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How unusual would it be for him to bat and pitch regularly?
It would be extremely unusual. No American League pitcher has had more than 15 plate appearances in a season since the D.H. was introduced in 1973. Only 17 American League pitchers have even had a season of double-digit plate appearances in that time despite the advent of interleague play in 1997, which gave them consi...
Pitchers get more of a chance to hit in the National League, but even in a league with no D.H., pitchers rarely crack 100 plate appearances. Last year, the National League’s leader in plate appearances among pitchers was Jacob deGrom of the Mets, with 77.
In the early part of baseball’s modern era, it was not entirely unheard-of to spend time as both a pitcher and a position player. From 1901 to 1919, a player had 200 plate appearances as a batter and 10 appearances as a pitcher in the same season 12 times. But since then, only Willie Smith of the 1964 Angels managed to...
The last player to truly make a go of contributing as a pitcher and a hitter was Brooks Kieschnick, who was a reliever, a pinch-hitter and an outfielder for the Milwaukee Brewers. In the 2003 and 2004 seasons, he combined for 74 appearances as a pitcher and 133 plate appearances as a batter.
But what about Babe Ruth?
It’s true that Ruth was an emerging star as a pitcher before he became baseball’s most feared slugger, but for the most part those years did not overlap. The closest he came to excelling at both was with the Boston Red Sox in 1918. That year, as a key player for a World Series-winning team, the 23-year-old Ruth started...
The comparison between Ruth and Ohtani, however, is one that is unfair to Ohtani. It is, quite frankly, ridiculous to include the phrase “but what about Babe Ruth?” in any serious discussion about the two, regardless of how talented Ohtani may be.
The Hitter Can Hurl. The Hurler Can Hit. Can He Do Both in the Majors?
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ST JOHN'S, Antigua and Barbuda (AFP) — West Indies women's captain Stafanie Taylor will miss her team's three-match T20 international series in Pakistan which starts later this month over security concerns, Cricket West Indies (CWI) announced on Thursday.
The 2016 World Twenty20 champions are set to play games in Karachi on January 31, February 1 and February 3.
But all-rounder Taylor, one of the biggest stars in the women's game, will only join the squad for the following one-day international series in the United Arab Emirates.
"Following the detailed security plan from the PCB and the independent security assessment....Stafanie Taylor has opted out of touring Pakistan," the CWI confirmed.
I first discovered John Mearsheimer’s work in 2014 when he published a courageous article in Foreign Affairs on why the Ukraine crisis was the West’s fault. The blame could not be laid at Putin’s doorstep. From Mearsheimer’s realist political perspective, you had to be pretty dumb to imagine that Putin would permit NAT...
The Mueller report did not find any evidence, either, of Russian meddling in the US election of 2016. Perhaps I am too optimistic, but the lifting of dense fog around Russia and the Ukraine, Russian meddling and far-fetched ideas (espoused by the likes of Canada’s luny Russophobe Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland) tha...
Mearsheimer, who is a prominent US political theorist from the University of Chicago, had the guts to challenge the massive propaganda masking the US engineering of the overthrow of the elected Ukrainian government. Now, in his new book, The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities (2018), Mearsheimer...
His basic question is a fascinating one: “What happens when a country that is deeply committed to individual rights and doing social engineering to promote those rights employs that template in the wider world?” (p. 120). The answer: “That formidable state will end up embracing liberal hegemony, a highly interventionis...
Liberal hegemony carries a heavy burden. Once a country decides to fight to protect human rights and spread democracy around the world, a “liberal unipole becomes addicted to war” (p. 152). Once addicted—and who can doubt that the US military-industrial complex needs a constant fix—the globe provides a vast mission fie...
Beware of liberal democracy at work beyond its own national borders. Mearsheimer says that the liberal elites refuse to “learn from their failings and become averse to using military force abroad, but that seldom happens” (ibid.). Rather, the liberal hegemonic project stirs up conflict, fosters instability, fails and l...
Mearsheimer observes that, the Clinton administration in 1992 embraced liberal hegemony from the start. The policy, he argues, “remained through firmly intact through the Bush and Obama administrations” (p. 153). What have been the results? During this period the US has been involved in “numerous wars” and “has failed ...
The “great delusion” of America, according to Mearsheimer, is that America can only be “secure ”when, as Dean Rusk once said, the “total international environment is ideologically safe” (p. 154). Now, Washington can go to war under several pretenses: to impose liberal democracy and a neo-liberal economy on all sovereig...
