Baseball America reveals its Top 10 Yankees prospects

Baseball America?s list of Top 10 Yankees prospects won?t be online until January 4, but the list is already available in the magazine?s print edition. It continues few surprises, but it does include one name that might not be instantly familiar to everyone.

Here?s the list with my own brief commentary. Get the full Baseball America scouting reports in the magazine or online in a few weeks.

1. Jesus Montero
Catcher
Obviously. The Yankees top prospect is still their slugging catcher who projects as the big league team?s regular designated hitter next season. Baseball America predicts that Montero will ?eventually follow Robinson Cano as New York?s next home-grown all-star position player.?

2. Manny Banuelos
Left-handed pitcher
Another fairly obvious selection. Banuelos had a strong Double-A season, leading to seven Triple-A starts. He seems likely to return to Triple-A out of spring training next year. Baseball America notes that he?s shown three plus pitches and flashes of terrific command, the next step is putting it all together. He?s advanced enough to be considered one of the better pitching prospects in the game.

3. Dellin Betances
Right-handed pitcher
There seems to be a general consensus that Montero, Banuelos and Betances are the top three prospects in the Yankees system. Betances showed some command problems in Double-A this season, but Baseball America also notes that his stuff is good enough that he should be able to get by with only fringy control. The magazine compares him to? brace yourselves? A.J. Burnett.

4. Gary Sanchez
Catcher
The top prospect in the lower levels of the system, Sanchez is a high-upside catcher who still hasn?t turned 20 years old. His full-season debut with Low-A Charleston was at time underwhelming, but he showed power to go with a swing that Baseball America says is more pure than Montero?s. He?s very young with a long way to go, but the potential is tremendous.

5. Mason Williams
Center fielder
Kind of the breakout star of the Yankees system this season, Williams was a fourth-round pick in 2010 and played for short-season Staten Island this year. His combination of speed, bat and defense made him the New York-Penn League?s top prospect, and pushed him to the front of a suddenly deep position in the Yankees system. He should be in Low-A Charleston next year, getting his first taste of full-season ball.

6. Dante Bichette Jr.?
Third baseman
Remember when this was labeled as an over-draft by the Yankees? Bichette quickly put to rest some of the doubts about his ultimate upside by having a standout debut in the Gulf Coast League. He was the league?s MVP with a power bat and a surprisingly good glove. Baseball America suggests Bichette could play with Low-A Charleston next season, but the Yankees have generally moved slowly with their high school draftees, and I wonder if they might have Bichette stay in extended spring and then move up to Staten Island like Cito Culver and Slade Heathcott did in their first full seasons.

7. Ravel Santana?
Center fielder
This is the name that might not be familiar, mostly because Santana has played only a partial season outside of the Dominican Republic. That said, his U.S. debut included a .296/.361/.568 slash line while playing center field and showing an arm that Baseball America says has already earned some 80 grades, and consistently rates as a 70. He?s another guy with a long way to go, but he has a terrific combination of tools, giving the Yankees another intriguing, lower-level center field prospect.

8. Austin Romine
Catcher
Always seen as something of a secondary prospect in the Yankees system, Romine was singled out as the organization?s best defensive catcher and projected to be the big league starter at the position in 2015. He has a solid bat ? Baseball America predicts .270 with 10 to 15 homers in the big leagues ? but he stands out because of his defense, which could improve with a new challenge at Triple-A next year. The Yankees clearly like him, and Joe Girardi seemed to already trust him late last season.

9. J.R. Murphy
Catcher/third baseman
Intriguing mostly because of his bat, the Yankees plan to let Murphy continue getting most of his reps behind that plate. That said, they?ve toyed with him at third base and the outfield corners because Murphy should hit enough to be at least a capable utility man at those positions. Baseball America compares him to Todd Ziele, who came up as a catcher before seeing considerable big league time in the infield.

