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I’ve got a lot of baseball on my mind today so I’m just going to throw it all on one post.

1) Glenn Beckert passed away two days ago (April 12, 2020) at the age of 79. He played most of his relatively short career for the Cubs (1965-1975). He was a rock-solid second baseman and part of a great middle infield with Don Kessinger. Primarily a singles hitter, he hit .342 in 1969 yet finished 3rd in the NL Batting Title. Check out this list from that year: Joe Torre (STL) .363, Ralph Garr (ATL) .343, Beckert (CHC) .342, Roberto Clemente (PIT).341, Hank Aaron (ATL) .327, Manny Sanguillen (PIT) .319, Cleon Jones (NYM) .319, Matty Alou (STL) .315, Lou Brock (STL) .313., Rusty Staub (MON) .311. I guess lowering the pitching mound from 15 to 10 inches after the 1968 “Year of the Pitcher” had a positive effect.

2) Jim Frey passed away yesterday (April 13, 2020) at the age of 88. He led the 1980 Kansas City Royals to the World Series. (They lost to Philadelphia.) He went on to manage the Chicago Cubs to their first post-season appearance in 39 years in 1984. (Cubs choked against San Diego, losing a 5-game series after winning the first 2 games.) In 1989, he was the Cubs general manager when a group of youngsters and mostly no-names won the NL East. (They lost to the Giants in the division playoffs.) During the 1987 and 88 seasons, he was a color commentator on the Cubs radio broadcasts. I spent a lot of time on the road back then and listened to a lot of Cubs games on the radio. One of my favorite moments was when, during a game, Frey was asking Lou Boudreau about the College of Coaches from the Cubs early 1960’s team. Hearing Frey pepper Boudreau with questions, Boudreau trying to offer answers suggesting the system made some sense, and Frey’s maniacal laughter after each answer made for superb radio comedy. (You’ll have to Google College of Coaches to understand what I’m talking about.)

3) Kirk Gibson - My wife sent me a post from Twitter that asked, “What is the greatest home run you’ve ever seen in person?” For me it was May 10, 1985, Chicago White Sox vs Detroit Tigers at the original Comiskey Park. It was a balmy spring evening and we were sitting in infield seats on the 3rd base side of home plate. Tom Seaver was pitching. Kirk Gibson hit a home run over the right field roof. It cleared the roof at 350 feet and was an estimated total distance of 525 feet. With my view looking down the first base line, I was able to watch the trajectory of the ball as it disappeared into the night. I’ll never forget that moment.

4) Tony Armas – This is my runner up. It occurred during a Saturday afternoon game at Comiskey Park on April 28, 1984. The White Sox were playing the Red Sox and Tony Armas cranked a line drive into the center field bleachers, only the 6th of 7 such home runs hit in the 80-year history of the ballpark. (As with Gibson’s home run, Tom Seaver was the White Sox pitcher.) Comiskey Park bleachers were small (compared to it’s North Side counterpart Wrigley Field that sports bleachers from foul pole to foul pole). They were just a small section underneath the score board in center field. The center field fence was 415 feet from home plate, but the bullpens were behind it. The actual seating area was about 450 feet from home plate. My wife and I were sitting in the outfield grandstands that day, maybe 20 feet from the bleachers. But here’s the thing; I had left my seat to get beer or food or whatever and I missed it! When I came back, my wife calmly said to me, “You should have seen this home run.” And casually pointing at the bleachers, “It went in there.” I was like, “W-H-A-T?!? There was a home run hit in the bleachers! AND I DIDN’T SEE IT!!!” At any rate, I tried finding video of that home run along with Kirk Gibson’s home run but came up empty. (The other home runs in the Comiskey Park bleachers were Jimmie Foxx (1934), Hank Greenberg (1938), Alex Johnson (1970), Dick Allen (1972), Richie Zisk (1977) and George Bell (1985).

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The Difference Encouragement Makes

Charlie Smith “And when he was come to Jerusalem, he assayed to join himself to the disciples: and they were all afraid of him, not believing that he was a disciple. But Barnabas took him, and brought him to the apostles, and declared unto them how he had seen the Lord in the way, and that he had spoken to him, and how at Damascus he had preached boldly in the name of Jesus. And he was with them…

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Riverbed Technology Expands NPM Portfolio with New Virtual Solutions for MSPs - Jim Frey, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA)

Riverbed Technology announced two new virtual editions of its Riverbed Cascade solutions, which enable managed service providers (MSP) to offer application-aware network performance management (NPM) as a service for small and medium-sized enterprise customers.

"By leveraging server and network virtualization, cloud hosting and service providers are able to achieve multi-tenant services across a single physical infrastructure, but this creates new challenges for performance monitoring, where it is necessary to keep management data segregated by client and subscriber," said Jim Frey, managing research director at Enterprise Management Associates (EMA). "Application-aware network performance management solutions must be adapted for these new virtualized environments by themselves being deployed using a virtualized footprint, which Riverbed has made possible in the latest release of Cascade and virtual edition products. In this way, providers can assure services across the entire infrastructure while also being able to discretely monitor and share performance details on a customer-by-customer basis." - Jim Frey, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) - October 23, 2012

Tufin Tracks Applications for Better Firewall Policy Management – Jim Frey, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA)

Jim Frey, a research director at Enterprise Management Associates, says the main challenge for network administrators is keeping up with the rate of changes and growth of enterprise applications. "It's very rare that I speak to someone who's reducing or consolidating applications," he says. "The number is increasing and, more importantly, the frequency of change is increasing."

This growth is being driven in part by virtualization and cloud computing, says Frey, and it means a bigger workload for firewall managers trying to keep up. Tufin's SecureApp specifically addresses this challenge, he says, by trying to make the job easier. It's still about monitoring ports and IP addresses, but SecureApp provides a tool to more easily identify what applications are connecting through them. "This is helpful because you have to really keep up with these changes based on which applications are being affected and how this in turn affects firewall rules."

Frey says tying these two elements together has not been formalized very well in available products to date. A lot of attention has to be paid to managing rules, making sure they're consistent across firewalls and devices and that old ones are retired. "All of this is typically driven by changes to the applications."

One potential scenario happening in enterprises occurs when application developers exploit the same connectivity rules over and over again for different applications. This is not a very good practice, says Frey. "The only reason to do that is because they perceived a significant barrier when it came to dealing with the firewall team." Old rules should be retired and new ones should set up properly, he says. "Organizations need a tool like Tufin to make that easier to do."- Jim Frey, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) - Sept. 2012