Balta1701

I saw Starlin Castro cost the Tennessee Smokies a game on a very similar play...

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 7, 2010 -> 10:34 PM) Ugh. He tried to dump on over Gregg's head and in front of the 2B. There's no way that the popping it up part was intentional, is there?

QUOTE (fathom @ May 7, 2010 -> 10:33 PM) Pierre should try a drag bunt here. WE NEED A WILD PITCH! I've heard worse ideas.

Juan Pierre simply has to be better than 0/5 in this game.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 7, 2010 -> 10:12 PM) I have no problem with a non-racist guest worker program. But It still doesn't take away the incentive to hire someone illegally for cheaper. But if the program is actually designed well enough that people who want to get into the program and have jobs can do so...there's very little benefit to the worker to come here illegally, because the worker would have to work for a lower wage.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 7, 2010 -> 10:28 PM) Problem is Pierre is up after Ramirez, meaning Ramirez is going to have to get the job done or at the very least, move the runner over. We need a WP from Gregg. I have to think either Beckham or Nix would be able to outrun Quentin here by a fairly large amount.

Bad form on that first bunt attempt.

QUOTE (jeffro2525 @ May 7, 2010 -> 10:26 PM) Do you bunt Teahen here? Not unless you're putting a pinch runner in.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 7, 2010 -> 10:24 PM) So does Williams get the 10th? Why wouldn't you give it to Thornton? Use Williams the next time the lefties come around the lineup if it gets that far.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 7, 2010 -> 10:22 PM) Hit one high and let it fly fellas. I'm going to credit you on this one.

LOL.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 7, 2010 -> 10:20 PM) Jenks is no longer your best pitcher out of the pen....Thornton is, and CLEARLY. I'm not all that impressed by Thornton this season either. He strikes out a ton and then manages to make a game losing mistake.

Hawk, both of those pitches were high.

Sigh. Buck you.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 7, 2010 -> 10:05 PM) It goes back to removing the incentives to commit illegal acts. Consider it just like the damage cap that BP has in the gulf. Neither one of them should exist. So...do you think that if the penalties for the oil spill in the gulf hadn't been capped...BP would have had better safety precautions? No. You want to prevent oil spills, you remove the need for oil entirely. You want to prevent illegal immigration...you set up a legal guest worker program.

I like seeing Rios up here. Frankly, if I were Torotno...I'd consider walking him.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 7, 2010 -> 10:01 PM) If someone is in the country illegally, having made no effort to do so legally, yes. 100% yes. Overstaying a visa by a day is one thing. Entering the country by sneaking over a border is another. It should make it impossible to ever become a citizen IMO. I have an urge to go back a few pages to where the Arizonians were complaining about how much they were paying to put the small fraction of non-citizens they have confined in their jails. Then I want to magnify that by 12 million.

I blame that error on Steve Bartman!

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 7, 2010 -> 09:49 PM) So the penalty shouldn't fit the crime? So immigration violations should now be felonies?

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ May 7, 2010 -> 09:57 PM) And you were wrong. It was a bad choice, don't defend it. If Ozzie was worried enough to walk out to the mound, he shouldn't have let his pitcher convince him to let him stay in.

Sonofa!

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ May 7, 2010 -> 09:51 PM) Now, he'll leave in Mark to try to get him a win. Overbay's never, ever, ever hit Buehrle, he's now 0-17 against him. Leaving him in for Overbay is the right move. Leaving him in against Wells, who is RH and who hits .500 against Buehle, was the mistake.

What's the point of a 7 man pen if you don't use it there?

GOD DAMNIT OZZIE

This is stupid even if it works.