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QUOTE (Brian @ May 23, 2010 -> 06:14 PM) Congrats to Blackhawk faithful, from a Blackhawks fair weather fan. Ditto.

Obama takes time off of his busy schedule of covering up for BP to comment on LBJ.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 23, 2010 -> 05:06 PM) Marshall and Marmol is quite the 1-2 punch in the bullpen right now. A guy with an unhittable curve followed by the most dominate slider in baseball. And yet, it doesn't exactly seem like it's being all the helpful for them.

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ May 23, 2010 -> 04:49 PM) Yep, this one is tricky. Former, but recent Sox. One of Ozzie's favorites. Drafted by NL organization. "Tall and lean physique. Similar to Garret Anderson. Open stance. Short, compact swing. Gap power. Chance to become productive base stealer. Quick acceleration. Bat must improve." Also, i think we're due for a brawl today. Kotsay?

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ May 23, 2010 -> 04:38 PM) It was a trick. Santos. Next one is easier. Also, a current Sox. " Excellent build. Tall, lean, strong, proportional, athletic build. Agressive mentality. Mound presence. Uses both sides of plate with fastball. Not afraid to throw inside. Comfort zone 89-91 mph with hard, armside run and late sink down. 3/4 curveball, knee-buckler with quick sharp strike zone bite. Early sign with University of Texas." D1.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ May 23, 2010 -> 04:43 PM) 1) it's BRITISH Petroleum. He can't take it over. If this were Exxon, he would have already nationalized it. He could certainly nationalize the U.S. portion of BP and its assets. Happens all the bloody time in fossil fuel industries. Hell, BP probably has a standard procedure reaction to it. They're probably more prepared for that than they are for oil spills.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ May 23, 2010 -> 04:23 PM) You seriously don't know why? Because it would be an admission to the almighty Barackus the Great = Epic Fail. But he's an evil socialist. That would give him the ability to suspend all those rights and take control of BP like he wants to anyway.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 23, 2010 -> 04:24 PM) One step forward, two steps back with this team. Randy Williams really sucking it up...performance wise and for the team. Technically didn't they win 2 games this series?

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 23, 2010 -> 04:23 PM) Maybe one of the reasons KC kept moving Teahen and not having him play 3B all the time was because he simply is a bad defensive (and offensive) 3B. His UZR/150 number with KC his last year at 3b was something like -2. Last time I checked this year it was somewhere around -40. He's been unusually godawful this year, even for him.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ May 23, 2010 -> 04:23 PM) You seriously don't know why? Isn't it pretty much a vitally important step for releasing federal disaster assistance funds?

Maybe Nix should have come in at 3rd.

QUOTE (JohnCangelosi @ May 23, 2010 -> 04:06 PM) I'd be ok with him hitting 8th or 9th a few times a week tops. But in the 5 hole??? That's more of my problem with it but I guess everyone sucks in our lineup so it doesnt matter Kotsay has hit 3 HR since the last time Quentin hit one. It's basically do you want to go clean up at ground zero without a respirator or do you want to go clean up the oil spill without a respirator. Either way, you probably don't want to be breathing.

QUOTE (JohnCangelosi @ May 23, 2010 -> 04:03 PM) And for the year? Significantly worse. He hit about .100 in April.

What's that, 5 HR for the Marlins today? I've been flipping to the Hawks game. Haven't they all hit in exactly the same section there in LF?

QUOTE (JohnCangelosi @ May 23, 2010 -> 03:59 PM) And Kotsay is the polar opposite, as our #5 hitter. What a joke. Kotsay's actually hitting .286 with an .888 OPS in May, coming into this game.

Seriously, why has this thing not been declared a national state of emergency yet?

Ohh, tough talk! 33 days into the spill, probably 10 Exxon-Valdez units and 11 dead workers later, if BP doesn't do something unspecified by us before an unspecified deadline, there might actually be consequences like having the Feds take over control of cleaning up a multi-state disaster that is going to end the economy of the Gulf states for 50 years which BP's only interest in stopping it appears to involve making as much money selling chemical dispersants to themselves as possible. Maybe it's time for another sternly worded letter.

QUOTE (Jenks Heat @ May 23, 2010 -> 03:47 PM) Wonder if the Royals wish they had traded Grienke.......... No. They've probably paid his salary and more in extra ticket sales this year, and he's just as movable in the future.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 23, 2010 -> 03:27 PM) Maybe we'll see Nix pitch today? I thought Kotsay was the emergency pitcher.

Some times its fun when the game is clearly over early and Hawk & Stone can just sit around shooting the breeze about whatever they want to talk about for about an hour.

So far, in the last 20 minutes, Hawk has told us he loves Menards and Pittsburgh.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 23, 2010 -> 03:00 PM) Geez Hawk the Sox have the best 5th starter, the best bullpen the best this the best that, why is the record so bad? Because starters 1, 2, and 4 have been awful, and hitters 1,2, 5,6, 7, 8, and 9 have been awful.

"I love Menards". -Ken "The Hawk" Harrelson, 5/23/10, 1:51 p.m. local time.

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Obama's wonderful executive order creating a commission to investigate the disaster? Yeah, that's right, no subpoena power. Congrats, 2k5 and Kap. It won't be BP's fault.