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Jon Hopkins | 13/05/13
With the release of Jon Hopkins' forthcoming album, Immunity, on June 3rd, we are excited to premiere the extraordinary new audio-visual piece and collaboration with The Creators Project, 'Immunity'. Watch it here: http://youtu.be/QWam1HlKGkI
The 'Immunity' video was an intricate collaborative effort between art director & typographer Craig Ward, biochemist Linden Gledhill and Jon Hopkins. Soundtracked by music from the forthcoming album, the piece features Gledhill's microscopic time-lapse photography of crystal growth and chemical reactions. Craig Ward explains:
"Jon's music is organic and flowing, yet with a hard and rhythmic electronic edge. The idea of delving down to explore chemical interactions under a microscope felt like the perfect solve to create the album imagery and our video for The Creators Project features much of the same - various immiscible liquids, dyes and chemicals interacting underneath the watchful eye of my collaborator on the project, biochemist Linden Gledhill."
To learn more about 'Immunity', visit http://bit.ly/10KQv4o. The Creators Project is an ongoing global arts and technology initiative created by Intel and Vice in order to support visionary artists, musicians, and filmmakers who are using technology to push the bounds of creative expression.
Jon Hopkins has added a date at KOKO in London on 21st September. His album release show at London's Village Underground on June 12th has now sold out. Hopkins will also be performing at Green Man and Bestival in the UK. Full live dates are as follows:
Sat. May 11 - Geneva, CH @ Mapping Festival
Fri. May 31 - Montreal, QC @ Mutek [Metropolis]
Tue. June 4 - Brooklyn, NY @ Glasslands
Wed. June 12 - London, UK @ Village Underground~ - SOLD OUT
Thu. June 13 - Barcelona, ES @ Leisure System
Sun. June 23 - Westmeath, IE @ Body & Soul
Sat. June 29 - Derry, IE @ Celtronic Festival
Fri. July 5 - Amsterdam, NL @ Pitch Festival
Sat. July 20 - Gente, BE @ 10 Days Off Festival
Fri. Aug. 16 - Berlin, DE @ Berghain
Sat. Aug. 17 - Wales, UK @ Green Man Festival
Fri. Aug. 23 - Katowice, PL @ Nowa Musyka
Fri. Sep. 6 - Isle of Wight, UK @ Bestival
Sat. Sep. 21 - London, UK @ Koko
Thu. Oct. 26 - Munich, DE @ Münchner Kammerspiele
~ w/ The Field (support/solo live show), Nathan Fake (support/DJ set)
Open Eye Signal is the first single taken from the album and will be available on June 3rd, with remixes from Happa, Lord of the Isles, Luke Abbott and Nosaj Thing. STREAM "OPEN EYE SIGNAL" (NOSAJ THING REMIX) here: http://snd.sc/104I1Jk.
WATCH "OPEN EYE SIGNAL" video, here: http://youtu.be/Q04ILDXe3QE
Pre-order Immunity, HERE.


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IOC President Bach slams politicians over Olympics protests
SOCHI, Russia >> IOC President Thomas Bach accused world leaders Tuesday of using the Sochi Olympics as a political platform "on the backs of the athletes," and of snubbing the games without even being invited.
Three days before the opening of Russia's first Winter Games, Bach used a hard-hitting speech to call out political leaders for using the Olympics to make an "ostentatious gesture" serving their own agenda.
Without naming any individuals, Bach's comments appeared directed at President Barack Obama and European politicians who have taken stands against Russia's law banning gay "propaganda" among minors.
The Olympics, Bach said, should not be "used as a stage for political dissent or for trying to score points in internal or external political contests."
"Have the courage to address your disagreements in a peaceful direct political dialogue and not on the backs of the athletes," he said at a ceremony attended by Russian President Vladimir Putin. "People have a very good understanding of what it really means to single out the Olympic Games to make an ostentatious gesture which allegedly costs nothing but produces international headlines.
"In the extreme, we had to see a few politicians whose contributions to the fight for a good cause consisted of publicly declining invitations they had not even received."
The buildup to the Olympics has been overshadowed by Western criticism of the anti-gay law and Russia's record on human rights and other issues, making Sochi among the most politically charged games in years.
President Barack Obama and key European leaders are shunning the Olympics. Obama, in a clear message against the anti-gay laws, has sent a delegation to Sochi made up of three openly gay athletes — tennis great Billie Jean King, 2006 Olympic hockey medalist Caitlin Cahow and figure skater Brian Boitano.
For the first time since 2000, the U.S. delegation to an Olympics will not include a president, vice president or first lady. Former Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano leads the delegation.
German President Joachim Gauck and French President Francois Hollande are also not coming to Sochi. Neither is British Prime Minister David Cameron.
Bach's speech was delivered at a ceremony marking the opening of the IOC's three-day session, or general assembly, ahead of the games. The German's sharp comments marked a strong contrast with the relatively anodyne, diplomatic speeches of his predecessor, Jacques Rogge.
Bach, winner of a fencing gold medal at the 1972 Olympics, was elected in September to succeed Rogge, who served for 12 years.


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If you don't appreciate the story of Patrick Thibodeau, the team manager for the Greely High (Cumberland Center, Maine) boys basketball squad, then your heart is old and wooden.
Patrick, a senior who has Down's Syndrome, practices with the team but had never played in a real game. He recently he got his chance, however, during Greely's Senior Night, and he made the most of it. And the video above only tells part of the story.
Patrick made sure his opportunity counted, scoring a 3-pointer with just his second shot. Then, with one minute left in the game, fans stood and chanted Patrick's name. The coach put him back in the game and he delivered — sinking another three-pointer at the buzzer. Patrick's teammates swarmed around him, and carried him off the court.
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Patrick's father, Perry, suffered a stroke two weeks ago, and was released from the hospital the day before in order to see his son play. Hey, I've always said it: Patrick Thibodeau is going to get his points; you just have to make sure you stop everyone else.
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Brian Hayes. American Scientist. Volume 86, Issue 2. Mar/Apr 1998.
The most powerful computer in the world, according to a recent ranking, is a machine called Janus, which has 9,216 Pentium Pro processors. That's a lot of Pentia, but it's a pretty puny number in comparison with the 20 million or more processors attached to the global Internet. If you have a big problem to solve, recruiting a few percent of the CPUs on the Net would gain you more raw power than any supercomputer on earth.
Of course the trick is to get all those millions of scattered machines working on your problem. The 9,216 Pentiums are all conveniently housed in a single room at the Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque. Setting them to work on the task of your choice is a simple matter; all you need is an account on the machine, a password, an allocation of CPU time, possibly a security clearance, and a little knowledge of programming in a specialized dialect of FORTRAN or C. Persuading the Internet to do your bidding is not so easy.
And yet it can be done. Consider the hunt for trophy-quality prime numbers. For two decades, the weapon of choice in this elite sport was a supercomputer-preferably the latest model from Cray Research. Beginning in 1979, the prime-number pursuit was dominated by David Slowinski and his colleagues at Cray (which is now a division of Silicon Graphics). The Cray team had to keep topping their own records, because they had so little competition elsewhere. In 1996, however, a new largest prime was found with an unpretentious desktop PC. The discoverer was a member of an Internet consortium who attacked the problem collectively with a few thousand computers. In August of 1997 another member of the same group found a still larger prime, which stands as the current record. Slowinski, being a good sport, offered one of his supercomputers to verify the discoveries.
The rise of cooperative-computing projects on the Internet is both a technical and a social phenomenon. On the technical side, the key requirement is to slice a problem into thousands of tiny pieces that can be solved independently, and then to reassemble the answers. The social or logistical challenge is to find all those widely dispersed computers and persuade their owners to make them available.
Recycled Cycles
What's most charming about collective computing is that it relies entirely on resources that would otherwise go to waste. The computing is done with spare CPU cycles on idling machines.
It is one of the wonders of our age that we squander vast quantities of computational labor. Forty years ago, when electronic computers were rare and expensive, CPU time was scheduled and billed by the millisecond. Now, computers spend most of their time displaying zooming multicolored windowpanes or simulating an aquarium. These "screen saver" programs, which compute nothing, whose only purpose is to stir up pixels on the display screen, probably consume more of the world's computational capacity than any other kind of software. Go into almost any office and you'll find machines busily saving their screens all night and all weekend.
Even when a computer is ostensibly in use, it is mostly idle. Typing furiously, you might produce 10 keystrokes per second; that's not much of a distraction for a processor that can execute 100 million instructions in a second. Under these conditions the processor spends most of its time going around in a tight little loop, asking over and over, like a fidgety toddler, "What can I do now?"
This waste of computational machinery is not something we need be ashamed of. The CPU cycles we fritter away today will not be deducted from the legacy bequeathed to our grandchildren. Still, every waste is also an opportunity, and the cycles you have no use for may prove valuable to someone else.
