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An Assembled History of the United States

The following contains a timeline of the history of the United States within my dimension. Information sourced from Gravity Falls Library, very roughly summarized.

1400s and prior - Various tribes and cultures lived on this land, but unfortunately written histories of these times are difficult to find. The earliest information found within the library was spare mentions of local history of the Klamath Tribes.

1492 - Christopher Columbus sailed with three ships, one of which crashed in the shores of America and sank with the only 1 documented injury to himself and no fatalities.

1493 - Columbus sailed again to the American colonies with several ships and a large crew, again the ship Columbus was on sank with him on it and this time reportedly took several hours for him to reach the shore.

1494 - The Treaty of Tordesillas attempted to ratify and establish ownership of the lands for Spain and Portugal. It was not successful.

1496 - John Cabot sails to explore the western hemisphere under authority of King Henry VII of England. signs an agreement for the western hemisphere to be explored under England and makes a second voyage the following year.

1498 - Columbus goes on his third voyage, a select crew willing to stay on the specific ship Columbus was on at the time. During lunch, the crew accidentally stranded him on one of the islands, remembering to turn back after five days.

Cabot embarked on another voyage and mysteriously never returned.

1502 - Columbus on his fourth voyage sails to Central America where his boat gradually disintegrated and he kicked his crew off, he was last sighted on a wooden raft that was overtaken by a wave.

1507 - A world map is made by Martin Waldseemuller, but is never seen, reportedly lost due to ‘his dog eating it.’

1508 - First European colony settlement on United States territory was founded at Caparra, Puerto Rico by Ponce de Leon.

1511 - Catholic Church, Pope Julius II, establishes three dioceses with one in Puerto Rico and two in Hispaniola.

1512 - Ferdinand II of Aragon announces Burgos’ Laws to end exploitation of indigenous people in Hispaniola and Puerto Rico some time after the decimation of smallpox epidemics brought to the people of Hispaniola by Europeans.

1513 - Ponce De Leon looks for the Fountain of Youth. He then lies about finding it, quickly diverting attention by claiming land for Spain.

1524 - Giovanni da Verrazzano enters New York harbor during a French expedition, considered the first European exploration of the Atlantic seaboard in centuries.

1526 - Disagreement over Treaty of Tordesillas defused by marriage, more to follow.

1527 - The Narvaez expedition colonizes Spanish Florida under Panfilo De Narvaez.

1529 - The Treaty of Zaragosa makes a try at clarifying the Treaty of Tordesillas.

1539 - Hernando de Soto travels to Florida where they explore further inland.

Melchior Diaz searches for Lost Cities of Gold. He is unsuccessful and the job is shortly after given to Fernando Vasquez de Coronado, who is also unsuccessful and gets into the Tiguex War as well as burns down a city while continuing further on.

1542 - De Soto reaches his final destination, death.

1550 - The beginning of the forty year Chichimeca War between the Chichimecas Confederation and New Spain.

1551 - The Valladolid debate, discussing treatment and status of Indians in the New World.

1559 - Don Tristan de Lunda y Arellano established Spanish colony, Santa Maria de Ochuse.

Elizabeth I becomes Queen of England.

1562 - Charlesfort is established by Jean Ribault, but is later abandoned.

1564 - Rene de Laudonniere establishes French colony for the Hugeanots at Fort Caroline and befriends the Timucua.

1565 - Pedro Menendez de Aviles founds St. Augustine, the first permanent settlement of the US. Twelve days later his spanish soldiers attack the French colony at Fort Caroline and destroy the fort.

1570 - Abraham Ortelius publishes the first modern world atlas. Descendent of Waldseemuller claims the work was copied off of his ancestor’s lost map and attempts a rebranding scheme of the atlas under his name with minor changes which fails.

1579 - Francis Drake claims lands in California for Great Britain, names it New Albion. Completes circumnavigation of the globe.

1585 - Sir Walter Raleigh organizes expedition to settle Roanoke Island colony. The colony fails.

1587 - Raleigh attempts to colonize Roanoke Island again with governor John White. John White leaves and returns to an empty colony with the words ‘CROATOAN’ and ‘CRO’ left behind, carved. Raleigh doesn’t attempt the colony a third time.

1607 - Jamestown, the first English settlement in the United States is established by over 100 settlers.

1608 - Samuel de Champlain establishes first permanent colony of New France in Quebec City.

1614 - New France colony of Port Royal is destroyed by Samuel Argall and then abandoned.

1618 - Smallpox epidemic wipes out vast majority of Native Americans in Massachusetts Bay.

1619 - The House of Burgesses is elected in Jamestown.

Virginia Company of London establishes new colony at Berkeley Hundred, Virginia.

1620 - The Puritans establish settlement in Plymouth and form the Aprilflower Compact to establish government and laws.

1629 - King Charles I grants royal charter for the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

1630-1670 - Many colonies are founded and settled along with wars between colonists and native tribes. (The number of colonies and wars around this time period are their own lengthy history.)

1670 - Hudson’s Bay Company founded to combat New France in the Canadian fur trade.

1676 - Bacon’s Rebellion that resulted in the burning of Jamestown.

1677 - Treaty of Middle Plantation signed.

North Carolina colonists engage in Culpeper’s Rebellion.

1682 - France claims the lower Mississippi River valley.

1688 - King William’s War begins, lasts for 9 years.

1690 - First paper money issued in North America by the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

The first newspaper issue in the United States was published in Boston, and was then suppressed.

1692-1693 - The Salem witch hunts resulting in the death of nineteen and over a hundred arrests.

1695 - Captain William Kidd is sent on a mission to combat piracy, and goes on to become pirate of the high seas. (If you can’t beat them, join them, I suppose.)

1699 - Jamestown is abandoned.

1701 - New France signs the Great Peace of Montreal with 39 First Nations.

1702 - Royal Colony of New Jersey established by Queen Anne.

1704 - First newspaper that wasn’t immediately taken down publishes its first edition in Boston, started by John Campbell.

1711 - The Tuscarora War begins.

1716 - First theater in the colonies opens in Williamsburg, Virginia.

1763 - French and Indian War ends with peace treaty, the English getting Canada and the American midwest.

1764 - The Sugar Act, a duty is placed on various commodities in the British colonies. Less than a year later the Stamp Act is passed as well.

1765 - The Stamp Act is passed and later nine of the colonies had a Stamp Act Congress and adopted a Declaration of Rights against taxation without representation.

1766 - The Stamp Act is repealed.

1767 - However, then the Townshend Acts are put in place.

1770 - The Boston Massacre, British troops fired into a Boston mob.

The Townshend Acts were repealed on everything except tea. This would notably not turn out well.

1773 - The Boston Tea Party, caused by England allowing a single company to control the tea trade and the actual event being 342 chests of tea being pushed overboard into the harbor.

1774 - British Parliament closes the port of Boston.

The Intolerable Acts are established, the First Continental Congress is held to protest this.

1775 - British government declares Massachusetts in rebellion.

American Revolution is started after 8 minutemen are killed while resisting British were coming to destroy their arms (the guns).

George Washington is appointed commander-in-chief of the Continental Army.

1776 - Thomse Paine publishes ‘Common Sense & Sensibility.’

The Declaration of Independence is penned and approved.

Washington wins in the first Battle of Trenton.

1777 - The Continental Congress adopts the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union.

France signs treaties of alliance and commerce, getting involved in the revolutionary war.

Washington loses at Brandywine and others, marches with Continental Army into Valley Forge.

1778 - South Carolina is the first state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.

France signs the treaty of Amity and Commerce with the United States.

1779 - Benedict Arnold, American general, turns traitor and aids the British in acquiring control of the Hudson River. This was soon after Washington first accompanied Arnold on a drive where Washington made the comment to him while Arnold was driving the horse carriage ‘Okay, you’re safe to go,’ as the pedestrians Arnold had been waiting on had finished crossing the street.

1780 - The British siege Charlseton, South Carolina.

Loyalist troops of Britain lose the Battle of Kings Mountain.

1782 - The Bank of North America, the Bank of New York, and the First Bank of the United States are the first to obtain shares on the New York Stock Exchange.

British troops start to leave the United States.

British Parliament recognizes U.S. independence and signs the Treaty of Paris.

1783 - Congress ratifies the early peace treaty, ending the Revolutionary War.

Massachusetts Supreme Court outlaws slavery.

The Continental Army is disbanded.

1785 - The Continental Navy is disbanded.

1787 - Shay’s Rebellion happens in Massachusetts, but fails. Daniel Shays upon being captured claims evil twin, Schmaniel Shays, was the true mastermind.

The Constitutional Convention adopts the Constitution.

1789 - Washington is elected as the first President of the United States. Frederick A. Muhlenberg becomes the first Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Supreme Court is created.

