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The Chicago International Film Festival is kicking off 12 days of film screenings across the city next week with a block party in Lakeview.

The 58th edition of the festival runs Oct. 12-23 in theaters across the city.

Cinema/Chicago, the festivals presenting organization, will roll out a red carpet outside the Music Box Theatre, 3733 N. Southport Ave., for the ChiFilmFest Opening Night Block Party. It happens 5-10 p.m. Oct. 12 along Southport between Grace and Waveland avenues.

The block party will have live music, food trucks, vendor booths and screens displaying trailers for some of the festivals films.

This is our first block party, and its hopefully the first of many, said Vivian Teng, managing director of the festival. We really want to revolve it around cinema, Chicago and the community, so well roll out the red carpet and will have all kinds of film-themed displays.

The block party is partially funded by Special Service Area 27 as part of its Community Event & Placemaking Grant program, which offers up to $5,000 in assistance for unique events and public programs within the SSAs boundaries.

Businesses within the block partys footprint will put of cinema-themed decorations, roll out their own red carpets and do more to celebrate the occasion, said Alyssa Lombardo, events and marketing director for the Lakeview Roscoe Village Chamber of Commerce, which is the SSAs sole service provider.

The ChiFilmFest Opening Night Block Party could be anywhere in Chicago, but they chose Lakeview, so that speaks volumes to our neighborhood and what were able to provide, Lombardo said. Its an ideal location with the historic Music Box right there. This event is going to be so cool.

After decentralizing the festival last year by hosting screenings at various theaters, the Chicago International Film Festival is launching two new venues this year, Teng said.

Some films will now be screened at Englewoods Hamilton Park Cultural Center, 513 W. 72nd St., and Austin Town Hall, 5610 W. Lake St., Teng said.

Other venues include AMC River East 21, 322 E. Illinois St.; the Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State St.; and the Chicago History Museum, 1601 N. Clark St.

Last year we started this by branching out into other parts of the city and we had such a great reaction to it, Teng said. Its about finding ways to connect with audiences and inviting them to participate in the festival.

This years festival features 92 feature films and 56 shorts coming from countries around the world, including Ukraine, South Korea, Spain, Chile, India, France, Mexico and Japan.

Programmers reviewed more than 6,000 films to curate the festival, Teng said.

Theres something for everyone, Teng said. We have the awards contenders and then these really amazing local gems that have been submitted.

The festival opens 7 p.m. at the Music Box with a screening of A Compassionate Spy, a documentary by local filmmaker Steve James about University of Chicago graduate Theodore Halls involvement with the Manhattan Project and how he passed crucial military secrets to Soviet intelligence about the United States efforts to build nuclear weapons.

The festivals centerpiece is Rian Johnsons Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, a sequel to Knives Out, which screened at a previous years festival, Teng said. It stars Kathryn Hahn, who will be on hand to accept a Career Achievement Award. Glass Onion screens 6 p.m. Oct. 18 at the Music Box.

The festival closes 6 p.m. Oct. 23 at the Music Box with a screening of White Noise, a hilarious and horrifying, lyrical and absurd, ordinary and apocalyptic dramatization by Noah Baumbach about an American familys attempts to deal with mundane conflicts of everyday life in an uncertain world.

The festival will also have a mix of local local stories:

Twenty of the festivals films will be available for streaming in Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana through the festivals online streaming platform and apps for Roku and Apple TV. Virtual screenings are ticketed and viewable from noon Oct. 13 through 11:59 Oct. 23.

For more info, visit the Chicago Film Festivals website at: https://www.chicagofilmfestival.com/

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A suite of short films on themes of memory, grief and joy will screen at Austin Town Hall, 5610 W. Lake St., on Thursday, 6:30 p.m. The films feature works by Julian Turner, Sharrifa Ali, Alex Mallis and Titus Khapar, Shanrica Evans, Kevin Jerome Everson and Claudrena Harold, and dream hampton.

Set in the early 1960s, a budding soul music label brings in a savvy group of local teenage musicians to offer feedback and inspiration to its early signees in Big Three. Other shorts include: You Go Girl, Shut Up and Paint, Amina, Tsutsue, and Freshwater.

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Jed Hoyer is scheduled to deliver the autopsy on the Chicago Cubs season Monday at Wrigley Field. But if youve been paying attention, you already knew the team was not built to win in the first place in the rebuild that cant be called a rebuild.

Nevertheless, Chairman Tom Ricketts already declared 2022 a success despite the 88 losses and lowest attendance in a non-pandemic-affected season since 1997, when the Cubs started with a National League record 14 straight losses.

Here are 12 thoughts on what we saw and heard in 2022.

The drone went through Murphys Bleachers, a fire truck and the center-field scoreboard. It was seamlessly spliced with GoPro video from the clubhouse and followed Seiya Suzuki to right field.

Even the ballhawks on Kenmore and Waveland avenues cooperated by pretending to battle for a home run ball that was staged, with an employee tossing a baseball from the bleachers.

Wrigley traditions make the Cubs the Cubs, a lesson learned once again.

Cubs right fielder Jason Heyward tosses a ball to fans as the sun sets after the rain at Wrigley Field on June 13, 2022. (Brian Cassella / Chicago Tribune)

Marquee Sports broadcaster Pat Hughes asked analyst Jim Deshaies during Sundays telecast if the teams late-season surge means anything for 2023.

