dan uggla third. west, six innings, four-hit baseball, did not give up a run. walked three, struck out two. one wild pitch and he led the florida marlins by pitching them to the 11-3 victory over the orioles. that's the story. we'll talk about rich hill when we come back as we continue our coverage of the orioles right here on masn in just a moment. announcer: this is giampaolo. he told us he wanted a laptop with... portability, battery life and power... announcer: for under $1500. we told him you find it, you keep it. this is so sexy. but macs to me are about aesthetics more than they are the computing power. the keyboard is small. that thing is gigantic. it's got four gigs of ram. it's got the processing speed that i need. this laptop has got everything i want. ah! announcer: nice work, g. it's a pc. my budget was $1,500. this computer will do everything that i need. i'm a pc because i'm really picky. >> care first blue cross blue shield cares about our kids in the community especially their health that's why they give a donation for every k in the season. th

here is dan meyer who is looking for his first professional save. majors or minors. >> buck: yep, he has not had a save and obviously been on the d. l. fredi gonzalez the manager of the marlins says he's going to use a combination of guess to close out games. right now, he's called upon dan meyer. meyer worked in the game last night. came in the ballgame in the eighth inning with a man aboard. gave up a base hit to the pinch- hitter oscar salazar, then got brian roberts to hit into a 5-4- 3 double play and struck out nick markakis. >> jim: meyer has finished three games on the year, but they were nonsave situations. if you're going to get a guy in there for his first professional save attempt, having a three-run lead is a good way to do it. the orioles do it in back-to- back games coming about a with three in the ninth inning. ball two. melvin a good night at the plate. a couple of hits and an -- and an rbi. now hit in a couple of straight games. 4-11 last. there's a strike. melvin taking all the way. >> buck: at the top of the strike zone, obviousl

. >> bob:  bases empty, two o ryan zimmerman coming up against dan wheeler. 3-3 the score here. you can watch nationals.com on your iphone. you can dial up number 35 dan wheeler, 31-year-old right hander, third year with the rays, split time between houston here in 2007 and then 70 important games for them last year with a 3.122 3.12 e.r.a. and 13 saves. he was a very important part of the bullpen last year. the rays got him from houston for ty wigginton just before the trading deadline in july of 2007. fastball outside. i wonder what duane stats, the tv announcer for the rays had to say about that pitch outside. dan wheeler is his son-in-law. >> rob: he has only allowed 7 hits and 3 runs in his last 10 outings, and three walks. >> bob: there is a good fastball. outer half. 1-2 to zimmerman. ryan 1-for-3 with a base hit up the middle tonight. top of the 7th, the nats have not had a hit since the 4th. and they have had only three since the four-hit 1st inning when they scored all three of their runs. >> rob: and if you don't have overpowering stuff which wheeler never has, you pe

dan uggla had a two-run home run, a single and a couple of rbi's. rich hill was roughed up tonight over his 4 1/3. six inning runs -- six earned runs. he had three -- six strikeouts. three came in the first inning as he struck out the side all swinging. chris ray comes out of the bullpen after mark hendrickson did a nice job pitching 1 2/3 innings and struck out one and hit a batter. now ray will try to follow him and val have the same kind of success shutting down this marlin team. it the orioles miss another opportunity to get on the board. now nine men left on base through seven at-bats. here is bonifacio. he'll bat from the left side. hanley ramirez and cantu will follow. slapped foul out in the crowd. 12,822 attendance tonight. bonifacio struck out, he fliedout and laid down a sacrifice bunt. fouls it back again. chris ray back with the team. his second appearance. he got into the game on tuesday night and looked very good. that was the game the marlins eventually won in 1 innings. pitched 1 1/3 innings scoreless. check the swing. no swing says

the marlins made a big mistake in dan uggla -- and dan uggla is the guy.e drives what he thinks is an rbi base hit into right field. now, watch uggla. recollection in at first base and gives up on the play. great throw nails the runner at the plate. hermida is out. on that play, uggla has got to be at second base. he has got no where else to go. if he breaks to second base, they might try to cut that ball off and not even have a play on hermida, but because he was at first base when cody ross hit the ball out of the ballpark on the ground ruled double beings he couldn't score. >> jim: how often do you see three straight hits, three of those doubles no, double play involved in the inning and no runs. >> buck: yeah, that just cost you. you can't play like that and expect to win a division or get into the postseason. you just gave a runaway right there. >> jim: instead of it being at least a 4-2 game, orioles still down by a run. here is wieters. tough night at the plate, 0-2 with a couple of strikeouts. nolasco stays on. he has struck out seven. his spot wil

