Gregory Pratt

Nothing about me being....a hippie...? I think that you lack nuance and subtlety if you believe that catching Saddam and killing Zarqawi mean that the War has been handled well. QUOTE(Rex Kickass @ Jun 23, 2006 -> 08:42 AM) Yes, I remember John Kerry's sing "Give Peace a Chance" plank in his foreign policy platform well. I think I remember it being next to George Bush's "Eat the Old" program proposal as a way to save money on school lunches.

After what we did to St. Louis, there's no reason not to have us as the number one in the rankings this week.

Around here, the general consensus seemed to have been all through the series that the Cardinals organization is classy, LaRussa respectable, etc. etc. etc. I've never liked the Cards. or LaRussa, was glad to see them get shelled, and am not surprised to hear this nonsense after what Duncan was saying about Guillen.

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Jun 22, 2006 -> 11:20 PM) Dude, I'm right there with ya. I'm biased and it's no secret that I love Thome, but I'm not sure why Sox fans are not absolutely nuts about him. He gets a half ass ovation when he comes to the plate and a lot of criticism. What criticism does Thome get? I haven't, ah, heard any, except for one crackpot calling him the Strikeout King. I don't like his ovation at the Park, however. Not enthusiastic enough, IMO.

QUOTE(Chisoxrd5 @ Jun 22, 2006 -> 11:41 PM) Garcia was consistantly 90-93 all night tonight on the Cell gun. So I would say his velocity is most of the way back. He didnt get the Strikeouts today but he kept the hitters off balance and from what I saw didnt throw any Freddy patented hanging curveballs. I was pretty impressed by him. As for the kid from the Cards, yeah he was pretty damn good. I enjoyed the way he pitched against the Reds, and tonight, too. Thanks for the report!

QUOTE(hi8is @ Jun 22, 2006 -> 09:17 PM) gregorypratt= What, exactly, are you referencing?

Oh baby. Did anyone see the highlights from Baltimore versus Florida, where Cabrera was getting IBBed and swung at one of the balls, lined it into center and drove in a run? God, that's beautiful.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Jun 22, 2006 -> 10:39 PM) So how many times did Thorne call him a legend tonight? 60? 70 times? Why the Conservative estimates?!

A friend and I were watching and calling "Baseball Tonight" "Clemens Tonight" for the fact that 90 percent of their show was devoted to such things as "TEN GREATEST CLEMENS MOMENTS!" f*** them.

The more I think of this war, of this news, the more furious I become with the Administration and what I consider its shameful handling of the war. I know that, being a Liberal, I'm expected to feel this way already, but for some god damn reason I had faith in Joe Lieberman and the Administration, at least on this. And I'm...well, I'm young. I've tried to take an idealistic and reasonable stance on the War, and I've tried to be fair to the Administration on this with every news, good or bad. But this is far too much for me.

I was very happy to see it. I have never liked Clemens.

Indeed.

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/ne...t_id=1002690071 This is incredibly disillusioning to me. I trusted the Bush Administration for some odd reason. I trusted them. And I trusted the reporters who'd said good things about Iraq. And Joe Lieberman. And Hillary Clinton. I supported the War because I believed we were making a respectable effort at fixing the country, post-war, and I can't quite look myself in the mirror and say that anymore. I read this this morning, and felt as I did last year when my now ex-girlfriend asked me how I could justify killing to teach killing is wrong, and I felt that I had no intellectually honest answer. I haven't looked back since on the Death Penalty. (And please, let's not ignite a death penalty debate here. Take it elsewhere. I merely made an analogy.) It -- this -- bothers me. A lot, and more than I can say. I feel foolish for having believed the things I did and while I'm not YET willing to turn on the War, I can't say I'm too terribly pleased with our actions.

How far did Thome's shot travel?

QUOTE(tealeafreaderii @ Jun 22, 2006 -> 08:33 PM) maybe the hate on Macks D was a little premature? Not at all.

Mackowiak! Finally!

I've written him before. He never wrote back.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Jun 22, 2006 -> 05:07 PM) Or you could throw him 4 pitches a foot off the outside corner. I would take absolutely no chances against him. You could, but we're not going to more than once, and I don't think we'll be dishing out any IBBs, anyway.

QUOTE(rudylaw @ Jun 22, 2006 -> 04:30 PM) Mark never throws the ball faster than 88-89. I don't think the speed is the issue. Location is the most important thing. We weren't talking about Mark, Rudy. Mark is a control pitcher: Freddy has always been a power pitcher. That's why there's concern when Freddy is throwing at eighty eight miles, but people shrug when Buehrle does it.

QUOTE(Steve9347 @ Jun 22, 2006 -> 04:13 PM) whether his velocity is back or not (which I doubt) he's still not getting anyone out because he doesnt trust his fastball. I dont think its a steroids/velocity issue, its more of a bad pitching issue. Well, I've been impressed by the fact that he's been getting people out, simply because he's been throwing junk out there.

Poor Buehrle. He wanted to face Pujols. Just missed him. Poor baseballs. Garcia is going to be pitching to Albert. I don't like that match-up!

All right, whenever it's been brought up, I've wondered out loud if perhaps steroids had to do wit his old velocity, and he stopped or osmething. I also thought that, perhaps, there was an injury or something we didn't know about. I'm not sure those things are likely, but he's a pitcher who is either in his prime or just about there, and I've been bothered by the fact that nobody has really been asking him about it. About two weeks ago, however, someone pointed out that Comcast radar guns are slow, and that might be to blame. His pitches don't seem very fast to me, and so I doubted that. Does anyone know anything, about whether or not his velocity IS back but Comcast is just off, or whether or not anyone's asked him in the media?

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Jun 22, 2006 -> 03:27 PM) *Per the Score: Ozzie Guillen will be fined an undisclosed amount of money and will have to take some sort of sensitivity training.* By the organization or by the league?

F. A. G. That's what he called him.

QUOTE(minors @ Jun 22, 2006 -> 12:59 PM) This has to be dissapointing for liberals this war is justified. Those hippies must be devastated by this news. How will they ever live now that Rick Santorum has presented such solid, wonderful evidence?