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It’s been almost 20 years since IBM’s Lou Gerstner got an elephant to dance. Now Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), one of the companies that forced IBM to confront its problems, finds itself in need of a new dance partner who understands the realities of 21st-century computing. Steve Ballmer is not that person.

Microsoft is at a crossroads, not the first one it has stared down in its 36-year-history, but perhaps the most important. It is both enormously successful and astonishingly off-course at the same time, generating billions in profits off of Windows and Office but ill-prepared and out-gunned in making the transition to a new style of computing that old rivals like Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) are appearing to lock up for themselves. As a result, its stock has been stagnant for quite some time, prompting no small amount of grumbling among its investors.

That frustration boiled over this week. David Einhorn, a hedge-fund manager famous for betting against Lehman Brothers just before it collapsed and infamous for investing $200 million in the lackluster New York Mets (a baseball team with which, in the interest of full disclosure, I have carried on an irrational love affair since the mid-1980s), called Ballmer and Microsoft’s board on the carpet.

“(Ballmer’s) continued presence is the biggest overhang on Microsoft stock,” Einhorn said at the prestigious Ira Sohn Investment Conference, a gathering of some of the best minds in finance to discuss investment opportunities. “Ballmer’s problem is he’s stuck in the past,” he said, as reported by the Wall Street Journal.

Microsoft’s board quickly rallied to Ballmer’s defense. But after witnessing the last six months of Microsoft’s mobile strategy, one has to wonder how much rope the charismatic CEO has been given. Windows Phone 7 is the best mobile software the company has released to date, but it’s languishing amid developer fatigue. Microsoft is counting on a groundbreaking partnership with Nokia (NYSE: NOK) to jump-start demand, a gambit that will require both companies to quickly roll out innovative products that can give consumers and developers a reason to think twice about the iPhone or Android. And we still aren’t quite sure what they have in mind for tablets.

For all the angst, the overall situation is not catastrophic. Despite all the clamor over slowing demand for PCs, that type of computer isn’t going anywhere for a very long time, and Microsoft enjoys a dominant position in both the operating system for that type of computer as well as one of its most useful applications. But it finds itself in the same position in that IBM finally hit in the early 90s: long on history, flush with cash and short on vision.

It took a new CEO from a completely different industry who was willing to question every single part of IBM’s business and culture in order to prime the company for a new era, and IBM remains one of the strongest tech companies on the planet as a result. Perhaps not as top-of-mind as it once was, but secure in its own identity and now once again more valuable than Microsoft.

Microsoft needs such a leader. Microsoft has made but two commendable forward-thinking product and strategic decisions since the dot-com bubble: the commercialization of the Xbox and a shrewd investment in Facebook that will one day pay huge dividends. Everything else has been a wash, from the Zune to the Kin, from a willingness to let Intel’s short-term concerns impact a huge product launch to its bizarre courtship of Yahoo.

The last five years marked the beginning of a sea change in the technology industry, one in which money, talent, gumption, and buzz have encircled a new type of computer. And at the same time, those using traditional personal computers are spending more and more of their time in the browser as opposed to running native applications, a trend that does not benefit Microsoft.

Ryan Block of gdgt suggested that only Bill Gates could right Microsoft’s ship by coming back to helm the company he founded, but truth be told, even Gates isn’t right for Microsoft at the moment. After all, Gates remains the chairman and single-largest shareholder of Microsoft: if he wanted Steve Ballmer to be gone, Steve Ballmer would be gone.

“Transformation of an enterprise begins with a sense of crisis or urgency,” Gerstner told Harvard Business School students in 2002, recalling his first days at IBM. “No institution will go through fundamental change unless it believes it is in deep trouble and needs to do something different to survive.”

Perhaps the only way that Microsoft board members and shareholders can create that sense of urgency is by making a huge statement in removing the man perhaps most responsible for forcing their hand, and by selecting a replacement completely disengaged from Microsoft’s current state of mind to reinvigorate the company. Sometimes, if the party turns sour, it’s better to dance with someone other than the one that brung ya.

  1. Microsoft held on to the fact that the “PC” was all that mattered in home computing!  Google came along, blew that wide open, now with the integration of the “Cloud” Microsoft had to move with the times.  They have a tendency to be one step behind, regarding the mobile world, search engines whatever.  I use Office apps a lot but they really new a new CEO at the helm.  Balmer simply is “stale” and refuses to acknowledge that Microsoft missed the boat on many occasions.  Only time will tell who will win the “mobile phone wars”?

  2. The “developer fatigue” mentioned in the article refers to a study done by Appcelerator (a maker of iOS and Android development tools ONLY) on their users (iOS and Android developers ONLY)… So no argument can be made out of it (of course they will not focus on WP7 development…).

    That is if you are *not* trying to stretch a point to favor your argument no matter what…. Post the actual numbers (not some biased study) and let your readers be the judge: http://bit.ly/j1KmLu

    1. Developer fatigue is something that we have established beyond that particular survey, through conversations with those responsible for mobile strategies at both major corporations and startups: http://moconews.net/article/419-pcmobile-managing-platform-and-app-fatigue/

    2. Sure an argument can be made out of it. The vast majority of successful iOS/Android apps is available for both platforms. If these developers are not interested in WP7, then WP7 is missing the developers who obviously “get” mobile applications. MS is marketing “tablet PCs” since 2001 and the established desktop developers were not developing nothing for it; MS’s own “OneNote” is still the only decent “tablet PC” app after an entire decade (and almost the only one in total). MS needs to find a way to attract these mobile developers, otherwise WP7 will go nowhere. How MS intends to get developers who ignored the “tablet edition” for a decade to fare better for Windows 8 on tablets is the other big question.

  3. It would be nice to see an article stating what Microsoft should do from a product or strategy perspective (that they are not already doing) to be properly positioned for this next wave of mobile and cloud computing vs just reading yet another article calling for the CEO’s head.

    1. Agreed, but that’s just the thing: no real change at Microsoft can take place until Ballmer is gone. Until then, they’ll just continue to protect the old interests while tiptoeing into the new world.

