to be a service dog assigned to Morris' husband Floyd, a Vietnam-era veteran formerly employed by CSX Rail Road in Grand Rapids.
Morris and her husband moved to Marshall in early 2015 after she retired as an operations supervisor from Grand River Bank in Grandville.
The positive impact of therapy animals is well supported by science, according to the Elkton, Md.-based nonprofit organization Paws for People. Contact with therapy animals helps to lower blood pressure, improve cardiovascular health and release calming endorphins in the body, according to the group.
Lady Anne's charm has been known to break through to patients who dislike dogs.
Morris also recalled an incident when Lady Anne was brought to visit a patient who refused any company and preferred covering his head with blankets.
"I would say, 'Lady Anne is here to see you,' and he would throw off the covers," Morris said.
And what's in it for Lady Anne?
"She loves it," Morris said. "And I enjoy talking to the people. I enjoy seeing the smiles and the joy that she brings to them. It's a beautiful experience.


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