1790 - First patent of the United States is given to Samuel Hopkins for potash.

1791 - The Bill of Rights takes effect, all twelve amendments pass.

1792 - The United States Post Office Department is established.

Washington is reelected president of the United States with John Adams as his Vice President.

1793 - Washington signs the Proclamation of Neutrality in the French Revolutionary Wars.

1794 - Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin.

The Whiskey Rebellion is suppressed by militia.

Jay’s Treaty is signed.

1795 - The Treaty of Madrid is signed.

1796 - Tennessee joins the Union.

The United States State Department issues the first passport.

Washington gives his final address.

1797 - John Adams becomes President.

The Treaty of Tripoli is signed.

1798 - Congress voids all treaties with France.

The Alien and Sedition Acts go into law.

1800 - The United States Library of Congress is founded.

Slavery ended in the Northwest Territory from the Ordinance of 1787.

1801 - Thomas Jefferson becomes President.

1803 - The Louisiana Purchase is made.

1804 - The Sacagawea Expedition.

Thomas Jefferson is reelected.

1807 - Aaron Burr is arrested for treason in an attempt to annex parts of the United States into an independent republic. He represents himself as his own lawyer and is acquitted after the confusion in court of speaking about himself in the third person.

1808 - The Illinois Territory is created.

1809 - James Madison becomes president.

1811 - The battle of Tippecanoe is won by William Henry Harrison.

1812 - President Madison asks Congress to declare war on the UK.

Madison is reelected.

1813 - The Battle of York.

1814 - The White House is burned by the British during the War of 1812.

The Battle of Lake Champlain is won by the United States.

Peace treaty is signed, ending the War of 1812.

1817 - James Monroe becomes President.

The Rush-Bagot treaty is signed.

1819 - The Panic of 1819 leads to foreclosures, bank failures, and unemployment.

The Shortmadge Amendment is passed.

1820 - the Missouri Compromise bill passes Congress.

Colonel Robert Gibbon Johnson eats a tomato in public to prove it is not poisonous, and then nearly dies due to his undiagnosed tomato allergy.

Tomatoes outlawed in New Jersey for twenty seven years.

Monroe is reelected.

1823 - President Monroe declares the Monroe Doctrine.

1825 - John Quincy Adams becomes President.

Erie Canal is opened to usage.

1826 - Samuel Morey patents the “Gas or Vapor Engine.”

1827 - Slavery is legally abolished in New York.

1829 - Andrew Jackson becomes President.

William Austin Burt patents the typographer.

1830 - Congress approves the Indian Removal Act.

1831 - The first bank robbery in the United States.

1832 - The Black Hawk War.

The Trail of Tears begins.

1833 - The Force Bill is signed into law.

Jackson is reelected.

1836 - The Battle of the Alamo.

The Specie Act is issued.

1837 - Martin Van Buren becomes President.

The Panic of 1837 begins.

1840 - Antarctica is claimed for the United States.

1841 - William Henry Harrison becomes President, shortly after dies and is succeeded by John Tyler.

1843 - The Kingdom of Hawaii is recognized by European nations as an independent nation.

1844 - Samuel B. Morse sends the first telegraph message. His first words were, “Does this work?”

The United States signs the Treaty of Wanghia.

1845 - James K. Polk becomes President.

1846 - The Mexican-American War begins with a conflict north of the Rio Grande River.

California declares independence from Mexico.

1848 - Gold is discovered in California by James W. Marshall who immediately claims he had misspoken and he had instead found coal.

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends Mexican-American War.

1850 - The Compromise of 1850 is introduced to Congress.

Millard Filmore becomes President after Zachary Taylor’s death.

1854 - The Kansas-Nebraska act becomes law.

1857 - James Buchanan becomes President.

The Dred Scott decision.

The first elevator is installed in New York City and gets stuck two days later.

1861 - The Confederated States of America is established.

Abraham Lincoln becomes President.

Fort Sumter is attacked by Confederate forces and starts the U.S. Civil War.

The first Battle of Bull Run.

1862 - The Battle of Shiloh.

The Homestead Act is approved.

Preliminary Emancipation Proclaim is issued.

The Battle of Fredericksburg begins.

1863 - The Battle of Gettysburg is won by the Union.

1865 - General Robert E. Lee signs the Confederate forces’ surrender at Appomattox Court House.

President Lincoln is assassinated at Ford’s theatre.

Thirteenth Amendment to abolish slavery takes effect.

1866 - The Civil Rights Act of 1866 passes Congress.

The Metric Act of 1866 passes Congress.

1867 - the Treaty of Cession of Russian America to the United States is signed, Alaska becomes part of the United States.

1868 - The Battle of Washita River ends.

1869 - Ulysses S. Grant becomes President.

The First Transcontinental Railroad is finished.

1870 - The Fifteenth Amendment is ratified.

The Confederacy is officially dissolved.

1871 - The Great Fire of Chicago.

1872 - Roche Jaune National Park is the world’s first national park established.

Susan B. Anthony illegally casts ballot to publicize women’s right to vote.

1875 - The Civil Rights Act is passed by Congress.

Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone.

1877 - The Nez Perce War begins.

1880 - Construction of the Panama Canal begins.

1881 - James Garfield becomes President. He later dies and is succeeded by Chester Arthur.

1883 - The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act is passed by Congress.

The Brooklyn Bridge opens.

1885 - Grover Cleveland becomes President.

The Statue of Liberty arrived in New York.

1886 - The Haymarket riot in Chicago.

The Interstate Commerce Act is passed by Congress.

1890 - The Battle of Wounded Knee.

1891 - Lucien and Paul Nunn transmit alternating current for the first time.

1892 - Cleveland returns to presidency.

1893 - New York Stock Exchange collapses resulting in the panic of 1893.

1895 - Plessy v. Ferguson decision by Supreme Court establishes approval of racial segregation.

1897 - The first United States underground public transportation opens in Boston.

1899 - The Open Door Policy with China is declared.

1900 - The Gold Standard Act is ratified.

Carrie Nation continues Temperance Movement to abolish liquor and riding horses, prompted by a dream of a horse rebellion.

1901 - The Platt amendment is passed by Congress.

William H. McKinley becomes President.

President McKinley is shot at the Pan-American Exposition and Theodore Roosevelt succeeds upon his death.

1903 - Wilvur and Orville Wright succeed in their first flight via airplane.

1905 - President Roosevelt is elected for second term of Presidency.

1906 - The Pure food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act passes.

1911 - The first transcontinental airline flight begins in New York.

Henry Ford patents the Automotive Transmission.

1913 - The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Amendments are ratified.

Woodrow Wilson becomes President.

1915 - The United States Coast Guard is established.

1916 - Wilson is reelected.

The United States Congress declares War on Germany, joining World War I.

1918 - President Wilson attends the Paris Peace Conference.

1919 - World War I ends with the Treaty of Versailles signed.

1920 - The Nineteenth Amendment is added to the constitution.

1923 - President Harding dies and is succeeded by Calvin Coolidge.

1925 - Charles Francis Jenkins presents radiovision.

The Scopes Trial.

1928 - Herbert Hoover elected President.

The Great Depression begins.

1930 - The London naval Reduction Treaty is signed.

The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act is signed.

1933 - Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes President.

The New Deal program is passed by Congress.

The Twenty-First Amendment is passed.

1935 - The Social Security Act and the Historic Sites Act are signed into law.

1937 - The Hindenburg erupts in flames.

The Golden Gate Bridge opens.

1938 - The Naval Expansion Act passes.

The National Minimum Wage is signed.

The War of the Worlds, the radio drama, causes immense worry to say the least.

1939 - United States declares neutrality in World War II.

1941 - The Lend-Lease Act is approved.

United States occupies Iceland.

The Atlantic Charter is issued.

Pearl Harbor is attacked resulting in the United States entering World War II.

1942 - The Battle of the Midway.

Arthur Compton and Enrico Fermi oversee the first nuclear chain reaction in the Manhattan Project.

1944 - The Normandy Invasion.

1945 - President Roosevelt dies, Harry S. Truman succeeds upon his death.

Germany surrenders.

President Truman authorizes the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

World War II ends.

1948 - President Truman signs Executive Order 9981.

1949 - NATO is formed.

United States withdraws troops from Korea.

1950 - The Korean War begins, shortly after President Truman orders Air Force and Navy to the country.

1951 - The AZUS Treaty is signed by the United States, Australia, and Zealand.

1953 - Dwight Eisenhower becomes President.

1954 - Brown v the Board of Education.

The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization is formed.

1955 - Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat and prompts boycott that would lead to declaring bus segregation laws unconstitutional.

