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QUOTE (Gregory Pratt @ Jul 21, 2008 -> 01:13 PM) Pffft. Long drives rock! Hey GP, when do we get to see your game article?

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jul 21, 2008 -> 10:55 AM) Yet you all do the same thing when it fits your "warming" model. I don't know who you mean by "you all", but I haven't seen Balta or I use any sort of data that is so short term (6 years in this case) to prove anything. That is far too short a timespan.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 21, 2008 -> 10:20 AM) http://www.drudgereport.com/flashnym.htm That's s***ty. I can't think of a single valid reason why they shouldn't run the response. Disappointing to say the least.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Jul 21, 2008 -> 11:53 AM) Or just realize that he's a left handed hitter, no film watching or time consuming statue inspections necessary, just a quick google search/query of a co-worker. It would be interesting to see, though I'm thinking it would be tough to hit with your back leg off the ground. Well, Harold (and other hitters) did plant pretty heavy on the front leg and that back leg would sometimes drift a bit during the swing. But that was AFTER the leg kick (with his front, right leg). I don't think I've ever seen a hitter stride/kick backwards.

The Trib article on the statue talks about his "left leg kick". LOL. Could the writer have bothered to look at the statue, or any sort of film of Baines, at some point before writing the article?

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jul 21, 2008 -> 11:06 AM) I don't think the Sox are very high on Lin. They signed him based on one thing and have never seen the pitcher that they signed (ie, his velocity disappeared from what it was over-seas). Yeah, I know about the velocity loss last spring. But I guess I'm thinking... if you paid 300k for a guy, and he puts up decent numbers... even if you aren't high on him, don't you try to challenge him a bit? Push him off the fence (to good or bad)? I guess I have a different philosophy on these things. I'd like to see them send him up to Kanny some time this year and take a crack at it.

QUOTE (Soxy @ Jul 21, 2008 -> 09:14 AM) The only big problem for me was some dumb person brought her 12 month old to the movie who cried the WHOLE TIME. Someone finally got an usher (after the woman started screaming when people in the theater tried to hush her and the baby). So, in the middle of the party scream this woman stands up and starts screaming (again) how she paid for the f'ing seat and she wasn't going to mf'ing leave and blah, blah, blah. The only time people clapped during/after the movie was when she finally left the theater. Ugh, I hate that crap. Many times before I've said that I would love to see some of these multiplex theatres have some screens, particularly of R and PG-13 movies, be 18 and older ONLY. I would even be willing to pay an extra buck or two for it.

QUOTE (Cknolls @ Jul 21, 2008 -> 08:43 AM) David Evans was a consultant to the "Australian Greenhouse Office" from 1999 to 2005. He is a former global warming alarmist; however, he is also a scientist who goes where the evidence leads him. In this important article in The Australian, he blows the whistle on the fraud that many of the world's governments are in the midst of perpetrating: I DEVOTED six years to carbon accounting, building models for the Australian Greenhouse Office. I am the rocket scientist who wrote the carbon accounting model (FullCAM) that measures Australia's compliance with the Kyoto Protocol, in the land use change and forestry sector. FullCAM models carbon flows in plants, mulch, debris, soils and agricultural products, using inputs such as climate data, plant physiology and satellite data. I've been following the global warming debate closely for years. When I started that job in 1999 the evidence that carbon emissions caused global warming seemed pretty good: CO2 is a greenhouse gas, the old ice core data, no other suspects. The evidence was not conclusive, but why wait until we were certain when it appeared we needed to act quickly? Soon government and the scientific community were working together and lots of science research jobs were created. We scientists had political support, the ear of government, big budgets, and we felt fairly important and useful (well, I did anyway). It was great. We were working to save the planet. But since 1999 new evidence has seriously weakened the case that carbon emissions are the main cause of global warming, and by 2007 the evidence was pretty conclusive that carbon played only a minor role and was not the main cause of the recent global warming. As Lord Keynes famously said, "When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?" There has not been a public debate about the causes of global warming and most of the public and our decision makers are not aware of the most basic salient facts. You really need to read the whole thing to get the full impact, but here are a few highlights: 1. The greenhouse signature is missing. We have been looking and measuring for years, and cannot find it. Each possible cause of global warming has a different pattern of where in the planet the warming occurs first and the most. The signature of an increased greenhouse effect is a hot spot about 10km up in the atmosphere over the tropics. We have been measuring the atmosphere for decades using radiosondes: weather balloons with thermometers that radio back the temperature as the balloon ascends through the atmosphere. They show no hot spot. Whatsoever. If there is no hot spot then an increased greenhouse effect is not the cause of global warming. So we know for sure that carbon emissions are not a significant cause of the global warming. ... 2. There is no evidence to support the idea that carbon emissions cause significant global warming. None. ... 3. The satellites that measure the world's temperature all say that the warming trend ended in 2001, and that the temperature has dropped about 0.6C in the past year (to the temperature of 1980). ... 4. The new ice cores show that in the past six global warmings over the past half a million years, the temperature rises occurred on average 800 years before the accompanying rise in atmospheric carbon. Which says something important about which was cause and which was effect. ... The last point was known and past dispute by 2003, yet Al Gore made his movie in 2005 and presented the ice cores as the sole reason for believing that carbon emissions cause global warming. In any other political context our cynical and experienced press corps would surely have called this dishonest and widely questioned the politician's assertion. .. What is going to happen over the next decade as global temperatures continue not to rise? The Labor Government is about to deliberately wreck the economy in order to reduce carbon emissions. If the reasons later turn out to be bogus, the electorate is not going to re-elect a Labor government for a long time. When it comes to light that the carbon scare was known to be bogus in 2008, the ALP is going to be regarded as criminally negligent or ideologically stupid for not having seen through it. The same will be said of any American government that ruins our economy is service of the global warming ideology. LOL at #3. He's seriously trying to make a scientific argument about cooling, while looking at data since 2001?