Not really, Deshaies replied, noting there will be many new players and a carryover effect will be negligent.

As nice as it was to see the Cubs turn things around, Deshaies is absolutely right. If youre buying season tickets based on the September performance, you deserve what you get.

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Cubs starting pitcher Marcus Stroman pitches during the first inning against the Nationals at Wrigley Field on Aug. 9, 2022. (Armando L. Sanchez / Chicago Tribune)

That happened under pitching coach Tommy Hottovy, but bullpen coach Chris Young deserves credit for getting strong performances out of a young and revamped relief corps after several key veterans left at the trade deadline.

Still, the Cubs finished 19th in pitching (4.00 ERA) and runs scored (657), so a lot of improvement is needed to be competitive in 2023.

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Ian Happ singles to score Seiya Suzuki during the fifth inning on Sept. 29, 2022, at Wrigley Field. (Erin Hooley / Chicago Tribune)

The numbers were skewed by playing 38 games against rebuilding division foes: the Pittsburgh Pirates (98 runs) and Cincinnati Reds (115 runs). That means almost one-third (32.4%) of their runs scored came against those two 100-loss teams.

The good news is neither the Pirates nor Reds figures to spend any money to improve. So just by standing still, the Cubs virtually are assured of no worse than another third-place finish.

Cubs, Woo!

Nick Madrigal sprints around the bases before scoring a run on a double by Rafael Ortega in the sixth inning of a game against the StCardinals at Wrigley Field on Aug. 23, 2022. (Chris Sweda / Chicago Tribune)

Madrigal showed flashes of his White Sox development in August, hitting .300 with a .378 OBP for the month. But injuries limited him to 59 games.

His status for 2023 is up in the air as the Cubs contemplate signing a potential free-agent shortstop such as Trea Turner or Xander Bogaerts, which likely would move Nico Hoerner to second. Madrigal understands its possible he could be a role player.

I dont know whats going to happen but I want the best players in this organization no matter if theyre at my position or any position, he said before suffering a season-ending groin strain in September. Thats ultimately what creates a winning atmosphere and winning teams, and thats something I want to be a part of.

Christopher Morel hugs teammate Willson Contreras following a victory over the Pirates at Wrigley Field on May 17, 2022. (Chris Sweda / Chicago Tribune)

The Morel-infused energy was less noticeable as the season wore on, and the rookie struggled to hit for average, falling to .235, including .190 against left-handers.

But Morel said he will continue to be a hugger in 2023 and beyond.

Ive been doing it since I came up, always hugging players, and Im happy to be here and am not going to change, he said. I do it for myself and the rest of the players.

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Cubs fans make a beer snake in the bleachers on May 22, 2022, at Wrigley Field. (Brian Cassella / Chicago Tribune)

Instead of letting viewers listen to Cubs fans sing their anthem, Marquee Sports now opts to make the song the background music to discussion of the Binnys-sponsored Toast of the Game highlight. Then its back to the studio for positive postgame analysis.

Its another example of top-level executives making Cubs telecasts as generic as possible to appease sponsors and the Rickettses.

Cubs third baseman Patrick Wisdom blows a bubble during the ninth inning on Sept. 29, 2022, at Wrigley Field. (Erin Hooley / Chicago Tribune)

That would average out to 227 strikeouts in a 162-game season. Thats a lot, even by todays standards.

The single-season record is 223, set by the Arizona Diamondbacks Mark Reynolds in 2009. But Reynolds had an .892 OPS that season. Wisdoms OPS as a Cub is .764.

Grounds crew workers prepare the batter's box for a game on Sept. 27, 2022. (John J. Kim / Chicago Tribune)

That could mean theres a shortage of celebrity Cubs fans coming to games during the rebuild thats not at all a rebuild, or the team has drawn a red line and no longer invites anyone below a B-list celeb.

Cubs catcher Willson Contreras warms up before a game on Sept. 27, 2022. (John J. Kim / Chicago Tribune)

Is it the money? The years? The wear and tear? His age?

Contreras, 30, always was patient with the media asking the same questions during his many goodbyes.

He caught only 72 games this year, his lowest total in a non-pandemic season since his rookie campaign in 2016. Maybe the Cubs believe hes primarily a designated hitter, which are always available on the open market.

Why it has to end remains one of the biggest unanswered questions of 2022.

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Simmons earned $4 million and started in 22 games, hitting .173 before being released.

Manager David Ross, Jason Heyward and Simmons were lockermates with the Atlanta Braves in 2012. When Simmons signed with the Cubs in March, Ross said he texted the news to Heyward.

Hes like, I got my two lockermates back, Ross said.

Sometimes its better not to get the band back together.

After being inducted into the Cubs Hall of Fame last month, Cardenal was asked why Cubs fans became so attached to him. He told a story of being booed on opening day in 1972 after losing a ball in the sun.

I went to the fans and said: What do you want me to do? Cardenal said. From that day, they accepted me, and I was confident the fans were behind me now. That was it.

You dont have to be a superstar to become a legend at Wrigley. Thats a tradition that wont soon end.

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CHICAGO For the first time in over two decades, fans of Major League Baseball had the chance to watch the chase for a home run record.

