Balta1701

Hernandez claimed by the Rockies.

28 pitches for the JV team in the first.

Verlander's now given up 26 runs to the Sox this season in 27 innings. 21 earned.

Heheheheehehehehehe.

QUOTE (Jimbo's Drinker @ Aug 6, 2008 -> 05:17 PM) anyone home?? Half way.,

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Aug 6, 2008 -> 04:42 PM) Probably the fact Uribe is the better defender and Josh Fields isnt exactly hitting a lot better... I mean Fields is hitting .182 with a .240 obp and a .227 slugging percentage. Uribe is hitting .218 with a .277 obp and a .351 slugging percentage. I guess the real question would be why should Fields be starting over Uribe? Fields is hitting those #'s in 22 at bats. After 23 at bats last year, he was hitting .139 with a .297 OPS. From then on he hit .251 with an .820 OPS.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Aug 6, 2008 -> 03:37 PM) I'm sure Obama's cash is at least as dirty as McCain's. Frankly, I'd love to find out. I really hope the press takes a close look at all these bundlers now that it's starting to be an issue. It's bothered me for years how rich people conveniently seemed to get all their friends to contribute as well.

Cabrera Swisher Quentin Dye Thome Konerko Ramirez Hall Uribe Raburn Polonco Guillen Ordonez Cabrera Sheffield Thames Renteria Sardinha

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Aug 6, 2008 -> 04:28 PM) Well boo hoo, a whole extra 12 outs. We could use his bat in the line-up. Maybe not as we do own Verlander, but he would certainly help things along. I guess we'll see but something tells me if we asked AJP if he wanted to play, he'd say yes. Actually it would be 15 extra outs. Innings 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Aug 6, 2008 -> 03:10 PM) *warning - article that talks about Obama's donations (big industry bribes basically) - you may go into a unstoppable rage if you are an Obamatron * http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/05/america/bundlers.php 2 points. 1. We'll give them up when you will. 2. The bigger question is...are any of them looking like these "fishy" bundled gifts like McCain seemed to start getting recently, people who are middle class but work for a large corporation who suddenly give $30 grand.

Tim Pawlenty's sounding like a guy who was just told he wasn't being the VP pick.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Aug 6, 2008 -> 03:55 PM) Could you imagine if those things got loose though and started reproducing everywhere? lol that would be a big mess. Deal with our atmospheric CO2 problem pretty quick I'd think.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Aug 6, 2008 -> 02:56 PM) How the hell could you not play AJP tonight? How many innings out of 14 did he play last night?

As soon as it's posted somewhere on the internets we'll take care of it.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Aug 6, 2008 -> 03:35 PM) Maybe it is where I saw it was here. ... ... ... so the conclusion is, because bugs crap oil, it's a renewable resource. Didn't we all learn something today, boys and girls? If someone could pull that off on an industrial scale, then yeah, it would suddenly go in to being a renewable resource.

QUOTE (BearSox @ Aug 6, 2008 -> 01:11 PM) Street is by far the most overrated closer in baseball... He's clearly having a down year this year, but some of those numbers he's put up in the past are hard to argue with. 2007, dominant numbers, 50 innings pitched, 35 hits, 12 walks. WHIP below 1. 63 strikeouts in 50 innings. 2006, pretty solid numbers, WHIP of 1.1, 67 k's in 70 innings.

QUOTE (DrunkBomber @ Aug 6, 2008 -> 12:58 PM) Why dont we just wait for Jurassic Carl to turn into oil? You ever see him run the bases? Not a lot of energy left in that source, methinks.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Aug 6, 2008 -> 12:48 PM) That bolded part made me laugh. In any case, I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that based off the premise of the original post, it's safe to assume that BearSox was not talking about all that and that it's still laughable. If we were to use up all the oil that can be drilled, right now, the global economy is shot to s*** for a few million more years. Ok, on that I'll agree. Right now, the earth is probably producing something on the order of 1 barrel of oil for every 10,000 or 100,000 or so barrels we use, maybe less. Not all of that is accessible and a decent chunk of it never gets stored anywhere or is eaten by microbes, but the production is non-zero. It'd just take a couple tens of millions of years to build back up the reservoirs to the levels they were before humanity started any pumping.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Aug 6, 2008 -> 12:38 PM) If you're talking about the seeping upwards of oil from super-deep reserves, that's something else, but the process of actually forming oil takes like a million years. So yeah technically oil is "renewable" but not in any practical way. Remember, you're actually talking to a geologist here. The full process of generating oil takes literally tens of millions of years, because you have to start off with carbon rich sediment, compact it, bury it, de-water it, and move it down deep enough that it starts giving off oil. But, once the sediment (we call it kerogen) reaches the temperature and pressure conditions that it starts to give off hydrocarbons, it doesn't do so in one big burp...it releases it in small amounts in a continuous process. The oil that is generated will usually flow out through the rocks after generation and if it happens to find somewhere where it can pool, it does so and we wind up with a good, usable oil source. There are rocks right now that are generating small amounts of oil and that oil is migrating upwards to current reservoirs. The amount of oil being generated today from rocks that were buried a couple million years ago is non-zero. But it's no where near what we're burning during a day. So we're not talking about movement up from super-deep reservoirs or anything...actual generation is happening right now. But, the only reason why we're able to have a petroleum based economy like we do is that several hundred million years of daily production has pooled in certain geologically favorable areas, like the areas overlying the former Tethys seaway.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Aug 6, 2008 -> 12:29 PM) Do you know how long it takes for the earth to make oil? If it could make oil fast, there wouldn't even be much to talk about. This is something you should have learned in the 4th grade. Actually, technically I will agree with him here. There is continual generation of oil happening on earth. There are a few fields where they limit the rate that they're pumping it, so that as its being generated, it's keeping the volume of the field fairly constant. But the amount being generated is dramatically less than what we use in a normal day.