The idea of scavenging unused cycles arose almost as soon as computers were linked by networks. A few early experiments with distributed computing, including a pair of programs called Creeper and Reaper, ran on the ARPAnet, the 1970s predecessor of today's Internet. Later, when the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) installed the first Ethernet, a program cruised the network at night, commandeering idle computers for CPU-intensive tasks. This early cycle recycler was the creation of John E Shoch and Jon A. Hupp, who called it a "worm," citing the inspiration of John Brunner's novel Shockwave Rider. (A colleague, noting the program's nocturnal habits, suggested the alternative name "vampire.") A later scavenger system called Condor, developed by Miron Livny and his colleagues at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, is now running at more than a dozen universities and other sites. Condor roams within clusters of Unix workstations, usually confined to a single laboratory or department.
Going out over the public Internet to scrounge cycles is more difficult because the machines are more diverse and the network connecting them is more tenuous. Furthermore, communicating with the machines is only part of the problem; making connections with the machines' owners is also harder. Nevertheless, Internet "metacomputing" has been going on for at least a decade. Here are some of the notable projects.
Success Stories
Factoring. Finding the prime factors of a composite integer is a classic among computationally hard problems. The inverse process-multiplication-has an efficient algorithm we expect children to master, but factoring seems to be intractable when numbers get big. Adding three decimal digits to the length of a number doubles the effort needed to factor it.
But if factoring is hard, it is also ideally suited to parallel computation. Splitting the work among k computers produces an answer very nearly k times faster.
The first Internet factoring project was organized in 1988 by Arjen K. Lenstra (now of Citibank) and Mark S. Manasse of the DEC System Research Center in Palo Alto. They and their colleagues had written software to distribute factoring tasks among workstations within the DEC laboratory, and they extended this system so that computers elsewhere could contribute to the effort. The infrastructure was simple: Factoring tasks were parceled out by electronic mail, and results came back the same way
As early as 1989 Lenstra and Manasse had already given an astute analysis of the economics of collective computing. They could get equivalent performance, they estimated, from 300 workstations or 1,200 PCs or a single high-speed machine designed especially for factoring. If they had to buy all the hardware, the last option was clearly the best choice. But if the owners of workstations or PCs could be induced to donate CPU cycles free of charge, that price would be hard to beat. By 1990 Lenstra and Manasse and about a hundred e-mail collaborators from around the world were routinely factoring numbers of 100 decimal digits. In 1993 a larger group was assembled to take on a number known as RSA129. Some 600 volunteers labored for eight months to factor this 129-digit number, winning a prize of $100 for their efforts. Two years later RSA-130 (a digit longer) succumbed to another army of factorers. This time some of the work was coordinated not by e-mail but through a World Wide Web interface designed by James Cowie of Cooperating Systems Corporation.
Primes. A counterpoint to factoring is the search for primes-numbers that cannot be factored. Primes of 100 or 200 decimal digits no longer attract much notice; with the right software any modern computer can find examples of such numbers in a few seconds. The frontier of knowledge for primes is now out near a million digits. Even the mathematically jaded may marvel at a prime of such magnitude: Think of all the smaller numbers that might divide it, but don't.
Most of the largest known primes are Mersenne primes, named for the 17th-century friar Marin Mersenne. A Mersenne number has the form 2n-1, but not all such numbers are prime. In the first place, for 2n-1 to be prime, n itself must be prime, but even that is only a necessary condition, not a sufficient one. (Try n = 11.) To find Mersenne primes, you must first calculate 2n-1 for each prime value of n, then test the result for primality. Algorithms based on the work of Edouard Lucas and D. H. Lehmer greatly speed up the primality tests.
The two largest known primes were found by participants in the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, or GIMPS. The founder of this project is George Woltman, a computer scientist who wrote efficient software for Lucas-Lehmer primality tests and made it available on a Web site. (You need not understand the mathematics of the Lucas-Lehmer test to run the software.) Some 4,000 volunteers have contributed to the search so far. In November 1996 Joel Armengaud discovered that 21,398,269-1 is prime. Then in August 1997 Gordon Spence proved the primality of 22976,221-1. This number, which has 895,932 decimal digits, is the 36th Mersenne prime to be discovered. (It may not be 36th in the numerical sequence of Mersenne primes, however, because there are exponents less than 2,976,221 that have not yet been checked.)
Code-breaking. The collective-computing projects that have attracted the most participants have been attempts to decipher encrypted messagesbut the volunteers are not snooping into anyone's confidential e-mail. RSA Data Security, a company in the secrecy business, has posted a number of cryptographic puzzles, with cash prizes for those who solve them. The company's aim is to test the security of their own products and to demonstrate the vulnerability of encryption schemes they consider inadequate. The factoring of RSA-129 and RSA-130 was part of this program. Other RSA challenges don't involve factoring but call for a direct attack on an encrypted text.
In one challenge the message was encoded with DES, the Data Encryption Standard, a cipher developed in the 1970s under U.S. government sponsorship. The key that unlocks a DES message is a binary number of 56 bits. In general the only way to crack the code is to try all possible keys, of which there are 256, or about 7 x 1016. This task was undertaken by an Internet collaboration called DESCHALL, organized by Rocke Verser, Matt Curtin and Justin Dolske. In June of 1997 they got lucky, discovering the correct key after checking just 18 percent of the possibilities, and won the $10,000 prize.
Another RSA challenge also employed a 56-bit key, but with an encryption algorithm called RC5. Three groups, known as Bovine, Infinite Monkeys and Cyberian, all began recruiting volunteers for the RC5 attack. Bovine eventually attracted the most helpers, and it was they who found the key and deciphered the message in October 1997, after exhausting 47 percent of the key space, or 34 quadrillion keys. Bovine was organized by Adam L. Beberg, Jeff Lawson and David McNett.
Compared with earlier distributed-computing projects, the RC5 efforts were not only technically sophisticated but also reached a new level of promotional and motivational slickness. For example, the Bovine software kept statistics on the contributions of individuals and teams, adding an element of competition within the Bovine ranks as well as between Bovine and the other groups. In the team standings, Macintosh militants finally prevailed over partisans of the Linux operating system. By the end of the contest some 4,000 active teams were processing 7 billion keys per second, a rate equivalent to the
work of 26,000 Pentium computers. On completing RC5-56, the Bovine collaboration turned to RC5-64, a cipher with a 64-bit key. The effort needed to break this code will be 256 times greater, which suggests it could be a labor of decades. It's worth pausing to ask whether the brute-force testing of 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 cryptographic keys is really a better use of resources than displaying pretty fish in an aquarium. Beberg and his colleagues are considering other possible projects. Meanwhile, RSA has announced a new challenge. This time the message is encoded with the same DES algorithm broken last spring, but the contest rules are altered to reward speed of decryption. The initial prize of $10,000 drops to zero after 67.5 days. Bovine has taken up the challenge.
Golomb rulers. Imagine a six-inch ruler with marks inscribed not at the usual equal intervals but at 0, 1, 4 and 6 inches. Taking all possible pairs of marks, you can measure six distinct distances: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 inches. A ruler on which no two pairs of marks measure the same distance is called a Golomb ruler, after Solomon W. Golomb of the University of Southern California, who described the concept 25 years ago. The 0-14-6 example is a perfect Golomb ruler, in that all integer intervals from 1 to the length of the ruler are represented. On rulers with more than four marks, perfection is not possible; the best you can do is an optimal Golomb ruler, which for a given number of marks is the shortest ruler on which no intervals are duplicated.
The world is not panting in desperate need of better Golomb rulers, and yet these combinatorial curiosities do have practical uses. For example, in setting up an interferometer for radio astronomy, placing the antennas on the marks of a Golomb ruler maximizes the recovery of information about the phases of the signals received.
Many good Golomb rulers have been found by trial-and-error, but proving them optimal (or finding a better ruler if one exists) is computationally expensive. In 1995 a dozen workstations took four CPU-years to prove there is no 19-mark ruler shorter than 246 units. The computation was done by Apostolos Dollas, William T. Rankin and David McCracken of Duke University.
In 1996 David Vanderschel and Mark Garry, who had both worked on Golomb rulers independently, merged their ideas in a program called GVANT, which turned out to be significantly more efficient than earlier programs. They quickly confirmed the known results for rulers of up to 19 marks, but even with their highly optimized algorithm a search for the best 20-mark ruler was a formidable undertaking. They therefore sought Internet collaborators. With seven helpers it took about half a year to prove that a 20-mark ruler of length 283 is optimal.
In the spring of 1997 Vanderschel and Garry turned to the 21-mark ruler, for which the shortest known arrangement is 333 units long. For this ruler a naive algorithm would have to check more than 1030 arrangements of the marks; GVANT prunes the number of cases to about 1015. Roughly 100 volunteers have pitched in to help, but after a year's searching there is still plenty of work left for latecomers. Out of 1,200 trillion arrangements to be checked, fewer than 200 trillion have been examined so far.
