Flores is considered to be one of the crown jewells of the Mets organization. According to this scouting service, his game has lots of holes. Could it be that Flores’ reputation came from the over hyping of latin prospects that came during the Tony Bernazard regime?
Met’s minor league prospect guru, Mack Ade, rates Flores at number three. Toby Hyde lists him 2nd.
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This post was written by bobsikes on February 1, 2010
Using unprescedented protocol today, Obama used a pre-arranged question from Huf Po’s Nico Pitney to symbolically, but directly make and address to the protestors of Iran.
Although from a reliable ally website, Pitney’s yeoman’s efforts at in blogging events in Iran are legitimate. His question was poignant and summative. The President’s response certainly provided no comfort to the murderous regime and in fact clearly created seperated them from worldwide norms. The question will be whether or not he will create a consensus with political foes in the US by the strengthening of his message for Iran.
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This post was written by bobsikes on June 23, 2009
Q: In your opinion is Mousavi really the only hope? He was never really a reformer before — so how is it that he became the hope for people to such a degree?
A: I don’t think he is the only hope and the best option but I do think that’s what these people want and need right now. They can’t aim for a huge change and started marching against the Islamic republic of Iran, but they can get to the point they like with these changes and these small changes. Plus I think right now the issue is more how they’ve been treated and lied to and.. So they want there right back more than anything and in this process Moussavi has suddenly become the face and the leader. They voted for him and now they want their vote to be realized. I also think he is a bit different now, not that his way of thinking or ideas has totally changed and his super open minded person but he has changed, and I strongly believe his wife is the power behind all that.
Emphasis mine. There has been much mention of Moussavi’s wife. This communication gives weight to the argument that Moussavi does indeed represent change from the existing regime. It’s interesting to hear how many women are among the demonstrators.
These people are very brave and know that thie lives hang in the balance. There is some indication that elements of the military won’t fire upon the protestors. Is this more prevelant than the regime wants us to know.
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This post was written by bobsikes on June 19, 2009
Why? Is it beacuse he has his eye on the socialized medicine ball right now? Seth Leibsohn, blogging at the Corner says this:
That’s the take-away line from President Obama on Iran. That’s not going to do it. One can imagine hundreds (if not thousands) of protesters in Iran asking “Where is the U.S.? What does Obama think?”
Well, he thinks we shouldn’t meddle. He thinks that “we respect Iranian sovereignty.” He thinks that the violence there is “troubling.”
Organic protests of reform rise up too infrequently in tyrannies and someone needs to show these students and these protesters that someone is on their side, that someone gives a damn about them. Our administration’s talk of continuing to press for open dialogue with the leaders of Iran was not and is not appropriate right now.
As Vaclav Havel said yesterday, “Expressions of solidarity with those who are defending human rights, with students and others, are important.” Yes they are, and to reassert respect — that’s the word the president used, “respect” — for Iran’s sovereignty at a time of a stolen and fraudulent election, with brutality on the streets being committed against those demonstrating against the fraudulent election, in a regime that is the lead sponsor of terror in the Middle East, that thwarts weapons inspections as it attempts to nuclearize itself, and speaks of a world without Israel or America . . . well, respect for its sovereignty it the last thing the U.S. should be standing for.
The U.S. can stand with democratic reformers or with brutal thugs in any given country. It can give hope or take it. It cannot do both. To paraphrase John F. Kennedy: In times of great moral crisis, we should not be maintaining our neutrality. Diplomacy is one thing, freedom is another — and for all of us who have wanted non-military inspired freedom to take root in Iran, that moment may be upon us (I emphasize the word “may”) and standing by our principle of neutrality;and respect for that which we hope to end is the opposite of what we should be doing. Freedom has always had its limits, but so too should diplomacy.
Mossavi may not be Thomas Jefferson, but as Michael Ledeen keenly pointed out: “He is a leader who has been made into a revolutionary by a movement that grew up around him.” And in any event, he is the “not-Ahmadinejad.”
This may not be Iran’s Tiananmen moment, but it sure is ours.
Much conventional wisdom is that the man whom leads this opposition is just another mouthpiece and figurehead for the mullahs. But the Iranian street cannot be discounted. Is Obama so arrogant that he cannot be disuaded from his world view and miss this chance at history?
More from AJ Strata
Also Victor Davis Hanson takes the President to task and says he’s voting present again.
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This post was written by bobsikes on June 16, 2009