Bush and his gang were supremely deluded: they would defeat al-Qaeda and then Iran, Iraq and Syria. And who knows where else. They thought that the best way to deal with terrorism was to “turn all countries in the Middle East into liberal democracies” (ibid.). A “great zone of peace” would rise like a phoenix from the ...
The great delusion of US foreign policy is that it is possible to function as a de factoform of world government. Mearsheimer thinks that this delusory, perhaps insane, project presses the liberal hegemonists to develop “deep-seated antipathy toward illiberal states” (p. 157). The unipolar state is disinclined to diplo...
Liberal hegemony undermines sovereignty. As Mearsheimer puts it, “Respect for sovereignty is the most significant norm in international politics, and its purpose is to minimize war and facilitate peaceful relations among states” (p. 158). This means, fundamentally, that nation-states have the “ultimate authority” over ...
Mearsheimer claims that norms have little impact on state behaviour. While I don’t agree with his forlorn realism completely, he says that the norm of sovereignty was eroding by the mid-1990s, “mainly because the US took to interfering in the politics of other countries even more than it had in the past” (p. 160). He s...
The US unipolar state can’t keep out of other people’s business. They don’t invade powerful states. But they antagonize their target states like Russia by interfering in their internal affairs through using civil society institutions, CIA-fronted organizations such as the National Endowment for Democracy, sanctioning b...
Mearsheimer also takes us on grim trip through the US’s devastation in the Middle East. He states: “Washington’s performance in Afghanistan, Egypt, Iraq, Libya, and Syria has been dismal” (p. 168). It “has played a major role in spreading death and disorder across the greater Middle East.” Incentive to acquire nuclear ...
All of this intervention and interference in other country’s affairs has been driven by persons who knew little about the countries they were invading. The US invaders also knew little about the factions making up the country, and how a US invasion would set them against each other. Perhaps they didn’t even fully reali...
Final irony: “States that promote liberal hegemony invariably damage the fabric of liberalism inside their own borders” (p. 179).
These electronic device companies' stocks have been hammered -- deservedly -- but while they are far from their highs, neither is a bargain.
Shares of Fitbit (NYSE:FIT) have lost about 83% of their value since they peaked shortly after the company's IPO last year. GoPro (NASDAQ:GPRO) stock has fared even worse; it's down nearly 90% from the highs reached in late 2014.
Given these steep declines, investors willing to bet on a turnaround for either company could be handsomely rewarded if things go right. Both companies sell popular consumer gadgets: fitness wearables in the case of Fitbit, and action cameras in the case of GoPro. Both were first-movers in their respective categories, ...
But a first-mover advantage doesn't last forever. Both Fitbit and GoPro need to constantly come up with new products in order to maintain their edge. Neither is succeeding. This never-ending need to innovate is a good reason to avoid both stocks.
Fitbit dramatically ramped up its spending in 2016 in an effort to stay ahead of the competition. Operating expenses more than doubled through the first nine months of the year, with R&D spending jumping by 145%, and sales and marketing spending surging 71%. Revenue rose as well, but by a much smaller 39%.
The result of this spending has been a variety of new products that launched this year: The Blaze, a smart watch with a slew of features; the Alta, a slim and stylish fitness tracker; the Charge 2, a follow-up to the popular Charge; and the Flex 2, a screen-less and swim-proof device. During the third quarter, these ne...
But all that money thrown at product development and marketing has failed to fulfill its purpose. Fitbit expects fourth-quarter revenue to grow by just 2% to 5% year over year. Adjusted earnings are set to drop by more than 50% compared to the fourth quarter of 2015. Fitbit's management is now talking about leveraging ...
Even if it was facing no competition, getting its customers to upgrade consistently would be a major challenge for Fitbit. But intensifying competition from various companies coming out with Android Wear and watchOS devices adds another layer to Fitbit's problems. It's stuck between a rock and a hard place. If it cuts ...
The story could change next year if Fitbit comes up with a killer new product. But investing based on hope is never a good idea.
GoPro expects to produce revenue growth during the fourth quarter, although that's mostly because its 2015 Q4 was a disaster. This year hasn't been any better. Revenue tumbled 46% through the first nine months of 2016, while operating expenses rose 33%. GoPro has posted a net loss of $303 million so far this year, and ...
GoPro's entry into the drone market was supposed to prove that the company wasn't a one-hit wonder, and help it return to growth. Its delayed Karma drone finally launched in late October, only to be recalled in early November due to issues with some devices losing power in mid-flight. Only 2,500 Karma drones had been p...
GoPro appears to have some deep execution problems. The company managed to bungle one of the most important product launches in its history despite a months-long delay and no discipline at all when it came to spending. It now plans to slash operating costs in an effort to return to profitability, but that won't solve t...
