I am seeking to communicate with relatives and descendants of Agostini of Golden Grove and Nabaclis Village District I need to verify data. Also I need to clarify what appears in my recollection. I am very sure there was a male school teacher named Agostini resident in the Golden Grove and Nabaclis Village District. Also there were and/or are folks surnamed Agostini and Blackman who are or were known to be relatives and resident in Golden Grove and Nabaclis Village District
EDWARD MILTON AGOSTINI, M.A. (Economics);
Monetary Economist, Public Servant (Government of Guyana);
Deputy. Secretary, Treasury;
Chairman, Guyana National Co-operative Bank,
Guyana Co-operative Insurance Service;
Director, Small Industries Corporation;
Member, Board of Governors, University of Guyana.
BORN: Guyana, Feb. 3, 1936, son of William and Gladys Agostini (both deceased).
EDUCATED: Guyana; London University, B.Sc. (Economics) 1966; Yale University M.A. (Economics) 1972.
MARRIED: July 12, 1961, Norma; 2 sons, 1 daughter.
CAREER: Formerly: Economist, Ministry of Economic Development;
Principal Assistant. Secretary, Ministry of Economic Development
RELIGION: Methodist.
AFFILIATIONS: Lions International; Society. For Advancement of Management. (U.S.A.).
RECREATIONS: Indoor games, cricket, reading.
ADDRESS: (office) Min. of Finance, Main & Urquhart St., Georgetown, (home) “252 Cedar Court, Lamaha Gardens., Georgetown, Guyana.
It appears during the year 1935; W. E. Agostini served as a Member of Local Authorities of the Golden Grove and Nabaclis Village District. Research has shown that W. E. Agostini replaced Nathaniel Maison as a village councillor on February 6, 1935.
The Member of Local Authorities of the Golden Grove and Nabaclis Village District for the year (January - December 1935)
CHAIRMAN: : D. A. Bacchus
DEPUTY CHAIRMAN:
OVERSEER :
COUNCILLORS: Carlton Paton Browne Melbourne, J. R. Simon, J. C. M. Sealey, N. Maison (resigned February 6, 1935), W. E. Agostini (February 6, 1935), Victor Henry Walcott, B. Kingston, Bhupsingh, Donald Ashley Bevel Trotman, Leopold Duncan Sarrabo.
Agostini is simply another of the names of people who have disappeared from the Golden Grove and Nabaclis Village District, and Guyana as a whole. People with German and Dutch names and African names have disappeared from the community. It would be interesting to list the surnames of people known to reside in the area of interest in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries which have disappeared from Golden Grove and Nabaclis and Guyana. It is known numerous persons of Portuguese heritage have migrated to the vicinity of Toronto in Ontario in Canada.
What surnames are you aware of have disappeared from Guyana?
Monday, August 1, 2011
Misconception: - Politicians and Elected Officials Political Representation of the People
Misconception: - Politicians and Elected Officials are the Political Representation of the People...
It is clear to me. Is it clear to you? Elected officials are similar to dictators and sovereigns rulers of dynastic monarchies. Politicians and Elected Officials are the most part personalities and iconographic characters. They promote themselves as members of the ruling. Politicians and Elected Officials are members of the privileged class. Although they were birthed by the underprivileged working class; they consider themselves and expect to be considered and preferred over, above and beyond the welfare of the masses. Clearly, Politicians, Elected Officials and members of the ruling class prefer their deeds and utterances to be above reproach of their constituencies and/or the electorate. They expect all the trappings and patronages historically afforded to sovereigns as known in the recorded history of civilizations dating back to the Nile valley higher culture. The Elected officials are concerned and committed to the following;
1. Their personal welfare,
2. The welfare of their loved ones
3. Patronage and special interests of those supported their occupancy of offices.
4. Their preferred ideologies,
5. Their personal and political legacy.
Rarely, do the representatives perpetuate, accentuate and advocate the needs of their constituency. Obviously national and/or community development are spearheaded by those who are considered unsung heroes. Certainly, history has revealed that ordinary people, and primarily unknown people have made tremendous sacrifices thereby contributing to the development of humanity as you and I have come to understand it during the course of several millenniums.
The shenanigans of the Democrats and Republicans currently being played out in the legislative bodies in Washington, D.C. are prime examples of the foolishness of elected officials placing themselves above and beyond the needs of the American people. Their haggling is reminiscent of fishmongers at Bourda Market in the late 1960s. Obama is the spokesperson of the position the democrats embrace. He is eloquent. That’s the best thing Obama has going for himself and the Democrats. If this debt ceiling argument is not settled before it is past due, the American people need to make a note of it and recall the episode when they are faced with the ballots in November 2012. People need to deliver their nations from their primary adversaries - their elected officials.
In the majority of the so-called developing nations on earth the politicians are opportunistic. They simply prey upon the masses while extending patronage to a selected minority of the populace. I believe it is accurate to conclude politicians are by nature, parasitic. They are corrupt. They are so vain. They believe, think and accept the national identity is reflects their personification. In simple words, everything is about them. More over the fortunes of the nations are linked to their impress.
I believe in the concept of social reformation as articulated by the honorable African teacher George Granville Monah James in his conclusion of the earth shattering text, Stolen Legacy, published in 1954.
It is high time. The vast majority of earth’s seven billion people take the necessary time out to research the known struggles of the underprivileged working class and aboriginal people of every nation on earth during the last five millenniums and take the necessary steps to ensure improved conditions of life is accessible to themselves and their off springs. I articulate the ancient Kemtian philosophy of the greatest good of man.