10. Slade Heathcott
Center fielder
Two shoulder surgeries since joining the Yankees have knocked Heathcott?s prospect status down a few notches, letting players like Murphy, Williams and Santana jump ahead of him. That said, Heathcott is still a tremendous athlete with great speed, but you have to wonder what those surgeries have done to his throwing ability. Baseball America compares him to Brett Gardner with the potential for more power, but Heathcott has moved slowly so far.

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UFC NEWS ? Junior Dos Santos to Host Special Q&A at UFC 141

On Thursday Dec. 29th, ?UFC 141: Lesnar vs. Overeem? will host a special Q&A session with UFC heavyweight champion Junior Dos Santos prior to weigh-ins at Las Vegas? MGM Grand Garden Arena. UFC Fight Club members will have access to the UFC?s fan club activities starting at 4 p.m. EST. The Q&A session is available to UFC Fight Club members an hour later, starting at 5 p.m.

Not to be outdone by the latest ?UFC Undisputed 3? video game battle between Chuck Liddell and Rampage Jackson at the UFC 137 weigh-ins, Junior Dos Santos will also take part in a friendly match against former UFC heavyweight champion Frank Mir.

Although the special Q&A session with the Brazilian champion is limited to members only, doors to the weigh-ins will open at 6 p.m. EST, with the start of the first weigh in beginning at 7 p.m.

BJPenn.com will also be streaming the weigh-ins live via link on the homepage.

The following fighters will be seen at the UFC 141 weigh ins:
Main Card
? Brock Lesnar vs. Alistair Overeem
? Donald Cerrone vs. Nate Diaz
? Jon Fitch vs. Johny Hendricks
? Alexander Gustafsson vs. Vladimir Matyushenko
? Jim Hettes vs. Nam Phan

Prelims
? Junior Assuncao vs. Ross Pearson
? Danny Castillo vs. Anthony Njokuani
? Dong Hyun Kim vs. Sean Pierson
? Efrain Escudero vs. Jacob Volkmann
? Luis Ramos vs. Matt Riddle
? Manny Gamburyan vs. Diego Nunes

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Bachmann Strikes Back -- Gingrich Should Beware a Woman Scorned (ContributorNetwork)

COMMENTARY | It is not difficult to see that presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann does not appreciate fellow Republican candidate Newt Gingrich's pedagogic condescension toward her. And the former Speaker of the House might want to remember the old adage about a woman scorned. At the Fox News Iowa GOP Presidential Debate in Sioux City, Iowa, on Thursday evening (Dec. 15), he attempted again to push the position that Bachmann was factually challenged. But, according to CNN, Bachmann refused to back away from the charge that Gingrich and his consulting firm are lobbyists -- no matter what he chooses to call what it is they actually do.

Bachmann, returning to the attack debate style she used that made a poll frontrunner in August, told the Iowa and national television audience, "You don't need to be within the technical definition of being a lobbyist to still be influence-peddling with senior Republicans in Washington, D.C., to get them to do your bidding."

Gingrich adopted his usual posture of pained professorialship and attempted to school Bachmann on the "facts." He said that with regard to his consultancy work, such as the $1.6 million he was paid by federal lender Freddie Mac a year before it became part of the mortgage meltdown, people like the Minnesota congresswoman "ought to have facts before they make wild allegations."

Bachmann -- after a dozen debates and listening to Gingrich's above-it-all comments concerning his GOP rivals, not to mention his condescending remarks where he once compared her to his fact-challenged students -- apparently had had enough of Gingrich's euphemism dancing and dismissive remarks. She retorted: "I think it's outrageous to continue to say over and over through the debate that I don't have my facts right when as a matter of fact I do. I'm a serious candidate for president of the United States. And my facts are accurate."

And her facts are indeed accurate. Gingrich is relying on the idea that Michele Bachmann's reputation for exaggeration, disingenuousness, and outright factually depleted statements and positions will gain him a pass on her continued reiteration that he was a lobbyist, a special interest fixer, an influence peddler. But even Bachmann does not exaggerate or commit falsehoods all the time, as can be attested by her Politifact scorecard, whereon she has scored several true, mostly true, and half true statements amid those where her comments have been found to be wanting in the truth department.

