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Have you seen the WordPress.com front page lately? Everyone gets to see the updated design but English readers get a special treat: News Departments. Learn how we decide which posts to feature and how you can get your link and your pretty face on the front page.
The links on the old front page are based on our blog popularity rankings, which you can browse in dozens of languages at Blogs of the Day. Using the same system to rank the posts found in certain categories, we now keep lists of the hottest posts in these departments:
- Business
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- Sports
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Honestly, the lists are still quite weak because although many of you write about these topics, you probably have your own system of categories. For now, we haphazardly grab posts from related categories to try to fill out the lists. That's why you can see posts in the Sports department that didn't get posted in the Sports category, for example. We may phase out this logic when more bloggers post directly into these departments.
To get featured, you must:
- upload an avatar if you haven't already,
- use the categories above when you blog on relevant topics, and
- attract lots of readers to your posts.
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- use inappropriate titles or avatars,
- post gratuitous profanity or nudity,
- put a post in irrelevant categories, or
- put a post in a lot of categories (ten is a lot)
…unless you want to be excluded from the News Departments. We aren't about to censor what you publish but we will decide what not to feature on the front page. If you do want to be excluded, please just ask us. It's no problem.
Lots of people have posted screenshots of the front page and their traffic graphs the first time they see themselves featured. That's a nice trophy but the best part about being on the front page is that you can attract even more readers who might be interested in your blog. All they will see is your avatar and your post title. Before you upload a new avatar or write a post title, consider you audience and what will attract them.
We have plans to do a lot more than just prettying up the English front page. Other languages will follow. New departments may appear. A lot of work has already gone into the construction of a new place where you can browse fresh, hot content in any department you like but we need your help. We need more posts in each department to make it really work. So remember these global categories.
There's one more thing. Soon we will publish longer lists of posts with excerpts much like BOTD Top Posts. We have been grabbing excerpts from the post content but we would prefer to let you write your own teasers. You will find an Optional Excerpt field below the Content area on the post writing page. We will use up to 40 words or 200 characters from your Optional Excerpt. No formatting or HTML tags will be allowed so just try to attract readers with a sentence or two. If you leave it blank we'll use the post content instead. Good luck!
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Surprise! New Walkmen disc exceeds expectations
The Walkmen: Bows + Arrows
I didn't get the garage/indie-rock group The Walkmen's latest release, Bows + Arrows, when I first got hold of it. I had enjoyed their 2002 release, Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me Is Gone, with the distant air of a sated lover "That was nice," I'd say to no one in particular when the disc reached its conclusion. It featured a few tracks that I felt approached a metaphorical great lay, but something was a little off. Next to catchy and strange pop nuggets like "We've been had" were songs that just sprawled there, spread-eagle, like a necrophiliac's dream.
"They're almost there," I'd say. "Their next album could be the big one."
My idea of the "big one" was something combining the Walkmen's singular and strange elements: Hamilton Leithauser Bowie on Broadway vocals, the group's penchant for including more soft, slow songs than rockers on their albums, and their strange grasp of that little conundrum, the pop song, into an album that would be a classic.
Bows + Arrows, I decided after I listened to it a few times, is not this album. And now, after many more spins, I stand by my original statement. It just turns out that the album I expected the Walkmen to create (big sing-along choruses, pop hooks) would probably be far inferior and much more ordinary than the album they did make.
Bows + Arrows begins with "What's In It For Me," a "With or Without You"-tempoed sloucher where Walter Martin's organ and pandemonium slowly meander their way– with the aid of Leithauser's warbling "What's in for me?"– for eventual touchdown with Matt Barrick's tom-heavy drum set. Verses are separated by short musical segments, where the rapidly strummed ghostly apparition of a guitar sometimes floats in and out of your perception.