It is clear to me. Is it clear to you? Elected officials are similar to dictators and sovereigns rulers of dynastic monarchies. Politicians and Elected Officials are the most part personalities and iconographic characters. They promote themselves as members of the ruling. Politicians and Elected Officials are members of the privileged class. Although they were birthed by the underprivileged working class; they consider themselves and expect to be considered and preferred over, above and beyond the welfare of the masses. Clearly, Politicians, Elected Officials and members of the ruling class prefer their deeds and utterances to be above reproach of their constituencies and/or the electorate. They expect all the trappings and patronages historically afforded to sovereigns as known in the recorded history of civilizations dating back to the Nile valley higher culture. The Elected officials are concerned and committed to the following;
1. Their personal welfare,
2. The welfare of their loved ones
3. Patronage and special interests of those supported their occupancy of offices.
4. Their preferred ideologies,
5. Their personal and political legacy.
Rarely, do the representatives perpetuate, accentuate and advocate the needs of their constituency. Obviously national and/or community development are spearheaded by those who are considered unsung heroes. Certainly, history has revealed that ordinary people, and primarily unknown people have made tremendous sacrifices thereby contributing to the development of humanity as you and I have come to understand it during the course of several millenniums.
The shenanigans of the Democrats and Republicans currently being played out in the legislative bodies in Washington, D.C. are prime examples of the foolishness of elected officials placing themselves above and beyond the needs of the American people. Their haggling is reminiscent of fishmongers at Bourda Market in the late 1960s. Obama is the spokesperson of the position the democrats embrace. He is eloquent. That’s the best thing Obama has going for himself and the Democrats. If this debt ceiling argument is not settled before it is past due, the American people need to make a note of it and recall the episode when they are faced with the ballots in November 2012. People need to deliver their nations from their primary adversaries - their elected officials.
In the majority of the so-called developing nations on earth the politicians are opportunistic. They simply prey upon the masses while extending patronage to a selected minority of the populace. I believe it is accurate to conclude politicians are by nature, parasitic. They are corrupt. They are so vain. They believe, think and accept the national identity is reflects their personification. In simple words, everything is about them. More over the fortunes of the nations are linked to their impress.
I believe in the concept of social reformation as articulated by the honorable African teacher George Granville Monah James in his conclusion of the earth shattering text, Stolen Legacy, published in 1954.
It is high time. The vast majority of earth’s seven billion people take the necessary time out to research the known struggles of the underprivileged working class and aboriginal people of every nation on earth during the last five millenniums and take the necessary steps to ensure improved conditions of life is accessible to themselves and their off springs. I articulate the ancient Kemtian philosophy of the greatest good of man.
Between 25 -29 Ideal Age for Marriage?
What are legitimate reasons for heterosexuals to have been never married past their thirtieth birthday even in a metropolitan environment in a developed nation?
I suppose that the best average age range for people to be married is between their twentieth -fifth and twentieth - ninth birthday.
It seems to me. The majority of mothers of the past and prior to the 1960s were concerned and committed to witnessing the weddings and early years of the marriages of all of their daughters.
I suppose mothers preferred their daughters being married and reproducing before their twentieth-ninth birthday. The mothers insisted their daughters be married. They were not that committed to the career aspirations of their daughters. The preferred orientation was marriage and family was over above and beyond that of career pursuits.
It seems to me. During the twentieth century in civilized communities in the Americas teenage pregnancies were common place in the societies.
It is therefore, not at all difficult to imagine that in prior centuries teenage mothers were not at all unusual in Eastern, western and indigenous societies.
Teenaged pregnancies and mothers became somewhat of a travesty in civilized societies. And that's just another rather unfortunate stereotype females face in this age of information. It is high time. Our people reject such notions as horrific and/or denigrating.
I suppose that the best average age range for people to be married is between their twentieth -fifth and twentieth - ninth birthday.
It seems to me. The majority of mothers of the past and prior to the 1960s were concerned and committed to witnessing the weddings and early years of the marriages of all of their daughters.
I suppose mothers preferred their daughters being married and reproducing before their twentieth-ninth birthday. The mothers insisted their daughters be married. They were not that committed to the career aspirations of their daughters. The preferred orientation was marriage and family was over above and beyond that of career pursuits.
It seems to me. During the twentieth century in civilized communities in the Americas teenage pregnancies were common place in the societies.
It is therefore, not at all difficult to imagine that in prior centuries teenage mothers were not at all unusual in Eastern, western and indigenous societies.
Teenaged pregnancies and mothers became somewhat of a travesty in civilized societies. And that's just another rather unfortunate stereotype females face in this age of information. It is high time. Our people reject such notions as horrific and/or denigrating.
Abolition of Slavery and Apprenticeship in the British Empire, 1834-1838: Emancipation, 173 Years Later
Abolition of Slavery and Apprenticeship in the British Empire, 1834-1838: Emancipation, 173 Years Later . . .
Resistance of one or another type, visibility, and magnitude marked slavery elsewhere. But everywhere slaves who took the insurrectionary road had to display extraordinary heroism in the face of difficulties-— extraordinary even by revolutionary standards.
As the odds and circumstances become clearer, there is less difficulty in understanding the apparent infrequency of slave revolts throughout history and less difficulty in appreciating the extent of the rebels' courage and resourcefulness and the magnitude of their impact on world history.
The greatest slave revolts in the Western Hemisphere, except for the world-shaking revolution in Saint-Domingue, took place in Guiana and Jamaica. Guiana (the territories of Essequibo, Berbice, and Demerara) provided a theater of war between the British and the Dutch, who alternated control, and it offered an extensive hinterland for maroon colonies and guerrilla warfare.
Guiana boasted a slave-free ratio of more than ten-to-one. Taken together, the territories averaged about one significant revolt, not to mention serious conspiracies, during every two years from 1731 to 1823—that is, from the revolt in Berbice in 1731 to the massive revolt in Demerara in 1823. The record is the more striking in view of the relative quiet of the years 1752—1762 during which a firm Dutch-Indian alliance kept the slaves and maroons in check. Berbice exploded, however, during the 1760s, with revolts in 1762, 1763—1764, and 1767.
