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From: cwelsh@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Craig Welsh  )
Subject: Re: Key in game 5
Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Distribution: rec.sport.baseball
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 20:29:44 GMT

In article <1992Oct14.145514.14153@nstn.ns.ca> maceache@fox.nstn.ns.ca (Tim Maceachern) writes:
>cwelsh@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Craig Welsh  ) writes (in part):
>By the way, we have been advised that Oakland massacres lefties.  If
>Toronto makes it to the World Series, what is the situation versus
>Atlanta or Pittsburg?  Could Key make it back into the rotation?
>Or would he be better as a lefty reliever?
>
A tentative schedule that I saw briefly flashed on tv does have Key
scheduled to pitch in Game 4 of the series. I doubt if this is written
in stone, but perhaps Gaston learned a lesson from the minor scare in
got in that series.

Next, while congrats are in order to Atlanta, Pittsburgh fans have my
deepest sympathies. While I was rooting for Montreal this year against
Pittsburgh, too lose like that is a heartbreaker. That loss is going to
haunt people in Pittsburgh for many, many, many years.

Predictionn: Toronto in 6. Atlanta's starters are off and the bullpen is
hopelessly outmatched in this series.


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From: tedward@cs.cornell.edu (Edward [Ted] Fischer)
Subject: Re: The origin of the _World_ Series
Keywords: history world series trivia newspaper
Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY 14853
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 15:59:54 GMT

In article <1992Oct15.193346.4382@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> drw3l@delmarva.evsc.Virginia.EDU (David Robert Walker) writes:
>
>Hockey: The NHL, if memory serves, is as much a US invention as
>Canadian, though with more Canadian players by far. I give Canada
>full credit for being ahead of the US in hockey. But not necessarily
>the world. Europe plays excellent hockey. (Founding cities of the NHL
>include New York, Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Montreal, and Toronto)

I don't think there is any contest here.  The Olympic hockey teams
(both Canadian and US) are quite competitive.  And they simply aren't
*close* to the level of the NHL.  In 1994 (?), we will probably see
a team of (Canadian) NHL stars play in the Olympics.  I believe they
will win by even bigger margins than the Basketball Dream Team did.

>The moral is, if you want to claim the world championship of 
>something, invent a game, and make sure no one else in the world
>plays it. :-)

Yup.  Much easier than trying to become world champs of volleyball,
soccer, or cricket.  Though we generally do okay with the Americas
Cup.

-Valentine
-- 
Make outs, not walks!					tedward@cs.cornell.edu
Clemens four Cy Young!
From: dswartz@sw.stratus.com (Dan Swartzendruber)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: Cito Manages reasonable in Game #1
Date: 8 Oct 92 19:43:23 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc.

Yeah, right.  Letting Morris start the 9th wasn't total idiocy.  Uh-huh.
Just out of curiousity, what is someone like Duane Ward *for* if not to
close down the other team?  Especially in a home game.

-- 

Dan S.
Date: Tuesday, 13 Oct 1992 15:37:04 EST
From: <RVESTERM@vma.cc.nd.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: Designated Hitter Rule (was Australian Novice Asks Dumb Questions)
 <1992Oct13.161634.3979@news.uiowa.edu>
 <1992Oct13.180736.24707@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>



what happens (in the al, with the dh) if you put a relief pitcher in the
game, move the starting pitcher to second base and take the second baseman
out? do you lose the dh? if so, where does the starter bat, in the second
baseman's spot or the dh's spot? where does the reliever bat?

what happens if the pitcher and the second baseman switch positions, without
putting in a reliever?

what happens if the pitcher gets one batter out, then the second baseman
pitches and gets the next guy out (with the pitcher moving to second), and
then they switch places again to get the last out of the inning?

i think i could go on, but i won't, for now.  if anyone knows the answers,
i'd more than appreciate them.

an interesting side note is this: when the dh rule first went into effect,
earl weaver would list a starting pitcher (who wasn't pitching that day)
as his dh.  when the guy was due at the plate for the first time, he would
pinch hit with a real hitter.  he did this so that, say a righty was starting
for the other team.  say he got pulled only a couple of batters into the
game, and was replaced by a lefty.  he then wouldn't have to waste his
righty-hitting dh by replacing him with his lefty-hitting dh.  he would
just list a useless (that day) pitcher as dh, and pinch-hit with whoever
was appropriate.

after this happened a few times, a rule was passed prohibiting it.

i think that's just plain dumb - they were punishing earl for being
intelligent.

does anyone know exactly what the anti-earl rule is? are you not
allowed to pinch-hit for the dh in his first plate appearance?  are you
not  allowed to use someone whose contract says "pitcher" as a dh?
are you just not allowed to pinch-hit for the dh without losing the
dh rule?

oh, i thought of one more thing... what if the dh comes in to pitch?
does he "replace himself" in the lineup?