Aliens. If the prospect of finding a bigger Mersenne prime or a smaller Golomb ruler won't induce you to pledge your CPU, perhaps you would like to discover an extragalactic civilization. A proposal called [email protected] would put thousands of computers to work sifting for signs of life in signals recorded with the radio telescope of the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.
A search for extraterrestrial intelligence has been going on at Arecibo for almost two decades. The telescope slowly scans the sky, detecting emissions over a broad range of radio wavelengths. A special-purpose signal-processing computer applies a Fourier transform to the data to pick out narrow-bandwidth signals, which could be the alien equivalent of "I Love Lucy." The astronomers would like to put the data through a more thorough analysis, but computing capacity is a bottle neck. That's where [email protected] comes in.
With enough computers on the job, the Arecibo data could be sliced into finer divisions of bandwidth and frequency. Moreover, the analysis software could check for other kinds of regularities, such as signals that pulsate or that "chirp" through a sequence of frequencies. The task is well suited to Internet computing in that only small blocks of data need to be passed back and forth over the network, but a great deal of computing is needed on each block.
[email protected] is the project of Dan Werthimer of the University of California at Berkeley and several colleagues. Their plans are ambitious; they seek a mass audience. The client software they envision would run as a screen saver, starting up automatically whenever a machine is left idle. As the program churned away on the data analysis, it would also display a series of images related to the project, such as a representation of the data currently being examined or a map showing the progress of the sky survey. Some 70,000 people have signed up for [email protected] Unfortunately, the project is on hold for lack of funding.
Unparalleled Parallelism
Factors, primes, codes, rulers-some of these projects sound like they might belong in the Guinness Book of World Records. They're not frivolous, but they're not quite in the mainstream either. There are plenty of other areas of science and engineering that could benefit from cheap and abundant computing. The traditional big consumers of CPU cycles include the analysis of seismic data, simulations of many-body systems, studies of protein folding and other kinds of computational chemistry, studies of turbulent fluid flow, and lattice models of quantum field theories. Could such tasks be shared over the Net? When viewed as a massively parallel computer, the Internet has a peculiar architecture. It is extraordinarily rich in raw computing capacity, with tens of millions of processors. But the bandwidth for communication between the processors is severely constrained. The 9,216 Pentiums of the Janus computer can talk to one another at a rate of 6.4 billion bits per second; for a node connected to the Internet by modem, the channel is slower by a factor of 100,000.
The limits on bandwidth determine what kinds of algorithms run smoothly when spread out over the Net. Consider the case of an n-body simulation, which describes the motion of particles in a force field, such as stars in a galaxy or atoms in a fluid. One parallel n-body algorithm assigns each particle to its own processor, which then tracks the particle's path in space. The trouble is, each processor needs to consult all the other processors to calculate the forces acting on the particle, and so the volume of communication goes up as n2. That won't fly on the Net.
Yet n-body problems are not necessarily unsuited to network computing. There are other n-body algorithms, and other ways of partitioning the problem. In particular, "tree codes" organize the computation hierarchically. At the bottom of the hierarchy a processor calculates motions inside a small cluster of particles, without reference to the rest of the universe. At the next level several clusters are combined, ignoring their internal dynamics and looking only at the motions of their centers of mass. Then clusters of clusters are formed, and so on. Tree codes are popular for n-body computations, but whether they can be adapted to Internet computing remains to be seen.
Memory capacity is another serious constraint. Computer owners who are willing to give away CPU cycles may be less eager to let someone fill up their machine's memory or disk drive. Both the bandwidth and the memory limits will be difficult hurdles for programs that operate on large volumes of data, as in seismic analysis or weather prediction.
And yet there are powerful incentives for clearing those hurdles. In round orders of magnitude, a typical personal computer will soon execute 100 million instructions per second; it will have 100 megabytes of memory and a gigabyte of disk storage; it will consume 100 watts of electricity and cost $1,000;100 million of these machines will be attached to the Internet. Multiply it out: 10 quadrillion instructions per second, 10 billion megabytes of memory, 100 million gigabytes of disk storage, 10 gigawatts of electric-power demand, a price tag of $100 billion. It's probably worth rewriting your software to gain access to such a machine.
Collectivists and Capitalists
And what about incentives for the owners of that $100 billion distributed computer? The spirit of volunteerism is a wonderful thing, but it doesn't always scale well. If Internet computing ever catches on in a big way, we'll probably hear less about cooperatives and collectives, and more about return on investment.
One way of paying for Internet computing is through a commodity market in CPU cycles. If you have 100 computers with nothing to do nights and weekends, you offer the spare capacity at an asking price expressed in millicents per trillion instructions or dollars per Pentium-year, or some such fabricated unit. Meanwhile someone with a big batch of numbers to crunch enters a bid for a stated quantity of computation, measured in the same units. An automated clearinghouse matches up buyers and sellers.
It could be fun to watch the fluctuations of such a market. When Lucasfilms needs half the processors in the galaxy to render scenes for the next Star Wars saga, prices shoot up. Over academic holidays, excess capacity brings on a seasonal slump. The market is likely to be volatile, because CPU cycles are like electricity or fresh asparagus: You can't stockpile them for later use.
Trading in CPU cycles is not a new idea. As early as 1968 Ivan Sutherland wrote of a "futures market in computer time"-although his market consisted of only a whiteboard and colored pens. The market mechanism was explored in greater depth at Xerox PARC, in an experiment described by Carl A. Waldspurger, Tad Hogg, Bernardo A. Huberman, Jeffrey 0. Kephart and W. Scott Stornetta. For the most part their market worked as economists would predict-each job's share of the total machine time was proportional to its funding-but they did observe some interesting undamped oscillations in prices.
Could a real market, backed by real money, evolve on the Internet? Questions of security and confidentiality would need to be addressed. When I send you my program to run, how do I know you won't pry it open and steal my secrets? How do you know my program won't steal your secrets? (The answer to both questions is probably Java.) Another essential precondition is that CPU cycles have to become what economists call a fungible asset, meaning that cycles on one computer are readily converted into those on any other. This is a hard problem but not insurmountable.
In the end, though, the economics of the global metacomputer are probably less interesting than the operation of the machine itself. Given a free flow of computations through all those 100 million nodes, what would such a device wind up computing? I hope that we as a civilization can find a better use for this machine than we have for Janus, whose primary function is to simulate the explosion of nuclear weapons.


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Looking to sweep the homestand…
Coming off an incredible evening in which the premiere of Bluetopia seemed to go over very well with those who saw it…at least from my conversations afterward. Hopefully you will get to see it, too. One thing that seemed to surprise people was how much the movie was done from the viewpoint of the fans, not the players. Rather than a recap video of the 2008 season, this is more about the people who dedicate their lives to the Dodgers, and there were a lot of very touching moments throughout.
That's not to say there's something wrong with recap videos at the end of a season. I collected them all as a kid — still have the ones from 1986, 1988 and 1990 on my shelf at home — but I think this movie will have a longer shelf life beause it could have taken place in any year…it just so happened that it was during the most successful season we've had in two decades and that we were celebrating the 50th anniversary of the move to Los Angeles.
In any event, we'll leave the judging up to you all but my kudos go out to Tim Marx (an all those involved). Tim basically lived with the team for the last year and, in my opinion, captured the true essence of what it means to be a Dodger fan…
Here's the lineup for today:
Furcal, SS
Hudson, 2B
Manny, LF
Ethier, RF
Loney, 1B
Martin, C
Kemp, CF
Blake, 3B
McDonald, P
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8 would be really great!!!!!! Go "Jimmy Mack"!!!!! GO DODGERS!!!!!!
Good afternoon ITD, Dodgerfaithful
Manny and Dre just Awesome yesterday!!!
Billz remarkable outing!! Good homestand from all 🙂
James McDonald today and I feel a stellar performance from the youngster this afternoon, Lets give him some run support early.
Happy Flight Night 🙂
Hello everyone!!! Let's get 8!!!!! Very different from last year at this time when we would have already seen 10 different lineups. I've always believed that a team thrives on a set lineup day in and day out. Players will have good days and bad days throughout the season, but they don't need to be worried about striking out a couple of times and going to the bench. I'm very happy that we have a set lineup and are getting off to a great start. They say you can't win a championship in April, but you can lose one. Hope you all are well and having a great weekend.
Thanks to a Dodgers invitation, I was able to attend the Bluetopia premiere last night. Here's my review with a few photos:
Good Afternoon ITD readers and writers!!!!
Thanks for sharing the photos and review trolly_dodger. It must have been a very cool experience. Jhall, it is nice not to see a different lineup every game. I think it is part of why they have a great chemistry already and it's not even May yet.
I totally agree Bleu Fille'!!!!
Great stuff Trolley!!!! Thanks!!!!
Nice song yesterday Beav!!!! Kudo's once again.
bluecrewgirl – my trip was fantastic!!! Thanks for asking.
Thanks Trolley!!
Hey Nelly!!! Glad you had a nice trip.