Essequibo remained stable after the unsuccessful revolts of 1731 and 1741 and the aborted revolt of 1744, and the center of resistance shifted to Demerara in the late 1760s. The principal revolts occurred there during the 1770s: two in 1772; another in 1773; and two others in 1774—1775, which amounted virtually to full-scale civil war between the black slaves and maroons on one side and the whites and Indians on the other. Another serious revolt broke out in 1803, and twenty years later the colony went up in flames. The revolts of 1794—1795 took place against the radical backdrop of the French Revolution, the fall of the Netherlands and proclamation of the Batavian Republic, and the division of the white colonists themselves along political lines, with one party's raising the Tricolor and proclaiming the Rights of Man. Apparently, the slaves were supposed to be too stupid or too cowed to make that message their own.
In 1823 the slaves rose on the East Coast of Demerara. Before the revolt ran its course thousands from at least thirty-seven plantations had taken part, two thousand in one major battle. The rebels demanded emancipation and, apparently with an eye on future labor conditions, a shorter work-week on the plantations. They believed that the "Good King" of England had freed them and that the planters were holding them illegally. Under the leadership of Jack Gladstone, a Christian cooper, and a group of drivers, craftsmen, and even house slaves, they attempted to prevail by nonviolent tactics suggestive of a general strike. Rather than kill the whites, they imprisoned them, executing only two who refused to lay down arms. The white captives subsequently testified to having been treated humanely. This moderation availed the blacks nothing: They were put down in blood. But the revolt stirred English opinion and strengthened the resolve of the emancipationist party to be done with the tyrannical regime in the colonies. Eugene D. Genovese (1979: 33-35)
I find it very upsetting whenever I realize descendants of autochthonous who were hunted, trapped, captured, kidnapped and cargoed across the Atlantic Ocean and enslaved in the English colonies in the Americas state that their ancestors were liberated on August 1, 1834. The simple fact of the matter remains the slaves were not freed until August 1, 1838 following the abolition of the system of apprenticed labor. The British lawmakers ratified Bills in their parliament abolishing slavery, compensating the slave owners for the loss of their property and transformed slavery to a system of apprenticed labour. Thus, the system known as apprenticeship was in all reality a modified form of slavery. It granted partial freedom to the slaves. The slaves were still bounded to the slave owners and to the estates and the primarily production of sugar, Cotton, coffee, cocoa, and ground provision thereon in the colony of British Guiana. August 1, 1838 marks the beginnings of unconditional freedom of Africans in the British Empire. The slave at last was legally freed. The former slave was now considered a peasant and subject of the British Empire.
During the period July 31, 1834 - August 1, 1838 our ancestors were not free. They existed during that four-year period in a fashion similar to a prisoner out on parole in present times and in the recent past in the USA. The British lawmakers catered to special interests - the plantocracy, primarily those in the West Indies. The major focus of the British lawmakers was sugar production and a consistent supply of cheap and reliable labor to ensure plantocracy was appeased and/or satisfied. Therefore, the system of indentured labor was established to replace that of slavery. Germans, Portuguese, Chinese, Africans, East Indians, and Africans birthed in the English-speaking Caribbean basin were sought and they provided the additional source of labor in the colony of British Guiana.
The celebrations in the town of Georgetown, in the colony of British Guiana on August 1, 1838 were “top down” affairs. The colonial establishment set the tone. The governor and members of his administration were the primary dignitaries. The ministers of religion were the focal points in the rural districts. It is likely such a pattern was continued whenever there was a celebration of some memorable event. It is clear that the celebrations of the fiftieth anniversary of emancipation were first major display of the academic talent of Africans in the colony of British Guiana. The jubilee of emancipation as the celebrations was labeled took place on August 1, 1888. Thomas R. F. Elliott was the secretary and main organizer of the celebrations. It seems to me celebrations were held in every district. Tappin Johnson Elliott was the primary mover and shaper of the celebrations in Golden Grove and Nabaclis districts. I do not know whether copies of the program have been preserved. It is obvious that researchers ought to exhaust every avenue to ascertain the program of celebrations held in their district can be accessed. I believe they maybe found in the church records.
The centenary celebrations of the emancipation of slavery in British Guiana were held on August 1, 1938. I am not aware of any major notation being made in the colony of British Guiana on August 1, 1934.
I communicated my understanding of the celebrations of emancipation in the Colony of British Guiana to ACDA. However, they continue to ignore the facts. They insist in promoting misinformation and misconceptions. I challenge the ACDA to acquire the services of Guyanese historians. They must access copies of the newspapers printed in the colony of British Guiana during the first week of August in 1888, 1938 and 1934. Then they would notice the obvious. I hope such actions would permit the ACDA to change its top down articulation of our history.
I would be remiss if I did not champion two causes very dear to me. I am referring to the massacre and burial of 300 -500 slaves in a mass grave at Plantation Paradise on the East Coast of Demerara in mid August 1823. In the spring of 1834 militant African females demonstrated at Plantation John and Cove showing that resistance to oppression is not exclusively a characteristic of males. Africans in the colonies of Berbice, Demerary and Essequebo made several efforts of effect their emancipation by taking up arms against their oppressors. Our representatives were not simply sitting around with an air of content. They were neither dependant on praying to neither God of the Europeans nor dependant on the goodwill of the Europeans to achieve their ultimate goal, self-determination. Our representatives were militant people. They were intelligent. They stood and died for whatever they believed was best solution to their problems.
