Balta1701

Most Points by Rookie 1st Playoff Game, NBA History Derrick Rose, Bulls 36 2009 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Bucks 36 1970 Wilt Chamberlain, Warriors 35 1960 Tim Duncan, Spurs 32 1998

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Apr 18, 2009 -> 04:53 PM) No, TOTAL energy costs. Electricity, gasoline, heating (fuel oil and natural gas), and on and on. It has nothing to do with the price of oil. And, according to you, oil's so finite that there's no way it stays cheap - which frankly I see Obama trying to raise prices (see: tax) so that we are pushed into all this alternative energy, which just happens to cost more, which will in turn generate more carbon taxes. Nice vicious circle we're getting ready to create. Fossil fuels are now becoming our offical sin tax. Considering all the negatives, they damn well better be treated like that.

Bah.

Man, Gameday thought 4 of those pitches to Anderson were strikes.

How does this team win games like this?

Gotta love Reyes totally pitching around Soriano.

25 pitch first for Kazmir. Please keep making him pitch. He threw 10 strikes that inning.

QUOTE (zenryan @ Apr 18, 2009 -> 04:11 PM) maybe I should keep up with my projections. Please.

QUOTE (zenryan @ Apr 18, 2009 -> 04:09 PM) unbelievable that we're only going to score 1. Welcome to White Sox Baseball. Paul Konerko welcomes you with the 2nd run.

Let's go Paul, just a single.

I'm a fan of how they don't count you for an RBI when you GIDP. "You suck, you gave up 2 outs, you don' t get the RBI".

Dye GIDP, run scores.

Kazmir starting off wild, Q up, 2 on 0 out. Q walks. 3 straight walks to start the game.

Hmph, didn't know the Cards brought Rasmus up. How are they finding AB's for all those OF's I wonder?

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 18, 2009 -> 03:03 PM) And just like that, Marmol hangs a couple of sliders and Cards tie it up. I love when teams don't bunt! Hopefully by "august" you meant "late april".

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 18, 2009 -> 02:57 PM) The goat of the game would have been Salmons if the Bulls lost. He was horrible in the 2nd half. If we had an actual healthy Luol Deng, even the crappy version of him we had earlier this season, I doubt Salmons would be playing right now. Or maybe he would be playing after having rested his injury down the stretch.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Apr 18, 2009 -> 02:44 PM) No, no, it's not missed. This is the first step in raising our energy costs by at least 50% for every American. Thankfully, given that the price of oil has dropped by 66%, a 50% rise in energy costs would still be less than we were paying last year.

You may have missed it, but it's very important. Yesterday, the EPA, following a ruling by the Supreme Court requiring it to do so...declared that Carbon Dioxide is an actual environmental pollutant that the EPA is required to regulate under the clean air act. There is additional legal procedure to get out of the way before anything happens, but the first step is likely going to be a decision on whether or not California can impose stricter emissions standards than the rest of the country this summer. The real meat of this move though is political...because it gives the Obama Administration immense leverage over the Congress regarding energy legislation. The Obama Administration can literally tell every senator and Congressperson out there that they had better produce a bill that the President can sign that creates a system regulating CO2 emissions...because if they don't do so, then the EPA is required by the current law to regulate them, and the EPA isn't going to be able to set up a cap and trade system on its own, so if the Congress doesn't pass a bill, the regulations will be vastly more onerous.

QUOTE (Texsox @ Apr 18, 2009 -> 02:19 PM) Of course that was followed by Illinois pride, Germany in the 1940s Are you calling the Nazis corrupt?

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 18, 2009 -> 02:21 PM) Top of the order for the Cubs (Soriano and Fukudome) have nearly a 2.4 OPS combined. Fukudome was on fire in April 08 also, and got worse month by month.

QUOTE (danman31 @ Apr 18, 2009 -> 02:12 PM) Yeah, his shot has gotten better but he was taking deep jumpers. Just odd that they kept going in. It's not the greatest shot in the world for him to be taking, but it's becoming a more effective part of his game. If he can add a bit of a driving ability or a bit of a post-up ability to that, so that the guy guarding him has to play him high and low, and he can either beat the guy guarding him off the dribble or take the shot if the guy backs off, then that jumper's going to be a solid weapon.

Better bring your A game Mark.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 18, 2009 -> 01:38 PM) Nice 13 run inning for the Indians. Does that push Wang's ERA up or down?

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Apr 17, 2009 -> 10:09 PM) Coop can Fix him. Does seem like KW move to make. Seems like our AAA team has plenty of room.

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Apr 18, 2009 -> 09:13 AM) Will this be the last steroid-induced 500th homerun? Maybe the last we're certain of.