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3-1 Boston...Ramirez singled to load the bases, Nixon took a walk.

The Indians Scoreboard is running through the "Division Series game 3 ticket Refund" procedure.

Nice work Viz. Wow, the Yankees just intentionally walked Ortiz to get to Manny Ramirez. I never thought I'd see that. I've seen it like twice this year.

Well, it would sure be nice if Viz could hold them here.

2-1 Boston on a Varitek dinger.

QUOTE(CYGarland @ Sep 30, 2005 -> 04:36 PM) This game is basically Buehrle vs the Indians I still like our chances in that matchup.

Yankees and BoSox are tied at 1.

How much you want to bet Mark's pitching with a hangover?

Yankees have an early 1-0 lead on Boston.

Pods leads off, steals second, and B.A. knocks him over to 3rd. Sounds like something we might hear a few times next year.

Pods, take 3rd.

Pods retakes the league lead in stolen bases! 59!

Leadoff single for Podsie. Pods....get your ass on 2nd.

Let's go Podsie!

I still love how our #4 hitter is hitting .800.

Man, after yesterday, sitting here in an about-to-start game thread...it's like a weight has come off my shoulders.

I would rather play either Boston or NY over the Angels...because if we play the Angels, the Sox will be in Southern California during the weekend where I'll be on a field trip. However, if we play the Angels in the ALCS...I'll be in town for those games, and hence, I can buy some scalped tickets.

QUOTE(kyyle23 @ Sep 30, 2005 -> 12:30 PM) I think you should study up before you go around making wild assumptions Actually it's not entirely a wild assumption...I've at least visited 1 spot up in the Mojave that was a full lake about 100 ka. It was filled by the Mojave river, which had a much higher flow rate at the time than it currently does. I just don't know when the rainfall values started to change. Hehehehe.

QUOTE(VAfan @ Sep 30, 2005 -> 12:27 PM) Willie's two exceptional defensive plays yesterday I think make him a lock. Frankly, I wouldn't be surprised to see Ozzie use him as a defensive replacement for Iguchi late in a tight game. Honestly I think I'd be surprised by that...playoff games have a nasty habit of going into Extra Innings, and every time you remove a guy for defensive purposes, you lose his bat if things wind up tied. Especially with one of our best guys at creating problems, moving runners along, getting timely hits...that seems like something Ozzie might not do.

So I think this is safe to say without causing any major jinxes now... My fiance finally managed to find what I think could be a stable job...she's been out of work/doing odd 1 month long jobs for the last 2 years, and on Wednesday she started at a place that writes resumes for lawyers. It looks like something aroudn a $20k-$30 k a year job with health benefits, which is a dramatic increase from the 0 she was making beforehand. So let's see...this week, my fiance found a job, the Sox wrapped up the AL Central, and I just sent along what I think is the final version of the key graph I need for my first "1st author is me" paper. You could shoot me right now and I'd still be in a good mood.

QUOTE(kyyle23 @ Sep 30, 2005 -> 12:19 PM) Just out of curiosity, do you think this is something that has been happening for 1000's of years, a natural burning for arguments sake, or do you think this is happening due to human error and presence? IIRC when Yellowstone had that fire (late 80s? early 90's?), after the fact most scientists were saying that this was a good thing. A clearing of the old to make way for the young, if you will. A lot of the actual fire ignitions are due to people...i.e. a car flicking a cigarette out the window or something like that, but this condition has existed since these circulation patterns and precipitation patterns were established after the last ice age ended. It might have even existed then...I don't know my late Pleistocene LA Basin rainfall that well, although I think it might have been higher. So yeah, this is a natural phenomenon. It's due to the wind, the climate, and the growht of vegetation. And yea, Yellowstone usually has a fire that large every few hundred years, although I think that there was something interesting about that fire in that it moved more quickly than most of them...because humans had been keeping smaller fires from burning off some of the underbrush for the better part of a century, there was a surplus of kindling built up compared to what is usually there. That allowed the fire to spread more quickly than usual, so it basically just raced through the park and killed trees, when previous fires had a tendency to more fully consume the fuel from the older trees that they killed.

QUOTE(jackie hayes @ Sep 30, 2005 -> 12:09 PM) Is everyone taking it as a given that Willie's on the roster? I think he should be #1 in line for the extra roster spot created by going from 12 pitchers to 11...for 1 simple reason...Dave Roberts.

Here's a shocker...Tom Delay's lying to us.

QUOTE(kyyle23 @ Sep 30, 2005 -> 11:27 AM) They just seem to pop up and completely envelope California when they happen. Pretty scary stuff. I wonder how the insurance premiums work for this sort of stuff that is beyond your control. They seem to pop up for 1 very good reason...the weather. In the late fall, California tends to get large, high pressure airmasses that form up in the high deserts - the Mojave, etc. These things can sit up there, and the air from them starts pushing itself south towards the lower pressure areas in the valleys, the L.A. basin, etc. So what happens is you have a lot of dry air moving from the deserts south and west into the valleys and the basins. This sets up your classic tinderbox...the air and heat dry out plants, then when something does ignite, the dry air just feeds it. Out here they call it the Santa Ana wind. This year has a chance to be particularly bad, because of all the rain this area got last winter. It got so much rain that it fed a lot of plant growth during the rainy season, and then all those plants got to spend the summer drying out. There's a ton of brush up in those mountains that has the potential to burn off this year if the winds stay favorable.

If anyone wants to try to figure out what sort of case Earle is actually going to be bringing against Delay, this piece is probably a good primer. The consensus opinion right now seems to be th at Earle wouldn't have enough to get Delay indicted unless one of Delay's aides, who are also facing prosecution, had flipped and agreed to testify against the exterminator.