Balta1701

Crud.

We'll take the defensive miscue.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 12, 2012 -> 02:58 PM) Great AB by ADA...hit-and-run time? Confidence in Beckham making solid contact here?

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Aug 12, 2012 -> 02:57 PM) What was the question? Last A's player to drive in > 100 in a season.

I'm going with "Frank Thomas" as the trivia answer.

QUOTE (flavum @ Aug 12, 2012 -> 02:52 PM) Jays are breaking a 5-game losing streak today. Sox will still be going up there wth them on a 3-11 run. They're still missing Bautista. And others.

AJ made the mistake there, he's got to keep his body down on a pitch like that.

Just because D-Day required a major operation doesn't mean that any cross channel landing would have required that same scale for success. After Dunkirk, the British literally had nothing left in terms of heavy equipment with which to equip their army. They would have struggled to have rifles for everyone, let alone tanks. And the Germans had a much more heavily fortified coastline facing D-Day than anything the British had. The key parts were...the Germans lost several dozen destroyers and transport ships against the Royal Navy in Norway, ships that would have been really useful in ferrying troops and equipment... And most importantly, the Germans couldn't establish air supremacy over England, because of their poor tactical decision making. If they had air supremacy, then the Royal Navy wouldn't have been able to threaten any landing because the Royal Navy couldn't get past the air screen without heavy losses.

QUOTE (Cknolls @ Aug 12, 2012 -> 01:18 PM) Very interested in seeing an economic recovery in conjunction with getting off oil. And the pensions from these gov't jobs are bankrupting the states. IMO, it's hard to see an economic recovery unless you get off oil. Every time the global economy tries to expand since 2008, oil prices spike and kill off any effort for a sustaining recovery. Oil production has literally become a major limiting factor to the global economy.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Aug 12, 2012 -> 12:53 PM) I didnt see it so I am not sure if you came to an accurate conclusion. England did hold out, but Hitler made a drastic mistake attacking USSR and splitting his army in a 2 front war. The combined effort of USSR/USA would have been very difficult for the Germans regardless, the war just likely would have taken longer on the European front or involved an atomic weapon. It really would have made no sense for Great Britain to surrender to Hitler when Germany did not really threaten a land invasion. If anything the world should be thankful for Russia who lost 10x-20x more than any other ally, and actually staved off a German frontal assault. If not for Russia, Britain would have surely fallen. Germany actually did threaten a land invasion, but through a series of blunders, they lost most of their Navy during the attacks on Norway, and then they failed to maintain air superiority after they decided to divert to terror bombing of London. The German Air Force really had the RAF on the ropes in August 1940 while attacking the air bases and factories directly, but they then diverted to attacking civilian targets and that gave the RAF a chance to recover. And no matter what the public face of Churchill was, they were also negotiating behind the scenes throughout the winter of 1940 to try to take Britain out of the war. They never came to an agreement, but Britain was doing a lot of other moves at the same time.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Aug 12, 2012 -> 12:49 PM) So who goes down when Konerko comes back? Also, we must be out of 40 man roster spots with the addition of Wise, which will make it difficult to call up other position players in September that may offer more unique qualities. Honestly, whoever goes down, I won't be mad.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Aug 12, 2012 -> 12:37 PM) Why is Hudson on this team again? Honestly, if Robin is going to play Olmedo at 3B, then Hudson is only at the backup at one position. With a four man bench, we can't afford such a useless player. Also, I don't get the point of having both Danks & Wise on this roster. The only difference between them is Wise is a little better base-stealer. There simply won't be enough playing time for both of them. Wise and Danks are on the roster together for ~ 4 days.

QUOTE (GoodAsGould @ Aug 12, 2012 -> 12:34 PM) So, we should thank Britain rather than them thank the USA? How about we just do a big "Group hug"?

QUOTE (kev211 @ Aug 12, 2012 -> 11:15 AM) @drose It's real. Though I'm sure most of the tweets will be done by addidas and his reps. Let's hope so.

QUOTE (RZZZA @ Aug 12, 2012 -> 12:20 PM) Danks and Flowers hit two important homers, so let's play neither of them and instead play Wise and Olmedo. Whats the rational behind this? I'm sick of Ventura giving away games every sunday with these terrible lineups. Pretty much everyone watching last night said that Youk didn't look good to start the game, then he was hit hard by a ball late in the game, so he's probably very sore today. 3b backup is absolutely needed today.

Just to point out...yesterday's a great example of why Liriano is such an iffy pitcher, especially if you're thinking about signing him long term.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Aug 12, 2012 -> 02:58 AM) So is Mars surface just all dirt and rock and clay? (that we know of so far?) Um, what else could there be? That's a pretty good summary of Earth's surface too, other than "buildings and plants".

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 11, 2012 -> 11:07 PM) That to me is amazing no active athletes have come out as being gay. I wonder if their teammates know. If America was as advanced as we think ... all this outrage over CFA, you'd think ballplayers would casually admit to being gay. Why not? Because "Guys hanging out in a locker room" is one of those places where old-fashioned hate can still get tossed around casually. Just think of the examples the Sox have had aired. The blow up doll incident, the "Getz is Gay" incident, and that's just one team.

Beckham with the angry head shrug

Hi-Res view towards Mt. Sharp.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 11, 2012 -> 07:27 PM) Balta, you didn't respond to my generalities. That is ... my assertion that Obama is a horrible President/leader and my assertion that four more years of Obama will likely mean a Depression as well as social revolution. Society is becoming angrier by the day; very mean. It is getting rough out there, folks. Companies that are not cutting jobs are cutting pay, instituting furloughs making it damn clear you as the worker are just lucky to be employed and that is that. The very rich are getting very richer and snubbing their noses more than ever at the middle class and poor. I do appreciate your in depth commentary though. I learned a lot in reading your post. As I said I am not an expert, but I do know trouble when I see it and four more years of Obama ... wow. Anyway, you're 1/2 right. The very rich are getting richer and snubbing their noses more than ever at the middle class and the poor. And frankly, we're not likely to take significant steps to stop it no matter who is elected. We're told that anything you say is a problem is "wealth redistribution!", unfair, "hand me downs from the word that it should be beneath a regular person to use". What is to be done? Well, the best answer I can give is that we can keep trying to bandage it for n ow. Make sure people get health care (check), stop cutting government jobs (which we've cut nearly a million in the past couple years). GET OFF OIL. Basically, unless Europe falls apart, whoever the next president is will likely see 4 years of pretty strong economic growth just because we're climbing out of the very deep hole left by the bursting of the housing bubble. But we have a choice...does all that growth go to the "Very rich getting very richer" or does it get spread around evenly?

Nice save Adam!

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Aug 11, 2012 -> 10:04 PM) I'd have to see the replay, but in real time, that looked like Alexei beat it. Looked to me like he was clean out.

Ok Greg, I'll admit you're right, people are getting angrier. Take a look at that last post. A decent human being would consider that an embarrassment to himself even if written in the usual sarcasm.

Holy Hell, this team has some fight in it.