At this point, a bet on GoPro is ultimately a bet that the company can come up with a slate of new products that are successful enough to drive the bottom line back into the black. Given the Karma drone debacle, that's a sucker's bet if I've ever seen one.
A truck driver reportedly drove more than a mile with a car stuck to the front of his cab after a "road rage" crash.
Indian officials are looking for the occupants of a car that chased a large pride of lions and harassed them. A video of the incident which surfaced on April 17 shows a car chasing the pride of..
A truck driver got stranded by a roadside in central Bangladesh near Dhaka, and was unable to get out until a passing tame elephant walked by and the driver had an idea. Video shows how the..
CCTV video captured a car nearly being flattened after it tried to overtake a semi-truck travelling along a Chinese motorway. The terrifying clip, shot in Yichun City in southern China's Jiangxi..
Surveillance video from inside a Mansfield bakery shows just how close of a call it was for customers and employees who were in the shop when a car crashed through the front door. WBZ-TV's Lisa Gresci..
A shocking video showed how a wild elephant that was injured while crossing a road in northern India. The elephant was filmed on April 6 lying prone and injured on the Derhradun-Rishikesh Highway..
This is the nerve-wracking moment a terrified monk and his friend had to keep perfectly still while an ELEPHANT raided their pickup truck in south Thailand. Video from the scene shows the Buddhist..
Everything is pandas and nothing hurts.
With some terribly sad news circulating this morning, we could all use a little dose of the warm-and-fuzzies right now. And with thanks to one very generous mama panda, we've officially got it. Here, fresh from the womb, are three separate tiny bright spots to cheer you on a mournful day.
According to a report from AOL, these adorable panda triplets were born in China back at the end of July. They're now a robust two weeks old, but officials delayed announcing as much until they were sure that all the cubs would survive, which means that whatever else might go wrong this week, at least we all fall in lo...
Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan on Sunday accused the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) government of Odisha for its lackadaisical attitude in developing the state.
Addressing the 'Jana Paramarsh Padyatra' here, Pradhan said that in the last 19 years, more people in the state in the state migrated to other places in search of jobs and alleged that corruption increased in the state.
"In 19 years of this (BJD) government, people have only migrated in search of jobs leaving behind their families. There is a rise in unemployment and corruption in the state," he said.
Slamming Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik for failing to improve the agriculture and health sectors in the state, Pradhan asserted, "There is distress sale of paddy and farmers are forced to sell their produce at less than the MSP of Rs 1750 per quintal. 'Mandis' (wholesale markets) are yet to be opened for paddy p...
"Of the 285 sanctioned doctors, 143 posts are vacant in Balasore district. People of Jaleswar seek answers from Naveen Babu's government for its failure in providing health care facility and basic facilities like round the clock electricity," he added.
The Union Minister remarked that Jaleswar was once the centre of economic development in northern Odisha, and despite having rich resources, the region lagged behind in the development process.
Pradhan accused the Patnaik government of failing to take steps to manage the rainwater flowing in Subarnarekha river despite the recurrence of flood-related calamities in Balasore district.
Continuing his tirade against the BJD for not providing piped water supply to the people in Jaleswar, Pradhan said, "Odisha government has put up large hoardings of providing piped drinking water to households, but in reality, people in Jaleswar don't get piped water supply. The government after 19 years has failed to ...
He further said that the BJD government should give an answer to the people of Odisha on the shortage of teachers in schools, doctors, poor health infrastructure and the status of electrification in the state.
Concord Township Trustee Carl Dondorfer, fourth from left, waves after being introduced during the push-in ceremony held for the township's new heavy rescue pumper truck on April 14. Fire Chief Matt Sabo, left, makes the introduction. Joining Dondorfer are former trustee Christopher Galloway, fellow trustees Paul Malch...
Carl H. Dondorfer has been appointed as the newest trustee for Concord Township.
Dondorfer, who was appointed on April 9 to fill the vacancy created when former Trustee Christopher Galloway was appointed Lake County Auditor, believes there is a lot of work to be done with both the commercial corridor along State Route 44 and Interstate 90 and residential development.
He also has a desire to increase the ability for people to take advantage of the township's parks and would like to bring more people into the community.
According to Dondorfer, the current board of trustees has done a phenomenal job. He believes there to be a great balance between the tranquility of rural living and a greater good in the commercial corridor.
"I see they have done a lot of work in trying to bring a nice balance in Concord Township to make it a good place to live to work and to recreate," he said. "I hope to be able to carry that on and work to be able to support the best interests of residents of the township.