Nelly, sorry I broke the rules of engagement yesterday. Don't follow my lead on that one. LOL!!!!!!!!!!! I just couldn't resist. A moment of weakness, haha!!!!!!!!!
And besides, it was your boy Andre!!! Couldn't let it go!!!!
Thanks jhall/Wally – you and Beav HAVE GOT to meet Ward Dear. The price of the ITD tour would be money well spent just to see the three of you talk for real.
LOL Nelly!!! One of these days!!!!
jhall – I know………..I couldn't help it ethier, and I am sure Ward Dear will be mighty sore at us for doing it too.
…but thank you (and everyone else who came to his defense)…..I really do appreciate it!!!
I figure, you can only take so much abuse and then you have to fight back. It's one of my bad traits. Then again, sometimes I think it's a good thing to have the fighting spirit!
I think Dad would have been ripping his hair out to refrain from commenting also Nell'!!!!
I'm with you Trumom!!!!!!!!!
i know it's not about individual accolades.. but i really hope matty can keep his hitting streak going.. it really just shows how much he's grown as a hitter.. he's not swinging for the fences, and he rarely chases that low slider.. thanks donnie baseball! 🙂
LOL!!! Yes, he would have jhall, and I am not so sure he would have refrained ethier.
The bad part is I think Badge is just doing it to get a rise out of us. He can't truely believe what he was saying, it is just so ludicrous. And if he does believe it, he is too far gone anyway.
Isn't it odd that he shows up when Nells and Enchanted aren't around?!
Hi'Ya Sara, nice post. I'm totally with you on that one.
….drinking waaaaay too much Koolaid then if you believe that crap.
sara – I agree. Matt is doing a fabulous job.
thanks jhall, dnelly.. his ceiling is just so high, it'll be amazing as he continues to progress.. our team is in a great place right now as the "kids" continue to mature..
i wouldn't worry about the idiot badge.. i mean, we've done the pierre vs anyone else argument over and over again.. there really is no way that anyone can objectively say that pierre should be starting over ANYONE
it's such a beautiful day in LA today.. great day for a ballgame.. work on that tan amy!! 🙂
Dcollins, from the last thread about the minors…I have always loved the minors. I have been afforded the opportunity to spend quality time with the A ball teams for 2-3 days at a time for the last 3 years. I now have a new respect for scouts, I was at the 06 Gulf Coast Dodgers site for 3 days and when I saw these kids and how young and undeveloped they are, how can a person project how they will develop…it is a crap shoot and you can never tell.
Anyway back to the big team…
Joe needs to use Troncoso more..2 appearances in 12 games is not good for a sinkerballer….the kid has good stuff, use him instead of Mota…
Do not let Badge get to you today folks…ignore him and he will go away.
Sara, I hope Matt keeps the streak going too. He has really grown since last year and I guess the new contacts aren't hurting either. I think all the "young guns" are going to have big years. It's going to be tough for me today switching between the Lakers and Dodgers. I hope my remote is up to the challenge ):
bluecrewgirl, i'll be switching back and forth too.. but the lakers are in control of the game, so it won't be close enough to stress over.. haha
Sara, yes it's good to have Bynum back and see them at full strength, but I'm bummed that Garnett is out for the Celtics because I wanted a finals rematch with both of them at full strength since Bynum was out during the playoffs last year. I wanted them to have a chance to beat the Celtics with both of them having their best players in there. Oh well, I can't complain. The Lakers and Dodgers are looking great, so life is good.
Padres just lost to Phillies…………FIRST PLACE FOR THE DODGERS TODAY!!!!!!!!!!
it's about time they lost a game
I know, Bluecrewgirl They lost it in the bottom of the 9th, too!
That's good news, trublu. Now the Dodgers just need to keep winning and stay there.
Ethier Shall Rock The House!!!!
Manny Shall Rock The House!!!!
Kemp Shall Rock The House!!!!!!
Loney Shall Rock The House!!!!
Hudson Shall Rock The House!!!!
The Dodgers Shall Rock The House!!!
Rock Me Baby!!!!! GO DODGERS!!!!!!!
Is anyone else having problems with MLB.tv today. Not getting the game in high defination and is really jumpy.
that hudson signing looks better and better everyday..
Hey Bob!! I had so many problems with MLBTV last year that I just got the audio this year. I think you need RoadRunner or something compareable for it to work well. I only have DSL and it was always jumpy and would just freeze up. Hope yours works out.
Another E-bomb!!!!!!!!! WooHoo!!!!
Another RBI for Andre!!!! ALRIGHT!!! Keep talking with your bat Andre, keep talking!!!
LOL Sara!!!
Man, that would have burned a hole in the infielder's glove if he had caught it. Off to a great start.
That's funny Sara 🙂
yeah bluecrewgirl.. andre ripped that ball
Boblee ~ I'm having a lot of problems with mlb.tv today. The Phillies/Padres game was pretty good, but our game sucks!
My picture got better. I have a 64 bit system and I had problems today getting the game to load. Kept saying I needed to download adobe player but then said adobe wasn't for a 64 bit system. I finally got on and the game now thru orime is in HD and finally working tight.
Nice play by Ethier!!!!! Good job Mac!!! Wiggled off the hook.
That's a big sigh of relief!!!
Whew!!!!! We Dodgered that bullet!!!!!
Nice to have the off day tomorrow. We're probably going to have to use the bullpen alot. Pull out all the stops Jojo, get the sweep!!!!!
Whew and heavy sigh is right Sara and Nelly!!!!
Glad to see James work out of that jam. Settle down James!
McDonald's already thrown 53 pitches. He'll be lucky to get to the 5th.
Woo Hoo. O-Dog!!!!!!
O-Dog is rakin' it lately. He's turned out to be a great acquisition.
He's playing like Ferk did last April. When Ferk gets heated up we will really be sleeping in 4 leaf clovers!!!
Anyone watch the Boston game? I wonder if Saito did his pump fist when he got that save for the Red Sox? I hate to see him do that in another unform.
Well, that was nice!!!
That was a great scoop by Blake to turn the double play! I didn't realize what a great defensive player he was when we first got him last season.
OUTSTANDING!!!!!!!® Casey!!!! I love great defense.
I hate to see Saito in another uniform too, Shad.
Juan Pierre .375 "e" .289. Juan Pierre 0 GDP "e" 3. Juan Pierre… aw nevermind.
How are y'all today??
You scared us for a minute, enchanted, lol.
Keep it up J-Mac!!!! getting some insurance runs for our bullpen would be nice 🙂
Jimmy Mack is pitching the shakiest shutout in the west.
Alright Matthew Ryan Kemp – Game #13 – yeah!!!
The streak continues….. Congrats, Matt!
Man enchanted you scared me.
Just keeping you guys on your toes Shad!!!
LMFTO Beav!!!!!!!!!!
very funny enchanted 🙂 LMAO!!!! However, that stat is correct
Raffy got all of that one. There have been some really hard hit balls in this game. I'm surprised there aren't any homeruns yet. I guess today is doubles day as Vin was just saying.
enchanted – when I see the "e" like that, I think of you because that's one of your names around here.
I just got finished watching the Jazz/Lakers game and they were chanting we want taco lol.
Come on, Jimmy Mack, get yourself a win!!!!
enchanted – "e" and Pierre are tied with 1 SB a piece too 🙂
Yeah, there's big "E" and little "e."
You of course are big "E" – LMTO!!!!!!!!!
Smart move, make Jiminez run the bases on a 95 degree day!!!
Really though, does James just seem lost out there?
Here I thought I was little "e" (thaough at about 220 there ain't much little anymore.)
The Gnats are being shut out by The Unit in the 6th. No surprise there.
McDonald hung in there though, helped out by some good D. He has shown flashes of how good he can be and it's a great learning experience for him. That kind of shows how everything seems to be going right for the Dodgers now when even a young pitcher can have an up and down outing and he still goes out leading 4-0. May their luck continue.
You can be whichever "Ee" you want – LOL!!!
Let's go Scott!!!
Alright Matthew!!!!! Thank you!!!!
OUTSTANDING!!!!!!!!!® Bison!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
All I can say is WOW that catch.
The defense has sure saved our bacon today!!! Nice catch, Matt!!!!
Now let's see if standing out on the bases took anything out of Jimenez.
"Juan Pierre could've made that catch…"
Juan Pierre pouty dugout thought bubble 2:57 PM
Defense has been stellar today for sure, seesky.
…as dodgereric says, pitching and defense wins championships. We just may have that with some great hitting too 🙂
Glad to see Russell get a hit there. I think he's been pressing a bit, but he'll come around.
So, you are now ndeschenes and obi?
I wonder why Ned can't find anyone that will trade for me? I've got a WS ring and I come to the ballpark early everyday. My game is what it is. Some people like it and some, well, DON'T!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rats!!!!
Pile thought bubble..
Yeah, Matt! Our offense is so much fun so far this season.
