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The Bowling Personalized Mini Magnet (each) is the party favor that can pick up that tricky 7-10 split. Each magnet you order gives you the opportunity to enter unique names to have printed. The design features three pins.

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I’ve been ignoring my 80’s quilt for a while because I felt like I couldn’t move on. I drew out the blocks for the third column, but there was this drunkard’s path block that scared the hell out of me. all those little wedges mocked me. I could have started some other blocks but leaving an empty spot to come back to irked me. I finally made myself sit down and sew it yesterday. Continue Reading

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over easter I was able to get my hands on the original quilt that I’ve been basing my blocks on. I wasn’t lying about the green was I? I don’t know too much about the quilt, other than my mil won it in some charity raffle. it was handmade my a group of women, but I’m not sure what their group was or if they had a group name even. I know that my mil was too busy to pick it up after winning it, since it was in the middle of a work day, so she sent her mom, who was also a crafter, to receive it on her behalf. apparently they really took their time showing her every little stitch and block design. I’m imagining tom’s grandma being surround by a bunch of ladies all wanting attention on their block. the only other clue I have, and it isn’t a very good one, is the embroidered block on the top left of the picture. if tom hadn’t held the quilt upside down, it would read “bethlehem senior citizens”. not sure if they’re supposed to represent every single senior citizen in town or if someone didn’t bother to write “center” or something like that. Continue Reading

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Colorado small businesses can continue a direct insurance company relationship, use an insurance broker, or go through the Connect for Health Colorado online health insurance marketplace and support network to comply with Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act provisions going into force Jan. 1, 2014.

Major changes the law mandates include prohibiting coverage denials based on pre-existing conditions, more comprehensive coverage, and such free preventive health services as annual exams, immunizations and screenings. Companies with fewer than 50 employees won’t be required to provide coverage.

The exchange’s mission is to work with individuals, families and employers with up to 50 full-time equivalent or fewer employees (this will go up to 100 in 2016).

Coloradans with affordable coverage through a company with 50-plus employees will be expected to continue that coverage. It was “never the intention of the Act to replace the current employer sponsored insurance system. It is the intention in Colorado to help the 800,000 not covered to find affordable coverage,” says Jim Sugden, CH4C small business marketplace manager.

The law defines “affordable minimum coverage” as: The employee pays no more than 9.5 percent of household income for health insurance premiums and the plan pays at least 60 percent of covered health care expenses. Lacking affordable coverage, the employer either must remediate coverage issues or pay a penalty.

The exchange will sign up insureds from October 2013 through March 2014, with coverage going into effect on or after Jan. 1, 2014. The exchange plans will include quality ratings and bronze, silver, gold and platinum levels, with 60-90 percent of medical services covered and premiums based on plan level.

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Bad motorists helped raise $18 million for Texas hospitals

More than $18 million has been distributed to trauma centers across Texas, including $4.7 million to Dallas and Tarrant county trauma centers, Gov. Rick Perry said Wednesday.

The money was raised through the Texas Driver Responsibility Program, which penalizes repeat bad drivers with fines. A portion of the penalties goes to the state's trauma centers.

Perry made the announcement at Dallas' Parkland Hospital, the largest recipient of funding in the state with $2.3 million.

Other area recipients were JPS Health Network and Cook Children's Medical Center in Fort Worth, Methodist Dallas Medical Center and the Medical Center of Arlington.

The money helps the trauma centers increase their capacity and ensure that a sufficient number of surgical specialists are on duty at all times.

"The funds will mean that fewer of these accidents end in tragedy," Perry said. Under the program, which was created by the Texas Legislature last session, drivers who are ticketed for three moving violations or causing two accidents within three years will pay an additional $100 to renew their driver licenses.

Additional offenses result in higher fines.

However, the program does not penalize drivers cited for exceeding the speed limit by less than 10 percent above the posted limit.

The program is expected to raise $1 billion for the state's trauma care centers through 2008.

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Denver’s Riptide Games gets new owner

The founder of Denver’s Riptide Games Corp. will be moving on now that the company’s operations are being consolidated in Canada.

Mercury Active, an Ottawa-based digital entertainment company, on Sunday announced the purchase of Riptide. The purchase price wasn’t disclosed.

Riptide Games, which developed “My Pet Zombie” and “Spin O Rama” among other games, merged last summer with Projkt Nine, an Ottawa company. The merged company kept the Riptide Games name.

Riptide Games founder Brian Robbins is the company’s only employee in Denver.

“I’m extremely excited for the future of the properties we have created,” Robbins said in a statement. “I couldn’t think of a better home for our games than Mercury Active.”

Mercury Active said Robbins “will remain onboard in the short term but will be pursuing other opportunities in the gaming industry once the transition is completed.”

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University Health System maintains ‘AAA’ rating from Fitch

Fitch Ratings has affirmed Bexar County Hospital District’s AAA credit rating, which is the agency’s highest rating.

Fitch described the district’s long-term financial outlook as stable.

Bexar County Hospital District, which does business as University Health System, is financing its $899 million Capital Improvement Program with certificates of obligation. The building program includes the Robert B. Green Campus, which opened earlier in 2013, and the new tower at University Hospital, which opens in April 2014.

Earlier this month, Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services affirmed its AA+ rating for the taxpayer-supported health district.

“We are pleased that these agencies continue to rate our credit as strong,” says University Health System President and CEO George B. Hernández Jr. “It demonstrates our commitment to be good stewards of our resources, providing the highest level of medical care as efficiently as possible.”

