Balta1701

So, will it be a CS or a SB? Taking votes...

Podsednik takes a walk, with Martinez and Westbrook wondering where the last pitch was. Sounds like it's at least being tight both ways, although Farmer was wondering about 1 of those 2 strikes and why it was called.

8 balls in a row and Blake swings at the first pitch. Did we trade Walker to the Tribe?

I do see a problem with 8 straight balls to Hafner and Martinez though.

I see no problem at all with a 4 pitch walk to Hafner.

Wow, when Gameday has a pitch showing up that close...never seen that before. At least we got the out. 8 pitches to Sizemore. Gameday has Garland starting off at 90-91.

Um...

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Apr 4, 2007 -> 10:39 AM) The interesting thing out of all of this was the amount of money raised by Romney, and the huge vault to the forefront that Edwards took after his wife's cancer announcement. Also I think McCain miscalculated that his name power would mean he didn't have to work as hard in the beginning. One interesting note on Romney is that it appears a significant chunk of his advantage over the other 2 guys may in fact be thanks to the mormon church. And he also has quite a fortune of his own money if he wants to spend it...he loaned himself like $2.5 million last quarter already.

I figured this should be posted somewhere. The American Drug industry has, in the last 18 months, spent a whopping $155 million lobbying Congress. $155 million. Just think about that for a minute...how much money do they think they have a chance to get from Congress if they're dumping $155 million into their funds in 18 months? God I hate this system.

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Apr 4, 2007 -> 10:17 AM) This is the exact quote from a Yahoo news article: LINK: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070404/ap_on_...r/obama_money_7 Ok, yeah, now I'm even more impressed, and I didn't think that was possible. Obama draws in more online donors than Hillarity gets in total, and Obama essentially outraises her without taking PAC money. Now all that's left is actually catching up in the polls.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Apr 4, 2007 -> 10:19 AM) A LOOGY's wet dream. So it's probably a good thing the Indians don't have one. This could be me not detecting sarcasm, but Aaron Fultz sure looks like a ltogy to me. (Lefty three out guy). Veteran lefty in teh bullpen, last year righties put up an .887 OPS against him and lefties put up a .662.

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Apr 4, 2007 -> 10:09 AM) I also read that Obama took no money from lobbyists or PACs, unlike Clinton. I'd find that fairly hard to believe...where exactly did you see that? While Obama did have 100k donors, and 50k of those donors were internet donors, only like $7 mil of that $25 mil or so was actually raised online, so he had to hit up at least some of the big guys. It's the little guys who are making up the difference and keeping him so close to Hillarity, and who should put him way over the top in quarter 2, but there have to be some big donors in there.

QUOTE(Reddy @ Apr 4, 2007 -> 09:59 AM) you mean in Cleveland and Minny where its JUST as cold... yeah... no i'm good with playing at home. You do realize that Minnesota currently plays in a stadium with something resembling a roof correct? Come on Jonny boy...show us something positive. That Contreras game might be the kind that starts off a real bad skid if someone doesn't step up.

QUOTE(watchtower41 @ Apr 4, 2007 -> 09:42 AM) I think its hilarious that most of you are still crying that BMac didnt make the playoff roster. U got to be kidding me. One outstanding start for the kid against Boston on Labor Day and he's the best White Sox starting pitcher in history. I cant wait until he get absolutely shelled against the Halos today so at least some of you will go away. One would have to be a complete moron to put a rookie on a playoff roster over Duque. Hey, I said that in hindsight I was wrong and Ozzie was right, what more do you want? And it was quite a bit more than 1 great start on labor day. He had a great start against Texas a week before that (15 scoreless innings against those 2 offenses, both on the road), and when he took El Duque's spot in the rotation 2 days after the Rally Crede game, he went toe to to with Johan for 8 innings in Minnesota (the Sox lost in Extras that day, BMac left the game when it was 1-1). He also did quite well in his last start or two after that game. He was on fire at the time. But hey, it all worked out in the end, Ozzie was right and I was wrong, and I'll live with that.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Apr 4, 2007 -> 09:38 AM) 'Cause after all, it's all Mr. Bush's fault. What a crock of s***. Wow, I make a couple random remarks, one of which is actually put in green, and suddenly that's interpreted as "everything is Bush's fault".