On the single "The Rat," guitars make their triumphant return, and Paul Maroon more than makes up for their absence on the last track. U2's "The Edge" without the delay pedal is essentially Maroonfaster-than-rapid chords wash over the spectrum, leaving no gaps in a constant barrage of E-A-D-G-B-E. When the Walkmen get excited, as on "The Rat" or "Little House of Savages," their pop leanings are more evident than they are on slower tunes such as "No Christmas While I'm Talking." But these latter numbers have a strange spectral beauty, like a musical kiss from a ghostly apparition.
It's on tracks like "My Old Man"– somewhere in between the group on methamphetamine and the group on methaqualone– that they truly shine. On this number, pop drums and jangly guitar support organ and bass, all providing the background to Leithauser's occasional verse/chorus/verse habit.
If you ever get in a situation where you have to describe the Walkmen correctly or be shot (and for some god-awful reason you have not heard them before), choose this song to listen to, track 5. It just might save your life.
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Dominant outing gives Wainwright 13th victory
Cards maintain record-breaking pace with runners in scoring position
ST. LOUIS -- It was long assumed to be an historic pace too unbelievable to be sustained. And yet, there continues to be no regression when it comes to the Cardinals' effectiveness when hitting with runners in scoring position.
Another two hits in such spots on Sunday drove home three runs, just enough to lift the Cardinals, 3-2, over the Padres and make Adam Wainwright the National League's first 13-game winner. The victory, which came in front of 44,033 at Busch Stadium, pushed the Cardinals back to 22 games over .500.
It would not, however, be sealed with ease. Edward Mujica tiptoed around trouble in the ninth -- getting a break on a ball bouncing into the stands and an assist on a game-saving catch by Allen Craig -- to seal his 28th save.
"That was pretty dramatic," said Craig, who made the leaping grab against the left-field wall with the potential tying and go-ahead runs in scoring position.
Long before he saved Mujica, Craig was in the middle of the Cardinals' offensive productivity. Both of Sunday's run-scoring hits came in the third, which opened with a Matt Carpenter double.
After Yadier Molina walked, Craig drove Carpenter in with a single. Craig, now hitting .489 with runners in scoring position, has accumulated 20 hits and 28 RBIs in his last 29 chances with a runner on second and/or third.
"I almost start running as he starts his swing because I know it's going to be a hit," Carpenter said of Craig. "Seriously, if I've scored 80 times, I feel like he's driven me in 79 of them. When guys are out there, he's going to find a way to drive you in. It's amazing."
David Freese followed Craig's game-tying hit with a two-run double off Padres starter Eric Stults that scooted past a diving Alexi Amarista in center. For Freese, it was his first multi-RBI game since June 25.
"Obviously," Freese said, "that's been a trouble aspect of my game this season, and that gets frustrating."
The first-place Cardinals remain baseball's only team with a winning percentage north of .600, and that's due in large part to that timely hitting.
The qualifier of a small sample size is now gone 96 games into the season -- and in fact, the deeper the season goes, the more productive the Cardinals have been.
At the end of April, the team was batting .327 with runners in scoring position. A month later, the average was up to .333. Three months in, it sat at .335. And after going 2-for-5 with runners in scoring position on Sunday, the Cardinals now boast a mark of .338. No team in baseball history has even come close to maintaining such a pace.
"We just have a lot of guys who want to be up in those big spots," Craig said. "We're selfish, in that we all want to get the job done. I think it helps that we have so many good hitters on the team, so one guy doesn't necessarily have to feel like he has to hit a home run in his spot to drive in all of them. It's kind of like a 'pass-the-baton' kind of thing. We've had a relentless approach."
The benchmark for a 162-game season remains .311, an average achieved by the 2007 Tigers and 1996 Rockies. Over the last 40 years, only 13 teams have finished a season batting at or above .300 with runners in scoring position. The next most productive NL team in such spots this season is the Rockies, who entered Sunday batting .264.
"I think it's just become the norm and expectation," manager Mike Matheny said. "They're taking a lot of pride with runners in scoring position, especially with two outs, to get that big hit and pick us up."