University Health System has a strong management, a sound operating history and a financial profile that is as “solid with consistently sound operating margins, good liquidity indicators and adequate debt service coverage.”

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YES NetworkWednesday’s game between the Yankees and Red Sox proved to be ratings gold for the YES Network as the game garnered the highest ratings in two years posting an average of 757,000 total viewers and a 7.6 household rating on the YES Network.

The highest rating peak for the game saw 1.06 million total households tuned into the game. According to Mediaweek, the “game was the highest-rated for YES since Sept. 28, 2005, when the Yankees-Baltimore Orioles telecast notched an 8.2 household rating.”

Ratings for YES have been up 10 percent from last season, with a 4.6 household average. The ratings are on pace to be the best for the Yankees on YES since the 1999 season.

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MLB.com, the official Web site of Major League Baseball, announced today the results of online voting in its eighth annual This Year in Baseball Awards during a live hour-long video webcast from its New York City studios.  The voting saw a record 12 million votes cast as the top players and moments from the 2009 season were chosen from 14 different categories, as well as a new honor, none of which were restricted to individual League affiliation.

“These year-end awards are a privilege to present and have grown in importance, both in terms of fan participation and in how they are received by the winners,” said Dinn Mann, Executive Vice President, Content, and Editor-in-Chief, MLB.com. “We are grateful for every vote, and more, for the platform to celebrate greatness in baseball and to continue to identify ways to expand this significant, deserved recognition.”

A complete list of 2009 winners is below:

  • Hitter of the Year: Joe Mauer, Minnesota Twins (.365, 28 HR, 96 RBIs)
  • Starting Pitcher of the Year: Zack Greinke, Kansas City Royals (16-8, 2.16 ERA, 242 Ks)
  • Closer of the Year: Mariano Rivera, New York Yankees (44 SV, 1.76 ERA)
  • Setup Man of the Year: Jeremy Affeldt, San Francisco Giants (74 G, 1.73 ERA)
  • Rookie of the Year: J.A. Happ, Philadelphia Phillies (12-4, 2.93 ERA)
  • Manager of the Year: Jim Tracy, Colorado Rockies (92-70, NL Wild Card)
  • Executive of the Year: Ruben Amaro Jr., Philadelphia Phillies (93-69, NL East champs)
  • Defensive Player of the Year: Jacoby Ellsbury, Boston Red Sox (.994 FPCT)
  • Unsung Star of the Year: Jayson Werth, Philadelphia Phillies (36 HR, 99 RBIs, 20 SB)
  • Performance of the Year: Mark Buehrle, Chicago White Sox (Perfect game, 7/23)
  • Play of the Year: Dewayne Wise, Chicago White Sox (Catch preserved perfect game, 7/23)
  • Moment of the Year: Derek Jeter, New York Yankees (Passed Gehrig for NYY hits, 9/11)
  • Postseason Moment of the Year: Johnny Damon, New York Yankees (WS Game 4)
  • Oddity of the Year: Phillies fanatic (Dad’s catch thrown back by daughter, 9/15)

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Awards will be presented individually to this year’s winners in on-field pre-game ceremonies during the 2010 regular season.

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As Hundreds of Thousands March For Life, Salon’s Williams Asks: ‘So What If Abortion Ends Life?’

In a Wednesday Salon column which should be saved onto the hard drives of everyone in the pro-life movement as a reminder of the fundamental evil of their opposition, Mary Elizabeth Williams stated why, to her, it doesn’t matter that abortion involves the taking of a human life: “I believe that life starts at conception. And it’s never stopped me from being pro-choice.”

The establishment press has consistently refused to apply the “pro-life” label to a movement which has always been not only about ending abortion, but about respecting and protecting human life from conception to natural death. I believe that refusal has occurred because many reporters share Ms. Williams’s brutal, strongly held but rarely expressed beliefs articulated after the jump. The Salon staff writer proves that her side richly deserves to be called “anti-life” — because that’s what they are (bolds are mine throughout this post):

Of all the diabolically clever moves the anti-choice lobby has ever pulled, surely one of the greatest has been its consistent co-opting of the word “life.” Life! Who wants to argue with that? Who wants be on the side of … not-life? That’s why the language of those who support abortion has for so long been carefully couched in other terms. While opponents of abortion eagerly describe themselves as “pro-life,” the rest of us have had to scramble around with not nearly as big-ticket words like “choice” and “reproductive freedom.”

we give far too much semantic power to those who’d try to control it. And we play into the sneaky, dirty tricks of the anti-choice lobby when we on the pro-choice side squirm so uncomfortably at the ways in which they’ve repeatedly appropriated the concept of “life.”

Here’s the complicated reality in which we live: All life is not equal. That’s a difficult thing for liberals like me to talk about, lest we wind up looking like death-panel-loving, kill-your-grandma-and-your-precious-baby storm troopers. Yet a fetus can be a human life without having the same rights as the woman in whose body it resides. She’s the boss. Her life and what is right for her circumstances and her health should automatically trump the rights of the non-autonomous entity inside of her. Always.

… If by some random fluke I learned today I was pregnant, you bet your ass I’d have an abortion. I’d have the World’s Greatest Abortion.

I would put the life of a mother over the life of a fetus every single time — even if I still need to acknowledge my conviction that the fetus is indeed a life. A life worth sacrificing.

Williams should have substituted “convenience” for “life” in the writer’s final paragraph, because, in the context of what she wrote earlier, that’s what she obviously meant.

