Paul Daugherty: Three-dot lounge returns

Sunday, January 20, 2008

Three-dot lounge returns

Reds acquire J. Affeldt. They're firmly committed to contending in 2009... likely starter has 5.41 ERA lifetime, in 42 starts...

Why sign B. Phillips long term? Nothing personal. Love BP, wrote last July he should be the face of the organization. But arbitration offers some cost control for 3 years. Why give it away when you don't have to? It's business. Keep him hungry, motivated... if he's the player everyone believes, he'll get his...

Amazing the progress UC basketball has made in a year... the patience yesterday of D. Vaughn, the stability of J. Warren, the overall confidence of the players. If M. Cronin gets them to the NIT, it's one of the better turnarounds in college basketball memory...

Why do we spend so much time taking XU basketball's emotional temperature? You're big time, OK? Play that way. Some swagger would be good, rather than the daily How-is-Stanley's-psyche...

Golf Show today, late afternoon. They slash prices, because they'd rather sell cheap than pack it all up again.

Since I'm cheap, this is music to my ears.

23 Comments:

at 10:44 AM

Anonymous said...

Paul - I asked what 3 dot lounge meant last year, you answered, and I still don't understand what it means. I'm a smart man too. Please explain again!

at 11:09 AM

Anonymous said...

Good for UC basketball.

I still won't spend a dime to support the University until Zimpher is GONE.

I don't give money to people who insult my degree.

at 11:42 AM

Paul Daugherty said...

Hey, 10:44: short, quick, occasionally irrational opinions, followed by, um, 3 dots...

at 12:17 PM

Unknown said...

"They're firmly committed to contending in 2009... likely starter has 5.41 ERA lifetime, in 42 starts..."

Heck, Diego Segui was just on here a couple days ago and he has a 3.81 lifetime ERA. Why don't the Reds sign him up? It even sounds like he is local...

at 6:41 PM

Anonymous said...

10:44, 3 dot explanation? Paul left out the part about the 3-5 Keystone Lights it takes to make sense. Try that.

at 6:46 PM

Anonymous said...

Thumbs up on UC! Cronin isn't a "star" but, I believe, the guy can flat coach and we know he can recruit.
And he doesn't drive drunk, to my knowledge.
Can't wait to see the hand shake after Huggie loses to him, next year if not this year.

at 6:49 PM

Anonymous said...

Unfair post, Daugherty. J. Affeldt had an approx 3.5 ERA as a reliever last year.

I'm sure the bullpen couldn't use any improvement since we got a big name. Right? And, if Affeldt doesn't work as a starter (if they even try him as a starter), the bullpen is needy.

Young pitchers getting their first year-long taste of full games in a full season could use a solid bullpen.

Perhaps....(4 dots)....someone's thinking of backing up the young arms.

In my mind, the decisions I'm seeing so far seem to revolve around getting one, two, or more of the youngbloods into the big leagues.

at 7:17 PM

Anonymous said...

1109 - Zimpher is not going anyplace. Zimpher was part of pulling in one of the largest donations ever to an institution of higher learning with a 421 million dollar in-kind donation from PACE. She isn't going to be fired.

Get used to her. She might get hired by some other university, though. But, the truth is that the 500 million donation is pretty impressive. (http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:wElS3PWKymIJ:news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article%3FAID%3D/20071018/NEWS0102/710180378/1058/NEWS0103+zimpher+cincinnati+donation+enquirer+billion&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=4&gl=us)

You might as well return to loving your Bearcats. They seem to be improving. Erratic, but they are improving.

at 8:41 PM

Anonymous said...

Zimpher hired the AD that got us our basketball coach and our football coach, both of which have done a pretty good job I think. I think UC athletics are in a better spot now then they were before she got here.

at 9:48 PM

Anonymous said...

Zimpher is not going anyplace.

Too bad! I've got too much self-respect than to give money to someone who thinks so little of the alumni.

She's 62...she can't last that much longer...Steger retired at 66.

I think I'll keep my self-respect and hold out a few more years.

The Cats will be there when I come back to support the University.

Till then...have fun massaging her ego!

at 12:23 AM

Anonymous said...

Uh, Paul, under your present usage of the elipses, it's actually four dots. You're using sentence structure, so the first dot is to close the sentence. Then, the three dots (elipses) is for extending to the next thought. Three dots is for a pause . . . ah-ah-chew . . . in the middle of the sentence.

A mere technicality. . . .

signed,
Copy Desk

:)

at 9:43 AM

Anonymous said...

I get a kick out of people who hold a grudge against someone, especially someone they don't know. Life's too short.

I was a huge Huggins fan but I was sure he had just as much to do with the Zimpher situation as she did. Then when he left KSU after only one year...let's just say that move had no class, regardless of whether it's your hometown or not.

Those of you who are still willing to hate UC basketball now because of Zimpher, get a life. You're being stubborn just to be stubborn, and I imagine a little sexist too.

at 2:57 PM

Anonymous said...