With all the political baggage from the 90s (government shutdown, ethics hearings, Ethics Committee sanctions) and his less-than-perfect personal life (mistresses, marriages to mistresses), Gingrich might want to push his ego aside and allow Bachmann to have her say without adding to the controversy. With each confrontation over his work as a consultant (read: lobbyist by any other name), the resulting stories allow for a re-examination of the millions of dollars Gingrich made since he left Congress. And although nobody begrudges him the right to make money, many do find fault in influence peddling and lobbying and the perception that lobbyists control far too much of the political action in Washington these days.

It is undoubtedly the reasoning behind attempting to squirm out from under the "lobbyist" label. And yet...

Scorning the three-term Minnesota congresswoman might not be the smart route to take in this matter, because call it whatever he likes (just because he nor his consultancy firm were never registered as lobbyists), his work after leaving Congress involved using his political connections to influence positions and votes. No, scorning the likes of someone like Rep. Bachmann will get you someone eager to bring you down -- with facts or without them.

After the debate, Bachmann's camp, according to CNN, continued the attack. Keith Nahigian, her campaign manager, painted Gingrich as a politician for hire. "I think that's what gets [Bachmann] really going - people who morph into different things, on different years, according to who's paying them and who's not paying them."

Currently, Newt Gingrich, according to the latest Gallup Poll, leads the GOP field for the Republican presidential nomination, 31 percent to 22 percent of his closest competitor, Mitt Romney.

Michele Bachmann placed fifth with 6 percent.

Regardless of her chances of winning the nomination, Bachmann just might be the candidate to bring Gingrich down from his lofty perch. And if he returns to the low poll numbers he enjoyed before his recent rise to the top, he might get some of that condescension served back to him. It will no doubt be a dish served cold.

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Death or victory at the Grand Prix (The Week)

New York ? With one race left, says Michael Cannell, American Phil Hill had a shot to be the Grand Prix champion of 1961

THEY BEGAN ARRIVING a day in advance. The loyal Ferrari following ? the tifosi ? rolled up in caravans of Fiats and battered motorbikes to camp among the chestnut groves that spread more than 600 acres around the boomerang-shaped racetrack in Monza, Italy. By the glow of evening campfires they raised cups of grappa to the great drivers, the piloti who once thundered around the terrible banked turns of the Autodromo Nazionale. Most of them were gone now. Between 1957 and 1961, 20 Grand Prix drivers had died. Many more suffered terrible injuries. In the days before seat belts and roll bars, they were crushed, burned, and beheaded with unnerving regularity.

Inside the Autodromo, half a dozen teams and 32 drivers warmed up for the 267-mile Italian Grand Prix, the climactic race of the 1961 season. The spotlight was focused squarely on Ferrari teammates, drivers Phil Hill and Count Wolfgang von Trips. The next afternoon, on Sunday, Sept. 10, they would settle their long fight for the Grand Prix title, racing's highest laurel.

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Von Trips held a four-point edge ? points are awarded for first- through sixth-place finishes ? and he had earned the advantageous pole position with the fastest practice laps. Tall, blond, and blue-eyed, Von Trips was descended from German nobility, and he cut a glamorous figure even in Grand Prix circles. He had the comportment of a champion, though he had crashed so many times he was plagued with the nickname Count von Crash. Hill, a California mechanic and hot-rodder, was a solitary man, given to apprehension and self-doubts about racing. He had won at Monza a year earlier, and he had set several lap records. If Von Trips was the erratic star, Hill was his rock-steady complement. Like any great sports story, it was a pairing of opposites.

The two men had traded checkered flags all summer as the Grand Prix made its way through six European countries. Neither one was Italian, which suited Enzo Ferrari, the reclusive white-haired padrone of the Ferrari empire. Every time an Italian driver died, the government launched a meddlesome investigation and the Vatican made thunderous condemnations.