1957 - United States attempts to launch satellite, Vanguard, into space. Vanguard exploded on the launchpad.

1958 - The first U.S. space satellite, Explorer I, is launched. Due to an instrument on board that detected cosmic rays, they theorize what would come to be known as the Van Allen Belts which was confirmed by Explorer II.

1959 - Alaska and Hawaii become part of the United States.

1960 - The First weather satellite, Tiros I, is launched by the United States. It was one of NASA’s first attempts to use satellites to study Earth and aid international communications.

Transit 1A was launched and failed to reach orbit. Transit 1B succeeded though and carried an infrared scanner and was the first navigation satellite.

1961 - John F. Kennedy becomes President.

The Bay of Pigs invasion of cuba.

Commander Alan Shepard Jr completes the first United States manned sub-orbital space flight inside a Mercury capsule.

Project Gemini begins.

1962 - Lt. Colonel John Glenn, the first United States astronaut in orbit aboard the Friendship 7 Mercury Capsule. He circled the earth three times and didn’t puke once.

The Cuban Missile Crisis begins.

1963 - The Civil Rights march on the United States’ capitol led by Dr. Martin Luther King.

Kennedy is assassinated, Lyndon B. Johnson succeeds upon his death.

1964 - Roachmania hits the United States from the band the Roaches, the name alluding to drug usage.

Civil Rights Act of 1964 is passed.

Flight of Gemini I.

1965 - Voting Rights Act of 1965 is signed.

The Watts race riots.

1967 - The Outer Space Treaty is signed.

Apollo I ends in tragedy.

1968 - Martin Luther King is assassinated by James Earl Ray.

1969 - Project Apollo completes mission with Neil Armstrong on the moon.

1972 - Watergate crisis begins.

1973 - Roe v. Wade.

1974 - President Nixon resigns, avoiding impeachment, replaced by Gerald R. Ford.

1976 - Viking I lands on Mars, shortly after followed by Viking II. We get color photos of Mars for the first time.

1980 - Mt. St. Helens volcano erupts.

1981 - The first interdimensional communications completed by Stanford Pines via technology using Fiddleford H. McGucket’s invention of the personal computer.

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twins2994 · 5 years ago

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Strasburg Shuts Down Cards As Nats Take (3-0) Lead.

Cardinals 1 Nationals 8 W-Strasburg (1-0) L-Flaherty (0-1)

Major League Baseball implemented the Wild Card Game in 2012 and a few teams have used it as a springboard for postseason success. Seven Wild Card winning teams have made the Championship Series and two have made the World Series (2014 Royals and Giants). The Washington Nationals have sure used the Wild Card Game to keep their momentum going in October. Tonight, Stephen Strasburg took the hill for the Nats as they looked to take a (3-0) series lead. The Washington offense started to figure out Jack Flaherty in the third inning. Victor Robles led-off with a single and was bunted over to second. With two outs, Adam Eaton lined a run-scoring single to center and the Nats were on the board. The next batter, Anthony Rendon hit an RBI double to left to double the Washington lead. Juan Soto kept the inning alive with a walk and the runners advanced on a wild pitch. Howie Kendrick plated a pair with a double to right-center and the Nationals capped off a four-run third. Washington kept their hitting shoes on in the fifth. Anthony Rendon singled with one out. With two outs, Howie Kendrick greeted John Brebbia with a double to center that scored Rendon. Ryan Zimmerman followed with a double to center, which scored Kendrick and the Nats lead grew to six. Victor Robles added the extra point in the sixth. He smacked a John Brebbia fastball out to right for a solo blast to give Washington a 7-0 lead. Meanwhile, Stephen Strasburg threw six shutout innings and got into some trouble in the seventh. Jose Martinez and Yadier Molina led-off the frame with singles. Later in the inning, Paul DeJong hit a run-scoring single to left and the Cards were within six. The Nats got that run back in the seventh. Howie Kendrick lined a double to left-center and Ryan Zimmerman singled him home. This put Washington back up by seven and their bullpen did the rest. Fernando Rodney had a 1-2-3 eighth and Tanner Rainey had a perfect ninth as the Nats pushed the Cardinals on the brink of elimination.

-Final Thoughts- Stephen Strasburg was tremendous tonight. He threw seven innings and allowed an unearned run on seven hits with twelve strikeouts. Fernando Rodney fanned two in a 1-2-3 eighth and Tanner Rainey struck out two in a perfect ninth. Howie Kendrick is on fire lately. He had three doubled with three RBI’s on the night. Ryan Zimmerman, Anthony Rendon, and Victor Robles had two hits each. The Cardinals hit 1-for-6 with runners in scoring position and the Nats hit 4-for-8 with men in scoring position. Maybe the Washington Capitals broke the DC sports curse by winning the Stanley Cup two years ago. The Nats are rolling and destined for the World Series. Tomorrow, Dakota Hudson faces Patrick Corbin in Game 4.

-Chris Kreibich-

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innocentamit · 3 years ago

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Juan Soto of NL MVP? September has unveiled Nationals who are highlighting major cases

For all that Vladimir Guerrero Jr. chased Triple Crown and Fernando Tatis Jr. a powerful actor in San Diego, another 22-year-old robbed the show in September. Juan Soto and the Nationals could be in the NL East basement at 64-89, but that was not the case for Soto. In September, he leads all MLB terrorists in the WAR, according to Fangraphs, With a recent victory he joined the Phillies’ Bryce…

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bbcbreakingnews · 3 years ago

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Who will win the Home Run Derby? Odds, betting favorites, best bets for MLB’s 2021 contest

The Home Run Derby returns with a bang after being canceled in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Per usual, the competition is wide open, and bettors are licking their chops at the odds on some of these power hitters.

Shohei Ohtani is the only competitor who ranks in the top five among MLB’s home run leaders as of this writing, but there still is plenty of pop in this year’s derby field. Mets slugger Pete Alonso is back to defend his 2019 title and players such as Joey Gallo, Matt Olson and Salvador Perez will fight for the title as well.

Of course, Ohtani is the biggest draw as his 32 homers led the majors through July 8. But after seeing the No. 1 seed bow out in three consecutive events, can you trust Ohtani to win this year’s derby? Or are there better value picks for bettors to focus on?

Here is an in-depth look at the odds and Sporting News’ best bets for the 2021 Home Run Derby.

MORE: Who declined invitations to the 2021 Home Run Derby?

2021 Home Run Derby odds

All odds courtesy of DraftKings Sportsbook

Eight players are participating in the 2021 Home Run Derby, and Shohei Ohtani (+380) is the favorite to emerge as the victor. Ohtani led MLB with 32 homers and a .700 slugging percentage through July 8.

Joey Gallo (+475), Pete Alonso (+550), Matt Olson (+650) and Salvador Perez (+650) all check in with mid-tier odds. Alonso, the No. 5 seed, is the only lower-seeded player to be favored in his opening-round matchup; he’ll take on the No. 4-seeded Perez.

Trevor Story (+800), Juan Soto (+800) and Trey Mancini (+850) are all considered long shots to win the event.

Player Odds to win Shohei Ohtani +380 Joey Gallo +475 Pete Alonso +550 Matt Olson +650 Salvador Perez +650 Trevor Story +800 Juan Soto +800 Trey Mancini +850

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2021 Home Run Derby expert picks

Best picks to win 2021 Home Run Derby

Joey Gallo (+475). Gallo is in a favorable situation ahead of the 2021 Home Run Derby. He is the No. 2 seed in the field and landed on what appears to be the easier side of the bracket. The Rangers’ star will face off against Trevor Story in Round 1 before facing the winner of the Matt Olson vs. Trey Mancini battle. Gallo should have a leg up on all three of those hitters.

Gallo has hit 23 homers this season and is tied for the league lead in no-doubt homers with 16, per BaseballSavant.com. The other players to reach that mark are Shohei Ohtani, Fernando Tatis Jr. and Mike Zunino. More impressively, Gallo’s 69.6 no-doubt homer percentage ranks sixth among players with at least 15 homers on the year.

So, when Gallo hits homers, he launches them. Additionally, he has homered 10 times in his last 10 games. He’s rounding into form at the right time and if he stays hot, he should have a great chance to win his side of the bracket. The final would be a bit of a toss-up regardless of who Gallo plays, but he can compete with anyone in this field.

Pete Alonso (+550). Picking Alonso over Ohtani on the left side of the bracket is a risk, but as good as Ohtani has been, the numbers suggest that the 2019 Home Run Derby champion could challenge him.

Alonso has clubbed just 15 homers so far this season, but like Gallo, they have been of the convincing variety. Eleven of his 15 long balls have been no-doubt homers. His no-doubt homer percentage of 73.3 ranks second-best among players with at least 15 homers on the year and first among the eight derby participants.