Leading religious blogger The Anchoress had some choice words for Ms. Williams (italics are in original):

In the less enlightened, less compassionate days … a “non-autonomous entity” would be called a helpless and innocent person, one who deserved protection from efficient sorts who would, by negating their humanity, do them harm. Here, Williams is making precisely the utilitarian argument made by every totalitarian ideology that ever slaughtered people by the millions, because they were the wrong sorts of people, or were useless eaters, or they could not contribute to the advancement of society, or their quality of life just seemed too dubious to those who did not know and love them. Immediately after expressing concern that “liberals” might look like monsters, she utters the monster’s line: you have no rights except those I give you.

…A point of order, please: One may certainly sacrifice one’s own life for another. That is what makes it a sacrifice. Sacrificing “another’s” life is not a sacrifice,

… It’s just an expedient, and wasteful killing.

In fact, the notion that someone else’s life is “worth sacrificing” for the furtherance of one’s own situation — the mindset that can advance that thinking — is precisely one that deserves the name “diabolical.”

While Ms. Williams frets over how the pro-life movement has “appropriated” the word “life,” her essay proves that they have really acquired sole ownership. A press corps interested in accurately communicating the truth would — and should — recognize that reality.

PS. Eric Tucker at the Associated Press wrote the following about Friday’s March for Life: “Police do not provide crowd estimates, but organizers said hundreds of thousands may have turned out at Friday’s rally in Washington.” Given the source, one can safely delete the word “may.”

Cross-posted at NewsBusters.org.

  1. Wow. That is truly sick.

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  2. Rather than call them Pro Choice, they should be called Pro Death. That would be more fitting.

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If you have any rock inside your soul, the music of QUEEN should course automatically through your veins. At worst, we can say that the second half of QUEEN's esteemed career had a few hiccups from 1986's "A Kind of Magic" on through the band's final studio album, "Innuendo" in '91. No matter how loud, how progressive or even how left-of-center QUEEN's music unraveled from their debut album in 1973, the band's showmen Freddie Mercury and Brian May remain figureheads of rock ?n roll class along with their bandmates. As theatrical as their sound, it was only natural QUEEN evolve visually, and not just through their enormous light cascades onstage.

Originally released in two separate volumes on DVD back in 2003, QUEEN's "Greatest Video Hits" was subdivided between their renowned Seventies staples and their avant garde, sometimes quirky body of work through the Eighties. Now Eagle Vision condenses both installments into one package with all thirty-three video tracks and with 5.1 Surround Sound.

From "Bohemian Rhapsody" to "We Will Rock You/We Are the Champions", the first half of "Greatest Video Hits" offers a cleaner look at pre-MTV promotional video cuts of QUEEN's best-known songs. The eminent chiaroscuro of Mercury, May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon leading off "Bohemian Rhapsody" and the subsequent light-up of their diamond-shaped facial formation has become a momentous visual in the history of rock 'n' roll. Even the comical sight of QUEEN banging and stomping through "We Will Rock You/We Are the Champions", (and "Tie Your Mother Down") in a cold, wooded setting carries its own peculiar aesthetic in the rock videoverse.

What's interesting about the first disc of "Greatest Video Hits" is to see how effectively QUEEN used the video medium prior to its commercialized expansion into the Eighties. "Fat Bottomed Girls", "You're My Best Friend", "Another One Bites the Dust" and "Somebody to Love" all reveal the band in wide-open and intimate live simulations. Massive at times, cozy at others, the band largely holds their stage positions while Freddie Mercury circulates like an ion. Sometimes Mercury is snug at the piano for much of the time before springing into action. The "Killer Queen" segment is a bit of a rarity as it's culled from the long-ago British music variety show, "Top of the Pops". Though guests on that show notoriously lip-synched their spots, Freddie rids the deliberation of the moment by vamping and prowling amongst his bandmates, making the "performance" unforgettable.

If you were a child of the Eighties, you'll no doubt laugh with dumb appreciation when the "Flash" video strikes. Though the "Flash Gordon" flick from 1980 was a turkey, it's weird fun watching QUEEN score along to film segments on the projection screen in their recording studio. Flashhhhh?ahh-ahhhhhhhhhhh?

The highlight of Disc One, by far, has to be the uncensored video of "Bicycle Race". If you've never seen it, you're in for a skin-tacular surprise. A band that pushed the envelope with their songwriting and their overall presentation, it should be no surprise "Bicycle Race" features naked chicks on bikes, yet it still manages to provoke. Taking Freddie Mercury's orientation out of the equation, he and QUEEN knew sex sold and they pushed hard when they felt like it, evidenced as well on the snappy "A Crazy Thing Called Love" and then the lamentable "Body Language" on the second disc.

Say what you will on behalf or in condemnation of QUEEN's years following their profitable "The Game" album, it still yielded the quixotic "Highlander"-inspired ballad "Who Wants to Live Forever" and Freddie Mercury's poignant curtain call "The Show Must Go On". And for better or worse, QUEEN's hilarious anti-FM potshot "Radio Ga Ga" will be forevermore credited as giving birth to the pop diva using it as her inspiration and namesake.

The second disc marks QUEEN's more inventive use of the video medium. "A Kind of Magic" finds the band swapping onscreen roles as musical vagabonds and more contemporary knockabouts. There's a silly air to the video dotted all over the band's expressions, except for the deadly-serious Mercury. In fact, as the years roll on, you see Mercury dogging his brilliant ostentation like his birthright. "Scandal" and "Breakthru" are diehard-only cuts, but the expansive stage set in the former and the open train ride in the latter sets Mercury into motion, while Taylor, May and Deacon toodle along almost for laughs.

