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20.05.12 —But never in a role like this. For starters, Black is playing Bernie, a closeted mortician living as the manservant/male companion of wealthy widow Marjorie Nugent (Shirley MacLaine) in small-town Texas. Kind and generous, Bernie is the most popular man in town—but when he befriends the cantankerous and demanding Nugent, townspeople’s eyebrows are raised. And when Bernie’s had enough of Marjorie’s abuse? Well, lets just say she meets a tragic end.

Source: Queerty 20.05.12 Overall), the Silver & Black tabbed the three-year starter at Penn State.

He looks every bit of a football player; with an amazing frame (6’5” 274 pounds) and athletic ability to play on the edge. He can shed blocks well and is very raw with his talents. But he hasn’t played the game long since his move to the United States from England, to play basketball, before landing at Penn State.

Source: Silver and Black report 20.05.12

Maybe Brian Cashman just ought to stay away from making major pitching acquisitions. Like the lousy blackjack player who keeps going back to Las Vegas, he always seems to have things end badly for him. Well, not always, obviously. The signing of CC Sabathia was crucial to the Yankees winning the 2009 championship, but that was a no-brainer at the time. PINEDA TO HAVE SHOULDER SURGERY, MISS SEASON Otherwise, Cashman’s laundry list of pitchers gone wrong is long, from Carl Pavano to Kei Igawa to A.J. Burnett to Jeff Weaver … well, Yankee fans are all too familiar with the names. In those cases, the GM has to take the hit. However, in the case of Michael Pineda, the righthander who needs shoulder surgery, as the Yankees announced on Wednesday, it’s neither logical nor fair to blame Cashman. HUGHES BATTERED BY RANGERS LINEUP IN LOSS Fans are already screaming that the Mariners suckered him into trading them Jesus Montero for what amounted to damaged goods. But come on, do you think Cashman really didn’t do his homework on the guy? For that matter, Cashman says the Yankees performed X-rays and MRIs on both his elbow and shoulder. “We did an intensive interview with him at the time, too,” Cashman said by phone on Wednesday night. “And he was strong as a bull in resistance testing. PINEDA OUT, BUT PETTITTE NOT YET IN “We checked off everything on our checklist. I feel comfortable that no stone went unturned. Unfortunately, something happened. I wish it didn’t, but that’s the risk you take with pitchers.” Still, it’s fair to ask whether the Yankees should have been more suspicious of Pineda’s bad second half to his rookie season, when he went from an All-Star to 1-4 with a 5.12 ERA. To this, Cashman said he studied all the data on Pineda’s second-half outings and found that his velocity was lower than normal only in his final start of the season, after the Mariners had given him 10 days of rest as they limited his innings over the final month of the season. “The myth that his velocity was down in the second half simply isn’t true,” Cashman said. “That drumbeat keeps coming back up because of the injury but it’s not true.” Fangraphs.com, which tracks pitchers’ velocity, supports that premise, and two scouts who saw him during the second half of the season do as well. They both thought Pineda wore down over the second half, but more mentally than physically because the Mariners weren’t winning or scoring many runs. “I never saw anything alarming about his velocity,” one scout said. Of course, there is also the question of why the Mariners would trade such an electric arm, as Pineda routinely threw in the high 90s last year, unless they thought something was wrong. But the explanation at the time still makes sense: the Mariners have several high-ceiling pitching prospects who should be major-league ready in the next couple of seasons, but they were short on impact hitters in the majors and minors. And Safeco Field, which is very much a pitcher’s park, is not a place where free-agent sluggers necessarily want to play. On the night of the trade, meanwhile, I remember talking to three scouts and one rival GM, and each of them thought Cashman had made a great deal, citing Pineda’s potential to be a true ace. So why can’t this just be a case of bad luck? Cashman knows why fans are skeptical, even cynical. He just can’t tell you exactly why so many of his pitching acquisitions have failed in New York, especially since several have had success before or after their Yankee tenures for other ballclubs. In the past he has made it clear he believes there has been too much focus on such failures, especially since he has played a role in five Yankee championships. But on Wednesday night, he wasn’t going down that road. “It comes with the territory,” he said. “I’m proud of my accomplishments, and I’m accountable for my failures. “This is on my watch. I own it. I hope there will be a time in the future when Yankee fans will feel better about the trade. The doctors are optimistic. But I understand that right now the trade doesn’t look good.” For the moment, at least, the trade isn’t haunting the Yankees. Montero isn’t hitting all that much, .281 with two home runs, and Hector Noesi, the other pitcher included in the deal, is 1-2 with a 9.89 ERA. At least Jose Campos, the other pitcher the Yankees got from Seattle, shows promise in the minors. More important for 2012, Andy Pettitte decided to get off the couch and make a comeback. That may just allow the Yankees to survive the Pineda injury this season. So Cashman’s luck with pitchers isn’t all bad. Sometimes it just seems that way.

Source: New York Daily News