That came to an end on Tuesday night when Aaron Judge hit his 62nd home run of the 2022 season against the Texas Rangers at Globe Life Field. That round-tripper by the Yankees outfielder helped him pass Roger Maris for the American League record for most homers in a single season.

Of course, the major league records are all held by National League hitters, with three other players besting the 62 home run mark in a season. One of those is a former Cubs outfielder, who has three of the six best seasons for homers in MLB history.

So after Judge hit his 62 homer, #WGNTBT takes look back at the three times Sammy Sosa reached that mark in a Cubs uniform.

In one of the more memorable afternoons in Wrigley Field history in the midst of his home run chase with the Cardinals Mark McGwire and the Cubs race for an NL Wild Card spot, Sosa hit his 61st and 62nd long ball of the season against the Brewers.

After a two-run homer in the 5th, Sosa blasted No. 62 off Eric Plunk in the bottom of the ninth inning, with the ball ending up on Waveland Avenue in a sea of fans hoping to catch it. That allowed Sosa to pass Maris on the all-time list and pull into a tie with McGwire, who had 62 homers at that point.

The game was paused for a few minutes before Sosa emerged from the dugout a few times to give a curtain call after the record-typing homer. After the Cubs won the game on a Mark Grace solo shot, a few teammates carried Sosa off the field.

Sosa would finish with 66 homers on the season but it was McGwire who beat him for the original record of 70 homers.

Sosa would once again reach the 62 home run mark in 1999, doing so a little later in the season for a Cubs team that wasnt in playoff contention.

But hed reach the mark in the ninth inning again, this time taking an Anthony Schumaker pitch deep to left field for a two-run homer in a Cubs victory over the Phillies at Veterans Stadium.

In the final week, Sosa hit one more home run in St. Louis to finish the season with 63, which is the sixth-best in MLB history.

In what many consider his best overall season in baseball, where he had career-highs in batting average (.328) and RBI (160), Sosa reached the 62 homer mark for a third and final time.

Facing David Williams of the Pirates in the bottom of the fourth inning, Sosa hit a solo homer into left field bleachers for No. 62 in front of the home fans.

That was part of an incredible finish to the 2001 season in which he homered in five of his last six games to finish with 64 homers, the second-highest total of his career and the fifth-most in MLB history.

Sosa finished his career with 609 home runs, with 545 coming as a member of the Cubs, which is a franchise record. From 1998-2003, Sosa hit at least 40 long balls and in four of those years went over the 50 mark.

Like McGwire and Barry Bonds, who holds the MLB record for homers in a season with 73 in 2001, Sosas marks have come under scrutiny due to the rampant steroid use of that era. He nor Bonds have ever admitted to using them, but McGwire did in 2010.

The Cubs have yet to formally welcome Sosa back to Wrigley Field or induct him into the teams Hall of Fame since he was traded from the team after the 2004 season.

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The most punishing of hurricanes bring deaths and catastrophic destruction, lifting roofs off homes, toppling trees, snapping power lines and causing billions in damage.

Category 5 storms are the most dangerous, defined by sustained winds of 157 miles an hour or more.According to the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, they leave a high percentage of framed homes destroyed, residential areas isolated by fallen trees and power poles and power outages that last for weeks at least. Most of the areas that are hit are uninhabitable for weeks or months.

The wind scale does not take into account storm surges, flooding or tornadoes, all of which also can be deadly.

Before Hurricane Ian, which made landfall as a 150-mph Category 4 system, four Category 5 hurricanes have made landfall in the United States since the early 1900s. Here they are:

Blocks of homes in Mexico Beach, Florida, lie in rubble in Oct. 17, 2018, in the aftermath of Hurricane Michael. The storm hit on October 10 along the Florida Panhandle, causing massive damage and claiming the lives of more than a dozen people.

Hurricane Michael made landfall inthe Florida Panhandle, causing 16 direct deaths and 43 indirect deaths.

With top wind speeds of 162 miles per hour and maximum sustained winds of161 miles per hour, it caused damage from wind and storm surges, especially from Panama City Beach to Mexico Beachto Cape San Blas.

Hurricane Michael left $25 billion in damage, destroying 3,374 homes.

The storm remained at hurricane strength into southwest Georgia.

Homes ripped apart by Hurricane Andrew seen in Dade City, Florida, Sept. 1, 1992.

Hurricane Andrew struck in the early morning hours of Aug. 24, 1992, hitting with devastating force in southern Florida. The storm had a top wind speed of 174 miles per hour. It killed 15 people directly and another 28 indirectly, according to the National Weather Service. All but three of the deaths were in what was then called Dade County, now Miami-Dade County.

The storm caused about $26 billion damage, a record until Hurricane Katrina 13 years later. Most of the damage occurred in the southern part of Dade County. Some 49,000 homes were destroyed and another 108,000 were damaged.The hardest hit community was Homestead, wheremore than 99% of mobile homes or 1,167 out of 1,176 were demolished.

The shrimper "Wade Klein" is thrown against a house facing the beach in Biloxi, Mississippi, Aug. 18, 1969, shortly after Hurricane Camille tore through the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

Hurricane Camille struck along the Mississippi Gulf Coast near Waveland late on Aug. 17, 1969.

