editor, below that, in spindly red ink, a message, something like richard, congratulations, or rick,nice. in time, i would learn that every contributor to every issue of national review got such a card from william f. buckley jr. which did not diminish its value, rather the reverse. the cards were a courtesy in a profession that often skipped courtesy. over the years, i saved many such cards, a fraction of all the ones that were sent. since they are not dated, i can't tell now which came first. no matter, they were a beam of attention from the top. i go on a little bit to give the back story of bill and me taking us up to 1970 and the introduction ends, at 44, bill's age when he accepted my article, he was conscious of the passage of time. in nearly 60s, a younger colleague said on one of his interviews, bill was in fine form, like a jet with a switchblade. the toughest question was save for walking out the door, bills marley knocked aside. when the door closed, he turned to rickenbacher, grinned, and said i can keep this shit up in july and 40. he kept it up much longer. but he sens

. >> i have never seen austin kearns or rick eckstein so fired up. >> we all thought it was a ball. andy thought it was a strike. i mean if he messed it up i'm pretty sure he'll admit it. we all make mistakes but i mean situation like that, game on the line, concern see is up there battling facing a closer who is tough. i mean we felt like he got screwed right there. but at the same time i don't feel like the umpire did it intentionally and we all make mistakes. >> deb: on a bright note stephen strasburg got drafted by this team. did you feel any of that energy and excitement throughout the day being draft day here at national's park? >> kind of sort of, not really when you're facing a guy like cueto. i mean for strasburg it's obviously a big day for him. we're all excited to have him in our organization and can't wait to see him. i personally can't wait to meet him. but at the same time we still have to you know prepare ourselves a around here and try the get ourselves ready for the next game. >> stephen strasburg a pitcher from san diego. aaron harang going to be faced by horizon

1975, so it rests on the 1972 turnout for years, and that's absolutely absurd, and as either pike or rick said, if you did it -- if they rested the trigger on turnout figures, below 50% today, the turnout would be hawaii. but rick, what bothers me about your response is there is a greater confidence on your part that congress would rush in, with -- they will rush in with something that in fact is well thought out, that is -- >> as compared to what? as compared to letting the missouri legislature do that. that's the question. one way to look at this is we have a system that i think we would never create on a blank slate today, which is a system that even for national elections, leaves so much of the regulation and the administration in the hands, not just of the states, but of the hands of local governments, including of the county canvassing boards and broward county holding up ballots, you know, to look at them, and i think that that's obviously a product of our history. that wasn't a willingness to give the national government of the power to legislate on these kinds of issues and it's

. >> working with rick eckstein or shortening the body movement, does that help you see pitches better? that's what manny said. >> yeah, it wasn't really anything mechanical. i hit some balls hard during that stretch that were caught and it is just kind of bad luck at the same time. maybe, you know, you get out a few times and in the case of trying to do -- try to do too much every new and then. other than that you don't really change too much, just ride it out and keep working hard. >> finally this team has play sod well? interleague, especially the yankee series and even the red sox. what do you hope to do this weekend against the orioles? >> i think, you know, we're a young team that has just gotten better as the years have gone on. we're kind of hitting our stride. this is the best we have played all year and it just so happens to be in the interleague. hopefully we can continue to do what we have been doing and pitch well and play good defense and get our timely hits and continue to do it for the rest of the year and not just in interleague. >> thank you very much. ryan zimmerman.

rick. better pitching or better hitting? >> i like the way both of it is going now. the reason i like the offense so much is because they're scoring early in ballgames. they're scoring a little bit in the middle and whatever they need late in ballgames they're getting now. they're building a lot of confidence, and they seem to be relaxing, and they're down in ballgames and they're scoring runs. that's what i like the most. a pinch hit base hitter and then the big blow. brian roberts is usually in the mix somewhere. but everybody is really coming together nicely. i like what i see there. the pitching, all of these young guys are starting to go deep interballgames, especially brad bergesen. i think all of the other pitchers are watching him. they see the way he is pitching quick and his tempo is nice and easy and slow. >> some good news. now, the orioles send alberto castillo to the minors and brought back chris ray. for the latest on that and the weather on south florida. what is the weather like? >> i'll tell you, it has been a big story here today in miami- dade cou

have your voice heard a, b or c to 51862. tom and rick will have results coming up on "o's xtra" post- game. >> buck: sean west in position to win his third game. that would improve him to a 3-2 record. [ no audio ] >> jim: andino, high fly ball right center field. center fielder ross taking charge. he has it for the out. one away. pitcher's spot is due. wieters back to first. felix pie coming off the bench to pinch-hit. pie had a tough game last night even though he did have two hits. >> buck: he got thrown out in the back end of a double steal in the first inning after the first two batters for the orioles get on base. that kind of took the air out of the balloon early on. then, he had a miscue and a misplay when bonifacio scored in the seventh inning on a steal and error and pie is holding on to the baseball.  >> jim: pie has just in june coming into tonight. 4-10. there's a bouncer to third. bonifacio battling. a long throw, safe at first base! another close play and this one goes the way of the