now they'll pass cantu and take their chances with a slumping dan uggla.ou don't want it to go to 2-0, then feel like you have to throw one over the plate to this guy. he could make it 5-2 in a hurry.   >> bob: dan uggla, two strikeouts and a grounder. 0 for 3 tonight. dan uggla coming in batting just .225. with his 0 for 3 tonight, 2 for his last 13. but an all or nothing hitter who can put one over the scoreboard if you make a mistake. he's hit -- he's hit 15 home runs. tavarez turns and faces the runner. he throws that breaking ball about a foot outside. he had hanley ramirez retreating and the hitter getting a little nervous.   he took a little bit off. wil nieves, second good block of the inning. >> rob: look at that chest protector. he's loaded and ready for battle. great block by wil nieves. you see him leaning forward. play it off your chest. >> bob: he's played flawless defense lately. threw out a runner earlier tonight. >> rob: the elongated catcher's mask. throat guard, after steve yeager wa

reaches out. 31-year-old dan wheeler, second year with tampa bay.season. 70 games last year. 70 the year before, two-thirds at houston before coming here. he's a guy that likes to get the ball several times a week. patterson reaching on a two strike pitch. misjudging it. kapler is everywhere. [cheering and applause] >> bob: 25,481 here at tropicana field. they had a big crowd last night for the ludacris concert. that first number they did was something. it's the only one i heard. >> rob: after that you were deafened. >> bob: what? what? what? bases empty, gonzalez with two batted in. he goes out of his zone to foul this one. 75,000 for the pregame series here. on a breaking ball, gonzalez reaching. the nats can't do anything against the tampa bay bullpen this weekend. s on. - it's on. - ( music playing throughout ) - it's on. - oh, it's on, all right. - it's on. - totally on. jimmy, it's on. - it's on. - oh, yeah, it's on. affirmative, it's on. announcer: southwest airlines announces new service out of bwi airport, with three daily nonstop flights t

my name is dan mornoff, president of the dallas chapter of the federalist society. i'm glad you've been able to join us for what i think and certainly hope you'll agree is a timely and well, i hope you agree interesting event. the genesis for this event was may 1 announcement by justice souter, or as i like to call him, the jus tits who should have been edith jones, that he's resigning if the supreme court. he's been serving since 1990. that makes him the fourth longest serving member of the current court, which helps to drive home that in this particular job, the expression lifetime tenure is often literal. that does also draw home how important the members of the court are and when on may 26, president obama nominated judge sotomayor from the second circuit exeal to -- court of appeals to replace him on the supreme court that gave us some focus as to what exactly a justice sotomayor might be like, what the confirmation process for her would be like and what this would mean for the future of the court. fortunately, we have with us a guest who is in from washington

. >> buck: dan myers comes on here and that will allow him to make as many pitches necessary to get loose. he has been a good pitcher for fredi gonzalez in this bullpen. he came out of the o's -- a's organization and they picked him up on wafers as they needed to add depth to the left-hand said of their bullpen and he fit the bill. >> jim: oscar sal la star is going do pitch pinch hit for felix pie. because of the pitching change, pie will be lifted for sal la star as the orioles are run out of time here trying to get back in here. >> buck: what a good pinch hitter sal la star has been with andino at first base. he'll come here and try to keep this rally going a lead-off home run, base hit, nobody out. salazar will pinch hit for felix pie who technically took over defensively in the second inning. >> jim: so salazar will bat and andino is on at first base and still nobody down. they had a five-run bottom of the seventh and the orioles are trying to get back in it here in the eighth. dan meyer was originally drafted by the braves and made his way to oakland as buck mentioned and the marlin

dan uggla has tied the game asolo home run, and we are even at 1-1. well, he is 2-2 -- excuse me, two of the three hits and now he has tied the game with his 14th home run. >> buck: this is the same pitch that cantu hit for a double. it ask a splitter. watch how he takes that top hand off and really drives that pitch that is down. it is down and out over the plate where uggla can really go and get it, extend his arms and drive it out of the ballpark. we mentioned he is the power guy, the bottom of this order. that is his hth and he has tied it up. >> jim: cody ross takes it outside. uehara had four leading up to his stint on the d.l. and two since coming back. off-speed pitch for a strike. 1-1 on cody ross. so the seventh home run on the year now allowed by uehara. high pop foul that will be back in the seats. the count to 1-2. a very sparse crowd here in miami, and the weather really hurts the marlins' hainses of getting any kind of a walk-up because you're just not certain the game is going to be played. >> buck: yes, and their drawing area is proba

dan uggla one of the main stais here in florida. we mentioned this roster continues to turn over.eason now 29 years old. they develop players very well and give them a chaps. as soon as any of the players get -- and give them chance. as soon as any of the players get to a point where they make too much money, they look to replace them. their hope is when they get their new stadium, that things will turn around. the problem is that stadium won't be ready till 2012. they still have two more years here. there's the prototype. the retractible roof which in this climate as we've seen the last couple of days will definitely be a benefit. 2-2 on uggla. sharply hit foul. >> buck: yeah, it might create a new revenue stream for this ball club. more than anything, it gives the fans the ability to know there's going to be a game played without any interruption. they have a very widespread fan base and people can come from west palm beach north and down in the keys to the south and the stadium will be in scown town miami at the site of the old original bowl. it will be a more centrally located