Furthermore, Alonso’s exit velocity topped out at 117.1 this season. That’s the sixth-highest max exit velocity among MLB players, and he trails only Ohtani (119) among derby participants for the lead in that category.

Though Alonso’s path to the final is daunting — he’ll have to knock off Salvador Perez and the winner of the Ohtani vs. Juan Soto battle to get there — he is a good value pick to win. His power and strength paint a favorable picture for him. So does his previous derby experience, as he hit 57 homers during the 2019 event.

Best prop bets for the 2021 Home Run Derby

Top prop bets will be posted as they become available.

Length of longest homer — OVER 512.5 feet (-110). This might seem like a ridiculously high number, but a player could surpass this mark in 2021. Coors Field is a hitter-friendly park and if MLB uses juiced baseballs for this event, it could cause the ball to carry even further at the ballpark.

During the Statcast Era (since 2015), there has been one 500-foot homer launched at Coors Field. That came off the bat of Giancarlo Stanton in 2016 and traveled 504 feet. In 2021, the longest homer at Coors Field was hit by Ryan McMahon. It traveled 478 feet with an exit velocity of 109.4 mph. It is the fourth-longest homer in MLB this season.

At the 1998 Home Run Derby which also took place in Denver, Mark McGuire slugged a ball 510 feet. It was the longest homer hit at that event.

None of these numbers eclipse the threshold we’re looking for, but they still are among the longest homers we’ve seen in recent seasons. And it’s worth noting that two of them took place during regular-season games where it’s harder to hit long homers.

In a glorified batting practice event like the Home Run Derby, players will certainly have a chance to crush the ball and send it flying into Colorado’s night sky. And this year’s contest features two players that rank in the top six of maximum exit velocity: Ohtani (119 mph) and Alonso (117.1 mph). So, they should be able to hit some of the longest homers the Home Run Derby has seen.

Even a University of Illinois physics professor thinks many blasts will travel over 500 feet during the derby.

“During the Home Run Derby, there will probably be a number of shots over 500 feet, certainly many close to 500 feet is my guess,” Nathan said, per The Denver Post.

Even if a ball doesn’t quite pass the 512.5-foot mark, it looks like players could get very close to it. As such, it’s worth investing in the over.

How many home runs will be hit in 2021 Home Run Derby?

There are no over/under prop bets on total homers for the 2021 Home Run Derby yet, but when they become available, bettors will likely want to lean on the over.

Since the Home Run Derby changed formats from an outs-based competition to a time-based competition, players have hit increasing numbers of homers almost every year. In fact, homers have increased year to year in all but one of the last five events under the new rules.

Year Total HRs 2015 159 2016 203 2017 191 2018 221 2019 311 2020 Event canceled

The 2019 derby’s number was inflated by the 79-homer battle between Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Joc Pederson that took three tiebreakers to settle. It might be hard for the 2021 derby to eclipse the 311 figure without similar tiebreak luck.

Still, the event should produce quite a lot of homers and could near 300 if all goes well. Coors Field is one of the most hitter-friendly environments in the league and MLB could choose to use juiced baseballs to create more home runs.

Either way, viewers can once again expect to see many long balls fly through the thin Denver air.

source http://bbcbreakingnews.com/2021/07/11/who-will-win-the-home-run-derby-odds-betting-favorites-best-bets-for-mlbs-2021-contest/

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junker-town · 4 years ago

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Predicting the MLB season with 7 big questions

Our writers give their predictions for the 2021 MLB season.

The 2020 MLB season was unlike any other with the coronavirus pandemic delaying the start of the season until late July. Everything is on track for a more normal season with a chance to even get fans into the stadium at limited capacity for the first time in more than a year.

The rich got richer this offseason with a loaded Dodgers team loading up even more for what could very well be another run at defending their World Series victory. Can the new-look New York Mets or Fernando Tatis Jr.-led Padres throw those plans off track? Will the Yankees finally make it back to the World Series, or will their own health (and lack thereof) prove to be their downfall?

Before the 2021 MLB regular season gets underway, we asked our staff to predict how this year will go. Picks are being made by Andrew Mearns of Pinstripe Alley, Brady Klopfer of McCovey Chronicles, Sara Sanchez of Bleed Cubbie Blue, Kris Willis of Talking Chop, and Ashley MacLennan of Bless You Boys and DRaysBay.

1. Give us one bold prediction for the season

Andrew: The Phillies & Angels both end their playoff droughts with Wild Card runs. The Padres quickly dispatch the Phils from the postseason in the Wild Card Game, but behind big homers from Anthony Rendon & Shohei Ohtani, the Angels upset the Rays before falling to the Yankees in a tight ALDS. But hey, at least Mike Trout finally has a postseason win?

Brady: Someone will hit the 60 home run barrier, and at least two other players will cross 50 homers. A home run race will develop in the final months of the season, and that will become the biggest storyline of the season.

Sara: Kyle Hendricks will win the NL Cy Young award. Projection systems really don’t appreciate the way he gets guys out with 88 mph pitches while masterfully working the corners and playing with speed. In a year where very few pitchers will top 170 innings, Hendricks’ efficiency means he may have more innings, and more complete games than any pitcher in baseball. He’s not going to turn any heads with his K/9, but if he quietly puts up a sub 3.00 ERA while leading the NL in innings in 2021 voters will have a difficult decision to make in the fall.

Kris: Between Fernando Tatis Jr and Juan Soto, it feels like everyone is forgetting about Ronald Acuña Jr. He will give the Braves their second straight MVP Award winner in 2021 and put up a 40-40 season in the process while reentering the conversation of who is the best young player in MLB.

Ashley: Home runs are going to drop considerably with the slightly deadened ball, and the new laces may see us get a pitcher reach 22 wins (yeah, I said it). There will be exceptions but I’m thinking 2021 will be the year of the pitcher.

2. NL Champions: Dodgers or the field?

Andrew: Dodgers. If they didn’t exist, we could debate Padres vs. Braves all season long, but the Dodgers are just too absurdly good. I’m not convinced that they ever actually lose. The league’s just throwing us off the scent when they print those faulty box scores.

Brady: The field. The Dodgers are deserving favorites, but the field is always the safe pick in baseball, especially when there are still a decent number of elite teams to challenge the defending champions.

Sara: The field. The Dodgers are going to get some stiff competition from the Padres and the Braves at bare minimum. I think one of those teams will knock the Dodgers out of the playoffs.

Kris: Dodgers. The rich just get richer with the addition of Trevor Bauer. There are teams in the National League that could beat the Dodgers but given their resources, it is hard to pick against them.

Ashley: Dodgers. I’d much rather say the Padres will win the NL this year because they’re a much easier team to root for, but the Dodgers have absolutely done everything right this offseason to stay competitive and I don’t see them slowing down. That said, I’m hoping to see the Padres in the WS.

3. Who will win the MVP from each league?

Andrew: AL: Mike Trout; NL: Juan Soto.

The combination of an improbable Angels playoff run and Trout being, well, Trout, gives him his fourth MVP. As for Soto, the Nationals don’t even necessarily have to do much around him. His time is just now to be the modern-day Ted Williams.

Brady: AL: Mike Trout; NL: Juan Soto

Are these the obvious picks? Yes. But baseball is straightforward enough that I can’t break out of the box here. Mike Trout is the best player alive, has been the best player alive for a very long time, and no longer is battling Mookie Betts for this award. Soto is coming off a 201 wRC+ season, and is at an age where you expect him to not only get better, but significantly so. These are the heavy favorites in my eyes.

Sara: AL: Mike Trout, NL: Juan Soto

I thought about being contrarian here, but I just can’t. Soto is poised to put up a season for the record books and Mike Trout is Mike Trout. Depending on the prediction system both should put up OPS over 1.000. It is possible someone else gets hot in either league and runs them down, because baseball will always baseball, but I can’t bring myself to put anyone else’s name down here.

Kris: AL: Mike Trout; NL: Ronald Acuña Jr.

It seems like this is the same answer every year, but if he stays healthy, Mike Trout has to be the favorite for MVP in the American League. Especially if the Angels are an improved team and in the running for a playoff spot. Ronald Acuña Jr goes 40-40 and leads the Braves back to the NLCS and captures his first career MVP award.

Ashley: AL: Mike Trout; NL: Fernando Tatis Jr.

Trout has openly spoken this offseason about moves he has made to “improve” the things that have been slowing him down, and I for one am eager to see what those moves will change in terms of his performance. Is it possible to get better? We’ll see! I could have gone for any of the big three youth-movement guys in terms of the NL because Soto and Acuña Jr are incredible and I wouldn’t be surprised to see either of them take it, but my gut says Tatis Jr is just going to keep building off last year’s success and be an absolutely monster in the NL in 2021.

