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Eric Martin: a Marine Corp Pfc's Mother's Day Video

Today's Edition of Eric Martin: The Google Alerts:

Marine Corp Pfc. Eric Martin stationed at Miramar records a video message to his mom for Mother's Day.

DVIDS - Holiday Greetings - Pfc. Eric Martin


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DVIDS

is a state-of-the-art, 24/7 operation that provides a timely, accurate and reliable connection between the media around the world and the military serving in Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain.

Through a network of portable Ku-band satellite transmitters located in-theater and a distribution hub in Atlanta, Georgia, DVIDS makes available real-time broadcast-quality video, still images and print products as well as immediate interview opportunities with service members, commanders and subject matter experts.
DVIDS...

• Facilitates remote interviews with commanders and subject matter experts engaged in fast-breaking news.
• Links media to deployed military units.
• Enables embedded journalists to transmit broadcast quality video from the field.
• Fulfills requests for products quickly via satellite, fiber and the Internet.
• Submits daily bulletins detailing archive additions and email alerts about breaking news.
• Coordinates holiday greetings, “shout-outs” and special events programming involving soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines deployed to Operations New Dawn and Enduring Freedom.
• Maintains a searchable archive of video, photo and print products.

Mission

The DVIDS mission is to serve as a turnkey operation that facilitates requests for Public Affairs video, audio, still imagery and print products; coordinates interviews with soldiers and commanders in a combat zone and provides an archive for ongoing operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain. 

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Eric Martin: University of Tennessee Relief Pitcher

From VolunteerTV.com: Vols Fall to Auburn, 12-3

“This team is struggling right now in all phases,” UT head coach Dave Serrano said. “It’s hard to pinpoint what we can do right now, but as coaches we have to stick with the processes that we believe in and these guys have to fight their way out of this.

“If we want to have a chance of reaching our long-range goals we have to come out and fight because to me the season is on the line tomorrow even with three more weekend series to go. We have to get a win on the road and prove some character. I told the team that tough times don’t last, tough people do.”

The Volunteers managed just five hits in the contest with Davis Morgan collecting the team’s only extra-base hit on the day. Freshman Robbie Kidd (2-2) suffered the loss after allowing seven runs on six hits and four walks over the first 3.1 innings.

Fellow first-year Vol Eric Martin did yeoman’s work out of the bullpen for Tennessee, firing a career-high 4.2 innings and striking out two. He entered the contest with just four total innings pitched in his brief collegiate career.

“Eric came in when it could have really gotten ugly,” Serrano said. “It was ugly enough for me but it could have really gotten bad and Eric kind of calmed it down a little bit and allowed us not to go down to the bullpen where we are really light right now in arms. Hopefully that is a shot in the arm for tomorrow.”

After a scoreless first inning, Auburn struck the first blow of the contest as Jay Gonzalez stroked an RBI single in the bottom of the second to put the Tigers up 1-0.

The Vols had a chance to tie the game up in the next frame, putting runners on the corners with just one out after Chris Pierce was hit by a pitch and Nick Powell delivered a one-out single.

Will Maddox then laid down a safety squeeze bunt just out in front of the plate, but Pierce had to hold until the Tigers threw down to first before taking off for home. A perfect throw back to the plate by the first baseman then cut Pierce down for the third out.

The floodgates opened for Auburn after that, as it tacked on two runs in the third and scored six times in the fourth to jump out to a commanding 9-0 lead.

Tennessee finally got on the board in the top of the fifth, scoring a pair of unearned runs. After a leadoff single by Chris Fritts, Jared Allen roped a line drive to center that was misplayed by Ryan Tella for a three-base error that allowed Fritts to score from first. Pierce followed with an RBI groundout on the next pitch to bring in UT’s second run and put the tally on the scoreboard at 9-2.

The Vols had another chance to cut into the Auburn lead in the sixth, loading the bases with two outs. Tiger relief pitcher Cory Luckie came on to strike out Allen to end the threat, however.

AU responded with three more runs in the bottom of the frame on a two-run single by Blake Austin and a solo home run by Zach Alvord to push its lead to double digits at 12-2.

Tennessee got back-to-back singles from Maddox and Zach Osborne to start the eighth inning before scoring their final run of the contest on a 5-4-3 double play.

The Vols will go back to Friday night starter Nick Williams again on Sunday afternoon after he threw just 56 pitches in the series opener. The series finale is set for a 1 p.m. CT/2 p.m. ET start.

For the most up-to-date information about the Tennessee baseball program, visit UTSports.com/baseball and follow @Vol_Baseball on Twitter. To purchase tickets, visit UTTix.com. 

Here is a picture of Eric Martin: The Iowa Bank Robber...

Eric Martin, 34, of Davenport, Iowa 

DOB: 6-28-77

Police: Suspected Iowa City Bank Robber Tried to Pull Loaded Gun on Officers

New Addition to Blog: 'Eric Martin: The Google Alerts'

I was so bored the other day, I added a Google Alert for my name: Eric Martin.

