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Sabathia In Milwaukee, Mahal finds Afghan

mania hits a loving and eager mom

Brewer blast kills

Nation 41 at
Teammates, fans and
the pitcher himself
excited about trade
embassy
By TOM HAUDRICOURT
Attack fuels doubts
thaudricourt@journalsentinel.com
CC Sabathia expressed a some- about Karzai’s power
what unusual concern for a pitcher
making the switch from the Ameri- By ABDUL WAHEED WAFA and ALAN COWELL
can League to the National League. New York Times
“I’m more worried about my (bat- Kabul, Afghanistan — A huge blast from a
ting) average going down,” he said. suicide car bomb at the gates of the Indian
Yes, Milwaukee fans, the big left- Embassy in Kabul killed 41 people and wound-
hander can swing the bat a little, ed more than 130 on Monday in the latest sign
sporting a career .300 batting aver- of a sharp deterioration in Afghanistan,
age with two home runs and seven where combat deaths have surpassed Iraq’s in
runs batted in. But that’s not why the past two months.
the Brewers acquired him in a It was the deadliest suicide car bombing in
blockbuster trade with the Cleve- Afghanistan since the U.S.-led invasion oust-
land Indians. ed the Taliban in 2001. It comes as Afghan and
The Brewers are counting on Sa- Western officials have noted with alarm the
bathia’s arm, not his bat, to lead weakness of the government of President
them to their first playoff berth Hamid Karzai and the growing strength of Pa-
since 1982. General manager Doug kistani militants in the tribal areas bordering
Melvin offered a succinct reason Afghanistan.
Monday morning for his dogged Among the victims of the attack, the first in
pursuit of the best pitcher available seven years on a regional diplomatic mission
on the market. in Afghanistan, were at least four Indian citi-
“We’re going for it,” Melvin said. zens: the Indian defense attache, a political
Sabathia said he’d be more than counselor and two other Indian officials.
happy to help the Brewers end that Six Afghan police officers were also killed.
drought, even if he bolts afterward Many of the rest appeared to be civilians.
for bigger dollars through free agen- That the Indian Embassy was attacked
cy. While expressing some sadness raised suspicions among Afghan officials that
over leaving the Indians after eight Pakistani operatives allied with the Taliban
years with the club, the reigning had used the bombing to pursue Pakistan’s
American League Cy Young Award long power struggle with India.
winner said he was excited to join
the surging Brewers. Please see AFGHANISTAN, 4A
“I know this is a good team,” said
Sabathia, who arrived in the late af-
ternoon and was introduced to local
media before the Brewers’ game
against Colorado at Miller Park.
“And a good clubhouse, I hear.”
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Baby orangutan Mahal looks up to his surrogate mother, M.J., at the Mil- LAST OF THREE
Milwaukee-area
Sabathia, 27, is expected to add to
the team’s chemistry, well-docu-

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waukee County Zoo. Mahal turned 1 in April. PARTS
The story of Ma-
commute times
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At last, a sight hal is more than
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cute, motherless
zoo baby with a
work for moms
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By JAN UEBELHERR
with animals — Audrey Warner arrives early at a nearly
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New Milwaukee Brewers pitcher CC
Sabathia answers questions during a
news conference at Miller Park Monday.
ilwaukee zookeeper Trish Khan stocked up: the power we hold fice at Robert W. Baird & Co. are likewise va-
bottles, nipples, bottle warmers, baby formu- over them, the cant as she begins her workday.
role of zoos and Warner works four days a week as a market-
la, an inflatable mattress. More fire hoses. ing manager for Baird. One of those days, she
the preservation works from home. On the days she commutes
She’d asked for the shopping list from the Colorado zoo where of species. It’s a to downtown Milwaukee, she works an early
the baby orangutan Mahal was born. schedule to avoid traffic and cut down her
Stringing the fire hoses was the real work. The tangle of hoses at story of survival.
time traveling 18 miles from Muskego.
various heights and angles would ensure that Mahal could safely Commuting in Milwaukee is easier than in
maneuver around all three orangutan exhibits at the Milwaukee a lot of metro areas, but Baird has helped
County Zoo. JSOnline.com Warner make it even more convenient, which
The zoo also changed a door between two exhibits, replacing Go to is why she turned down other offers to join the
plexiglass with a metal grid so that Mahal and his next shot at a www.jsonline. investment firm six years ago.
mom could see and touch each other. “I interviewed at lots of great companies,
Khan had traveled to Mahal’s birthplace, the Cheyenne Moun- com/mahal for
more, including: but they wanted me full time. And I said, ‘You
tain Zoo in Colorado Springs, where the little orangutan had been know, I won’t be as good of an employee as if
through so much. Both parents rejected him at birth. His beloved 䡵 An illustrated you give me the flexibility to be able to start
surrogate died in her sleep, and a final reunion with his mother bedtime story early, leave early, or work fewer days per
ended in abuse. week,’ ” Warner said.