Those remarkable people were often undermined by traitors in their midst but as you and I can attest today their contributions need not be totally lost to history. You and I are all living memorials of the struggles, the blood sweat and tears of our ancestors. I am confident I stand on the efforts and contributions of primarily Africans enslaved on the East Coast of Demerara, flavored with East Indian indentured labor and European slave owners. I advocate the need Guyanese primarily Africans to make time to emphasize the efforts made by Africans to affect self-emancipation in Guyana. I believe its incumbent upon the living to make every effort to ensure the participants of the Demerara slave revolt are memorialized and remembered with pomp and pageantry during the third week of August. I consider August as African liberation month. I believe plagues must be erected at Paradise and Cove and John on East Coast Demerara. I would love to participate in a movement which focuses on identifying and memorializing events and participants in the African experience in the Guyanese experience especially prior to 1966. I think, in fact I know it is high time our people begin to honor our representatives ourselves. I am absolutely certain you and I must not be dependant on the Government of Guyana, whoever that maybe to identify and define our heroes for us. Africans must be cognizant that no government neither home nor abroad has stood with and/or for the masses of the people of Africa. Most have oppressed Africans. Certainly, they used Africans as launching pads to accumulate personal wealth and notoriety. Thus I am advocating Non-Governmental organizations beyond borders to cater to our agenda as African people...
Selected Bibliography
- Bryant, Joshua(1824) Account of an insurrection of the Negro slaves in the colony of Demerara, which broke out on the 18th of August, 1823. : Georgetown, Demerara, Printed by A. Stevenson at the Guiana Chronicle Office, 1824
- Genovese, Eugene D. (1979)From Rebellion to Revolution: Afro American Slave Revolts in the Making of the Modern World: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 1979
- Costa, EmÃlia Viotti da(1997)Crowns of glory, tears of blood : the Demerara Slave Rebellion of 1823. New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
- Payne, Tommy (2001) 10 days in August 1834 : 10 days that changed the world: Brooklyn, N.Y. : Caribbean Diaspora Press, 2001
2011 New York Mets not Playoff Caliber Team
The 2011 New York Mets not Playoff Caliber Team
I am taken aback my persons claiming to be fans of the New York Mets baseball team. Many of the fans calling the sports talk radio programs in New York City articulate views amounting to the possibility that the 2011 Mets has a great opportunity to make the playoffs this year as the wild card team. I cannot help but wonder what New York Mets fans is the seeing on the field in 2011. Why don’t the fans realize at their best, the 2011 Mets is a mediocre team? Recent history has shown that the most unlikely teams to win Major League Baseball championships possessed outstanding pitching. The 1988 Los Angeles Dodgers, the 2006 St. Louis Cardinals and the 2010 San Francisco Giants teams were rather surprising champions. Their pitching performances were outstanding. The 2011 New York Mets does not have comparable pitching staff. The 2011 Mets does not have a prayer.
More over why the fans seem satisfied with aiming for a wild card spot as the ticket to the post season is beyond my understanding. The Mets would not be expected to win a series much less threaten to win it all. I would rather the Mets retool and improve their chances of winning it all in 2013. That should be the ultimate goal.
PITCHING
The 2011 Mets does not have a pitching staff comparable to the 1984 - 1989, 1973, and 1969 Mets Clubs. If the 2011 Mets pitching staff had, two or three top of the rotation starters; I would argue the 2011 Mets does not have a chance of upsetting more talented teams. I am referring to teams possessing better winning percentage than the Mets.
The 2011 Mets team has a below average pitching staff. Their defense up the middle is poor. It’s almost atrocious. The 2011 Mets does not have an ace starting pitcher. There is no the top of the rotation on the major league club. The 2011 Mets is the weakest Mets club to possess a winning record at the last week of July in the fifty-year history of the franchise.
Johan Santana, Mike Pelfrey, Dillon Gee, and Jon Niese, and another pitcher of similar quality will not lead a pitching staff to the Major League Baseball championship. Certainly, the starting pitchers are not comparable to Gooden, Darling, Fernandez, Aguilera, and Bob Ojeda is miles above the pitchers available to the Mets club. Even if Johan Santana returns with the qualities of an outstanding ace in 2012; he would be followed by mediocre pitchers in the rotation. Mike Pelfrey, Dillon Gee, and Jon Niese, are at best pitchers who could be expected to be competing for the fifth stop in a five-man pitching rotation. Young arms, especially flame-throwing pitchers at 95 miles per hour plus is an absolute necessity to anchor a championship caliber pitching staff. Bobby Parnell, and Pedro Beato, is perhaps decent enough as middle relievers on a major league pitching staff.
Defense
The 2011 Mets team lists Ronny Paulino and Josh Thole as their catchers. Justin Turner is the second baseman. Angel Pagan is the Center fielder. Reyes is really outstanding at Short Stop. The 2011 Mets possesses the weakest up the middle defense in thirty -one years. The 2011 Mets infield defense is also in a very sorry state. Daniel Murphy at first base, Justin Turner, Jose Reyes and David Wright at third base, are not reminiscent of John Olerud (first base), Edgardo Alfonzo (Second base), Rey Ordonez (Short Stop), and Robin Ventura (third base) of the 1999 Mets club.The outfield defense is also suspect. Angel Pagan (center field), Jason Bay (left fielder), and Lucas Duda (right fielder), is not in the same class as Dykstra, Wilson and Strawberry of the 1986 Mets Club. Pagan, Bay and Duda are backed up with Willie Harris, Nick Evans, Scott Hairston, and Jason Pridie. The 2011 Mets off the bench does not merit holding the attention of opposing teams.
OFFENCE
The 2011 Mets hitters do not strike fear in the hearts of pitchers. The 2011 Mets team does not possess explosive hitters. The majority of the 2011 Mets is just a trifle better than automatic outs. Reyes and Wright are the best hitters on the team.
The line-up chosen from the following Reyes and Wright and Daniel Murphy, Angel Pagan, Jason Bay, Justin Turner, Lucas Duda, Willie Harris, Nick Evans, Scott Hairston, Jason Pridie, Ronny Paulino and Josh Thole has more pot holes than those found in the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queen’s in New York City. Opposing pitchers do not have to worry about seven stops in the Mets line-up. All of the Mets championship teams comprised a number of outstanding hitters, dynamic pitchers, and much better defenders on the field than the composition of the 2011 New York Mets.