According to the National Weather Service, Camille ranks as the second most intense hurricaneto strike the continental United States in terms of atmospheric pressure and wind speed. It was weaker than the 1935 Labor Day Hurricane and slightly stronger than Hurricane Andrew and Hurricane Michael.

The hurricane destroyed all of the wind-recording instruments in the area, according to the National Weather Service, so the actual maximum sustained winds are not known. Peak winds were about 175 miles per hour, according to later analysis of data.

It caused about $11.3 billion in damage, in adjusted costs. The value is based on the 2022 Consumer Price Index adjusted cost.

A hotel in Matecumbe Key, Florida, is reduced to rubble as seen in this Sept. 7, 1935 photo after an unnamed category 5 hurricane swept through the Florida Keys during Labor Day. All along the Keys are scenes like this, bearing grim evidence of the fury that snuffed out 300 lives.

The Labor Day hurricane hit the Florida Keys on Sept. 2, 1935, causing at least 485 deaths.

Itcrossed the Florida Keys between Key West and Miami, Florida, with maximum sustained winds of about 185 miles an hour.

Those included about 260 World War I veterans who were working on the Overseas Highway in a federal relief project. They were from the Bonus Army, soldiers who camped out at the steps of the U.S. Capitol in the early 1930s to demand compensation promised by the federal government, according to the Library of Congress. They were dispersed by U.S. Army troops under the command of General Douglas MacArthur in 1932.

A rescue train failed to reach them and Ernest Hemingway wrote an essay, "Who Murdered the Vets?" that was published days after the hurricane.

It likely caused more than $6 million in property loss in Florida as it cut a path of destruction 40 miles wide across the Keys. Most manmade structures were demolished.

After the storm, additional monitoring stations were set up in southern Florida and disaster preparedness was improved along the coast.

Edward "Roaddawg" Manley, a volunteer and honorary firefighter with the Point Breeze Volunteer Fire Department, places a star on top of a Christmas tree Dec. 25, 2012, in the Breezy Point neighborhood of New York City. Residents are still struggling to recover from a massive fire that destroyed over 100 homes during Superstorm Sandy.

Hurricane Sandy struck near Atlantic City, N.J. on Oct. 29, 2012. In New York City, it left 44 people dead and destroyed about 300 homes. In the end, it did about $81.9 billion in damage in adjusted dollars. Despite the destruction it caused, it made U.S. landfall as a Category 3 storm.

A military truck drives down a flooded Canal St., Aug. 31, 2005, in New Orleans, Louisiana. Hundreds are feared dead and thousands were left homeless in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida by Hurricane Katrina.

Hurricane Katrina, which hit Louisiana and Mississippi, was one of the deadliest hurricanes to strike the United States.

It was responsible for 1,833 deaths and about $108 billion in damage. New Orleans was especially hard hit when levees separating New Orleans from Lake Pontchartrain broke. At one point, 80% of New Orleans was underwater.

But although deadly and destructive, it was a Category 3 hurricane when it made U.S. landfall.

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Twenty-two years. Seven hundred home runs.

Albert Pujols achieved a level of greatness only three other players in the history of the game have matched when he hit No. 700 on Friday night -- his second homer of the evening at Dodger Stadium. He joins Barry Bonds, Henry Aaron and Babe Ruth as the only players in the exclusive 700-home run club.

As the St. Louis Cardinals slugger made his march for history, ESPN's Jesse Rogers, Buster Olney and Alden Gonzalez asked current and former teammates, opposing pitchers and other greats in the game to describe their favorite moments and what it has been like playing with, pitching to and simply witnessing an all-time great home run hitter during Pujols' two decades in the majors.

Mike Trout: 'This is for 600. This is gonna be sick right here'

"The grand slam, when he hit 600. Just the situation. I mean, it was a big spot in the game, and everyone was thinking the same thing. 'This is for 600. This is gonna be sick right here.' And then he hit it. He loves the moment. And that's the thing -- people kept asking me, 'Hey, do you think he's going to get it [700]?' For sure. The way Albert prepares himself -- he doesn't change his approach, doesn't try to hit a homer. He's just trying to put a good swing on the ball. That's big."

Manny Machado: Game 3 of the 2011 World Series? 'You could even throw the rosin bag and he was probably going to hit it out'

"That was just incredible. I mean, he was not missing. You could throw him whatever and he was going to hit it. You could even throw the rosin bag and he was probably going to hit it out. Just that sweet swing. Even all his homers, going back -- his first home run. I just admire that swing, how smooth it is, how long it stays in the path. It's impressive."

Tony La Russa: 'That gave us life'

"In 2006, we had a big lead and everyone got hurt, so it came down to September and we were struggling to get into the playoffs. San Diego came into town and it was a Wednesday night, we had lost the first two games of the series, down a run in the eighth inning, the Padres brought in a real good sinkerball pitcher [Cla Meredith], and he hit a three-run homer and won the game. That gave us life.

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"His true claim to fame is he is a high-average hitter who has extra-base power. He plays the scoreboard. With a runner on second, he's trying to hit a line-drive single and then he may get all of it for a two-run homer. He'll go foul line to foul line and he hits all different pitches. When he gets that underspin with his swing, he gets that carry."

