...People would consider him a great ballplayer. It was a warm Summer afternoon on a Saturday. Ryan’s team had advanced into the league’s championship series, which consisted of over 500 teams from all over the eastern coast. His team, the Capital Sluggers, went 45-15 to get here. Everyone on his team had an outstanding season, but Ryan’s stood out the most. He finished the regular season with a .676 batting avg. , 71 stolen bases, 145 hits, 42 home runs, 105 runs batted in, 206 runs scored, a 3.006 slugging percentage, a 2.925 on base percentage, 98 extra base hits, and a whopping 6.891 on base plus...
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...Questions to help direct your study for the upcoming exam. On the exam, be sure to demonstrate your complete understanding of all of the issues associated with each question – more information is generally better as long as it is relevant and based on course material. SPELL EVERYTHING OUT & BRING A BLUE BOOK TO THE EXAM 1. Consider “groupthink’ and the video we watched on this topic. Be sure to identify the symptoms of groupthink and discuss ways groupthink can be minimized ore avoided. 2. Consider the article ‘How Management Teams Can Have a good Fight.” Based on this article and in-class discussion, explain the recommended approaches for helping to ensure that conflict is productive. 3. Identify and describe each of the five conflict handling styles/conflict handling intentions as outlined during class (slides) and also described in the text using slightly different labels. What style did Thomas Green seem to use in the conflict with his boss? Was it helpful? Apply each of the five-styles to suggest different ways Green could have respondeded. Which style might you suggest Green use instead – why? 4. Which conflict handling style best describe Donna Dubinsky’s approach when 1) the JIT idea first surfaced and during 2) the task force meetings? How effective were these styles at each of these points? Defend your points. What other approach (es) might you suggest for Donna at each of these points in the case? 5. You received what you consider to be a great...
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...the home run and the excitement that comes with it. Therefore it is the most appealing play in the game of baseball and can be increased with the use of PEDs. An athlete's goal is to be the “strongest, fastest, most home run hitting dude in the world then, why wouldn’t you find every tool known to man to make that a reality” (Tirado). If PEDs were freely available, players would be able to crack more dingers and increase interest of all spectators. In 2000, run production on per game averages increased to above 10 as it stood at 8 runs per game in 1992 as a record 17 hitters had over 40 home runs in the ‘97-’99 seasons. Not only do PEDs increase a hitters’ power at the plate, they also generated more five tool players. These special players excel at hitting for average, power, speed, throwing, and fielding. During this era, more interest was generated because, “The number of five tool players during the steroid era was mind boggling… It seemed like every team had their own version of today’s Mike Trout, helping to draw more fans to every game just to see them play” (Keolanui). These players are classified as very rare in the modern MLB, but during the late ‘90s, there were at least 15 players who made incredible impacts to their own teams and the fans...
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...punishment between the use of performance enhancing drugs and gambling in the sport of baseball. In baseballs long and great history there has been two scandals that have given baseball a black eye. One being the story of Pete Rose, and the other being the story of Barry Bonds.” After a Hall of Fame worthy career, rumors began to circulate that Pete Rose manger of the Cincinnati Reds was gambling on baseball”. (Allen 2012) After an investigation Pete Rose was banned from baseball for life. Even though he never admitted to betting on baseball games. In the late 1990s two men Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa captured the nation’s attention when they both surpassed Rodger Maris record for the most home runs in a single season. Not even three years later Barry Bonds surpassed both men when he hit 73 home runs in a season. “The high-octane offense that Major League clubs were delivering, beginning in the late 1990s, made for great sports theater. But as allegations and revelations of performance-enhancing drug use began to surface, the public began to realize it was just that -- theater, fiction, cheating. The record books had been rewritten, but also tainted”. (Allen 2012) The league began a crackdown on drug use. In 2004 the story broke that during the investigation of a nutritional supplement company called BALCO one player admitted to taking performance enhancing drugs. Then Barry Bonds was implicated. Turning the sports world upside down and led to a Congressional hearings into baseball’s...
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...Whats About “The slugger’s come home” is an explicative and demonstrative video that represents an example of a negotiation process. It shows, from a baseball theme example, how does negotiation between 2 parties may work. While the video shows us the perspective of both parties, it also gives us some extra information about negotiation process. At the beginning, Dr. Margaret describes the objective of the video. She drive us though the process and give us tips, recommendations, common errors and many explanation about what is happening during the negotiation. The video introduces a common negotiation example. It shows us 2 parties, one that have a baseball stadium that needs a team, and the other that has a team and wants a place to play. At first it seems like a very easy deal, as both parties wants what the other have, but as we understand each party point of view, is easy to see that the priorities have very high differences. The two main parties are the Curry brothers and real estate developer Barbara Meyers. Ted and Bill Curry are the owners of Curry field. They have one of the best playgrounds in the area. The field has a lot of history and now they have renovated the entire stadium, but they do not own a baseball team. The brothers want to see one good team playing in what seems to be a tradition on their family. They love baseball and all they want is to bring the Sluggers to the fans and the city. In the other side is Barbara Meyers. She manage a...