it came off the bat of dan uggla. he scared up on it.own in the zone split and it was the lead-off at-bat in the fifth inning and that made it 1-1 and uggla's 14th home run of the season. at that point we had a heck of a pitchers' duel. >> jim: here is leo nunez coming on to relieve andrew miller who is the pitcher of record on the winning side. >> buck: nunez has done a great job. he was assigned -- signed originally by the pirates. he has been a good addition to this bullpen, which is anchored by matt lindstrom, the big hard throwing right-hander. >> jim: wieters and pie here for the orioles who now trail by five. wieters has ground out and struck out. the orioles after winning three in a row? philadelphia to begin this road trip now trail by five in the eighth inning and the opener here in florida. >> buck: it is really pretty academic. you get one hit and the ances are you're going to. >> ji cieters a high fly ball toleft field. back on it is coghlan and that ball is gone! matt going the op ere is his second big league home run and t

host: we want to welcome dan blumenthal with the american enterprise institute. a couple of weeks ago you had this in the "the washington post," "what to do about north korea." this is before the developments over the last couple of days. you said that we would support military action against north korea missiles and missile sites if we had prepared ourselves over the past few years to protect our allies against possible north korean retaliation. can you elaborate? guest: well, yes. we referred to what former secretary of defense perry and current undersecretary of defense ashton carter had written in the washington post a few years ago. right before a missile launch by the north koreans. and they advocated a strike we basically took the position that that would not be responsible right now because of the retaliation that the north koreans could take if we did strike them. host: i want to share with you and with our audience one of the many photographs from the "baltimore sun." it's an a.p. photo in south korea as they watch the news developments of two u.s. citi

here is dan uggla, the second baseman.  dan uggla batting in the spot. he's 3-15 last, however, 2-3 hits home runs. >> buck: he's kind of an all or knot nothing guy hitting .217 with 14 bombs. he and hanley ramirez homered in the same gaft lamb night for the -- game last night for the 14th time this year. >> jim: berken deals high. you don't hear as much about dan uggla when you hear about power hitting second baseman. since 2006, he has 104 home runs more than any other second baseman in the big leagues. popped up foul. back of the plate. >> buck: he has some pop. he is a guy that's always thinking about something on the i be inner -- inner half drifg drilling it to the left side of the diamond. he has had his troubles this year witness the .217 batting average. >> jim: on the marlins last road trip, he homered at fenway park. the 20th different ballpark he's hit a home run in. there's a good-looking breaking ball for a called strike. here -- here is his home run last night against koji uehara. >> buck: koji uehara up 1-0, 0- 2 breaking pitch does

cunningham out of washington state, made his major league debut last year, acquired in the dan haren deal with the diamondbacks. he appeared in 22 games, first 22 ever at the major league level last season. 0-1 pitch to him, swung on and miss. his fifth professional season. giambi on at first base. slideer will miss outside and a 1 ball, 2 strikes count. >> buck: cunningham signed with the white sox and was traded to arizona in a deal that brought the white sox danny rishaw. later, he was traded to oakland. that was that great trade that landed the diamondbacks dan haren. >> gary: 2 balls, 2 strikes count. orioles are facing their third loss in a row if they do not come back in this ballgame. 2-2. ripped hard to short, andino. there is one, relay and a double play. what a play by andino to kick that one off at short and get out of the inning. that's just a great hit and a quick turn by brian roberts.  ♪ ♪ who's watching? ♪ tell me who's watching. (muffled music) ♪ who's watching... (announcer) it's right here. it's easy. ♪ i always feel like somebody's watching me. ♪ it's the mone

dan wheeler throwing. >> rob: dan wheeler played with houston, atlanta. now helped them go to the world series. >> bob: this is a bullpen by committee. randy cate, howell, the lefty had two. troy percival had 6 early. that's a fastball outside. 2-2. on the field here in st. pete. >> rob: talking about public health care, i'm sure, nuclear problems in north korea. >> bob: anderson hernandez hits it off the end of the bat and pops it up. serious bullpen questions. they will solve all of our problems down there, i promise you. ♪ ♪ i always feel like somebody's watching me. ♪ (announcer) it's right here, it's easy... ♪ always feel like mebody's watching me. ♪ ...it's the money you could be saving with geico. ♪ who's watching? ♪ i always feel like (announcer) it's right here, it's easy... ♪ somebody's watching me. ...it's the money you could be saving with geico. . >> bob: how is your fi start at the major league level going right now? i i will craig stammen has been amazing, against the best offense in the american league, he has five strikeouts on th

