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This may sound like an ignorant n00bish sort of question but it's never a situation I've had to think about. If you have an infant/toddler/child less than 2 years old, does the baby need a ticket or can they just go in on your lap like on a plane? I've never brought a baby to the Cell, or to any baseball game for that matter. I ask because I used to work at public venues like that before and babies needed to have a ticket to be accounted like all other people for to keep up with the fire code or something like that, but I'm not sure where that applies to.

At least Cabrera let him get half an at-bat in there.

QUOTE (JFields27 @ May 9, 2008 -> 11:18 PM) he just came back from an injury so he hasnt had that much time to work it down Ah gotcha Last year, he was like Dennis Eckersley good. It was almost impossible for him to be any better.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ May 9, 2008 -> 11:17 PM) Just got home. Did Jose look as good as his line suggests? He had a couple bouts of wildness, but for the most part he dictated what he wanted to do. It helps that the M's offense sucks right now.

Damn, J.J. Putz has a 7.5 ERA? How'd that happen? At this time last year his ERA looked like a WHIP. And a pretty damn good WHIP at that.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ May 10, 2008 -> 12:07 AM) Jermaine is feelin' it right now. Jermaine just needs to never take any more than 2 games in a row off, ever. It takes him forever to find that rhythm. But when he does watch the hell out.

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 10, 2008 -> 12:04 AM) The bullpen better not blow this for Jose. How many pitches has he thrown? 98. Time to come out

I'm ecstatic about us having the "really good" version of Jose Contreras and not the "OMG let's hold hands and pray that we can dupe somebody into taking on this disgusting contract" version.

Man I am happy we have Good Contreras right now.

Swisher did excel from the start though... he just recently started to suck. He really hasn't been slumping that long, the fact that it's May 10th is what brings his average so far down.

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 9, 2008 -> 11:51 PM) It's Anderson time. Seriously. Quentin, Anderson, Dye should be our OF. Trade Swish for prospects. That's pretty drastic. IMO if all goes well the OF will eventually be Swisher-Anderson-Quentin.

Anderson's Catch edit: ok didn't quite do what I was trying to do, but it's in there.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 9, 2008 -> 03:37 PM) Jose will then strike out the next 27 batters. Correction - halfway through the game he will strike out a guy who will reach base on a passed ball. So he will actually strike out 28 batters.

That's encouraging.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 9, 2008 -> 03:53 PM) If he wants to run a different type of campaign, then he ought to be willing to say that being hard on terror at any and all costs isn't always a bad thing, otherwise we'd have bombed Northern Ireland in to the ground. This exact issue you bring up is part of the problem. You can't win the argument if you get sucked in to accepting that it's a bad thing to negotiate with bad people and that because people are bad they should be killed without regard to any of the situation. The problem isn't the answer to the "does this make Obama soft on terror, yes or no" question, the problem is that the question itself is fundamentally flawed. You touched on what I was about to say. Terrorism is not some monolithic world movement that you can just stamp out all at once. When you think about it, if he really believes what he's saying (which I don't, I think he is just trying to appeal to the lowest common denominator of the right wing because he doesn't understand the problem enough to get down in the weeds like that) then it's a self-destructive line of thinking. In effect he is saying "Hamas doesn't hate Obama enough, either Obama needs to change his policy to something less desirable to strengthen their resolve or he is soft on terror and/or a Hamas sympathizer. But in any case the last thing we'd want to be seen is cooperative, even if it's making progress! That's a danger sign!" Plus, wasn't the prevailing conservative opinion before the war "who cares about our image abroad, we do what we need to do" (the fact that everyone who was concerned about that would turn out to be right and the terrorists get stronger notwithstanding). Why should we care now then?

