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December 10,
skincare for him…

Just in time for gift giving season, the vedaPure line offers a little something for the males in your life, the vedaDude gift set! The set includes four items which you can read more about below…you can also purchase these great products separately as well.

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Labels: Gifts, Skincare for Men

December 9,
a little Sunday inspiration…

While in San Francisco, I was able to visit with my lovely and talented friend and sometimes travel buddy Nicole. She had me over to her azing house in Bernal Heights. Her place is not fabulous, filled but NOT cluttered (very important!) with great flea market finds, photographs and fun objects. Then I discovered the bathroom and was even more impressed because she did not forget about this bathing space at all! See below.

I omitted a long rble Pettis and I had around him becoming a switch-hitter; in short, when he showed up at cp after being drafted by the California Angels, the coaching staff unilaterally decided he would not been an outfielder, but a shortstop (the Angels had some higher-profile outfield prospects then, but tended to use acquired veteran stars out there), and that as of the day he arrived, he would become a switch-hitter. In the latter, he would not get much coaching — they just figured he’d figure it out. He did just well enough to make it to the majors that way, though his offensive production was really justified by his Gold Gloves and his base-running and base-stealing prowess. acoustic daddario guitar string
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The Angels shot themselves in both feet by not investing more in training. They counted on him to train himself, as he had been doing batting right-handed, when they could have adjusted him years earlier. Understand, the worst Major League Baseball te invests more in ongoing training and coaching than the average corporation or government agency. But even with all their efforts, they shorted themselves. Because if Gary Pettis could have started producing a .375 on-base percentage in 1985 at age 27, he would have been on base for them about an extra 50 times in the next three years, affording them more opportunities to use his base-running ability to score runs for his te. Perhaps they would have had to trade him or if they had, they might have gotten someone more valuable than Dan Petry (who stunk up the majors for a few more years and then was gone).

NOTE: You may notice Pettis regressed the following year. I wanted to ask him about it but our conversation was cut short because he needed to get to work. If I get to talk with him again, I’ll ask him why.

The two lessons here, though are: (1) There’s always at least one more valuable thing to learn and get better at, even when you’ve been working at a position for a long time, and (2) The organization always leaves signficant gains on the table when it pimps on quality training that’s customized to each contributor.

In 1993, the Rox had a decent cpaign for a first year. They improved a little and by their third year squeaked into the playoffs with a better-than-.500 season. Success with that model looked attainable — but wins flattened out and then started sagging. Players were breaking down. Te-building design tactics that worked for home ges didn’t work for road ges. The design didn’t change over those years, it was a steady Syncopation of Sybaritic Slug-A-Thons. The frustration went straight up. The previous GM, Bob Gebhard moved aside after the 1999 season to make way for Cleveland Indians assistant G.M. O’Dowd, and the new leader started twiddling with the formula.

We talked about what the Rockies front office te have been doing to cope with their very different environment and why they’ve chosen those paths. NOTE: there are a few unintelligible passages in here- sorry ’bout that.

Q: You have one of the most interesting jobs of any general manager in baseball. You’re the only one who deals with a physical environment which is not way out of specification compared to what all other tes face. The insanity that cascades as a result makes everything you do much more complicated 6 string acoustic guitar
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A: I think what it does more than anything else is not make the basis of statistical analysis that exists in our industry – I’m not sure that most of those statistical theories, resources and methods, all of which I certainly used earlier in my career…in my Cleveland days…in fact we were kind of in the forefront there…a lot of that doesn’t carry over well in Colorado because of the unique environment we play in.

{snip – some generic conversation about pitching}

We’ve got a couple of things in place we think that have helped level the playing field for pitchers. I think Baseball has done a couple of things that will continue to level the playing field. The Humidor has made a dratic difference; we think it could make more of a difference if we were allowed to use it the way we’d like to use it. We have specifications we have to follow – where we store the baseballs and what (temperature) we can store them in. I believe if we were allowed to crank (humidity) up a little higher, it would have even more effect on the ges. One of the problems is not really just this …this is not not earth-shaking scientific method…it’s like when you leave an old pair of leather boots outside in the wintertime in Colorado and they dry up & they crack, they change their shape…the se exact kinds of things happen to a baseball. <something> contact changes dratically, the leather itself becomes smooth like a cue ball. So it’s very difficult to hold the ball and do the things you normally would do in regular…sea level…conditions.

It doesn’t get completely surreal until the Tigers break out of the gate fast, and stay in first through 19 ges. At this point, they are a serious contender. Experimentation is not easiest when you either are getting waxed and you have nothing to lose, or you are holding onto a surmountable lead and need a boost; its hard when you’re so far ahead you are afraid to tinker, but the Tigers, at least Rolfe, always knew that if they were going to hold on, it would been by the thinnest of margins, that they needed reinforcements. His journal is not filled with disappointments it appears he knows are human limits of his existing roster, especially on the pitching side. Calvert stunk, and Rolfe wasn’t getting a great deal of help from the non-starter arms on the roster — no one was reasonably consistent in finishing off ges. Here was that part of the te…an injured veteran starter who got a little ‘pen work, four established mediocrities Rolfe squeezed some above-their-norm work out of, and three kids (one of whom went on to have a respectable career):jazz guitar string
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Player Ag G ERA W L SV GS GF IP H R ER HR BB SO BFP B ERA+
——————+—+——+—+—+–+—+—+——+—-+—-+—-+—+—-+—-+—-+-+—+
Virgil Trucks 33 7 3.54 3 1 0 7 0 48.3 45 20 19 6 21 25 209 132
Hal White 31 42 4.54 9 6 1 8 18 111.0 96 59 56 7 65 53 482 103
Paul Calvert 32 32 6.31 2 2 4 0 19 51.3 71 42 36 7 25 14 250 74
Marlin Stuart 31 19 5.56 3 1 2 1 7 43.7 59 32 27 6 22 19 205 84
Hank Borowy 34 13 3.31 1 1 0 2 3 32.7 23 15 12 3 16 12 134 141
Saul Rogovin 26 11 4.50 2 1 0 5 4 40.0 39 21 20 5 26 11 182 104
Ray Herbert 20 8 3.63 1 2 1 3 3 22.3 20 11 9 1 12 5 96 129

I asked editor Willi Anderson who had read all the materials if there’d been any discussion he’d omitted and he explained, no, there hadn’t been a single mention. What does it mean when a driven manager doesn’t even grasp at the chance to improve by adding a serious player?

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