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From: psima01@convex.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de (M. Maisack)
Subject: toronto beats oakland 3:1 in 2nd
Organization: Comp. Center (ZDV) U of Tuebingen, FRG
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 08:30:45 GMT

2nd game: toronto 3, oakland 1

series tied at 1-1
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From: doctor8@jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu (Jason Abner Miller)
Subject: The Greatest Game Ever!
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: The Johns Hopkins University - HCF
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 06:02:00 GMT

	Right after the top half of the 9th inning in tonight's NLCS Game 7,
I conducted a congratulatory post to the Pittsburgh Pirates, and their
finally making it to the Big Show after a 13-year wait.
	I meant to retract my comments about Bonds choking against Stanton
in Game 4.  I meant to be gracious.
	Now, after witnessing one of the greatest comebacks I have ever
seen, I acknowledge the pain Jim Leyland and Doug Frazier, er, Drabek, must
be going through.  I really want to be obnoxious and woof the Braves from
now until the day the Mets give Dave Magadan an everyday job.  I want to rub
Francisco Cabrera in the wounds of every person who has ever worn a Pittsburgh
cap in their life.
	But I won't.  There, but for the grace of chance, goes the Pirates'
World Series hopes.  They really deserved to win that game in the 9th, and
I'm still willing to believe that they WILL win tonight.  But, once again,
I proudly salute Cabrera, Smoltz, Reardon, Sid "Shoulda been MVP" Bream,
and the rest of the Choppers who made this miracle possible (and I'd
salute Pendleton if I didn't hate him for what he did in '87).
	Pirates, you did a good job, and this was almost your year (and I
don't mean to be patronizing).  But I will be watching Saturday night
as Glavine starts the Series opener against the Jays.  And that was the
greatest ballgame I've ever seen.

							Jason Miller
"Julio Valera and Julian Vasquez to Angels for Dick Schofield????????????"
	Memo to Al Harazin:  Take your '93 last place finish and DON'T
invest it in Bobby Bonilla!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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From: barnes@cowboys.esd.sgi.com (James Barnes)
Subject: Re: Pirates!!!1
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 14:37:27 GMT

In article <4eqrNWe00WBK47o18o@andrew.cmu.edu>, sk4n+@andrew.cmu.edu (Scott
Ryan Kirkpatrick) writes:
|> 
|> inning 2    ANY QUESTIONS?????????????
|> 
|>
PIRATES!!!!!PIRATES!!!!!PIRATES!!!!!PIRATES!!!!!PIRATES!!!!!PIRATES!!!!!PIR
RATES
|>
!!!!!PIRATES!!!!!PIRATES!!!!!PIRATES!!!!!PIRATES!!!!!PIRATES!!!!!PIRATES!
|>
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|>
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|>
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|>
!PIRATES!!!!!PIRATES!!!!!PIRATES!!!!!PIRATES!!!!!PIRATES!!!!!PIRATES!!!!!
|>
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|>
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|>
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|>
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|>
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|>
ES!!!!!PIRATES!!!!!PIRATES!!!!!PIRATES!!!!!PIRATES!!!!!PIRATES!!!!!PIRATE
|> S!!!!!PIRATES!!!!!PIRATES!!!!!



OOPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Next Year???????????????????????????????????????
From: claudius@leland.Stanford.EDU (Nelson Lu)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: RC/MLV Continued
Date: 11 Oct 92 22:13:45 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA

In article <1992Oct11.200812.29448@menudo.uh.edu> chee1l5@Jane.UH.EDU writes:
>>Josh Rosenbluth (attmail!jrosenbluth) writes:
>>
>>Player        RC    MLV
>>
>>McGwire       -6    -6
>
>Huh, how can this be true ?
>He hit 42 dingers, and had an OBP of around .400!

