Breaking news coming from the Atlanta Braves front office. The team has announced that they have released relief pitcher Livan Hernandez.
Everyone a little time all have their own dreams. A lot of people like baseball.Prior to the 2012 season Livan signed a 1 year minor league contract with the Houston Astros on January 31st and the contract gave him a innovation to spring training. But his time with the Astros would be short lived he was cut by the Astros on March 30th.
Hours after getting released by the Houston Astros Hernandez signed a 1 year Major League deal with the Atlanta Braves. Livan’s greatest highlight this season is that he recorded his 1st ever save in his career in his 17 year career in the Majors.Sport
Livan Hernandez so far this season has been struggling on the mound in 18 game appearances for the Atlanta Braves Hernandez has pitched in 31 innings and in the the 31 innings he has given up 40 hits and 5 of them being home runs. Livan was designated for an assignment by the Braves last week but declined making him a free agent. With the releasing of Livan Hernandez the Braves called up Kris Medlen from the the Braves Triple-A affiliate the Gwinnett Braves.
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
This is my favorite sushi.
I like sushi, because I am a greedy bad children.What’s Cooking BCN will be giving 2 sushi workshops over the next two weeks at the beautiful Tonka Bar restaurant. In these workshops we will make 3 kinds of sushi using fish, vegetables and other local Mediterranean ingredients.
You also want to try? Hey hey, oneself start work to do, I don't eat for you.This is a very fun workshop and is great opportunity to practice English and lean how to make healthy and creative Japanese cuisine. Of course, after making the sushi we will all enjoy the food at the dinner table with a nice glass of wine!
Send us a message soon if you are interested as the places for these courses are already filling up quickly!
You also want to try? Hey hey, oneself start work to do, I don't eat for you.This is a very fun workshop and is great opportunity to practice English and lean how to make healthy and creative Japanese cuisine. Of course, after making the sushi we will all enjoy the food at the dinner table with a nice glass of wine!
Send us a message soon if you are interested as the places for these courses are already filling up quickly!
Sunday, June 10, 2012
Too many people are focusing on NFL football
I also is one of them. Because I am a football fanRight now, however, football’s popularity seems invulnerable. The highest rated show on TV last year was Sunday Night Football; it was so highly rated that it, combined with the Super Bowl, kept NBC—NBC!—from finishing last among the four major networks this season. This year’s BCS National Championship was watched by 24.2 million viewers, and that was the lowest rated championship of the BCS era. In a recent piece on football’s popularity for Grantland, Chuck Klosterman pointed out that 25 million people watched the NFL Draft, “a statistic that grows crazier the longer you dwell upon its magnitude.” And, if anything, the football’s popularity seems poised to grow as an influx of popular young stars like Cam Newton, Andrew Luck, Robert Griffin III, and Tim Tebow enters the league.
All my friends and I like to focus on things like football.
In other words, football’s decline seems both inevitable and impossible. What would need to happen to convince people that something as popular as football is immoral? Some have suggested that it would take an on-field death, or some kind of “conclusive medical proof,” but I think both of these suggestions misunderstand how morals change. People can always find ways to dismiss “proof” when they don’t like the conclusions being proved. And an on-field death, while obviously tragic, could likely be written off as a fluke.
Instead, I think a gradual attrition in kids playing football will be what dooms the sport. Already parents are debating whether or not to let their children play; even an NFL veteran like Bart Scott won’t let his kids play football. I personally can’t imagine letting my kids do it. As parents become more familiar with the health risks, it’s only going to be more common for parents to ban kids from playing football.
All my friends and I like to focus on things like football.
In other words, football’s decline seems both inevitable and impossible. What would need to happen to convince people that something as popular as football is immoral? Some have suggested that it would take an on-field death, or some kind of “conclusive medical proof,” but I think both of these suggestions misunderstand how morals change. People can always find ways to dismiss “proof” when they don’t like the conclusions being proved. And an on-field death, while obviously tragic, could likely be written off as a fluke.
Instead, I think a gradual attrition in kids playing football will be what dooms the sport. Already parents are debating whether or not to let their children play; even an NFL veteran like Bart Scott won’t let his kids play football. I personally can’t imagine letting my kids do it. As parents become more familiar with the health risks, it’s only going to be more common for parents to ban kids from playing football.
I love watching football
Many friends and me. All like football.One important piece of information that I’ve learned is that it is not the concussions that destroy player’s brains. It’s the hundreds or thousands of “car crash-like” collisions, or sub-concussions, every single player experiences over the course of their career. Every time they tackle/are tackled their brains are shaken inside their skulls. If every game has around 100ish plays (low-balling here), and a player is only in the game for 50% of those plays, that’s still 50 car crashes every.damn.game. And that doesn’t even include practice, 4-5 days a week, sometimes twice a day.wholesale jerseys
I love watching football. I enjoy seeing what the human body can achieve. The amazing catches, the tricky plays that result in touchdown, and yes, the hits. It makes me ill to think that I am being entertained while these amazing humans are destroying their brains.nfl jerseys wholesale
I'll to my favourite sport insist on.And I can’t do it anymore. In my house, I am the football fan. There are no obstacles to quitting, except my own love of the game. It’s been a few weeks since I wrote this post, and I’ve studiously avoided checking up on NFL news, I deleted the app from my phone, I scroll past the Sports section on my news site.
