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The Mets, if they were smart and adjusted....should really think about trotting Colon or Niese out there instead of Snydegaard for Game 3. At this point, I'm pretty sure Collins wouldn't blink and admit failure (so far)...have to think they'll continue to believe that bringing the series back to NYC will shift the tide and momentum, and that by showing weakness (changing their rotation) they're kind of admitting defeat already. That their best pitchers just aren't good enough, so they will try to "trick" the Royals instead. Last team to rally from 0-2 in the World Series was the 1996 Yankees, who beat the Braves. The last nine teams at 0-2 have lost. Overall, it's 81% including NLCS/ALCS and World Series where home team has a 2-0 advantage.

Let's say the number was 15% more efficient, and that's possible if charter schools are paying lower teacher salaries and less benefits (medical/pension, etc.) You've got to basically bring the charter/private schools up TO scale quickly...that kind of transition doesn't happen overnight. Let's just say they turned over all the public schools (grounds/facilities) to private/charter schools. Maybe you're getting the savings from fewer administrators, hiring mostly younger (less expensive) teachers and a lot of times charter schools have relationships with Teach for America, for example. There's still the issue with a lot of the very best "inner city" teachers using those schools to gain experience and then leaving for the elite suburban schools and private academies when they've acquired more expertise and competency in their subjects. In Kansas City, the one charter school (other than KIPP) that works REALLY well, the two founding members are the former CEO of H&R Bloch (Thomas Bloch, who would make a better president than anyone running) and Barnett Helzberg, former CEO of Helzberg Diamonds. Those guys both got into education not to make a profit from it, but because of the belief that the children of the city deserved a better education and more opportunities in life. A lot of private and charter schools are just as, if not more, poorly run and those administrators and founders are often looking for ways (not always, of course) to enrich themselves at the cost of the students, ultimately. It's just like the prison systems being privatized. It CAN work, but not if PROFIT is the only motivation, because education doesn't have profitability as its first priority and never will (at least it shouldn't). Yes, we can look at the parents as consumers and the students as end products, but that's a rather dark way to think of the profession if you're idealistic about changing the lives of young people.

They are chanting Johnny Cueto's name at Kauffman Stadium. It is friendlier than the Canadian/Yinzer version...or the PNC (Pirates) version. Another ex-Met told me deGrom may speed up on fastball and slow on secondary pitches. Or, seriously, facial expression may change by pitch. It's not really about stealing signs here I don't think. And that's not illegal last time I checked (anyway), the best in the business supposedly were the White Sox coaches. I can't remember if it was Hard Art Kuysner/Kusyner but there was definitely a Sox coach back 15-20 years ago Harrelson always raved about how he could steal opposing team's signs MOST of the time because he was so good at that, and reading lips.

On the other hand, to me, it's a sign of the lack of repoire or relationship between the teacher and the student. If the students 100% respect their teacher, and believe he's fair with them, then 98% of the time they will put away their phone when asked or at least make an effort to hide it under their desk and not openly talk on a phone during class time, angering the teacher and exacerbating the situation by being openly defiant. The only way to really know the truth is to have been in that classroom over the last month everyday and watch the students and see how they get along with their teacher. A LOT of teachers just don't want to have a confrontation with a student, they're afraid they will be accused of assault if they physically try to take the phone away (especially a white male teacher from a black female student)...so their fear of a "false accusation," especially when they have a poor relationship with minority students, will lead to the calling of the security officer. I taught in an inner city high school for 4 years and basically saw everything. To call for a security officer, VP, etc., essentially means YOU as the adult have lost control of the classroom or the situation and can't resolve it yourself. Other than fights, I can't recall ever calling for security because it's the responsibility of the teacher to deal with the problem. The more you have to call for outside assistance, the more you're demonstrating weakness and the more the students will bait the teacher to see if they can waste class time by annoying the teacher and seeing if he will call for assistance. It becomes like a game, to test and see if the teacher will lose his cool. Once a teacher does that, as the adult, you've lost the situation and lowered yourself to their level.