Paul Goldschmidt: 'If you wrote it up perfectly, this is what you would write'

"There's been three or four home runs I've been absolutely amazed at. The [Drew] Smyly one at his eyes was impressive. The one in Pittsburgh. That one passed A-Rod (on the all-time home runs list) and was a game winner. There was another game winner when it was 0-0 and he homered. And then the ones against the Padres. A two-homer game ... kind of like storybook. That's what I'll remember. If you wrote it up perfectly, this is what you would write: Albert with the game on the line -- and he actually comes through. Amazing."

Nolan Arenado: 'He doesn't think about hitting home runs'

"I'm probably going to say something people don't like, but he doesn't think about hitting home runs. That's what he tells me, and I believe him. With the way he swings, the way he works, talking to him, he says he never thinks about it. And he's not going to change what's worked for him. It's about getting on top of the baseball, backspinning the baseball, and wherever it goes, it goes. He talks the talk and walks the walk with saying those things. And I really believe him."

Mark McGwire: It's all in the hands

"I'm a true believer in the bottom hands being the key to swinging the bat. You watch Albert. He never lets go of that bottom hand until he has to run. To me, that's the driving force in his swing and why he's one of the best ever."

Chris Carpenter: The Machine calls his own shots

"There were multiple times he would go up there for his first at-bat and come back and tell us he was going to hit a homer the next time up. I couldn't tell you how many times that happened and he would do it. It happened a lot because he understood after one time how they were going to attack him. He was amazing to watch play."

Matt Holliday: And he's earned the right to admire his home runs

"When you hit 700 home runs, you know when it's going out and when it's not. The guy that bothers me is the guy who [has three career home runs] and it hits the wall and he gets a single. That guy needs to run. But when you hit 700, you know what it feels like. If anyone can give advice on when a ball is going to go over the wall or not, he's right at the top of the list."

Mike Matheny: 'He walked up ... like his family wasn't going to eat unless he made a pitcher pay'

"You run out of ways to describe how unique, different and special he is. He's relentless. I've never seen a hitter who would not, could not give away an at-bat. It didn't matter if he had four [hits] that night, he walked up to that fifth one like his family wasn't going to eat unless he made a pitcher pay. The intensity he was able to maintain from Day 1 of spring training until he got sent home at the end ... the consistency sticks out."

Jim Edmonds: 'If Albert doesn't get hurt, we're talking 800 or 850'

"If Albert doesn't get hurt and plays three-quarters in Anaheim of how he played here, we're talking about 800 or 850 [home runs]. When he first got back here, your brain is telling you what everyone is telling you: 'You can't hit righties anymore and you're swinging for the fences.' Well, he's turned back into a pure hitter.

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"He won't back down. I've seen him take a knuckleball out to right field and I've seen him take a 102 mph fastball out to left field. This guy is just relentless about his approach at the plate. He took Kyle Farnsworth deep in 2004 on 100 mph and I'm sitting on deck thinking, 'Wow.'"

"What's been interesting is watching him grow this year: from leg kick to overswinging to chasing pitches to turning back into a hitter. When he did that, he started hitting home runs ... He's got another year in him, for sure. I know he's not going to play, but he could."

Brad Lidge: 'I made a mistake -- and it wasn't super surprising that he didn't make a mistake'

Lidge broke into the big leagues the year after Pujols, and initially, he had some success against the Cardinals slugger. But somewhere around his second or third year in Lidge's career, teammate Roy Oswalt mentioned that there had been an evolution in the challenge of pitching to Pujols -- the holes that you could attack as a pitcher were no longer available.

"All of a sudden, it started to feel like he knew what you were going to throw before you did," Lidge recalled. "You felt like you had to be perfect ... He had so much plate coverage, whether you're throwing a 97 mph fastball or a slider down and away, you had to be perfect."

Lidge says that this is the part of Pujols that is often not fully comprehended. He was strong, had great hands, great eyes -- but he also could anticipate what the pitcher was going to try to do against him with a high degree of success. "If there was one thing I know from facing him, it's that he's going to win the chess match far more than he should," said Lidge. And if the pitcher was able to execute a big-breaking pitch, Lidge said, Pujols was adept at fouling the ball off to continue the at-bat. Or, if the pitcher was doing something with his glove or his hands to tip off the identity of the next pitch, "he'd be the first guy to see it," said Lidge.

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The Astros bore in on the National League title in 2005, leading Game 5 of the NL Championship Series, and Lidge, the Houston closer, was called on to finish off the Cardinals. With two outs and two on, Lidge spun a good slider and Pujols chased it.

"I tried to come back with [the slider]," Lidge recalled. "I made a mistake" -- the ball was down in the strike zone, but over the heart of the plate -- "and it wasn't super surprising that he didn't make a mistake." Pujols rocketed a three-run homer over the train tracks in left field in Houston, the ball loudly crashing against the protective glass.

Lidge bumped into Pujols from time to time after that home run, saying hello at All-Star Games, without talking about the home run. What he feels about Pujols now is that he was a hitter "hard-wired" for greatness, physically and mentally.

Greg Maddux: 'He hit it over frickin' Waveland Avenue'

"The first time I faced him, I threw him a changeup that he missed by 2 or 3 feet. And I'm going, 'Wow, OK, maybe we got something here.' Next time up, I threw the exact same changeup and he hit it over frickin' Waveland Avenue. And I went, 'Oh s---, maybe they have something here. This guy is pretty good.'

