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1,2,3 for Thornton again.

QUOTE(SSH2005 @ May 18, 2006 -> 06:41 PM) AJ is also our hottest hitter. And our only backup catcher if Widger were to hurt himself.

Thornton in

QUOTE(Greg The Bull Luzinski @ May 18, 2006 -> 06:35 PM) Tyler Walker coming in ... I wish it was Kevin Walker. His ERA is down to 9.64 after the last time he faced us. That's close enough.

Blah Blah blah a 2 run lead is insurmountable our team stinks hello second place blah blah blah? Oh wait, what's that? Blah blah blah a 1 run lead is insurmountable our team stinks hello second place.

QUOTE(winninguglyin83 @ May 18, 2006 -> 06:17 PM) this team hasn 't played well for two weeks. can't keep carrying the cancerous bat of brian anderson forever. Because the #4 offense in all of baseball just isn't good enough, and it's clearly the offenses fault.

QUOTE(Jimbo @ May 18, 2006 -> 06:12 PM) well helloooooooooooo second place Sure Tampa Bay's bullpen has given us 10 runs in 2 games, but it'll be different this time! This game's over.

I signed up a few weeks ago, and got the 1 thing I wanted immediately: access to MLB gameday audio. You can also go to www.soxprideclub.com, log in, and get game previews, stats, etc., the stuff they send around to reporters and color guys.

QUOTE(Greg The Bull Luzinski @ May 18, 2006 -> 02:54 PM) Isn't he a fallen former mob boss? So you're saying he had that Geocities page whacked?

It could be a lot worse. And I thought that the Sox were something like 10-5 when resting 2 of their starters, and had only won like 1 game when resting 3?

That's North Carolina Democrat Drew Saunders, trying to argue that a $200 disclosure requirement for non-family-gifts to Congresspeople was too low.

And more importantly, as a cat, who exactly was it that taught you to drive?

QUOTE(beautox @ May 18, 2006 -> 02:20 PM) Bring the Noise Javy (i dont even know what that means) Bring in da funk too Javy.

QUOTE(Jimbo @ May 18, 2006 -> 02:07 PM) um yes, would you rather continue the inning or strike out to go to the 8th?/ Well yeah, of course you want the inning to continue, but that doesn't make it a huge moment, but maybe we just have different definitions of a huge moment. 2nd and 3rd in a 1 run game in the 8th or 9th, yeah that's a huge moment. Tying run at the plate in the 8th or 9th and that tying run is a Pujols, Thome, Ortiz, etc., yeah that's a huge moment, but unless Pierre is going hit 40 home runs the rest of the season, that ain't a huge moment to me.

Keep it going Javy.

QUOTE(Rex Kickass @ May 18, 2006 -> 01:37 PM) No. Just need to actually get fair treatment. Terrorist.

QUOTE(Jimbo @ May 18, 2006 -> 02:01 PM) Pierre k's at a huge moment...god he really sucks Down by 2 with only 1 runner on base for the leadoff hitter is a huge moment?

Mets Rookie Pitcher Brian Bannister left a rehab start after 5 pitches. Carl Pavano also left a rehab start.

Right now, you're basically betting that Crede's back won't stay healthy or that Crede will slump. It's not a terrible bet, but with the way he looks at the plate right now, I wouldn't make it.

Ramirez just made a pinch hitting appearance and got a 2 RBI single off Rauch.

QUOTE(WilliamTell @ May 18, 2006 -> 11:10 AM) Wow am I really behind. I didn't know Borchard went to the Marlins. I guess I missed the Mariners/Marlins trade. He almost just hit one out. Warning track power. No trade, the Mariners put him on waivers when Matt Lawton came back from the steroid suspension list.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ May 18, 2006 -> 09:39 AM) Now my dilemma: do I stay here and read the paper, or do I get my ass out the door and head across the state to get to the Trop in time to watch some White Sox BP?? Dude, it's a Nature paper. It's not like it's going to take a lot of time. Read it in the concession line. Oh wait, you're in Tampa, sorry forgot, no lines. Read it between innings.

QUOTE(Soxbadger @ May 18, 2006 -> 10:40 AM) Good for Pujols. The media tries to destroy half of these players careers just to sell a story. And while it might not mean much to you, Im sure it means a lot to Albert when people demean his accomplishments with no proof. Just like it probably annoys Contreras and others when people constantly accuse them of lieing about their age. I doubt if even Contreras knows how old he actually is. No offense to him, but that's just the quality of Cuban record keeping.

QUOTE(Texsox @ May 18, 2006 -> 10:23 AM) Racism is in all corners of our society. Some corners are hidden better than some others. It is impossible to label one group as more or less racist. Goddamned Whitey...

So, there were a couple of other newsworthy notes on the immigration front today. First off, some more details on the fence they approved...the 3 layered fence is something like 350 miles long, and the bill also called for 500 miles of vehicle barriers. That covers almost half of the border. Secondly, there was another clause approved by the Senate yesterday I'm less sure of, and I'd love to hear more comments. So, this seems to me like a needless beurocratic step, and I find it hard to believe that it won't make the program a lot more expensive. I also wonder what criteria they're going to use for that...it could change depending on who's doing the enforcing of the law, and so it could really work to sabotage any guest worker program. Next, a lot of states are pretty darn unhappy with Bush's guard proposal, and rightly so, since it seems that, well, unsurprisingly, Michael Chertoff, head of the DHS, has absolutely no idea what's going on. It's probably worth noting that Arnold is right here, this looks like another management debacle in the making...sticking troops there with no idea what they're supposed to do, having to learn everything in 2 weeks and then suddenly be replaced, and having a constant state of people moving in and out, which will mean that a lot more than 6000 troops will be needed. The first year would involve an estimated 156,000 national guard troops, out of the 400,000 in the country. They're also supposedly going to try to make participation by states voluntary, which seems like it will cut heavily into the amount of men available. The mess is probably going to be made worse by the fact that the President is not going to take executive control over the guard, to avoid the "Militarizing the border" complaints. So the Guard units who are on duty will actually still be under the control of the governors of their states. And I don't think anyone really has a clue how that's going to work. So anywho, this looks like another management mess in the making for these folks. Finally, The LA Times sent some people down to the border to talk to the folks bringing people across, and discovered that as summer is coming around and talk is heating up in the U.S., business for border crossings have declined by as much as 50%. So first of all, this shows that the "They'll rush up here for the amnesty" argument doesn't work that well, but secondly, it reinforces my opinion that there is no "Crisis" to spur the use of the guard, the situation right now is getting better, not worse, so we have time to fix the problem. Of course, we only have so much time to fix the real crisis that is making the President use the Guard: