Pleiades sent in a swag of stuff this weekend, some of which I'm just going to post up links to. There're a quite a few of them today.
1. Here's a quoted article on the Climate Change issue.
2. Here's a Rense cache of the Frog extinction issue. In case you've missed it, frogs and amphibians are in the middle of a grand die out in the last decade.
3. Here's another Rense cache, this time on Solar Flares. So, on Jan 20, a Proton storm from a solar flare got to earth in 30 minutes! A head scratcher there.
4. More on climate change, this one covering how it might have affected the Mayan civilisation. It's a long article, but worth the read.
5. This one is on digitalisation and media rights. Not to do with space or science or even spacefreak stuff, but it's very interesting.
6. A 9/11 Artcle of immense importance, if you think something smelled very fishy abou the WTC collapse.
More Lions In Winter
Yankee stalwart centerfielder Bernie Williams is visibly coming to the end of his career. This is the last year of his multi-year contract, but more to the point, his defense has collapsed in the last few years, and this year he has been consigned to being a DH/bench player. Central to the post-season success (probably much more than St. Derek) of the Yankees in the last decade, it seems appropriate that the Yankees' current decline coincides with Bernie's decline.
Williams is battling injuries to both shoulders. At 36, he is built to play four or five games a week, not every day. For 15 seasons, Williams has manned center for the Yankees, but his poor play recently, which included an error Friday, has magnified the club's need to acquire a center fielder. The Yankees could consider trading for Mark Kotsay of Oakland or Juan Pierre of Florida.
When asked if Tony Womack is an option in center today, Torre said, "Sure he is."
Womack, who has played in left field for 37 games this season, started taking balls in center field in batting practice on this homestand. Torre added that Matsui was "still a ways away" from moving from designated hitter to the outfield.In the sixth inning, Williams attempted to field a ball hit by Chris Woodward to shallow left field. He lunged for the ball with one hand, but it fell for a double as he crashed to the grass.
In the seventh, Williams tried to backhand a base hit by Castro in left-center field. The ball skipped under his glove and rolled behind him. The play was ruled a double, but it could have been called a single and an error. "There's no room for mental mistakes here," Williams said. "Obviously, you got to prepare yourself mentally to play he game and be ready at any time for anything that happens."
When asked if he was trying too hard, Williams said, "No, I think I'm going out there and trying to play as hard as I can." Torre said: "It's hard, because I know how proud he is and how badly he wants to be there for everybody. He came here long
before I was here. The one thing about Bernie, numbers never change your opinion of him, because you start with the man."At one point, the mild-mannered Williams vented his frustration by tossing a water cooler to the ground in the Yankees' dugout. But he said his confidence had not been rattled by his poor defensive play. "I want the ball hit to me, yeah, absolutely," he said. "That's the only way you can get out of it."
These days come, even for the grandest fo players.
- Art Neuro
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