If you had noticed the presence of Parker and Franco, you would have come to
the realization that Josh was using 1991 stats.

In any case, I feel semi-vindicated. :-)

===============================================================================
GO CALIFORNIA ANGELS!
===============================================================================
Nelson Lu (claudius@leland.stanford.edu)
From: rinehart@aramis.rutgers.edu (Mark J. Rinehart)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: Was Bream Out?
Date: 15 Oct 92 15:53:06 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

In article <1bju8mINN18d@rave.larc.nasa.gov> bandwen@eagle.larc (bando) writes:

> From where I was watching the game (not real close to the TV),
> Sid Bream looked out or very very close to being out at home.
> Is it just me or what?
>    --bando

It was a real close call, but from the angles I saw, it looked like
the correct call was safe. But I would like to see it again, with a
closer camera view, and in slo-slo-mo.


mark
From: molly@uga.edu
Newsgroups: rec.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: NLCS game 7: 9th inning recap
Keywords: Pirate Nightmare
Date: 15 Oct 92 19:42:16 GMT
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens

In article <1992Oct15.072826.6621@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> kev@fred.Berkeley.EDU (Kevin Eckert) writes:
>
>*** Drabek starts the 9th with 2-0 lead ***
>
>Pendleton doubles into the right field corner
>Justice aboard on 2B Lind error; Pendleton to third
>Bream walks on 4 rather wild Drabek pitches; bases loaded
>
>*** Belinda relieves Drabek ***
>
>Gant delivers a sac fly to deep left; Pendleton 
>	scores to make it 2-1 (how many people 
>	thought that Gant had hit a pennant-
>	winning grand-slam?  I sure did ... )
>Blauser walks, reloading the bases (I think it was 
>	Blauser; all this is from memory w/o a VCR)

Berryhill not Blauser


>Hunter (pinch-hitting) loops weakly to Lind on
>	outfield grass for the second out
>Cabrerra (pinch-hitting) rolls a 2-2 offering
>	from Belinda into left, scoring Justice
>	and Bream, making it 3-2 and giving the Braves 
>        the pennant
>
>Bream didn't get up from his slide across home-plate 
>for about a two minutes because the rest of the Braves
>had dog-piled on top of him.
>
>To all you Pirate fans out there, I can empathize ...
>I remember `86 like it was yesterday.
>
>-kevin
From: barnes@cowboys.esd.sgi.com (James Barnes)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: Was Bream Out?
Date: 15 Oct 92 14:45:52 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.

In article <1bju8mINN18d@rave.larc.nasa.gov>, bandwen@eagle.larc (bando)
writes:
|> From where I was watching the game (not real close to the TV),
|> Sid Bream looked out or very very close to being out at home.
|> Is it just me or what?
|>    --bando
It's just you.


Go BRAVES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
From: RVESTERM@vma.cc.nd.edu
Newsgroups: rec.sport.baseball
Subject: barrywatch
Date: 7 Oct 92 03:37:05 GMT

(none on, one out)

taken ball, one ball, no strikes
fouled off, one ball, one strike
taken strike, one ball, two strikes
ground out, shortstop

0-3, 1 bb, 1 so
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From: kmartin@dogwood.cray.com (Kenneth B. Martin)
Subject: Re: BRAVES-PIRATES REPORT
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Date: 13 Oct 92 09:44:39 CDT

In article <QeqWA8C00WBK46tHBl@andrew.cmu.edu> tj06+@andrew.cmu.edu (Thomas J. Joyce) writes:
>
>The name is Wakefield. As in: Tim Wakefield. Apparently you like to get his
>name correct about as much as Tim McCarver.
>
>RE: Game 7. The Pirates showed why they were the leader in run production
>this season. Also, Atlanta had some trouble in both the infield and outfield.
>(Good question: Did Lemke and Justice scrap in the clubhouse again like
>the last time they let a blooper fall between them?).
>
>Nixon looked pitiful on the King's (?) double. He *should* have caught that
>one. I fail to see what USA Today could rate Atlanta's outfield as even
>with Pittsburgh; it has speed, but doesn't have the defensive skills that
>Pittsburgh has. Pittsburgh's only outfield weak point is right field, where
>the position is plattooned.

Ya!  Pittsburgh has really shown their defensive prowess 3 out of 5 games of 
the playoffs!  Right!!

