meanwhile in the '30's and jim thompson also raised in oklahoma city has his own troubles back of his father a deputy sheriff in a little town outside oklahoma city. he lost his shirt and bad investments in the oil industry. filed jim thompson is still and high-school he supports the family working at a sleazy hotel basically printing and drug dealing doing anything to help the families stay afloat just after the crash in the late twenties and early 30's. he gets to college will pass to drop out and winds up back in oklahoma city where writing for a magazine with true crime stories and barely able to support his wife and young child. he learned about the writers' project and gets a job with the oklahoma project and soon he is driving routes across the state for the guide to oklahoma and he is finding the holdout of the dalton gang and printing fabs up for the tourist part of the oklahoma guided also interviewing people about fuld stories and what they had heard growing up. and hearing a dark string of how people joke about what oklahoma territory is about. he becomes actually the edit

that the farmers were having a problem, but back in -- oh it must have been '85, i guess, big jim thompson the governor of illinois. so he and i were having every year at the fair, he and i would kind of like a ritual would have a bottle of beer, a bowl of chichi chili and talk about things. that's when we started planning the first farm aid, and 21 days later we had the first one in champaigne, illinois. >> larry: is it kind of a shame that we still have to do it? >> oh, absolutely. i thought one would be all that would be necessary and then we would get a good farm bill, figure out a way to keep small family farmers on the farm. and then i started seeing trends where there was a big push on the other way to make it more -- big corporation conglomerate farmers and a big push to take the small family farmers off the land. back when we were in world war ii, when we were the strongest, we had what we call a 100% parody for all our producers. we guaranteed all production and labor costs. that was when we were the strongest. so i think we need to consider things like that again. >> larry: do y

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so thompson working behind hitters. >> jim: you can see a high- energy type of guy. ou can see how many times he inhales, exhales, trying to slow everything down, and for some guys, just a little bit easier than others. >> gary: 2-0 count, thompson's therefore, a fastball, kind of aimed that, and missed, and the miss. so the orioles trying to get back at least one of those two runs they surrendered in the last half inning. wieters so far in these cases, dave trembley has had him taking. here is the 3-0 pitch, and he did, and it's on the inside corner. 3-1. >> jim: how about a year or two from now, he won't be taking that. >> gary: he'll be lashing away. >> jim: bobby abreu walked up tomy today ask said i love this kid's swing, he uses the field. >> gary: and mike scoscia likes him behind the plate. asked mike today about with and you want to hear what he says first when he's talking, and he said what i like is flexibility, said that's a key to a catcher in my mind, especially bigger-size catchers. he said talent is real, hands are soft, and he can move. >> jim: yeah,

luke has walk and popped up. >> jim h: a breaking ball there's thompson. one of the five right-handers in the bullpen. two left-handers, including closer fuentes. >> jim p: a couple of lefty. sherrill, the terrific job as a closer. >> jim h: a bounce towards first base. morales will race to the bag to get scott and the orioles are down two hit but two left. middle of the 5 and 5-3 orioles lead. the country every day. woman over p.a.: this is yourinal boarding call. all passengers... each with an average speed of 590 miles per hour. almost as fast as you. nothing's gonna hold you down. starting august 16th, fly southwest airlines from bwi airport to boston logan for just $49 one-way. bags fly free on southwest so our low fares stay low. grab your bag. it's on. - ( ding ) - book now at southwest.com.  >> jim h: tuesday, july 28, help orioles support the maryland foodbank and found out if your favorites have what it take in the kitchen. it's the cookoff. join the players roberts, guthrie and zaun. it will be at espn zone 11:30 to 1:00. they will compete in

thompson at the earnings central nerve center. >> we'll be talking to sam stovall at standard & poors, jim paulson over at wells capital management. sam, we're starting earning season. you're the master here. what strikes me as interesting is earnings estimates on the aggregate have been coming down from april. what's going on here? >> well, you're right because looking at whether it's the end of april, end of may, end of june for second quarter results, we've been going from minus 15 to minus 17%. a lot of that has to do with consumer discretionary. we were expecting a decline if you included general motors. since we took them out in june, you're looking at a year over year increase because it's no longer the drag it was. >> there's a little bit of the distortion because of the effect of general motors. >> we don't go back and restate numbers. general motors was in the index a year ago and not now. >> it's about investing in an environment where we know that earnings have been under pressure. a lot of debate whether or not we are out of the recession. why don't you take this one here and tell me how do you want to invest in an e

strikeouts, thompson an inning, couple of hits, and now matt palmer working his second inning in relief. and the 1-0 breaking ball to mora misses. double, single, two for four for mora. >> jim have the feeling right here, maybe 165 at bats. you know he's looking for a ball inside middle going to try to hammer it. >> gary: takes it the other way town the line, and it is foul. >> jim: i guess it's probably a good thing. i think a lot of times if you're thinking about the fact, oh, yeah, i haven't hit a home run in 43, now going on 44 games, your usual approach is to open up, but he tries to drive it to center. >> gary: matt palmer, 2-2 count with two down. the bottom s@z   . >> gary: there is your sto going to the bottom of the 9th inning. orioles looking to even up the series here in game 2. and george $14 coming out of the bullpen. the orioles closer who is 17 out of 20. >> jim: now it's all up to george sherrill, and the angels are, i would imagine, maybe we'll see some pinch hitters, and member not. they certainly have enough right-handers on the bench. >> gary: izturis will lead it off. and he does try and bunt for the bates hit, and will foul t

ronald thompson owned and developed midwest stamping company. he is on the board, too. you may remember jim blanchard, the former two-time governor. rick: is there any sense of what kind of new direction this board is going to move chrysler board? >> -- toward? >> this is pretty unique because the government pointed, for example, the head of the board. fiat got to elect two members of the board. the united autoworkers retirement group also has a member on the board. they appointed jim blanchard. it is a unique mixture of people on this board. maybe it will be good, who knows? rick: thank you. jane: the michael jackson memorial is tomorrow, in case you did not know. it is set to start tomorrow at 1:00. today, people have been receiving their tickets. more than 1 million people have a ticket to this memorial at the stables center. -- staples center. now some of them have ended up on the ebay. can you guess the price? ú@y@ç jane: we have been watching pictures of dodgers stadium this morning. that is where the people who want tickets to the michael jackson memorial will be picking up their ti