Daniel Murphy may develop into a quality hitter. However, Murphy is a below average defender. The best position for Murphy may very well be Third base. Daniel Murphy is best suited as designated Hitter. He should be on a team in the American League.
The Mets last made the playoffs in 2006. That was the last occasion the Mets was really relevant. The 2011 New York Mets club would not present much of a challenge to the 2006 Mets club. I suggest the Mets General Manager exhaust all avenues and efforts to rid the Mets of the following for 2012 season; Willie Harris, Lucas Duda, Daniel Murphy, Nick Evans, Justin Turner, Jason Bay, Ryota Igarashi, Manny Acosta, Mike Pelfrey, Jason Isringhausen, Tim Byrdak, Chris Capuano, D.J. Carrasco, and R.A. Dickey, and few others. A number of them could well be used to obtain young players for their minor league teams and/or perhaps, younger players for the 2012 Mets club. The need is restocking the farm system of New York Mets and getting younger with better arms and talent for the 2012 season.
1986 New York Mets Roster
Pitchers - Rick Aguilera, Bruce Berenyi, Terry Leach, John Mitchell, Randy Myers, Bob Ojeda, Doug Sisk
Catchers - Gary Carter, John Gibbons, Wally Backman, Kevin Elster, Ray Knight, Dave Magadan, Rafael Santana, Tim Teufel
Outfielders - Lenny Dykstra, George Foster, Danny Heep, Stan Jefferson, Lee Mazzilli, Kevin Mitchell, Darryl Strawberry
The Mets have not managed to duplicate the talented team they assembled for the 1986 club . . . that conclusion is beyond doubt. Any questions?
I am taken aback my persons claiming to be fans of the New York Mets baseball team. Many of the fans calling the sports talk radio programs in New York City articulate views amounting to the possibility that the 2011 Mets has a great opportunity to make the playoffs this year as the wild card team. I cannot help but wonder what New York Mets fans is the seeing on the field in 2011. Why don’t the fans realize at their best, the 2011 Mets is a mediocre team? Recent history has shown that the most unlikely teams to win Major League Baseball championships possessed outstanding pitching. The 1988 Los Angeles Dodgers, the 2006 St. Louis Cardinals and the 2010 San Francisco Giants teams were rather surprising champions. Their pitching performances were outstanding. The 2011 New York Mets does not have comparable pitching staff. The 2011 Mets does not have a prayer.
More over why the fans seem satisfied with aiming for a wild card spot as the ticket to the post season is beyond my understanding. The Mets would not be expected to win a series much less threaten to win it all. I would rather the Mets retool and improve their chances of winning it all in 2013. That should be the ultimate goal.
PITCHING
The 2011 Mets does not have a pitching staff comparable to the 1984 - 1989, 1973, and 1969 Mets Clubs. If the 2011 Mets pitching staff had, two or three top of the rotation starters; I would argue the 2011 Mets does not have a chance of upsetting more talented teams. I am referring to teams possessing better winning percentage than the Mets.
The 2011 Mets team has a below average pitching staff. Their defense up the middle is poor. It’s almost atrocious. The 2011 Mets does not have an ace starting pitcher. There is no the top of the rotation on the major league club. The 2011 Mets is the weakest Mets club to possess a winning record at the last week of July in the fifty-year history of the franchise.
Johan Santana, Mike Pelfrey, Dillon Gee, and Jon Niese, and another pitcher of similar quality will not lead a pitching staff to the Major League Baseball championship. Certainly, the starting pitchers are not comparable to Gooden, Darling, Fernandez, Aguilera, and Bob Ojeda is miles above the pitchers available to the Mets club. Even if Johan Santana returns with the qualities of an outstanding ace in 2012; he would be followed by mediocre pitchers in the rotation. Mike Pelfrey, Dillon Gee, and Jon Niese, are at best pitchers who could be expected to be competing for the fifth stop in a five-man pitching rotation. Young arms, especially flame-throwing pitchers at 95 miles per hour plus is an absolute necessity to anchor a championship caliber pitching staff. Bobby Parnell, and Pedro Beato, is perhaps decent enough as middle relievers on a major league pitching staff.
Defense
The 2011 Mets team lists Ronny Paulino and Josh Thole as their catchers. Justin Turner is the second baseman. Angel Pagan is the Center fielder. Reyes is really outstanding at Short Stop. The 2011 Mets possesses the weakest up the middle defense in thirty -one years. The 2011 Mets infield defense is also in a very sorry state. Daniel Murphy at first base, Justin Turner, Jose Reyes and David Wright at third base, are not reminiscent of John Olerud (first base), Edgardo Alfonzo (Second base), Rey Ordonez (Short Stop), and Robin Ventura (third base) of the 1999 Mets club.The outfield defense is also suspect. Angel Pagan (center field), Jason Bay (left fielder), and Lucas Duda (right fielder), is not in the same class as Dykstra, Wilson and Strawberry of the 1986 Mets Club. Pagan, Bay and Duda are backed up with Willie Harris, Nick Evans, Scott Hairston, and Jason Pridie. The 2011 Mets off the bench does not merit holding the attention of opposing teams.
OFFENCE
The 2011 Mets hitters do not strike fear in the hearts of pitchers. The 2011 Mets team does not possess explosive hitters. The majority of the 2011 Mets is just a trifle better than automatic outs. Reyes and Wright are the best hitters on the team.
The line-up chosen from the following Reyes and Wright and Daniel Murphy, Angel Pagan, Jason Bay, Justin Turner, Lucas Duda, Willie Harris, Nick Evans, Scott Hairston, Jason Pridie, Ronny Paulino and Josh Thole has more pot holes than those found in the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queen’s in New York City. Opposing pitchers do not have to worry about seven stops in the Mets line-up. All of the Mets championship teams comprised a number of outstanding hitters, dynamic pitchers, and much better defenders on the field than the composition of the 2011 New York Mets.