dan uggla thinks he'll take extra base on elijah dukes and elijah guns him down. cristian guzman quickly beat. great slow throw, but nick johnson on the other end that's good job squeezing that out of the dirt. a great 1-2-3 inning last inning. most it it -- most of it by the defense. >> bob: that ball is coming back fair. zimmerman on the run. he throws out john baker proving you never gup on a foul ball. if it comes back fair before it reaches the bag, it's flaibl. how about the english on this thing. oops. >> rob: looks like he fell coming out of the box. great job by zim on the throw. >> bob: sean west, the pitcher up thee. left-handed pitcher, right- handed hitter. he's 0-10 with eight strikeouts. >> rob: a rare combination. >> bob: thanks to that quick out, stammen could be facing the top of the order here very quickly in the third. and the pitcher helps out on ball two by neighboring strike @two. chris coghlan next.   >> bob: he managed to g piece of it. phillies opening a series in atlanta tonight lea

then, dan uggla same type of swing, same position on the bat barrel right in the sweet spot. he drives his 15 lt home run out. also a two-run home run. that came in the third. >> jim: mark hendrickson came on and got the final two outs in thiveth -- fifth. he stays on. 6-0, florida. orioles are having a difficult time grouping their hits. they've had base runners in every inning. they have stranded seven men on. thefd they had eight base runners, seven left on and one erased on the double play by wieters that ened the inning. fine play up the middle by hanley ramirez. bounce to short. andino waits on the hop. he gets it to first. ross retired, one away. florida is hot. they've won four in a row in 8- 11. they're thriving in these interleague games. they sure love playing the orioles. they are 5 15-5 all time against the orioles. brett carroll, the right fielder, takes one in the dirt. the difference in the division you play in is huge. marlins are one above .500, two games out of first place. they're in third place in the east. phillies have a game and a half lead on the mets

. >> jim: one dunn and here is dan uggla who has had a big night.e was trying to end it there and he swings through the fastball. >> buck: a little tardy. 96 upstairs. tough to catch up on, but he is always a threat, obviously, with the solo home run, 14th on a low splitter off of uehara. that came in the five-run fifth inning and that got it started. >> jim: the fastball backs him away. 1-1 the count on dan uggla. 29 years old now. he was a rule five draft pick from arizona for the 2006 season. the marlins' scouting department did a wonderful job with that. a good looking ball. 1-2. >> buck: that's one thing jim johnson wanted to improve upon way back in the spring was taking the hump out of -- the ump out of his breaking ball. he has done that. the ball comes it of his hand at the same angle as his fastball. it is very difficult to pick up on it if you're a hitter. >> jim: there is the 1-2. another breaking ball. he swings on it and misses. a good call there by gregg zaun. he saw the reaction on the previous pitch and went right back to it and joh

dan uggla now with two down and a runner at third. uggla singled and scored in the second inning. he was on base when cody ross hit it out. this ball is drilled deep to left. back it goes and it is gone. all of a sudden now, it is a 5- 0 marlin lead before coming in on two swings. rich hill having a tough night. >> buck: we mentioned ease done a pretty good job of keeping the ball in the ballpark, but a first-pitch fastball just oust -- just out over the plate. uggla use that great power and hits it off the back wall above the orange seats over the scoreboard in left. his second home run in this series. he's done a pretty good job of sitting on pitches and hitting them pretty hard. 15th home run of the season now. he, too, has 45 rbi's. >> jim: rich hill one home run allowed in his first seven starts. two home runs aloud in 2 2/3 innings tonight. the marlins now a quick 5-0 lead. that's in the dirt. paulino flied out to deep center field his first at-bat if not for where he hit it that ball might have gone out, but he hit it to the deepest part of the ballpark. he goes from .404 t

and for cleanup is dan blumenthal who's a resident fellow here in aei in asian studies. dan was the senior director in the office of secretary of defense for the office handling china, taiwan and mongolian affairs and is a long time serving member on the u.s.-china economic and security commission. since we only have about an hour, i've asked our panelists to speak for about eight minutes, which should leave us plenty of time for follow-up questions and discussion. but again, as danny said when we do turn to questions, please identify yourself and try to make it a question. so if that is an introduction, susan, you're up. >> good morning. i'm pleased to be here with a distinguished panel and certainly with the american enterprise institute, a private sector perspective on defense and security cooperation. having just returned from india this past weekend i can attest to the growing importance of u.s.-india discussions with respect to indian industry and an indian industry both including the public sector undertakings the psus as well as the enterprise to deal with the mu

their power on the infield comes from their second baseman dan uggla and this guy. shabby either, although he recently just had a 100 at-bat streak of no home runs. that was snapped on sunday. >> jim: hanley ramirez grounded out his first at-bat and he takes the pitch outside. 1-07. >> buck: pretty impressive talent here, hanley ramirez. 2006 rookie of the year and 2008 national league all-star. he scored 125 runs last year the lead the national league. >> jim: there is a line drive and huff has it and a soft line drive and two men down a good pitch by uehara and the liner to huff for the out. >> buck: i tell you what, defense better be on their toes. everybody is swinging early in these at-bats and this pitch looked like it was right off the end of the bat. it looked like a splitter. you can see how big swing hanley ramirez hits it right off the end of the back a humpback liner to the first baseman. >> jim: you can see the pitch efficiency. he is already through three and 2/3. >> buck: it is interesting because the marlins have never faced uehara and they are not r