  4. INTEL, CISCO, MSFT all three need new leaders with engineering or scientific backgrounds at various levels, instead what we are getting is CFOs & Sales people heading, that is the fundamental problem.

    Imagine if Steve Jobs was not an Engineer, would you have heard of “apple”?

  5. Justfor - For the record.  Steve Jobs is not and has never been an engineer.

    1. Ira Thurby-Wright Sunday, May 29, 2011

      “Steve Jobs is not and has never been an engineer”

      You are correct, he’s an architect. Imagine without Steve Jobs, the architect, you’d never have heard of “Apple”!

      1. The Werewolf Sunday, May 29, 2011

        Sure – if you ignore that almost 15 year period when Jobs had nothing to do with Apple and they had similar market shares to what Apple has now in the computer market…

        But hey – every company needs a P. T. Barnum because as the original noted; There’s a sucker born every minute.

  6. Where would Microsoft be today if it had lost its lawsuit with Apple to use GUI back in the 80s instead of DOS on its original Windows release? Ballmer & Gates might actually be retired engineers living on Social Security checks. Ballmer is there by default, Microsoft stock is stagnant because of Ballmer. Stockholders need to vote.

  7. WP7 on it’s own look far better than Android, but Android has baked utilities like G-mail, Maps, Google Voice, You Tube and so on. WP7 looks great but is still so far behind. Windows and Office will soon be irrelevant as must-haves.

  8. The number of errors in logic and basic research in this ‘article’ and the comments for that matter are staggering. Google is not an old rival of Microsoft, nor is Apple. Google isn’t even old and Apple has only recently become a rival. They are rivals in very limited areas. IBM and Oracle are both much BIGGER rivals of Microsoft than either Apple or Google. Just not in places that this very limited article even recognizes as existing.

    Microsoft does have a lot of successful rivals – it always has had them – because it is involved in more sectors of the tech market than any other company.

    Take the cloud for example. The real facts are that both Google and Apple are barely even in the cloud – they both make precisely NO money at it and to consider them in any way leading the way there is laughable. In fact Microsoft is the biggest company in the cloud and the company with the greatest breadth of offerings against a range of real competitors – which are companies like Amazon, IBM, Oracle, VMware and Salesforce.

    Apple is a hardware company – their real competitors are HP and Dell and Samsung, etc.

    Google is an advertising company – competitors are Yahoo, AOL, and a host of small competitors – where Microsoft can also be considered a small competitor.

    If you think they compete in operating systems think again. Apple provides operating systems to power its hardware but makes no money from them. Google provides operating systems to power other people’s hardware – and makes no money from them. Microsoft may actually be making more money off Android than Google is.

    Linux is a success as on operating system but not as a business.

    You might ask why Microsoft’s stock is stagnant then if the company is doing so well? Good question. But a much better one would be why anyone thinks Wall Street has a clue after the last five years?

    1. Apple is selling hardware & software together, but make no mistake: people are buying Apple products for the software (whether it be IOS, OSX, iLife, or simply the software features of an iPod classic. It’s what differentiates Apple products most from the competition.

  9. The Werewolf Sunday, May 29, 2011

    You know – Microsoft still commands around 90% of the computer market for OSes. They make the most widely used office software suite – even when there’s a free one competing with it. Most servers are still running Windows and most browsers are still made by Microsoft.

    It never fails to amuse me when yet another pundit comes along to explain why Microsoft is doomed or Ballmer should go based solely on MSFT’s stock pricing. The stock price is really not very important to anyone but investors. Microsoft doesn’t get anything when issued shares are traded and with a company with this much money in the bank, even the loan potentials of a high value stock isn’t that important.

    Apple’s shares are high because right now, they’re everyone’s darling. You can’t read any tech blog or watch any tech show (or even non-tech show) without seeing them and disturbingly uncritical ‘reviews’ of their products. Apple has done one thing very, very right – they know how to get their products in everyone’s faces.

    THAT one thing is where Microsoft and Ballmer has consistently failed. But in every other way that actually counts for anything, Microsoft is doing just fine, thank you.

    1. synthmeister Sunday, May 29, 2011

      Apple is everyone’s darling because they have created at least four new, hugely profitable, strategic divisions in the company in the last 10 years:

      1. The iPod
      2. The Apple Retail network
      3. The iPhone
      4. The iPad.

      Gross margins have reached over $10.3 billion in the quarter, increasing 543% from five years ago. Name one other company that has accomplished that in the last decade.

      Yes, they got their products in “everyone’s faces” but that’s only half the battle–people actually liked their products and bought them. The same cannot be said for MS’s new initiatives in the last decade. Plays-fer Sure, Zune, WinMo, online music, app stores, tablets have all flopped. Even their lone “success”, the X-Box has been a money pit for most of it’s life.

      Yes, Office and Windows will make obscene profits for years but MS is simply lost in the mobile space which is where the future growth will be.

    2. The thing is…people defended Nokia for years with the same arguments about how successful they are.  No one is arguing their successful past.  The issue is the long-term future.  As an exec at a mobile app startup, I can tell you that MSFT has a long way to go before it wins back the hearts and minds of developers.  The platform war for mobile computing is happening now, and MSFT isn’t really on the battlefield.

  10. Correction: To this date, the Xbox product line has not yet recouped its development costs. While it is profitable now, for many years it was a major drain of Microsoft’s cash.

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Creativity Online reports that the Mexican web portal Terra is plotting a new service in 10 parks in Mexico City for people who walk their dogs while staring at their smartphones. The parks will be outfitted with special poop-weighing, Wi-Fi dispensing boxes. When you drop poop in the box, it converts the weight into free Wi-Fi for everyone in the park. Score!

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Big Bob and Eileen Stilwell: the undisputed cutest champions of New Lenox!
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Ben and Ann in that pdf. LOL. They seem like fun people.
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While it does not hold for every example, moths are normally considered night Lepidopteras species, active during the evening and night. Butterflies, on the other hand, are considered daytime Lepidoptera species.