Matt says "he gets a kick out of people who hold a grudge against someone, especially some one they don't know".....

Then proceeds to tell me that I'm "stubborn, just to be stubborn, and I imagine a little sexist too."

I get a kick out of people who judge me, when they don't know me.

at 10:07 PM

Anonymous said...

Those of you who are still willing to hate UC basketball now because of Zimpher, get a life. You're being stubborn just to be stubborn, and I imagine a little sexist too.

I don't hate UC basketball...I just can't support the institution who keeps as their president someone who told the world my degree wasn't worth the paper it was written on.

It was just one of many offensive statements made regarding the alumni. Anyone that impolitic has told me all they need to regarding their character. End of story. (Incidentally...I HAVE met her and members of her administration...and she's just as arrogant as those statements indicate).

I wish UC basketball all the luck in the world...they'll be around when I come back...unless Nancy is still president of UC when she's 150 (I don't think she'll last that long).

Until then...I'll keep my self-respect, thank you very much.

at 11:59 PM

jray1 said...

I've read the articles regarding Zimpher's supposed denigration of our degrees, and her quotes are seriously being taken out of context. Further, I find disturbing the implication that the hiring/firing activities within the athletic department might have any bearing on the value of my education. Bob Huggins did not teach any of my classes, nor do I recall seeing the publication of any serious research material claiming his authorship.

When Huggins was fired, my only wish was that UC would give Coach Kennedy a contract after his interim season. I begrudge Mick Cronin nothing and hope he continues to improve the program, but Andy Kennedy is a great coach and Ole Miss is lucky to have him.

at 10:03 AM

Anonymous said...

As for the 421 million dollar in-kind donation. It is just that.. in-kind. GM gave us free software that we dont even use and valued it at $421 million. Sweet.

at 1:54 PM

Unknown said...

10:03, if there's shenanigans with the 421 million that made major headlines, then here's your chance to get rid of Zimpher.

All you have to do is expose an over-valued, useless software scam.

I'm sure there are prosecutors and agents just chomping to make their names on something like that.

I'm surprised they haven't already jumped on it, seeing it was headlines and all.

But it's probably a conspiracy and all the proof is in Area 51. Right?

/sarc

at 5:03 PM

Anonymous said...

I just can't support the institution who keeps as their president someone who told the world my degree wasn't worth the paper it was written on.

She didn't say the degree was worthless, she said "This adds value" to the degree. If I remodel my kitchen, it "adds value" to my home, if I put in a swimming pool, it "adds value" to my home. That doesn't mean my home was worthless before, and if you think it does, you should take an intro course in logic.

at 7:14 PM

Anonymous said...

Paul,

Why not give Phillips a 4 or 5 year extension. That gives the Red's more cost control then arbitration. They will know exactly what they are paying him, and it would be a deal like Harang's or Arroyo's. The Red's pay him a little more then he would make over the next couple of years, and he gives the Red's a couple of years past arbitration at less then the market rate. It gives the Red's cost certainty and it gives Phillips some security.

at 7:44 PM

Anonymous said...

All good stuff bloggers but THE QUESTION reamins: Did Daugherty buy a 460cc driver with adjustable weights that can cure a wiffed drive???

at 4:02 PM

Anonymous said...

She didn't say the degree was worthless, she said "This adds value" to the degree.

I'll have to do the heavy lifting for the rest of the blog on this-- to knock down a shill you have to find the reference, but I've found the first of many with one of several money quotes. First, here's the link:
http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/a...50397/1064

Second, here's the first of many denigrating quotes from Nancy's mouth regarding degrees pre-Z:

"Q: You say you're trying to increase the equity of a UC degree. Is that a knock on people who've graduated from UC in the past?

A: Actually, it's just the opposite. I've been with a number of alums, and it was those alums that propelled my own thinking about our need to be the best we really can be, because these people want to be proud of their degree. The university ought to keep moving in a forward direction. That's what our alums want."

There is a clear implication here that a degree prior to UC|21 was worth less in terms of "brand equity" than after her plan is implemented. This is just the first of many quotes of this type. I'll have to dig for another particularly annoying one along the lines of "former UC grads will be able to hold their heads up, look someone in the eye, and say: I am proud to be a UC graduate". That was the one that really cheesed me off. I hold 2 degrees from UC (all pre-Z) and worked very hard for them. I feel they have had extensive value in my pursuit of a livelihood, and I was very proud to have earned them at the time. This was a really offensive comment.

You should take an intro course in logic.

You should take a course in effective information synthesis

at 7:57 PM

Anonymous said...

Not to denigrate anyone's work at UC, but as someone who came from elsewhere, a UC degree just doesn't register high on the scale. My daughter went to Kentucky (soccer scholarship) and the same is true for UK.
Kentucky's leader is doing the same as Nancy Z, being upfront about the need to upgrade the program's worth/value.
No offense intended.

at 3:28 PM

Anonymous said...

No offense intended.

Offense taken...Nancy.

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Three-dot lounge returns

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