there's a strike to dan uggla. that's six in a row retired by berken. uggla struck out his first at- bat. he couldn't check his swing on a breaking ball that broke out of the strike zone. jason berken has allowed two home runs over his first five spots, so he's showing the ability to keep the ball in the -- the ball in the ballpark. that breaking ball missed inside. curtis granderson of the tigers has a home run and yunel escobar of the braves has the other. so, one lefty, one righty. 2-1 in the dirt. ball three. >> buck: that home run that granderson came in a very well- pitched game against the tigers when he was messed up -- matched up against ed win jackson. jackson pitched eight innings of two-hit ball and not much that jason could do against that effort. it was just one of those better ballgames of the entire season that came on the final sunday of the home stand before they went out west. berken with four hits, just a single run that. solo home run by curtis granderson, the only run he allowed in over seb seven innings. >> jim: ball one is too ti

head coach dan took over in midseason when the team was out of playoff contention and led them not only to the playoffs, but to a championship. and in winning the title, sydney crosby became the youngest captain to hoist the stanley cup in the 115-year history of the trophy. and as in all successful organizations, the leadership of the penguins starts at the top. the incomparable mario will now have his name engraved on the stanley cup for the third time, this time as team owner. just as he did when he came into the league as a player, mario took control of a franchise threatened by bankruptcy and relocation. by from that he built a championship team that leads the league in television ratings, merchandise sales and sellouts. yes, madam speaker, these penguins can fly. congratulations go out to the entire organization for completing the hat trick of champions, winning their third straight -- third stanley cub. the 2009 pittsburgh penguins have earned their well-deserved place alongside the greatest sports legends in the city of champion shs -- champions. i yield back the balance of my t

dan uggla the second baseman. cross, john baker and ricky nolasco. >> buck: time for the scouting report for the right-hander jason berken. two fastballs, curve ball, slider and a changeup. age is everything for him. he's got to pitch at a downhill angle. it really makes the fastball deceptive to the hitters and makes his breaking ball that much bemplt he's got to be aggressive in getting his breaking balls over in fastball counts. >> jim: fastball misses josh smith outside to chris coghlan, 1-0. coghlan playing in left field. he has earned a job every day in the lineup. just 24. he's a rookie. takes outside, ball two. >> buck: those first two pitches are a perfect example of what i'm talking about of not creating the angle. he got underneath the fastball staying up in a dangerous part of the plate. up out over the plate. that's a better angle, but still out of the strike zone. what we mean by creating an angle is you throw a high to low angle so the batter can't seat baseball straight out of your hand. whether yo

from that day in february 1996 until today i have -- not a syllable from dan rather. so the point is that they don't take criticism well. they need to be able to take criticism better than they do because their survival depends on it. mine does not, i am doing quite well, they are not doing well at all. [applause] and the second part, are there any liberals to speak up? peter jennings may he rest in peace did if knowledge and i believe it was a boston globe interview some time ago that we tend to give surly more time to liberal voices than conservative voices, but he went further and acknowledged that. we sometimes shortchange year ago but then he would say the next day something that indicates he didn't think there was a liberal bias so i did not know how he felt but i will tell you the best one by far. you said liberal journalists -- i don't know if he was a liberal journalist, that is how good he was in may he rest in peace two -- tim russert. [applause] because tim russert when i wrote "bias" and, you see i have no constitutional right to be on anybody's tv show o

. >> jim: dan uggla bats now. uggla moves up one spot with jeremy hermida not in the lineup. gets a fastball 1-0. uggla now in his fourth season with the marlins coming -- he already has 14 this year. he's 4-8 in the series including a home run. inside, ball three. >> buck: pretty good pitch just missed away. rich hill thought he hadmate made a good pitch with that fastball. >> jim: john hirschbeck the crew chief takes the plate. there's a flake -- if it was in the vicinity, it would be a strike. noafts as much a pitcher's up pier as he was earlier -- earlier in his career. 3-1 is there for a strike in the outside corner. 3-2. >> buck: this is one thing rich hill did necessary his laststart well. he made in-game adjustments. middle of an inning, he fawltz falls behind 3-0. gets back into a count with two good fastballs. >> jim: breaking ball hit through the middle. there's a base hit. marlins have their first base runner. >> buck: dan uggla made up his mind he was going to get a hook right there. you can see he wasn't thinking about anything but a curve ball. he has two strik

the words just spoken were the words of the former attorney general of california, dan lungren. i would suggest all of us read them with care in the congressional record. i'm proud to yield four minutes to my colleague, rodney frelinghuysen. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new jersey is recognized for four minutes. mr. frelinghuysen: madam speaker, thank you. i thank the gentleman for yielding. i rise in strong support of the motion to instruct conferees providing for supplemental appropriations for ongoing operations in afghanistan and iraq. my colleagues, i support the portion of these instruction that is would require the secretary of defense to certify if the release of photographs of detainees would endanger citizens of the u.s. or members of the armed services. we send our soldiers, sailors, marines, and airmen abroad to protect our security. we owe it to them to make sure we do not do anything that puts them in needless jeopardy. and i also strongly support the notion that we need to endorse a higher house funding levels for defense and military construction.

