StrangeSox

Keep the line moving. I was disappointed when I went to MLB radio and saw the Sox down six, but this IS the Pirates. I'm glad I tuned in.

I just turned on the game on the radio. What happened on the ozuna error?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 19, 2008 -> 12:17 PM) And that same EIA says that the likely impact of doing a hell of a lot of drilling off the coasts of the U.S. would be "Insignificant" in several ways through 2030 in a 2007 report. I'm not saying it would have a significant impact on price, and certainly not in the immediate future. I really don't understand why you bring up 2012 as the year of peak oil production, though.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 19, 2008 -> 12:04 PM) So what happens if we drill everything in sight and in 2012 the amount of oil the world is able to pump out of the ground starts declining precipitously because we've crossed over the global production peak and there's no where left to go but down? Then we are still cutting those losses some because of the drilling. We're still increasing supply. People have been shouting "OMG! NO OIL IN A DECADE!" since the early 1900's. The EIA predicts a peak in about 30 years, not 4. http://www.reason.com/news/show/36645.html http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petrole...upply/index.htm

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jun 19, 2008 -> 11:25 AM) So you're using the "if they do it we should do it too" argument? Why not be the innovators and leaders in alternative fuels? Why keeping clasping to an outdated and limited resource? It isn't "outdated" if its still powering an overwhelming majority of the world's transportation industry. You can't just get off of oil over night. It will take decades. As far all of the poll-watching, I'd love for someone to make a spreadsheet with all of the polls taken now vs. the actual results. I really don't get why people put stock in polling data 5 months before the election.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jun 18, 2008 -> 10:15 AM) It took an above average play to get Johnson out. I thought he had gotten an infield hit but Longoria made a nice grab and Pena made an even better dig at first. That said, was it really a bunt? IFor some reason I thought it was a swinging bunt but I wasn't paying too close of attention to the highlights. It was a regular ol' bunt. Longoria was playing behind the bag at third and started making a hard charge towards the plate as soon as he saw Johnson start to put the bat up.

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ Jun 17, 2008 -> 11:13 PM) Maybe he realized that the Chinese and the Cubans are out in the same waters drilling away. Might as well get some of that oil for ourselves. Except there's about zero proof of that. It was just made up. http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpoliti...y-oops-the.html

A walk and three straight hits with no outs. Quickly giving back the 2 runs and then some. I think I'm done with this game now.

Javy has no control right now.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Jun 16, 2008 -> 01:07 PM) Because they are in financial ruin is why they cant make them. They cant afford "10 years from now" thinking because they wont BE here in 10 years. It's a catch 22. As it turns out, GM already has a development program on the road for fuel cell vehicles. Their marketing department must be awful if they got zero press and Honda is getting as much as it is. http://www.chevrolet.com/fuelcell/ http://www.chevrolet.com/fuelcell/articles/index.jsp?id=1

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jun 16, 2008 -> 01:11 PM) I was reading from somewhere that hydrogen can be produced from solar power too? You just need energy to perform electrolysis. It doesn't matter where it comes from. What does matter is that fossil fuels are still far and away the cheapest and easiest forms of energy, and that's not likely to change. And who says the government does know where to go? What if they mandate a certain path, and it turns out to be completely unprofitable and unworkable? And for that matter, how is the US government going to dictate to Asia and Europe what technology to pursue? Kennedy and "man on the moon by the end of the decade" was different because NASA is a government entity while GM, Ford, Honda, BMW, etc. are not.

Seriously? Anderson in left? If he's on the field why the hell isn't he playing center?

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jun 13, 2008 -> 12:06 PM) The burst of the bubble made the economy stumble, but not really collapse since the overall economy was in relatively good health. Oh and it should be added that Clinton didn't really have anything to do with that, neither the expansion nor the recession. Right, that's my point. The tech bubble was going to happen whether or not Clinton raised taxes, so citing economic expansion during that period as evidence that tax increases don't hurt the economy doesn't work. It isn't that clear-cut.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jun 13, 2008 -> 12:00 PM) How does this explain the 8 years of expansion under Clinton in spite of his tax increases, though? I'd say that the extremely rapid expansion of the tech sector counts as "other factors," and that turned out to be a big, huge bubble.

QUOTE (BearSox @ Jun 12, 2008 -> 07:34 PM) they aren't just people, they are Islamic fascists that pose a threat to national security. I'm sorry, but anyone in favor of this ruling, including those 5 nutjob judges, is a goofball. You're arguing from the conclusion that they ARE "Islamic fascists." That hasn't been proven because, get this, THEY HAVEN'T HAD A FAIR TRIAL! Do you have any legal basis for saying that anyone that anyone in favor of this ruling is a "goofball", or are you just arguing from your belief that a) they're terrorists and b ) we should be able to hold terrorists indefinitely without trial?

QUOTE (jphat007 @ Jun 12, 2008 -> 01:12 PM) They are 8 games out. That's not what I would call 'in' it. It's a big swing in the standings, going from 11 games out to 8 vs. going to 14 games out.

Another absolutely pathetic outing for the offense.

Anyone in the US has the protection of the Constitution. It was ruled early this year or last year that Gitmo counts as US property, even though it is leased from Cuba.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 12, 2008 -> 09:55 AM) Just out of curiosity, for the folks here, anyone...is there a level at which you start thinking a windfall tax makes sense? As the price of oil keeps going up, the value of the holdings of every oil company will just keep going up, and thus their profits will just keep going up and up and up. I totally get the economics issue response, that you're penalizing a set of companies for earning too much money and just on the fact of it that's a bad economic strategy, but at some point you can't just have the entire U.S. economy be "oil companies", can you? No. You don't tax success and give that money to other people, period. These companies are making their profit on the sheer volume of product they sell, not some outrageous margins. Their margins are actually pretty damn small. When you get the government meddling in the economy in such a clear-cut anti-capitalistic way, things usually (or always) turn out bad.

I was pretty disgusted with Charlie Gibson's story on ABC news about the recent Democrat windfall tax bill on the news the other night. The whole story was a slam on Republicans who "don't want to help Americans deal with high gas prices" or some such nonsense.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jun 11, 2008 -> 02:22 PM) Cars die in a few years, for the most part. They aren't coal plants that run for decades. I'm all for change in this regard, but you have to allow the system to grade its way into that change. You start slapping retroactive and regressive taxes on people, and you will get some very upset voters, thus undoing any attempt and making positive ground. Exactly. The lifespan of a typical car might be 10 years, not 30-50 like a power plant. And now you're forcing people who would be buying cheap, used cars because its what they can afford to buy new cars or pay more in taxes. Awesome. You're not going to fix this problem through taxation. That will just lead to backlash against any green movement.

NY Times rates ballparks' food and says what to get and what to avoid. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/06...APHIC.html?8dpc For the Cell, they say "avoid: everything" I thought the park was known for having good food/ concessions?

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jun 11, 2008 -> 08:18 AM) Spooky - I actually watched that movie last night, it was on some obscure cable channel and I stopped while channel surfing. Sad. I was at Borders and couldn't decide whether to pick up 8 Men Out or Moneyball last night. Eerie.

SLoppy, sloppy baseball today.

That's awesome.