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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 23, 2008 -> 07:23 AM) What are the Saudi's supposed to say? "Hey you stupid American's, why don't you guy buy some more SUV's and keep making us rich?!?"? Of course they want someone else to blame. Let me put it this way, if someone can find something that has a basis in economic fact, instead of just blaming someone else for the price of energy, I'll listen. I want to see someone prove to me how something that involves a buy AND a sell of an energy contract (to avoid delivery, because if you take delivery it is REAL demand) can only have a positive effect. If what all of these people is saying is true, there are all of these people who own crude oil contracts, who have to sell them out at the last minute so that they don't take delivery of them. The last days or so of trading would involved a huge influx of sell orders in the front month (all of these speculators who don't want to take delivery), coupled by a huge influx of buy orders in the second month(all of these speculators who still want to own crude oil for the run up in prices), which would lead to a large divergence of prices. July's price should crash in relation to August. For example if at the end, there are 25,000 contracts owned in July by speculators, that means all 25,000 of those have to be sold, and 25,000 August's would be bought. Crude oil expiration for the delivery month of July just happened on Friday, and there was no change in the differential between the prices of July and August. In simple terms, that is how you could tell if this was truely a speculative bubble. Until someone actually proves something different, there is no reason to believe otherwise. An interesting piece by Guillermo Calvo that challenges the inventories no-speculation argument, http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/1244 Basic idea hinges on inelastic demand, anticipation of a shift away from tbills, and differential price adjustments. Found this through Krugman's NYT blog. At first blush, I think Krugman is more right (he's critical of Calvo), but it's still worth a read. I should add, to be clear, for those who are convinced it's all evil speculators swimming in their pools of money, Calvo's NOT saying that. It's a lot more nuanced.

Tsvangirai dropped out of the runoff election, saying the government-sponsored violence has made a free and fair election impossible. Pretty obvious to anyone who's not a shill for Mugabe. Speaking of which, your move, Mbeki.

Chan Ho Park, back in baseball and sporting a sub-3 era, has currently gone 3 innings against Cleveland and struck out 6, giving up only two hits and one walk, one of the hits a home run to CC Sabathia. Can you fathom how improbable that sentence is?

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Jun 21, 2008 -> 03:23 PM) Oh yeah, Kevin. My bad. I think the main difference is that Slowey was getting hit hard, where as the Cubs just 1st-and-3rd'ed Jose to death. The wind plays a huge factor into the HR's as well. Ramirez's ball barely cleared that stupid f***ing basket. Wind or no, 3 hrs in one inning means you're getting hit hard. And those weren't seeing-eye singles. Almost every one was a line drive.

QUOTE (Brian @ Jun 21, 2008 -> 03:16 PM) Hasn't Kiko been hurt a lot recently? I remember with the Cardinals, he was awesome. Yeah, torn rotator cuff.

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Jun 21, 2008 -> 03:05 PM) See: Slowey, John Kevin. But today was worse.

QUOTE (DrunkBomber @ Jun 21, 2008 -> 02:34 PM) My idiot Cubs fan brother who lives in LA has been texting me for scoring updates. I got one a couple minutes ago and am ashamed to say I told him its on rain delay. Well done.

When this game started, I flipped on the tv and thought, Man, I need a beer. Now I've moved on to, I need eight beers.

QUOTE (rangercal @ Jun 21, 2008 -> 02:29 PM) DJ: "make it stop" Lol, wish I could've heard that.

This is no fun.

Doesn't the pitcher have to declare which hand he's pitching with? I thought there was some rule like that... O/w, could he not use a glove? Or is there a way to design a glove that would allow you to camouflage which hand you will use? (Say you could put both hands in the glove, with the ball resting inside -- obviously you'd have to establish your grip on the ball quicker than you'd like, but it would be fun to watch, dammit.)

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Jun 21, 2008 -> 10:54 AM) hmmmm.... you know that "fair and balanced" Fox News? Looks like they scrubbed THAT part from their interview transcript. Everything else is there, but that part "mysteriously" disappeared! To be completely accurate -- the bolded part is not true. The entire first part of the interview is missing, and the transcript (and the linked video) picks up only after a commercial break. So there's more missing than that. Now, I don't find the argument that Fox simply forgot a big block of content very convincing, but anyway...

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jun 21, 2008 -> 03:50 AM) Kiko Calero DFA'ed...there's no way a pitcher of his caliber will pass through waivers. I'm more hoping Detroit doesn't claim him. Oakland might be the most surprising team in the majors. I mean, everyone knew Tampa had the talent to do this, but Oakland traded off damn near everyone, and they're only 3.5 games back with a strong record. Their pitching is strong enough that they have to just jettison someone like Calero (who had a down year in 2007, but still).

