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A group that tracks every ball hit in the majors says Derek Jeter is the worst fielder in baseball.

Stats guru Bill James, author of the "Baseball Abstract," and a panel of nine other voters, ranked Jeter 22nd among all major-league shortstops, with one calling Jeter "the least effective defensive player in the major leagues, at any position."

Jeter received one 10th-place vote in balloting for the 2008 Fielding Bible Awards, announced yesterday. One panel member comes from Baseball Info Solutions (BIS), a group that … well, just say they do their research.

"They watched film of every major-league game, and had recorded every ball off the bat by the direction in which it was hit [the vector], the type of hit [groundball, flyball, line-drive, popup, etc.] and by how hard the ball was hit [softly hit, medium, hard hit]," according to James.

In an earlier article that appears on James' Fielding Bible Web site, BIS ripped Jeter.

"They had analyzed the outcomes to determine who was best at turning hit balls into outs," James wrote. "One of their conclusions was that Jeter was probably the least effective defensive player in the major leagues, at any position."

http://www.nypost.com/seven/11042008/sports/yankees/worst_fielder_in_majors_136772.htm

Sholom Rubashkin

When police entered the home in the gated, Spanish-style community, they first found the gunman's mother-in-law, Indra Ramasesham, 69, dead in a downstairs bedroom. His wife and three sons – Krishna, 19, a sophomore at UCLA majoring in business economics; Ganesha, 12; and Arjuna, 7, all named after Indian gods and warriors — were discovered in various upstairs bedrooms, all shot in the head, some with multiple gunshot wounds.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-porterranch7-2008oct07,0,7425239.story

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Reading of Singer's Sin to Feature Abraham, Hecht, Epstein and More

By Andrew Gans
02 Oct 2008

F. Murray Abraham
photo by Aubrey Reuben

A staged reading of Isaac Bashevis Singer's Sin, adapted by Mark Altman from "The Unseen," will be presented Oct. 5 at the JCC in Manhattan.

Directed by Robert Kalfin, the reading will boast the talents of Academy Award winner F. Murray Abraham as well as Mary Rose Synek, Laura Daniel, Paul Hecht, Marilyn Chris and Alvin Epstein. Show time is 3 PM.

Sin, according to press notes, is "a hilarious and moving tale of devilish deeds by a master storyteller who has dwelt in both the old world and in modernity."

The JCC in Manhattan is located at 334 Amsterdam Avenue at 76th Street. Tickets, priced $10, are available by visiting www.jccmanhattan.org.

postseason baseball is FANtastic. unless you're a chicago or angels fan. wink, wink.

 Police Lt. in Deadly Taser Case Commits Suicide

By Christine Hauser

Updated, 8:52 a.m. | A New York City police lieutenant who gave the order to fire a Taser stun gun at a man who then fell to his death in Brooklyn committed suicide at Floyd Bennett Field early on Thursday, law enforcement sources said. The lieutenant, Michael Pigott, a 21-year veteran of the force, had been placed on modified assignment without his gun and badge after he gave the order to a sergeant to fire the Taser at a Bedford-Stuyvesant man, Iman Morales.

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/02/police-lt-in-deadly-taser-case-commits-suicide/index.html?hp

i like it when somebody takes his actions seriously and metes out his own brand of justice. i consider that a serious life.