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QUOTE(AbeFroman @ Aug 8, 2006 -> 03:44 PM) free speech is far different from the government's endorsement of religion. Its not free speech at all... The government simply can't start putting up monuments all over this country with jesus on the cross. If it's on private land and no government funds are used, I don't see why they can't. Then again, I haven't seen the other side of the story here, so I don't know for sure that none are.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Aug 8, 2006 -> 03:24 PM) Some people don't want to think about the big picture. I ain't gonna be able to fit no big picture in the back of some mini-car. Just hauling the frame would take an Excursion at the least.

I once again render my strong objection to ever seeing Rob Mackowiak in CF. This will cost Freddy Garcia at least 1 run directly today, and perhaps a couple indirectly, again.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Aug 8, 2006 -> 01:41 PM) Your perception that Iran's distance from us would insulate us from the impact of retaliation isn't really realistic. They could do plenty - and they don't need missiles to do it. I ain't givin' up my four wheel drive, that's for sure!

So in case anyone's curious as to why exactly those pipelines are corroding, here's an interesting discussion. The short version? Sulfur Reducing Bacteria plumes. The interesting thing about it is this though; the things that may enable these bacteria to take off in a pipeline might include poor quality oil and declines in flow through pipelines. Since Prudhoe is definately on the down-swing in production amount, those are 2 conditions that may become even more common in the future up there.

QUOTE(witesoxfan @ Aug 7, 2006 -> 03:59 PM) JP LOSMAN, DUH I wouldn't complain at all if he did, but I still haven't heard good things about his work up in Buffalo. And I'm still not confident in the offensive line in front of him.

QUOTE(fathom @ Aug 8, 2006 -> 12:21 PM) I love the mixture of speed, power, and on base ability of the Yankees with Abreu and Cano in their lineup now. I think our offense has been great basically all season, but this Yankees lineup impresses me more than any other team's lineup. $200 million worth of names will do that. If constructed correctly though, I'd still take ours, not even counting the fact that our guys are better defensively. That assumes of course that PODSEDNIK gets a few damn hits and stolen bases some day.

So, the report today is that Delay's name will stay on the ballot, but he'll give his support to a write-in candidate.

QUOTE(samclemens @ Aug 8, 2006 -> 10:32 AM) http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/08/08/D8JCCCIO0.html Lieberman accuses Lamont's supporters of hacking his site So, a lot of the angry liberal bloggers aren't sure they buy Lieberman's excuse. The Lamont camp at least tried to suggest that it was because Lieberman's people hadn't paid their bills, which would actually seem to make more sense than a DOS attack given how their page was responding, but the Lieberman people seem to have produced evidence that they had in fact paid in full. So, the Lieberman people are reportedly going to file/have filed a complaint with the U.S. Attorney's office, we'll see what happens. Hopefully no one actually decided to actually launch this sort of attack on Lieberman's site, and if they did, hopefully they wind up in prison. It is at least possible at this point that it wasn't a real DOS attack, but that their page was hammered with normal election day traffic that they didn't expect, i.e. Soxtalk when something big happens, and they just couldn't handle it. It has happened to more than a few pages I've read in the past. But if it was a real DOS attack, then it shouldn't have taken them nearly a full day to get the page back up and running, that's one thing I think I've gotten from all this; it should have taken a few hours at most. The Lamont campaign also rapidly offered help from their computer guys to the Lieberman campaign. They didn't want it. Update: Statement from the Connecticut Attorney General's office: Update the next: The Lieberman advisor who is all over in these reports talking about this alleged hacking has admitted that they have no evidence that the Lamont campaign is behind any attack, But they want Lamont to ask whoever's doing it to stop anyway. Linky. Kos still thinks its all because the Lieberman camp is paying about $15 a month for internet hosting. Update the next: the Lamont campaign has put a link to the Cache of Lieberman's page on their web site. Interesting that the Lieberman campaign didn't think of that. The Lamont campaign has also issued the statement the Lieberman campaign asked for, disavowing any attack and asking anyone who is responsible to stop. Yet another edit (you can tell this one actually interests me:) Even National Review is now saying that they don't think it was a hacking, but merely an overloading of bandwith brought on by election day and a bunch of links (including Drudge). Thus far, CNN, Fox, The NYT, and the AP have all managed to report this story without noting the possibility that it was a bandwith problem, and have likewise reported this story without noting that the Lieberman campaign has no evidence that Lamont supporters were behind any attack, if one actually happened. MSNBC, however, seems on top of their game, and is all over the potential "bandwith overload" angle. They even note that the company hosting the page would be quite small, and that the other pages hosted by that same company are also down. Next update, from Kos: they've tracked down more about the company that does the hosting. As far as they can tell, the Lieberman campaign just sent some money to a company and said "host this", and that company went and bought the cheapest web space it could find to host the site, thus maximizing profits. Also, they and a couple of other pages are now running with the possibility that Lieberman's email is still up and running, and has been all day, despite some assertions to the contrary.

