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Toby lines out to Guillen, 4 pitch walk to Cabrera.

Let's get it Started, Toby Hall and his Pants.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 12, 2008 -> 10:26 AM) I posted an article a while back about how this sounds good in theory, but in practice it doesn't really work. Oil companies are having a hard time finding things to invest in. Its not like there are a ton of oil fields to go explore anymore. There isn't the incentive to build things like new refinaries, because of the costs of legal fights and alternative energies making the investments possibly obsolete. All a windfall profits tax will do is result in higher prices to consumers. Even if they try to hit them, they will pass it on another way. But the problem with that concept is...why then do they not, um...act like energy companies and start investing in alternative energy technologies, research, construction, etc. so that they can survive for the future? If they want to invest that money in something, spend $20 billion building solar thermal energy plants out in the Mojave. The technology is already there, dumping significant amounts of money in to it will only drive the cost per watt down, and suddenly they'll have a competitive industry for the next 20 years instead of holding out as the valueof their oil reserves screams upwards.

Alexei pops out to the catcher, 3 outs. 24 pitches for Rogers through 2.

Swisher grounds to Rogers, Crede forced at 2nd, man on 1st 2 down for Sexy.

Crede singles

JD Sac fly, 1-0 sox

Paulie cancels the postgame show with a double, moves to 3rd on an error. Gotta get this run in. Too easy, runner on 3rd with no outs and JD up.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jun 12, 2008 -> 10:08 AM) Agree, and there is a big reason why that I don't even see GOP opponents getting into yet. Think this through. The tax law goes to be signed. I can guaran-damn-tee you that the oil companies will do the only smart thing in response - lower profits. How, you might ask? Simple - put the cash in places where it isn't profit... pay down debt, invest in hard assets and infrastructure, hold inventories longer... anything they can to keep the value outside of true profits from a balance sheet perspective. So guess what happens then? The net tax revenue received from these companies doesn't go up at all. The tax is thus rendered pointless. Please for God's sake yes.

QUOTE (kyyle23 @ Jun 12, 2008 -> 09:08 AM) Rogers? yeah yeah

Quick 123 first inning for Roberts. I dunno, I actually prefer Alexei in the 2 hole to Anderson on these days the way they're both hitting, and I like Anderson.

There are only 2 guys in our lineup today hitting below .260.

A copy of Barack Obama's birth certificate.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jun 12, 2008 -> 09:39 AM) I really wish McCain would've chosen his words more carefully. I know what he wanted to say, but that's not what he said, and people trying to apologize for him isn't going to change that. I also haven't noted him saying that's not what he meant to say, that he's only having his words parsed and taken out of context (they're really not, I heard both the question and the full answer). As a vet myself, one of the things that really irks me (and one of the reasons I got out, actually) is being taken for granted by people who really should know better. Being treated like a number instead of a person. I don't even want special recognition, but dammit, don't be so dismissive and give that whole "oh, but they volunteered" line. The problem is...what McCain said yesterday is McCain's stated policy. He thinks it is a good idea, if the violence in Iraq drops to zero somehow by magic, for the U.S. to maintain a large imperial presence in the middle east on Iraqi soil indefinitely whether they want us there or not. He never really explains how we'll get to the point of zero casualties, and no one ever seems to really press him on that point, but this is John McCain's policy. He and his campaign may have wanted to say something else...but McCain's problem is...he keeps accidentally saying his actual policy, and after the last 5+ years of this debacle, that's a policy that most people don't agree with.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 12, 2008 -> 06:35 AM) Who has said that the team DIDN'T tell him that? But on the other hand...how do we know it won't work for him long-term? If he was struggling with some particular type of pitch, this little change might help him get that, but it might just take him a little while longer to adapt to the new positioning.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Jun 12, 2008 -> 05:10 AM) Agreed. It was inevitable that the guy was going to go into a slump. He'll work his way out of it but he's just scuffling right now. And considering he decided to go in to a funk as everyone else was heating up, he actually picked a decent time to do it. If he'd gone in to a funk earlier in the year...we might have lost 15 games in a row.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Jun 12, 2008 -> 09:06 AM) There is a VERY big difference between personal political beliefs and being in the "public trust" of the media. Especially when you work for a company that is "fair and balanced" Everyone is entitled to their political positions and beliefs, free speech protects . That stop at the door the moment you walk into the doors of a news media company in my opinion. People go to Fox and CNN and MSNBC and ABC to get the news, not news that is slanted to shape public opinion. I am equally annoyed with Olberman's extreme bias. He's "special comments" often make me squirm because they are so hate filled and harsh. So, I am being fair her. But at least MSNBC will roll out Scarbourgh and Buchanan. Fox... Hannity's whipping boy Allen Colmes... nice balance. You know what? I simply disagree with this and I think Fox news and Olbermann show why. On cable, you basically have the right to serve the market. There's very little regulation, especially on news channels, requiring anything in terms of content. And frankly, I think that a setup where you have 1 channel that leans to the left, one channel that leans to the right, and one channel that tries to be the "Hard news" network is an entirely reasonable setup. It's serving what the market seems to want. There's clearly a market appearing for left-leaning commentary on the air (Olbermann is now passing O'Reilly in the 25-49 demographics), there's been a market for right wing commentary for years (See; the Fox News ratings), and quite frankly when there's something happening in the world that I simply want to know "WTF happened", I still turn to CNN. Over the public airwaves, there's a different standard that needs to be applied, because getting access to the public airwaves, like NBC, ABC, CBS, and Fox have, requires that those channels are doing something to serve the public good. So there certainly needs to be added focus on them and on keeping some measure of balance across them, while at the same time still trying to get across the facts. But on cable, the thing that annoyed me was that for about 5 years, because the network execs wanted to be patriotic, I had no market that was serving people like me. Ditto talk radio for like 20 years.

QUOTE (whitesoxbrian @ Jun 11, 2008 -> 07:33 PM) I can't find the link, but I remember awhile back that Donaghy admitted to fixing a win for the Knicks. Well, damn him, because that could have been the difference between getting Oden or Durant. Instead, we got Noah. But, perhaps because we didn't wind up with Oden or Durant...we get Rose or Beasley. And frankly, since I assume we'd have picked Oden, I'd rather have the guys this year, just considering they didn't hit the microfracture surgery early in their careers.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jun 12, 2008 -> 07:55 AM) Windfall tax for oil companies is a really dumb idea, IMO. Just out of curiosity, for the folks here, anyone...is there a level at which you start thinking a windfall tax makes sense? As the price of oil keeps going up, the value of the holdings of every oil company will just keep going up, and thus their profits will just keep going up and up and up. I totally get the economics issue response, that you're penalizing a set of companies for earning too much money and just on the fact of it that's a bad economic strategy, but at some point you can't just have the entire U.S. economy be "oil companies", can you?

Esteban Yan? He actually got a mention in a Simpsons episode.

Wow, seriously? Wow.

Damnation. Somehow I think the Cabrera at bat is to blame for that.

Javy has thrown as many pitches to Cabrera this at bat as Verlander has thrown in 2 innings.

Usually 13 pitches, 10 strikes are the kind of numbers you see after the first inning, not the 2nd.

Ryan Bukvich is starting against our triple A team. Wow.