StrangeSox

QUOTE(Balance @ May 2, 2007 -> 05:11 PM) Thing is, the non-smokers effectively had no real choice. We could either go out and breathe it all in, while coming home smelling like smoke. Or else we could not go out at all. That's not a real choice. Everyone should be able to go out to a bar and breathe non-smoky air. Smokers can choose not to smoke. Non-smokers can't choose not to breathe. If there was a large enough market for a smoke-free bar, they'd exist without laws requiring them. At least this will be state-wide, though. Orland's ban just moved all of the business from Orland to neighboring cities without the ban.

QUOTE(Dick Allen @ May 2, 2007 -> 05:13 PM) So let me get this straight, people actually believe Greg Walker tells guys to go up to the plate and swing as hard as they can just in case they hit it. He also tells them not to work a count. Swing at as many pitches as they can, regardless of their location. I really don't know what to think of Walker as a hitting coach, but I find it hard to believe he's the reason the team can't hit right now. Almost everyone has the same horrible homerun swing right now. He says they all look great. He even said that BA's swing looked good last week. Either he's lying to the media, or he's a moron.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ May 2, 2007 -> 05:05 PM) Did I really just hear a guy call into the postgame show saying the Sox still don't have a 5th starter? "AND WE STILL DON'T HAVE A 5th STARTER!!" - Asshat Caller "Danks has been pitching pretty well." - PFB "HE'S 0 and 4!!" - Asshat Caller And he was completely serious. Wow. Some people are just inherently stupid. Sorry, if your fifth starter only gives up 3 runs, you're in a good position to win.

This team has scored 2 runs or less in 10 games and is averaging only 4 runs per game.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ May 2, 2007 -> 04:52 PM) but my clothes and my closet dont smell terrible when i get home. Meh, that's what Febreeze and washing machines are for. My mom has smoked my entire life and a good number of my friends do too, so I don't even notice the smell of it any more. I guess I'm more for people and businesses being able to choose instead of the government forcing mandates.

VH1 has become the worst network on television over the past 2 or 3 years, in my opinion.

Smoking is terrible. But have you ever been in a bar that's recently smoke-free? The bars in Orland smelled so bad during that month-long ban. The smoke masks everything else.

This team is so bad right now. Danks gets f***ed again.

QUOTE(Tony82087 @ May 2, 2007 -> 04:44 PM) Wow, Putz really got squeezed on that one. apparently the strike zone is about 5 inches shorter on the bottom than it used to be.

Wow, don't know about that...

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ May 2, 2007 -> 04:38 PM) We keep playing like this and the Cell will be sporting a lot of empty seats this summer. I was really looking forward to making some games this summer as I couldn't make it to any last summer. That enthusiasm is long gone.

QUOTE(Jimbo @ May 2, 2007 -> 01:38 PM) Exactly, no need for chasers though. Chasers for you kids is the drink after a shot to help it go down. There is your lesson from me, the alchy. The only thing whiskey should be chased with is more whiskey. Sox get 2-hit and lose 4-1 on another good outing by Danks.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ May 1, 2007 -> 03:15 PM) We will be fine. We are pitching well, are the worst hitting team in the AL and still went through the toughest month over .500. The offense will wake up, we have more than enough firepower to get us through the DL stints. Ken Harrelson, is that you?!

QUOTE(RockRaines @ May 2, 2007 -> 11:29 AM) Doesnt Lotus have one like that? The closest thing to this that I know of is the Ariel Atom. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel_Atom Caterham makes reproduction Lotus Super Seven's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caterham_Cars Still, if this car's claimed performance holds true, it'll be quicker than those.

QUOTE(Dan @ May 2, 2007 -> 10:51 AM) and your point is? It's a street legal race car. You won't be able to touch that performance in another street legal car.