4. Which team will be the biggest surprise?

Andrew: Angels. For all the reasons above because I am a gigantic sucker and this time, Lucy absolutely won’t pull that football away.

Brady: Angels. This is the year it finally happens, and Mike Trout wins a playoff game. Trout, Anthony Rendon, and a healthy Shohei Ohtani is just too much talent, and I think the Astros are primed for regression. I say the Angels win the AL West and, at a very minimum, at least win a playoff game.

Sara: Blue Jays. They may not have a home park to play in but they made a lot of interesting moves in the offseason. Losing Yates for a while doesn’t hurt them as much as one might think and they have some really interesting bats. I think they are trying to chase down the Yankees in the East all year, and if the Yankees can’t stay healthy the Blue Jays may just win the division.

Kris: Rays. It is always the Rays is not in? No matter how unimpressive they look on paper, they find a way to win, and I do not think this season will be any different despite the departure of Blake Snell.

Ashley: White Sox. It’s hard to say they’ll be a surprise only because most predictions suggest they’ll be among the best in the very bad AL Central, but all the same I’m really interested to see what they pull off. Tony La Russa is going to be something the team has to overcome, rather than something that will help them win, I think, but they have such a strong core of talented players, I really want to see what they can pull off.

5. Which team will be the biggest disappointment?

Andrew: Blue Jays. The Mets would also be a decent choice since I have them missing the playoffs, but not by much. The Jays, however, could really crash and burn with that pitching staff (no matter how much that young offense terrifies me).

Brady: Astros. A run to the ALCS hid what was a pretty bad season for Houston last year. Not only did they finish the truncated season with a losing record, but their win differential suggested they were a highly mediocre team. I think we see that in full this year.

Sara: Yankees. For the past three years I feel like all I’ve heard is how great the Yankees will be, but it hasn’t gotten them another ring. Unfortunately for New York anything less than another ring is a disappointment for that fanbase. I know the projections love the pitching staff, but ace Gerrit Cole is one of the pitchers most likely to be impacted by MLB’s stated intention to crack down on substances because of spin rate discrepancies, Corey Kluber is a huge injury risk, Jameson Taillon is a good addition - who has thrown 37.1 innings in the last two seasons. Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton are both injury prone, and Gary Sánchez has shown no sign of turning it around at the plate. This is the same team that hasn’t delivered in the last 4 years, they are just a year older.

Kris: Blue Jays. Toronto looks like a fun team on paper, but I am worried about their starting pitching and whether they have enough depth to hold up over a full 162 games. They should score plenty of runs but in the end, I am afraid their rotation will cost them.

Ashley: Blue Jays. They made all the right moves in the offseason to push themselves as a competitive team, but a bunch of spring training injuries and some pickups that are as likely to implode as they are to succeed (Robbie Ray?) means the Jays could be a team that spent to lose instead of spending to compete. A lot of focus is going to be on the young talent like Guerrero and Bichette to see if they can shine as future superstars.

6. Which player will lead the majors in home runs?

Andrew: Pete Alonso. The dude knows how to go deep, and even in an “off year” when no one talked about him, he was still within shouting distance of the home run crown. Give him a real season again and he’ll go bananas.

Brady: Aaron Judge. Sure, it’s been four years since he hit the 52 homer mark, but he’s still got that power in him, and he can’t be pitched around on this Yankees team. If he stays healthy, I think it all clicks.

Sara: Mike Trout. I thought about getting cute about this and saying Eugenio Suárez because I love that bat and he plays in a bandbox, but I think it’s Trout. And even though you didn’t ask this, I think that number is less than 45...at least it is if MLB is actually deadening the ball like they claim.

Kris: Ronald Acuña Jr. I already picked Acuña to win MVP and the home run crown will be a big part of that. He makes a run at a 50 homer season and leads the majors in 2021.

Ashley: Mike Trout. I really, really want to see him kill it this year. In think home runs overall will be down, but I genuinely believe Trout will hit about a tenth of them.

7. What is your World Series matchup prediction?

Andrew: Dodgers/Yankees. The chalk pick, but the correct pick. The door is wide open in the AL for the Yankees to return to the World Series, and if not now, then when? But also, no one’s beating the Dodgers unless something goes seriously wrong.

Brady: Padres/Yankees. I have the Pads finally eclipsing their big brother Dodgers in a stacked NL, while the Yankees run circles around the competition in the AL. And it all makes for a star-studded World Series, that San Diego wins in seven.

Sara: Padres/White Sox. I refuse to pick the Yankees/Dodgers matchup that math, the universe and logic so desperately want us all to pick. Don’t get me wrong, I’d watch that World Series, but I wouldn’t get excited about it. Let’s watch the kids thrive and play. The Padres are a brilliantly constructed team and they are built to beat the Dodgers. They came close in the shortened season - then they went out and added Blake Snell and Yu Darvish to the Dodgers’ Trevor Bauer and David Price. The Yankees should be a juggernaut, but they are fragile. Someone in the AL will step in and beat them, it might as well be the team that employs Luis Robert and Lucas Giolito.

Kris: Dodgers/Yankees. I think the Dodgers are the clear favorites in the National League given roster depth and they will be looking to prove that last season’s championship was not a fluke. It seems like there are a lot of things that could go wrong with the Yankees’ pitching staff, but I do not see anyone else in the American League that can match their fire power.

Ashley: Padres/Rays. I cannot imagine a more fun final showdown than this, especially with former Rays Tommy Pham and Blake Snell in the mix for the Padres. These two teams have taken very different approaches to spending and signings this offseason and I think it would be an electric matchup (for everything except maybe TV ratings).

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twins2994 · 2 years ago

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Minnesota Twins-San Diego Padres Series Preview

7.29.22-Joe Ryan RHP (7-3) 2.89 ERA Vs. Blake Snell LHP (2-5) 4.75 ERA

7.30.22-Sonny Gray RHP (5-3) 3.52 ERA Vs. Joe Musgrove RHP (8-3) 2.63 ERA

7.31.22-Dylan Bundy RHP (6-4) 5.02 ERA Vs. Sean Manaea LHP (5-5) 4.33 ERA

The Twins At A Glance-The Minnesota Twins started the second half on a good note with a two-game sweep over the Tigers. They lost a close game on Tuesday to the Brewers and got blown out on Wednesday afternoon. The team now heads to San Diego to play the Padres in a three-game set after a day off. Jose Miranda has been on fire in the second half with a .625 average in four games. Gio Urshela is 4-for-11 on this road trip. Max Kepler didn’t play in either game in Milwaukee after getting hit in the toe by a pitch. Bailey Ober will try to play catch this week with the hopes of throwing off a mound soon. Josh Winder has been shut down at St. Paul with a shoulder injury. Danny Coulombe underwent surgery to repair his left hip labrum this week. Jhoan Duran has thrown five straight scoreless innings albeit working out of his own jams. The Twins starters have not gone deep into games to start the second half. Sonny Gray went six innings and Joe Ryan went 5 2/3 innings in Detroit. Dylan Bundy lasted just four innings and Chris Archer went three frames in Milwaukee.

The Padres At A Glance- The Padres have hit a bit of a skid in July with a (9-13) record. They are (3-3) in the second half, but AJ Preller isn’t afraid to make major moves. The Padres are one of the favorites in the Juan Soto sweepstakes. San Diego currently sits in the second Wild-Card spot and are ten games over .500. They have done all this without Fernando Tatis Jr., who broke his wrist before the season started. He is trying to work his back and might play center field in order to come bak faster. Wil Myers is on a rehab assignment as he works his way back. Eric Hosmer is hitting .368 in the second half with four RBI. The Twins will miss Yu Darvish, but still face some tough pitchers. Joe Musgrove has a 2.63 ERA with 106 strikeouts in 109 1/3 innings of work. Blake Snell is having an off season and Sean Manaea was picked up to bolster the rotation. Taylor Rogers has had an up and down season with twenty-eight saves and a 4.35 ERA. He has allowed three runs in his past two games. Nabil Crismatt has been good out of the bullpen with a 2.60 ERA. Nick Martinez has found his way as a swing man for the Padres. He has a 3.61 ERA and has been used in basically every role.

