Balta1701

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 26, 2011 -> 09:49 AM) I am still not buying what Bautista is shooting up. I assume the language there was deliberate?

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 26, 2011 -> 10:41 AM) Well, and the GOP sort of is breaking up, right now. I don't know that they are. I've been somewhat surprised at how the people I thought would form the intelligent faction have just given up and let the Tea Party side take over everything.

QUOTE (dasox24 @ Apr 26, 2011 -> 11:54 AM) I didn't know Knoxville could get storms this bad. The mountains around us usually break everything up... I was in Haslam when the storm hit and the maintenance staff was yelling at everyone to get away from the glass - that's when I knew this storm was more serious than I thought. Finally got power back at my apartment like 20 minutes ago. A night without power was weird, but it gave me a reason to go to the bar and drink. Do you know the greenhouse that sits behind the biology building on the Hill? About 1/2 of it completely collapsed. Getting home last night was an adventure.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Apr 26, 2011 -> 09:07 AM) Did you think anyone would take on Vernon Wells' contract this offseason? Shack FTW. That's one Helluva way to look at it. Adam Dunn is untradeable but Vernon Wells was moveable? Yowza.

Carlosian.

I mean, 1/2 of the Republican party believes Obama wasn't born in the United states, and the guy leading the early Presidential polls for the party has decided to go the full-bore racist path. You at least gotta admit, you didn't see that coming.

G...it is your job to make Phil's day look ordinary.

A couple Sox fans had an awesome day at O'Hare.

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Finally, a method of taking a census that can quantitatively exclude everyone who is poor, rather than just partially excluding them. Now all we need is a good talking-to about how the poor shouldn't have cell phones/laptops/whatever we've decided they can't afford today.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 25, 2011 -> 10:49 PM) Boy it doesn't seem that long ago that Balta kept posting about the inevitable break up of the Republican party... Did I really say "breakup"? I guarantee I said that it was going to be interesting to see how they recovered from 2008, and it's been an interesting recovery/conflict, one that is, frankly, still going on. And you have to admit, outside of the people who were planning it and funding it at AFP in 2008, no one else really predicted that either.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Apr 26, 2011 -> 06:41 AM) What kind of idiot robs a bank to steal $400? If you want to get in and out quick, that's probably all you can really get. Each cashier probably has ~ that much. If you pull a gun on a single cashier, that's what you'd get.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Apr 26, 2011 -> 06:46 AM) Jeesh, imagine all the new country clubs they'd have to build in the DC area... They wouldn't have to build any. There are something like 40-50,000 registered lobbyists in this country. Just bring them into Congress. They're the ones writing and deciding legislation anyway.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Apr 25, 2011 -> 11:30 PM) I have no problem saying that Dunn looked great at the plate today. His bat was just a little off, but you can tell that he is seeing the ball really well. He looked much better than he did over the weekend.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Apr 25, 2011 -> 10:22 PM) He always reminds me of Broadway, and that scares the hell out of me. Lance Broadway didn't have a fastball.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Apr 25, 2011 -> 11:27 PM) Little early to be declaring Humber a Coop masterpiece, isn't it? Remember Scott Schoenweis? Are you suggesting that Humber is juicing?

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Apr 25, 2011 -> 10:10 PM) I guess I just dont see what the long term plan here is. Is Thornton now useless? I dont know, we had a guy go 7 innings and needed our closer to get 4 outs. Thats a problem. Yes, it's absolutely a f***ing problem.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Apr 25, 2011 -> 10:09 PM) If Ozzie doesnt know that Girardie will pinch hit Chavez when he brings in the righty, fire Ozzie right now. Which matchup would you rather have had, Jones vs. Sale or Santos vs. Chavez?

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Apr 25, 2011 -> 10:08 PM) Its not about how many pitches did Santos throw, its how many pitches did he potentially have to throw. If Santos is the closer, you cant risk that he does throw 20 pitches to get out of the inning and then you put in Thornton? Its just backwards logic, the Sox scoring in the 9th really helped out. But can you imagine how tight that game is if Granderson leads off with only a 1 run lead? I just dont like it, call me old fashioned. Or maybe Ozzie just considered this game a must win, I didnt consider that before, but I guess if he thought he had to win this game no matter what, than Sergio makes sense. But I just would prefer a different approach 90% of the time. If Santos is your #1 reliever right now, you'd rather have him get the out with men on in the 8th. That was the worry at the time.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 25, 2011 -> 10:06 PM) Santos was brought in to -face Andruw Jones make Girardi pinch hit for him.

QUOTE (SoxFan562004 @ Apr 25, 2011 -> 09:52 PM) wow, nothing but credit to Humber, what a great performance. I have zero idea how this team is 3.5 behind Tigers and 1 behind Twins at this point, but I'm glad they are. The Twins offense right now is rivaling the Mariners.

PHIL IN THE BLANK!

Sergio looks a lot more comfortable against ARoid.

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