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...more so than the nerds around the school! The park’s path also branched towards where my school was so many of my classmates often walked by my house. This also included the bullies. I had set myself up against the far end of the yard from the house, my back to the neighbour’s wooden fence. I took the wooden plank in my hand, striking a stereotypical batter pose. My dad prepped the bun in his hand, ready to throw, when the school bullies walked by laughing and joking. The leader of their group, Tom let's call him, pointed towards me and laughed at my lack of proper equipment. When he approached the fence, he procured an authentic metal baseball bat from his bag and started swing it around mockingly. It was a two hundred dollar, Louisville Slugger he had apparently gotten for free as a gift from his own father.This triggered a deep anger within me that caused me to lash out, screaming and banging the wooden plank against the metal honeycomb wall that separated us. Unfortunately for me, Tom was much taller than me and the holes in the fence were fairly large. He placed the bat back in his bag, resting it on the ground beside him, and reached towards me through the fence. He managed to get a hold of my shoulders and slam me against the fence. Although the pattern of the fence resembled honeycombs, I felt the pain of it’s impact spreading throughout my body. Tom had a smile of malicious greed across his face and had no intent on stopping his assault. The only thing I could hear was the...
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...Cruz, and Manny Ramirez all have in common? They all were and still are sluggers that can hit 40 home runs, can hit make hard contact with a baseball, can throw a ball extremely hard, and some of them can even steal up to 40 bases along with those home runs. Oh, they also all served penalties for using performance enhancing drugs, or P.E.D.s for short. Five of those players mentioned either broke a record or have achieved an accomplishment in baseball that only a select few have accomplished. They would all for sure be first ballot Hall of Famers if it wasn’t for one little scratch mark on their resume that negates...
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...selling tickets. For example, a regular batting order with all the Angels’ best players would look something like this: Ian Kinsler at leadoff, followed by Mike Trout, Justin Upton, Albert Pujols, Andrelton Simmons, Shohei Ohtani, Zack Cozart, Kole Calhoun, and last but not least Martin Maldonado. This lineup is packed with power, speed, versatility, and productive players. To start, Ian Kinsler is one of only two active MLB players with more than two hundred home runs and two hundred stolen bases. He brings power, speed, and defensive gold to the team. Second, Mike Trout, the best player in baseball, loves the long ball. He is the youngest MLB player ever to reach one hundred home runs and one hundred stolen bases. On top of that Mike is projected to have his best MLB season yet, which is scary for opposing teams. Trout brings fans, power, speed, defense, and so much more to this team. After Trout comes Justin Upton who is coming off of one of his best seasons yet where he hit thirty-five home runs, won a silver slugger award, tallied over one hundred RBI, and over one hundred runs scored. He led N.L. left fielders in all of these categories before moving to the A.L. Upton also clinched the spot for second best projected left fielder by the MLB in the 2018 season....
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...It had been seven months since the government had made an official announcement that the virus had been completely eliminated. I was sitting on my couch watching a movie and relaxing, I didn’t have any desire to go out much anymore. My film was interrupted by a pounding on the door. “Michael, hey man open the door!” “Alright, alright, I’m coming.” I said after the eighth series of knocks. “Hey Nick!” “Let me in dude!” “Come in, long time no see.” I told him as he pushed past me. Nick had been my best friend all through school. We had also attended the same college for a while before the outbreak occurred. When it did, we both went our separate ways to be with our families. By the time it was over, we had lost touch with each other. Honestly, although I can’t...
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...Personal Responsibility: An Oxymoronic Perspective Nick Summers Gen/200 March 28, 2012 Vlad Bolmar, Instructor Personal Responsibility: An Oxymoronic Perspective By definition, an oxymoron is a figure of speech that combines two normally contradictory words and turns them into an acceptable and understandable phrase. For example, “jumbo shrimp” and “pretty ugly” are common oxymoronic expressions. In fact, the word “oxymoron” itself is an oxymoron taken from the Greek words oxy (meaning "sharp" or "pointed") and moros (meaning "dull"). Regretfully, the phrase “personal responsibility” in today’s society is fast becoming an oxymoron. This is because so many of today’s young people are being raised with a sense of entitlement, ease, and luxury. Many of them don’t see the correlation between responsibility and success. And, as a result, when life’s misfortunes arise—and they always will—their first knee-jerk reaction is to blame other people or circumstances for their own personal woes. This, in turn, only compounds the problem by making the person feel as if they are a victim: powerless, helpless, and unable to change themselves or control any future condition. Consider the words of Steven Reiss, Ph.D. (2010), “We live in an era where few people are held responsible for their misbehavior. From elementary school children who don't do homework to oil company CEOs who engage in criminal behavior, the consequences often seem to fall on the system rather than on the...