What To Watch For- The Twins are (15-5) all-time against the Padres. The Twins won all three out of four games back in 2017. They split two games in San Diego and won both games in Minnesota. There was some mixed feelings the last time the Twins were in San Diego. They had just traded Jaime Garcia, and Brandon Kintzler and there was some confusion on whether the Twins were going for a playoff push or not. Blake Snell is (1-2) with a 7.15 ERA in five starts against the Twins. Gary Sanchez has five career homers off Snell. Sonny Gray has only one career start against the Padres. He went six innings and allowed a run. Joe Musgrove is (0-2) with a 9.72 ERA in two starts versus the Twins. Dylan Bundy allowed five runs over four innings in one career start against the Padres in 2019. Sean Manaea is (3-1) with a 2.74 ERA in four starts against the Twins. The Twins will see a pair of lefties, so Kyle Garlick and Miguel Sano will see a few at-bats. The Twins used Sano as a platoon player on Tuesday against a lefty and Luis Arraez came in when a righty was in the game. This should be an interesting series for the Twins.

-Chris Kreibich-

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glittergummicandypeach · 4 years ago

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Bad Religion Recall the Rowdy LA Punk Scene in a New Book

One of the problems with being an L.A. punk band in 1980 was there were very few places to play. Part of this was due to bias. If you weren’t a known commodity, it was hard to get people to take you seriously. For instance, Keith Morris literally begged bookers and promoters to let Black Flag play. When his band was finally invited to perform at the venerable Masque, the show was shut down and the venue closed its doors for good. Many of the older punk scenesters from the seventies looked down at hardcore bands and their fans for the negativity they brought to their scene. They were too violent, too reactionary, or just didn’t get it. To their minds, bands like Bad Religion embodied everything that was wrong with the punk scene.

Hardcore bands had to get creative. They realized that by supporting each other they could make their own scene within the scene. One of Bad Religion’s first live shows was with a relatively unknown band from Fullerton called Social Distortion who invited Bad Religion to play with them at a party in Santa Ana.

“I think our first show was at a warehouse,” Bad Religion guitar player Brett Gurewitz recalled, “which was fairly common back then because there weren’t that many venues that would book hardcore punk bands.”

On the day of the gig, bassist Jay Bentley was so anxious he threw up before the show. Steve Soto, a Fullerton native and bass player for the Adolescents, gave Jay a bit of friendly advice.

STEVE SOTO: You’re really nervous.

JAY: I know. I get so nervous before we play.

STEVE SOTO: You should always drink at least a six-pack before you play.

JAY: Okay, I didn’t know.

Lead singer Greg Graffin remembered the audience being particularly hostile because the promise of free beer had not materialized, but they made it through their set unscathed. When they got off the stage, Brett received a boost from a familiar face who’d made the journey from Woodland Hills to Orange County to see them play. “After the show,” Brett recalled, “my friend Tom Clement said to me with great seriousness, ‘Brett, no matter what else you do, just don’t break up. If you guys don’t break up you’re going to be huge—seriously. You guys are really good.’”

A Greek organization at the University of Southern California was having a punk-themed party and naively decided to invite actual punks to perform.

Another early show was even stranger: a frat party opening up for the Circle Jerks, the band Keith Morris started after leaving Black Flag, and one of the most popular L.A. punk acts of the early eighties. A Greek organization at the University of Southern California was having a punk-themed party and naively decided to invite actual punks to perform. Once the gig was confirmed, members of Bad Religion and the Circle Jerks invited their friends and distributed flyers like they would for any other show. The frat boys dressed like punks and the punks behaved like, well, punks.

For Lucky Lehrer, the drummer for the Circle Jerks, “it was a typical funny, bizarre, tragic night I’d come to expect with Greg Hetson, Roger Rogerson, and Keith Morris. At the end of the party, Roger got drunk off several free-flowing beer kegs and tried to fight half of the USC football team’s offensive line. They beat the shit out of him.” Apparently, Roger had it coming because Brett recalled watching him attack the jocks with a pair of nun-chucks while blackout drunk.

Despite the hijinks, it was an important gig for Bad Religion. Punk photographer Gary Leonard documented the show, and the band made a favorable impression on Lucky. “I connected with Bad Religion a little because as we were loading all our gear back into cars and mini-trucks I sensed these ‘kids from the Valley,’ as I called them, were a little less insane than the Circle Jerks.”

Lucky wasn’t being condescending. They were teenagers who despite their intelligence and ambition had very little experience in the ways of the world. “That was the first time I ever witnessed a beer bong,” Bad Religion drummer Jay Ziskrout said of the party.

Keith Morris also had fond memories of the show. When the beer ran out at the punk-themed party, Keith went searching for more, and discovered he wasn’t the only one on a reconnaissance mission.

“My favorite part of the night wasn’t playing with the Circle Jerks or watching Bad Religion,” Keith said. “My favorite part of the night was scamming on as much keg beer as I could possibly glug down. We played fraternity or sorority row and every house had some kind of thing raging. Directly across the street was a party with a country theme. They had all these bales of hay stacked randomly in the front yard. I went to go check it out and there’s this big, tall, blonde-haired surfer dude in a USC frat jacket who turned out to be Ricky Nelson’s son hanging out with Darby Crash.”

The presence of Darby Crash and Pat Smear of the Germs did not escape Brett’s attention. Brett, who idolized Darby, was astonished. “The first hardcore band that I ever saw and fell in love with was the Germs. It was distinctly separate from the punk I had been listening to. It was not the Buzzcocks or the Sex Pistols or the Ramones, who had this very accessible power pop sound, almost like it came from the fifties. The Germs were dark and felt more dangerous.”

The show signaled the start of a long association between Bad Religion and the Circle Jerks, with Bad Religion being one of what Keith Morris referred to as “baby brother bands.”

“The scenario with Bad Religion and the Circle Jerks,” Keith explained, “was that we appreciated each other’s music. There weren’t any assholes in the group. There were no dicks. Everybody was cool. We wanted to go to the party and bust the punk rock piñata. The situation was because of our friendship with Bad Religion they started playing shows with us.”

But that night at USC, Bad Religion learned that the Circle Jerks were going to be interviewed live on KROQ during Rodney Bingenheimer’s show, Rodney on the ROQ. Rodney was one of the few L.A. scenesters who was connected to the music business and understood the importance of punk rock. (Greg Shaw of Bomp! Records was another.) He was an eclectic figure who’d had his own nightclub in the early seventies called Rodney Bingenheimer’s English Disco. He ate lunch at the same Denny’s in Hollywood every day. People in the music industry would drop off records, and musicians would try to get an audience with the “Mayor of Sunset Strip.”

During his show he would often play music by local punk bands. For early enthusiasts it was the best way to find out about the latest music in the scene. Kids would record Rodney’s show and exchange the tapes with other punks at school. As strange as it sounds in today’s era of corporate commercial radio, in 1980 you could turn on Rodney on the ROQ and hear the Adolescents, the Circle Jerks, and the Germs. In fact, the Adolescents’ song “Amoeba” broke through into KROQ’s regular rotation and became an underground hit.

Brett understood Rodney’s importance to the scene. “He was a guy who prided himself on knowing who the cool new bands were because he went to shows. Rodney had a radio show that started at midnight. He’d play imports from England that we couldn’t get and local bands that were hard to find, but the bands would give him their tapes to play on the radio.”

Rodney’s show made Greg’s dream of making music seem more attainable. The music Rodney played on his show included crude demos. This sparked the realization that you didn’t have to be signed to a major label to get on the radio. All you had to do was do it.

For Ziskrout, Rodney’s radio show was a crucial link to the Hollywood punk scene. “In those days KROQ had a really weak signal. We were out in West San Fernando Valley and we couldn’t get KROQ at my house most of the time. I used to go to Brett’s house because he lived up on a hill. There were times when someone would have to hold up a wire so the signal would come in clearly.”

The Circle Jerks brought Bad Religion’s demo tape to the radio station. (Both Hetson and Lucky have taken credit for delivering the tape.) Keith introduced the band and Rodney played the song “Politics” on the radio. Even though Ziskrout was aware that it might happen, he wasn’t prepared for how he’d feel when it did. “The thrill of hearing yourself on the radio for the first time can’t be put into words. There’s nothing else like it.”

“Rodney really championed us. He liked the song. He felt we were good. That got us known because kids would tape the show. It was a way people could hear our songs before they were even on a record.”

Rodney’s listeners were enthusiastic about the new band from the San Fernando Valley. They wanted more, and Rodney gave it to them. “That was really the start of the band getting popular in L.A.,” Brett said. “Rodney really championed us. He liked the song. He felt we were good. That got us known because kids would tape the show. It was a way people could hear our songs before they were even on a record.”

[By year’s end] they’d made a popular demo, played some shows, and recorded an EP. They’d accomplished more in their first year than many bands manage in their entire careers. That two of their earliest shows were with Social Distortion and the Circle Jerks and attended by people like Darby Crash suggested they were well connected.

They weren’t. While punk was more popular than ever in L.A., there were very few places to play, so people would come out from all over greater Los Angeles and beyond to attend backyard parties and warehouse shows. On the flip side, punk bands were always looking for like-minded bands that were hungry to play and could be counted on to show up—even if it meant hauling their gear to someone’s house or a rented hall in Oxnard, East L.A., or San Pedro. That was Bad Religion.