"Radio Ga Ga" tributes the silent film masterpiece "Metropolis", while the Bowie-assisted "Under Pressure" ushers in snippets of the vampire classic "Nosferatu" amidst its collision course of optical destruction. "Who Wants to Live Forever" and "Princes of the Universe" were created in correlation with "Highlander 2: The Quickening", complete with a goofy cameo by Christopher Lambert himself in the latter case.

On the other hand, the video for "The Miracle" is one of the second disc's genuine treasures with junior-sized doppelgangers of QUEEN fielding most of it with marvelous acumen. The dragfest of "I Want to Break Free" is still a gut-buster nearly thirty years later, much as it remains an anthem for the browbeaten. "I Want It All" still hits a home run with its fierce stride and its outspoken spike against capitalist greed. "Hammer to Fall" is simply gorgeous with its dazzling stage illumination and banging tempo. Another "Top of the Pops" selection, "Las Palabras de Amor" shows QUEEN at their most distinguished.

Cool we get "It's a Hard Life" in this set and there's a heartwarming sensation watching the crowd sing along with Freddie on "Friends Will Be Friends", yet it's criminal we get nothing to represent "The Show Must Go On". It would've been an even more proper finale than "One Vision", which is also the final track on the "Greatest Hits I & II" album. Of course, neither "Stone Cold Crazy" nor "Great King Rat" made it onto that compilation, so there you have it.

In all, though, this is a mandatory pickup if you're a QUEEN fan and you missed the boat the first time around. It's worth it just for the audio commentary by Brian May and Roger Taylor if not for "Bicycle Race".

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Former MCAULEY SCHENKER GROUP frontman Robin McAuley, singer/songwriter Amy Schugar and acclaimed guitarist Dave Uhrich are among the artists scheduled to perform at The Rainbow Foundation's annual toy drive concert on Friday, November 5 at Synergy in West Chicago, IL. Opening the show will be the "number one tribute band in Chicago," MST (MICHAEL SCHENKER TRIBUTE). Admission to the benefit is $12 at the door and $10 with a toy. For more information, call (847) 891-5035. All toys brought to this concert will be donated to the Children's Home and Aid Society in Schaumburg.

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SCAVENGER, the Danish death/thrash project featuring Flemming C. Lund (INVOCATOR, ex-AUTUMN LEAVES) on rhythm/lead guitar, Kasper Thomsen (RAUNCHY) on vocals, Boris Tandrup (SUBMISSION, SLUGS, ex-AUTUMN LEAVES) on bass, and Morten Løwe Sørensen (SUBMISSION, SLUGS, STRANGLER) on drums, have completed work on a three-song demo CD, entitled "Promo 2005", at Hansen studios in Ribe, Denmark. The CD was engineered by Jacob Hansen and was produced by Jacob Hansen and Flemming C. Lund. The complete track listing for the effort is as follows:

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German "folk metal" act SCHANDMAUL have parted ways with bassist Hubsi Widmann. Hubsi's last concert with the group took place at the band's official album release party in Munich last weekend. An as-yet-undisclosed temporary replacement will join the band on their German tour in October/November.

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COLUMBUS, Ohio, Feb. 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- In celebration of the heroes of the Underground Railroad, the Ohio Historical Society will provide free access to the internationally acclaimed Wilbur H. Siebert collection throughout February's Black History Month.

The digital collection, available through Ohio Memory, the statewide digital collections in partnership with the State Library of Ohio, includes historical correspondence of Underground Railroad participants; photographs of agents and former slaves; and maps of Underground Railroad routes. This online collection normally requires a standard OHS subscription fee; however, the Ohio Historical Society is excited to make this collection available for free throughout the month of February, in celebration of Black History Month.

"The stories of the Underground Railroad, as reflected in Siebert collection, are unique to Ohio's history and are an integral part of the national African American experience," said Angela O'Neal, director of collections. "We are pleased to provide free access to this fascinating collection, which connects with this year's National Black History Month theme, At the Crossroads of Freedom and Equality: The Emancipation Proclamation and the March on Washington."

The items in the collection were compiled by Wilbur H. Siebert, a former history professor at The Ohio State University from 1891-1935. Among the many fascinating items in the collection are transcripts of letters by well-known abolitionists such as Harper's Ferry abolitionist and activist John Brown and Ripley, Ohio's famous Underground Railroad conductor John Rankin; a letter Siebert received from famous former slave Frederick Douglass; and, other documents that show the large role Ohioans played in the abolitionist movement. The Siebert collection is available at http://www.ohiomemory.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/siebert.

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As if his struggles at the plate weren’t enough to dishearten him, now his body was failing him. While with the Texas Rangers, Olt went to numerous specialists without any conclusive results before finally being shut down towards the end of April.

“It was scary and frustrating,” Olt said of what turned out to be a tear duct issue that caused his eye to dry and impair his vision. “[Texas] did a great job of letting me see as many doctors as I could. I knew something was wrong and they knew something was wrong. They knew it wasn’t me. So they did everything they could. It’s crazy how it works out, it ended up being my allergies.”

Allergies? Could someone who came into the season as a top 25 prospect really have his career nearly derailed by allergies? According to Olt, that was the underlying problem, but it was a little more complicated that just allergies.

While playing in the Dominican Winter League after the 2012 regular season, Olt got hit in the head and experienced concussion-like symptoms.

“[The apparent concussion] may have tampered with my tear ducts and it wasn’t able to flush out my allergies,” Olt recently shared. “I’ve had allergies my whole life. Once we figured that out, it was something I’ll never forget. All that stress went away and it’s been all uphill since then.”