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The location only heightened the suspense. The Italians called Monza the death circuit, in part because the banked turns catapulted errant cars like cannonballs. The sloped surface was coarse and pockmarked, and it exerted a centrifugal pull that the fragile Formula 1 cars were not designed to handle. More dangerous still, the long straights allowed drivers to touch 180 mph, and to slipstream inches apart. A series of tight curves, known as chicanes, had been installed to slow the cars, but it was still a track to be driven flat out.

ON A MILD and clear mid-September morning, the drivers went through their prerace routine wearing polo shirts and sunglasses. Hill asked a mechanic to splash a bucket of water on the back of his coveralls to keep him cool. Von Trips was as relaxed as ever, napping on a bench in the corner of the pits. He roused himself and ate a pear as the crew rolled his car into the pole position ? the inside slot on the front row ? marked with a white line on the gray asphalt. It was the only time that Von Trips had earned the top spot. "We may be teammates," he said of Hill as he adjusted his silver helmet, "but one has to fight. I love fighting."

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Everything but the fight faded in the closing moments before the start. Mechanics darted about, shouting at one another in four languages. A heaving crowd of 50,000 packed the grandstands and bleachers, pressed against wire fences at the edge of the 6.2-mile course. It was their moment to see a Ferrari renaissance, to defeat the hated Brits and their Lotus cars. The drivers emerged from the pits in Dunlop coveralls and lowered themselves one by one into their cars.

Five, four, three, two, one. The Italian flag swung down and the cars leaped. Hill's car had "a stumble to it," he said, "but when the flag dropped I was gone."

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Von Trips had a history of early faltering. It often took him a lap or so to shed his jitters and find his rhythm. True to form, he missed a few beats at the start and mired himself in a pack of six cars following Hill in tight formation, moving inches apart through the broad Curva Grande and the two sharp rights at the Curva di Lesmo. Von Trips was in fourth as the group charged down the long backstretch and around the big south curve to finish the first lap.

With Hill pulling away, Von Trips surely felt an urgency to maneuver his way up through the tightly bunched field. It was still early, but if he got trapped in traffic he might forfeit his chance for a top finish, and with it his edge over Hill. With teeth bared he passed the defending world champion Jack Brabham and Lotus's Jim Clark in two powerful blasts of acceleration.

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On the second lap, Von Trips sped through a bend in the backstretch with Clark trailing behind and slightly to his left. The bend slowed them only slightly as they rolled into the fastest stretch, a straight where drivers could press the accelerator for nearly 30 full seconds. Moving at 150 mph, Von Trips watched for his chance to pass.

Four hundred feet before the next turn the German swerved left to make his move. In his haste to catch Hill, he was unaware that Clark had stayed close. He may have assumed that Clark was slipstreaming directly behind him. In any case, Von Trips "shifted sideways," Clark later said, "so that my front wheels collided with his back wheels. It was the fatal moment."

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VON TRIPS COMMITTED a tiny miscalculation, a miscue of no more than an inch, but at 150 mph it was enough to sling him onto a grassy shoulder to the left. His wheels plowed the soft earth, as the car rode up a 5-foot slope where spectators stood two deep behind a chest-high chicken-wire fence. In an instant of explosive violence, the Ferrari slashed along the fence for about 10 feet, shredding spectators like a big red razor, then bounced end-over-end back onto the track. The mauled car came to rest right side up with its wheels collapsed inward.

Five spectators standing along the fence died instantly, their skulls crushed by the threshing car. The survivors screamed in reaction to the death all around them. Bodies lay in scattered clumps. Ten more would die later. More than 50 were injured.

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Meanwhile, Clark's Lotus spun and struck the embankment several times before coming to a rest in the grassy stretch beside the road. The car was crushed, but Clark squirmed out unscathed.