A well-rested Wainwright gave the Cardinals his eighth start of at least eight innings this year. Already the league leader in innings pitched, Wainwright joins Detroit's Max Scherzer, Tampa Bay's Matt Moore and Oakland's Bartolo Colon as the only pitchers to win 13 games.
The Padres scored twice off Wainwright, using a leadoff double to manufacture a run both times. Everth Cabrera scored from third on a two-out single in the first. In the sixth, Carlos Quentin came home when Wainwright induced a double play.
Wainwright, who allowed the leadoff batter to reach seven times, stalled potential Padres rallies in the next two innings. He stranded Logan Forsythe on third with a called third strike against All-Star shortstop Cabrera in the seventh.
"That's one of the key at-bats," Wainwright said of the nine-pitch battle. "If I put Cabrera on right there and Chase [Headley] comes up to the plate, he's capable of a three-run shot at any point."
In the next frame, a Quentin double play erased a leadoff single. Wainwright ended the inning -- and his outing -- with his seventh strikeout.
With Wainwright's pitch count at 103, Mujica took the game into his hands in the ninth. It was dicey from the get-go. Mujica beat Will Venable to first on a bang-bang play to record the first out. With a runner on first, Shane Robinson tracked a deep fly ball for the second.
Pinch-hitter Jesus Guzman then sent a double down the line in left that had a chance to plate Amarista from first. Opinions on whether it would differed based on perspective.
"No doubt, no doubt [he scores]," Padres manager Bud Black said. "Where Craig was and Alexi's speed, no doubt."
"It looked like Allen was in a good spot to get a good bounce off the wall," added Matheny. "But that's if everything went perfect. It would have probably been a train wreck at home plate though."
Craig ended the possibility of a comeback with a catch that evoked memories of Nelson Cruz and Game 7 of the 2011 World Series.
"I wasn't playing that deep and he just hit it straight over my head," Craig said. "It stayed up just long enough."


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Meet current BTS leader Steven Summer
It's a new week, and we have a new 40-game Streaker. Let's meet letsgonets44 — or as people call him off the internet, Steven Summer.
Steve is a warehouse worker from Long Beach, NY. That's on the South Shore of Long Island, which means that the weather looked something like this over the weekend. Steve reports that Irene was his first hurricane experience, and that he survived despite being just 50 yards from the beach.
Our current leader named Jose Bautista and David Wright as his favorite MLB players. As for his favorite team, he responded with just "Mets (ughh)." Yup, that pretty much sums up this season for the formerly-Amazins.
Steve has been playing Beat the Streak for a few seasons but was unaware of the BTS Report's existence until a few days ago, when he stumbled across the blog while reviewing the official rules and prizes. Better late than never, so welcome aboard! Just one question, though: for a guy who said he'd only answer my questions if the Report "isn't cursed like the Madden cover," isn't checking out the Prizes page the ultimate in bad Streaking karma? Click that link at your own risk.
As for picking strategy, Steve usually goes against weaker pitchers, naming Carl Pavano and Kyle Lohse as two of his favorite victims. Lately, however, he's been influenced by a friend who advised him to only use Ichiro or speedy left-handed players from NL teams. So a dude batting .274 and Michael Bourn? Well, OK then.
Oh, and in case you were wondering about Steve's game on the links: "I play golf righty, but I'm a switch-putter." There you have it.
Good luck to Steve as he streaks for a share of the season lead tonight.
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Miguel Cabrera: .480 (12-for-25) since '06 vs. Royals starter Luke Hochevar
Johnny Damon: .412 (7-for-17) since '06 vs. Blue Jays starter Ricky Romero
Alexei Ramirez: .429 (6-for-14) since '06 vs. Twins starter Kevin Slowey
Ichiro Suzuki: .455 (5-for-11) since '06 vs. Angels starter Joel Pineiro
Neil Walker: .455 (5-for-11) since '06 vs. Astros starter Wandy Rodriguez
Feeling kinda spicy?