Olt, who was part of a package the Cubs received in return for Matt Garza last July, said he has a prescribed eye drop that’s geared specifically to take care of his allergies and he’s taken them once daily for the last month and a half. Olt added that, when doctors recommended his problems were possibly allergy related, he struggled to see how something seemingly so minor could cause such major problems. However, once he finally bought in and started trusting his doctors, everything changed.

“In the offseason is when we really figured out that the main cause was allergies,” Olt revealed. “Once I figured it out, it’s been smooth sailing. I talked to Theo [Epstein] after the season and he was unbelievable. He said, ‘We’re going to figure this out and by next Spring Training the only concern will be getting out there and playing baseball.’”

Olt said there was a lot of misinformation about his issues thrown around during the summer. He never underwent any surgical procedures, and, while he thought he’d found a solution during the season, he stopped taking the eye drops and the problems resurfaced.

“When I came back, I felt like myself,” Olt said. “When I stopped the eye drops, I noticed it was coming back and I got frustrated. [After being traded], I went to Iowa and it was a tough area for me [allergy-wise] and I just wasn’t keeping my eyes lubricated.”

Olt confirmed that at one point he was using some stronger drops that the doctors recommended he stop using because it was only a temporary solution.

“At the time I’d lost track of applying the eye drops in general,” Olt said. “The thing I have now, it’s really treatable with eye drops. As long as I can keep my eye lubricated, I’ll be just fine. Basically everything that’s happened and trying to figure out what’s caused everything, it’s all irrelevant, as long as I keep my eyes lubricated, I’m back to my old self.”

After posting a .288/.398/.579 line with a 24% strikeout rate at double-A Frisco in 2012, Olt’s numbers dipped dramatically in 2013. Between three leagues and two levels, Olt delivered a .684 OPS with an alarming 30.6% k-rate last season. But Olt was adamant that it wasn’t a deterioration of skills that caused his 2013 woes. It was all the eye issue.

“You don’t just forget how to hit. I’ll be back to my old self,” Olt reiterated. “I’m excited for the challenge and I’m excited to be with the Cubs.”

And the Cubs are no doubt excited to have Olt, especially if he can bounce back to his top prospect form. Someone who was nearly untradeable in previous talks, had suddenly become an afterthought to C.J. Edwards in the Garza trade. At the moment, the front office is taking a cautious approach with Olt, not putting too much pressure on him to instantly perform at his previous level while remaining hopeful that his eye problems are truly a thing of the past and that they were the only reason for his struggles.

Rick Renteria and the front office point to a platoon of Donnie Murphy and Luis Valbuena being perfectly acceptable at third (and it very well may be). But, make no mistake, they’d be overjoyed if Olt came into Spring Training with his 2012 swagger and dominated March, firmly staking his claim to the third base spot for the immediate future.

But Olt isn’t heading into camp with any unrealistic expectations.

“I’m here just to go out there, and if I can help the Cubs and perform at that level, that’s obviously my goal,” Olt said. “Theo and everyone have a plan, and they’re not just going to give jobs to anyone. So it’s going to be a lot of hard work and we’ll see what happens. I have a better shot than if I were with Texas [with Adrian Beltre firmly entrenched at the hot corner]. But it’s still going to be a really hard job to win.”

What could Olt look like at the Major League level if he’s going right? Make no mistake, there will still be a lot of strikeouts from Olt, but think more of a 25% rate, rather than 35% (the Major League average last year was 19.9%, and it’s on an upward trend as strikeouts are at an all-time high in baseball) and an average that hovers in the .250-.260 area. But that’s perfectly acceptable when you consider that he can bring 25-plus homer potential, a respectable on-base percentage and average-to-plus defense at third. Add that all up and it’s a borderline all-star and another valuable asset added to an offense that is so desperate for a jolt. Obviously, the downside is quite different. Think Brett Jackson in 2012 without the benefit of plus base-running and up-the-middle defense.

If Olt can somehow revert to his old form, the Cubs could find themselves in an enviable situation. First of all, it could move the Valbuena-Murphy platoon off third and possibly supplanting Darwin Barney at second (while the defense would likely suffer a bit, the upgrade in offense would be a welcome addition to a team that was second to last in runs per game, OBP and OPS+ in the NL). Secondly, there would be a tremendous amount of depth at third base, with defensive-whiz Christian Villanueva knocking on the door at Iowa and all-world talent Kris Bryant hopefully forcing himself into the conversation come mid-summer. The Cubs would have an abundance of talent at one position.

While it would be a hard decision to make with regards to whom to move, if all are performing well, it’s a decision the Cubs would be happy to make. The point of accumulating a surplus of assets is to eventually have to make these hard decisions, hopefully leading to shoring up other areas of need.

Of course, these things aren’t on Olt’s mind; he’s rightfully fixated on one goal.

“The only thing I’m trying to focus on is baseball,” Olt said. “The trade rumors from the last couple years, it’s all irrelevant. As long as I can just do my job, that’s what helps me sleep at night. Everything else will just fall into place.”

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  • Jason P

    You can probably cross one name off potential Cubs pitching targets in the 2015 FA class. Jon Lester said today that he’s eager to take a hometown discount to stay with the Red Sox.

    If Lester and Kershaw are already off the list, that leaves just Bailey, Masterson and Scherzer as TOR free agents in 2015. Of that group, only Scherzer’s a true #1. And it’s a fair bet at least one of them signs an extension between now and next offseason.

    Even though having a #1 starter isn’t a necessity to win a World Series, it sure would help.

