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I love this. They don't actually have to determine whether or not any laws were broken. They just have to determine whether or not the President sent a nice letter saying it was ok. If only we all could apply that standard. "Yes, Mr. Balta sent us a letter saying it was ok for him to play around in our bank vault for like 30 minutes while no one else watched. You can't charge him with anything."

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Jun 19, 2008 -> 06:39 AM) my wife was like "we have toll booths?" lol I looked at here and said... "you get his point" lol My wife had the same reaction. My response to here was..."Hey, we did get those free ice cream sandwiches at a rest stop in Iowa." "Oh yeah!"

QUOTE (soxfan3530 @ Jun 18, 2008 -> 08:32 PM) i think figgons would be cheaper than roberts and would love to get him (assuming he is healthy) without having to give up floyd/danks. not sure if the angels would trade with another playoff competitor but who knows. Other lower options that could become available would be kaz matsui, ray durham, freddy sanchez or jose lopez. on a side not, i turned on the radio sunday and stone and farmer were talking about how the rockies might be looking to unload hawpe, atkins and even holliday. did anyone else hear that or am i going crazy! man i would take any three of those. i like hawpe a lot and he would probably be the cheapest, but still would cost tons im sure. The Rockies may very well be unloading here pretty soon, especially on Holliday. But they're going to want a king's ransom for him. So if you're not giving up Floyd, Danks, or Quentin, there's nothing to talk about. No one wants Kaz Matsui's deal. Jose Lopez doesn't make us better.

Frankly I think Wise ought to be PHing for Thome here.

Rough night for Alexei with the bat anyway.

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Jun 18, 2008 -> 06:13 PM) Why Bobby tonight? Just need to get work in? I would like to see Russell pitch... Well, we had the couple losses to Col, we had the offday monday, blowout last night, yeah he could use some work.

QUOTE (Tony82087 @ Jun 18, 2008 -> 07:11 PM) After the HR tonight, he should be a fixture in the lineup for the next week and a half, so hopefully he can get his swing locked down. You communist.

MB leaves with 998 career k's.

There's that run back.

Gorzelanny thrown 93 pitches coming in to this inning. Time to hit him.

Welcome back Q!

54 pitches for MB through 5

QUOTE (NorthSideSox15 @ Jun 18, 2008 -> 04:41 PM) Now, Mark needs to not give back these runs. I'm sick of taking a lead and then giving it right back. Thankfully, Mark is just dealing right now.

Entirely too long of an inning again. 25 pitches for MB through 2.

How has Q looked since his 2 days off? Any better?

In another classic move, our good friends at Blackwater have asked an American court to rule that a lawsuit filed against their company for a plane crash involving some sort of negligence should be tried not under U.S. law, but under Sharia law, because under Islamic Sharia law the lawsuit would have to be thrown out. Brilliance.

That inning took too long

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jun 18, 2008 -> 04:41 PM) Then so be it. Will just have to roll with what we have. I'd have to consider finding a new team if the Sox were to trade Q, Floyd or Danks. Yeah. Frankly it wouldn't be the smartest move.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Jun 18, 2008 -> 03:54 PM) I dont really want to see anymore posts suggesting trading Floyd or Danks. Those guys are about as untouchable as it gets at this point. Unfortunately...if we want to acquire anyone who would do more for us than someone like Lofton, Danks and Floyd are about the only 2 bullets we have for that. Fields is hurting, Richar is struggling, Poreda still seems to have people worried about a few things and needs another year of dominance before he can really be worth a lot, Broadway doesn't have electrifying enough stuff to catch people's attention, Haeger and others haven't performed that well, and the guys who have performed well are doing so at levels where they're too old for the league they're in. Unless we're willing to trade Q, Danks, or Floyd, there really isn't going to be anything big that the Sox can do this year.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Jun 18, 2008 -> 03:58 PM) we dont have much to offer. Basically is you want Roberts, you lead with Swish, since we can replace him with Alexei in CF and Roberts moves to 2B. Alexei would im sure be of interest to them as a replacement, but I dont see us dishing him. I don't think we have the bullets to acquire roberts without moving one of Danks and Floyd. And I don't think that any move doing so makes us better.

You see, occasionally I do post things in this thread that are worthy of it... Doesn't seem like this was anything more than one person's opinion, but pretty silly.