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dan meyer, a rather inexperienced closer. especially has one major league save. it's for the marlins this year. >> bob: it's possible he could get the first two hitters, then nunez could come in to face zimmerman because he's warming up. fredi gonzalez is mix and matching his bullpen here with matt lidstrom on the d.l. >> rob: he loves room service. >> bob: 27-year-old lefty. two games for atlanta in 04, oakland in 07-08. guzman flies one out of play. cristian guzman has to lay off of that pitch. he's not going to hit it out of the ballpark. the nats need him slashing ground balls and line drives. >> rob: don't help this kid. he's going to throw one chest high to you, let it go. >> bob: you don't need a home run to tie the game here. >> rob: need some base runners. you need at least one base runner to tie it up. >> bob: nick's been good against left-handers. then there's zimmerman. right side, and two, to the pitcher. the top of the order tonight, the top three hitters with nick johnson coming in, 0 for 11. in fact, nick's the only one hitting the ball out of the

my question is for dan and george, that border issue with japan and india.i wonder if you could comment on how that is shaping in the's security environment and the decisions going forward? >> i would put this in the larger context of latent and dormant indian concerns about china's rise and what it means within south asia as well as in the at's desire to play a greater role in southeast asia in particular, it is shaving regional institutions, and the economic activity as it, quote, looks east. there has been a long time suspension -- suspicion within india that china has been trying to way it down with -- continuing to keep the border issue, not as heightened in tension but festering and not resolved with incursions' in what india claims as its own borders and to keep speak to that issue sensitive and put pressure on the indians in terms of how much tibetans and the dollar llama can speak out. we saw this in the tibetan uprising, how much pressure was put on india to try -- it is hard to do this, to try to indians to put some claims on pakistan and south as

ground ball to zimmerman, he brings the glove up, makes a dan dandy play -- makes a dandy play. nearly throw it is away but nick johnson makes the play. nick johnson saved a disaster right there. i mean, you are looking at maybe a run throwing if that ball goes down the line. >> rob: there is a look right there. the base runner is going on contact. you see zim looking at the runner and then nick. nick, with his foot on the bag at the end there. >> bob: that will bring up crawford. >> rob: if that. >> bob: if that ball gets away from johnson, bringing yak might score. >> rob: and a runner out third. >> bob: at the barrier and he must have lost the ball in the lights or something. he flinched right at the end. never played in this ballpark before. and there are lights all up and down the roof here. watch him flinch. >> rob: right here at the end, loses the ball. >> bob: never saw it. >> rob: never saw it. don't want to take one in the face here. >> bob: sorry, folks, but this is a bad baseball park. the lights are too low and too close compared to most stadiums. that gets crawford

. >> dan: hardy sends mcgehee dob energy resources of the native americans and we talk about that inhe book. >> i worked with immigrants mostly from latin america. this is a group of people like my family who came here looking for work because either they were driven out of their homes by war or in an wismar recent time the economy is worse than ours. incredible disparities in wealth, historically a disposable group of people. how you see the green in economy affecting them? how you bring them justice for their work and labor and give them a voice and not continue the cycle of this possibility? >> well, he raised the point of the two sides of it having to do with the global economy, the fact that i think we got sold a bill of goods from the united states that we could run our economy based on consumption and not production. and so we sent a lot of jobs overseas and god bless some of those that got those jobs and some won't respected in those jobs, and we also saw the capital side and then on the labor sign -- labor side sought a situation where people are really the backbone of our e

thank you very much for inviting me here today and thank you, dan, for the kind introduction. it's always a pleasure for me to return to texas. as he mentioned, i clerked a little bit down the road in houston. it's wonderful to come back and have a chance to catch up with old friends and escape the summertime heat in washington, d.c. thank you very much for having me here today. what i thought i'd do is talk a little bit about president obama's -- the way he selected judge sotomayor to fill the souter vacancy and then talk about

