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QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Aug 4, 2005 -> 11:36 AM) Hopefully the 25% number is not overly optimistic. By 2010, hopefully hybrid technology will be viewed as the stopgap green technology and we are by then actually beginning to see a hydrogen vehicle fleet. A hydrogen vehicle fleet basically does nothing yet... In order to make a hydrogen vehicle fleet work, you need a source for the hydrogen. Right now, the only way to get hydrogen is by burning fossil fuels. And thanks to that annoying 2nd law of thermodynamics, you always lose a lot of energy when you add in the extra step of processing the fuel into hydrogen. Hydrogen vehicles are only practical environmentally or economically if you can come up with a renewable source of energy capable of supplying that much hydrogen. Without that, it simply chews up even more fossil fuels. Also, one of my professors here has done a significant amount of work showing that significant amounts of hydrogen would probably be lost during transportation/storage of the gas, and hydrogen could turn itself into a pretty nasty greenhouse gas if it was used on a wide scale. (link)

QUOTE(3E8 @ Aug 4, 2005 -> 12:06 PM) Dan Jiggets You shall rue this day... Well go on...start rueing!

QUOTE(knightni @ Aug 4, 2005 -> 12:02 PM) Not fair. You posted it before it happened on Comcast. :banghead Happens all the time to those of us who have to wait for the electronic signal to be processed and pass 2000 miles.

Good job with the RISP getting out without a scratch.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Aug 4, 2005 -> 11:51 AM) Beautiful. Yup, another quality game thread. Congrats on 34k.

Another walk...bases loaded. 1 pitch not called a strike and suddenly Contreras starts to fall apart.

Base hit under Konerko's glove...1st and 3rd, 2 outs.

First walk of the game there after the guy should have been called out on strikes. Let's hope that call doesn't wind up hurting us.

Jayson Stark fired off an answer on a Griffey question:

3 strikeouts in 4 outs for Jose.

ESPN Article

Yup, Mazzilli's out. ESPN.

Several sources are reporting that the Orioles have fired manager Lee Mazzilli after the collapse of the last month or two by that team. He's reportedly been replaced by one of the Orioles bench coaches. Probably can't hurt to try ify ou're in their shoes, I guess.

I believe Lee Mazzilli was just fired

QUOTE(knightni @ Aug 4, 2005 -> 11:26 AM) It could be the last. He'll be around for a while...he had a great start his last time out...he's just coming back off some sort of injury that cost him 04 I believe.

They got 4 in inning 1 yesterday...we got 4 in inning 1 today. Still only 1 out. We're now 2/2 with RISP today. YAY!

3 RUN HOMER FOR AROW!

Wild pitch, everett to 3rd, Paulie to 2nd...no more double play chance yet..

Our average with RISP today is infinite times what it was yesterday.

Well, here's our first chance with a runner in scoring position. Let's improve on yesterday people, PLEASE!

Base hit to right field for Hot Carl.

QUOTE(AnthraxFan93 @ Aug 4, 2005 -> 06:17 AM) Did the Sox resign Maggs Yet? 9 White Sox players might have taken money to throw the World Series!

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Aug 4, 2005 -> 10:35 AM) I'm pretty much thinking the "Bring it On!" rhetoric was not the best idea either. I really wouldn't have minded the "Dead or alive" rhetoric...had we actually, you know, meant it.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Aug 4, 2005 -> 10:20 AM) Felix Hernandez is currently pitching in Detroit. The game is not being televised on MLB Extra Innings for Comcast Digital Cable and on MLB.tv they're showing the Tiger's broadcast with a s***ty view. The Tiger's broadcast is f***ed up so they're giving you that high above the backstop spring training type view. So they're trying to keep me from seeing King Felix pitch, bastards. Hernandez is having early control problems. 2 walks, 2 hits, 1 earned run, 1 strikeout in his 1st inning. ERA currently sitting at 9.

Uh-Oh...Widger catching Contreras...this hasn't worked well in the past.