"If you walked him or gave up a single, you won the AB. He covered the middle of the plate as well as anyone. My game plan with him was to give up a single or less."

Glendon Rusch: 'He was the best slugger I faced'

"He was the best slugger I faced that could do the most damage in the most different ways. He could hit a homer off any pitch -- a mistake in or off-speed out over the plate the other way, he could do it all. When I was facing him, he was in his prime-prime. He's the guy that you had to be careful of unless you had a big lead or were down by a bunch because he would take you deep at any time. He was a threat if you made a mistake and if you didn't make a mistake."

Ryan Dempster: 'There is no ... more of an expert on how to give up home runs to Albert Pujols than me'

"There is no one out here that's more of an expert on how to give up home runs to Albert Pujols than me.

"People have talent, people work hard, people are prepared. He coincided with all three probably better than anyone I ever watched or faced. Always diligent about his cage work, his BP, everything. So when the game started, he was like playing a video game with a cheat code. He knew what pitch was coming. If a pitcher fell into patterns, he would take advantage of it. He never gave at-bats away. It could be 10-0 in the ninth and he would give you the same AB as if it were tied. He could hit any pitch out that wasn't executed, and he could hit the pitches that were executed.

"This has been a perfect storm. They put him in a position to have success against all these lefties, then he goes to the HR Derby and gets locked in. And now he's feeling really good, so when he faces righties, it's just carrying over."

Mike Hampton: 'I should be thankful ... that he didn't go deep'

The Cardinals' Opening Day lineup in 2001 was stacked with big names such as Mark McGwire and Jim Edmonds, sluggers who most concerned Mike Hampton. He didn't know anything about the guy plugged into the sixth spot in the lineup that day, a rookie left fielder named Albert Pujols, who was set to play in his first game.

Hampton recalls that there really wasn't a lot of information available on Pujols, so the left-handed Hampton figured he'd pitch Pujols the same way he had pitched other right-handed batters. "Sink it away, cut it in," said Hampton, whose start that day was his first with the Rockies after signing a $121 million deal. He shut out the Cardinals for 8 scoreless innings. "It went down pretty quickly after that," Hampton joked of his short, rough tenure with Colorado.

One of the five hits that Hampton scattered was a seventh-inning single to Pujols, the first of Pujols' career. "I should be thankful that it was a single through the 6-hole," he said, "and that he didn't go deep."

Alex Rodriguez: 'It was like he was a mad scientist'

Albert Pujols inhabited the NL Central in the first half of his career, and it was because of that history that Alex Rodriguez called Pujols about a pitcher from that division. Rodriguez figured that Pujols would have some observations about the pitcher, about his repertoire. "Usually, that kind of conversation will go on for five minutes," Rodriguez. "Forty-five minutes -- it went on for 45 minutes. He's telling me about the movement of his curveball, his sinker, his passion coming out of the phone. He gave me the greatest scouting report I've ever had.

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"If the count is 0-0, he'll throw you a curveball," Pujols told Rodriguez. "If he gets ahead in the count, he'll throw two fastballs inside -- but because he wants to get to his changeup."

Rodriguez thinks back on that conversation now and says, "It was like he was a mad scientist. He was walking me through at-bats with very specific information on what the guy was going to do.

After the game, in which he recalls hitting a double off the pitcher -- "The accuracy of the scouting report was incredible," Rodriguez remembered -- Pujols texted Rodriguez immediately. "He wanted to know everything about how it went, what he threw to me, the counts, everything ... It's not only about what the pitcher throws, but he wants to be a chess player, too."

Dale Scott: 'He was there to do a job'

There were days when Albert Pujols would pause briefly, as he ran or off the field in between innings, and compliment longtime umpire Dale Scott on his work calling balls and strikes in the previous game. "It might be a situation where he catches your eye and says, 'Good job,'" said Scott. "But it didn't happen every time." Yes, there were days when Pujols wouldn't stop, wouldn't say anything, leaving Scott to wonder if he had struggled with his strike zone.

This was all in keeping with Pujols' intensity, says Scott, who shared fields with Pujols over the past 17 seasons of the umpire's career. He was gregarious, Scott said, offered a smile and a greeting when he stepped to the plate, "but he was there to do a job." Pujols didn't complain out loud about ball-or-strike calls, but if he had an issue with the home plate umpire, he would be passive aggressive -- maybe a quick grimace, maybe a step back out of the batter's box. "If the bench saw it, then they would react to it, or the fans," said Scott. "He reminded me of Cal Ripken. He was serious ... The aura around him was that he was there to work."

Joey Votto: 'I'll never be at that level. I'll never be that guy'

Votto has a crystal-clear memory of the moment when he recognized the preeminence of Pujols, an at-bat that distinguished him from other hitters -- including Votto. "It stands out to me in how it represents how skilled he was, and is," Votto said.

The Reds first baseman was in his second full season in the big leagues and Cincinnati was hosting St. Louis. The Reds had a 3-0 lead, and Dusty Baker summoned longtime reliever David Weathers from the bullpen.

"Nothing rattled Weathers," Votto recalled. "He had two-pitch command, a running fastball [inside to right-handed hitters]. He knew how to manage big situations. You knew there was either going to be a ball in play or a strikeout."

As Votto watched Pujols launch the ball toward left-center field, a monstrous grand slam in a pivotal situation, he remembered thinking: That's a really good swing -- a really good swing on a pitch that looked to be in a good spot.