Moth physical features, like having thicker bodies than butterflies, and the absence of a club (or ball) at the end of the antenna helps with moth identification.

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Thanks to the new draft rules, Scott Boras (and other agents) have a pretty stark conflict of interest

Jun 8, 2012, 12:33 PM EDT

The other day Scott Boras called the new draft setup “a mockery,” and claimed that the capping of bonus payouts and the slotting for picks — with stiff penalties for teams who violate them — does nothing to distribute talent to those who need it (i.e. the purpose of the draft).

I think he’s probably right about that. Just ask the Cubs who, if they were allowed to, would go after the best talent they could find, overpaying for it if they had to. Now they’re capped and it will take longer to rebuild a farm system in desperate need of rebuilding.  And why? To save owners money on draft bonuses. Money which, in the grand scheme of things is a drop in the bucket compared to what they pay mediocre free agents all the time.

But, as reader Aaron Ashcraft pointed out on Twitter, the finite money paid out by teams creates another problem too. One for Scott Boras and other agents: a potential for a pretty stark conflict of interest.

I’ve talked for years about how Boras often has a conflict of interest due to his representing multiple high-level free agents each winter. When he represented Matt Holliday and Johnny Damon in the same offseason, any effort he made to play up Damon as a left fielder to someone harmed Holliday’s market to some degree and vice-versa. It wasn’t irreconcilable —  after all, if a team wants to sign Boras free agent A and Boras free agent B, they technically can, because there’s no salary cap and I’m sure Boras clients knew what they were getting into to begin with — but it does create a perception problem.

But the draft is more stark. Teams have a finite pool of money to hand out to their draft picks, and every dollar one gets is, by necessity, a dollar not available to another.  As Aaron pointed out to me, Boras represents Astros draftee Lance McCullars and draftee Rio Ruiz. While there are slots involved, the more important number is the overall pool of dough the Astros have left to sign their picks because you can go over slot for individual players as long as you don’t break your draft cap. If Boras makes a push for Houston to pay McCullers a few dollars more, isn’t that necessarily harming Ruiz?

Again, I’m not saying Boras is doing anything wrong here. I’m sure he discloses all of these ins and outs to his clients, has them sign the necessary waiver of conflicts forms and all of the other sorts of things a careful lawyer and agent does.  But this still seems like a problem to me that, at the very least, would make me wary of signing with an agent who typically represents a large number of drafted players.

  1. EK Ohio - Jun 8, 2012 at 12:36 PM

    Did you find that picture of Boras in the ol’ JFK assassination files?

    • WhenMattStairsIsKing - Jun 8, 2012 at 1:20 PM

      Uh yeah, cause JFK assassination jokes never get old….

  2. Nick C - Jun 8, 2012 at 12:43 PM

    I don’t see this as a conflict of interest at all. A team’s draft pool is not Boras’ problem. He is pushing for the most dollars for each of his players. Boras cares not whether the team violates the spending limits. Furthermore, unless ALL of a particular team’s draftees are Boras clients, he is not expicitly taking money out the pocket of one to put it into the pocket of another. He is taking from the non-Boras clients’ portion of the pool.

    I can somewhat see your point regarding free agents though I think that is largely bogus as well. I don’t see a conflict of interest with the free agents either but I do think it may be hard to be a zealous advocate for all your clients if you have too many or if there are too many at a given position.

    • myopinionisrighterthanyours - Jun 8, 2012 at 1:00 PM

      Don’t confuse that because it’s not Boras’ (or any other agent for that matter) fault, that there is not a conflict of interest. However, agents and players alike in all sports find a way to deal with it. This is not new, and I think is being overblown here by Craig, although it is in sharper focus thanks to the new rules. It’s something Florio points out all the time on the sister site dealing with professional football. I’m sure Boras will continue to (over)aggresively pursue everything he can get on his client’s (and his) behalf.

      • Ben - Jun 8, 2012 at 1:13 PM

        It’s a conflict of interest in so far as the cap makes possible a zero sum game.

      • Nick C - Jun 8, 2012 at 1:55 PM

        I still don’t see it. It is not a zero sum game. Boras does not have to deal with the consequences if a team goes over the cap (at least not directly). If you want to claim that is a conflict of interest that he represents more than one player at a particular position with a limited pool of “jobs” at that position I will grudgingly concede that there is a limited conflict of interest there. However, there is a rather large pool of minor league “jobs” for drafted players so I don’t see it regarding drafted players.

      • Ben - Jun 8, 2012 at 2:07 PM

        It’s zero sum because teams are seemingly unwilling to pay the penalties, at least this year in a weak draft class.

    • southcapitolstreet - Jun 8, 2012 at 2:27 PM

      It’s a conflict of interest because every dollar Boras squeezes out of the Astros for Draft Pick A is one less dollar available for Draft Pick B, and vice versa (assuming Boras represents both A and B). It’s not the end of the world, but it’s there.

      • ezthinking - Jun 8, 2012 at 4:06 PM

        False. It may be pick B or it could be the other 8 picks in the first 10 rounds draft pool.

      • ezthinking - Jun 8, 2012 at 4:07 PM

        Actually some teams have far more than just 8 picks in the first 10 rounds. Sorry about that.

    • anxovies - Jun 8, 2012 at 5:54 PM

      That was my thought too. It’s not like where a lawyer represents several people injured in the same auto accident and their total damages exceed the per occurrence limits of the policy. For instance, a team almost always has other options such as bringing up somebody from AAA rather than signing an expensive veteran free agent or just ignoring the cap. Whadda ya gonna do, refuse to play them? Boras is a smart lawyer so he probably has a waiver of the conflict in his contract anyway.

  3. heyblueyoustink - Jun 8, 2012 at 12:44 PM

    I happen to believe Boras was also in cahoots with John Wilkes-Booth

  4. scottp9 - Jun 8, 2012 at 12:51 PM

    This is more of an issue in football because of the hard salary cap, but agents there represent multiple players on the same roster all the time.