“The scene was fairly small,” Jay said, “so you kept seeing the same people over and over again. You’d go to a show and watch a band play. You’d go to a show and you’d be the band playing.”

In those days, a punk kid who’d never set foot in Hollywood could go to a show and stand alongside one of his heroes. Of course, the feeling of admiration wasn’t always mutual. Jay’s first interaction with John Doe of X was when the bass guitar player gruffly said, “Move, kid.”

“He was probably twenty-one,” Jay recalled, “and I was fifteen. He probably thought I was ruining his scene, and he was right.”

The subculture distrusted outsiders and protected its own, even nerdy punks like Bad Religion. Going to a show where you didn’t know anyone and they didn’t know you could be dangerous.

One of the things about Bad Religion’s early shows that stood out to the band members was how many kids knew the words to their songs—and their EP hadn’t even been released yet. When people in the audience sang along with the band at their shows, it made them realize that this weird thing they did together after school in Greg’s mom’s garage had made an impact beyond their immediate circle of friends. It also reinforced the idea that what they were doing was important and had value. The realization slowly took hold that perhaps these kids memorized their lyrics because they had something meaningful to say.

With an audience made up of their heroes and peers, Jay found it hard not to be critical of his performance. “I remember always thinking, That was a good song. That was a good one. Oh, that one sucked.”

Jay wasn’t the only one who struggled with nerves. Brett also admitted to feeling uneasy onstage but credits Greg’s charisma for winning over the crowd. “I feel like Greg was a real performer from the get-go, and I think that was a big part of Bad Religion’s success. A charismatic singer is very important to a punk band, and Greg was always a great performer while I didn’t feel like I was until many years later.”

Greg may have appeared confident, but inside he was just as nervous as everyone else. “It was really nerve-wracking but I had a lot of confidence in the music. My view was, We’re all in this together, so I’ll do my part, but if I’d been up there alone I’d be shitting bricks. And I’ve felt that every concert since. A big part of my confidence comes from the guys behind me.”

It also didn’t hurt that the three performers standing at the front of the stage were all well over six feet tall. With his dyed hair, motorcycle boots, and leather jacket Greg looked the part of a punk rock front man. Brett stayed out of the spotlight but exuded a don’t-fuck-with-me aura. While Jay, the tallest member of the group at six foot four, focused on his guitar, his face a mask of intense concentration.

Brett, who was always a self-described “nerdy kid,” was surprised to learn that simply being in a band deterred people from starting trouble with him. “I remember when we were starting to get popular, more than once tough punk kids would be very menacing to me. Then someone would say, ‘Aren’t you in Bad Religion?’” When Brett told the aggressor he was, that usually ended it.

The subculture distrusted outsiders and protected its own, even nerdy punks like Bad Religion. Going to a show where you didn’t know anyone and they didn’t know you could be dangerous. For Brett, encounters like these were part of his punk initiation. “What attracted me to the punk scene was it felt like a tribe of outsiders. I felt like a person who chronically didn’t fit in. So, joining the punk scene was a way of making that a choice rather than having it inflicted on me.”

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Each of the members of Bad Religion had attended punk rock shows and had witnessed things that were difficult to understand or even explain. That’s how the media was able to hijack punk and advertise it as a violent free-for-all that attracted people who were drawn to such behavior. It was violent, at times shamefully so.

At the first punk rock show that Jay attended, Black Flag and the Circle Jerks at the Hideaway, someone crashed a car into the warehouse where the show was being held and drove through the gate. Brett recalled a show attended by Jack Grisham of T.S.O.L. who brought a friend whom Jack kept on the end of a leash. Jack would introduce his friend to strangers and tell them they had to fight his “dog.” If they declined, they had to fight Jack, who stood six foot five and reveled in violence. For Jay, the early Bad Religion shows were “exciting and terrifying and cathartic.” Punk bands whipped the crowd into a frenzy, and when the audience gave that energy back, unpredictable things happened. Bad Religion tapped into that energy in places that were unsanctioned, unsupervised, and unsafe.

Many if not most punk rockers used drugs and alcohol to rise to the occasion and/or deal with the emotions the experience generated. For some punk bands, like the Circle Jerks, the party was their whole reason for being. But Bad Religion wasn’t a party band, nor where they interested in writing confrontational lyrics for the sake of being obnoxious. They had a higher purpose in mind.

“There’s a reason we called ourselves Bad Religion,” Brett explained. “Greg and I were attempting to be intellectuals. On our debut EP I wrote a song called ‘Oligarchy’ and Greg wrote a song called ‘Politics.’ We weren’t writing joke punk or funny punk. We were teenagers, still naive and quite immature, but we were trying.”

For all their intelligence, there was no getting around the fact that they were suburban kids who didn’t know what they were doing or what they were getting into. As fans, they were outsiders, but participating as performers didn’t make things any less baffling.

“I felt like we were in an adult world that we didn’t understand,” Jay explained. “There were other people dealing with the business side of things that I didn’t want to know about. I just wanted to play and leave. It wasn’t business and it wasn’t a party.

There was this feeling that this was important without knowing why. Maybe that was just youth and not having a grasp on things, but the party thing wasn’t really for me. I think part of that was from our discussions in Greg’s garage: ‘What do we want to be as a band? What do we want to say? How do we want to present ourselves?’ I don’t know what other bands talk about when they’re forming. I just know that we had that discussion. We didn’t want to just be up there screaming, ‘Fuck the cops!’ or ‘I hate my parents!’ There had to be something more meaningful than that. That was how we felt about the band. It wasn’t a vehicle for drugs. It wasn’t a vehicle for money. It was a vehicle for us to say the things that we felt. That was more important than anything else.”

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ericfruits · 6 years ago

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Chile may bring back selection in schools

THE BUILDING is grimy, with the odd broken window pane. Despite its scruffy appearance the Instituto Nacional, an inner-city secondary school for boys, is Chile’s most prestigious high school. Founded in 1813, it has educated 17 presidents and dozens of prominent artists and scientists. It helps bright children from poor families enter the best universities. Many commute long distances to get to the school in central Santiago.

Its future, and that of a score of other “emblematic” schools (especially choosy grammar schools) is under threat. Policies brought in by the country’s previous president, the left-leaning Michelle Bachelet, do not allow such schools to select more than 30% of their pupils on academic merit. The rule takes effect in Santiago this year. Fernando Soto, the Instituto Nacional’s rector, says its “academic excellence” will be put in doubt “if children are admitted with no interest in studying”. Sylvia Eyzaguirre, an education specialist at the liberal Centre for Public Studies, says that the law “is destroying selective state schools”.

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Sebastián Piñera, Chile’s current centre-right president, wants to avoid that. He has introduced two bills that would partially undo Ms Bachelet’s reforms. The first would allow some 300 high-achieving schools, including the emblematics, to select pupils on academic merit. Of those, half would have to come from hard-up families. The measure would apply to 10% of high schools. A second bill would allow all other non-private schools to choose 30% of pupils to suit their educational programmes, which may include goals other than academic achievement. This “fair admission” policy will reward merit and hard work, the government claims.

Academic elitism is a fraught subject in Chile. The school system is stratified. Graduates of the poshest schools, like The Grange, are as visible at the top of society as are Old Etonians in Britain. Two-thirds of private-school students who sit the university entrance exam get into one of the main universities. But just a third of those from state-supported independent schools, for which parents usually pay top-up fees, make the grade. For state-school students the success rate is just a fifth. In 2016, 18% of students admitted to the two best universities—Chile and Católica—came from state schools, which have 37% of enrolment. Of these, over half came from 19 emblematic schools. Run by local governments, they have been the main non-fee-paying route to good universities

Chileans on the left have long demanded more equality in education. Among the loudest agitators were pupils at emblematic schools, which hurt the schools themselves. Months-long occupations of school buildings since 2011 caused enrolment and performance to fall. Instituto Nacional lost its place among the 20 best schools, as measured by the performance of their students in university entrance exams. In 2018 it ranked 78th.

The pupils won, but at a further cost to their schools. Ms Bachelet imposed the cap on emblematic schools’ ability to select based on merit as part of her quest to make the education system more equal. (She also vowed to raise standards.) Other reforms included eliminating selection for most other schools, phasing out top-up fees at independent ones and providing more money for poor pupils and teacher training. The early signs are that the new system is increasing socio-economic diversity within schools, says Ms Eyzaguirre.

But it has taken effect slowly. And parents are keener on selection than the reformers are. According to a recent poll by Cadem, 63% of Chileans are in favour of merit-based selection; 79% prefer it to “random” selection. Most Chileans are proud of emblematic schools.