Welcome to the hitting club Scott!!!
Pass me the mustard, grandma, it's grand salami time!!!! Matty K!!!!!
I would ask if there is a mercy rule in mlb, but then I remember the Cleveland game yesterday (jk) LMAO!!!!!!
I bet JP plays today so he can work on that batting average 🙂
Who is this team, and what have they done with our Los Angeles Dodgers?
Too bad we only have 7 games at home this month.
You really gotta like our line-up this year – no weak links, no easy outs…
Kent and Nomar are better than Hudson and Blake.
Signed Badge!!!!
Just like we thought…….they are all capable of hitting the long ball, and even our pitchers aren't easy outs.
It has been home sweet home so far, northstate. Hopefully, the road will be kind to them this season.
WooHoo, another E-Bomb!!!!
This Dodger offense is not your father's Dodger offense. Then again, it could depend on how old your father is.
This is just too fun!!!!
told ya!!
Doesn't even matter who the pitcher is. I was kind of disappointed that they took the other pitcher out before Andre's at bat, but didn't make a difference. I know I shouldn't be that greedy as we already had 10 runs, but I love it!
Ohman and Elbert .1000 Pierre still below .400 lol.
And, Jp gets to come in and pinch run for Everyday Dre!!!!
Sorry, it was Manny!
I can't believe the Rockies signed that ex Red Beliste maybe they wanted Milton. We owned Belisle the past 2 games and heck we not playing in Colorado.
I got so excited by all the scoring I lost my head for a moment! lol
This is what this offense was designed to do, Ned, I know a lot of folks give u crap but you put together what could become the most feared lineup in all of baseball this year. We are absolutely blowing teams out or coming from behind to win, this team will never be out of a game with this talent. Matt, if the world doesn't already know who you are they will by the end of this year. Hudson, welcome to the good guys and you are doing an incredible job. We have to be leading the National league if not all of MLB in offensive categories now. GO DODGERS!!
This is when JP should play, and I have no problems with him playing under these circumstances. When he came in to pinch run for Mienkeweitz on Thursday night, I cheered for him because that is his role now. As long as he doesn't start, I am okay with him coming in for pinch hitting, pinch running or if we are smashing (like right now) or being smashed on (which I don't think will happen).
I dont think JP could come in for Ethier that would put Manny over to RF or you can move Blake there and put Dewitt at 3rd..
Well, Elbert is obviously not ready for prime time.
Don't let em back in it Elbert, lets lead the league in Offense and pitching
Make you felt really bad for McDonald.
The Pirates were #1 in ERA now they going to dropped alot of spot.
Okay – so it's not a shut out – Oh well 🙂
He has some good stuff and throws hard, but he needs to learn not to serve up multiple fat ones over the plate to major league hitters. LMAO, Vin just called Matt Jeff Kemp.
All my guys in Dodger Blue sure helped my fantasy team today! Thank-you!!!!
Bluecrew ~ I'll bet Matt wouldn't like that at all! LOL
We, definitely, have the offense and defense. As for pitching…..well, especially where the bullpen is concerned, the jury's still out on that score.
Hi Folks
Just got in, I generally miss most of the game on Sunday.
Well 11 more runs, I hope I get to see some Dodger action, since I missed yesterdays game.
Probably not, trublu. He was a great player, but I don't miss his grouchiness at all.
hey oldbrooklynfan!!! Glad you can join the action now. Did you get to go to any of the Mets games yet?
Scott, briefly, did his best Fat Elbert impression. At least, it was in a laugher.
way to get that walk JP!!
Did hell just freeze over or did JP walk??
Wow, that looked like an intentional walk to JP.
Oh that was soooooooo close!!!! Nice Sac Fly Andre!!!!
James joins the party! I was hoping he would.
LMAO enchanted and messagebear 🙂
Andre just had his 16th rbi and his 6th multi-run game. Just the facts.
That was close, Nelly. At least he got an rbi out of it.
Yeah James!!!!
My Loney has a first name,
It's J-A-M-E-S
My Loney has a second name,
It's L-O-N-E-Y
I love to watch him every day
And if you ask me why I'll say
'Cause James Loney has a way
With H-I-T-T-I-N-G!
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Sorry multi hit game!
Damn, missed the extra point.
Andre now leads the NL in RBI's.
Go Dodgers!!!
just a fact digthedodgers 🙂 Thanks!!!!
..and how are you today?
Really good, thanks. Just heard that and I thought I'd stop by and share the good info.
Yes Nelly, opening day.
If this gets much more out of hand, the Rockies will be getting position players to pitch.
That's great olddodgerfan!!! So, you are part of history once again….fabulous!!! I have the Mets for my pitching staff for my fantasy team this year, so I am paying attention to them more this year even when the Dodgers aren't playing them.
Good digthedodgers 🙂
And now, this next Oldie but Goodie's a dedication to the Rockies baseball club of Colorado, from Motown's own Marvin Gaye, here's "Mercy Mercy Me":
In tribute to Kasey Kasem, we say Keep your feet on the ground, and keep reaching for the sky.
There it is!!!
Matt, you are the man, 3 Dodgers with multi-homerun games in 2 days!! I love it!! GO DODGERS!!
The best think about Citi Field is the Jackie Robinson Rotunda
and ofcourse the field itself replicating good old Ebbets Field.
That's the 3rd Dodger in 13 games to get 2-HR's in a game. Wow!
And Andre's done it twice!
Another multi-home run game for a Dodger in back to back games. Awesome.
WOW This team is powerful.
nsblues – LOL!!! That's good 🙂
olddodgerfan – just fantastic!!!!
digthedodgers – yes, he has!!
Actually the building itself looks like they took Ebbet's Field out of mothballs. The playing field and stands are not the same.
What does Troncoso say???
Ho-Hum..another day and another Dodger win…Yabba Dabba Dooooo!
Take care ITDers.
Go Dodgers!!!
8 in a row! Enjoy the off day and lets get back to sweepin in houston. GO DODGERS!!
I don't know what Tronscoso says, do you? LMAO!!!!
EXTRA EXTRA – LOS ANGELES DODGERS TAKE OVER FIRST PLACE on this the 19TH Day of April 2009. Led by Matt "THE HITMAN" Kemp's 2 Tremendous HOME RUNS!!! All hail BATMAN Hudson AND RAFAEL FURCAL our dynamic duo at the Top of the Order. Scott Elbert comes in for the Win. BLAKE, MANNY and Captain Marty all with two hits. Two for Juan BENCH BEASTS Castro and Pierre. Troncoso back to being the dominant sinkerballer he is. ITS COMING BOYS AND GIRLS – A CHAMPIONSHIP IN OCTOBER!!!
Hasta la vista BABY!!!!
Hey!!! You forgot Andre, the NL RBI leader, in your speech!!!
LOL!!! (jk) enchanted – you are doing an outstanding job!!!
…and Hasta la vista BABY definitely works for me 🙂
I orded the "BLUETOPIA" early this morning, I can't wait to see it.
LMAO!!!! seriously – I am just playing enchanted 🙂
Wow! I know the season has just started, but right now The DODGERS have proved they can score runs (even without Manny may I say) have starting pitching (who thinks about Brad Penny) and a Bull pen that can keep us in the game. What a week when I think back to Monday till right now, I am just smiling and enjoying. Disneyland isn't the only place with fireworks in Los Angeles!
Keep it up and stay healthy Boys in Blue
1st Place Baby!!!!!!! This team rocks!!!!! We certainly rocked the Rockies!!!!!
There is something about the smile that makes me LMAO!!!!!
koufax – This is our Disneyland IMO!!!!! Great post!!!!
It's time for ice cream, and this time it's by ourselves 🙂
I guess what Dre contributes on a daily basis goes without saying…
Nelly, that's because you know what is in between each smile. LOL!!!
OK – who wants to be ndeschenes this week???
Okay enchanted -you are forgiven 🙂
jhall – yes, I do 🙂
enchanted – you are doing a marvelous job, so I think you should keep the job.
Go with it Beavdeschenes!!!
Was that bitcthin or what?
I got to feeling bad for the Rocks (but not real bad) after awhile. I watched the game on Fox Rocky Mtn and it was tough for the announcers to put any kind of positive spin on this series. It made me think of some lyrics by the Drive by Truckers. The best thing the Rockies can do is "shut your mouth and get your *** on the plane."
It's simply amazing how much I enjoy seeing the Dodgers in their home whites checking in at home plate (Kemp's slam) and heading for the dugout. Let's enjoy this. The entire season cannot go this way, but maybe enough of it will to get us way deep, and I mean WAY DEEP into the playoffs.
It's your row to hoe my brother Beav. Actually, his posts always left me wondering where he was getting his weed. JMO!!!!
I forgot to mention that I think it must have been some good s**t!!!
That sounds kinda ooky Jhall. Almost like Herpierres.
Ice cream sounds good, gonna grab a spoonful right now, heheheheh.
