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Uribe flies out to RF on the first pitch.

Owens flew out to CF in his 3rd ab. 0/2 with a walk so far. Quick inning for Cain.

Alexei ripped a ball right at Uribe. Fields just singled to LF. Getz flew out to RF.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 19, 2009 -> 01:53 PM) I said bankrupt for GM, not fail outright. There is a difference. Simple question...would you buy a car from a bankrupt company? I'd love an explanation of how exactly a car company survives bankruptcy. And especially how it would do so in this particular credit market where financing is so hard to get from anyone except the government.

House vote on 90% tax on AIG bonuses (no idea how exactly its written or whether it covers any other TARP recipients). Edit:

QUOTE (almagest @ Mar 19, 2009 -> 01:49 PM) Resulting in the worst honey ever.

Yay.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 19, 2009 -> 12:36 PM) Rewarding failure. I don't like this one at all. Ford has managed to pick themselves up by the bootstraps, and not only survive, but also catapult to the top of many quality lists. And they are well ahead of GM or Chrysler in hybrids. And they are not taking any grants, aren't even taking the loans offered, though they did say they may want the line of credit just in case. Meanwhile, GM and Chrysler have failed to adjust, again, and are getting assistance that the SUCCESSFUL company isn't getting. This is crap. GM should be allowed to go bankrupt, then you offer special credit lines and loan conditions to them IF they remove the entire management team and tear up all existing labor contracts and start new. Chrysler can be offered same, but, they probably should be allowed to die. Then, you need to do something to reward Ford for actually being more responsible. Maybe some grant money towards alt fuel research for cars or something. That's the NSS version of an auto stimulus package. The problem down the line, especially with this one is...if GM goes bankrupt, or if Chrysler goes bankrupt and they actually shutter their doors, many of the companies down the line that manufacture parts for companies like Toyota, Honda, and yes, Ford, also manufacture parts for GM and Chrysler. Thus, if one of the big 3 shuts its doors, it kills the companies down the line, the costs for Ford/Honda/Toyota go up significantly because they have to find new suppliers for their parts, and the healthy companies fall apart as well. This money in particular is going to those very suppliers. You may not like the fact that GM is basically the Works Progress Association now, but to borrow a phrase from another bailed out sector, this is a case of systemic risk. You can't kill one without killing all. If you can suggest a way around it, I'd love to hear it.

QUOTE (DBAHO @ Mar 19, 2009 -> 12:22 PM) And the Thunder have beaten some pretty good teams lately also. Looks like it'll be them and the Bucks scrapping all the way to the end for that #8 spot. After looking at the standings...Charlotte and the NY teams still have a shot too if they can string a few wins together. Weirdly enough, the Pistons are only 2 games ahead of the Bulls for the 7 spot, and they're, um, trending downwards.

QUOTE (rangercal @ Mar 19, 2009 -> 10:37 AM) That's not possible. The sac-chi trade occurred in February. You're right. But I did have it in late Feb.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Mar 19, 2009 -> 10:52 AM) lol i remember that After our intelligent design is cool debates, I sorta just sat back and laughed in that one IIRC.

QUOTE (Cknolls @ Mar 19, 2009 -> 12:07 PM) How did Dodd get the bonus provision put into the bill when he was not a conferee on the bill? Was it Reid, Inouye, or Baucus? They were the Senate reps to the conference. Dodd inserted a stronger version of the provision in the actual Senate bill and it passed solidly. It was not in the House bill. The conference committee was the one who came up with the final, weakened compromise, with input from the White House and the Senate, presumably including Dodd because he's the writer of the original provision.

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ Mar 19, 2009 -> 10:35 AM) Maybe Mr. Speed should of been working with a hitting instructor over the off season instead of a track coach. Jerry's also 0/3 on SB's in A games this spring. I think he should have worked with a better track coach too.

Is there a B game or anything for Thome to get some work in today?

This should go over well.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 19, 2009 -> 09:03 AM) Well, it would be awfully hard to find a guy qualified for that post that isn't associated with "wall street". But you could do a lot better than Geithner. Geithner was picked because of where he was last year, in the NY Fed, where he was hands on in dealing with every single major wallstreet bailout, most notably the Bearstearns one. The President picked a guy who was familiar with all the processes they'd set up to allow the government to shovel money in to the big pile of burning money wall street has created, because doing anything else would anger wall street and the demon they are hoping to appease by burning all that money.

I had that posted @ Talkbulls back in January. See what you guys miss by not joining in there?

QUOTE (LVSoxFan @ Mar 19, 2009 -> 08:30 AM) I won't miss Owens. He just strikes me as mentally soft. We don't need any more corpseballers, ever. I thought Corpseball was defined as always swinging for the fences and then slamming the bat down when you pop up instead? I'm not sure Owens is strong enough to either swing for the fences or slam the bat down, so I don't think he fits either requirement.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 19, 2009 -> 08:02 AM) If only he hadn't of paid his taxes, or thrown up some other red flag... Am I the only one who remembers which part of the country was ridiculously excited when Geithner's nomination was announced? Wall Street got a guy they could live with, and he's done nothing so far other than protect Wall Street.

QUOTE (rangercal @ Mar 18, 2009 -> 05:09 PM) Green Bay was not cold for Favre. And yet, New Jersey was.

QUOTE (bighurt4life @ Mar 18, 2009 -> 05:55 PM) AAA, no doubt. Some say that there is more talent in AA, but to me that means you are going to have more guys with great arms but not as much refinement. In AAA you will have guys who are polished products and will have better breaking stuff, with more control and command of those pitches. More major league type players That's kind of what I was thinking too. In AA you might have the guy firing up the 98 mph fastball, but he's ready for that. It's the dancing breaking balls he seems so far to need work on, and the guys in AAA kind of hang out there because they can throw some of those.

QUOTE (BearSox @ Mar 18, 2009 -> 05:09 PM) I personally would have rather had seen how Viciedo would do at Birmingham in the bigger park vs. more talent for a while. But oh well, doesn't make too much of a difference I guess. Might depend on exactly what they think he needs to work on. Where is he more likely to see better breaking stuff, AA or AAA?

Natasha Richardson, wife of actor Liam Neeson and star of numerous films and stage productions, has died of a head injury suffered while skiing on Monday.

QUOTE (Cknolls @ Mar 18, 2009 -> 04:20 PM) You are correct. February had above normal temps, thus the increase in starts. This is the major problem in the economy. Until inventory declines fairly substantially, the problems will fester. SOB. CK and I just agreed on something.

Wait, huh? Retiring a number for 2 people?