  5. brewcrewfan54 - Jun 8, 2012 at 1:08 PM

    Did Scott also mention it reduces hos commission on the contracts when they are smaller?

  6. shawndc04 - Jun 8, 2012 at 1:09 PM

    So Craig, you would punish Boras by reducing his clientele because of a system established by owners that effectively hamstrings other owners? That system is not Boras’ doing, and as long as he makes clear to his clients that he is advocating for more than one, some at the same position, and some with the same team, and they accept that type of representation, there is not a real problem, nor one of perception. It is perfectly rational, given Boras’ record, for a guy to conclude that he will get the best deal despite multiple representation. If Theo wants to go over slot and over his bonus pool, then pay the penalty, a la the luxury tax.

    • Craig Calcaterra - Jun 8, 2012 at 1:11 PM

      No, I would not punish him, nor did I say he’s doing anything wrong. There are many levels of conflict of interest, and not all conflicts = bad acts or things that must be proscribed.

      It’s merely an observation that, in this case, in these circumstances, Boras has something that could impeded his zealousness and that players who sign with him need to be aware of that. And I’m sure that a disclosure of that potential conflict is present in any agreements the players sign with him.

      • jefe1568 - Jun 8, 2012 at 2:01 PM

        It would be surprising if drafted players didn’t know which other top prospects their agent had for their draft class. Word spreads quickly and the info generally isn’t too hard to obtain.

        I wouldn’t be so sure that Scott has them physically sign anything. You don’t want to bind amateur athletes to contracts with baseball agents to avoid the possibility of the NCAA ever catching wind of this. This another area where the NCAA’s rules defy logic. An amateur is allowed to retain legal counsel to review the contract but can’t have an agent contact the team and negotiate on their behalf. It’s very silly when you consider the NCAA knows that it would take a fool to negotiate a multi-million dollar bonus as an 18 year old without the help of an agent.

  7. hisgirlgotburrelled - Jun 8, 2012 at 1:17 PM

    Capping rookie salaries is a trend in sports that I think was a great move by the MLB and NFL. Boras has only himself, along with the other agents, to blame for it. Rookies were being paid huge bonuses before ever playing professionally. Less money to rookies puts more money in the much more deserving veteran’s pockets. Boras wants more money for rookies and more for veterans. If he was so concerned about distributing talent, and parody in the MLB, then why does he keep increasing the price for every player he represents. I understand his business is to make money, but don’t come out saying that talent isn’t distributed evenly when you’re the one responsible for the higher player salaries. And I’m sure he never advised a player to not sign with a team because they drafted them high but couldn’t pay his bonus demads. Wouldn’t signing a high pick by a team that had a bad season the year before be the definition of distributing talent?

    • churchoftheperpetuallyoutraged - Jun 8, 2012 at 1:33 PM

      rookies were being paid huge bonuses before ever playing professionally.

      Please answer this question. How much did the highest spending team commit to the draft last year [2011] in total dollar figures. There’s no way you know the answer and still think rookies are paid “huge” bonuses. Never mind some of the ridiculous contracts that have been handed out recently, that are double, sometimes triple, what teams spend on the draft.

      • alang3131982 - Jun 8, 2012 at 2:09 PM

        Agree completely, church.

        Furthermore, if you put Strasburg or Harper on the open market, they’d get even MORE money. Look what Cespedes got. A bonus cant be huge if, in a system free of these rules, a player would have gotten more…

      • hisgirlgotburrelled - Jun 8, 2012 at 2:35 PM

        There’s no way i’d know the exact answer becaue that was a ridiculous question. You don’t need to look up “exact” numbers to have an opinion that high draft picks are being paid excessive amounts of money before touching a professional field. Second of all, the reference to bonuses was with the NFL, being that the NFL deals heavily in bonuses and has a new rookie wage scale. I think that 4 years $15.1 million is too much money for a rookie. I’m glad to see rookie contracts being kept in check… And what does the size of veteran contracts being double that of a draft pool have to do with anything? The point is that, even if it’s just $1 million, that money should go to a veteran contract rather than a rookie.

      • Kevin S. - Jun 8, 2012 at 3:31 PM

        Sure you need to look up the exact numbers. Because it’s been studied, and the ROI on the draft is leaps and bounds above that of free agency. Allowing teams who are smart enough to see this and gain a competitive advantage is good. All the draft cap does is protect owners too stupid to see the value of spending on amateur talent.

      • ptfu - Jun 8, 2012 at 3:37 PM

        The only significant money that draft picks make is their initial rookie deal. After that, clubs hold all the leverage for a long time. This is thanks to the rules on arbitration years and renewing contracts at league minimum. You get the initial big rookie deal, then 6 years of controlled costs (the last ~2 can be significant), and only then do they hit free agency and get true market value. Some teams are locking up young players earlier but that is still the exception and not the rule. Look up minor league salaries/per diems and you will be amused.

        So while the initial rookie contracts may appear excessive, the pay rate more than evens itself out over the following years. And if the player never gets the big free agent deal then the rookie money may be most of what the player earns in baseball.

        Contract size is also symbolic. If you pay a kid big bucks then you are also sending him a message about how good you expect him to become. If he wants much more then he knows he has to reach and excel in the majors.

      • lanflfan - Jun 8, 2012 at 3:38 PM

        In general, rookie salaries are way too high. I understand this is a business, but nobody outside of sports backs up several armored cars full of guaranteed money to attract an employee before they even do one second of work. Capping the amount of money you give to rookies is a great way to keep high revenue teams from backing up those trucks to sign high risk prospects, while low revenue teams can’t do the same. It’s about a level economic playing field for all.

        I’m so sorry bora$ will see a few less million in commissions from the new draft rules. My heart is really breaking for him over thi$.

      • churchoftheperpetuallyoutraged - Jun 8, 2012 at 3:42 PM

        There’s no way i’d know the exact answer becaue that was a ridiculous question.