The man who was supposed to be the Grand Prix champion lay facedown on the track in bloodied coveralls, alone and motionless. His car had rolled on top of him, then, on the next bounce, flung him like a rag doll. His distinctive silver helmet had not saved him, nor had the flimsy roll bar.

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Clark jumped from his car and helped a race marshal drag Von Trips's car to the shoulder. He glanced at Von Trips, but could not bring himself to check on him. "I didn't really want to go over to where he lay," Clark said. With his helmet tucked under his arm, Clark went back to the pits, where he all but collapsed.

Von Trips had died of skull fractures by the time an ambulance arrived. In a few savage seconds, no more than a few heartbeats, all his charm and promise, all the hope he offered to his troubled homeland, came to a violent end.

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A paramedic spread a sheet over the body. A bloodied forearm dangled from the shroud as Von Trips was carried to the ambulance on a stretcher. It was the public's last glimpse of him. All over Germany people froze over their coffee or pilsner, as the radio sportscaster waited for a messenger from the Ferrari pit to explain why the count had not come around on the last lap.

Meanwhile, the race flowed on with Hill leading Moss by 18 seconds. Drivers wove through the smoke and debris, slowed by a marshal waving a flag of caution while the bloodied bodies were laid out on the roadside covered in tent canvas and newspapers. No announcement was made to the crowd.

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Hill passed the scene 41 more times that afternoon. On each lap he glimpsed the crumpled remains of the car, but he was uncertain whose it was until he saw Von Trips's name removed from the scoreboard.

After Von Trips crashed, three other Ferraris dropped out. Watching on television in Modena, Enzo Ferrari said, 'Abbiamo perduto.' We have lost. It was a curious reaction given that Hill was driving a nearly perfect race, a masterpiece of precision and pacing. Less than two hours after Von Trips crashed, Hill whipped by the checkered flag in first place, the only one of five Ferraris to finish.

The win gave Hill nine points, clinching the championship. He had overcome waves of obstacles ? Ferrari's partisanship, a late-summer deficit in points, an 11th-hour engine failure ? to become the first American to win racing's greatest prize. Among other things, the win resolved the tug-of-war between anguish and ambition that had gripped him for more than a decade. It affirmed a pursuit that he had so often doubted.

Hill had arrived at the triumphant moment that had drawn him since childhood like a distant light. The realization that he had prevailed ? the wondrous reality of it ? came over him that day as "a warming relief, a soaring feeling."

Hill walked to the victory podium in a throng of pushing, swaying well-wishers. Sweat matted his hair and goggles dangled from his neck. He sipped from a bottle of mineral water and asked about Von Trips. "I suspected the worst, but it was not until after champagne and congratulations on the victory stand that I was told," he said later.
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Sports Illustrated reported that Hill sobbed and dashed away as the flashbulbs popped. But he was too inured for that. Hill may have sagged. He may have paled beneath his sooty cheeks. But his face betrayed nothing but stony acceptance. "At the risk of seeming to be callous I can only say that my emotional defenses are pretty strong," he later wrote.

Von Trips claimed all the morning headlines. The newspapers buried Hill's triumph, if they mentioned it at all. The insinuation was that Von Trips was the rightful winner. Hill was merely an understudy, despite two first-place finishes, two seconds, and two thirds. The New York Times printed an account of Von Trips' death on its front page. Mention of the new champion waited until after the story jumped to page 33. "He knows that his victory has been so submerged in the press under the death toll," the reporter wrote, "that few people even realize he is champion."



?2011 by Michael Cannell, reprinted courtesy of Twelve. Excerpted from The Limit: Life and Death on the 1961 Grand Prix Circuit.

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    Is a Need to Please Hurting Your Business?

    This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.

    When it comes to business, there?s a thin line between ?people pleasing? and good customer service. And these days, in crowded and competitive markets, anything less than a customer-obsessed strategy (as coined by Forrester Research) simply won?t do.

    That drive to wow customers, clients, bosses, and colleagues can set you apart from the rest. But can a relentless need to please actually be hurting your business and career?