Hansel....wonder if his parents are familiar with the children's fairy tale? My name is Hansel Robles, and I'm the new most interesting man in the world (at least according to Dos Equis). Michael Baron@michaelgbaron Jake had what? 3 swings and misses? He was throwing 95-98 mph. They fouled those pitches - out of the zone - off. #mets AdamRubinESPN Adam Rubin@AdamRubinESPN Ex-Met watching the game on TV texted me that he couldn't figure out what, but Royals clearly had something on deGrom tipping pitches in the stretch. Another example here. Gordon just fouled off 98 mph off the outside edge from Robles. That's a whiff with any other team. #mets

deGrom had allowed 4 runs in the playoffs & 5 runs total in last 5 starts dating to 9/27. He allows 4 in one inning. 4-1 Royals. In his three previous postseason starts, Jacob deGrom had allowed 6 hits or fewer in each OUTING. Surrendered 5 hits in that INNING. Marc Carig@MarcCarig @ctl131 @MarcCarig These aren't all mistakes. They're just in everything. Great at what they do. Elias Sports Bureau: Home teams that win the first two games of a best-of-7 postseason series go on to win the series 80.8 percent of the time (42-10). And the Cueto rollercoaster is back at a peak again, after the valley which followed the clinching game. Definitely think he has tons more confidence pitching at home and against an NL opponent...comfort level exponentially higher.

Everyone before the series began gave the advantage to the Mets' pitching (and they still might win this thing) but beating the Cubs' young hitters and beating a lot of veteran/experienced guys in KC who are the best in the league in general at making contact and specifically at hitting 95+ fastballs is another matter altogether. Not to mention the fact that the Mets' offense is basically dormant so far, and Ventura looming in Game 3 has the best stuff of any of that staff. And you're down to the Mets' third best young pitcher...who has the biggest fastball, which plays right into the Royals' hands.

Greg is smiling somewhere with how many times he criticized Dunn and LaRoche for not going to the opposite field or bunting with the pronounced shift arrayed against them.

Jirschele rewarded for not risking the out at the plate. On second glance, the throw wasn't as bad as thought, but it certainly wasn't the way Lagares used to throw a couple of seasons ago, either. The Wizard of Hos delivers!!! #Royals take a 3-1 lead! #TakeTheCrown REALLY stretching things with nicknames. Dark Knight? Wizard of Hos? Bring back Chris Berman (just not for play by play or any analysis, haha).

Guess the runner would have scored there because the throw from Lagares was too wild...

Escobar’s RBI single third hit in 23 ABs w/ RISP vs deGrom this postseason. #mets Niese quickly warming up. Royals haven't been executing well the first two games but still hanging in there. Mets' offense looks totally lost other than Murphy, Granderson and Duda.

Anti-Yost strategy foiled by Esky's inability to execute a bunt. Sabrematricians everywhere rejoice.

Interesting to see if Yost/Escobar bunt here or play for the big inning instead of the 2-1 lead. What's the situation with the rain/weather forecast?

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Oct 28, 2015 -> 07:22 PM) Wait, what? Dunn and LaRoche are universally recognized as better people than Hosmer and Moustakas. Why do they need more sympathy? Dunn sponsored a dinner for 40 members of Scott Carroll 's family after his MLB debut, doesn't that make him a great person too? I forgot about Dunn. He actually away from his struggles in 2011 performed fairly decently, maybe 15-20% below expectations, but not abysmally bad like that first season that left such a lasting impression. There were a lot of cool things he was doing off the field with his various business interests, particularly in the movie industry. Now Rios and LaRoche are different stories, although Adam seems like a decent enough guy.

https://t.co/TBHCBs4hXs My Twitter feed is blocked at work in China. Where do the White Sox rank in park-adjusted defensive efficiency? Mets are apparently 3rd. I would guess the Royals are 1st or 2nd, although Gordon missed a couple of months in LF and Zobrist was playing so that might have lowered their numbers just a tad. Walks Moustakas to get the R/R match-up with Salvador Perez.

Bud Black named manager of the Nationals. Wasn't Dusty Baker the other one in the running over there? Guess Mattingly's probably going to the Marlins...not sure how long that will last.

I think if Adam Dunn, Adam LaRoche or Alex Rios would have done something similar for White Sox fans, they would have had a bit more sympathy. Just like Cueto had a situation where he blew off a highly-publicized public/charity appearance for "injury treatment" and it really hurt his standing with the fans, especially because of how poorly he was pitching at the time. At any rate, Moustakas made a really good play in the 6th inning last night, but he also couldn't cleanly field D'Arnaud's ball when the Mets scored their first run to tie it (probably couldn't have gotten the runner at the plate, though...maybe), Hosmer's misplay late, now the botched double play ball with the bad throw leading to another run tonight. Uncharacteristic. Then again, the Royals didn't really deserve anything more than a double or perhaps a triple on the Escobar inside-the-park home run to lead off the game.

