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It's via Kos and Media Matters so no Republicans should click through because of the sources, but if you count up the amount of air time and commercials that Fox News gave to the teabagging parties, and apply sort of a standard cost-per-time rate for a commercial, Fox News gave at least $500,000 worth of free ad space to the tea bag parties. That does not count the times that it was brought up during the shows, only during commercial breaks. Fox, of course, got a large ratings boost from the effort, so it was likely a good business decision for them.

QUOTE (Disco72 @ Apr 17, 2009 -> 02:21 PM) I 100% disagree with adding two more teams. I don't think the "market for baseball" is big enough to expand, especially right now. You can move a team (or two) if necessary, but no more expansion. I'd be more worried about bringing more of the guys currently filling AAA rosters up in to the big leagues. There's been enough dilution so far, I think.

QUOTE (BearSox @ Apr 17, 2009 -> 01:55 PM) [*]San Antonio - Largest city in USA without a professional baseball team. I'm sure a team could draw well there. Both the Rangers and Astros draw well, even when they are doing bad. I think this would be a real good location to put a team. But if Texas secedes...then they're in real trouble.

Our commencement speaker this year is the new secretary of energy.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Apr 17, 2009 -> 10:18 AM) Tampa's stadium is in an awful spot. But if anything they should be moved, not contracted. As for the Marlins, i'm willing to give Miami a shot still since they are getting a new stadium in a couple years. A few years after they move in there and they still aren't drawing? Yeah ok, then maybe they should be moved. Problem with that logic is...if the city of Miami isn't getting to lock them in to a deal in exchange for the new taxpayer funded stadium, then why would the city build it in the first place?

Bring it big time Bartolo.

QUOTE (Brian @ Apr 17, 2009 -> 11:32 AM) I've never believed in the individual stat for an OL giving up sacks. YOu given them up as a whole line. There are some instances on the guards, but I think it maybe a tad overrated. In this case, the stat was right. Peters was a total weakness last year. But it may have been a motivation/holdout issue driving it. If I'm the Bills I think that's a fine deal, I just now need to target LT with one of my first round picks.

QUOTE (Melissa1334 @ Apr 17, 2009 -> 09:17 AM) thats what i think they should do, put jd as the dh and they better not resign thome too though. all those options listed above, its the same problem=no speed. If a player has good speed, then in general, why do I want them at my DH slot? Usually good speed translates to an ability to cover a lot of ground playing defense. If I gave you the list of guys with good speed who are potential FA's after this season (ORlando Hudson, Coco Crisp, Chone Figgins, etc.) they wind up being solid athletes who are probably going to be better on defense than the other guys we'd be playing anyway.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Apr 17, 2009 -> 09:08 AM) Agreed. They should move to Las Vegas. Throw Texas in the East, as they probably belong there more than the West. Wham bam. Vegas right now couldn't support a team if you personally paid for their stadium. They're harder hit by the meltdowns than almost anywhere in the country. Florida included.

QUOTE (Melissa1334 @ Apr 17, 2009 -> 09:11 AM) i just hope that next year, we dont have such a slow team again. thome-dye-pk-aj,etc . when thome leaves at the end of the year, who will take his place? any options? Given how the market worked this year, there's a number of potential options on the market who may be quite a bit cheaper than what we currently have. Dye or Thome could probably be resigned at around $5-$6 million for a year. Number of potential candidates on the market. Carlos Delgado ($16 million option), Mike Sweeney (Seattle), Troy Glaus, Cliff Floyd, Vlad Guerrero, Andruw Jones, possibly Manny Ramirez, etc. Also have a number of options sitting down at AA, depending on how guys like Viciedo and Allen do this year.

State department listing of the 16 countries visited by Hillary Clinton since she took her seat, at least until someone noticed last night and the page was scrubbed:

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 17, 2009 -> 08:50 AM) Pods' first game in Charlotte: 0-4 with a strikeout, and an error in CF Worked for Owens.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Apr 17, 2009 -> 08:26 AM) To be clear I'm not trying to be a dick, but why would they do that? Why would the White Sox as a professional team take suggestions of where to stay on a road trip they have been on many times with their own preferred hotel deals, locations, etc. It's entirely possible the local team may have better connections with hotels, and thus the teams might coordinate for road trips. Sox help the Rays get in to hotel when they're in town, and vice-versa.

One other thing about the Obama plan I'd like to note...one of the most obvious, profitable lines for HSR would still be hooking up Vegas and L.A. Long straight corridor through desert (aside from that annoying fault), enormous amount of traffic between the 2 cities, esp. on weekends, and if you hooked up S.F. and Phoenix to L.A. (and maybe Denver to Phoenix) you'd have a major green economic route covering most of the population centers in the S.W. The one obvious line that's missing from the Obama plan? LA to Vegas. It's almost as if the opposition party decided that idea sounded funny so they had to make a big stink about it a few weeks back.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Apr 16, 2009 -> 07:34 PM) Its amazing how many people ignored Marquez's numbers last year and bought KW's BS about him. When he pitched well the first week of March I think some were even predicting double figure wins. Although he hasn't been sharp, thank God Contreras is back and thank God Bartolo Colon signed with the Sox. The way Richard has been throwing his last couple of outings and the way Marquez has been lit up, the White Sox could just as well forfeit when their turns came up if they were the 4th and 5th starters. He was supposedly hurt and it looks like he pitched just over half a season.

QUOTE (Princess Dye @ Apr 16, 2009 -> 07:45 PM) havent read the thread but lets evaluate Jenks' performance how was the contact people were making off him? Not hard at all.

Take care of business tomorrow night Bartolo, let's set us up well to finish this series positively.

QUOTE (Felix @ Apr 16, 2009 -> 07:33 PM) Their pitching has been terrible, and without Mauer their offense is really nothing special. They are going to be in a lot of trouble until Mauer gets back unless someone else (i.e. not Morneau) steps up for them. I refuse to believe the Twins's pitching is this bad.

QUOTE (Felix @ Apr 16, 2009 -> 07:22 PM) 14 hits and only 3 runs. That's kind of impressive. The good news? Our team batting average just jumped up a lot. And our leadoff hitter went 2/5. I think that doubles the number of hits we've had out of the leadoff spot this year.

QUOTE (DonkeyKongerko @ Apr 16, 2009 -> 07:15 PM) Haha worst win ever? There have been worse. Our pitching was more than good enough to win this game. To me, worst win ever is like a win where we give up 8 runs, 6 of them unearned, and yet somehow still win 10-8 with at least 5 of our runs unearned and a few umpiring mistakes while we're at it.

QUOTE (scenario @ Apr 16, 2009 -> 07:17 PM) Nothing crappy about a low scoring win. Our pitching only gave up 5 hits and struck out 10? I'll take games like that any day. Our hitting got 14 hits and 2 walks and scored 3 runs.

H. Christ. If we can win some games like this, then we're in decent shape, because the offense is going to carry us to a number of games eventually. Thanks to: John Danks Octavio Dotel Matt Thornton Bobby Jenks, I think. Dye Fields Getz Anderson Thome, kinda, for taking a walk, but not for anything else.

Expressing my mood swings due to this game... Thanks to Brian for being the run that won the game for us tonight. Yeesh.

Deep breath. Special thanks to brian Anderson, Chris Getz, and Joshua Fields Forever for that last run.

I'd almost rather face Pena.