Ok, so the official winner of the 1st quarter fundraising derby is Barack Obama. He didn't raise the most total money (he's $1 million behind what Hillarity raised) but Obama shows some huge fundamental advantages. First, he's not nearly the "Establishment" candidate like Mrs. Clinton is. Mrs. Clinton has the old Clinton Network, and Bill, to make use of. Obama is coming up with a totally new network, and is virtually dead even with her. Second, Mr. Obama drew a much, much larger net of donors than Mrs. Clinton. A lot of Mrs. Clinton's money appears to be from people who donated the full $4600 they're allowed to give, $2300 for the Primary and $2300 for the general. So, some of that money in Mrs. Clinton's coffers doesn't count for the primary (they will tell us exactly how much by April 15th), and perhaps more importantly, those folks can not give any $ again to Mrs. Clinton. Mr. Obama can go back to many of these donors in future quarters and still draw in more $. The other question remaining is going to be the "Cash on hand", how much each campaign spent out of the money they brought in. Its entirely possible that Mrs. Clinton outspent Mr. Obama by having a much more expensive operation running throughout the first quarter, but we'll see. This sets Mr. Obama up quite well to dominate the 2nd quarter fundraising numbers. Oh, and the biggest loser of the 1st quarter fundraising race was John McCain. By a long shot.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Apr 4, 2007 -> 04:11 AM) In a public setting you also lose that need for duplicity, plus one thing that comes to mind is language barrier in emergency situations. Say a new African immigrant (pick a country) just got hit by a car. Now let that person explain to you what hurts in your role as an ER doc, or a paramedic. So how does this not apply exactly the same way in the event of a person being here on a Visa, or just someone who's here as a legitimate tourist? I can't tell you how many people around this school barely speak English. You can make the exact same arguments for those types of people, and the only solution would be banning all tourists, visitors, or guests who don't speak English.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Apr 4, 2007 -> 08:38 AM) Aww what a nice "gift". The return of people that were never in violation of the law to begin with... They shouldn't have. No, really. Think we'll give the same gift and return the Iranian folks we seized while they were in Iraq on diplomatic visits? Anyway, I'm going to be really, really happy if this does end. I need to fill up my gas tank here pretty soon. And I still don't like Mr. Bush having anything resembling a Causus Belli.

QUOTE(witesoxfan @ Apr 4, 2007 -> 07:38 AM) roto also speculated that Ozzie is going to use more lefties against Santana. That is a great idea, even if it means Pods and Erstad. Santana is absolutely disgustingly good against righties, but doesnt get lefties out at nearly the rate. Scott Podsednik is 1/9 career against Santana. Pablowned is 14/49. Erstad is 10/39. Anderson was awful, unsurprisingly. I can understand putting Erstad in there, but I don't think Pods would have a chance.

QUOTE(Buehrle>Wood @ Apr 3, 2007 -> 08:57 PM) If you really wanted to judge teams based on 1 game, then why in the blue hell are the Red Sox number one? they looked as bad as anyone on Opening Day. Mr. 35 win has not pitched yet.

Well, at least that's something. If the market deflates this year because the big spending teams realize they blew everything on sucky people last year we might have a shot. But I still think Mark is good as gone.

So, today's marquee game to my eyes, at 12:35 PST we get a matchup of the 2 pitchers I really wanted to see as our #4 and #5, or #3 and #4 (however you want to figure it) starters. Brandon McCarthy vs. Ervin Santana. Brad Lidge blew his first save attempt of the year Monday, and the 'Stros pen has blown both games for that team already.

Perhaps it was a double cross. Set up a trip for the Republicans in Congress, wait for Pelosi to fall into the trap, and go after her if she makes the same trip. That Rove, such a genious I tells ya.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Apr 3, 2007 -> 05:48 PM) I'm currently watching the Rockies/D-Backs game thinking of how great Willie Taveras would look atop the White Sox lineup, the guy has legit track speed and some great instincts on the basepaths. You should see the clip of him bunting last night.

Orlando Hernandez getting the roster spot in the 05 playoffs over BMac. Granted it turned out to be the right choice...but it sure didn't look like it coming in. The Chris Young/Javier Vazquez trade fits well with that even if it was KW pulling the trigger. Blocked McCarthy & picked up one of Ozzie's golfing buddies.