http://thehill.com/david-keene/feinsteins-...2007-04-30.html Feinstein’s Cardinal shenanigans By David Keene April 30, 2007 Anyone who knows much about real power in Congress knows that almost every member of the House and Senate lusts after a seat on the Appropriations Committee and hopes one day to achieve the status of Cardinal. The Cardinals, of course, are the folks who chair the various Appropriations Committee subcommittees and literally control the billions of dollars that pass through their hands. California Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D) chairs the Senate Rules Committee, but she’s also a Cardinal. She is currently chairwoman of the Interior, Environment and Related Agencies subcommittee, but until last year was for six years the top Democrat on the Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies (or “Milcon”) sub-committee, where she may have directed more than $1 billion to companies controlled by her husband. If the inferences finally coming out about what she did while on Milcon prove true, she may be on the way to morphing from a respected senior Democrat into another poster child for congressional corruption. The problems stem from her subcommittee activities from 2001 to late 2005, when she quit. During that period the public record suggests she knowingly took part in decisions that eventually put millions of dollars into her husband’s pocket — the classic conflict of interest that exploited her position and power to channel money to her husband’s companies. In other words, it appears Sen. Feinstein was up to her ears in the same sort of shenanigans that landed California Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham ® in the slammer. Indeed, it may be that the primary difference between the two is basically that Cunningham was a minor leaguer and a lot dumber than his state’s senior senator. Melanie Sloan, the executive director of Citizens for Responsible Ethics in Washington, or CREW, usually focuses on the ethical lapses of Republicans and conservatives, but even she is appalled at the way Sen. Feinstein has abused her position. Sloan told a California reporter earlier this month that while”there are a number of members of Congress with conflicts of interest … because of the amount of money involved, Feinstein’s conflict of interest is an order of magnitude greater than those conflicts.” And the director of the Project on Government Oversight who examined the evidence of wrongdoing assembled by California writer Peter Byrne told him that “the paper trail showing Senator Feinstein’s conflict of interest is irrefutable.” It may be irrefutable, but she almost got away without anyone even knowing what she was up to. Her colleagues on the subcommittee, for example, had no reason even to suspect that she knew what companies might benefit from her decisions because that information is routinely withheld to avoid favoritism. What they didn’t know was that her chief legal adviser, who also happened to be a business partner of her husband’s and the vice chairman of one of the companies involved, was secretly forwarding her lists of projects and appropriation requests that were coming before the committee and in which she and her husband had an interest — information that has only come to light recently as a result of the efforts of several California investigative reporters. This adviser insists — apparently with a straight face — that he provided the information to Feinstein’s chief of staff so that she could recuse herself in cases where there might be a conflict. He says that he assumes she did so. The public record, however, indicates that she went right ahead and fought for these same projects. During this period the two companies, URS of San Francisco and the Perini Corporation of Framingham, Mass., were controlled by Feinstein’s husband, Richard C. Blum, and were awarded a combined total of over $1.5 billion in government business thanks in large measure to her subcommittee. That’s a lot of money even here in Washington. Interestingly, she left the subcommittee in late 2005 at about the same time her husband sold his stake in both companies. Their combined net worth increased that year with the sale of the two companies by some 25 percent, to more than $40 million. In spite of the blatant appearance of corruption, no major publication has picked up on the story, the Senate Ethics Committee has reportedly let her slip by, and she is now chairing the Senate Rules Committee, which puts her in charge of making sure her colleagues act ethically and avoid the sorts of conflicts of interest with which she is personally and so obviously familiar.

QUOTE(Jimbo @ May 2, 2007 -> 10:04 AM) He has already shown he has gotten past his "6th inning" implosion this year. Bringin up the past year is such a stupid idea, if its not the case right now. Look what happened yesterday. He stuck him out there, Javy had nothing, walked a guy, and was responsible for another run. How does that help his confidence?

QUOTE(Jimbo @ May 2, 2007 -> 10:02 AM) I like when Ozzie does this, it really helps the pitchers confidence. Thank god for our pitching! I'm sure it really helped Vazquez last year when he'd leave him in for an inning too long and let him implode.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ May 2, 2007 -> 09:40 AM) Maybe because its a 10 day road trip? Ozzie did nothing wrong last night, the team did. Leaving Vazquez in was very questionable. This loss isn't on Ozzie, though.

We need Jobu to wake up the bats

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Have the sox blown out a single team this year?

QUOTE(mr_genius @ May 1, 2007 -> 11:42 PM) some of the criticism i read about guillen here is hard not to dismiss. So address the one that was actually brought up during the game. Was it a good move to leave in your starter who's already over 100 pitches?

QUOTE(mr_genius @ May 1, 2007 -> 11:33 PM) if you b**** about every move he makes eventually you'll be right. congrats Addressing any criticism by simple dismissal is easy, isn't it?

GS didn't take a good shot in about 3 minutes. The last few offensive series for them were a joke: wait near half-court until the shot clock is under 10, and then take a long jumper.