Khan would act as a critical bridge for Mahal between the Colo- 䡵 A coloring page Commuting is a driving factor in whether
rado keepers and a new mom in Milwaukee. 䡵 A drawing married women work, according to new re-
Her objective in Colorado: Get to know Mahal.
contest search from the University of Chicago. The
A minute after laying eyes on her, Mahal reached out. Three ease of getting to and from jobs in metropol-
minutes later, they were wrestling on the floor. Find out more on itan Milwaukee has helped it rank second on-
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ly behind Minneapolis for the
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ried women in the labor
force.
Using 2000 census data, re-
searchers found that 77% of
the non-Hispanic, white, mar-
ried women 25-55 years old
with high school diplomas in
the four-county Milwaukee
area either were working or
looking for work. That’s up
from the nationwide average
of 67% and the low rate of 49%
in New York City.
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“Really, one of the major
costs in terms of getting to
work is what economists re-
fer to as the opportunity cost
of your time,” Black said.
“When you sit there stuck in
traffic, if you think of having
to pay yourself a wage rate for
doing that, it gets pretty ex-
pensive pretty fast, and I
think that’s really the decid-
ing feature.”
That’s especially true for
women, who continue to be
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gentle giant — all 6 feet 7, 290
pounds of him — is beloved
by teammates, past and pre-
sent.
“He gets along with every-
body,” said Brewers reliever
David Riske, a former team-
mate in Cleveland. “He’ll fit
in perfect. He has so much re-
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lies and value the ability to
get home in a moment’s no-
tice, said Laura Dresser, a la-
bor economist at the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin-Madison.
“So much of being a mom,
generally, is this logistics
stuff — who’s going where
when,” Dresser said. “Big
commute times are really
hard on logistics, like getting
home when a kid gets sent
home.”
That can be particularly
hard on low-income workers
who have to commute to in-
flexible jobs far from their
neighborhoods using unreli-
able transportation, said El-
len Bravo, an adjunct assis-
tant professor of women’s
studies at the University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
“Those most affected don’t
have the option of not work-
ing — but these kinds of ob-
stacles mean they often
bounce from one low-quality
job to another, with negative
consequences for their in-
come, their family and their
own well-being,” said Bravo,
former director of 9 to 5, Na-
tional Association of Work-
ing Women.
Hours on the road
Americans spend more
time commuting to work each
year (100 hours on average)
than they take for vacation
(typically 80 hours), accord-
ing to the Census Bureau.
“Commuting certainly
does take a big chunk out of
your life,” said Joan Skim-
mons, senior vice president
of sales and marketing at Fi-
serv Inc.
Skimmons enjoys a 25-min-
ute drive from her Oconomo-
woc home to the Brookfield
headquarters of Fiserv, the fi-
nancial data management
company. That’s a little more
than the 21.9-minute average
for Milwaukee, according to
2003 census data. But for 12
years, Skimmons worked in
metro New York, where com-
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sheepish smile and wave.
With a near-sellout crowd
expected tonight and expecta-
tions at an all-time high for
both the club and the pitcher,
Sabathia was asked how he’ll
keep himself grounded when
he takes the mound wearing
No. 52.
“I’m not going to say I’m
not going to be excited, be-
cause I am,” he said. “But I
know I have a job to do. Just
go out and compete, stay
under control.
“I’m just coming in and try-
ing to fit in and do my job.
Baseball’s hard enough to
play without added pressure.
That’s something that I don’t
think about or worry about.”
One of the first players Sa-
bathia met in the clubhouse
was first baseman Prince
Fielder, who at 5 feet 11 and
270 pounds is no longer the
biggest man on the roster.
“When I first walked in, he
asked me if I needed to bor-
row some (uniform) pants,”
Sabathia said. “He’s probably
the only guy with a pair I’d fit
in.”
The primary reason Cleve-
land put Sabathia on the mar-
ket was because he turned
Women at work
For more than 50 years,
Milwaukee has had a higher
proportion of certain women
working than the national
average.
Participation rate of non-
Hispanic, white, married
women with high school
diplomas
100
80
Milwaukee
metro
average
77%
60 67%
40 17% U.S.
average
20
2 7%
0
’40 ’50 ’70 ’80 ’90 2000
Source: University Journal
of Chicago research Sentinel
muters have an average com-
mute of 38.3 minutes, and
4.3% travel 90 minutes or
more to get to work.
The time and cost and
stress it takes to get from
home to work and back factor
into decisions of whether and
where to work, Skimmons
said. And even at Milwau-
kee’s moderate commutes,
employers are looking to
make work more convenient.
“With Fiserv, we’ve made it
easier,” Skimmons said.
“We’re looking for more
women. We have flexible
hours. Telecommuting
makes it easier to work. So if
you have children with
schedules, you can still take
care of them.”
