Balta1701

QUOTE (Leonard Zelig @ May 24, 2010 -> 06:27 PM) I swear an ump allowed a runner to score from first on a ground rule double against the Sox earlier this year, but I cannot remember who they were playing. It wasn't a ground rule double, it was a fan interference play

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 24, 2010 -> 06:23 PM) So how is life in the White House? Shouldn't you be blaming Clinton?

QUOTE (bmags @ May 24, 2010 -> 05:57 PM) SOooo, they might get better students and educate them better. WHat a stupid decision. Actually, what's more likely is they get press coverage for this deal, they get more applications because of it, they are therefore able to refuse admission to more applicants, and their admission standards look more stringent...to the filter that US News uses to rank colleges (which is a simple percentage of applicants admitted).

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ May 24, 2010 -> 05:40 PM) Look one post above yours As should you.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ May 24, 2010 -> 05:28 PM) Mike Brown fired. Was that posted elsewhere? The post right above you?

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ May 24, 2010 -> 05:04 PM) I'm really surprised you haven;t gotten into Lost, Balta. Lots of 'sciencey' things going on in the show. When you're working on a Ph.D. and working a 2nd job for most of a show's run, sometimes you have to make choices. If it premiered this year, I'd probably have been a regular viewer.

Kotsay

Tonight, we say goodbye to the defining TV show of the Bush era. There may have been better shows over the past decade, but none will appear in as many history textbooks as this one.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ May 24, 2010 -> 04:54 PM) Probably just a day off after 6 straight starts and an 0-4 day. Ozzie also probably wanted to find a way to get Jones back into the lineup; with Pierre, Rios and Kotsay all hitting relatively well and Andruw struggling, he didn't get an AB in the Marlins series. Jones def. seemed like he needed some time off.

QUOTE (Jenks Heat @ May 24, 2010 -> 04:52 PM) How is Russell doing? 3-1 record, 3.65 ERA, 1.95 WHIP in San Diego's bullpen this season. Hasn't given up a HR, 11 BB, 14 K in 12.1 innings.

It took somewhere between months and years for the 9/11 responders to really get hit with the effects of the stuff they were breathing.

Tex, I saw this post and thought my monitor had screwed up.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 24, 2010 -> 04:23 PM) People say that, yet the average wage keeps increasing in the US And yet, Median wage didn't follow, at least for the last "expansion".

According to Kurkjian, Ely had a streak of something like 84 consecutive batters faced without a walk.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 24, 2010 -> 04:21 PM) Agreed 1000%. We got the best years out of Aaron, and got rid of him before he got expensive. We also got an elite hitter for him. I don't see the problem with anything in how Rowand's career arc proceeded with the Sox. Oh, and an elite hitter with 1/2 of his contract paid for.

QUOTE (CanOfCorn @ May 24, 2010 -> 03:56 PM) Lemme put it this way... Frank Thomas vs. Floyd Landis. Lemme give you this in reply: Floyd Landis Vs. Jose Canseco. No matter how bad Canseco's motives may have been...the game of baseball is a better game for what he did.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ May 24, 2010 -> 01:51 PM) What about it? Just that it's a different day promoting the history and ethnicity of another group and we seem to have little issue with people of all ages acknowledging it by wearing certain colors or by discussing related events in classes.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ May 24, 2010 -> 01:49 PM) And how many people wearing green on that day can tell you anything about why they are doing it other than that it may get them a free beer at the corner bar or something that day. It has turned into just another excuse to drink. Amongst middle schoolers?

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ May 24, 2010 -> 01:37 PM) Boy you just love doing that. Didn't say that. I highlighted the Mexican holiday part. That should have zero relevance to the previous poster's point about students wearing Mexican colors/flags/etc being seen in the same way. It's the equivalent of Americans wearing red, white and blue and american flags on July 4th in other countries. Why should that date have any significance to them? In fact, i'm sure it would go over real well in England. What about people wearing green on St. Patrick's Day?

QUOTE (fathom @ May 24, 2010 -> 01:26 PM) unleash the 4 seam high fastball again. Hasn't he been burned repeatedly on that pitch this season?

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ May 24, 2010 -> 01:33 PM) In the United States of America... So, there's no benefit to American students to understand the history of other countries/cultures?

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ May 24, 2010 -> 01:10 PM) Couldn't the overt display of mexican flags, etc on that day have also been seen as distracting and disruptive to the educational process? On an actual Mexican holiday? I'm sure Arizona has banned this, but one might think that would be an excellent teaching moment about the history of other cultures.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ May 24, 2010 -> 01:13 PM) 1. In its exact current form, no. In some form, yes. 2. Probably yes. Ok, then let me elaborate a bit on 1... Do you think a serious clean energy bill, built on the hulk of the APA, will pass? Or will all of the clean energy componets be stripped out, giving us yet another "drilling" bill like the 3-4 of them that the Bush administration passed (each of which solved our energy problems completely).

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ May 24, 2010 -> 01:15 PM) Is A-Rod still on the TEX contract? If so, it, like every other contractual obligation of the Rangers, will now be subject to the filings and hearings associated with the bankruptcy. So it could go either way. 3rd paragraph above:

Ivan Rodriguez to the 15 day DL with a lower back strain. Another catching vacancy...