Buffalo Rumblings (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
More photos » by Stephan Savoia - AP Browse more photos » Since Hall of Fame quarterback Jim Kelly retired after the 1996 season, the Buffalo Bills have tried virtually every strategy available to find the next great franchise quarterback. With Trent Edwards faltering in his third year, the Bills may once again be in the market for the "next franchise quarterback". How might the...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
A politician with great persuasive power can use it in two ways. It can be used to cultivate the energy of the general interest, or it can be used to try and mollify the people while facilitating the elites' agenda.
Hoops and Other Pop Culture (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
A couple thoughts when watching Adrian Peterson and Aaron Rodgers. 1) AP -- he finds and hits the hole about once every 6 times he carries the ball. He either has no instincts or no vision. It is amazing that he is able to rush for around 100 yards in a game give the fact that out of 10 carries, 4 are blocked so poorly nothing is there and the other six times he takes the best route to gain yardage...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
GLASTONBURY, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Open Solutions Inc.®, a leading provider of integrated enabling technologies for financial services providers throughout the United States, Canada and other international markets, announced the promotion of Rob Johnson to senior vice president, Account Management reporting to Ross Curtis, group executive vice president, North America. Johnson joined the company...
George Washington's Blog (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Elizabeth Warren sums things up pretty succinctly: The banking lobby is as powerful and deeply entrenched as ever, but it was powerful in the 1930s, too. Nonetheless, the New Dealers learned the Great Lesson: Powerful insiders cannot be permitted to write the rules, and prosperity and security depend on a playing field that supports a vibrant middle class. Today, we face a similar set of questions...
Vox Popoli (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
The Return of the Great Depression It can quite reasonably be said that at no point in economic history has technical knowledge ever been less relevant to being a good economist than today. Mainstream economics is in complete disarray. In the UK, economists are reeling in shock as their predicted third-quarter recovery has failed to appear, while in the USA, Nobel-winning Keynesians are first calculating...
Red Tory v.3.0 (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, and Rob Johnson, former chief economist, US Senate Banking Committee, discuss bailouts made to “too big to fail” companies. How can you take that in and not be completely amazed at the audacious piracy of firms like Goldman-Sachs (a “great vampire squid” as Matt Taibbi [...]
MLB Rumors - MLBTradeRumors.com (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Next up in our Offseason Outlook series, the Mariners. Their likely commitments for 2010: C - Rob Johnson - $400K C - Adam Moore - $400K 1B - Mike Carp - $400K 2B - Jose Lopez - $2.3MM SS - Josh Wilson - $400K 3B - Matt Tuiasosopo - $400K IF - Jack Hannahan - $410K OF/IF - Bill Hall - $1.25MM LF - Michael Saunders - $400K CF - Franklin Gutierrez - $455K+ RF - Ichiro Suzuki - $17MM OF - Ryan Langerhans...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
The question most asked here is "how long can this go on? Bailouts for the ones who created the mess, bankers acting like they earned it, and Congress pretending to reform the system.
Lookout Landing (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
* much From Kirby Arnold this afternoon , we get this bit about Johjima through Mark Lowe : "I talked to [Kenji] last year about it during batting practice one day," Lowe said. "We were in the outfield at Shea. He told me, 'I don't care how much money I'm making. I don't play for the money. I want to play every day.' " Two years ago, the Mariners played a three-game set in New York...
MLB Trade Rumors (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
A few more evening links.... Geoff Baker of The Seattle Times says that Kenji Johjima's opt-out is "an early Christmas present" for the Mariners. Meanwhile, Rob Johnson has one surgery down and one to go, according to MLB.com's Jim Street. Johnson will battle for time behind the plate in Seattle next season, with Johjima's departure resulting in one less competitor. Speaking of offseason...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
I put in a call to Rob Johnson on Monday to get his reaction on the Kenji Johjima news, seeing as how he's now the senior catcher in the organization with his one year and 57 days of service time. Johnson had been traveling from Vail, Colo., where he had hip surgery last Friday, to Montana on Monday, so he wasn't able to return my call until today. He and his wife and infant child will be leaving shortly...
Lookout Landing (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
You know how testy we get when people make comments about how awesome our could be in years? Remember the Nageotte/Blackley/Meche/Anderson rotations, Clement/Johjima/Johnson/Moore catching caches and Ichiro/Gutierrez/Saunders/Ackley outfields? We do our best to try and keep people grounded on these types of issues because, as it turns out, the future is incredibly hard to predict and a hell of a lot...
AZ Snakepit (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Johjima leaves Seattle for Japan Seattle Mariners Catcher Kenji Johjima has decided to forgo the last two years and $16M of his contract with the Mariners to return to Japan. Surely, the Mariners are pleased with this news, as Johjima had struggled mightily in 2009 and it allows them to try to search for an upgrade for the position on last year's duo of Johjima and rookie Rob Johnson. What does this...
Lookout Landing (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Larry LaRue breaks the new s that the best catcher in franchise history is opting out of his contract and going back to Japan. Sounds like the real deal, too - Zduriencik is holding a press conference in a couple of hours to discuss it. Thanks for the years of service, Kenji. I'll miss the silly red glove and the powerpitch swing. Good luck in Japan. Can't talk too much about the impact of all this...
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