Daniel Murphy may develop into a quality hitter. However, Murphy is a below average defender. The best position for Murphy may very well be Third base. Daniel Murphy is best suited as designated Hitter. He should be on a team in the American League.
The Mets last made the playoffs in 2006. That was the last occasion the Mets was really relevant. The 2011 New York Mets club would not present much of a challenge to the 2006 Mets club. I suggest the Mets General Manager exhaust all avenues and efforts to rid the Mets of the following for 2012 season; Willie Harris, Lucas Duda, Daniel Murphy, Nick Evans, Justin Turner, Jason Bay, Ryota Igarashi, Manny Acosta, Mike Pelfrey, Jason Isringhausen, Tim Byrdak, Chris Capuano, D.J. Carrasco, and R.A. Dickey, and few others. A number of them could well be used to obtain young players for their minor league teams and/or perhaps, younger players for the 2012 Mets club. The need is restocking the farm system of New York Mets and getting younger with better arms and talent for the 2012 season.
1986 New York Mets Roster
Pitchers - Rick Aguilera, Bruce Berenyi, Terry Leach, John Mitchell, Randy Myers, Bob Ojeda, Doug Sisk
Catchers - Gary Carter, John Gibbons, Wally Backman, Kevin Elster, Ray Knight, Dave Magadan, Rafael Santana, Tim Teufel
Outfielders - Lenny Dykstra, George Foster, Danny Heep, Stan Jefferson, Lee Mazzilli, Kevin Mitchell, Darryl Strawberry
The Mets have not managed to duplicate the talented team they assembled for the 1986 club . . . that conclusion is beyond doubt. Any questions?
Saturday, July 9, 2011
What then is this?
"Be not deceived, wealth is strength, wealth is power, wealth is influence, wealth is Justice, wealth is liberty, wealth is real human Rights" . . . Marcus Garvey.
"We have been worshiping a false God . . . We Just create a God of our own and give this new religion to the Negroes of the world." Marcus Garvey, Up, You, Mighty Race . . .
"The Ku Klux Klan is the invisible government of the US . . . The Ku Klux Klan represents to a great extent the feelings of every real white American." Marcus Garvey, Liberty Hall, 1922.
". . . if there was such a thing called the Midas touch, which was the touch that made everything turn into gold, then we have a new creation in this society—the Burnham touch where everything he touches turns to shit. One has to put it in these brutal terms because the situation in which we are is a brutal situation." Dr. Walter Anthony Rodney, (1942-1980), The Most Honorable
What then is this?
Is it just I? It seems to me that, in very recent times, I am conscious, these days; more Negro males are jogging and dogs - walking on the streets of Brooklyn, NYC. For the most part, the pooper-scoopers are cleaning up after their lower-animals. I have noticed fewer dog feces recently. I still walking with my head focused on the path in front of me. I do not want to ever step in filth - and heaven forbid transport such particles to my domicile or take such offence smell around others. What's the reason for that? I think the Negro males are in hot pursuit of single white females.
I noticed Negro males in Crown Heights and Bedford Stuyvesant, are far more courteous and polite to white females than they are to black females. Negro males all too frequently utter choice words,
when referring to and/or speaking to black females, such as (Hoes), whores, bitches, dumb bitch and cock suckers. Doesn’t repeated exposure to the reckless and public vulgarity of the rascal Neggah man and woman sicken you? Shame upon you if you think you are representing your ancestry, your future generations and yourself in the light befitting our glorious past prior to being enslaved in the Americas. A crucified savior, Walter Rodney (1942-1980) was quoted as saying, “One has to put it in these brutal terms because the situation in which we are is a brutal situation." Certainly, the situation is most unnecessarily vulgar, far too much profanity, and all too loosely. English language is an alien tongue to our people. However, since at least 1415, Africans have been dabbing with European languages. Six hundred years is enough time for Africans to be proficient in the usage of European Languages. Don't you think?
What then is this? The propensity to dispense four letter words, cuss words, vulgar language seems to be the specialty of Africans formerly enslaved in the Americas. Are we really free? Poverty, restricted income, ignorance, rudeness and self-hatred seem to have replaced the physical chains in much similar fashion as tenement and projects have replaced the plantations as it was in the days of physical and perpetual bondage. One more item before I break away, in the old days, they were known as slave-catchers, bounty-hunters, there was a legal act such as the fugitive slave laws, today, they are called law enforcement officers and the laws of the land ensures the war on poverty will be nothing more than political rhetoric aimed at your support at the ballot box. Don’t let politicians continue to take you for a ride. There will always be poverty in a capitalist society. Think for a moment if ever one in the society is rich - who the hell would do the work? I say, forget the con-artists, especially those you hardly see unless, it‘s a campaign season. Why not create your own opportunities at wealth building? What then is this?
I guess I should label the females as Negroes. Those who accept such sordid patterns of behavior. It’s not cute. It’s distasteful. It is part of a culture in which exposing uncover garments is considered a fashionable or some dress code. It is really sickening, in fact, it is downright frightening, whenever I hear ten-year-olds and/ or younger people utter such vulgarisms. I feel like letting them have the back of my hand across their mouths. More over me feel like introducing some print material relative to Black life and culture in their faces. Let’s face it. Our young people are disrespectful to our people. I believe its self-hatred. Poverty is no excuse for acting a fool. It is not an excuse to go out of your way to be numbered amongst those anchored in the industrial prison complex.
Certainly, the Negroes must have arrived at such conclusions in their homes, and the neighborhood they frequent. I adamantly refuse to either believe or accept the Negroes reached such conclusions in the classrooms. Certainly, the curriculums could use a great infusion of Black History and the real history of the human experience on earth. Then our young people will have a sense of self-esteem, pride in the knowledge of self. It is a travesty that at this late date Negroes are talking about Greek philosophy. I find such a scenario most revolting. It is as putrid as preteens coloring their utterances with vulgarities and vague expressions.