        There’s an easy way to know, try this:

        I think that 4 years $15.1 million is too much money for a rookie. I’m glad to see rookie contracts being kept in check

        Glad you think that’s too much. Now get ready for the answer to the question i posed. According to this link*, the Pirates spent the most amount of money last year in the draft. Their entire draft cost them about $18M TOTAL. The record for most spent ever is $19.1M by the Nationals in ’09. That’s for anywhere between 35-45 players.

        Now throw in Kevin S’s comment about how the RoI on draft picks is magnitudes greater than the cost, and realize that these players make a pittance compared to what they would on the open market. Sure guys like Strasburg, Harper and Cole made nice deals, and every few years you get a Teixeira or Porcello that command a $5M+ bonus. But these are the exceptions, not the rules.

      • seanmk - Jun 8, 2012 at 3:50 PM

        You can not complain about high dollar figures to rookies and claim ignorance at the same time.

        lanflfan paying rookie less also drives potential athletes that would play baseball to play another sport since they will get more money. high revenue teams don’t even really use their financial advantage in the draft. The new rules hurt small market teams more.

        Also i don’t understand why we are focusing solely on scott boras, this affects all agents.

      • lanflfan - Jun 10, 2012 at 12:41 PM

        Those stating that less rookie money will “push athletes to other sports” are ignoring two big things:

        1. Other sports are facing the same issues, and acting on them;
        2. Few young athletes are skilled enough to play another professional sport at the highest level.

  8. WhenMattStairsIsKing - Jun 8, 2012 at 1:24 PM

    Pedro Gomez never denied suggesting each draft pick sign for $5, and the rest of the pool be spent on Pop Rocks and Mr. Pibb.

    • anxovies - Jun 8, 2012 at 6:01 PM

      I thought it was Manny that suggested that. No, too rational for him.

  9. joecool16280 - Jun 8, 2012 at 1:44 PM

  10. pghburgher - Jun 8, 2012 at 2:08 PM

    Scott Boras does’nt care at all about distribution of talent. Him saying that is what is a mockery. The system is bad The Pirates spent alot of money the last few years on prospects maybe even overpaid thats what caused this. Now small markets can’t compete for high end free agents and can’t attempt to purchase potential either. Baseball has there favorites and always will. Scott Boras doesnt care about anything but money and never will.

  11. sabathiawouldbegoodattheeighthtoo - Jun 8, 2012 at 2:16 PM

    Hard slotting and all of this goes away.

  12. bluesoxbaseball - Jun 8, 2012 at 2:41 PM

    I read an article a couple years ago that cited the ethics rules for lawyers and made a convincing argument that the conflict of interest Boras has representing multiple clients is not only real, but cannot be waived. Not all conflicts of interest can be waived. I’ll try to see if I can find the link to the article.

  13. bluesoxbaseball - Jun 8, 2012 at 3:10 PM

    Here is the link to the article from The Hardball Times by Jack Marshall.

    • ezthinking - Jun 8, 2012 at 3:52 PM

      Well the article is flatly wrong as his example of the school district is flatly wrong. It is unethical to guarantee success and there cannot be certainty to clean out the school. He recognizes it in his crappy example. If case two finishes ahead of case one, there may or may not be a loss to case one. The example of representing multiple $20 million players is also crap as not every team, let alone the Yankees, as a choice between Manny, Teix and CC. Therefore, no certain conflict.

      With the draft cap or slots, the there is an almost finite amount of money (teams can go above the limit, just with penalties). But even if it was a finite cap, an agent representing two clients, the above-slot money for one does not necessarily reduce the other. It may reduce the other 8, but not necessarily a specific identifiable player. Both of Boras’ players might sign above their slot or they may go to school or go abroad, or sign below slot. Therefore, there is not a certain conflict.

      Also, Marshall’s act of accusing Boras of unethical conduct and not filing a complaint is a violation of the rules of professional conduct.

  14. thehypercritic - Jun 8, 2012 at 5:04 PM

    I generally agree with you, but to write the purpose of the draft is to distribute talent to teams who need it is so baldly wrong that my jaw dropped.

    That could be done on the free market like every industry without an anti-trust exemption.

    The purpose of the draft is to control costs and artificially deflate the compensation of skilled labor.

    • waltmd - Jun 8, 2012 at 5:57 PM

      thehypercritic is spot-on. The draft has NEVER been about funneling the best amateur talent to the weakest teams. That’s a fairy tale baseball has been telling itself since 1965.

      The draft is about limiting the negotiating power of top baseball players. Go back and read about Rick Reichardt, and the bonus he got from the Angels in 1964. Then see how long it took a drafted player to match that amount.

  15. rcali - Jun 8, 2012 at 5:47 PM

    Considering how much of a long shot these “top” picks are, especially the high school picks, the contracts are still way too big to start with.

    • thehypercritic - Jun 8, 2012 at 6:28 PM

      They are WELL below market value.

      Look at what international prospects get when all 30 teams can compete equally for the talent.

    • thehypercritic - Jun 8, 2012 at 6:29 PM

      They are WELL below market value.

      Look at what international prospects get when all 30 teams can compete equally for the talent.

      The contracts that are way too much are those of the fringey veterans, last men out of the pen making millions — not players who can’t negotiate or pick an employer for years after an initial contract and who the team believes may be their Mike Trout or Bryce Harper.

  16. anxovies - Jun 8, 2012 at 6:07 PM

    Why is everybody rapping on Boras for making money? Maybe they should notify their bosses that they will take a pay cut so the company can make more profit.

  17. phillyphever - Jun 8, 2012 at 8:54 PM

    You sure he isn’t upset that he’s not getting the same commission he once got?

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I think it's much more likely that they just don't have as good production values/mics set up rather than some kind of conspiracy to dampen crowd noise, which wouldn't make sense.
Having been inside an MSG Truck I can assure you they have top of the line, state of the art equipment.

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The top teams in the Allsvenskan are probably as competitive as half the teams in the SM-Liiga, but I highly doubt the overall level of play is better in the Allsvenskan.

