Monday, May 23, 2011

Former Mets teammates support Carter as brain exam looms - NYPost

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Ron Darling, a Mets pitcher from 1983-91 and now an SNY color commentator, said that strong nuclear family will help Carter through his ordeal.

"It's so sad. I've got my regular family and I've got my baseball family, and Gary's one of the biggest people in that baseball family," Darling said. "He has great faith, great family, so he's got an entire roster of people that are going to help him through this. That's more than a lot of people have, so I'm sure [it helps]. He's not called The Kid for nothing, and we want him around for a long time.

"To hear that news, there are two things that cross my mind. One, how I hope the news is good once he gets out of Duke Medical Center. But then secondly, he said he didn't want to make the last out in the sixth game of the '86 World Series. That says a lot about what kind of person he is, and how he's going to fight this."

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Sunday, May 22, 2011

Gary Carter, member of 1986 Mets, now diagnosed with brain tumors, has always been a tough out -- Mike Lupica / NY Daily News

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Gary Carter, member of 1986 Mets, now diagnosed with brain tumors, has always been a tough out -- Mike Lupica / NY Daily News

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It turns out Carter has been complaining of headaches lately, that is what we were told Saturday. He has been having some problems with memory. Now doctors have found these four tumors. You hope that the doctors at Duke can take care of Carter, who is 57. He always talked a lot about his faith and now you hope his faith and his doctors can carry him through.

"I wasn't here a long time," he said to me one time about New York. "But I think I left my mark."
He was here five years. Reggie Jackson only spent five years with the Yankees, and Reggie made those years count, didn't he? The people who still don't think of him as a Real Yankee still don't get it. Carter was not the most famous of the '86 Mets. But he knocked in 105 runs that year, after knocking in 100 the year before. He hit 24 home runs in 1986 and came to the plate 573 times. Carter showed up. He left his mark.

The Mets won 108 regular season games. They won that 16-inning game against the Astros to win the pennant, and transfixed the city that long baseball day. But then they lost the first two World Series games at home and were about to lose in six games to the Red Sox.

Two outs.
Nobody on.
Gary Carter at the plate.
Tough out.

Still.
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Klapisch: Gary ‘The Kid’ Carter wasn’t supposed to get sick - NJ Record

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Gary 'The Kid' Carter wasn't supposed to get sick -  Bob Klapisch / NJ Record

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It was his cheerful nature – an optimism that was out of place amid his teammates’ savage in-fighting. Carter was the Mets’ co-captain, yet he never was part of the team’s inner circle. He was too nice for that, which is why news that he’d been diagnosed with four brain tumors was so devastating. Good guys like Carter deserve better.
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“Gary figured it out way before we did how to treat people,” Backman said. “We used to make fun of him, the way he’d sign every damn autograph. We had to hold the bus for him sometimes, because he didn’t know how to say no. He didn’t want to say no. But you know what? He was right. He really loved the game.”

Of course, no one ever questioned Carter’s credentials on the field, where he hit .262 with 324 home runs and 1225 RBI in a 19-year career. Along with Hernandez, The Kid was one of the integral components of a resurgence in Flushing that began in earnest in 1985. And talk about timing: in his first game as a Met, Carter hit a 10th-inning home run off Neil Allen to give the Mets an opening day victory over the Cardinals.

Carter’s postgame smile was that of a prophet’s: He sensed the coming of the golden era, which the Mets never have duplicated. Carter taught New York that nothing was beyond the imagination – a lesson that, sadly, is being relearned today.
Who knew Carter would be the first ’80s Met to get sick? This is impossible.

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Saturday, May 21, 2011

Gary Carter has multiple brain tumors -- ESPN

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Please Pray For 'The Kid' To Be Healed
by The Doctors and/or A Miracle From Heaven -- Meck
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NEW YORK -- Hall of Fame catcher Gary Carter said doctors discovered four "very small" brain tumors after he had an MRI on Friday in Florida.
The 57-year-old Carter said he expects to learn more about his diagnosis when he is examined again Thursday at Duke Medical Center.

"My wife, Sandy, and our children and family thank you for your thoughts and prayers," Carter said in a release issued Saturday by the New York Mets and baseball's Hall of Fame. "We ask that you please respect our privacy as we learn more about my medical condition."

The statement did not say whether the tumors are malignant or benign.

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New York Mets Hall of Fame catcher Gary Carter diagnosed with small tumors on his brain - NYDaily News

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New York Mets Hall of Fame catcher Gary Carter diagnosed will small tumors on his brain - NY Daily News
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Friday, May 20, 2011

Terror, Tragedy And Hope In Tuscaloosa - Sports Illustrated

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An excellent written article .. a moving picture of incredible pain and hope painted by Lars Anderson. - Meck

Terror, Tragedy And Hope In Tuscaloosa - Sports Illustrated / Lars Anderson
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Thursday, May 19, 2011

Why President Obama Trounces Mitt Romney In 2012 -- Matt Latimer / The Daily Beast

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All the turmoil in the GOP 2012 field only enables Mitt Romney—and that must make the White House very happy. Former Bush speechwriter Matt Latimer on the Republicans' disastrous presumptive nominee.