It's nice to feel like we've picked up where we left off. Of course, we've only mainly played the West at this point, but we're winning the games we should be winning. In L.A., no matter the sport, that should NEVER be taken for granted (I'm talking to you, Laker performances in the Portland Rose Garden. Let's step it up a notch in this second season!).
Great to hear Randy Newman bumping in two arenas today.
jhall – perfect name for him!!!!!!!
knouffbrock – The only Rockie I felt bad for is Ianetta. He was .045 until he finally got a hit, and now he is back up to .083. Boy, have we been there with some of ours in the past. It doesn't look like too much of that is going to happen this season.
LMAO!!!! now that you mention it enchanted 🙂
How "sweep" it is. Exciting game – loved every minute of it.
LOL my brother!!! Actually Pile was used very appropriately today. Pinch runner, defensive replacement for Manny (only one he could defensively replace on our team). Would be great if it didn't come with an 8M price tag. Geez!!!!!!!!!
I have to admit I'm shocked that Joe keeps JP on the bench as much as he does.
me too 🙂
I ain't afraid of Piles mama!!!
Signed Jojo.
And Ned is a lame duck!!! It was really me that orchestrated the trades and signings that got us here.
I really do think Frank and JoJo did more of the GM work on the deals than Ned did. At least they had the final say so. JMO!!!!!!!!!
I think we're all afraid of piles – mama. 🙂
I think enchanted should keep the job. Nelly, last season we spent a good part of it upset at Andre's playing time and now he's the National League rbi leader. I know it's early, but still very cool.
Great game, take care everyone.
LMTO!!!!!!!! watch out for wooden spoons and spatulas!!
Take care Bleu Fille'!!!
Great game today…the lineup is as solid as one that the Dodgers have ever had…it is early but Matt Kemp looks like he is blossoming into the ballplayer many of us thought he would be…He looks so much more relaxed than he ever has…and he is hitting his home runs to right center is a great sign..Keep it up Matt…
McDonald needs to trust his stuff, he has the ability, just pitch to contact…we need you to step up…or when Kuroda gets healthy keep Stults in the rotation and put James in the BP and get rid of Mota…
Great day the Dodgers, Lakers and the Loons won!!!
It is very cool bluecrewgirl. We can't go back, but he certainly is making himself known, in his own quiet way, and letting everyone know "I am here too" 🙂
I just realized that JP is a 5-pule player.
Duh for me for not noticing that there was another thread so I'll repost what I posted on the prior one a few minutes ago.
DC! thanks for reading my blog. I just came back from the game. It was really hot today but at least my seats are in the shade and we get a nice breeze there!
I feel… well a little sad once the team leaves. I always feel that way once a homestand concludes. I know I am spoiled that way. Time for me to catch up with other things I neglect when the team is in town.
Great song Enchanted!
Ran into Tony Jackson from The Daily News http://insidesocal.com/dodgers/ He told me he mentioned me in his blog on Friday when he saw me with my 70's outfit. He also said that he heard my name but I was not shown on the big screen like the other contestants. Well I told him the mixup was with the Dodgers that they had me waiting with a Dodger personnel in a different location. When I went back to my seat that night all the season ticket holders around me were asking me also what happened as they heard my name but did not see me. One of them was telling me that I should have complained so I did and will be compensated with tickets to a future game.
So today during BP, a gentleman told me "What happened to the outfit?" "I would have voted for you yesterday." Well, I explained to him the mixup when my friend noticed his name tag. Guess who we were talking to? Andre Ethier's dad! We stayed there talking to him about baseball, Andre, Arizona and other things. He was very nice. I'll share more in my next blog.
Also I wanted to say that I loved the movie "Bluetopia" I laughed, I cheered and got chocked up. I loved it!
Tim Marx is the nicest man! I, along with many Dodger fans are glad that we got to meet him.
Tim: You just got to make Bluetopia 2!
wow, our team looks so promising right now.. they really are rollin'.. it is SO exciting and such great baseball to watch.. i think the best part is that this is what we've been predicting and waiting for.. all the young guys' talent to materialize and to add to the right veteran talent.. hudson was such a great addition.. keeping raffy was key.. we are so strong right now.. and can continue to be strong as the majority of our core is very young..
i know it's a LONG season, and we will have our ups and downs as every team does.. but it's hard not to get excited thinking of the possibilities.. i love this team! i love the young guns.. GO BLUE!! 🙂
emma, i definitely read what tony wrote about you the other day on his blog.. i was like, he's talking about emma!
Good evening ITD boys and girls!
No, it's, "GREAT evening ITD boys and girls!!!" What can I say about today's game that Matty, Dre, and the rest of our BIB (Boys in Blue) didn't say with their bats today? Not much. Matty, I look forward to many more multi-HR games, and more Grand Salamis!!! My husband and I were at yesterday's game and it was great to see Manny's 1st and 2nd HRs of the year and for Dre's 3rd and 4th HRs of the year! We even got there early to take pictures on the field! Oh, how exciting that was! Heck, even if JP hadn't dogged it from the other side of the field, coming to our side, I would've even taken a picture with him! As it was, many players leaned in and my hubby got pics of me with a bunch of them. Too bad the sun was behind them so the bill of their caps shaded their faces. But maybe I'll learn how to remove shadows. Many of them are keepers!!! But it was a great day!
So how are my ITD friends today???
Hey CP!!! How are you this evening? It sounds like you had a great time at the game yesterday. The game today was just awesome. Our boy is leading the NL in RBIs right now.
Yes, I know Nelly! It's a great feeling right now! Yes, it's VERY early in the season, but we love what we see! We all know that the season is long and yes, we will see losing streaks that we don't want to see, but knowing what this team is capable of offensively can only give us hope! I'm fine. I'm tired as heck, as Friday was my actual "first" day on the job; you know, walking the streets, verifying addresses. So how was your trip to So Cal?
Our trip to So-Cal was fabulous! The Dodger game was awesome, Del Mar was beautiful, and Eric's family was wonderful.
Wow!! I can imagine how tired you must be then.
This is going to be a remarkable Dodger Blue year. I can feel it!!!
It sure has started on the right foot! This is going to be a year to remember!
So how are Mariya and Matt these days?
Oh….. they are doing just fine. I think it's the adults who are trying to figure out what happened – LOL!!! Seriously, I must admit, they make a very cute couple, no doubt about that!! Not to embarrass Eric (and Chris), but Matt treats her like royalty. They did their job as parents very well because he totally respects her for who she is (she is very opinionated at times), and how could you not, as a mom, like that in a guy your daughter is dating. Mariya thinks the world of him, and how can I blame her, really? Matt is everything that Eric has described on this forum countless times before. I guess only time will tell at this point. If you are keeping track of time…it was 2 months last Tuesday the 14th 🙂
No Nelly, I wasn't keeping track of time! (Yeah, right, sure…) I'm glad that things seem to be going well for them. And you say that Mariya is opinionated? I wonder where she got that??? I don't know about her, but her mom definitely has her own mind (and mind you, I mean that in a VERY GOOD way!) I mean, I read your posts on here a lot (certainly a lot more than I post) and with all that you've had to put up with defending our Everyday Dre, you do very well in that category, for sure! Just remember, don't engage, don't engage, don't engage!!! 🙂
jhall started it!!!! LOL!!!!! I know…………………..how many times have I been told not to engage, and I will hear it I'm sure. Just a fact 🙂
Okay, gotta go. Gotta get up early in the morn. I'll catch up with ya later Nelly!!!
Good Night CP!!! Take care and God Bless 🙂
i know a lot of people like to bag on coletti but i think hes been a very smart gm in one huge aspect,keeping the young guys.think about the offseason before last year.miggy cabrera and johan santana were on the block.and the dodgers were players in both hunts.so many people were saying we should make a deal for miggy.and that was tempting,miggys great.but we would of had to give up so much for him or the ace johan.both teams wanted a deal including a few guys from this list:broxton,bills,loney,kemp,eithier,mcdonald,and kershaw.now look.bills is our best pitcher,kershaws off to a hot start,and while mcdonald has struggled hes getting good experience at a young age.broxtons our closer,and a solid one,with upside.hes 5 out performance was impressive and he was solid in the playoffs.eithiers got 16 rbi's already,kemps got a 13 game hitting streak,and loneys the best young contact hitter in the league. i do admit,the jones and schmidts signings will always be regreted,and giving pierre that much money to be a backup was not smart, i tip my hat off to coletti.not to mention the manny trade,signing wolf and hudson,and not re signing penny.the best moves hes made are the moves he hasnt made.and right now im enjoying the way the dodgers a playing.over powering offense,solid starting pitching,good fielding,and decent bullpen aside from 2 games.hopefully they can keep this going.i expect great things this year from our boys in blue
So, do they purposely take pictures of JP in the dugout looking like he really is thinking those thought bubbles? I swear it looks like they do this on purpose. Everytime they take a picture of him, he is never, ever smiling. It really does look like he is in deep thought and wondering "Can somebody get me out of here, please!!?" – LOL!!!!!! Hilarious!!!!!
mdavis – Welcome to ITD if you have not been on before. That is the one thing I can say about this organization is they did keep the young guns in place, and I think it just might pay off very soon.