>> gary: question for dan what do you think is contributing the offensive struggles adds of late. >> initially they ran into troubles. but more than anything right now there's just a little bit of an urgency at the approach at the plate. we haven't seen the orioles patient approach. we haven't seen them taking a lot of pitches and working the pitcher's counts. so we haven't seen the base on balls. early in the season hitting with strikes, runners in scoring position. becomes a collective issue for hitters when you're trying to get out of a slump. everybody's trying to do a little too much. >> gary: some of that comes from the other side. the pitching side too. you can't have these games where you're falling behind by six, seven, eight, nine runs early in the ball game and not have the hitters have that impact their efforts. it's not that it should be, but it's just human nature the shoulders go down, the head goes down with it. here we go again. already down 9-0 in the ball game. it's the 4th inning. that doesn't help. and then starts to squeeze. >> buck: on tuesday they fell behind

. >> johnny: the last x draft pick to go right to the major leagues and the answer isy danville i can't. >> rob: right from oklahoma state right to the bigs. >> johnny: 1985. hmm. jay bruce hitting from the left side. he walked and scored cincinnati's only run back in the second. for  he had some troubles re went 0-17. >> rob: it happens, he is a young kid. >> johnny: the longest drought of his career. >> rob: great power numbers but he is on bases and whatever. >> rob: you know what, if he has proved he can play at the minor league levels what are you gonna do, send him back down? >> johnny: 9 strikeouts in last 10 games, .091 batting average. >> rob: a very humbling sport. >> johnny: it certainly is. here is the 1-2 to detwiler. high fly to left field and adam dunn has a bead on this and dunn will be leading off for the nats when we come back. another one-two-three inning for ross detwiler. it is 1-0 cincinnati.  when a major hospital wanted to add on to their benefits package at no direct cost to the

there is not even the reason to buy the dan brown book i have the $8,000 rowboat which is involved with the burials at sea which goes out into the sea and sinks. i have septic tanks coming to septic tanks. [laughter] really, they're pretty interesting just like with a bad child and a good child and you bring them up and treated the same and they get all the same toys and you love them and you treat them as well as you can and nurse them and one will turn out great and one is just awful. zero i will not get into that. you had still have had brac this. -- breakfast. tattoos? this particular book has a guy and it is what is the marine corps motto? he has some provide down his leg and he has forever and it is more proof to our protagonist. now he can read this is america is crying need for more copy editors. [laughter] we have a you greedy and a body builder. wives? you do not want to start to especially someone may at misunderstood the book may be more autobiographical than it is but we will say one of them is at least 25 years more patient than the other. x rays are always bad news. yodel

. >> my name is dan, i'm with the council on foreign relations. i'm wondering in terms of india's trade relationships within the region, so we were talking about india, asean's, india's look-east policy, asean plus 3, what are the nature, what is the nature of those trade relationships? india has spoken about prosiding services and other countries being better at manufacturing and things like that. when india negotiates trade agreements with these other countries, are the trade agreements really, you know, sort of assisting with those comparative advantages? what is, what does the trade actually look like between india and these other countries? is -- and who's benefiting in what ways? >> india's largest trading partner in asia actually is china, but asean is getting big also. i sort of follow trade policies a lot more closely than i follow the actual goods and services being exported. the trade relationships in asia have grown very rapidly, so certainly there is huge scope for it to continue to grow, but other than that i'm not sure, you know, wh

you're dan bills ma. you heard what sidney crosby had to say. what else do you say to sid?i'll bring him in and say sidney we're here because of you. you've had an unbelievable year, and you're an unbelievable leader. i'm going to do everything in my power to keep you away from zetterberg, every chance i get. but if i can't, you've got to go out and outplay him, and outscore him. wee need that offense from you in this building in detroit. >> sidney crosby, a minus 3 in this series. let's flip the switch here. marian hose a, the top goal in the regular season. big goose egg so far. matthew barnaby, you're hose a. give me your game 7? >> i came here for one reason, to hoist that cup. i haven't been very good in the series. tomorrow i will be great. i will go to those areas to score. i will be physical, and be that dominant player you guys pick on your team. >> head coach mike babcock? >> i would look at marian and say, you're right. you haven't been good. >> i would show him a tape of him when he was great. he's a power forward. get your nose dirty, get the puck in the net. n

dan begin where he began on the national stage, 2004 in his keynote address at the democrats small --ocratic national convention. >> out of many, one. even as we speak, there are those who are preparing to divide us. spin masters, negative advertisements, inviting the politics of anything goes. i say to them tonight that there is not a liberal america and a conservative america, there is a united states of america. there is not a black america, white america, latino america, asia and america, there is only the united states of america. host: he used that same line in his speeches. guest: not his line, of course. but yes. there is a remarkable consistency in his message in his attempt to appeal to those well beyond the democratic party. independent voters were the ones that put him over the top in the general election in in iowa to begin with. as this administration moves forward and rolls out various policies, that group has grown. in addition to seeing him age, which is striking as you look at that video, the group of republicans that look at independent voters -- who have traditiona