QUOTE (joeynach @ Jun 18, 2008 -> 02:08 PM) Hydrogen gas is the fuel right. Im confused so how does hydrogen get in the atmosphere from Fuel Cell cars. I thought they emit Water Vapor, or I guess if condensed as water, as the emissions. Hydrogen gas being the fuel has its own issues. I was thinking more on how we make hydrogen gas. Mostly from Oil or Natural Gas, which does nothing for Oil dependency and skyrocketing prices. Now if Hydrogen could be made from another source; water, farm waste, corn, etc than this would be a bigger story. Though Im not sure what the other renewable sources of hydrogen gas really are. Hydrogen getting in to the atmosphere is a concern because hydrogen is ridiculously hard to contain with 100% effectiveness. Pressurized tanks leak. Cars get in accidents and pressurized tanks rupture and release their fuel to the atmosphere. Hydrogen is moved around in some sort of pipeline system but some small amount of hydrogen is able to diffuse out of those either through simple molecular diffusion or by moving through cracks. We're not that good at all at keeping oil spills from happening, and containing hydrogen is vastly more difficult because of its chemical properties and the fact that it wants to be a gas at STP.

QUOTE (joeynach @ Jun 18, 2008 -> 02:13 PM) I think my original point was that if you replace every gasoline powered vehicle on this planet with hydrogen powered vehicles you don't rid yourself of global warming issues. All you did was simply replace the greenhouse casing gas emmited from vehicles. You went from CO2 to Vater Vapor, and my point was If I remember correctly from 10th grade chemistry, water vapor is the most greenhouse trapping gas on this planet. But, there's a big difference. The problem with CO2 as a greenhouse gas is that it is VERY difficult to remove it from the atmosphere once it gets in there. A CO2 spike like the one we've put in over the last few decades will take thousands of years to go away. Water is a greenhouse gas, and it is very potent, but if you emit more water vapor, you don't expect the concentration of water vapor to go up in the atmosphere in a simple way, because there is a rapid way of removing water vapor from the atmosphere in the form of clouds and rain. Same deal as if you simply change the evaporation rates in certain areas by clear-cutting the trees or paving over them, you may change the amount of water going up in to the atmosphere, but you're not really driving global warming because the water vapor will simply precipitate out somewhere. So, if we could cut off all CO2 emissions right now and turn all of our emissions in to hydrogen, you'd effectively shut off the force that was driving climate change. This is why we believe the CO2 spike is so important...water vapor may be a more potent greenhouse gas in terms of its ability to absorb sunlight, but because it is able to move to a rapid equilibrium with other forcings, it seems to bow before CO2 in terms of where the temperature equilibrium lies.

QUOTE (Pants Rowland @ Jun 18, 2008 -> 02:33 PM) I doubt it would happen. I personally like the idea of acquiring Durham the best. However, good GMs know that any player is tradeable. You should not play for individual matchups as much as you should try to take 4 out of every 7 games. The Phillies could use the extra arms and the Sox could use the extra offense. It makes both teams more competitive over that 7 game stretch. Here's my one problem with that claim. The White Sox might seem like they need extra offense, but I'm frankly not sure the numbers back that up. They're not leading the league in runs scored, but they are tied for 4th in the AL with the Yankees, and are only 4 runs behind Detroit's legendary 1000 run offense. The Sox's problem is consistency. They were #8 in the AL, bottom-middle of the pack in runs in May, but were number 5 in April and are #3 in june. In terms of needing extra runs, the Sox really don't. They need to spread them out a little bit more consistently, which may very well come simply from getting Thome and Swisher on track along with the development of Alexei.

QUOTE (Jenks Heat @ Jun 18, 2008 -> 02:21 PM) OK Homeruns after the 6th in games up by 3 or less, tied or losing 0 There's a method to this, that at some level still helps the team. One of the reasons Jim has and probably always will struggle in these situations is that when he comes up in a close game he winds up facing the opposing team's best LOOGY when he comes up in half of those positions, and he's just never been that good at killing lefties, no matter what wierd things his numbers this year say. He's had a hall of fame career by being incredible at killing the ball off righties. So, at some level it's true, but at some level it's true because he's the guy that other teams game-plan their bullpen around. The one benefit of this though is that it helps chew through the other team's bullpen. If they want a righty in to face Quentin, OC, etc., then they have to take that righty out when Jim comes up whether he's finished or not, and if they want to have a lefty face AJ, they better be ready to have that lefty face Q or they'll burn through a couple pitchers.