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BRIAN ANDERSON CAN'T HIT RIGHTIES.

2-1 Minny on a GIDP by Hunter. 2 outs, man on 3rd.

QUOTE(CYGarland @ Aug 31, 2006 -> 11:49 AM) Iguchi sure deserves GG mention this year He's got a couple of nice plays, but i think that's a real stretch, his range isn't that great.

Leadoff walk...Here comes the Javy we all know

So, how obvious of a mistake did Cora make there?

QUOTE(ottawa_sox @ Aug 31, 2006 -> 11:32 AM) Any news on Thome? The original hamstring strain against Detroit he described as an 8 in terms of pain. Yesterday he described as a 3. Any thing you cantu i cantu worse...

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Aug 31, 2006 -> 11:31 AM) No offense to the great Farmio and all, but duh? I think Pods knows he is supposed to be getting on base. Are you sure? What evidence do you have that Mr. Podsednik actually understands that?

Yankees take a 3-1 lead on the Kitties.

3 more innings of that Javy.

Guy goes 3-2 on the first 2 batters, walks 1, and Dye swings at what, the first pitch? Come on Jermaine, use some brains.

Farmer gave Podsednik a lecture before yesterday's game about how he needed to get on base because when he gets on base the team wins. Pods wouldn't talk to Farmer today.

Get some runs early today folks. Jason Hammel has an ERA of 7.71.

With it having been 5 days since McCarthy pitched...I hope the leash for Vazquez is pretty darn short.

Some more Classics from Conrad Burns.

Geoff Blum was 0-for-4 on Wednesday, but has 10 RBI in his last nine games. Trevor Hoffman is seven saves shy of Lee Smith's all-time save record. Ryan Howard is the first player with 40 RBIs in a month since Ryan Klesko in 2001.

2005 Texas Rangers: Linkity Michael Young 24 Hank Blalock 25 Mark Teixeira 43 Alfonso Soriano 36 Kevin Mench 25 David Dellucci 29 Rod Barajas 21

QUOTE(Texsox @ Aug 31, 2006 -> 09:36 AM) I agree with you on the premise but wouldn't absolute power be more likely in a six person relief organization? I think what's more likely to happen is this: for a 6 person operation to successfully embezzle enough funds to make its people wealthy, it's going to have to embezzle a much higher percentage of the amount it takes in than someone like Bechtel or Halliburton in Iraq. Those guys can make a cool $50 million by overcharging the government a mere 1%. If I'm running a 6 person charity, and I take in something like $10 million, if I want to become a millionaire, I need to have well over 10% of the amount I'm taking in disappear into my pockets. If an auditor bothers to look at me at all, then that's a big enough discrepancy to raise all sorts of red flags.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Aug 31, 2006 -> 09:34 AM) I am thnking of something like the Balta-Tex charity with a half dozen employees in some third world backwoods. I'd trust Catholic Charities, Heart Association, United Way, and those types before I'd trust the likes of you and me. None of those stand up to the Stephen and Melinda Gates Foundation.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Aug 31, 2006 -> 09:26 AM) It would seem that smaller organizations, that can get closer to the problem, would have a better understanding of what is needed. But those are more likely to not have large resources and more likely to be corrupt. So you're saying that the small organizations are more likely to be corrupt? I'd say our experience in the last 10 years or so shows exactly the opposite...that the large organizations, i.e. corporations, governments, the U.N., are much more likely to be corrupt, as they are big enough to be able to cover up the things they're doing. The oil-for-food program turned corrupt because it was a gigantic program which, while it saved a lot of lives, also was moving around billions of dollars, and with that kind of cash flow, it's easy to steer a few million in business one way in exchange for a few million in bribes. The corporations working in Iraq have done the same things...they work in so many places and move around such huge amounts of cash that if they overcharge the government for $50 million and do a shoddy job on a few other projects...unless there's an auditor monitoring all of the work they do (which there isn't), the company makes out like gangbusters.

It's not just the UN who does this sort of stuff. The US has done exactly the same sort of screw-ups in Iraq. Companies shipping over parts that cost tens of millions of dollars that are totally incompatible with the Iraqi infrastructure leading to expensive equipment that sits around and does nothing, tons of money spent on expensive equipment that breaks down when its handed over to Iraqis who aren't taught properly how to run it, etc. At least based on the U.S. experience, neither the U.S. nor private companies seem to be good at this sort of rebuilding either.

QUOTE(Flash Tizzle @ Aug 31, 2006 -> 06:34 AM) The Who's most successful US single was "I Can See For Miles." Wouldn't have guessed that. Led Zeppelin's most successful single is "Whole Lotta Love."

QUOTE(Jenks Heat @ Aug 31, 2006 -> 08:05 AM) For Cy Young I think wins mean more than ERA. If he somehow gets to 21 wins, not likely, and a sub 4 ERA he has a shot. What if Jenks gets to 50 saves though and a sub 3 ERA isn't he 38/41 in opportunities while blowing those saves to the Orioles, Royals and I forget the third. 38/40. There was no 3rd.

The way the Royals are playing right now...we better make sure we take care of business today.

Nothing matters until they put a hole in the outfield wall so that pedestrians can look through and see grass.

QUOTE(WCSox @ Aug 30, 2006 -> 04:16 PM) Didn't Konerko have an injury back in the first half of '03 that the Sox kept under wraps? In general, it's never a good idea to tell your opponent that "this guy is hurt" if he's in the game. Played through a broken foot at the end of 2002 in the pennant race. Came back in 03 before it was completely healed.