>
>Bonds is back

And Cocky as ever!!  I liked him better when he was kicking the dirt after 
striking out and the Buc fans were booing him!!

>Sign seen in right-center field at Three Rivers:
>
>    CHOP
>    THIS
>
>
>On to game 6 and Tim Wakefield......not Wakeman......(you must be a YES
>fan or something like that).
>
>This is beginning to look like last year's NLCS....in reverse. 
>Atlanta is up 3 games to 2 and going home. Only need to win one game?
>Sound familar?
>
>BUC the Fraves!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
>tom

The Braves are going to the series, so you might as well get used to it!!

--Ken

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From: bm562@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Richard L. Trionfo)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: Braves in Fulton for '93?
Date: 7 Oct 1992 16:17:09 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


  I heard somewhere that the Braves will be moving to the new 
Olympic Stadium they are building for the '96 games.  I do
not know when they are moving, but they said it will not be
a baseball monstrocity that Olympic Stadium in Montreal has
been described as (I am just going on commentary, never been
there).
                      Rich
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From: tedward@cs.cornell.edu (Edward [Ted] Fischer)
Subject: Re: Morris: more fuel for this debate
Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY 14853
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 23:43:39 GMT

In article <1992Oct10.194519.611@island.COM> fester@island.COM (Mike Fester) writes:
>
>Uh, then why bother saying Abbott's record SHOULD have been xx-xx? Why are
>you even bothering with this Pythagorean nonsense, if you are simply going
>to argue with the results.

The formula gives an *expected* winning percentage.  The expectation
of a random process does not necessarily look anything like any given
result.

>It was 3.11. He gave up *8* unearned runs. Morris, with the "excellent" 
>defense behind him, gave up 6.

Until the last start of the season, Morris had only given up four
unearned runs.  You know that.  You are just being difficult.  And he
has more IP than Abbott.  Besides, you are nit-picking here.  I
believe I adequately answered your question about why Abbott isn't a
.500 pitcher.

>Then why bother to compute them and point to such nonsense as "Morris WOULD 
>have had THIS record if he'd gotten xxx run support."?

Expectations.  We expect his record to *average* 9-13 with that kind
of support.  This is different from expecting him to have *exactly* a
9-13 record every season.  (Shall I give a lecture on probability
theory and what the expected value of a random variable means?)

>Hey Fisher

Who, me?  If you insist on using my last name, at least spell it right!

>Just in case YOU missed it, it was not THAT many more; *I* sent you the stats,
>remember? He had a 3.11 RA or 73 runs. He got 62. He'd really have to 
>space them right (or wrong) to end up with a 7 - 15 record.

You never sent me Morris' final stats.  I finally got them myself, but
not before I made that post.

Pay attention to what's being argued, and with the stats from which week!

-Valentine
-- 
Make outs, not walks!					tedward@cs.cornell.edu
Clemens four Cy Young!
From: krueger@cs.uwp.edu (Gerald Krueger)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.baseball
Subject: Bring in Walk
Date: 15 Oct 92 14:55:25 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.1992Oct15.145525.21623
Organization: University of Wisconsin - Parkside
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Does anybody remember Fransisco Cabrerra's homerun last year off of
Rob Dibble?  Cabrerra is a dead fastball hitter and I had a feeling
he could hit Belinda but not Walk.  I think that if Leyland brings
in Walk Pittsburgh fans wouldn't be suffering.  Anybody else share
the same view?

						Jerry
-- 
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From: Jerald.Thomas@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Jerald Thomas)
Subject: john birch
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 20:10:33 GMT

Actually, there were three San Diego Padres who were linked with the John
Birch Society: Eric Show, Dave Dravecky and Mark Thurmond. Show, however,
was the only one who was an active member for any period of time. The
other two were associated with the group when they appeared with Show at a
booth at a local fair to distribute Birch propaganda.