It has dawned upon me that, Negro males express a sense of pride, exercising and showcasing their muscles. They are reminiscent of a peacock strutting itself for the benefit of females. The rituals of flexing their muscles and displaying rather well-defined physical attributes are all well and good but empowering it is not. Does it pay the bills? Does it put food on the table? Does it provide for the amenities of life?
Alas! For the most part, their expressions betray their ignorance. I am often left thinking, what an embarrassment. Won’t it be more beneficial to exercise the brain? I suppose if half the effort and time are placed upon education than straining the muscles more males would be reputable scholars and maintaining Careers even in the white world of corporate America, and less would found in too numerous prisons here in the USA. Education is a vehicle to wealth building. Education is a means to succeed. It is in itself empowering. It is still the proven avenue to political and economic empowerment. The early twentieth century messiah, Marcus Garvey (1887-1940), insisted to our representatives, "Be not deceived, wealth is strength, wealth is power, wealth is influence, wealth is Justice, wealth is liberty, wealth is real human Rights" . . .
What then is this?
"We have been worshiping a false God . . . We Just create a God of our own and give this new religion to the Negroes of the world." Marcus Garvey, Up, You, Mighty Race . . .
"The Ku Klux Klan is the invisible government of the US . . . The Ku Klux Klan represents to a great extent the feelings of every real white American." Marcus Garvey, Liberty Hall, 1922.
". . . if there was such a thing called the Midas touch, which was the touch that made everything turn into gold, then we have a new creation in this society—the Burnham touch where everything he touches turns to shit. One has to put it in these brutal terms because the situation in which we are is a brutal situation." Dr. Walter Anthony Rodney, (1942-1980), The Most Honorable
What then is this?
Is it just I? It seems to me that, in very recent times, I am conscious, these days; more Negro males are jogging and dogs - walking on the streets of Brooklyn, NYC. For the most part, the pooper-scoopers are cleaning up after their lower-animals. I have noticed fewer dog feces recently. I still walking with my head focused on the path in front of me. I do not want to ever step in filth - and heaven forbid transport such particles to my domicile or take such offence smell around others. What's the reason for that? I think the Negro males are in hot pursuit of single white females.
I noticed Negro males in Crown Heights and Bedford Stuyvesant, are far more courteous and polite to white females than they are to black females. Negro males all too frequently utter choice words,
when referring to and/or speaking to black females, such as (Hoes), whores, bitches, dumb bitch and cock suckers. Doesn’t repeated exposure to the reckless and public vulgarity of the rascal Neggah man and woman sicken you? Shame upon you if you think you are representing your ancestry, your future generations and yourself in the light befitting our glorious past prior to being enslaved in the Americas. A crucified savior, Walter Rodney (1942-1980) was quoted as saying, “One has to put it in these brutal terms because the situation in which we are is a brutal situation." Certainly, the situation is most unnecessarily vulgar, far too much profanity, and all too loosely. English language is an alien tongue to our people. However, since at least 1415, Africans have been dabbing with European languages. Six hundred years is enough time for Africans to be proficient in the usage of European Languages. Don't you think?
What then is this? The propensity to dispense four letter words, cuss words, vulgar language seems to be the specialty of Africans formerly enslaved in the Americas. Are we really free? Poverty, restricted income, ignorance, rudeness and self-hatred seem to have replaced the physical chains in much similar fashion as tenement and projects have replaced the plantations as it was in the days of physical and perpetual bondage. One more item before I break away, in the old days, they were known as slave-catchers, bounty-hunters, there was a legal act such as the fugitive slave laws, today, they are called law enforcement officers and the laws of the land ensures the war on poverty will be nothing more than political rhetoric aimed at your support at the ballot box. Don’t let politicians continue to take you for a ride. There will always be poverty in a capitalist society. Think for a moment if ever one in the society is rich - who the hell would do the work? I say, forget the con-artists, especially those you hardly see unless, it‘s a campaign season. Why not create your own opportunities at wealth building? What then is this?
I guess I should label the females as Negroes. Those who accept such sordid patterns of behavior. It’s not cute. It’s distasteful. It is part of a culture in which exposing uncover garments is considered a fashionable or some dress code. It is really sickening, in fact, it is downright frightening, whenever I hear ten-year-olds and/ or younger people utter such vulgarisms. I feel like letting them have the back of my hand across their mouths. More over me feel like introducing some print material relative to Black life and culture in their faces. Let’s face it. Our young people are disrespectful to our people. I believe its self-hatred. Poverty is no excuse for acting a fool. It is not an excuse to go out of your way to be numbered amongst those anchored in the industrial prison complex.
Certainly, the Negroes must have arrived at such conclusions in their homes, and the neighborhood they frequent. I adamantly refuse to either believe or accept the Negroes reached such conclusions in the classrooms. Certainly, the curriculums could use a great infusion of Black History and the real history of the human experience on earth. Then our young people will have a sense of self-esteem, pride in the knowledge of self. It is a travesty that at this late date Negroes are talking about Greek philosophy. I find such a scenario most revolting. It is as putrid as preteens coloring their utterances with vulgarities and vague expressions.
It has dawned upon me that, Negro males express a sense of pride, exercising and showcasing their muscles. They are reminiscent of a peacock strutting itself for the benefit of females. The rituals of flexing their muscles and displaying rather well-defined physical attributes are all well and good but empowering it is not. Does it pay the bills? Does it put food on the table? Does it provide for the amenities of life?
Alas! For the most part, their expressions betray their ignorance. I am often left thinking, what an embarrassment. Won’t it be more beneficial to exercise the brain? I suppose if half the effort and time are placed upon education than straining the muscles more males would be reputable scholars and maintaining Careers even in the white world of corporate America, and less would found in too numerous prisons here in the USA. Education is a vehicle to wealth building. Education is a means to succeed. It is in itself empowering. It is still the proven avenue to political and economic empowerment. The early twentieth century messiah, Marcus Garvey (1887-1940), insisted to our representatives, "Be not deceived, wealth is strength, wealth is power, wealth is influence, wealth is Justice, wealth is liberty, wealth is real human Rights" . . .