    It?s not an easy question, but let?s start with something simple: pizza. Think about it. When a group orders pizza, what role do you play in the process? Do you voice your topping preferences or sit back and think to yourself, ?No problem, I can just take off those olives?.? Do you give your opinion equal weight or do you politely defer to the group?

    If you?re wondering what the group dynamics surrounding a pizza order have to do with running your business, consider the following scenarios:

    Do you feel in charge of your business or are your clients running the show?

    Do you ever take on troublesome clients even though your intuition is warning you of all the red flags ahead?

    Do you let your colleagues encroach on your time, even if you?re stressed by a tight deadline?

    Do you ever take on the grunt work or the least favorite task, rather than delegating it?

    Do you ever hesitate calling a prospective client or other network connection because you don?t want to bother anyone?

    Any of these scenarios signal a ?need to please.? And people with this tendency often overextend themselves in the workplace and bend over backwards for others. But it?s hard to achieve your own goals when you?re constantly focused on trying to make everyone else in the room happy.


    Let?s consider the underlying feelings behind the action. Is stress or generosity motivating your behavior? For example, imagine a valued client asks for some small pro bono work for his or her spouse?s non-profit organization. If you agree to help out, but are silently harboring negative feelings, chances are you were just trying to please. But if you feel a sense of accomplishment and purpose about the work, it was probably an act of kindness.

    Understanding the stress/generosity distinction is key, as people pleasing is generally less about pleasing and more about fending off the rejection and disappointment of others.

    By that token, you need to realize that people pleasing isn?t necessarily the same thing as being nice. Niceness and kindness are wonderful traits, and ones that we need more of in the world and business today. However, it is possible to be nice while also expressing your own needs. Standing up for yourself doesn?t make you unkind or self-centered; it just gives you equal footing with everyone else.

    The need to please is linked to lower wages and poorer negotiation skills. And while people pleasing is often discussed in the context of women in the workplace, I believe the trait affects both sexes. In addition, continually working on someone else?s terms may lead to frustration and dissatisfaction. These feelings can ultimately ripple through to relationships with customers and clients. As a consequence, always being nice can actually yield poorer customer service in the long run.

    If any of the scenarios discussed above sound familiar, it?s time to break the pleasing cycle and begin working or running your business on your own terms. While truly understanding what compels you to please may be more complex than the bounds of this post, here are a couple of tips toward breaking the pattern:

    • Recognize the difference between being generous (i.e. wanting to help a customer, colleague, employee or boss) and wanting to avoid conflict and disappointing others.
    • Actively manage people?s expectations. You can still say yes to everything, but frame it in terms of what?s realistic for you whether that?s needing more time, money, or resources.
    • Be brief and meaningful when communicating (especially when delegating or responding to a request). People pleasers often need to share everything and anticipate other?s reactions when discussing plans. Staying brief exudes confidence.
    • Take baby steps. You?ve had a lifetime to perfect this behavior; don?t expect to change it overnight. Something as small as voicing your own thoughts on pizza toppings can be a very empowering and liberating experience.
    • Most importantly, still be generous and kind particularly toward customers and clients. You can?t get anywhere without being customer-obsessed these days. But be nice for the right reasons. And give your own opinions and needs equal weight as everyone else. After all, your business, your customers, and you are all worth it.

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    Turkish mosque collapse kills 1, injures 9

    An official says one worker was killed and nine others were rescued after the dome of a mosque collapsed.

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    Mayor Hasan Unver told NTV television that the dome of the mosque being built in an industrial area of central Turkish town of Acigol tumbled down during construction, trapping 10 workers under a pile of iron.

    He says nine of the workers were rescued with injuries while the other was pulled out dead.

    State-run TRT television showed images of rescuers, some carrying a bright orange stretcher, scrambling to rescue one trapped worker amid a pile of rubble and iron rods.

    The cause of the accident was under investigation.

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