Gregory Pratt

I'm sure many "Hispanics agree with him." I doubt it's anywhere near a majority. And I know plenty of white people who think bilingual education works. As far as I know -- and I don't know firsthand, as I'm fluent in both languages and have been since I was about three -- bilingual education doesn't mean "we teach you everything in Spanish because we figure you can't learn English." It's Dora the Explorer for awhile, and that's not so bad. The thing that bothers me about what Gingrich says is it's all meant to appeal to the worst type of person. That is to say, I'm not assailing your character Tex (on this) or anyone here's, specifically. I'm assailing the people who hear, "THE LANGUAGE OF A GHETTO!" and go, "Beaner!" and things of that sort. He's clearly trying to appeal to the worst xenophobes at the lower level of the Republican Primary. Screw him. He doesn't have a chance of winning a damn thing. I'll bet he's running because campaigning = money, win or lose, if you do it right. QUOTE(kapkomet @ Mar 31, 2007 -> 10:39 PM) Ohhhh the masses showed up for this speech, I see. I'm going to borrow that. I'll attribute it to my friend Kap on my political blog. It's a great line.

'Cause in his case the streak doesn't mean anything. Besides, if they want to revive it, he'll simply say, "Oh, well -- I didn't get beat."

Guess he likes Chicago.

Tigers will suck this year. Twins too.

I doubt Miller will do any Cy Young-type dominating this year. Young phenoms generally don't dominate IMMEDIATELY. Think Felix Hernandez. (Of course, we've got Liriano and Jered Weaver as counters, but I just don't think Miller will come up and dominate. How old's he, 19?)

God no.

I'd get into it but I pledged confidentiality to someone on this site.

I do believe. I just can't believe it's not butter. There's my disbelief.

QUOTE(santo=dorf @ Apr 1, 2007 -> 04:31 PM) That hurts his HR and RBI totals, but how many more RBI's would Thome have last year if the Sox had Sizemore as their leadoff man instead of Podsednik. I'm guessing he would have at least 5 in the World Series alone. good show!

I thought of you today with the Perfect induction, Milkman. Was gonna drop you a line to see if you'd seen it but, alas, I saw you had here. Hooray!

Hafner played one less month.

QUOTE(BearSox @ Apr 1, 2007 -> 01:48 PM) Stone >>>>> all the White Sox announcers. Combined.

Earth-shattering!

What kept Hafner in the minor leagues so long?

My team in teh league I care about: Brian McCann Nick Swisher Brian Roberts Alex Gordon Michael Young Richie Sexson Soriano Ibanez Vladimir Guerrero Hafner My bench is Zimmerman (who I'll put in for Gordon if he significantly struggles) Figgins Abreu Thomas Baldelli PITCHING Oswalt Peavy Nathan Ryan Kazmir Hoffman Anibal Sanchez Lidge Cole Hamels Javier Vazquez Any thoughts?

What kind of asshole heckles Dusty Rhodes' kids during his HOF induction?

QUOTE(jphat007 @ Apr 1, 2007 -> 09:32 AM) I love Thome, but Hafner is much better than even a perfectly healthy Thome these days. Absolutely. I don't know where anyone gets the idea that Jim Thome is better than Hafner.

Well, there's always talk about how Ozzie prefers Latinos, how Ozzie hates young players, how Ozzie doesn't know how to handle a team or a staff, so I don't know.

So WhiteSox.com has an article up about Contreras feeling no pressure for the opener. THen it details him and Sabathia. For Contreras, though, it says this: http://chicago.whitesox.mlb.com/news/artic...sp&c_id=cws

Guess McCain isn't the only Pander Bear in this race

I'm younger than you are.

QUOTE(BearSox @ Mar 31, 2007 -> 11:41 AM) Vazquez has looked good so far, but is walking too many... Langerhans just misses a grand slam, sac fly. 1-0 Braves Well-worded, good sir!