What then is this?
Friday, July 1, 2011
Independence Weekend, 2011
Peace and Blessings! Best greetings! To you and your entire loved one on this independence weekend here in the USA. And to those of you celebrating the holiday, I ask that you be mindful of the historic consequences of the occasion as it relates to Africans enslaved in the Americas. Do not fail to comprehend that on gaining independence on July 4, 1776 Africans were still enslaved in the USA on that historic date. Africans were not freed from physical bondage in the USA until President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Act and it became the law of the land in 1865. If you did not know I am here to remind you that your representatives were still chained to the plantations for 89 years. During that period black messiahs such as Harriet Tubman and William Still were engaged in a program of freeing hundreds of Africans in America. The process is known as the underground railway. That ought to be the significance of the 4th of July to the African-Americans. You should never forget that reality.
More over the masses of the African-Americans have not experienced the American dream. It is still a nightmare not withstanding the fact that a Kenyan-American Obama is currently the head of state of the USA. It is high time the honeymoon is over and critical analyses are made of the Obama administration as it regards to black life and culture in the USA during the last nine hundred days. I think Obama must be supported for a second term in office. It is likely that he will be able to go all out to promote real change and achieve tangible results which would enhance the lives of the vast majority of the American people. I am cognizant that the Obama administration cannot appease everyone in four years in office. Certainly, that is not enough time to really facilitate the necessary changes. More over our people need to embrace that stark reality. The need is for our people to manage their financial resources in a more meaningful manner with would promote development and improved standards of living. Our people need to tighten their belts and curb unnecessary spending, thereby aiding and abetting the future generations of our people. It is clear to me that Africans in America have tremendous financial resources, but however, they simply refuse to transfer such into progressive directions.
The philosophy of Africans-in-America and nonwhite must be restricted to poverty and ignorance is as ignoble as the ridiculous claims that there is such a thing as Greek philosophy. It is high time poor people here in the USA wage all out battles to derail the practice of hopelessness which provides the labor upon which the industrial prison complex functions. The emphasis must be placed on education and not appearance and on substance not style. Far too many of our young people have been lost from the womb to the tomb to the clutches of the systems of law enforcement, justice and correctional departments here in the USA, and indeed in numerous nations in the recent past. Our young people are criminalized instead of educated to live productive and responsible lives. Thus, instead of opportunities our young people are forced into the practice of self reliance and restricted income. I do not understand why the American society is still hell-bent in wasting such a major portion of its human resources. Certainly, there are numerous competent social scientists in the USA. Therefore, they must realize those wasting human resources do not promote national development. Such a condition has similar effects as brain drain in the so-called developing nations.
Now that I have appealed to your consciousness, I would be remiss if I did not ask you to be very careful, do not consume alcohol beverages and operate motor vehicles this holiday weekend and on any other occasion for that matter. Let the focus be on empowerment not wasting whatever resources you do have. Most of all be vigilant, be safe and have a blessed weekend, bonding with your loved ones whatever you do, I wish that your experiences be enlightening, rewarding. And most all acquire a sense of self-esteem necessary to forge and overcome all the man-made barriers which are placed in your way to achieve empowerment of our people formerly enslaved on earth and also to apply the lessons of the past to promote unity and development of our people everywhere on earth in this time and the in the not too distant future.
More over the masses of the African-Americans have not experienced the American dream. It is still a nightmare not withstanding the fact that a Kenyan-American Obama is currently the head of state of the USA. It is high time the honeymoon is over and critical analyses are made of the Obama administration as it regards to black life and culture in the USA during the last nine hundred days. I think Obama must be supported for a second term in office. It is likely that he will be able to go all out to promote real change and achieve tangible results which would enhance the lives of the vast majority of the American people. I am cognizant that the Obama administration cannot appease everyone in four years in office. Certainly, that is not enough time to really facilitate the necessary changes. More over our people need to embrace that stark reality. The need is for our people to manage their financial resources in a more meaningful manner with would promote development and improved standards of living. Our people need to tighten their belts and curb unnecessary spending, thereby aiding and abetting the future generations of our people. It is clear to me that Africans in America have tremendous financial resources, but however, they simply refuse to transfer such into progressive directions.
The philosophy of Africans-in-America and nonwhite must be restricted to poverty and ignorance is as ignoble as the ridiculous claims that there is such a thing as Greek philosophy. It is high time poor people here in the USA wage all out battles to derail the practice of hopelessness which provides the labor upon which the industrial prison complex functions. The emphasis must be placed on education and not appearance and on substance not style. Far too many of our young people have been lost from the womb to the tomb to the clutches of the systems of law enforcement, justice and correctional departments here in the USA, and indeed in numerous nations in the recent past. Our young people are criminalized instead of educated to live productive and responsible lives. Thus, instead of opportunities our young people are forced into the practice of self reliance and restricted income. I do not understand why the American society is still hell-bent in wasting such a major portion of its human resources. Certainly, there are numerous competent social scientists in the USA. Therefore, they must realize those wasting human resources do not promote national development. Such a condition has similar effects as brain drain in the so-called developing nations.
Now that I have appealed to your consciousness, I would be remiss if I did not ask you to be very careful, do not consume alcohol beverages and operate motor vehicles this holiday weekend and on any other occasion for that matter. Let the focus be on empowerment not wasting whatever resources you do have. Most of all be vigilant, be safe and have a blessed weekend, bonding with your loved ones whatever you do, I wish that your experiences be enlightening, rewarding. And most all acquire a sense of self-esteem necessary to forge and overcome all the man-made barriers which are placed in your way to achieve empowerment of our people formerly enslaved on earth and also to apply the lessons of the past to promote unity and development of our people everywhere on earth in this time and the in the not too distant future.
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