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Alex Rios 1, everyone else 0.

He went, Hawk and Frank

G has the curve working early. That's a good sign.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 16, 2010 -> 02:16 PM) Beckham. I was reading something yesterday. This is the AB total when Jones just fell apart last season. His numbers after 110 or so AB are about the same as last season, except he has a couple more homers. I don't think he can keep it up, but hopefully he won't fall totally apart. It's all about health.

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ May 16, 2010 -> 02:04 PM) Seriously, extra innings? The Royals broadcast? Again??? Try the Sox broadcast again, it took a couple extra minutes for that to turn on for me but it's working now.

The WSJ laments all those minorities intruding onto the communities their writers want to retire into.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ May 15, 2010 -> 11:28 PM) The Vatican couldn't even pay that price tag though. Maybe the RIAA should arrange for Goldman Sachs to take over Limewire.

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 16, 2010 -> 12:55 AM) Where's Rongey been? Is he too busy workin or burned out on the cliche fire the manager type comments in the threads and the cliche criticisms of Ozzie for decisions made in games we lose? Well, between the fact that he's dealing with the same stuff on the radio that is being posted here and the fact that he's legitimately working daily on post-game shows, and doing promotional appearances elsewhere, I think he has other stuff to do.

G it up. Frankly, I don't care if this game goes 23 innings. I want Matt Thornton to have the day off. I'd rather have Kotsay pitch.

QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ May 16, 2010 -> 11:36 AM) The Tea Party is calling for a repeal of the 17th Amendment. The amendment that allows you to vote for your Senator, instead of your state legislature. http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/05...tes.php?ref=fpa With the way the Senate works now, where every vote is for sale, and Wall Street and a few other lobbies own a majority of Senators...I'm not sure it'd really be worse.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 16, 2010 -> 10:22 AM) I find this article depressing: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/16/us/16oil...amp;twt=nytimes Yeah, we knew this was coming. It's really convenient how those probably-kind-of-toxic "Chemical dispersants" make it so that the oil sinks, rather than coming to the surface where the amounts of it can be measured. Anyway, it's that currently undersea oil that is going to destroy the fishing and tourism industries around the entire Gulf for the next generation.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 16, 2010 -> 11:43 AM) Well if tradition is any indicator, the Hawks will lose today considering they have done that in game 1 for the last 4 series... The bright side is that they have won three of those series. On the other hand, they've won what, their last 5 road games?

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 16, 2010 -> 03:49 AM) GMs must feel dirty when they fire managers who have no chance. I mean, Hillman had to be tempted to tell Moore to go f*** himself. I mean, last year they acquired Jacobs for a year. They got Guillen who has been a disaster. Yuni has had 2 straight good games against the Sox, but he's sucked. Middle relief disaster after disaster. No good set up man for years. Bad defense for years, not really the manager's fault. Not much hitting on paper for years. Hillman may have screwed up Meche and makes the usual mistakes you can second guess, but nobody can manage that roster to greatness. But there's a counter point you can a\make. He's been given more talent than what they've shown on the field. Alex Gordon's development has been a disaster. They have spent money on potential setup men (Juan Cruz, Kyle Farnsworth) and had the guys not perform on the field.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ May 15, 2010 -> 07:26 PM) They want YOU to gain access to your neighbor's yard? Last time I checked, there should have been utility domain, and that's their job. It's AT&T. They're probably trying to wiretap his neighbor.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ May 15, 2010 -> 08:47 PM) That is a huge chunk of change going the RIAA's way. I'd be in favor of it if, you know, an artist saw a single cent of that. But when you see things like "For only $10 a month, you get unlimited songs!" you know not a single artist will get paid from that. Limewire doesn't have anything like that in money. All that means is Limewire will be bankrupted and shut down.

Cooked my first ever meal on my own grill tonight. Just wanted to say that.

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ May 15, 2010 -> 11:02 PM) Best line evah in that summary..... Looks like Teahan wrote it. One little mistake...

QUOTE (kapkomet @ May 15, 2010 -> 10:54 PM) there's too many penis pushers for that to ever have that happen. Yup. And they all work as lobbyists. Because they all represent companies that benefit if it doesn't.

Soxnet.net game writeup here, with a summary of what we saw from Thornton and why we're all talking about it for anyone who missed the game.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ May 15, 2010 -> 10:50 PM) "Thornton's elbow is healthy and OK" would be nice about now. No, I don't want to hear that either, because that means there was at some point a reason to ask about the quality of Thornton's elbow. It's like saying "the explosions in the oil pipeline were minor and there's no risk of anything going wrong". I'm more worried about the fact that you have to say it than I am comforted by the statement.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 15, 2010 -> 10:46 PM) Hopefully Thornton's elbow won't be an issue. There's no way that having the words "Thornton" and "Elbow" in the same posts repeatedly are a good thing.

Please be healthy Thornton.

Careful with that left arm on the high 5's Matt.

Gosh, if only there was some way that we wouldn't have needed Thornton to face that last batter.

OH NO