When he watched the at-bat again on video to see if his initial reaction was correct, Votto saw Weathers attempt to work off the outside edge of the plate, with a backdoor sinker -- the ball starting out of the strike zone, zipping toward the left-handed hitter's batter's box, before veering back toward the plate. It was a good pitch by Weathers, a good spot, because right-handed hitters had to be cognizant of how his sinker would cut inside. But somehow Pujols had the acumen, the balance and the swing to get to the pitch -- and blast it into the seats well beyond left-center field.

"I already viewed him at such a high level," said Votto. "But after watching it, I realized: I'll never be at that level. I'll never be that guy."

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St. Lucie County - Tuesday September 27, 2022: St. Lucie County Board of County Commissioners government offices, libraries and attractions will be closed on Wednesday, Sept. 28 as Hurricane Ian is expected to impact our area with tropical force storm winds and heavy rains.

Additionally, all St. Lucie Public Schools and district offices will be closed Wednesday, Sept. 28 and Thursday, Sept. 29.

The St. Lucie County Tax Collectors Office will be following the lead of the St. Lucie County School District in closing all three office locations on Wednesday, Sept. 28 and Thursday, Sept. 29. Following the storm, the Tax Collector will be offering extended hours on Friday, Sept. 30, opening one hour early at 8 a.m. and remaining open until 6 p.m. The St. Lucie County Clerk & Comptrollers Office, will also be closed Wednesday, Sept. 28 and Thursday, Sept. 29.

The Sheriffs Office, the Property Appraiser, the Supervisor of Elections and the 19th Judicial Court will be closed on Wednesday, Sept. 28. A decision Thursdays hours of operation for the Board of County Commissioners and other agencies will be made on Wednesday, Sept. 28.

The St. Lucie County Landfill and Waste Pro will continue to operate normal business hours until the weather conditions become unsafe for trucks to be on the road.

St. Lucie Countys public transportation system, ART (Area Regional Transit), bus service will also continue to operate as long as the weather allows. Riders are encouraged to monitor the schedule using the RouteShout application, available on the Apple Store and Google Play sites.

Indian River State College will be closed to employees, students, and visitors at starting at 3 p.m. Tuesday, Sept, 27. All classes (including online classes) and campus events are canceled. The college will remain closed on Wednesday, Sept. 28. IRSC continues to monitor Hurricane Ian and will assess conditions to determine when it is safe to reopen.

Hurricane Ian is projected to make landfall on Floridas Gulf Coast near Tampa Bay Wednesday, Sept. 28 or Thursday, Sept. 29 as a Category 3 storm. St. Lucie County declared a Local State of Emergency at 9 a.m. on Sept. 27. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis declared a State of Emergency for all 67 counties on Saturday, Sept. 24. Based on the projected path of Hurricane Ian there are no plans to issue evacuations or open shelters in St. Lucie County at this time.

St. Lucie County Emergency Operations Center is operating at a Level 2 (partial) activation. If residents have questions or concerns, they can call the St. Lucie County Public Information Lines at 772-460-4357 or 772-460-HELP, which are open beginning today from noon to 7 p.m. and the rest of the week from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. (These hours are subject to change depending on the storms path).

Even if the Treasure Coast stays out of the direct path of Hurricane Ian, St. Lucie Countys 21 miles of coastline will see impacts from this storm, including heavy surf, rips currents and escarpments/erosion. Residents and tourists are reminded to use caution when visiting our beaches before and after the storm passes Florida. Always swim at lifeguarded beaches: Pepper Park and Waveland.

St. Lucie County reminds all contractors to make preparations at their job sites for the potential impacts of Hurricane Ian. While St. Lucie County is not in the direct path of the storm, our area may still experience heavy rain and strong winds. All debris, trash, equipment and construction materials should be removed from construction sites until the storm passes. Residents with construction site concerns should report construction sites to Code Compliance. Please note that new state laws make it so that Code Complaints are no longer anonymous and your report will be part of the public record. https://www.stlucieco.gov/departments-and-services/planning-and-development-services/code-compliance/report-a-code-violation.

The potential for heavy rains and flash flooding will be in effect for the next several days. Residents can report flooding by emailing details, including street addresses and images, to flooding@stlucieco.org. If there is emergency, life-threatening flooding, please call 911. Residents are reminded to avoid driving and/or walking down flooded streets.

St. Lucie County has additional storm-related information available at http://www.readystlucie.org.

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The most punishing of hurricanes bring deaths and catastrophic destruction, lifting roofs off homes, toppling trees, snapping power lines and causing billions in damage.

Category 5 storms are the most dangerous, defined by sustained winds of 157 miles an hour or more.According to the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, they leave a high percentage of framed homes destroyed, residential areas isolated by fallen trees and power poles and power outages that last for weeks at least. Most of the areas that are hit are uninhabitable for weeks or months.

The wind scale does not take into account storm surges, flooding or tornadoes, all of which also can be deadly.

Before Hurricane Ian, which made landfall as a 150-mph Category 4 system, four Category 5 hurricanes have made landfall in the United States since the early 1900s. Here they are:

Blocks of homes in Mexico Beach, Florida, lie in rubble in Oct. 17, 2018, in the aftermath of Hurricane Michael. The storm hit on October 10 along the Florida Panhandle, causing massive damage and claiming the lives of more than a dozen people.