Blake DeWitt: .444 (8-for-18) since '06 vs. Giants starter Tim Lincecum
Brandon Wood: .714 (5-for-7) since '06 vs. Astros starter Wandy Rodriguez
David DeJesus: .556 (5-for-9) since '06 vs. Indians starter David Huff
You'll thank me later
Brandon Phillips: .120 (3-for-25) since '06 vs. Phillies starter Cole Hamels
Andrew McCutchen: .125 (2-for-16) since '06 vs. Astros starter Wandy Rodriguez
Chase Utley: .100 (1-for-10) since '06 vs. Reds starter Homer Bailey
Joey Votto: .167 (2-for-12) since '06 vs. Phillies starter Cole Hamels
Top MLB streakers
Carlos Gonzalez: 15 games
Alex Avila: 12 games
David Ortiz: 12 games
Home Run Beat the Streak pick:
Paul Konerko: (28 home runs this season) vs. Twins starter Kevin Slowey
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I went with Robinson Cano tonight, due to his dominance against the Orioles.
I was tempted by Ichiro, but it just seems too perfect of a pick and knowing the leader would also have him, made the front-heavy tower collapse for me.
Shocked that only 3.4% of the contest has Ichiro though.
Would have thought that would be closer to 20%.
Well, Mr. Summer just 1 Ichiro hit away from tying Joe Turner for season lead. That means at least 2 people will be up late tonite.
Anyone else notice that finelin33 made a non-DL pick today? Maybe he thinks it's time to make a move with the season winding down? About 31 days left including today & currently a 30-gamer. Guess no point in letting it go to waste, huh?
solid knock in the 4th inning moves me onto 9…a new season high!
I got Javy Guerra and the Dodgers are up 4-1 after 8. The question is will Guerra come in or will Kershaw go for a complete game.
Dang it Kershaw is going all 9 come on give up a hit pull him and out in Guerra for a 1 out save.
**** that FR game always a ##### pause. I want survivor back!


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Salary-review season is upon us. Most managers conduct performance reviews at the beginning of the year, and most performance reviews entail some sort of salary review. Don't get your hopes up for a raise, though. In this economy, many companies have a salary freeze, and no one's coming out of the cold any time soon.
By all means, prepare rationale for why you should receive a raise. But in the likely event that your boss cannot budge, suggest ways other than monetary that your boss can reward you for your good performance.
On the company balance sheet, a raise is very expensive. It's a fixed, recurring cost, and the additional benefits and taxes make the raise even more costly for your company. Your suggestions should be one-time expenses, which are easier to justify to the holder of purse strings. Better yet, suggest something that's free to the company.
1. More vacation days. Go for the gold: Ask for three extra weeks and bargain down from there. Take a long break now while the economy is sluggish and opportunities are scarce.
2. Flex time. You could work one day from home. Or, if you're like 80 percent of office workers and you know you'll get nothing done from home, ask your boss if you can work four long days and have one day off. This is a good time to hone your work-life balance.
3. Training. Be creative with this request. Recognize one of your weaknesses and find a top-tier class to deal with it. Try public speaking or leadership.
4. Another salary review in June. This promise is free to your boss and an easy way to get you off his back right now. Get the promise in writing, but realize that a promise for a review is still not a promise for a raise.
5. A laptop to take home. This is a good request to make if you have a crappy computer at home. Tell your boss you will work from home and this will help her justify the expense to the keeper of the purse strings. (Do not actually do any work from home, though. After all, you didn't get a raise. Instead start that pet project– see No. 8.)
6. Stock options. Stock was a joke in the '90s because it was so overvalued. But today it's not likely that you work at a company where the stock has gone nuts. (If you do, fight hard for a raise!)
7. A plumb project. Look around the company for a project coming up that will make a big impact on the company's bottom line. Ask your boss if you can manage that project. It won't get you a raise now, but it'll set you up for a big one down the line.
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When you're negotiating with your boss for an alternative to a raise, the thing to remember is that recessions don't last forever. So instead of focusing on salary now, use this time to put yourself in a good position for when the economy improves. The raise will come a little later, but you will be in line for a bigger one.