Balta1701

I'm betting that sounds worse than the actual conversation by being compressed into a tweet.

QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Jun 10, 2010 -> 02:51 PM) Oh Noes! Coffee Spill at BP! Balta1701: beating you to the thing you wanted to post since 2005.

QUOTE (BFirebird @ Jun 10, 2010 -> 02:59 PM) Wow. 5th inning already? Fast game. After the first inning, the Sox have been swinging very early in the count to avoid getting themselves in 2 strike situations where Scherzer will K them. It would be an effective strategy...if you could actually hit him early in the count. Instead it's just making his innings go faster and take fewer pitches.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 10, 2010 -> 02:20 PM) How far was Omar's home run? Omar and Lillibridge must have finally received the HGH I sent them. Just over the 372 spot in Gameday. Probably about 375-380.

Scherzer struck out the side in the first, save for Vizquel.

1-0 SOX. VIZQUEL HR.

I'M NOT KIDDING

OMAR VIZQUEL HR

Quick 123 first for D1.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 10, 2010 -> 02:00 PM) Have we confirmed that he's actually changed his swing back to what it was? We've confirmed that he said he was going to right before he started hitting again. I don't think anyone has reported directly from the Charlotte ballpark.

WHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Now that's funny. They're walking it back now that his statement has gotten publicity. But that's about as clear as you can get at the time. Edit: Boehner's side is trying to make sure that the story gets reported in a way that gives them an out to having the federal government be responsible for dealing with all the job losses and illnesses along the coast, as long as BP pays for the cleanup. His office is currently refusing to answer whether he believes BP should also have to pay damages associated with the effects of the spill.

Ok, this one takes me back to the first Ghostbusters movie, the scene in the Mayor's office, after the mayor of NYC throws Peck out of his office, where Venkman says "I'm gonna miss him!"

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jun 10, 2010 -> 11:55 AM) Yeah, the article was linked from SI to somewhere else, can't find it now.... but it put the Sox as slightly above average, with Sale being a steal, and the rest middle of the road. Once you get past the first couple rounds its all so much a question of system development though... I think people are silly for ranking NFL drafts before a couple years are up. Baseball ones? My God.

QUOTE (T R U @ Jun 10, 2010 -> 01:07 PM) Dude, Flowers had a really bad may.. look at his April and June numbers Its not like he has fallen off the face of the earth.. There was also a specific Issue of Flowers in May trying to do more to overhaul his swing to cut down on the strikeouts. It left him uncomfortable. In June he's gone back to what he's been doing and it's suddenly working again.

There were 2 different people at UT's gym today in Hawks gear.

QUOTE (DBAHO @ Jun 10, 2010 -> 01:30 PM) I think I read something a while back about Rutgers possibly moving conferences (they're pretty much the only college I am interested about due to see actually seeing a couple of their games in person). Rutgers keeps casually getting linked to the Big Ten. It'd make sense, I'd guess the Big Ten would love to get into the tri-state market.

QUOTE (girlslikebaseballtoo#26 @ Jun 10, 2010 -> 11:10 AM) Did you know ...Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest word in the dictionary and is a lung disease caused by Quartz in the air? (obviously a minors disease) .. We laypeople call that Silicosis.

Why not... Vizquel.

Pierre, LF Vizquel, 3b Rios, CF Konerko, DH Quentin, RF Kotsay, 1b Pierzynski, C Ramirez, SS Beckham, 2b.

QUOTE (scenario @ Jun 10, 2010 -> 12:40 PM) Who's the home plate umpire for today's game? Gameday says Scott Barry. Why?

Cell phone video of shooting surfaces The guy shot a 14 year old who was 60 feet away.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jun 10, 2010 -> 09:58 AM) Blocked at work. I'll make myself sad again at home. So, what can someone do locally (ie not moving to LA/ AL)? CNN has an article on this today. Mostly everything is volunteer opportunities, like I said in my last post, but there are a few places that are interested in $ as well.

Directly from the article you posted: The Cardinals likely would not be interested in MB, simply because they not only won't want to pay him this season, they won't want to pay his trade-kicker increased price. Secondly...no, the Cardinals pretty much have nothing of interest in terms of young talent right now.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 10, 2010 -> 11:01 AM) Bear Stearns was bought by JPM for $2 a share because of their precarious position of borderline failure. But that price came about because Paulson was determined to bring some moral hazard back into play. That price was a government intervention. JPM was likely, at the time willing to pay quite a bit more for it, and then it would have wound up pushing JPM into bankruptcy because they didnt' know what they were buying. Would the government have to step in to shepherd something like that through?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 10, 2010 -> 11:00 AM) I could see a Bear situation emerging, quite legitimately. Can I kindly ask for you to elaborate on that as more of an expert than I?