QUOTE (shipps @ Jul 21, 2008 -> 08:46 AM) She looks like she could be Blago's daughter.I too would have agreed with you before this movie but she looked very unattractive in this one. Its all relative. I guess I just don't like Katie Holmes.

Random thoughts... --Why is Po-Yu Lin still in Bristol? He put up good numbers in Bristol last year, and they are repeating him. His numbers are even better this year. I'm really surprised he isn't in Kanny. --Wassermann's ERA is now over 1.00 for the first time this year in Charlotte. --Dubler is not adjusting well at all - hitting .162 --Sergio Miranda had only 3 extra base hits in his first 136 at bats in Kanny this year (3 2B). He's now got 4 in his last 24 AB (3 2B, 1 HR). This is nice to see, as previously, he was a very light hitter, relying heavily on average and OBP. Hopefully this keeps up.

I'm going to have to stand up for the minority here, and say that I much prefer Maggie Gylenhall to Katie Holmes. She's a better actress, and in case it matters, better looking, IMO.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jul 21, 2008 -> 08:32 AM) Swiss man drives solar powered car across 40 countries. But... the technology doesn't exist yet!!! We can't do alternative energy because it won't help us NOW!!! More oil, please!!!

Bought Rock's tickets for a game yesterday. Smooth transaction, good seats, good experience. Thanks Rock!

Saw it this afternoon. Awesome. Wow. Not the greatest movie ever, but I feel pretty good saying it was the best superhero movie ever.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 19, 2008 -> 11:03 PM) This bullpen is in serious need of another arm from the right side. The bullpen already has 7 in it, which is more than a lot of teams carry. 5 of those are RHP. I don't see them adding another, unless you are saying that one needs to be replaced. If so, who? I just don't see them calling anyone up unless someone goes on the DL. And I don't think they need to until then either, unless someone really starts falling apart. If you do need to call someone up, Charlotte actually has 3 decent choices: Wassermann, Childers and Rodriguez.

QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Jul 18, 2008 -> 06:25 PM) You're absolutely right. And the candidates do show up, when they are needed for votes. Many Senators do, in fact. Say what you want about Ted Kennedy but the dude came from his brain cancer treatments to vote for his consituents on Medicare funding last month. (So, coincidentally, did Obama) Should a Senator resign from his position to campaign for higher office? Ideally, yes. But it doesn't tend to work. Just ask Bob Dole. For that matter, why is a Senator more needed than a Governor? or a President? There's something to be noted on here. They don't vote on things. Why should they be allowed to play hooky? Well in the case of Governors and Presidents, they aren't legislators, so obviously they don't "vote". They sign bills and treaties and pass executive orders and do other vote-like things, and the same type of standard should apply (IMO) to that work.

QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Jul 18, 2008 -> 06:04 PM) I would argue that a big chunk of that work is not done by the Senator but by his staff. All the more reason for the importance of showing up for votes.

QUOTE (kyyle23 @ Jul 18, 2008 -> 04:14 PM) this should get me a "Get out of jail/suspension/banning free" card Awesome. Thank you sir. Your kindness will not be forgotten (this is, after all, the Chicago way).

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jul 18, 2008 -> 03:06 PM) Now, why would I do something so unoriginal as a picture of myself?

QUOTE (Brian @ Jul 18, 2008 -> 03:56 PM) Scarlet in "The Spirit" Man does she look hot in that red x.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 18, 2008 -> 03:22 PM) Why? Right now, he's the best player in his league. Georgia Penal?

59 posts and I can't believe I haven't seen it yet. Far and away the winner, IMO... Michael Vick.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 18, 2008 -> 12:47 PM) Boy he is kind of an ass in his postings. He sure makes no attempt to be nuetral and just report the news, that is for sure. The Sun Times is such trash anyway. I wonder if the Trib does this service too - that would be preferable.

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Jul 18, 2008 -> 01:49 PM) You are mistaken. That movie was ba. So after TDK, the next question for Christian Bale and McG...can they revive the Terminator series like Nolan/Bale did for Batman? I personally don't think the T series has gone downhill as dramatically as Batman did. After the first Terminator, which was great, the second one was (I thought) pretty decent. Went off the timeline a bit, and the ending was a little long, but it was OK. And I thought T3 was actually a good movie - underrated, in fact. So I don't think there is much rescuing to do. The Terminator series, to me, is more like the Alien Trilogy (there was no 4 - ignore), where all three were good films, but with very different takes on the concept. In Alien, you had a sci fi movie, an action movie, and a drama. With Terminator, you had sci fi / punk, then CGI-heavy action, then the third one that I can't quite put a good adjective on. Judging by the teaser, T4 looks like yet another take.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 18, 2008 -> 01:17 PM) Let me fire back another analogy at you. Let's say you decided to start looking for a new job. Going to interviews, etc. Should you quit your old job before you find out if you're getting a new one? Let's say you're even spending some of your work time on the job search (be smart, don't get yourself fired because you emailed out a resume or something like that). Is that a rule you'd personally follow? More importantly, if I was spending 33% of my work time looking for another job, would I get fired? Probably, and with good reason. Its the boss that's important here - which for a Senator, is their constituency. Running for President is a full time job. If I told my boss, "hey, I am going to go try to get another job, so I'll only be around here on occasion", how do you think that will go over?