I really can't explain why but these Google Alerts have me anxiously awaiting there arrival. There must be something innate in the human psyche that makes me want to learn about the guys that I share my name with me.

It has been a pretty interesting week for guys named Eric Martin.

Just in the past few days I've been:

• a bank robber that tried to flee the police after he had been arrested causing school lockdown in Iowa
• a high school junior who captained his team to a State Championship in Danvers, MA
• a Congressman that lost an election in York, PA
• a Director of Public Works in Chesapeake, Va that rejected city employees pay increases 
• a Twitter account for @RonnieRust whose child had three back to back seizures
• a Rock Star (Formerly of Mr. Big)  who is going to sing on a Rick Springfield Tribute Album

So I will continue to watch out for my namesakes and see what kind of moments in their life Google captures for Forever in the supposed Black Hole of the GooglePlex.

In the next day or so I am going to add a new section to A Long Island Nerfherder's Blog called 'Eric Martin: The Google Alerts' in the column on the right.

Come back and check out the alerts if you have time.  Or create a Google Alert for your name.

And no, that's not me in the pic.  That's the Rock Star who is singing on the Rick Springfield Album.

I actually went out with girl a few times that  dated him.  He was from Long Island too.

Always Remember...

"Don't Take Any Shit from Anybody!"
                                                        -William Martin Joel

Filip Bondy of the NY Daily News Needs to Grow A Penis

Dear Mr. Bondy,

I just finished reading your article on the NHL hockey game last night between Rangers of New York and  the Devils of New Jersey.

With just the opening sentence you have managed to show how narrow minded and ethically shallow you are in regards to your profession.   That sentence is also the only sentence that you injected an opinion in the entire article.  After the first sentence its really just boiler plate play by play.

Yet in just that one sentence you have basically brushed the NHL as this league that moonlights as the old Worldwide Wrestling Federation (WWF).

You called it a niche league.  The only thing niche is your readership.  

Ritual violence?  Morally wrong?   We live in a world where MMA Fighting is growing in leaps and bounds.    Where is your article lambasting that?   In my opinion that is one of the things that is patently and morally wrong with America.  But the only thing I hear you calling for an end of is The Lambeau Leap.

In that one sentence you just nonchalantly paint the NHL as a boorish and thuggish league.  You do not go into much detail about the history of Devil/Ranger games, especially the recent series.  You really do not provide the reader with any information about how and why everything transpired last night at puck drop.

You also do not provide the reader with any in depth thought process as to why you think it is a "niche league" or why it is "morally wong."   In your profession sir, you have an obligation to the reader to provide useful information on the material you are covering.  Not recklessly throwing out very generic and very narrow minded lines without backing up your thought process.

By doing so you show me your just like me.  An average blogger who can be dangerous because he has a platform.  Not a journalist.

Click these links to see how you should of reported on last nights game.

Blue Shirts Blog

Ranger Rants

Sincerely,

A Nerfherder from Long Island 

New York Ranger Fans Should Erase Last Night's Game from Memory

Last night was a fluke.  An aberration.  What happened in the first 5 minutes of last night's game against the Chicago Blackhawks does not happen to this Ranger team.  

But it did.  And us fans should just wipe it from our memory.  Our team is allowed to have this one.  Granted, it was only the worst 5 minutes this team has played all year.  But considering where they are and what they have accomplished this year, they have earned a pass.

Also considering for the next 55 minutes, we won the game 2-0. And we had another apparent goal stolen from us because the referee lost sight of the puck.  That goal could've swung the moment our way even further and who knows what might have happened. 

This Ranger's team has played their hearts out so far this season.  Being the pessimist that I am, and considering the teams history since I graduated high school (1994), I have watched this team all year with a gut wrenching angst.  Waiting for the wheels to fall off at any moment.  Insistently nervous that their next mistake is just going to unwind this team and send them spiraling down the standings. 

 And when the wheels fell off last night in the first five minutes, I had such a sense of calm come over me.  I didn't think the sky was falling. Like Coach Torts has said so many times this year, "He trusts this team."  I trust this team. 

They were tired.  They came out flat against a hungry opponent.  The Blackhawks were pumped to play at MSG.  You could see it right from the start.  They were determined to not get embarrassed by losing their tenth straight game.  They had not won at The Garden in almost a decade.  

And the Ranger were coming off a brutal stretch of games played, answering the bell in each game against division rivals. 

And poor Marty Biron.  He received absolutely no help for his team in the first five minutes last night. Three of the four goals were breakaways, including a Penalty Shot in the first minute and 2 seconds of the game.  And the other goal he let in, he had a 6'8" monster on skates standing in front of the crease screening him.  Not one Ranger tried to muscle the monster out of Biron's way.  The King would have been hard pressed to not let in atleast 2 or 3 of the 4 goals.

Now that I have said my peace, I'm wiping this game from memory.  It never happened.  Looking forward to Sunday night.  All year long this team has bounced back from adversity.  I trust that it will be no different this time.  I trust in Coach Torts, that he will use this as motivation going forward.