This team is really rolling now. However it's early in the season and if they want to get past the Phillies & Cubs in the playoffs, they need to trade Ethier for Holliday. Holliday can rake compared to Ethier. Ethier just doesn't have any power!
I joke I joke!!!!!!
very funny dc 🙂
Remember that conversation last year?!
….besides, we had that argument with Holliday last season. How is he doing as an Athletic this year? It doesn't look right seeing him in green and yellow, really.
Yes, I do very much so. I engaged quite a bit in that one too, if I recall. I guess I still haven't learned my lesson and followed my rules of engagement very well, have I?
you're lucky you said you were joking dcollins.. there are a lot of ethieraholics on this board who would be all over you.. haha.. i believe that was a hot topic on this board last year.. some people coming on asking for a trade for holliday.. i'm not convinced he'll be a stud away from coors yet.. and even if he is, i still like andre on this team..
No he doesn't. Hopefully he wont go to the Giants. They keep talking on KNBR that they are going to go or should go after him. I wouldn't want to see him in black & orange. I like him to much!
oh oops.. you guys said the same things while i was posting mine.. i'm a bit late on the response..
I do like Holliday, and no, I definitely don't want to see him in black and orange.
Don't worry Sarah. I'm one of the original Ethieraholics.
I was the keep Dre camp last year!!
Oh & Nelly you didn't engage. You smashed…
As did NSB with that video. I was dying laughing at that.
Also your posts this morning were checkmate!
I can be a bit sarcastic sometimes and that is hard on a keyboard if you know what I mean!
Thank you dc – It was just the facts – LOL!!!!
of course i knew you weren't serious.. even if you hadn't said you were joking, the regulars would have understood.. haha
I just stopped by for a short hello. Time to hit the hey!
Great game today! Have fun with the day off and enjoy the ice cream!!
Take care…
I don't know……….I have been known to be gullable around here before so I might have believed it. Maybe not right away, but if you kept it going I might have 🙂
I thought it was interesting that jhall was the one who taught me NOT to engage idiots like Madge.
Take care dcollins!!!! Good night and God Bless 🙂
I thought it was you who taught us? We were worried about you being sore at us because we didn't listen to our own rules of engagement.
dc – The difference between you saying something like that and the other person, is if you really believed that, you would have had everything to back it up, just like you always do. I fully understand our young Dodgers may not be with us for the duration of their career, and I will let go when I need to. It will be hard, but I will do it without crying too much 🙂
Ah, you know – a father's love. I can't stay mad at my family! Besides, I don't like to be a hypocrite. I probably would have engaged the pathetic little loser myself. I had enough trouble keeping my mouth shut 24 hours after his mommy must have found him playing with her laptop.
I know what you mean. I made sure I was ready for him today just in case.
Wouldn't you think our moron politicians would have something better to do?
"Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) has called for congressional hearings to examine the legality of the 12-year-old BCS system…."
Angels got swept by the Twins.
You would think our politicians would be working on our country and it's economy, among other things.
Nascar ? – I didn't even realize NASCAR ran yesterday instead of today until I saw ESPN news this morning. Not that I would have been able to see it anyway, but any reason? I lost my head to head competition by two lousy points. I rather lose by 100+ I am still in 2nd by myself, and I am 2nd in total points as well.
It's pretty cool seeing the gnats and the dbacks sharing the bottom dwellers role for the time being anyway.
Hi nellyjune, r u still awake?? I'm texting you.
They schedule a few Saturday night races throughout the season. I could hazard a few guesses, but that's all they would be. I don't have enough NASCAR history knowledge (yet). 🙂 My team didn't do so well – other than Johnson. His team kind of let him down yesterday. He lost a lot of spots in the pits. He had a car that could have won it, I think. But he was constantly having to restart in 26th, 18th, 32nd, etc. But having said all that, I'm thrilled that Mark Martin finally won one. If you can't be happy for him, you're overdosed on the Kool-Aid.
Back to baseball, I see that Kemp ditched the cool-looking shades for the ol' flip-downs today. I'd like to know who ripped him yesterday for having those Oakleys (or whatever they were) on the bill of his cap when he lost that flyball in the sun. Must have been Bowa.
i.e. :
Richmond, May 2
Darlington, May 9 (something's going on that day, right?)
Daytona, July 4
Chicagoland, July 11
Bristol, Aug 22
Richmond, Sept 12
Charlotte, Oct 17
They schedule a few Saturday night races throughout the season. I could hazard a few guesses, but that's all they would be. I don't have enough NASCAR history knowledge (yet). 🙂 My team didn't do so well – other than Johnson. His team kind of let him down yesterday. He lost a lot of spots in the pits. He had a car that could have won it, I think. But he was constantly having to restart in 26th, 18th, 32nd, etc. But having said all that, I'm thrilled that Mark Martin finally won one. If you can't be happy for him, you're overdosed on the Kool-Aid.
Back to baseball, I see that Kemp ditched the cool-looking shades for the ol' flip-downs today. I'd like to know who ripped him yesterday for having those Oakleys (or whatever they were) on the bill of his cap when he lost that flyball in the sun. Must have been Bowa.
LOL!! Yes, I believe so 🙂
So, there are quite a few than…….thanks for the info.
I really don't want to be a party-pooper, 'cause I'm as excited as most of the rest of you. But our opponents haven't been exactly the cream of the crop yet. So far, so good. But it's a fine start to the season.
Rankings in the NL so far:
3rd in runs scored
2nd in hits
2nd in RBIs
1st in stolen bases
1st in walks
10th in strikeouts
2nd in batting average
1st in OBP
2nd in OBS
……and this is BEFORE today's game…….
I know…..our test will be with the teams outside of our division. I am especially looking forward to our first meeting with Philly. That should be some series.
Someone (D4?) used to honor the Post Of The Day here. I'd like to nominate jhall, referring to enchanted's ndescenes impression:
"It's your row to hoe my brother Beav. Actually, his posts always left me wondering where he was getting his weed. JMO!!!!
By jhallwally on April 19, 2009 4:42 PM"
I couldn't agree more, buddy-boy!! LMAO!!!
LMTO!!!!! Yes, that was a classic moment in today's events. I think it was dodger4life who was doing that at one time.
That story on Dukes is interesting. Kind of like:
A) Biting off your nose to spite your face
B) Throwing out the baby with the bathwater
C) Proving you don't belong as a Major League Manager
D) All of the above
LOL!! I am guessing D, all of the above.
That's my guess!
Well, this has been nice, but I gotta hit the rack. Glad you guys got home safely, Junie. The last few days have been a pleasure, and you and Bill charmed the socks off Chris! God Bless you and yours and perhaps I can make ITD Latenight tomorrow.
Good Night Ward Dear!!! Thank you for everything, and Chris was mighty incredible herself, but you already know that. And just so you know, Matt met my brother and sister-in-law, along with my nephews on Sunday, and he charmed them as well. Take Care and God Bless!!!!
If I'm expected to keep up the ndeschenes post game posts, I'm gonna need some Maui Wowie myself!!!
LMTO, Enchanted!!! Good morning!!!
…….if that's what it takes enchanted 🙂
I'd turn on, tune in, and drop out, but that was the generation before me.
Good morning ITD, Dodgerfaithful
Great homestand by the Boys ~ Lets keep this wave of fun rolling along in Houston 🙂
Happy Holiday's All 🙂
I know it's early, but Andre not only leads the NL in RBIs, he leads the entire major league right now. Just a fact 🙂
..and don't worry, if Matt or Manny's stats ever come into question, I have their information too. I take care of my Dodger outfielders.
I just happened to be printing out the league leaders for NL, AL and MLB for my baseball wall and I just happened to notice it. BTW – the Dodger Pennant looks really nice in first place right now.
player of the week – just a fact :
Okay – I lost a post somewhere, so I am sure it will show up sometime and this will be a double post.
Andre is the player of the week – just a fact 🙂
so what is this about questioning Matt or Ethier? There shoudl be no need to question anything about them. Like I told them they are having great starts.
Nelly – That's odd, I didn't see Juan Pierre's name on the nominee list…
Crash ~ and he's probably ticked off because of the omission!
I didn't either Crash!!