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I hate how in the modern NHL teams pride is so sensitive that clean checks now have to be met with a total mugging as revenge. Since when was it necessary to punish a player for catching one of your own in his headlights? Fights are one thing but what Asham did has no place in the game. Same for Carkner. Fight like a man, not in a sneak attack. What's next, wheeling a trojan horse into their dressing room then springing out to beat them up while they change their equipment?
Because that is the Bruins model and they won the Stanley with it. The amount of after whistle cheap shots has been accepted far to long.

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that is not true. the best ofer we made was a deal that was longer than 6 years and had an average of 7.5 million. It was a progressive deal where there was no huge signing bonus, as it had not become the players fad. But it was structured some years to pay as high as 9 and some years real dollars at 5 as the low.
How do you know that is not true? Do you have a source? Because that is what Dreger said yesterday.

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My uncle who worked in the WTC was stuck in traffic and late to work that day. Never take life for granted.

My thoughts are with all those who lost loved ones and friends that horrible day. We will never forget and will never forgive.
Had the same with my great grandpa (in world war 2... And a submarine)

My condolences to not just those who lost someone, but everyone that experienced this (not being a 3 year old European)

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that's HF for you. It's right up there with "Player X isn't on my team so he's crap"
Yeah.. in the case of Martini it's fair to ignore what he says. He argued all of last year that Marcus Kruger was such a sissy soft Euro that he wouldn't be able to hack it in the AHL which he called a "man's league". An NHL player wouldn't be able to handle the AHL? Yeah right.

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for instance I would easily veto that suspect columbus winnepeg trade above.
You think there isn't enough going to the Jets, or there is too much?

See, I think that's a deal that makes some sense, if he thinks he isn't competing this year. Umberger is a really nice player in the league as is JJ. THat's two quality pieces to give up. He's getting a replacement LW who can step in and replace R.J.'s production at the expense of losing his top-defenseman.

But guys like Moore get a decent bump and play above their OV--and of course he has Murray long-term.

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Couldn't decide on the best wording for the thread title but what I'm asking is, has a team ever been down by 2 goals at the end of the game and pulled their goalie for the extra attacker and scored 2 goals to tie?

I'm talking a "normal" situation, i.e. pulling your goalie within the last 2 minutes of the game, not an oddball situation like pulling the goalie at the start of the third period because its the last game of the season and you need the win to make the playoffs, or you need to score X amount of goals to come out ahead in a playoff tie-breaking situation, etc.

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I like Simmonds' game a lot, but I am a little puzzled by one thing here:

On this team, the forward mix isn't perfect by any means, but it sure isn't the biggest problem with the team. Why do all these trade proposals involve forward for forward trades, yet barely ever involve getting a D-man? I think it's pretty obvious that we need top 4 quality d-men more than we need to change the forward mix. I thought that was the feeling here anyway...
To me messing with the D mix is a bit tricky. I think most of us will agree our consensus top 4 is:

Ference- J. Schultz

some may argue the Belov is knocking on the door but this should be who pretty much everyone considers the top 4. So Smid is recently re-signed it's a little off putting to trade a guy that you just extended, though honestly I would still think about doing it. Then you have Petry who I would really like to keep and feel that he is generally undervalued around the league and deserves a top 4 role. Ference is the captain and recently re-signed I'm sure he was told he would be playing top 4 minutes if he signed here and it's way too early to go back on that, I also think he has fit pretty well into a top 4 role on this team. Next you have J. Schultz who I think is most deserving of being demoted to the 3rd pairing given his generally poor defensive zone play, but again this is a player who's got really high offensive potential and needs the playing time to really blossom going forward; he also chose us over multiple other suitors so you really have to give him every opportunity to succeed.

Then we have two (some may say 3) really solid left side defense prospects who you have to factor into the equation if you are getting someone long term and then the previously mentioned Belov who I think most on here would really like to retain. Getting a true stud d-man is a hard thing to do, I don't see any on the market at this point, and I don't think any will be available until some teams are ready to throw the towel in on the season.

I'd say the only high-ish end D I could see being available would be either Bogosian or Byfuglien due to Trouba's strong play and Girardi out of New York (maybe Marc Staal, but he's scary to trade for given the Staal reunion factor). It's still too early to see any of those names to really be out in earnest on the market and teams would likely only be taking feelers at most until the season is a bit further along.

Personally I think I'm more interested in messing with the forward mix, I don't think it would take much more on that front to make us a real pain in the butt to handle in the oppositions end of the ice. While we might have trouble getting out of our own zone and defending properly we could give other teams fits as well in their own zone despite them having a stronger d group with just a few small tweaks. Whereas our defense needs overhaul and improvement to really become a strong defensive group barring acquiring one of the top 10 d-men in the league, who could really help shelter one of our d-men.

Of the D I think could be available, I want to say Girardi would be the best bet cause we need some more veterans and stabilizing defensive presence. I would actually prefer Bogosian he's a better puck rusher and could better help us play the style of play we want to bring and could help us further skew our strengths.

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Survey shows overwhelming support for making Deerbrook temporary home of Landmark Theater during renovation.

Patch readers expressed strong support for a temporary relocation of Highland Park’s Landmark Theater during a three-month renovation to Deerbrook’s shuttered movie house.

Of the 36 readers who responded, 29 want to see the temporary move while seven are opposed, according to an unscientific survey started Feb. 18.

Earlier: Should Deerbrook’s Theaters Become Landmark’s Temporary Home

Management from Deerbrook has yet to respond to Patch about the suggestion while a spokesperson for Landmark was not able to offer any further information. Meanwhile some readers expressed skepticism about the plan.

“If the theatre in downtown HP is a fire hazard and has been open as recently as last year, how will the Deerbrook theatre be ready and able to be a temporary home?” Steve writes. “Personally I still believe that the HP Theatre that is closed should be renovated and reopened for multi use.”

Carol likes the thought and believes it will be good for Deerbrook. “It would be nice to have a movie theater back in Deerfield,” She writes. “It might help to renew interest in the mall.

