I left work yesterday not knowing the outcome of the Yankees-Padres game, but as I tuned into WFAN during the evening drive I began to think something remarkable happened earlier in the afternoon at Yankee Stadium.
Yankee fan after Yankee fan continued to call and offer praise for Joba Chamberlain’s masterful pitching performance. My initial thought was: no hitter? Boy, was I off on that one!
The way these people were talking, one would think Joba just pulled off something that has never happened in New York Mets’ history, something that only Jon Lester has done this season.
Moments later via the 20-20 update, I learned that Joba did indeed do something remarkable. He pitched 5.2 innings of one-run ball and needed just over 100 pitches to do it. Wow.
To all those drinking the Joba-Girardi Kool-Aid, relax. Let me put this in perspective for you. Oliver Perez went SIX innings on Wednesday night against the Angels, and we all know what a stud he can be at times. So I wouldn't exactly call any starting performance that ends after 5.2 innings masterful. Statistically, Joba didn't even qualify for a "quality start." How can something that isn't even considered quality be brilliant by any means?
Yankee fan after Yankee fan continued to call and offer praise for Joba Chamberlain’s masterful pitching performance. My initial thought was: no hitter? Boy, was I off on that one!
The way these people were talking, one would think Joba just pulled off something that has never happened in New York Mets’ history, something that only Jon Lester has done this season.
Moments later via the 20-20 update, I learned that Joba did indeed do something remarkable. He pitched 5.2 innings of one-run ball and needed just over 100 pitches to do it. Wow.
To all those drinking the Joba-Girardi Kool-Aid, relax. Let me put this in perspective for you. Oliver Perez went SIX innings on Wednesday night against the Angels, and we all know what a stud he can be at times. So I wouldn't exactly call any starting performance that ends after 5.2 innings masterful. Statistically, Joba didn't even qualify for a "quality start." How can something that isn't even considered quality be brilliant by any means?
To be fair to Joba, he is improving. His 5.2 innings of one-run ball yesterday trump his final collegiate effort for Nebraska when Manhattan College’s Matt Rizzotti and John Fitzpatrick ripped back-to-back jacks off Joba on the way to sending the future Yankees starter to a 4-1 home loss in the opening game of the 2006 NCAA Lincoln Regional.
I, as every other fan in baseball, would love to have Joba on my favorite team’s roster, but let’s not anoint him as the next Jimmy Key just yet.
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With gasoline at $4/gallon and diesel (used to power engines that bring food to our grocery stores) at $5/gallon, Americans are suffering at the pump.
With gasoline at $4/gallon and diesel (used to power engines that bring food to our grocery stores) at $5/gallon, Americans are suffering at the pump.
Both presumptive presidential nominees are touring the nation, campaigning and sucking up fossil fuels along the way, but only one man has yet to provide a solution to curb the current energy crisis.
Senator John McCain (R) recently called for lifting the ban on Outer Continental Shelf drilling, which will allow us to take advantage of the resources that lie off our coast. It will give us access to the same resources that China is currently sucking up thanks to Cuba’s allowance to let the Chinese drill in the Gulf.
Senator Barack Obama (D) staunchly opposes lifting the ban and claims that America must focus on finding new sources of renewable energy.
Obama’s point is well-taken, but narrow-minded.
It is undoubtedly time to sincerely develop alternative sources of energy that will eventually eliminate our dependence on fossil fuels, but that will take time. Even when the world is able to mass produce a car that runs on water or hydrogen, time will be needed to phase in the new way of life. One can’t expect millions of gasoline-burning cars and thousands of diesel trucks to disappear instantaneously.
While we develop our plan for the future, we have to address “the now.” Now, a number of Americans are struggling to get to work and to feed their families. These hard-working folks deserve relief, and they deserve it now. Drill Here. Drill Now. Pay Less.
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But even offshore drilling will not be have any effect in the near term on gas prices. It will be years down the line before offshore drilling could potentially have any effect on oil supply.
I'm afraid you are missing the main point. Action is needed now, and putting more oil on the world market can only help whether it is one week down the line or two years down the road. Sitting and waiting for a miracle to unfold will get us nowhere. I'd rather have relief to look forward to in two years than face even higher prices in the future. Plus I have to think that modern technologies will allow for a much shorter turn around time that pessimists may project.
The estimates that I'm familiar with predict average waits of 10 years or more before off-shore drilling oil enters the market.
Meanwhile, Honda recently announced that they have completed production on their first hydrogen fuel cell car.
My point being that there really isn't much that the government can do in the short-term to lower fuel prices short of imposing price caps. The short run supply of oil is inelastic, and so all that can be done is to affect demand.
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