This ought to help Mr Piñera bring back some selection, but he faces a fight. His coalition lacks a majority in congress. “It’s difficult to create inclusion if you keep the practices underlying segregation,” says Miguel Crispi, a deputy for the left-leaning Frente Amplio alliance, who advised Ms Bachelet on her education reforms. Legislators like him will probably doom Mr Piñera’s plan to reintroduce an element of selection for all schools. Some have a soft spot for emblematic schools. This gives the bill aimed at the 300 high-performing schools a fighting chance. If it works, Instituto Nacional’s glory days could return.

This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline "Picking pupils"

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comedianstalkingbaseball · 6 years ago

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Your Sunday Baseball Update (1 of 27)

Welcome. It’s Opening Week in the 2019 baseball season and there’s plenty to get excited about. It’s still only March. A lot of the games are freezing. But there are projections a-plenty, so we might as well talk about who’s supposed to be good and the early developments in this young season. Let’s start with the AL East.

AL East.

Every reputable projections model has the Yankees winning the division with 96-97 wins. But I feel like that’s how it looked last year as well. Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton have elite projections, as do Luis Severino and newcomer, James Paxton.

The Red Sox look just slightly off the pace with Mookie Betts generally seen as the second-best player in baseball and Chris Sale as (at least) the best pitcher in the American League. His projections would make him a landslide Cy Young favorite.

Every model I’ve seen also has the Rays in the second Wild Card with Blake Snell and (to a certain extent) Charlie Morton putting up elite starting numbers.

For the rest of the division, there is some excitement over Vladimir Guerrero Jr. in Toronto, but the Orioles are probably going to be terrible.

The Story So Far: Sale was horrible in his first start (3 IP, 21.00 ERA). The Sox starters have struggled. And the Blue Jays have the best pitching in baseball. After 3 games, playing the Tigers, but I gotta talk about something.

AL Central.

The Indians are heavy favorites yet again (93-97 wins) with a seemingly all-elite staff including Corey Kluber, Carlos Carrasco and Trevor Bauer. Plus, they have two of the best position players in baseball in Jose Ramirez and Francisco Lindor.

I feel like the Twins (82-86 wins) have been a trendy pick to win the division, but the rest of the Central looks lousy.

The Story So Far: Lindor is out indefinitely with an ankle injury. So maybe that trendy Twins pick just got trendier. Plus, nobody in the American League had a better opening week than Jose Berrios (7.2 IP, 0 ER, 10K). The Twins have the second-best pitching in baseball early on. But they probably need to score some runs. The Royals (2-0) are still undefeated.

AL West.

Everyone is taking the Astros (96-98 wins) yet again. Alex Bregman is projecting MVP-like numbers, while Jose Altuve isn’t far behind. And Justin Verlander and Gerrit Cole look like Cy Young candidates.

The rest of the division includes Mike Trout, who everyone agrees is the best player in baseball. He also just got that huge contract. So it would be nice for the game if the Angels could get into the mix in October.

The Story So Far: Ichiro had a great send-off at the Tokyo Dome in two games from two weeks ago that totally counted in the standings even though I’m not sure even the sportswriters are sure how to handle since everyone packed up and went back to Spring Training. But the Mariners have started hot. They lead the Majors in runs scored. Tim Beckham lit up Chris Sale and is my first week A.L. MVP. Enjoy it while it lasts, Seattle.

NL East.

The Nationals (86-90 wins) still seem to be the consensus, slight favorite in the East. Even without Bryce Harper in the mix. Every reputable model has them at least tied for first in the division. Juan Soto and Anthony Rendon have elite projections. Max Scherzer is seen as the 2nd-best pitcher in the league. And the rotation also has Stephen Strasburg and newcomer, Patrick Corbin, who are also Cy Young candidates on paper.

The Phillies (84-89 wins) also look like a playoff team in almost every projection. Bryce Harper was their prize pickup in the offseason. Aaron Nola is also elite.

The Mets (85-87 wins) are also a playoff pick in every projection model. Jacob deGrom is seen as (at least) the best pitcher in the National League. And Noah Syndergaard isn’t far behind. Edwin Diaz is also seen as a huge pickup in the bullpen.

The rest of the division has a Braves team (with Freddie Freeman and Ronald Acuna Jr.) that could compete at 79-85 wins. And the (rebranded) Marlins are going to be awful.

The Story So Far: deGrom and Scherzer went head-to-head on Opening Day, and deGrom came out victorious. And with 6 IP, 0 ER and 10 K, he’s my Opening Week N.L. Cy Young. So the question remains whether he is officially the best pitcher in baseball. Bill James’ pitcher rankings (which I love) still has Scherzer at 1, deGrom at 2 with Justin Verlander, Chris Sale and Corey Kluber rounding out the top 5. Robinson Cano homered off Scherzer in his first AB with the Mets or we might be having a different conversation. The Nats are winless (0-2) thus far without Harper. I feel like Victor Robles has made a lot of mistakes early on. And Mets fans apparently chanted, “Where is Harper?” during the game.

Harper seems like he’s having fun in Philly. He has the #1-selling jersey in baseball (dethroning Aaron Judge). He wore Phanatic spikes on Opening Day. Then the Phanatic wore Harper spikes the following day. He hit his first home run and got a curtain call after going hitless his first game. He got walked before Rhys Hoskins delivered a grand slam. Andrew McCutchen also homered on Opening Day. Even though Maikel Franco has probably been the player to watch early on. Which all means that the Braves pitching has also been pretty terrible.

NL Central.

The Cardinals (83-86 wins) seem to be the consensus favorite in the projection models. Although the Central is all over the place.

The Brewers (80-88 wins) would probably be the #2 choice in the power rankings. Christian Yelich is seen as the best player in the National League and an MVP favorite in two of the 5 projection models I’ve seen.

The Cubs (80-87 wins) start the season as the seeming #3 choice, which rubs me the wrong way. Even though FanGraphs has them winning the division. Kris Bryant is also an MVP favorite in two of the 5 projection models.

The rest of the division seems tough, with the Reds (77-81 wins) and the Pirates (78-80 wins) rounding it out. Joey Votto and Chris Archer have some elite projections in there as well.

The Story So Far: Lorenzo Cain had a walk-off catch on Opening Day. Christian Yelich has stayed red hot. And that might make up for Corey Knebel being lost for the season. Yikes.

After a lackluster debut for the Cardinals, Paul Goldschmidt homered three times in his second game before being walked in his attempt at #4. Kolten Wong has also been hot for the Cardinals. Javy Baez hit two home runs on Opening Day for the Cubs, so he’s coming into the season with a ton of confidence. Just in case anyone forgot about him. But Yu Darvish was fucking horrible (he walked 7 of his first 13 batters) in his season debut against the Rangers.

NL West

The Dodgers (92-95 wins) are heavy favorites again in the West. Justin Turner has some elite projections, as do Clayton Kershaw and Walker Buehler.

The Rockies (79-85 wins) may be competitive and Nolan Arenado is projected as an MVP in one of the models I’ve seen. The Padres (74-81 wins) might be a sleeper. I’ve already received a ‘hot take’ text message predicting the Padres to win the West, so take that with a grain of salt. Garrett Richards and Chris Paddack have some pretty impressive projections in that rotation. And it looks like the Giants and Diamondbacks are going to be bad.

The Story So Far: The Dodgers hit 8 home runs on Opening Day, which is a record. Zack Greinke (3.2 IP, 17.18 ERA) was horrible. Joc Pederson is my Opening Week N.L. MVP, edging out teammate, Austin Barnes. So maybe they’ll be fine without Kershaw or Rich Hill in the early season.

Things sure seem to feel different in San Diego. Maybe that’s just the excitement of the Manny Machado signing. Or the debut of Fernando Tatis Jr. But they went over .500 for the first time since 2015, which is insane. But I also read a story about Machado finding a woman’s wallet at Target and then tracking her down on Instagram. And there’s so many things about that sentence that are incredible.

Alright. We’ve only just begun. I’ll keep a tab of the current projections as we go. But here’s how they stand as of 3/31.

PECOTA: Yankees, Indians, Astros. Red Sox, Rays.// Phillies/Nationals, Brewers/Cardinals, Dodgers. Mets.

Davenport: Yankees, Indians, Astros. Red Sox, Rays. //Mets/Nationals, Cardinals, Dodgers. Phillies.

FanGraphs: Yankees, Indians, Astros. Red Sox, Rays. //Nationals, Cubs, Dodgers. Phillies, Mets.

FiveThirtyEight: Yankees, Indians, Astros. Red Sox, Rays. //Nationals, Brewers, Dodgers. Mets, Phillies.

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