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I agree about the seats, sound, screen and refreshments, but that mall is cursed. Now if you make "Wonder" into a family entertainment center (like gameworks or Dave&Buster) now your talking. I think a lot of people have lost interest in that armpit of Deerfield. How about my forest preserve idea with a drive in theatre? Oh, the old twin drive in movie theatre in wheeling. My mullet would blow in the wind as I shotgunned a beer while watching "Pretty Women". High school was fun back then:)
Rich M February 25, 2013 at 04:54 PM
For nostalgic reasons, I would go to one more show at Deerbrook. But it was a lousy theater and I would think a ton of work would need to be done to get it up and running again. But who knows?
Redhead February 25, 2013 at 05:20 PM
Too bad there need to be renovations at the Renaissance but that is what it is. That said, for those who love film, it is the only theater around here with movies that aren't all mainstream and aimed at kids and adults from 4 to 40. If it would be possible for Deerbrook to host Renaissance for 3 months, that would be great. It doesn't seem that Deerfield has made any definitive decisions at this point anyway and it isn't likely that demolition and building would begin within the next 4 months anyway. If they don't relocate temporarily, we'll just go to Evanston or Glanview,!
Hilary Elizabeth Winiarz February 25, 2013 at 05:41 PM
I do think Deerbrook is a bit cursed, but I can't help but think that nostalgia alone would bring people in to a renovated Deerbrook Movie Theatre, regardless of what name it's under. I'd imagine that all kinds of code for the long abandoned place will have to be addressed, but I really would support a renovated theatre there.
A concerned DHS Parent February 25, 2013 at 07:06 PM
Seriously. It would take longer to get the Deerbrook theaters ready for occupancy than the remodeling on the HP theaters is going to take. The Deerbrook theaters have been empty for 5,10 or more years?

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D.B. McCoy January 15, 2013 at 11:35 PM
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Gayla January 16, 2013 at 02:36 AM
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OK in regards to the first one - really? a person taken all the way to jail and a mugshot because they ran a stop sign? What kind of waste of police resources and taxpayer money is this? There must be more to this story or more charges that were left out. And oh yeah, Hispanics without licenses...what a shock...another waste of taxpayer resources and money.
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A price index of lumber and panels used in actual construction for Aug. 5, 2011

*Western - regional species perimeter foundation; Southern - regional species slab construction.

Crow's Market Recap -- A condensed recap of the market conditions for the major North American softwood lumber and panel products as reported in Crow's Weekly Market Report.

Lumber: In SPF, buyers stood firmly on the sidelines after watching futures dive early and hearing rumors of canceled orders from China. Mills reported a slow sales week and followed downward 2x4 #2&Btr prices established earlier by jittery secondaries. Although with less force than in previous weeks, Southern Pine lumber prices continued to edge higher. Price increases for #2 items were often limited to around $5. Sluggish sales in Coastal species forced producers to make more outgoing calls, trying to match offerings with buyers' needs. Much of the deterioration in prices occurred in narrow widths. Wide widths in green Doug Fir were in tight supply. Market activity at Inland mills was quiet this week with mixed signals coming from the field. Producers with modest order files were content to stay at quoted levels, while those with inventory on the ground were open to slight counters. Most Ponderosa Pine producers report a firm but unchanged price for Moulding and Better, although a couple have indicated a slight softening in that market. Prices for Radiata Pine Moulding and Shop were firm with a limited supply of those items available. Ponderosa Pine board producers reported an uneventful week, as buyers made minimal purchases. Some weakness was reported for Idaho White Pine Standard boards. Eastern White Pine producers say their customers do not have much in the way of inventory and are buying as needed. Buying patterns in the Western Red Cedar market persisted, as buyers continued to fill inventory holes, often demanding prompt ship times.

Panels: A slower sales pace in the Southern Pine plywood market shortened the length of ship times moderately, but prices were firm to modestly higher. Mill order files were through the first half of the month for most items and sometimes extended to the end of August. Sales in Western Fir plywood were also slower. Mills adjusted prices modestly higher in some instances. In OSB, modest price increases were reported from most regions. Concerns were voiced by more than one market participant that the potential for a two-tier market is developing. A continued firmness in the Canadian plywood markets kept control in the hands of the mills. However, the momentum seems to have quieted somewhat. Secondary wood is being offered at less than mill asking prices. Buyers continued to absorb recent price increases instituted by producers of particleboard and MDF. Some pricing continued to be pushed higher, but much of it was in an effort to catch up with the rest of the market.

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Cemex, the proposed Mega Mine planned off Soledad Canyon Road in Santa Clarita, recently completed a mass mailing to residents throughout the Santa Clarita Valley, welcoming their company into our Valley. The following is an editorial, airing on KHTS AM-1220 radio, by KHTS Co-Owner, Carl Goldman, in response to the mailing.

A funny thing arrived in my mailbox. Carl Goldman, with a KHTS editorial. It was a letter from Scott Hess, from Cemex. The megamine, trying to open in Santa Clarita. Scott welcomed himself to Santa Clarita. He shared Cemex plans for contributing to the well being of our Valley. Yeah, right.

Scott praised the 250,000 dollars they’ll contribute to our schools, neglecting to mention his mine will cost our schools over $31 million dollars in added ventilation and air conditioning upgrades due to the severe dust. That’s according to an impact study commissioned by our schools. We as taxpayers will foot that bill. Scott also said they’d limit truck traffic during peak hours. According to our math, Cemex will add one cement truck to our traffic every 72 seconds, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.  Scott also didn’t mention the trail of EPA violations Cemex has left at other sites.

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In 2005, Princeton University formed a comprehensive Housing Master Plan to enhance housing programs for faculty, staff and graduate students. The plan was developed to include a comprehensive set of strategies, analyzing the present and future needs at Princeton University.

Campus Plan

The housing plan represents an exciting commitment to providing new and improved housing options for faculty and staff.

Princeton University is committed to maintaining and strengthening its identity as a residential institution providing faculty and staff with rental and ownership opportunities on or near campus. Currently, eligible faculty and staff are housed in more than 250 rental units and in excess of 140 ownership units located near campus.