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ May 9, 2008 -> 04:19 PM) I was thinking that too. She hasn't pulled back the negative stuff at all as far as I can tell, whereas Obama has just stopped talking much about Clinton. That, and the overness, are doing it. So I'll stick with my earlier prediction. Obama takes the superdelegate lead by the WV primary Tuesday (probably makes a nice announcement of some kind Monday), at which point he will lead in pledged delegates by about 150, in popular vote by hundreds of thousands, in states won, and finally, in superdelegates. That leaves pretty much nothing that Clinton leads in, except snide remarks and talking to crowds of adults like they are 12-year-olds. Letterman said she is leading in the state of denial though.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 9, 2008 -> 01:03 PM) It's not that. It's that if she can get the "Uncommitted" block from Michigan to go uncommitted while she gets the fully pledge block, that's a 100-0 or so shift in her favor. Which is absolutely ridiculous, but it's the only way she can call herself back in the race, to count everything in Michigan that went for her as going for her and give Obama absolutely nothing. How bout this then. Give her the difference in delegates between votes for her and votes for "uncommitted" which will be a handful, and give Obama nothing. Because essentially almost half of Michigan Democrats had the chance to vote for her as opposed to nobody else but instead voted "anybody but Clinton" so hey, why shouldn't they just cancel the other votes out since they don't count for anybody else?

I don't know why Hillary is trying to prevent Michigan's delegates from being seated.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ May 9, 2008 -> 10:43 AM) I have the chance to watch a couple games of the Seattle series. WGN has the game on Saturday night and Sunday it's on FOXRocky Mountain, which carries Seattle games in my area. I hate the Seattle announcers though There are actually times when I prefer the other team's homer announcers over Hawk and DJ. Individually, they both have redeeming qualities about them, especially Hawk. But together, they are probably the worst duo in all of baseball.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ May 9, 2008 -> 10:55 AM) DCW is pretty solid since they have a link to every single endorsement. Nice.

Every media source keeps their track of superdelegates differently because it's not like there is an official list or scoreboard with everybody's name on it. They just go off what was said in public or what have you so there is margin for error. I've been following mainly CNN's delegate count since the beginning and they have Clinton +7.

QUOTE (kyyle23 @ May 9, 2008 -> 09:22 AM) Baltimore owns him. They did the same thing to him at the Cell His ERA against them is like 9 which I didn't even realize. I remember saying to my friend "you guys don't want to see Jenks so you need to score now" and he goes "yeah yeah you said that last time."

QUOTE (YASNY @ May 9, 2008 -> 09:03 AM) Ok, good point. He may have thought Boone needed some work. I don't know. He did have Bobby in the pen if he needed him, and that's the part that didn't work out. See edit: I mis-remembered. Ozzie isn't THAT crazy. But I was just upset he only faced one guy. The only hitter on that team I'd treat like that is Markakis, but I think it was Millar he was pitching to since Markakis had just homered. Millar does not scare me at all. But Luke Scott is after Millar and while Scott was hot at the time it's still a lefty-lefty matchup. I just didn't get it. I also recall some untimely errors late in the game too that didn't help Bobby much. But yeah that was still on Bobby in the end, Camden Yards owns him.

QUOTE (YASNY @ May 9, 2008 -> 08:49 AM) So Ozzie's supposed to foresee that Boone can't throw a strike and Bobby would blow a save? Why take out Thornton after facing one batter to replace him with another lefty? Thornton is not a LOOGY and he gave no reason to be pulled. It made no sense at all. edit: I'm looking at the box score to make sure I had the facts straight since I can't call minute details like that - Thornton threw 4 pitches but it still was a K, also I can't remember what inning it was he threw in and now I'm pretty sure it was Dotel and not Logan that relieved him, Logan pitched in extras I think. But I still had a sour taste in my mouth after that game.

Well there was the time in Baltimore, when I was at the game, he had Matt Thornton relieve Floyd. I get up to go to the bathroom, I come back to find out he struck out whoever he was facing on three pitches and see Boone coming in from the bullpen. Boone proceeds to implode as he apparently temporarily forgot what a strike zone was, and they end up losing the game after Bobby blows the save. Ultimately that's on Bobby, but those are the kinds of things Ozzie does that piss me off.