JT





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From: clgs11@vaxa.strath.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Cito Manages reasonable in Game #1POST
Organization: Strathclyde University VAX Cluster
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 16:17:21 GMT

In article <1992Oct8.220559.22405@news2.cis.umn.edu>, thornley@deci.cs.umn.edu (David H. Thornley) writes:
> In article <21067@plains.NoDak.edu> sivaram@plains.NoDak.edu (Sivaram Hariharan ) writes:
>>
>>I agree that Cito threw away yesterday's game to the As.
>>Why Morris in the 9th when u have fire-ballers like Ward.
>>Why Morris when Larussa shows by example that he removes
>>Stewart and brings in Russel.
>>
> In the defense of Cito, why expect him to face down Morris when Kelly left
> him in through the tenth in a more critical game?  Morris does *not* want
> to leave the game, he wants to continue to pitch, and I can respect that
> in a guy.  He seems to intimidate managers into leaving him in too long,
> which is a problem, but players with determination are never going to
> be easy to manage.
> 
> David Thornley
> "You must never allow a pitcher to undermine your authority" - Niccolo
> Machiavelli
Newsgroups: rec.sport.baseball
From: (Gerry Gryschuk)
Subject: Re: TORONTO BLUE JAYS CLINCHED THE AL EAST!!!!!
Organization: University of Saskatchewan
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 09:48:13 GMT

From article <17932@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>, by zuhars@madrone.eecs.ucdavis.edu (Gary Frog Baseball Huckabay):
> If you're a Jays fan, just ask yourself: What if Rickey gets hot?
> 

Actually I never ask myself questions it makes my head hurt.

> I don't lose any sleep over Joe Carter or Dave Winfield getting hot.

Oh sure but I bet you've been taking SLEEP-EZE(tm) worrying about the
possibility of Manuel "Don't call me Manny" Lee breaking out in a big way.
--
Gerald Gryschuk            Saskatoon,Saskatchewan = a place with 9 months
gerry@sask.usask.ca           of hockey and 3 months of poor skating.
Go Habs!!!
From: hambric@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Stephen Hambric)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.baseball
Subject: 1992 Ex-Oriole All-Star Team
Date: 7 Oct 92 16:39:28 GMT
Reply-To: hambric@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Stephen Hambric)
Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD

Why didn't the Orioles win the AL East this year?  
Perhaps this list of the 1992 Ex-Oriole All-Star
team can help explain the reason.  First the 
pitchers:

Pitcher       W  L   ERA   IP   H   BB   K
---------------------------------------------
Schilling,C  14 11  2.35  226  165  59  147
Morgan,M     16  8  2.55  240  203  79  123
Martinez,D   16 11  2.47  226  172  60  147
Harnisch,P    9 10  3.70  206  182  64  164

Totals       55 40  2.74  898  722 262  581

Although Harnisch's season is hardly one to
remember, it compares well to most of those
on the:

Current Oriole starting pitching staff:

Pitcher       W  L   ERA   IP   H   BB   K
---------------------------------------------
Mussina,M    18  5  2.54  241  212  48  130
Rhodes,A      7  5  3.63   94   87  38   77
Lefferts      1  3  4.09   33   34   6   23
McDonald,B   13 13  4.24  227  213  74  158
Sutcliffe,R  16 15  4.47  237  251  74  109
Milacki,B     6  8  5.84  115  140  44   51

Totals       60 49  4.00  947  937 284  548

Totals       42 44  4.50  706  725 236  418
(w/out Mussina)

(Note:  J. Mesa mercifully not included)

Add Mussina to the Ex-Oriole All-Star staff
and you get:

Totals       73 45  2.69 1139  934 310  711

Those starting pitching numbers would be enough
to win any division even without the 1992 Ex-
Oriole All-Star non pitchers:

Player         BA   OBA   SLG   HR   RBI   SB
---------------------------------------------
Murray,E     .261  .336  .423   16    93    4
Tettleton,M  .238  .379  .469   32    83    0
Finley,S     .292  .355  .407    5    55   44

(Both pro- and anti- SDCN/Stat-head numbers 
 included for completeness)

Compare the Ex-O's to these chumps:

Player         BA   OBA   SLG   HR   RBI   SB
---------------------------------------------
Milligan,R   .240  .383  .361   11    53    0
Davis,G      .276  .338  .422   13    48    1
Orsulak,J    .289  .342  .381    4    39    5

Put Murray at 1st, Tettleton at DH, and Finley
in RF and the "1992 AL East Champions" banner
would be blowing in the Camden Yards wind during
the divisional playoffs now.

I have and will always root for the Baltimore
Orioles, but I'll be damned if they haven't made
some of the most boneheaded personnel moves over
the last several years.

Steve Hambric (hambric@oasys.dt.navy.mil)
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