Hurricane Michael made landfall inthe Florida Panhandle, causing 16 direct deaths and 43 indirect deaths.

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With top wind speeds of 162 miles per hour and maximum sustained winds of161 miles per hour, it caused damage from wind and storm surges, especially from Panama City Beach to Mexico Beachto Cape San Blas.

Hurricane Michael left $25 billion in damage, destroying 3,374 homes.

The storm remained at hurricane strength into southwest Georgia.

Homes ripped apart by Hurricane Andrew seen in Dade City, Florida, Sept. 1, 1992.

Hurricane Andrew struck in the early morning hours of Aug. 24, 1992, hitting with devastating force in southern Florida. The storm had a top wind speed of 174 miles per hour. It killed 15 people directly and another 28 indirectly, according to the National Weather Service. All but three of the deaths were in what was then called Dade County, now Miami-Dade County.

The storm caused about $26 billion damage, a record until Hurricane Katrina 13 years later. Most of the damage occurred in the southern part of Dade County. Some 49,000 homes were destroyed and another 108,000 were damaged.The hardest hit community was Homestead, wheremore than 99% of mobile homes or 1,167 out of 1,176 were demolished.

The shrimper "Wade Klein" is thrown against a house facing the beach in Biloxi, Mississippi, Aug. 18, 1969, shortly after Hurricane Camille tore through the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

Hurricane Camille struck along the Mississippi Gulf Coast near Waveland late on Aug. 17, 1969.

According to the National Weather Service, Camille ranks as the second most intense hurricaneto strike the continental United States in terms of atmospheric pressure and wind speed. It was weaker than the 1935 Labor Day Hurricane and slightly stronger than Hurricane Andrew and Hurricane Michael.

The hurricane destroyed all of the wind-recording instruments in the area, according to the National Weather Service, so the actual maximum sustained winds are not known. Peak winds were about 175 miles per hour, according to later analysis of data.

It caused about $11.3 billion in damage, in adjusted costs. The value is based on the 2022 Consumer Price Index adjusted cost.

A hotel in Matecumbe Key, Florida, is reduced to rubble as seen in this Sept. 7, 1935 photo after an unnamed category 5 hurricane swept through the Florida Keys during Labor Day. All along the Keys are scenes like this, bearing grim evidence of the fury that snuffed out 300 lives.

The Labor Day hurricane hit the Florida Keys on Sept. 2, 1935, causing at least 485 deaths.

Itcrossed the Florida Keys between Key West and Miami, Florida, with maximum sustained winds of about 185 miles an hour.

Those included about 260 World War I veterans who were working on the Overseas Highway in a federal relief project. They were from the Bonus Army, soldiers who camped out at the steps of the U.S. Capitol in the early 1930s to demand compensation promised by the federal government, according to the Library of Congress. They were dispersed by U.S. Army troops under the command of General Douglas MacArthur in 1932.

A rescue train failed to reach them and Ernest Hemingway wrote an essay, "Who Murdered the Vets?" that was published days after the hurricane.

It likely caused more than $6 million in property loss in Florida as it cut a path of destruction 40 miles wide across the Keys. Most manmade structures were demolished.

After the storm, additional monitoring stations were set up in southern Florida and disaster preparedness was improved along the coast.

Edward "Roaddawg" Manley, a volunteer and honorary firefighter with the Point Breeze Volunteer Fire Department, places a star on top of a Christmas tree Dec. 25, 2012, in the Breezy Point neighborhood of New York City. Residents are still struggling to recover from a massive fire that destroyed over 100 homes during Superstorm Sandy.

Hurricane Sandy struck near Atlantic City, N.J. on Oct. 29, 2012. In New York City, it left 44 people dead and destroyed about 300 homes. In the end, it did about $81.9 billion in damage in adjusted dollars. Despite the destruction it caused, it made U.S. landfall as a Category 3 storm.

A military truck drives down a flooded Canal St., Aug. 31, 2005, in New Orleans, Louisiana. Hundreds are feared dead and thousands were left homeless in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida by Hurricane Katrina.

Hurricane Katrina, which hit Louisiana and Mississippi, was one of the deadliest hurricanes to strike the United States.

It was responsible for 1,833 deaths and about $108 billion in damage. New Orleans was especially hard hit when levees separating New Orleans from Lake Pontchartrain broke. At one point, 80% of New Orleans was underwater.

But although deadly and destructive, it was a Category 3 hurricane when it made U.S. landfall.

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Taylor Passantino

Waveland residents used their home security cameras to help police solve a pair of thefts this week.

Chief Mike Prendergast said Taylor Ryan Passantino, 33, has been charged in both burglaries investigated by his officers.

Passantino was charged with burglary and possession of burglary tools.

On Tuesday, a homeowner on Nicholson Avenue said he saw on his security cameras that a man had entered his storage area and took several items.

The description led police to question Passantino, who admitted to taking the items from the home on Nicholson. The stolen items were recovered from a nearby residence.

The following day, Waveland Police received a call from a resident on Sarahs Lane about a bicycle being stolen.

From the description of the bicycle, police determined it was the same bike that Passantino was riding he was arrested. He was charged with a second count of burglary.

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