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Jun 20, 2008 -> 01:13 PM) The ghetto that was wrigleyville became an adult playground with a bar every 5 feet and afordable post-college apartments became the norm for the area. Out of towners who want to move to a big city after they graduate gravitate towards the much nicer areas of Lincoln park, and Wrigleyville. Thus the cubs get alot of "fans" every year. I'd much rather be a fan of a team I grew up loving, than a team of a city I just moved to just to belong. But I guess thats just me. I think that's the best summary. It's mostly a neighborhood thing, and pretty much always was. The northside has become very popular, particularly for transient Chicagoans, while the southside is still largely native. So you get the influx of Cubs "fans" who visit, drink, and leave. It wasn't always that way -- iirc, Mike Royko reminisced in at least one column about how empty Wrigley was when he young. There certainly ARE true Cubs fans. Those are typically the ones that hate the Sox as much as I hate the Cubs (and dammit if I don't respect 'em more for that). But I think they are no more common than true Sox fans, and the stadium-fillers and t-shirt buyers are mostly the unconcerned souls who keep demanding some explanation about Why can't you be happy for both teams? And, man, if there's one t-shirt I wish I had more than any other, it would be one of those Punch AJ shirts from a couple years ago. If you ever find one of those, you'd better let me know where you got it.

QUOTE (quickman @ Jun 21, 2008 -> 07:43 AM) yes its in the same video as the link above just go to the ninth inning and they (WGN )showed the replay. The cub announcers just said you be the judge. He clearly clealy did not go. I was sitting in the third row of the CBOE seats to the left of the cub dugout. People could see the swing from there and the UMP was directly in front of us. He heard it from the sox fans pretty damn good and the cub fans couldn't beleive the crap call either. On a separate note, Cox was great with teh fans down there. Excellent interaction with people. The Cubs announcers were on Comcast, not WGN. WGN did not show a replay. Why, I have no idea.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jun 20, 2008 -> 11:29 PM) I thought it was funny, I just don't really pay attention to the NBA threads that much. (Sob.) I don't need yer charity...

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jun 21, 2008 -> 03:05 AM) Honestly I am dumbfounded that some of you guys are trying to put unnecessary blame on Anderson here though, or otherwise harping on it and ignoring the fact that the next 3 batters simply failed to execute and made it all irrelevant. Would it have even mattered if he got to 3rd? What happened on the next 3 at-bats? Thome pops out, OC flies out but not deep enough for a tag-up, AJ strikes out. Inning over. How is a leadoff double somehow substandard? You can split hairs all you want about semantics but he is still standing there in scoring position, and he is coming around on the next base hit, if there is one (which there is not). All of you guys know good and well that if he HAD run around to 3rd and gotten tagged out, you'd be ready to summarily execute him on the field, just like you were the last time he tried to advance to 3rd. If the coach was waving him (as the announcers said), NO I WOULDN'T. It would have fallen squarely on Cox. It's not like we haven't seen 3b coaches take heat in the past. And I've been blaming Anderson, but I also blamed Ozzie, Thome, and AJ and the ump a little bit, so I haven't been "ignoring" any of those things.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jun 20, 2008 -> 09:22 PM) I'm hearing stories where people say he should of gone to third and that Cox was waving him. I don't know. He got a double, that's good enough. We should of got him in, 'nuff said. If a player can easily get a triple, he should get a...hold on...no, no, I got this one...a triple, right? A double's not good enough in that case. He certainly had a good chance to get to third. I don't know, honestly, if it was a guarantee. But the announcers were saying that Cox was waving him to third. I'm usually a big BA fan, but if the coach was waving him, well, then he f***ed up.

QUOTE (knightni @ Jun 20, 2008 -> 08:52 PM) I saw it. No one else did though. Lies!

QUOTE (Whitewashed in '05 @ Jun 20, 2008 -> 08:47 PM) Anderson got torn to shreds for getting thrown out at third stretching a double to a triple earlier in the year now he gets it for not taking a chance on it. If the coach is waving him on and he gets nabbed, I'm not gonna blame him. If the coach is waving him but he blows off the coach, well...?

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Jun 20, 2008 -> 07:08 PM) It wasn't called, it definitely looked like a strike to me though. That being said, there is absolutely no way he swung. I agree that it looked like a strike, but if he was out on appeal and didn't swing, I mean...

QUOTE (Brian @ Jun 20, 2008 -> 07:59 PM) I think the AJ check swing is irrelevant cuz it looked like strike 3 anyway. It wasn't called, though, was it? Wasn't there an appeal?

QUOTE (knightni @ Jun 20, 2008 -> 06:38 PM) Yeah Prince Fielder is blocking him at 1st base. Ahem. QUOTE (jackie hayes @ Jun 19, 2008 -> 03:57 PM) Any chance the Bulls could get Corey Hart in a deal? Day late and a dollar short, my friend.

QUOTE (WhiteSoxfan1986 @ Jun 20, 2008 -> 06:31 PM) How about that AJ check swing call? I didn't see a replay but it didn't look close. And BA shouldn't get a free pass for failing to get to third. That whole half-inning was such a giant clusterf***. Anderson not going to third when the 3b coach was telling him to go. Ozzie putting in Thome when it's maybe the one time I want to see a sac bunt. Thome weakly popping up to the infield on the first pitch. OC...alright, good try. AJ and the check swing. Goddam... They didn't show a replay on WGN. That usually means it was the right call, but I'd like to get a better look.

QUOTE (GreatScott82 @ Jun 20, 2008 -> 05:23 PM) they stranded waaaay to many runners... it should have been at LEAST 6-1 going into the 7th... Oh well. Have to get them tommorow. The worst is now dealing with the drunkin Cub fans tonight..... So be a drunken Sox fan. Drinking out of crushing disappointment is just as easy as drinking out of happiness. And as a bonus, if you drink when you're pissed, you get belligerent! Which is awesome for when you collide with those Cubs fans... Out to buy some beer!