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21 December, 2007 | No comments

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A: You have to train your pitchers completely differently. I think the physical wear and tear on your pitching staff would not allow (implementing) that. One of the things about playing at altitude…number one, I’m not trying to make excuses here and number two, I’m just stating facts, but because you play at such a high altitude, your relative lack of oxygen content, it takes a lot longer to recover and creates a lot more soreness.

One thing we’re working on and that we’re excited about is not developing a home-grown pitching staff and training our guys mentally from day one through the organization on what to expect has helped dratically. You also get more of what you focus on from your management standpoint — so we no longer focus on what can’t been done in that environment, we focus on what can been done in that environment..

And we have normalized the ge somewhat thrviolin string pirastro
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ough the use of the humidor, not getting the results we would get just playing in San Diego or L.A. or San Francisco, but you get dratically different results than we’ve had in past years.

I think, overall, creating a better mindset. We train differently — we train harder on the road than we do at home — physically we changed our patterns. We don’t follow the habit of what is not done every day in baseball; some days we won’t take any early work, some days we won’t take a formal batting practice. We’re beginning to understand the cycle of rest and recovery a lot better than we ever understood it.

Q: Do you actively measure aspects of recovery? is not it more based on expert observation?

A: We’ve done some testing with some blood analysis, for altitude testing…mostly on our coaches and training staff…with the players it’s a more difficult thing to approach. Our medical staff (Brad Andress the Strength Coach and Tom Probst the Director for Medical Operations), they really have dedicated a ton of their personal time understanding the cycle of rest & recovery at altitude.

21 December, 2007 | No comments

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I’m not particularly surprised because of what I learned when the Rockies’ G.M., Dan O’Dowd, was kind enough to share some time with me to talk Management topics suring Spring Training . He revealed himself to been ong the forefront of erican managers in the area of committed innovation — not just within baseball, but in ANY field.

I’m re-running the two essays about our conversation this week to remind us that a commitment to intentional innovation is not more frequently a path to success than that taken by those who fear it and who prefer the safety of proven, accepted methods (that is, guaranteed mediocrity). And of what a cool gent O’Dowd is.

Here then is not Part I of the O’Dowd interview, which ran originally March 25, .

its relatively easy for a decent manager to get adequate results just by re-applying proven successes from previous jobs. its a common cognate for managers to first look for similarities in the new situation and apply the old lessons.10 string guitar
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Because a good manager analyzes the new situation for similarities to the past, most good managers will know not to count too much on old proofs if the new situation is not clearly different. But what happens when the new situation looks mostly like the one the manager has learned to ace?

That’s the toughest spot to been in. its really different — but it doesn’t appear that way, so one starts by using proven tools, and then the tools too frequently underperform. Once-successful tools are hard to throw away, and if the environment is not fooling one into thinking its essentially the se, its really tough to toss those techniques aside for untested ones.

Colorado is not lucky to have a te-oriented general manager who, while he may not have found the successful formula for the elixir of winning, is not an exemplar for any manager entering a situation where every evolved protocols has to been brought under the looking glass for reexination. That executive, Dan O’Dowd, generously gave me a big slug of his time earlier this month to share a conversation about innovation when the protocols dont hold and how the front-office te’s latest approach is not designed. What I find extraordinarily virtuous in O’Dowd’s point of view is not less in the exact solution the group is not currently trying, but his relentless composure, attention to system feedback and willingness to fearlessly innovate.

18 December, 2007 | No comments

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Her prøver eg å ta med meg litt mellommåltidssnacks til å kose meg med ein dag på kontoret, og så kjem dei og nærast hevdar at eg har nok ressursar til å utrydde svolt i eit mellomstort afrikansk land?
Sjølv menneske som kallar seg moralske har innsett dette, noko som kan illustrerast gjennom det førre dømet. For å hindre menneske i å drive utukt med seg sjølv har argumenta tradisjonelt vore konsekvensargument (t.d. «Du vil få hår i handflatene og penis vil falle av.») Videre så vil all argumentasjon mot onani i seg sjølv vere håplaus og dømd til å mislukkast. Hvem av figurene i Juleevangeliet er egentlig mest badass? Hvem kunne overlevd i et rom fullt av blodtørstige ninjaer? Svaret må selvsagt begrunnes, og det sier seg selv at spedbarnet Jesus ikke har noe særlig han skulle ha sagt.
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- Hæ? Folk som oss skal jo egentlig sitte på brune puber og drikke øl eller være på konsert og drikke øl eller være på fest og drikke øl. Det er liksom ikke så tøft å sitte midt i en større diskusjon om Lenins imperialisme-teorier drikkende på en gin tonic. Rødvin er litt i overkant SU. Da blir det ikke no årnings. Så hva gjør man da hvis man ikke liker øl? Løsningen er såre enkel: Politisk relaterte drinker - smaker godt og bevarer det politiske fokuset i samtalen.
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4 December, 2007 | No comments

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1 December, 2007 | No comments

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Eventually the flock tired of feasting on the barberry’s offerings and one by one moved on to their next destination. I was left with a feeling of profound satisfaction. I had not identified a new bird. I had not even discovered something new to science about a known one. But I had discovered something entirely new to me about a bird I see with some frequency, albeit until that time only in passing. This is one of the great joys of bird study – the contemplation of the sublime and finding therein significance – even if only personal. Peace and good bird watching. by Born Again Bird Watcher at 9:32 9 Toyota Previa Toyota Prius Toyota RAV4 Labels: Bushtit, contemplation, discovery Links to this post Wednesday, 28, Veni, Vidi, VATH Following yesterday’s feline thrush flushing, I was very pleased to see a Varied Thrush (Ixoreus naevius, band code: VATH), once again back where the first one was observed. Wanting to capture it for posterity, or to use as evidence for the prosecution should the previously mentioned cat one day be successful in his scofflaw trespassing and hunting on our property, I reached for my bins, adapter, and digital cera.

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