Emma – we have had a visitor on ITD on Saturday that claims Pierre is better than Ethier by using their averages and RISP stats only. It's okay Emma…………..Ethier set him straight by getting two jacks in that game and three RBIs yesterday. The only reason I brought up Matt is because I didn't want ITD thinking I only pay attention to Andre's stats. I pay attention to all the outfielders stats. l learned through ITD that if you are going to put up an argument for your players, you better have stats to back it up. He/She obviously didn't.
i lost a post too.. so if a similar post shows up at some time, i'm sorry..
rose, or someone said the other day that they wanted andre to take over carne asada sundays since nomar is gone.. and rose, or someone is psychic then:
Eric–speaking as a Utahn who has never voted for Orrin Hatch, he is a complete moron who should have better things to do. Unfortunately, we are stuck with him either until he dies or chooses to give up his seat. He's only the latest Utah public official getting after the BCS for not giving the national championship to Utah this last college football season
In the infamous tradition of JoeyP and Phan, Badge is nothing more than a simple provacateur.He/she probably did'nt even actually believe what they were saying. Ramslover is, in the words of a past Aussie visitor sorely missed on these pages, spot on; the best way to answer ignorance is to ignore it.
Orrin Hatch – isn't that what they use in case of emergency up in the space station?
Good afternoon ITD
I am going through Dodger baseball withdrawal. No game today. What should I do? Oh, that's right, I have to go to work.
What a week it was. I am tired but it's a good tired. Photo Day was amazing. Nellyjune I have a few more pix for you. It was a hot weekend but it was worth it. sitting at Dodger Stadium. It's 100 degrees today in Long Beach. How horrible is that? At least there is no day game today. I miss our guys already.
I have a picture of my Ron Cey autograph ball on my blog. Joe wanted to know if he signed with his number. The answer is in the picture. Have a good evening.
but seesky……………it is sooooooo much more fun not to at times, and this was definitely one of those times for me anyway – LOL!!! I will do my best to behave next time.
Thank you heartruss!!!
Absolutely broiling in L.A. today. Guess the Dodgers left a bit of their "hot "streak behind. The Dodgers will come back to Earth on this road trip, though I'd be more than happy if they didn't. Still wonder whatever happened to Russell Martin. Wasn't he their All-Star catcher a few seasons ago? Last season, you say? And that his stats this season are fine? Well, OK, but he doesn't seem like the same guy to me. Wasn't he going to be the face of the franchise? Eclipse them all?
I'm hoping that Martin will hit his stride and get back to the form that made him the last two seasons. Fortunately we have the components of a really good team, whereby one or two guys can have and off-day or even an off-season, and the team can still win. I think that Martin may have simply got carried away with the big hype the last two years – All Star and all that captain crap. He's apparently a very good catcher who can call a good game, but I always thought it was too early to designate him as anything but a good prospect who would hopefully continue to improve. I did not see that improvement last year, nor so far yet this season. It's just too early to call him an All Star or to call him a disappointment. In the meantime, it doesn't hurt to have Ellis continue in his stride, and hopefully he can give Martin somebody to compete with in a year or two. That could not be bad.
Congrats to Andre for being named NL Player of the Week. Very well-deserved. Kahliforni, you aren't kidding about it being hot today. I had to turn the a/c on for the first time this year, but I'd rather be hot than cold, so it's ok.
Well done, messagebear! I agree with everything you said. Don't get me wrong, I'm a big Russell Martin fan. Even Uncle Joe knows Martin is a key for the Dodgers to get where they ultimately want to go. Witness Joe's bi-weekly ****-chats with Martin all winter. It just seems Martin's at that "groping" stage of his career. One year a party boy, the next a settled, level-headed guy in a serious relationship. All of this would be moot (as would any player's personal life) if he'd take a deep breath, make consistent, solid contact, and throw out a runner every now and then. Oh, by the way, Honeycutt? The Dodgers are 0-5 throwing out base runners this young season. Come to think of it, that's more an indictment of the pitching staff than it is Martin and Ausmus.
I just finished watching a replay of Andre's Before the Bigs on Fox. Seems kind of fitting that they replayed it today following his big week at the plate.
Seeing as how it's a rare off day, baseball's wonderful rite of introspection comes into play. Heading into Spring Training LAST YEAR, we ached with anticipation over the seven kids who Dodger fans were anointing as the "chosen ones"…the players destined to take the Dodgers to the Promised Land. Martin, Loney, Kemp, Ethier, Billingsley, Broxton, and Kershaw. Who'd have dreamed these seven would already be stamping there mark on the National League as bona fide stars…one short year later. Unreal.
Nelly, Oh OK. I am sure it was somebody just playing games.
Cat, if Long Beach was 100, you can imagine how it was more inland. I am also missing my boys in Blue.
Kahli ~ I love our "Magnificent Seven"! We all knew they were the players of our future. I'm just glad Joe didn't wait too long to figure that out. He almost blew it last year but, I think he has finally come around to our way of thinking.
Kahli – It is just awesome to see the dream become reality. I know it's early, and like Eric says, we haven't really been tested until we leave our division and play the others, but I guess we are about to find out starting tomorrow.
OK, admit it, you've been curious as to how that 14-run outburst affected the team stats.
Rankings in the NL so far:
1st in runs scored
1st in hits
1st in RBIs
1st in stolen bases
1st in walks
1st in batting average
1st in OBP
1st in OPS
…. and still 10th in strikeouts.
I know, I know. It's April 20th, but it's fun to look at. We're not used to such offense.
Wow!!! That's alot of firsts even if it is April 20th for offense. How is pitching holding up? This morning I ran the league leaders for my baseball board and the Dodgers are sprinkled all over it. It's mostly O-Dog, Matt and Andre, and Chad for pitching, but it's great to see as well. And then to see Andre out in 1st in RBIs for the entire league was pretty awesome even if it is only April 20th.
I love the giants offense.
The Giants rank last in the league in homers (six), RBIs (31), walks (23) and on-base percentage/slugging percentage (.646).
They're second from last in runs (37), total bases (133), on-base percentage (.297) and slugging percentage (.349).
The worst part about the Giants offense and I know it's early if Pierre obp .444, slg% .375 and ops .819 you're offense is in deep trouble.
You can check this Nelly for pitching but it just doesn't show you all of the stats but espn is much better.
Damn Toronto 87, Cleveland 83 (thanks to the whooping they're gave the Spankees), Texas 82, Dodgers 81, Florida/St Louis tied with 77 the Spankers 70 in that orders of runs scored in both league.
Dodgers obp .393, Indians .380, Cardinals .372, Mets .366 Tigers .365 and so on. What's is amazing that our offense is way better than the Mets and Cubs. The Cubs just haven't been hitting lately.
We're the only team batting over .300+ at .302 and this is with Martin .244 and Blake .215 slow starts.
Just a quick mention for all the old LA Ram fans out there. Nice article on Deacon Jones in the Times, and it contains one of the better quotes I've seen:
"The headslap was not my invention, but Rembrandt, of course, did not invent painting."
Dodgereric ~ thanks for the article. I do remember the "Fearsome Foursome" fondly.
Nice article Eric.
Fabulous article Eric, and glad to see you out and about during your coffee break 🙂
Yeah! And now it's LUNCH!
Sorry I left so abruptly last night Junie. Connectivity issues. I had made a lengthy post on our pitching (at your request) and it got lost in cyberspace. I re-wrote the whole thing and it got lost. I'm lucky I didn't send my laptop thru the TV.
I don't have time to recreate it here and now, but the stats don't take long.
NL team pitching:
2nd in ERA
4th in saves
16th and last in hits allowed (that's a good thing to be last in)
16th in runs allowed
15th in earned runs allowed
14th in HRs allowed
11th in walks allowed
2nd in strikeouts
1st in WHIPs (also good)
Back to the coal mines……
Thanks for the info, no worries, and I am glad the TV survived – LOL!! …..my lunch is over, and now we are walking to our local fire station for a tour………….one of my favorite trips……….no bus and the kids love it!!!
OK, OK, I have time for one more quickie:
"Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully will be inducted into the National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame on Tuesday"
You mean there's a Hall of Fame somewhere that he isn't already in?


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A good cook was a prize since his offerings could significantly affect the morale of the men. Until the late 19th century, the lumberman's diet was quite basic: salt pork, beans, hardtack and dried peas were all cooked over a large open log fire or cambuse in the centre of the cookhouse. The expansion of settlements closer to the camps brought fresh food to the woods, while the introduction of stoves allowed food to be prepared more quickly and in a greater variety of ways.
The cook's battery of utensils increased during the late 19th century to deal with ingredients such as flour, corned beef, white beans, China tea, sugar, raisins, fresh beef, vegetables, butter and jam. Some camps were still too remote or too poor to afford such ingredients but, generally speaking, the latter did become more available. This cast iron cooking pot had a bottom made to fit into a stove lid.
Source : All in a Day's Work: Lumbering in New Brunswick [Web tour], by New Brunswick Museum (see Links)
The term "cambuse" apparently evolved from the Dutch kaban huis, which was the deckhouse on sailing ships.
Usually, the larger the camp the better the food, as the owner could afford to hire a good cook. And the better the food, the happier the workers!
This cast iron pot was made about 1870. At that time, cookstoves were still a rarity in lumber camps.
The cook's assistants were called "cookees" in the East and "flunkies" on the West Coast.