Balta1701

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Aug 1, 2010 -> 03:27 PM) But if you only give subsidies to companies that manufacture in the US, it is protectionism. It is the same as 'buy American'. Other countries would boo hoo, whine, and make empty threats until the US gave in. For it to be 'non-protectionist' the subsidy would include purchases of all renewable energy producing devices, no matter where they are manufactured. GW Bush was just being a noble globalist. it would very unfair for those US manufacturers to get subsidies. Well, we could always respond by saying "screw you, you've got Airbus". More seriously...it's not fun shipping windmills overseas. They're the kind of thing that you build locally if you can. But when every time you open a manufacturing plant it gets shut down in 6 months because the government changes policy, that's terrifically bad industrial policy.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Aug 1, 2010 -> 04:00 PM) They just wanted Gavin to get the rh. Thornton's WHIP against righties for the last month is about 2.3.

Ok G, let's rock.

Great swing at that breaking ball by Lexi, just a bit foul.

Did Gio just throw that ball underhand to first?

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Aug 1, 2010 -> 03:11 PM) I wonder how many rbis have been scored by DH's on bunts. I wonder fairly often why guys like Ortiz/Thome who get the overshift don't push a bunt down the 3b line 5 times a year. If you get it past the pitcher it's a guaranteed hit, could even be a freaking double, and it's like a free 5 hits a year.

QUOTE (TitoMB @ Aug 1, 2010 -> 03:10 PM) 4-0! SUICIDE SQUEEZE WITH TWO DOWN!! YEEESSS!!!!!!!! That was a safety squeeze, not a suicide squeeze. Lillibride didn't break until after contact was made.

That may be Pierre's best bunt all year.

There's your lead Gavin. You have 12 more batters to face.

Woot lilly!!!

QUOTE (iamshack @ Aug 1, 2010 -> 03:03 PM) Therapist! "I'll take the rapists for $400, Alex".

I didn't know a baseball could do that.

Fire the missiles, castro.

A hit! A fine hit!

YAY!

QUOTE (iamshack @ Aug 1, 2010 -> 03:00 PM) Hudson just got his first hit and rbi There went the bat we needed.

This game has been on for 53 minutes. It is 1/2 over.

First baserunner wins?

Gavin Floyd is a freaking wrecking crew right now.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 1, 2010 -> 02:32 PM) One positive so far is that of our 6 outs, 4 of them were hit fairly hard. The other positive is named "Gavin".

Nasty breaking ball there to finish of Quentin. That's the Gio curve we spent so many years looking forward to.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 1, 2010 -> 02:19 PM) Daniel Hudson looking good so far for Arizona. 28 strikes, 13 calls thru 3 innings. He's getting his own thread. Some other admin can yell at me if that annoys them.

Man, Alexei made that look too easy.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Aug 1, 2010 -> 09:48 AM) Well how are going to do that? using government money to fund or encourage clean energy production in the US is protectionist and illegal. it's also just downright mean. No it's not. The classic example is wind power and what happened to it during the Bush administration, where 3 times there were subsidies passed for it that jump started a lot of American manufacturing for wind that year, and then the next year the subsidy wasn't renewed, so all of the new manufacturing went out of business. (And let's not go down the road of pretending that fossil fuels don't receive massive subsidies in response). Anyway, you're somewhat right though, the U.S. certianly seems to me to follow WTO rules more than other countries do.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Aug 1, 2010 -> 12:13 PM) No one said she was an attention hog, nor did anyone defend any of the people that are giving her threats. So... (xxxxxxxxxx)... Anyway... Ok, this one is fairly bizarre to me. Did you miss this post? QUOTE (mr_genius @ Jul 31, 2010 -> 07:03 PM) who gives a f***? you can get death threats for just about anything if there is enough exposure. this judge is just an attention whore. I mean, I suppose you're right, no one said she was an attention hog, he said she was an attention whore. But that's kinda worse.