New housing opportunities at Merwick Stanworth
The Housing Plan will provide rental units for eligible faculty and staff on two sites north of campus. These sites include the former Merwick Care Center rehabilitation facility and the current Stanworth Apartments. The University is working with American Campus Communities of Austin, Texas to develop Merwick and Stanworth.

The Merwick Stanworth project features a mix of apartments and townhouses, including affordable units available to local residents with low-to-moderate incomes. Plans call for a close-knit community that adds a significant number of new units, incorporates sustainable design features, preserves the existing landscape and enhances the surrounding neighborhood.

For graduate students, new construction will provide significant upgrades and reallocation of space to meet demand.

A rewarding University experience includes the opportunity for graduate students to live on or near campus. Presently a range of housing for graduate students exists, including dormitories and apartments, but many were built more than 40 to 60 years ago and most need renovation or reconstruction. More than 70% of all graduate students are housed at the Graduate College or in University rental units.

New housing at Lakeside
In the Master Plan, University housing will continue to be home to a large majority of graduate students. A new complex of apartments and townhouses, Lakeside Graduate Housing, will replace the former Hibben Magie Apartments built over 50 years ago. When completed, Lakeside will provide housing for more than 700 graduate students in 74 townhome units and 255 apartments.

The complex will feature a Commons Community Center with fitness facilities, a lounge, a computer cluster with printer, and a children's playroom. Outside, residents will enjoy grassy expanses, a patio for barbecuing, and basketball and volleyball courts. A multi-level garage with over 400 spaces will provide parking for residents.

American Campus Communities of Austin, Texas is partnering with the University to develop Lakeside Graduate Housing.

Butler tract
The University plans to demolish the 70 year-old buildings at the Butler tract (bounded by Harrison Street, Hartley Avenue and Sycamore Road), after Lakeside is completed. Princeton has no immediate plans for construction at this site.

Answers to your questions can be found on our Graduate Student Housing FAQ page.

Graduate student housing occupancy

  • Move out of Hibben Magie by June 2012
  • Construction of Lakeside Graduate Housing Apartments on the former Hibben Magie site from summer 2012 to fall 2014
  • Butler and Stanworth apartments will be used to accomodate students waiting for Lakeside units to be ready
  • Lakeside occupancy anticipated after 2014 fall semester begins

Faculty and staff housing occupancy

  • Construction of faculty and staff housing units on Merwick from summer 2012 to summer 2014
  • Merwick occupancy during summer 2014
  • Construction of units on Stanworth from summer 2014 to summer 2015
  • Stanworth occupancy during summer 2015

Short-term visitor housing project

  • Construction of Olden House from September 2012 to December 2013
  • Occupancy in February 2014

In September of 2005 Princeton began a two-year campus planning process, intended to insure that the next ten years of growth be designed with a clear vision for the campus and its role in the community. The Campus Plan that emerged took a comprehensive and integrated approach to the campus by studying and providing recommended strategies over six overarching themes, one of which was housing.

Three principles for formulating a housing plan were articulated in the Campus Plan. They were:

  • Sustain Princeton's thriving living and learning community by providing faculty and staff with rental and ownership housing in proximity to campus.
  • Continue to house a large majority of graduate students.
  • Improve the quality and condition of all of the University's off-campus housing, with particular attention to large complexes that are over forty years old.

Using the Campus Plan principles, the Housing Study Committee embraced the following tenets to develop a plan for the present and future housing needs of graduate students, faculty and staff.

  • Improve the quality and condition of off-campus housing.
  • Many rental units have outlived their useful life and are not desirable by today's rental housing market standards. There are urgent needs for health, safety and accessibility upgrades.
  • Minimize significant impacts to the percentage of graduate students housed at Princeton.
  • One of Princeton's defining characteristics is its small, residential community that provides academic and extracurricular opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students. More than 70 percent of graduate students live on campus, either in dormitory style living at the Graduate College or in rental properties. In planning for change, it was important to continue to provide housing for a large majority of the graduate student population.
  • Make best use of real estate within the University context.
  • An important consideration in devising the plan was the best use of property, taking into account the desired living arrangements of graduate students, faculty and staff, property locations, zoning and environmental requirements.
  • Provide ownership and rental housing for faculty and staff close to campus, including short term/transitional and visitor housing.
  • Maintaining a thriving living and learning community, is a defining characteristic of Princeton. Providing rental and ownership housing opportunities for faculty and staff close to campus, in many cases within walking distance, enhances the residential community.
  • Rely on the local rental and real estate market to satisfy any unmet need. The University is committed to providing assistance to individuals needing help in finding a suitable place to live.

The housing plan was developed using a comprehensive set of strategies, analyzing the present and future needs of graduate students, faculty and staff.

The steps taken:

  • Best practice analysis.
  • The Housing Study Committee identified other institutions of higher learning with residential college programs that could offer potentially valuable comparative information.
  • Interviews with developers.
  • The Housing Study Committee met with outside developers and property managers to review options for building off-campus housing.
  • Surveys, including focus groups, and academic department chair interviews.
  • The Housing Office conducted surveys with focus groups to gather perspective from graduate students, faculty, and staff about their housing preferences and what factors drive their housing decisions.
  • Evaluation of potential sites for redevelopment.
  • The Housing Committee evaluated potential acquisition and development sites as well as existing inventory for opportunities for reconfiguration and or redevelopment.


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Progressive German eyewear manufacturer Mykita has come together with Paris-based fashion designer Damir Doma to create a set of brand new frames for the upcoming year. Aptly dubbed the “DD01,” the new model utilizes Mykita’s signature construction techniques as the stainless steel frames are coated in either gold, platinum, or graphite before before being molded into a three-dimensional shape through a process of mechanical bending and folding. Coupled with natural horn and featuring black, grey or brown lenses, the futuristic sunglasses provide a new take on the intellectual look typically associated with the design’s classic round shape. The DD01 is set to launch in Spring 2013 and will be available from Damir Doma and Mykita stockists, as well as additional optical outlets.

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