Well, this is embarrassing. Mere weeks into the thrill-deprived 2012 election season and I am already changing my prediction. There were more than a few of us in Washington who believed that Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty would eventually triumph in the Republican primaries under the slogan, "He Annoys You The Least." But the mild-mannered Minnesotan was so easily overshadowed by Herman Cain and Rick Santorum in last week's far too early GOP debate that he really ought to drop out just on principle. With the latest fundraising news, and yet another round in the Newt Gingrich gaffe-o-lympics, it looks like the GOP is going to come up Romney after all. All this of course is wonderful news for the Obama White House.

There is no more ideal candidate for the President to run against than Governor Rombot himself.
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Team Obama has to be lighting candles every day for a gift like this. Romney will prove so predictable, so calculated, so filled with everything money can buy but ideas that the White House can already plot out his every utterance—all the way from his love of ethanol in Iowa to his gauzy Reagan-invoking ads in New Hampshire to his selection of Huckabee as a running mate to his short, gracious concession speech on election night, his hair immobile in the gentle Massachusetts wind.

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Wilder one of two finalists for Dothan [School Supt] job - The Star

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Gulf County Superintendent of Schools Tim Wilder was named last week as one of the two finalists to become superintendent of schools in Dothan, AL.
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Wilder said he would return to Dothan on May 26 for a day of activities, including a public forum and chance to meet local government, business and civic leaders.

“Until the offer is made and I’m the one they want, not the top five or top two, then we’ll sit down and see if we can negotiate a contract,” Wilder said. “The visit on the 26th is a big deal. It will let me know if this is a good idea or not.

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Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Casino reopening marks beginning of recovery -- CNN

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Vicksburg, Mississippi (CNN) -- In a part of Mississippi drenched by overwhelming floods, a glimmer of hope lit up Wednesday. Authorities in Tunica reopened a casino with an employee pep rally.

"We believe that reopening our doors and putting our friends and families back to work as quickly as possible is an important step on the road to recovery," the leaders of Gold Strike Casino and Resort said in a statement.

Casinos are a critical economic driver in the region. Nine were closed due to the flooding of the Mississippi River, said Bill Canter, spokesman for the Tunica Convention and Visitors Bureau.
Three will reopen by the weekend, he said.
But the area still has a long road ahead before full recovery.

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Arnold's Baby Mom & Maria -- Preggo at Same Time - TMZ

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Maria Shriver and Mildred Patricia Baena were both pregnant with Arnold's children ... AT THE SAME TIME.

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Arnold's Baby Mama Baby Shower - TMZ

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We're told Arnold and Maria sent lots of gifts for the baby.
The boy -- now a young teen -- looks like the spitting image of Arnold.

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Charles Barkley: Heat a 'whiny bunch' -- ESPN

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CHICAGO -- Charles Barkley thinks the Miami Heat have "terrific players," but when it comes to the team getting defensive about people taking shots at them, he calls them "a whiny bunch."

Barkley is in Chicago with TNT to cover the Eastern Conference finals between the Chicago Bulls and the Heat, and he said there was a time Heat forward LeBron James wasn't very happy with Barkley's analysis of "The Decision," which was the ESPN-televised event of James announcing he was leaving the Cleveland Cavaliers for Miami.
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"But him and his guys think because some of us didn't like that 'Decision' thing -- that was silly -- they got mad about that. Like wait a minute, I always said it's nothing personal, that thing was silly. We say he's the best player in the world, but you guys are mad because we criticized 'The Decision.'"

Barkley, who praised James and his teammates Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh as great players and individuals, also had a problem with the celebration the Heat staged after all three decided to join forces in Miami last summer. The celebration included James talking about winning as many as seven titles.

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Hope for Auburn? Toxic trustee Bobby Lowder steps aside -- Mark Bradley/AJC

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Yet another big story breaks over the Loveliest Village of the Plains, and this one has the feel of a new dawn rising. The toxic Bobby Lowder has decided not to seek another term on Auburn’s board of trustees. The first two words of an editorial in the Opelika-Auburn News were these:

“Good riddance.”

It was hard to know exactly how much power Lowder wielded over Auburn athletics because his modus operandi was to be seen but seldom heard. But I once asked another SEC athletic director who could be classified as his school’s Bobby Lowder, and the AD thought for several moments. Then he said:
“I’m not sure anywhere else has a Bobby Lowder.”

Conventional wisdom holds that Lowder, an Auburn grad who came to power as head of the Montgomery-based Colonial BancGroup (seized by the Feds in 2009), essentially fired Terry Bowden as football coach in the middle of the 1998 season and almost fired Tommy Tuberville  five years later. It was a plane owned by Lowder’s bank that made the infamous flight to Sellersburg, Ind., carrying Auburn officials to interview then-Louisville coach Bobby Petrino — for a job that was technically not open.

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Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Coast Guard closes Miss. River at Natchez

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Record flooding has caused authorities to close the Mississippi River at the port in Natchez because barge traffic could put more pressure on the levees.

Coast Guard Petty Officer Bill Colclough said the port was closed Monday, leaving two vessels waiting to head north and one waiting to go south. The U.S. economy could face a bill running into the hundreds of millions of dollars a day if the lower Mississippi River is closed to shipping for days or weeks, port officials said. It wasn't clear when the river would reopen to traffic.

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