James Dolan Is The Devil

James Dolan is the Devil and Cablevision is his hell that he wants to spread all over Long Island and New York City. Harsh you say? I do not think so. Let me explain...

I came across an awesome show on the Madison Square Garden Channel the other day. It was called, " The Spring of '94". It chronicled the run of both the New York Rangers and Knicks through the playoffs and into the Finals in their respective sports during the Spring of 1994. The Knicks lost in 7 games (John Starks) to the Houston Rockets and the Rangers broke their 54 year Cup Curse by beating the Vancouver Canucks in 7 unbelievable hockey games.

It was the year I graduated high school. It was actually the week I graduated high school that both teams were playing in their Finals. I graduated high school on June 12th, 1994 and I was sitting in a hotel room in Florida on June 14th, 1994 watching the Ranger's win the Cup that night. My buddy and I went to Florida for 2 weeks the day after we graduated and we were going to a party that night which my friend assured me the people at the party would be watching the hockey game. When we arrived they were playing SEGA hockey. Hockey had not arrived in Florida yet. There was no such thing as Florida Panther or the Tampa Bay Lightening. So we left the party and started our own back at our hotel to watch the game.

Just watching "The Spring of '94" gave me goosebumps, remembering the last time The Garden was truly alive. Those two teams had a stranglehold on NYC that Spring. That Ranger team will be remembered through the ages with names like Messier, Leetch, Richter, and Graves. And what Ranger fan is ever going to forget, "Matteau!, Matteau!, Matteau!" And even though that Knicks team lost those Finals and never did bring home a championship, they will always have a special place in my heart and I'm sure with most Knick's fans of that era too. Those battles with Chicago, Detroit, and Miami are emblazoned in my memory forever. There has yet to be a Knick team since that can compare. And even though this current incarnation of the New York Rangers gives a fan some hope for the first time in years, they have to win Lord Stanley's Cup to even be in the conversation with the '94 team.

There has yet to be a Spring like it since. Sure the Knicks made a run to the Finals in the strike shortened '99 season, and the Rangers have teased us with a one and done playoff appearance here and there, it has never been like it was. And it is no coincidence in my opinion, these dark times coincide with Cablevision and James Dolan's mishandling of all things MSG. They say when you are in a depression you have a hard time recognizing that you are in a bad place, but the people that are removed from your emotions can see it very easily in you. I was so emotionally invested in those teams at that time of my life and that combined with youthfully enthusiasm carried that emotion for years even after those teams were disbanded. It wasn't until the last 4 or 5 where I had emotionally detached from that emotion that I started to realize what a cancer James Dolan is. And it has been a combination of things that has enslaved me to my current set of emotions regarding Jimmy D.

Let's start with his ruining the brand that was the New York Knicks. I can't even bring myself to read or watch anything about this team. His loyalty to Isiah Thomas has crippled this franchise and brings to mind the beginning lyrics to Incubus' song Pistola, "On the tip of my tongue an offensive is poised and rearing, My intention a bullet, my body a trigger finger". This is a man (albeit as a player in definitely a Top 50 All Time NBAer) who has bankrupted the CBA, The Toronto Raptors and New York Knicks on top of costing his boss $10 million to cover up a sexual harassment lawsuit brought against him and Madison Square Garden. He has proven time and time gain that he doesn't care about the average fan. Doesn't care if he prices them out of game tickets. Doesn't care if he alienates an extremely loyal fan base. He is all about the what is good for Jimmy. He wants to prove that he knows what he is doing but what he keeps proving to me anyway, is that he should just stick to playing the guitar.

And he has done the same thing with the Ranger's franchise. The last year or two is the first time I have been emotionally invested in this team. But how could you not with the current group of homegrown talent? These kids play with their heart on their sleeves and blood and sweat on their jerseys. But for many years after that Cup team he has just throwing money at bloated All Stars while sacrificing youth to win something that can never be one without chemistry. And it has only been because of those horrible teams that we were lucky enough to be able to draft the current group.

And finally, lets talk about Cablevision. Growing up Cablevision is all their was (on Long Island anyway). I switched to Verizon's Fios as soon as it was available in my area. It is such a better product than than Cablevisions in both the online and television services. The user interface for Fios blows away Cablevision's unresponsive, antiquated piece of crap. But the kicker is the MSG channel. I love that New York Daily News' columnist Bob Raissman calls it the 'MSGulag Network' (Think Caligula). As Fios customer I cannot watch the MSG Channel in HD. I have to watch Ranger hockey games in Standard Def on beautifully crafted and expensive High Definition Televisions. If he was really for "the fans" he would allow all the fans to experience hockey and basketball in HD if they could not get to the games. But no, he wants to rule the television world make everybody buy his inferior product. When I had OptOnline I could not have my computer and XBox on at the same time it would totally slow the services of both of them down to an unusable level. But with Fios i can have both my computers, my smart phones, XBox and PS3 running at the same time with no lag. It is such a joy.

I will never go back to Cablevision but Jimmy has to get his head out of his ass soon and start showing the fans that he cares.

Free MSG!!!!!!