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...contractions. Steroids are also illegal to be taken unless they are prescribed by a doctor. Performance enhances that carry testosterone are illegal throughout the United States. Therefore, in sports, it is not only against the illegal substance policy, but also against the law unless they are prescribed. Players in baseball have been using steroids for many years. The steroids are commonly spread around the locker room from one player to another. A recent study by Peter Sullivan, a sports journalist, concluded that out of the three major U.S. sports, Major League baseball has the highest total of PED users. At 2.5%, baseball is the “poster child” when it comes to illegal steroid use. Players use steroids because they help them get stronger, workout longer, and they can also make you more aware while you are competing. Yankees’ slugger Alex Rodriguez admitted to using steroids saying, “Bosch (his doctor) told him the HGH would help him sleep, gain weight, enhance his eyesight, and enhance his muscle recovery” (Weaver). There are many effects that steroids can have on players. If testing positive for the drug, in most cases, the player will serve a suspension from the sport. In some cases, there are even worse consequences. For instance, the greatest cyclist ever, Lance Armstrong, was stripped from all his winnings because he tested positive for PEDs. These PEDs gave him an unfair advantage over the other cyclist. The use of steroids has scared sports forever. All-time greats like Barry...
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...Sports Medias Negative Approach Ernest Culler COM 150 10 November 2012 Janice Prince Betian Sports Medias Negative Approach In the late 1980s and early 1990s many professional athletes were viewed as positive role models. During this time sports media found it hard to report about the negative accounts of the professional athlete. It was not until the early 1990s when Mike Tyson became the first prominent athlete to gain negative reports aired on national television. Before the 1990s Mike was known as the greatest boxer in the world after he was convicted of rape he was known as a criminal. While Sports media believes they report about the positive athletes as much if not more than they do the negative athletes, the bias approach taken towards role models is unequal. Sports media has chosen to take a radical approach in reporting about the favorite role models of children in today’s society. Over the past three years sports reporters have driven Lance Armstrong from atop the cycling world, they have taken an approach that has tarnished both his career and personal life. Michael Pearson reports that Lance Armstrong has stepped down as Chair of the Live Strong Cancer charity. In a CNN report Pearson (2012) writes that “Nike, which initially stood by Armstrong, dropped him October 17, 2012 with a terse statement citing what it called seemingly insurmountable evidence that he participated in doping.” Pearson has chosen only to give partial information...
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...variation of athletes in modern society, the steroid controversy, and how the United States in particular has a skewed perception of what an athlete should be. A recent major example of one of the most popular sports figures going down the abyss of the steroid scandal, among other gossip, is New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez. Since A-Rod’s first season playing for Seattle he has been glorified as having the potential to be the greatest to ever play the game of baseball. He played precociously at such a young age in Seattle, hitting for power and average and playing the infield well. Rodriguez immediately became a public darling, drawing comparisons to all the greats in the game, and many anticipated him to break the all time home run record currently held my proven steroid user Barry Bonds. Rodriguez played so...
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...The modern history of the Orioles can be traced back to the original Milwaukee Brewers of the Western League. The Brewers were there when the Western League renamed itself the American League. In 1902, the team moved to St. Louis and became the “Browns”. In their first season in St. Louis the Browns finished in second place. The Browns became more popular than their rivals, the St. Louis Cardinals, beating them in attendance. In 1951, Bill Veeck, the former owner of the Cleveland Indians, purchased the Browns. Veeck attempted to move the Browns back to Milwaukee ("Baseball-Statistics"), but was blocked by other American League owners, seemingly for reasons that were more personal than business related. After Veeck was forced to sell Sportsman Park to the Cardinals, he sold the Browns to a Baltimore-based group led by attorney Clarence Miles. With Veeck gone, the American League owners quickly approved the relocation of the team to Baltimore for the 1954 season. The Browns were renamed after their move to Baltimore. The Browns name was associated with losing, so the new team name would be changed to the Orioles. The name has a rich history in Baltimore having been used by the Baltimore baseball teams of the late 1890s. In 1901, the American League announced that the Baltimore Orioles would move their franchise to New York, becoming the New York Yankees. After the move, the Orioles competed in what is now called AAA level from 1903-1953. Babe Ruth pitched for the AAA Orioles before...
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...pregnant as sin, so she proposed He didn't hesitate, he too was in love, and accepted, a man who read detective mysteries and drank hot cocoa before bedtime, but everything about him had changed. They couldn't wait to be in each other’s arms, and as unsafe as their sex had been, that too changed. Their love making was gentle, sweet, and giving, like sharing the same straw at the movies, two lovers bound by a proposal of marriage. There was a knock on Sally's door, so she toweled off and answered it, running like it was her fiancé, but it was her ex, a boy from the other side of the tracks. He walked in like he owned the place, including Sally. She tried to make sense of it, but knew well what he was there for. "I need some cash, a hundred bucks, come on, I'm in a hurry." He made a cruel remark, something about dirty panties, but she dug in her mad money drawer for the hundred dollars, blood money, it was his kid she was carrying, another night of unprotected sex. He was deplorable, but she liked that way, his bad behavior moved her, even excited her, but that was then. He ran out of the house in his mud stained hoodie and torn 501's, baggy and foul, something she begged for, before she got religion. It wasn't their age difference, or sick behavior that attracted him, it was her personality, so different, more of a challenge, or experiment, and doing things he never imagined. It's what attracted Bourne to her in the first place. Sally wore a red scarf as a wrap, on the afternoon they met...
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