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Aug 8, 2006 -> 12:09 PM) Luckily for me I have survived a year without a car. I can probably go on for years without one but if there's a 100 mpg vehicle on the horizon then I'd consider buying again. I've gotten through 3 years here. Biking all my groceries home, taking the bus to get the fiancee to her regular "no we still don't have a clue what's wrong" doctor's appointments, and so on. The one thing that does drive me nuts though is biking in to school in driving rainstorms. That one isn't fun.

QUOTE(fathom @ Aug 8, 2006 -> 11:52 AM) If Cano really is back for the series tonight, we're going to be facing the best lineup in all of baseball. If our pitchers can't make big pitches in clutch situations, we're going to see more 5 and 6 run starts by our starters. Interestingly enough, I think it's entirely possible for the Yankees to look at us and say exactly the same thing. Except that their pitchers have been doing what you ask a lot more than ours have.

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Aug 8, 2006 -> 11:30 AM) Google search came up with this article: http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/News/articleId=109981 EDIT: That may be my next car. That was the stuff I was talking about. Toyota's been rumored in 08 to be coming out with a small car hybrid that might push 100+, and in 09 to be pushing out the new Prius, a larger car that would be a little less fuel efficient than the other but also would be larger, and still would probably be in the 80-90 range. I need to get a car pretty soon and can finally afford one now that the Fiancee is employed, so what I've been considering is either leasing something small for 2 years & then getting myself one of these puppies or buying something used and using it as a trade-in 2 years from now.

QUOTE(Steve9347 @ Aug 8, 2006 -> 11:44 AM) those would probably wind up being pretty expensive minor leaguers. All things considered...we have a packed house with a chance at 3 million tickets sold in the regular season this year...it's not like we're in the poorhouse.

QUOTE(Wealz @ Aug 8, 2006 -> 10:31 AM) I'm saying that it's ridiculous to want to replace a manager who is 20 games over this year, won a World Series last year, and has a .586 career winning percentage. It's beyond ridiculous really. Let's put it this way...if the 2nd part of those wasn't true...if Ozzie hadn't won that ring last year...games like last night are the kind of games that would have cost him his job, just as stupid decisions by Jerry Manuel cost him his job.

QUOTE(ZoomSlowik @ Aug 8, 2006 -> 11:34 AM) Weren't there rumors that Yulieski Gourriel defected? What ever came of that? That kid is a stud. He mostly plays 3B and some 2B so he isn't a major need, but the kid is really talented. Yes there were rumors, but last report he was still in Cuba, so I dunno. What would be nice though is just to get a few of these guys in our minor league system just to try to rebuild it, if any of them do wind up showing some promise.

QUOTE(GOD @ Aug 8, 2006 -> 09:36 AM) I have been saying all along that that trade made absolutely no sense. We gave up a good prospect and an arm we could've used in the bullpen, Duque. Plus why the hell would we trade for a fifth starter when we had McCarthey who pitched great at the end of last year, and was ready to be a major league starter. INstead we hav Vazquez and his career 5+ ERA Fransisco Liriano says Hi.

Wang is sporting a 1.80 ERA since the All Star break. I'm just going to not say anything at all, as with that old rule. Come on Freddy...please pitch like a champion.

By the way, this is why it's not a good idea to try to push Brandon to 200 innings this year.

This was actually part of the point I was making in my other thread. Podsednik and Iguchi have real troubles, in particular, with left-handers, which allows other teams to really shut down the starting part of our order if htey throw out a Loogy. Combine that with a couple guys going into a slump, and things can look pretty bad. The bottom of our order though? As far as bottoms-of-the-order go, I'll live with it. Anderson is on his way up, and the offense 34567 was good enough to carry the team while he learned, and occasionally caught the ball. Most teams in the AL don't have MVP candidates hitting 9th, even the Yankees. Uribe has, of course, been disappointing once again, but it's not as bad as it could be with him.

I'm not nearly as angry/disgusted with this team as I was with last year's team on the day Garland gave up that 3 run home run to Garret Anderson. They lost a few more games before the Rally Crede game, but I think turning that one off and saying that Garland's Cy chances were totally gone on 1 pitch was about the low point for me.

QUOTE(Queen Prawn @ Aug 8, 2006 -> 10:56 AM) Couldn't afford one of those at this time, but it is at the back of our minds for the future. Seriously...if you can set yourself up in shape to be buying a car in the 2009-2010 era, that will be an ideal time. You may have to get on a waitlist, but the MPG is strongly rumored to be approaching 100 on the next generation of them from Honda & Toyota.

Well, the good news? The Simpsons are on out here. Night folks. At least both Detroit and Minnesota can't win.

Great work Ozzie. Great work. 3 free runs. Boo like Crazy fans. Please. They earned it.

Sigh...

Where the Hell is this strike zone?