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Orioles Demote Tillman Bergesen - RealGM Wiretap Not seeing enough progress from the pair Darrin Walls Lions Jersey , the Orioles have demoted Brad Bergesen and Chris Tillman to Triple-A Norfolk. "There comes a point where we got to get better there," manager Buck Showalter said. "Some things aren't good enough. We had a pretty good sampling of things, and if we are not pitching and taking the experience and making strides, then we need to go back down to Norfolk and work on it. Sometimes it's just not good enough." Bergesen was 1-6 with a 5.36 ERA in 10 games (nine starts). Tillman was surprised by the move. "Yeah, it's a shock, but they got to do what they got to do," Tillman said. "I've been wearing down the bullpen, and they need the bullpen guys with Matusz coming back. It kind of makes sense. I haven't felt right, I haven't felt like me. I'm going [out] there and thinking about everything, what I need to do to throw this pitch, what I need to do to throw that pitch. I just need to go out there and have fun and do my thing." Dodgers Considered Front Runners For David Price - RealGM Wiretap
With the Texas Rangers nearly a trade for Cole Hamels, the Los Angeles Dodgers are believed to be the favorites to acquire David Price from the Detroit Tigers.
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That three-team deal may allow Los Angeles to make a bigger play for Price. They acquired young pieces from the Atlanta Braves in the deal that can be flipped to Detroit.
锘? Maple is our office dog. Shes an 8-month-old retriever mix, and thats about all the history the shelter from which she was adopted could come up with. So, she is a mystery. Is she a smart dog? Will she be easy to train? Will she be social with people and other animals?
Well, we have discovered a few things.
1. She loves to chew. Not a big surprise, shes a puppy. As long as we have rawhide, our furniture and office equipment are safe from toothy, slobbery destruction.
2. She loves to play. Again Wallace Gilberry Lions Jersey , this is not a big surprise. We may have mentioned, shes a puppy. But in my many years as a dog owner, I have never seen a more inexhaustible, energetic, playful dog. She literally does back flips sometimes and this is a 45 pound dog. Walks, fetch, trips to the dog park, teaching her to chase her tail so she runs around in circles none of these things or anything else has yet to tire her out enough to keep her still for longer than a few minutes.
3. Fetch is no fun unless you have to fight to get the ball. Fetch, in theory, should be great. She brings the ball, drops it, someone throws it, she chases it, etc, etc. Its minimally invasive on our time, and it wears her out. That is, except the phrase drop it, regardless of training Lamar Holmes Lions Jersey , has no place in her doggie vocabulary.
Both Maple and I are determined to do opposite things. I am determined to get her to drop the ball and she is determined to make me chase her for it. I, being the human, was of course arrogant about the situation. I decided to give her a dilemma. When she approached me with the ball, I placed a small treat on the chair next to me. She cant hold both in her mouth in the same time, so after a few seconds of looking back and forth between me and the treat, she would invariably drop the ball in favor of tasty goodness.
I thought, I am a genius, I have outsmarted my dog and now I can continue my work with minimal interruption. And Maple can play fetch. Everyone wins.
Except that Maple did not have the same idea. Determined not to let me have the upper hand, she began to devise ways to keep her ball and eat her treat, too. She has, to date, come up with three plans:
1. Knock the treat off the chair with her nose. Then hold the ball against the floor with her jaw (out of my reach) while picking up the treat. She then easily picks the ball back up, looks at me triumphantly, and dares me to try to get it away.
2. Push the treat out of the way. This is a variation on her first solution that involves pushing the treat several feet away from me with the ball, then, when well out of reach, dropping the ball and eating the treat. Its a fairly logical extension of method #1.
3. Hide the ball. This involves taking the ball somewhere far away, say Alex Carter Lions Jersey , the opposite corner of the office, leaving it there, coming to get the treat, and then returning for the ball. Shes been around long enough to know shes faster than I am and will easily beat me back to the ball should I choose to go after it. Plus, she knows thats not the game. The game is getting her to drop it in my lap.
So now we finally come to the title of our post. Thinking creatively involves several skills, one of which is taking the tools at hand and finding new uses for them. Maple, with no thumbs, couldnt pick up more than one thing at a time. Instead, she learned to use the ball as a tool to scoot the treat to a safe eating distance. A great exercise for keeping your creative synapses firing is to take some ordinary things and come up with unique uses for them. This forces you to forget pre-conceived notions about function and limit, and open yourselves up to possibilities beyond traditional paradigms. Everything has a use beyond its mundane function, its just up to us to unlock its potential.
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