At Baird, the sorts of ar-
rangements offered to Warn-
er are not just nice to do,
they’re part of a strategy to
keep good employees, said
Leslie Dixon, the company’s
chief human resources offi-
cer.
According to Dixon, 26% of
Baird’s non-commissioned
employees have flexible
CC Sabathia
stands with
his new team-
mates for the
national an-
them at Miller
Park before
the game
Monday night
against the
Colorado
Rockies. He
makes his
Brewers debut
tonight.
down a four-year, $72 million
offer for a contract extension
and said he didn’t want to ne-
gotiate further. In baseball
parlance, he is considered a
“rental,” because he’ll proba-
bly stay with the Brewers on-
ly until the end of the season.
Asked where he stood on
free agency after being trad-
ed, Sabathia said, “Same
place. It’s hard enough to play
this game as it is, let alone
any other distractions. I’ll fo-
cus on that when it comes.”
Sabathia said he expected
to be traded, but he wasn’t
certain what his new destina-
tion would be. When he
learned the Brewers won the
sweepstakes with a package
built around top prospect
Matt LaPorta, Sabathia said
he smiled.
“When I found out Milwau-
kee had a chance to get me, I
was excited because I know
some of the guys in the club-
house and how good the team
is.”
Melvin said several factors
converged to prompt the pur-
suit of Sabathia, who pushed
the Brewers’ payroll toward
$90 million with the remain-
der of his $11 million salary.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Milwaukee near top
New research ranks the
Milwaukee area second for
working women among the top
50 metro areas.
Participation rate of
non-Hispanic, white,
married women %
with high school
diplomas
METRO
MARRIED
WOMEN
IN LABOR
RANK
1
AREA
Minneapolis
FORCE
79%
2 Milwaukee 77
3
4
5
Greensboro, N.C.
Rochester, N.Y.
Albany, N.Y.
76
75
74
6 Columbus, Ohio 73
7 Denver 73
8 Richmond, Va. 73
9 Kansas City 72
10 Washington, D.C. 72
U.S. average 67%
41 Pittsburgh 62%
42 San Antonio 62
43 Detroit 61
44 San Diego 61
45 San Francisco 60
46 Houston 60
47 Miami 59
48 Los Angeles 57
49 Honolulu 54
50 New York 49
Source: University Journal
of Chicago research Sentinel
working arrangements; 32%
of its female non-commis-
sioned employees have such
arrangements. And that
doesn’t include employees
who informally make ar-
rangements to work outside
of regular office hours.
Jennifer Bartolotta, who
worked in Chicago for 15
years before moving to Mil-
waukee in 2002, said most
Milwaukeeans don’t realize
how reasonable their com-
mutes are. She recalls her last
day at work in Chicago, driv-
ing 2 hours and 15 minutes to
go 60 miles. Now she com-
mutes 15 minutes from Elm
Grove to Wauwatosa, where
she’s director of strategic
partnerships for Bartolotta
Restaurant Group.
Easy commuting allows
some Bartolotta employees to
work evening shifts even af-
ter putting in a full day at oth-
er jobs across town, Bartolot-
ta said. The prospect of quick
trips also allows Milwaukee
workers the opportunity to
attend classes, volunteer, and
live a life for themselves be-
yond work, she said.
Life outside work
“In Milwaukee, the fact
that traffic is a non-issue al-
lows women to pursue all
kinds of things that they’re
not able to do in a larger city,”
Bartolotta said. “It’s still an
affordable city to be able to go
to work in, despite the fact
that we don’t have light rail. If
I were trying to woo some-
body to Milwaukee, it would
absolutely be one of the bene-
fits of the city that I would be
promoting.”
The club’s climb into playoff
contention convinced him
that the addition of a premier
arm could push the team into
post-season play.
gave me the confidence to
make this deal,” Melvin said.
“A lot of times you’re basing
this stuff on instincts and
how your club is playing.
“We just felt that we need-
ed to go for it. There’s a lot of
baseball left, and we’re play-
ing well right now. We feel
good about the team.”
Owner Mark Attanasio
said the money being put in
the team this year probably
would result in the Brewers
finishing in the red after gen-
erating profits in 2007. But
Attanasio said he felt com-
mitted to make the best pos-
sible move for a supportive
fan base expected to reach the
3 million mark in attendance.
“I look at this at trying to
do what’s right for the team
and not get all caught up in
renting a player or whatever.
The fans put us in position to
do this as well. We’re trying
to give something back to
them as well.”
The only controversy of the
day involved the proper spell-
ing of the name of the Brew-
ers’ prized acquisition. Word
came that no periods were to
be used with his initials.
Sabathia, whose given
name is Carsten Charles, in-
sisted he had no preference,
however. So, how does he
spell his name?
“If I have to spell my name,
actually, I use Carsten,” he
said. “Very rarely do I write
CC Sabathia.”
That’s OK. Manager Ned
Yost will be happy to do so to-
night when he fills out the
Brewers’ lineup card.