Probably when Hosmer paid $3000 for a bar bill when drinking with all the Royals' fans in the Power & Light district after the Baltimore series win. http://www.hardballtimes.com/learning-the-...-the-clubhouse/ Part of it's because they mocked a cyber sabre geek who doesn't know how to act around modern day athletes without talking about war and fip and drs. Not surprisingly, the same happened to Lucas Mann when he covered the Clinton Lumber Kings for a year and wrote a book about it.

If the outcomes were clearly better, sure. Maybe 10% of charter schools are much more effective. Many are even worse. That said, if it was KIPP or the Harlem Children's Zone or an innovative new approach that hasn't been tried before, those students deserve the best possible education and not the same tired tenure/anti-labor union/the system can't be changed or improved arguments. Teachers want the best for students as well.

I hated that prick when he worked for Clinton. Great strong armer with bundling money and later enforcing party discipline, but not close to a nice guy by any stretch of the imagination. Smart, driven and ambitious...sure, but those tendencies have brought out an array of other undesirable qualities and tendencies along with it.

Was Iguchi that much more of a star in Japan? Obviously, Japan was/is stronger in terms of overall talent, but the gap is closing year after year. The positional flexibility issue is a big concern, though. We already have Cabrera, Garcia, Abreu, LaRoche, Olt, Davidson, Soto and even Micah that all might be best suited for the DH role.

Two of the country's foremost researchers on race and capital punishment, law professor David Baldus and statistician George Woodworth, along with colleagues in Philadelphia, have conducted a careful analysis of race and the death penalty in Philadelphia which reveals that the odds of receiving a death sentence are nearly four times (3.9) higher if the defendant is black. These results were obtained after analyzing and controlling for case differences such as the severity of the crime and the background of the defendant. The data were subjected to various forms of analysis, but the conclusion was clear: blacks were being sentenced to death far in excess of other defendants for similar crimes. A second study by Professor Jeffrey Pokorak and researchers at St. Mary's University Law School in Texas provides part of the explanation for why the application of the death penalty remains racially skewed. Their study found that the key decision makers in death cases around the country are almost exclusively white men. Of the chief District Attorneys in counties using the death penalty in the United States, nearly 98% are white and only 1% are African-American. These new empirical studies underscore a persistent pattern of racial disparities which has appeared throughout the country over the past twenty years. Examinations of the relationship between race and the death penalty, with varying levels of thoroughness and sophistication, have now been conducted in every major death penalty state. In 96% of these reviews, there was a pattern of either race-of-victim or race-of-defendant discrimination, or both. The gravity of the close connection between race and the death penalty is shown when compared to studies in other fields. Race is more likely to affect death sentencing than smoking affects the likelihood of dying from heart disease. The latter evidence has produced enormous changes in law and societal practice, while racism in the death penalty has been largely ignored. http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/death-pena...ies-who-decides That's not even mentioning all the studies showing a black person killing a white person is 8-12X more likely to be executed than when the opposite occurs. I'm sure there will be some explanation given for this which makes perfectly logical sense.

You'd also have to look at how many times Mr. Long had confrontations over cell phones with white and black students, and if he ever called security on a white student. If the student was white, most would be saying that level of physicality is completely unnecessary or warranted in terms of cell phone usage in class. It would have been easier to first call the student's parent or guardian and threaten to have the daughter suspended for 3-5 days if she wouldn't surrender it. Looks like he was hoping for an excuse to escalate the situation.

QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ Oct 28, 2015 -> 10:25 AM) Interested to see how much Greinke gets paid this offseason. Given his age though I think he'll easily be the worst contract handed out this year when it's all said and done. Has to be $175-200 million. Price might be a tick higher due to his being relatively younger and LH and has also experienced success in AL more recently. Albeit not the post-season. Cueto should be $145-165 for an NL team, particularly if he pitches at least one superb game against the Mets. Zimmermann in the same vicinity. Wouldn't be shocked if he got more than Cueto, especially if Johnny gets rocked once or twice more under glare of the bright lights.

Correlation would be the word here.