QUOTE (BearSox @ Aug 6, 2008 -> 12:28 PM) Balta, just wondering, but do you honestly believe that there will be an alternative for oil in your lifetime? I think one of 3 things will happen. Either I won't make it that many more years, there will be an alternative for oil in my lifetime, or 3-4 billion people are going to be at risk for starving to death. If oil production were to pass through the peak that people have been expecting/say is currently happening, and start dropping off at a 5-10% a year clip...then if we don't have some other ability to drive transportation and provide energy for generating things like fertilizers, plastics, etc., then a lot of people are going to die because without energy, producing enough food is going to be impossible.

QUOTE (BearSox @ Aug 6, 2008 -> 12:21 PM) now that is simply bulls***. The earth makes oil and it's not going to stop one day because it feels like it. Now, we might use a lot of it up and the supply will be low, but I f***ing guarantee you that there would still be oil in the earth. It is crazy stupid to think that one day there will be no oil. We need to work on finding an alternative to oil, but a true alternative to oil is probably at least 100 years away, and that's if we're lucky. In fact, odds are there is probably no replacement for oil. Oil isn't just used for gas and cars. Oil is used in the production of plastic, cosmetics, computers. Pretty much everything we use today is made from oil. Well, unfortunately, if the alternative for oil is 100 years away, we better start planning on figuring out how to plant crops. Because by then, oil production is going to be down dramatically from where it is right now.

QUOTE (BearSox @ Aug 6, 2008 -> 12:00 PM) lol, I love this... It's pretty much man vs. nature, and people are actually rooting for the nature. I mean, I don't want to f*** up the environment, but to say that drilling for oil or going into the rockies and extracting shale oil is going to mess up the planet is silly. You are acting like as oil is some evil element, but when it is indeed a natural product that this planet produces. So, um Balta, why is it okay for other countries to drill for oil, but not us? Going to the rockies and mining oil shale will dramatically mess up the planet, because you're going to need a crap load of water to pull that off, and the only source of water for that is the colorado river. Which means you're basically going to close down Los Angeles, Las Vegas, San Diego, and pretty much everything in Utah, Arizona, and western Colorado, so as soon as you find room for anther what, 40-50 million people, let me know. Not to mention the CO2. What does it matter at all if it's a natural product that is produced by geologic processes? Geologic processes can produce a hell of a lot of harmful things. Concentrated toxins. Radioactivity. Hell, the planet once produced a natural nuclear reactor in the ground about 3 billion years ago. Would you walk in to a nuclear reactor on the grounds that the planet produced one and so therefore it's safe? The reason these OCS areas were blocked off was because it's a relatively small amount of oil in areas that risk fairly severe environmental and consequently economic damage. Oil spills around florida aren't great for tourism. Ditto Los Angeles. Even in the Republican thread, this is not worthy of dignifying with a response.

QUOTE (thedoctor @ Aug 6, 2008 -> 10:35 AM) i think you can be fairly certain that if there is a rebuilding process kenny is not going to be a part of it. As far as I can tell, right now, we're in the middle of a rebuilding year. We've got 2 2nd year pitchers in our rotation, a 1st year 2nd baseman, a quasi-rookie 3rd baseman up even though he's splitting time with people, a LF in his first full season, and a "CF/1b" who's signed for several more years that we gave up a handful of prospects for. Couple of disappointments tossed in there, but after winning 72 last season, we rebuild enough on the fly to be in the pennant chase again this year.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 6, 2008 -> 12:54 PM) There are concerns with pretty much every energy that is being put forth. The ones that are considered green, aren't talked about. But pointing to an event 40 years ago as why something should not happen is still just silly. The only reason the laws are the way they are is because a bunch of rich people live there. Teddy Kennedy is pulling the same stunts 3000 miles away with some of the very same things that are supposed to be saving our planet as we speak. Do I need to dredge up the info on the 700,000 barrels of oil spilled by Katrina and Rita? Those 2 storms spilled about 2/3 of an Exxon-Valdez. Right in the area you're drooling over.