Balta1701

QUOTE(aboz56 @ May 17, 2006 -> 05:01 PM) Yah its a keeper, I think I've got to keep Liriano. Tempted to deal Zito though. The rest of my staff is: Buehrle, Lackey, King Felix, Freddy, Brandon Webb plus Liriano and Zito. Relievers are Jenks and Chad Cordero Zito will probably wind up with a big money team that scores a lot of runs and is from a city who's initials are NY next year, if wins are useful compared with other stats.

QUOTE(DBAH0 @ May 17, 2006 -> 04:57 PM) Like scoring 7 runs yesterday, oh yeah that's corpseball alright. If we don't average 2.3 runs per inning, with a variance of plus or minus .7 runs, it's corpseball.

35 pitches, 24 strikes for Garland through 3. 35 pitches, 26 strikes for McClung through 3.

The sad thing? The Sox will probably put up another 5 spot in one of these innings, and then the next day, 3/4 of the game thread will be pissed off about why we haven't scored 8 more in the first 2 innings.

Uribe really doesn't need help striking out. No more hit & runs with Uribe.

Norton has a 1.047 OPS this month.

QUOTE(fathom @ May 17, 2006 -> 04:42 PM) And it just so happened to be after the 2004 season????? Wow, what a coincidence!

Pregame mullet parade and complimentary haircuts on the concourse? Man, if my hair was longer than 1/2", I'd be so game.

QUOTE(WHarris1 @ May 17, 2006 -> 04:32 PM) Haha my bad, I won't give my unneeded PbP anymore. Seriously, go ahead. I was just amazed at how long it took for that play to register out here. The only time it's annoying is if someone hits a walk-off.

QUOTE(WHarris1 @ May 17, 2006 -> 04:30 PM) RACK EM UP HELL YEAH JON God, you're getting the game like 20 seconds before me. Wow. 11 pitches, 8 strikes for Garland in the first.

Only so much you can do with a guy like that.

Nationals Manager and Hall of Famer Frank Robinson missed tonight's game with the Cubs due to back spasms. Dustin Hermanson will coach in his place. Roger Clemens has stepped up his workouts, and could be ready to pitch in about 3 weeks. J.J. Hardy has been placed on the 15 day DL by the Brew Crew. Mike Lieberthal has a small fracture in his knee and will miss about 2 weeks. Tomorrow = Lima Time! I will take bets about how many home runs Pujols will wind up with tomorrow. Kyle Davies may hit the DL after straining his groin while pitching for the Braves on Monday.

19 pitch first inning for McClung. Not bad.

You know, one of these days, Thome ought to try to lay down a bunt into that shift. Ortiz did it a few weeks ago & wound up on first.

QUOTE(Jimbo @ May 17, 2006 -> 04:17 PM) is it me or is iguchi slumping a little bit. It's not you. We're almost down to 2 .300 hitters in our lineup today (and 1 .400 hitter, but I'm ignoring him)

Aren't there usually a lot more day games on Wednesdays than there were today?

Lineup: Podsednik, LF Iguchi, 2b Thome, DH Konerko, 1B Dye, RF Ozuna, 3B Mackowiak, CF Uribe, SS For the Rays Lugo, SS Crawford, LF Gomes, RF Huff, 3B Wiggington, 2B NORTON, DH Lee, 1b Paul, C Gathright, CF Man, I can make so many jokes about that D-Rays lineup. Remind their catcher to tag the runner if it's close, note that they have a Lee at 1b and bet how jealous the Cubs are....but hell, I think we'll get to hear Hawk say "Nawton" again, and that's enough for me. And yes, that is the same Nawton.

Ah Mr. O'Reilly...will you ever stop?

QUOTE(RockRaines @ May 17, 2006 -> 01:52 PM) What is wrong with you? Seriously, it saddens me to read such horrible statements like what you have posted in this thread. For all we know 80 percent of all power hitters in the 90's used juice. But Bonds is the worst one? Even if he is the biggest asshole on the face of the planet, it doesnt warrant bringing yourself down to his level and disgracing the game by throwing at him like Springer did. You dont want to have him go yard off of you, have some class and walk him. Disgracing the game by throwing at someone? People are thrown at all the time and it certainly doesn't disgrace the game. That's a part of the game. When Escobar hit AJ, did it disgrace the game? I doubt it. When that guy hit Vizquel a few weeks ago, did that disgrace the game? Of course not...I can't even remember the name of the guy who did it, that' show small of a disgrace it was.

QUOTE(samclemens @ May 17, 2006 -> 01:46 PM) yeah, lets crucify them! A lot of people have already done that to the D.A. without waiting for a trial.

QUOTE(samclemens @ May 17, 2006 -> 01:44 PM) when a single judicial proceeding comes to that conclusion, let me know. until that, its only your opinion. Dude, that was sarcasm. I was suggesting that Bush had basically claimed that power. I don't believe he legally does...but a lot of people here sure have defended him when he does step outside the law, or issues a signing statement saying that he's not going to follow a law.

So I'm having difficulty understanding what the actual vote was here. Are these just amendments to the Senate bill which has been stalled because Mr. Frist won't bring up anything for a vote without unanimous conservative support? Are these just those "Sense of the Senate" resolution type thingies? Or are these actual bills which are being passed individually which will go back to the House? If it's the latter, the House will just kill off the citizenship part, if it's the first then the citizenship part will probably get stripped out in conference, and if it's the 2nd, then these would be meaningless.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ May 17, 2006 -> 01:30 PM) Is it yours that we can pick and choose which laws we want to obey? Only President Bush has that power.

QUOTE(mr_genius @ May 17, 2006 -> 11:33 AM) oh i agree, i'm sure they're annoying jerks and if i met them i would think they were idiots. but being an annoying idiot doesn't really mean you should go to prison... if it did balta would be posting from Joliet, serving a life sentence (i keeeed! i keeeed!) As long as they hold me at Fox River...I'm set.