    • Jon

      Max Scherzer
      Justin Masterson
      Homer Bailey
      James Shields(will be 33! )

      • Kyle

        Scherzer said today he’s hopeful he can get an extension done with Detroit before the season starts.

        Bailey is the only one I can see us interested in, hitting FA at 28. If he has a good year, though, he won’t be remotely reasonably priced (by some people’s definitions of reasonable).

        • Jason P

          That’s why it’s important that we extend, and not trade, Jeff Samardzija. Top of the rotation talent is virtually impossible to acquire without it being either A) old or B) really expensive.

          Samardzija can be reasonably projected as a borderline 2/3 going forward. If we wait until the trade deadline and Samardzija’s still the same pitcher he has been the last 2 years, he should be willing to accept something in the 5/85 range.

          • Kyle

            My concern is that 31-year-old Jeff Samardzija, when our window open, won’t be TOR.

            • Jason P

              I guess it depends on whether you buy the “young arm” argument.

              Personally, I do because his velocity hasn’t followed the typical aging curve. Most pitchers have already lost about 1.5 mph off their peak velocity by their age 28 season. Samardzija was down only 0.6 last year. That puts his arm in the 26-27 year old range.

          • CubFan Paul

            “Samardzija’s still the same pitcher he has been the last 2 years, he should be willing to accept something in the 5/85 range”

            5/$55M range, I hope you meant (especially if he’s the same pitchers he has been the last 2yrs)

            • Adventurecizin Justin

              What? Those are impressive numbers for someone in his first 2 years as a starter while pitching for poor teams. 5/55 is lowballing, imo. Heck, Scott Feldman got 3/30…so, I don’t blame Shark for waiting out an extension.

              • twinkletoez

                Its not lowballing because he isn’t a free agent and wont be for 2 more seasons. They are buying out his arbitration years and extending 3 years. 5/55 is very reasonable.

                • CubFan Paul

                  • Xruben31

                    In all reality, baseball is a business and no matter what the Cubs are going try and get the best deal possible. That doesn’t mean they won’t offer more money eventually, but they’re challenging him to earn more money.

                    • CubFan Paul

                      “That doesn’t mean they won’t offer more money eventually”

                      I doubt it. Jeff is a controllable asset. If he doesn’t want to sign the 5/$55M that’s on the table he’s gone.

                      Anymore than $11M-$12M AAV defeats the purpose of the extension (of a guy w/2 years of control left)

                • Adventurecizin Justin

                  Considering guys are getting 15MM in arb years, it is very unreasonable.

                  • CubFan Paul

                    “Considering guys are getting 15MM in arb years”

                    Yeah, relative to what they made in previous years and more than likely being a Super Two.

                    Shark didn’t make big money in previous years & is not a Super Two.

                    Nor is Shark a free agent so, Market Value is irrelevant in his case.

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            Jason p:

            I’m all for extending top of rotation guys. The problem is shark doesn’t fall into that category.

            • Adventurecizin Justin

              200 innings & 200 K’s in his 2nd year of starting is potentislly what then?

    • jp3

      I will say that signing 2 of those guys if they think we could compete next year with a little help probably isn’t out of the question ASSUMING we would spend the necessary funds to make it happen. I believe signing 2 in the same offseason with a top 10 protected pick would be a genius move. We would just lose a 2nd and 3rd rounder right?

      • jkt

        Last year they took Rob Zastryzny with their 2nd round pick. I keep seeing his name pop up as a guy to watch out for. This is the kind of guy that the front office wants to control for a long time – I agree that there’s an inefficiency there but my feeling is the team values what you can get with that 2nd round pick very highly.

        • Kyle

          Going from ‘minor leaguer to watch out for’ to “actually useful MLB piece” is a loooooong path.

          • jp3

            I agree totally, while Z man looks fairly promising, to what degree would we be happy how successful he is? Would you bet he ends up better than Bailey, Scherzer? I’ll take the certainty of either but I understand the positives in cost controlled players but it doesn’t matter if they end up like Bobby Browline or Mark Pawlecik?

            • http://www.bleachernation.com Luke

              I’d happily give up a second round pick to land someone like Scherzer or Bailey next winter.

              I’d have to think longer about it before I’d do so to land Jiminez this winter.

              • jp3

                That’s exactly what I’m thinking too. Please say our youngsters look promising enough next offseason to give it a go. On the bright side if guess we’ll suck so bad this year we’ll be in an excellent position for FA compensation to not do a lot of damage.

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    Did anyone see we have half a HOFer!!

  • ruby2626

    Sick of Samardzija and talk of him being a TOR guy, I know he wants to get paid like one whether he pitches like one or not but I believe it’s doubtful he ever becomes one. Was anyone surprised that he has the largest gap in arbitration eligible Cubs although as a percentage Barney might beat him.

    I’m sure I’m repeating what other callers have said but the Matt Garza trade has the potential to be as one sided as one you’ll ever see. The new regime has made some bonehead moves but that trade and the one sending Feldman to Baltimore have steal written all over them.

    • Jason P

      Based on FIP, Samardzija already was a borderline 2/3 last season. He was 57th among 128 starters with at least 120 innings.

      Based on xFIP, he was actually a very strong 2 and borderline 1, ranking 27th among that same group, but I think that probably overstates his value.

    • Jason P

      In case you were wondering, his WAR was 47th. So about that same range.

  • Diehardthefirst

    Interesting tidbit is that Ian Stewart just picked up by a team — wonder if he didn’t puss off Theo that he would be starting 2014

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    • CubsFaninMS

      Did he tweet that?

  • Ivy Walls

    Cubs need a few roster breaks. If Lake can stick in LF and the Cubs can move Valb-Murphy to 2B while playing Olt regularly where Olt hits with some pop in the 7th hole it would change a lot of complexion of the club. If that could hold to when Alcantara and Baez ascend it could be super. If Olt holds at 3B then that forces the hand of the Cubs, is Castro back to 2010 production with better defense than it forces something. Actually I think Olt moves to LF if Baez comes up and Lake platoons with Schierholtz until he is traded. That leaves Bryant to fight for RF, Soler. Or Olt gets traded.

    • Danny Ballgame

      I think that Olt’s glove would force a Baez/AA move

    • cubsnivy56

      Brett: thank you for providing this great site, which thanks to you and the incredible baseball and other worldly knowledge of the posters here has me addicted to this site.

      I may not have the skill level of many of you but tell me I am wrong.

      2014 brings in Olt as our starting 3rd baseman to start the season.
      By mid -season Alcantara (compared to Jose Reyes) is up and is our starter at 2nd base.
      Our infield right now looks pretty damn good………………but wait
      Baez is ready to go by mid-season 2014 Castro and Barney are traded for top level pitching prospects (or Homer Bailey with whatever add on’s as needed (dreaming)). Now our infield has a nice mix of defense, pop, and speed up the middle. Two middle infielders that can swipe a base, be still my beating heart!
      2015 brings Bryant to LF, Almora to CF, and Soler to RF.
      Are you feeling me here?
      Obviously I have my rose colored glasses on and I don’t have the pitching figured out………………..but the position players have been the bigger weakness, and I believe that is about to change!
      Ok, tear it up………

      • http://www.bleachernation.com Luke

        Baez should beat Alcantara to the majors, Almora might be a stretch for 2015, and I don’t see the Cubs dealing Castro in division.

        But other than that, sounds reasonable.

        • cubsnivy56

          Yeah, that was kind of a “homer for Homer”. The Reds have Cozart and may not see Castro as a big upgrade. I do believe that with the high ceiling for Baez, and our substantial infield prospects, Castro will be traded. I hope he has a great start to the season and he nets us top level SP talent!

          • baldtaxguy

            I’m suspecting (hoping) that the 2014 Castro gives people a reason to stop discussing trading him.

  • brainiac

    here come the AAA players. cross your fingers that they’re the next 1980s oakland A’s home spun, minus the roids, or we are in for a world of shit, and a lot of inappropriately rosy theo PR, for another 5 years.

  • dan77

    if Olt produces Castro is gone for pitching help

    • Xruben31

      That’s not a smart assumption.

    • Thiscantbegood

      Where do you come up with that? Why would Olt kick Castro out of SS? Baez would move to 2nd or Castro could move to 2nd and Baez could play SS. Olt has nothing to do with, if Castro stays or goes.

    • Voice of Reason

      Olts success will have absolutely no bearing on castros future as a cub.

  • Beast Mode

    I’m sure Brett will have a post on this in a while, but did you guys see that Maddux chose not to choose a logo for the HOF. I really thought for sure he would have chosen the Braves but I guess he really did like Chicago.

    • http://www.michigangoat.blogspot.com MichiganGoat

      Yeah that’s strange I didn’t even know that was allowed.

    • baldtaxguy

      That was a thoughtful decision on his part, having that as a consideration.

    • Rebuilding

      I think it’s a nice gesture to Cubs fans, but sort of a strange decision. He will always be remembered as a Brave, unfortunately

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    Yankees Pitcher Forfeits Over $12 Million; Will Pay $90 Million in Taxes

    “Had Tanaka chosen a contract with the Diamondbacks or the Cubs, he would have saved almost $12 million over the life of his contract. Instead, Tanaka chose New York, where the state and local rates are some of the highest in the country. By choosing to sign with the Yankees, Tanaka automatically forfeited almost $12 million in taxes that would have been saved had he signed with the Cubs or Diamondbacks.”

    • baldtaxguy

      I had wondered about this, but assumed the $155 included a touch of gross-up for the higher marginal tax rate.

    • Jon

      That doesn’t make any sense, that is assuming Chicago offered the same salary as the Yankees, by which all accounts they didn’t. So how does he come out 12 miil behind when the Yankees offered ~30 million more?

  • Ron Bar

    Castro for Price. Price is the same age as Shark. Bring up Baez to start the year. Sign Balfour. Should Have Taken Garza Back. Now he’s a Brewer?

    • Chad

      Castro for Price is unrealistic from the Rays stand point right now. Garza was not going to be back, even at an even further discounted price.

    • Voice of Reason

      Eventually the cubs are going to have to add a solid starter, but there is no way I’m trading anyone for price. Once u give up one of the big 4 then you have to sign him to a monster extension.

      Why give a prospect and commit so much money to a pitcher who has had arm trouble? Arm trouble on his pitching arm. No way!!!!!!

  • Ron Bar

    So toss in a prospect. Price is right!

    • Xruben31

      Why would the Cubs do that? There is no long-term value there unless they want sign a 180 million+ contract extension to a pitcher that has recent injuries. I also think Castro is way too valuable to throw away for 2 seasons of Price.

      • Ron Bar

        Throw away? David Price is What You wish Kerry Wood was. He’s won 10, 20, 19, games in past four seasons. 10 wins last yr and he only pitched half of the season. 69 wins in 4 yrs? That’s what the cubs need. You were probably boner up for tanaka right? So you pass on Price and gamble on a guy who played in the Japanese baseball league last yr? If you plan on winning playoff games at this level you need 2 David Prices.