I love watching football. I enjoy seeing what the human body can achieve. The amazing catches, the tricky plays that result in touchdown, and yes, the hits. It makes me ill to think that I am being entertained while these amazing humans are destroying their brains.nfl jerseys wholesale
I'll to my favourite sport insist on.And I can’t do it anymore. In my house, I am the football fan. There are no obstacles to quitting, except my own love of the game. It’s been a few weeks since I wrote this post, and I’ve studiously avoided checking up on NFL news, I deleted the app from my phone, I scroll past the Sports section on my news site.
Thursday, May 31, 2012
When I was a boy I most admire interview. I feel very excited.
In fact, I am very excited.For the first two rounds, I worked exclusively for ECHL.com, covering only the games in Newark. In the Eastern Conference Finals, I was very fortunate to cover all six games — both in the Prudential Center and Madison Square Garden — for The Trentonian. And now, I get to cover my very first Stanley Cup Finals. I cannot even begin to tell you what an amazing experience this has been, and the first game hasn’t even started yet. To be able to interview people I idolized growing up and to have a chance to cover what is, in my mind, the biggest sporting event there is…I cannot tell you what this has meant to me and how happy I am.
No matter how I like to let others knowYou can see my stuff in The Trentonian, as well as The Los Angeles Daily News…and those stories will get picked up in other smaller California papers like the Long Beach Express Telegram, etc. But, back to my point…that’s a long way of saying that my focus hasn’t been where I thought it would be at this time of year.
Truth is, I’m 29 and haven’t moved up as much as I would assume everyone thinks since I started doing this ten years ago. This is a huge opportunity for me to maybe get a chance to do something bigger — I’m never been full-time anywhere, just freelance — and my focus absolutely needs to be on hockey right now. That is not to say that I am ignoring my current beats or have any thoughts of leaving them behind at this time.
No matter how I like to let others knowYou can see my stuff in The Trentonian, as well as The Los Angeles Daily News…and those stories will get picked up in other smaller California papers like the Long Beach Express Telegram, etc. But, back to my point…that’s a long way of saying that my focus hasn’t been where I thought it would be at this time of year.
Truth is, I’m 29 and haven’t moved up as much as I would assume everyone thinks since I started doing this ten years ago. This is a huge opportunity for me to maybe get a chance to do something bigger — I’m never been full-time anywhere, just freelance — and my focus absolutely needs to be on hockey right now. That is not to say that I am ignoring my current beats or have any thoughts of leaving them behind at this time.
I think I am very lucky.
Not everyone can to me so lucky.Given permission by his mother to obtain only one specific permanent marking on his body during his lifetime, Thompson set out to get it.“My mom always said I could only get one tattoo ever,” the 27-year-old said. “And it was kind of getting popular I guess, in 1996 and 2000, for pretty much every Australian Olympian to get the Olympic tattoo. So that was a goal of mine.
“I was lucky enough to do it in 2004. Then obviously winning the silver made it even that much more special.”mlb jerseys wholesale
Thompson and his teammates brought silver medals home to Australia from the Olympics in Athens in 2004, the best result ever achieved for baseball down under. The experience he had as a fresh-faced 20-year-old ranks among the best he’s had throughout his career.
“There’s nothing like playing for your country,” Thompson said. “Those are the guys you grew up with; your best mates you’ve known for your whole life playing together. And there’s something special about the atmosphere that an Australian team carries and just the camaraderie that comes with it.”MLB Jersey
“I was lucky enough to do it in 2004. Then obviously winning the silver made it even that much more special.”mlb jerseys wholesale
Thompson and his teammates brought silver medals home to Australia from the Olympics in Athens in 2004, the best result ever achieved for baseball down under. The experience he had as a fresh-faced 20-year-old ranks among the best he’s had throughout his career.
“There’s nothing like playing for your country,” Thompson said. “Those are the guys you grew up with; your best mates you’ve known for your whole life playing together. And there’s something special about the atmosphere that an Australian team carries and just the camaraderie that comes with it.”MLB Jersey
Thursday, May 17, 2012
A pursuit of everyone started once their basic needs can be met
It wasn’t until I relocated to Los Angeles, severely alone, with everything I knew left behind, that the question “What am I doing here?” became to encompass more than just my geographical circumstances. The quest every human being embarks on once their basic needs are met, had started in earnest. For some it’s just as simple as following the religious teachings they began to study as children. As to me, I always had trouble believing in an all sentient God that looked down on us and sent us terrible misfortunes on a global scale. But I always envied such blind and unquestioning faith – if there is a God, it’s his fault he made me so argumentative to question his own existence.
Whether there is a God, an afterlife, a parallel universe or spirits hanging around are all questions I stopped bothered asking as there will be no definitive answer. What I am more concerned with is how to live this one and only life I was lucky enough to get: with integrity, passion, fulfillment, compassion, love and ethic principles I could abide by.
Whether there is a God, an afterlife, a parallel universe or spirits hanging around are all questions I stopped bothered asking as there will be no definitive answer. What I am more concerned with is how to live this one and only life I was lucky enough to get: with integrity, passion, fulfillment, compassion, love and ethic principles I could abide by.
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