[speaking french] and today, just as we remember the lives of the canned dan, french, american, british and other allied soldiers who lie beneath these sands, so we think of the courageous men and women of our alliance who serve shoulders to shoulder in oofing afghanistan to bring light to people who have only known darkness and despair. and we remember that our peace and prosperity have come not only with a price but also with an obligation to do what we can to share our good for tune with others, including those elsewhere who to this day endure violence, oppression, and deprivation. [speaking french] so let us resolve thai on behalf of our hon -- today on behalf of our honored veterans, on behalf of the heroic souls who came to liberate these shores to never forget, to never surrender, and to never waiver in our determination to defend freedom, to advance democracy, and to seek justice for all people. merci [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, the prime minister of grate britain, gordon -- great britain, gordon brown. >> 65 years ago, in the thin light of a gray dawn, more than a thous

. >> i know you said no comments, but i can't help, i am compelled to take issue with dan blumenthal's comment about designing things for export. as a company that lost one and a quarter billion dollars designing something for export that nobody wanted. the only way that our industry is going to make it in this internet, tough international business environment, is selling the stuff that the customers want and they don't want second great stuff ,-com,-com ma which is what the indians are currently getting from the russians. >> declared by my point i don't disagree. i don't disagree with you at all. my point is that we have an fms export system designed for the cold war that has to be upgraded. obviously, because we are moving into an era of war where we want arbors to be strong and have equipment that makes them strong, but i don't take issue with the fact that it has to be what the customer wants. i'm thinking of the f-22, for example, which is just, you know, which is just a tragedy in a way because we have these, all these restrictions from years past. we can't export an airplane, a

walker 11, dan winger with 11. those relievers kept their team in the game. you too can stay in the game with just for men hair color. we'll step out while he steps to the mound to get ready for hopefully his first major league -- ♪ ♪ who's watching? ♪ tell me who's watching. (muffled music) ♪ who's watching... (announcer) it's right here. it's easy. ♪ i always feel like somebody's watching me. ♪ it's the money you could be saving with geico. you don't do laundry at the beach. you salt-wash everything and let it breeze dry. knit, delicate, permanent press... the ocean doesn't care. so grab your bag. >>> well vince now his 60th year of baseball with the dodgers organization. he's got a great book called "pull up a chair." the visit with the author of that book. >> we're visiting with curt smith, the author of "pull up a chair." he's one of the biggest announcers of baseball in all time. how does ben compare? >> he's the best there ever was. he treats the english language like a violin. he'd give you all attributes in announcer and more. credibility, above all

dan uggla typical season for him, low batting average, good power numbers.ng hitter in his major league career. signed by mike rizzo originally for $1,000 with the diamondbacks out of the university of memphis. memphis state at that time. and that's a good fastball outer half. >> rob: so far so good for scott olsen. he looks free and easy. is he just comfortable in letting the ball go, and he is. >> bob: challenge him with a fastball right in there. >> rob: sometimes you come back and you keep looking for that phantom pain and you're kind of always checking out your arm. put it behind him mentally, he'll be fine. >> bob: the marlins swept baltimore here, then they went to tampa bay and didn't hit. their five through eight hitters were a combined 4 for 32 in that three-game series. so fredi gonzalez got no production from the bottom of his batting order. uggla has hit four homers his last nine games. then he fouls it straight back. but this is a ball club that won in every way you could imagine, especially in the late innings in our ballpark. and they started

. >> jim: dan came on last year when jerry manuel became the manager and has done a terrific job, and that's the cut fastball that he has worked with tim redding. so it just gives you extra movement. watch this ball kind of veer in. you think it's going to stay in the middle of the plate, just keeps coming at the left-hand hitter. break your hands over your knee and go. >> gary: nolan hitting at .281, three doubles and seven homers. had an 0 for 2 in the opener last night. 1-0 pitch is going to be put in the air and foul. speaking of last night, there's a young lady named lane celebrating a birthday, we're continuing to today from her real birthday yesterday. tim is our director, lane is his daughter. so happy birthday lane, and i apologize that i didn't get it in last night, but birthdays should be extended so we'll continue the celebration today. >> jim: no older really. maybe a day, but the number's the same. >> gary: the father has advised us that there will be no additional presents despite our attempt to continue the day. fastball is taken inside. that is foul back. the count wi

the reality is, this heart dan energy tax -- this partisan energy tax bill passing in the house a bad bet for all of us. we shouldn't double down with anymore taxpayer money to bail out the climate through an energy tax. thank you, madam president. i yield the floor. i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: the presiding officer: the senator from kansas. mr. roberts: thank you, madam president. i ask unanimous consent the call of the quorum be dispensed. .the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. roberts: i understand we're in morning business and i would ask unanimous consent i may be recognized for about 12 minutes. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. roberts: thank you, madam president. madam president, i rise today to discuss an issue and this is one of these believe it or not issues of waste and abuse concerning millions of tax dollars and stimulus funding. i've got some good news and then i've got some bad news. to report. first the good news. in the last 24 hours, we have been able