        • Ron Bar

          Castro has blown more games w his glove than tanaka will win this yr. bet you price wins plus 15.

  • Ron Bar

    Storen for Nate. Has more long term potential.so much for Balfour he signed w Tampa

  • Fastball

    If Olt works out for us at 3b I don’t think we need to worry about trading what we think is depth at 3b. This teams recent run of luck and track record on health and injuries would mean something to me. Why it’s thought you have to move someone just because we finally have depth at a position is beyond me. We should try to get Homer Bailey he has become what we wish Shark could be.

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The upstart California-bred colt Bob Black Jack, second in the April 5 Santa Anita Derby (gr. I) is headed to the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I) for his next so long as he has the graded earnings to make the 20-horse field, his trainer said April 11.
A $4,500 bargain purchase, Bob Black Jack has earned nearly 10 times that amount, $442,925, including $150,000 for finishing second in the 1 1/8-mile Santa Anita Derby, a race in which he lead and was caught in deep stretch to be beaten a half-length by Colonel John.

Bob Black Jack will run in blinkers for the first time when he works April 14 in preparation for the May 3 Kentucky Derby, trainer James Kasparoff.

“The horse will work in a half-mile Monday in company with one of my horses,” said the 33-year-old Kasparoff, who has only four horses in his stable. “We’re going to try some blinkers on him just to make sure he’s not too aggressive with them. As long as he can get in the Derby, he’s going to go. I intend to take him as long as he qualifies in graded earnings.”

Owned by Jim’s brother, Tim, and Jeff Harmon, Bob Black Jack, is currently tied at 15th with Visionaire in graded earnings. Each has $180,000. The Derby field is limited to 20 starters based on earnings in graded stakes races. Kasparoff said David Flores would be aboard for Monday’s drill, and also has the mount in the Kentucky Derby.

“We’ll see what happens after this weekend,” Kasparoff said, referring to the $1-million Arkansas Derby (gr. II) at Oaklawn Park and the $750,000 Toyota Blue Grass Stakes (gr. I) at Keeneland, both April 12. “There are a lot of horses that can jump up and get ahead of us.”

Kasparoff dismissed criticism that Bob Black Jack has distance limitations that would make the 1 1/4-mile Derby beyond his scope. Bob Black Jack, a son of Stormy Jack--Molly’s Prospector, set a world record Jan. 26  for six furlongs in winning the Sunshine Millions Dash in 1:06.53 at Santa Anita.

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The Steve Klesaris-trained Sky Diva won the Frizette, a Breeders’ Cup “Win and You’re In” event by 3 3/4  lengths over even-money favorite Persistently. Gemswick finished third, two lengths behind the runner-up.

Ridden by Ramon Dominguez, Sky Diva saved ground in mid-pack down the backstretch. Entering the far turn, Sky Diva was in between horses, positioned in fourth. Gemswick Park, who set the pace through a rapid half-mile in :45.96 after an opening quarter-mile in :22.60 while tracked by War Echo, led the field into the stretch. Dominguez guided Sky Diva to the outside of those two at the quarter pole. Once in the clear, Sky Diva quickly accelerated and was clear past the eighth pole.

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"I was just taking my time. I felt I was on the best horse by far, judging from how well she was moving. I really didn’t want to go inside of Channing Hill (aboard War Echo), so I took my time to get out and it worked well.”

Persistently raced a bit erratically in the stretch and then finished with good energy.

Sky Diva returned $13.20 as the third choice. The exacta, combining Sky Diva and Persistently, returned $37.

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Sky Diva, a daughter of Sky Mesa   out of the Unbridled mare Swift Girl, was making her second start. She registered a 10-length maiden win in the slop at Delaware Park last month.

The Frizette followed the surprising loss suffered by the Puglisi-owned and Klesaris-trained Mani Bhavan in the Alcibiades (gr.I) Oct. 3 at Keeneland.  Mani Bhavan, who entered the Alcibiades undefeated in four starts, finished seventh and last as the favorite.

“We’ve thought very highly of (Sky Diva) for awhile,” Klesaris said. "Coming around the far turn, we knew the race was ours. Ramon, at that point, was just looking to get around horses, while the others were starting to scrub on their horses. We’ve liked this filly from day one; we knew she was special from the first day.

“(The Breeders’ Cup) is a strong possibility. Synthetic surface is something we’re all up against; it’s just a big unknown factor. But regardless, the Breeders’ Cup is a strong possibility for us.”

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two hires strengthen a complementary dimension of our business, allowing us to
optimize the capitalization of an asset or an enterprise with equal facility
using equity and debt," added Nicholas S. Schorsch, Chairman of ARC. Mr.
Schorsch continued, "Don MacKinnon and Nick Radesca will be instrumental in
moving this aspect of our business forward."

The debt capital markets and corporate finance team are fully supported by
ARC's investment banking, legal, accounting and operations departments. All
of these groups work in unison to maximize shareholder value, align interests
between stakeholders and management, and improve transparency.

About ARC

ARC is a full-service real estate advisory firm founded in 2006 that sponsors
real estate investment programs and provides advisory services to retail and
institutional investors. ARC is an active sponsor and manager of public and
private real estate investments, a business development company and other
investment solutions. Collectively, ARC's senior team of seasoned
professionals has acquired and managed over $10.0 billion of real estate, as
well as $5.0 billion of corporate sale-leasebacks as of 2012.

SOURCE American Realty Capital

Contact: Anthony J. DeFazio, Diccicco Battista Communications,, +1-484-342-3600; or Brian S. Block, EVP & CFO, AR
Capital, LLC,, +1-212-415-6500
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