"We have great safety services," he added. "I was involved in the police side of safety services for Concord Township for 25 years. We have a great fire department. I would like to see that continue and just make this a great community to live in."
Dondorfer said he expressed an interest in the trustee position when he learned there was the possibility it was going to be available.
"I discussed that with my wife as being a good opportunity for me, and I reached out and showed an interest and had a series of interviews with the trustees and the administrator and also submitted a resume," Dondorfer said. "I had worked with that group in Concord (trustees/administration) for a number of years in my ...
The newly appointed trustee described himself as someone who has a strong passion for service. He became involved in scouting at a young age and achieved the rank of Eagle.
He had a desire early on to become involved in law enforcement so after graduating from Bowling Green State University, he entered the police academy.
Dondorfer, who said he had a very rewarding run with the sheriff's department, recently transitioned to the Lake Metroparks Ranger Department where he works as a lieutenant.
He grew up in the township and returned as a resident 12 years ago. He says he and wife Alyson, a physical therapist, enjoy raising their two teenage daughters Mallory and Carley there.
"I'm still getting my feet wet. I want to do the best job that I can to represent the interests of the citizens of Concord Township," Dondorfer said. "All my life I have been in a leadership role and I have always believed that leadership isn't about being charge. It's about taking care of the people in your charge. Th...
Dondorfer said he will seek re-election in November.
"I have always believed that leadership isn't about being charge. It's about taking care of the people in your charge. Those people in my charge are now going to be the citizens of Concord Township."
As we move forward, cloud is going to give us an opportunity to reinvent how we do security.
Listen to the podcast. Find it on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: The Open Group. Looking back over the past few years, it seems like cyber security and warfare threats are only getting worse. We've had the Stuxnet Worm, the WikiLeaks affair, China-originating attacks ag...
But, are cyber security dangers, in fact, getting that much worse? And are perceptions at odds with what is really important in terms of security protection? How can businesses best protect themselves from the next round of risks, especially as cloud, mobile, and social media and networking activities increase? How can...
We posed these and other serious questions to a panel of security experts at the recent The Open Group Conference, held in San Diego the week of Feb. 7, to examine the coming cyber security business risks, and ways to head them off.
The panel: Jim Hietala, the Vice President of Security at The Open Group; Mary Ann Mezzapelle, Chief Technologist in the CTO's Office at HP, and Jim Stikeleather, Chief Innovation Officer at Dell Services. The discussion was moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions.
Stikeleather: The only secure computer in the world right now is the one that's turned off in a closet, and that's the nature of things. You have to make decisions about what you're putting on and where you're putting it on. I' s a big concern that if we don't get better with security, we run the risk of people losing ...
When that happens, we're going to see some really significant global economic concerns. If you think about our economy, it's structured around the way the Internet operates today. If people lose trust in the transactions that are flying across it, then we're all going to be in pretty bad world of hurt.
One of the things that you're seeing now is a combination of security factors. When people are talking about the break-ins, you're seeing more people actually having discussions of what's happened and what's not happening. You're seeing a new variety of the types of break-ins, the type of exposures that people are expe...
The other piece of the puzzle has been that legal and regulatory bodies step in and say, "You are now responsible for it." Therefore, people are paying a lot more attention to it. So, it's a combination of all these factors that are keeping people up at night. A major issue in cyber security right now is that we've nev...
We're starting to see a little bit of a sea change, because starting with HIPAA-HITECH in 2009, for the first time, regulatory bodies and legislatures have put criminal penalties on companies who have exposures and break-ins associated with them.
There are two parts to that. One, we've never been truly able to gauge how big the risk really is. So, for one person it maybe a 2, and most people it's probably a 5 or a 6. Some people may be sitting there at a 10. But, you need to be able to gauge the magnitude of the risk. And, we never have done a good job of sayin...
So we're no longer talking about ROI. We're starting to talk about risk of incarceration , and that changes the game a little bit. You're beginning to see more and more companies do more in the security space.
Mezzapelle: First of all we need to make sure that they have a comprehensive view. In some cases, it might be a portfolio approach, which is unique to most people in a security area. Some of my enterprise customers have more than a 150 different security products that they're trying to integrate.
Their issue is around complexity, integration, and just knowing their environment -- what levels they are at, what they are protecting and not, and how does that tie to the business? Are you protecting the most important asset? Is it your intellectual property (IP)? Is it your secret sauce recipe? Is it your financial ...
It takes some discipline to go back to that InfoSec framework and make sure that you have that foundation in place, to make sure you're putting your investments in the right way. ... It's about empowering the business, and each business is going to be different. If you're talking about a Department of Defense (DoD) mil...

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