StrangeSox

Tax incentives for energy-efficient and environmentally-friendly technology and construction is a great idea. Adding more taxes for carbon is an extremely bad idea. Even if we were to agree that we need to reduce "Joe Sixpack's" carbon output so that he stops grilling, driving, having bonfires, etc., why the hell should government be the one getting all that money? Government tends to be horribly inefficient at most things, and I don't see this being any different. I think the idea of carbon pricing and trading is pretty ridiculous anyway, but growing the government through environmentalism is even worse. And like Alpha pointed out, the rich will just pay to cover their carbon outputs on their yatchs, Leer jets, mansions, etc. Those who would be hit the most would be the middle class. With energy prices increasing the way they are, natural market forces will curb carbon output. No need to grow government to do it.

I'm supposed to go to the game tomorrow night, but apparently the weather doesn't want me to see a good Sox game this year. My first game was postponed due to rain against Baltimore, my second was a near-2 hour rain delay again Minnesota (and then Buerhle got hit around a bunch), and now its supposed to storm tomorrow night.

Funny, no matter who the Dems are running, its always the "most liberal person eVER!"

Unless Ozzie is saying more behind the scenes and trashing him to the players, Walker looks like a HUGE cry baby to me who went way over Guillen's head instead of dealing with it face-to-face.

He mentioned Walker's name along with his own in a rant about the team under-performing. Walker needs to grow a pair and not go whining to the owner over it.

QUOTE (DaveBrown85 @ Jun 4, 2008 -> 11:52 PM) I was at the game. Did Ramirez really not touch home plate? I'm pretty sure he missed. Should have gone back and tagged it to be absolutely sure. Oh well, its still a win. I fell asleep after they failed to do anything in the 11th.

Nick Swisher continues to be awful at the game of baseball.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Jun 3, 2008 -> 08:45 PM) i thought her speech was exactly what she needed to do. she'll concede w/in the next few days, but with the speech, keep your supporters feeling good donating money because they're already depressed, might as well let them have one more heartfelt cheer. she wasn't defiant like pundits claimed, she'll do whats best for the party and that's what she said.

She spoke for close to 20 minutes and didn't say a single damn thing.

What the hell got into this team?

Quentin is the 2008 White Sox offense.

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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 3, 2008 -> 11:30 AM) She HAS to endorse him once he wins. It would be political suicide not to do so. Oh, she'll endorse him after the convention for sure. I don't see her doing it before then, though.

Hillary will acknowledge that Barack has the delegates. I don't know if she will drop out and I really doubt she'll endorse him. She can still keep it up, trying to ply away pledged delegates, superdelegates, whining about this and that, etc. so that she keeps beating up Barack and gives herself a better opening for a 2012 run.

QUOTE (LVSoxFan @ Jun 2, 2008 -> 11:51 AM) He's got kind of a point though: first place is great, but considering we are back to being the Comedy Central, that ain't saying much. We're only four games above .500. And we all know that this kind of performance is going to head over a cliff eventually. Just like it did in '06, just like it did last year... Fire Greg Walker. Now. We're also one of a handful of teams with a winning road record AND we've played more road games than anyone.

QUOTE (Texsox @ Jun 2, 2008 -> 06:55 AM) Ensberg drops off at 32 and it could be PEDs. Another guy goes from a non starter highly-touted prospect with history of success in the minors who was sidelined by injury to being health and leading the league in HRs, and that specualtion is wrong.

3-30 with RSIP over the weekend.

What is the criteria for judging a hitting coach's worth?

Game.

Fantastic job. I hate Nick Swisher. What a terrible acquisition he was.

How do you not put in Quentin?

That's essentially the ball game.

QUOTE (Frankensteiner @ May 31, 2008 -> 06:26 PM) Well, I complained about us not hitting with RISP yesterday. So naturally we've only had one guy reach 2nd base today. There you go, Thome K's looking.

Swisher is a big bag o' suck right now. Glad we traded for him.

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ May 31, 2008 -> 06:16 PM) Can you tell me what Quentin's career MLB average was before this year. I am curious. Doesn't matter. Whatever someone's career AVG is after ~400 AB's is what they hit for their career. Proven again and again.