or no to. we start with rick steve, the travel memoirs. >> a lot of people will recognize europe through the back door, his travel ceres. he has the best travel -- best travel book on the market, politically is very active. the travel guide, it is not a pretty they have photo activism and travel guide because people want to make their own decisions, but this is a long essay on the fact that when you travel, you are committing a political act. when you travel, you should -- you should consider where you are going and how you behave when you are in a place, americans need to basically travel better and you can learn as much from the culture you are going to visit, you will see the cover has the suitcase on it. the idea is when you come back from a place you should bring back as much of that place as possible, make america more interesting, make you a more interesting individual. it is a political essay on travel. >> the idea of you being the publisher, did you make a decision on the cover? how did that come about? >> that originated with one of the marketing people at perseus, we struggled because

fifteen minutes could save you 15% or more on car insurance. >> hi, everybody. jim hunter and rickdemps getting ready for the "o's xtra". orioles down by four. not many opportunities from the mets pitchers tonight. >> no, you have to give credit to mike pelfrey who cooled off the orioles bats on five hits so far tonight. that's all the o's could muster was two runs. >> on the other side, the orioles have committed three errors in this game. two have been very costly. orioles coming up down by four. they still have a chance. three outs to go. let's head back to the booth and rejoin gary and jim. >> gary: jim, rick, thanks very much. it will be bobby parnell coming out of the bullpen here in the bottom half of the ninth inning to try to wrap it up in a nonsave situation. >> jim: young kid at 24 24 out of salisbury, north carolina. you can see again the numbers. a lot of strikeouts because he throws real hard. last year, a starter in their minor leagues at double-a. another one. we talked about the best bullpen in the neil. he's -- in the national league. he's been unscored on in his

rick a very distinguished historian or critic he writes a column for the nation and magazine and this is a posthumous that he left behind more people think it is more interesting to think of and the warhol then to look at his paintings or his large but this shows what he did to the meaning of the american icon how he has become the most significant and how did that happen? largely through working with it iconographic subjects like the campbell soup can and this takes a look how you defines what it means to me iconic. >> as director of the press what decisions do you make on a day-to-day basis? two make easier to say what i don't. all departments run up to meet marketing, and a tour, financially, starting of course, with the books. we have a staff of 14 editors the president, the press is only as good as the books it publishes with the largest book based university press in the country and the only one with a significant london-based as well. >> host: university press celebrated the 100th anniversary last year. do have any history? >> is started in the left door

still time for you to text in your vote and have your voice heard a, b or c to 51862 and tom and rick will have results coming up on "o's xtra" post- game. so, here is matt wieters representing the orioles last hope. remember, last night it was two out, nobody on when the rally got going. the differences within the divisions and the quality of the teams in the a. l. east and the n. l. east. the phillies tonight are trailing in tampa 7-1. that game in the ninth inning. the rays have the lead. right now, the marlins with a win would go one game above .500, 37-36. they would be two games out of first place. the phillies game holds and this leede liu -- and this lead holds. red sox meantime are 43-27 in first place in the a. l. east. so, they are 16 above .500. orioles began play as the only team in the east below .500. tampa bay is two above. they're seven outs. one above would be two out. 2-1 on matt wieters. swings through it, 2-2. >> buck: well, dan meyer a strike way from his first professional save. diernl that is it. >> jim: he was a first-round pick of the braves back in 2002. the

have you talked to rick eckstein about the approach or change of approach or trying something different i think it is not necessarily one thing. i think some guys are being too aggressive and going after the first pitch. some guys are maybe waiting for the perfect pitch and not getting it. more than anything else, major league pitchers are going to give you probably 1 pitch per at-bat that is going to be a hittable pitch. they are just not taking advantage of it. they are not getting that done. especially early in games it seems like. we talk about in the 8th and 9th inning they have had had their chance. how many times have we looked at the 1st inning and said they had the bases loaded and couldn't finish it. >> ray: a bunch. >> or maybe they score one run and can't get the second across. that is what is hurting them. >> byron: mark, thank you so much from the washington times. the reporter watching the nationals offense and they are hoping it changes today. nick johnson is going to sit down 0-12? his last three games. josh willingham moving to left field. micah owings and john lannan

feingold the power of the have never seemed more powerful or full of themselves. in chicago we have rick sent kelly calling for his lanitionary key parties. the greatest line of the year so far, something like the bush administration tried to privatize schools and privatize social security. having failed to do so, .pivatize the united states treasury itself using henry paulson's park program. it is a bleak time. i don't mean to be a downer. i was wondering if you could comment, the famous line about propaganda, the mark of successful propaganda is when you can convince people that their own destruction is nktertainment of the highest order. i am hitting on tom frank, when whercan turn a class conscious proletariat, people can act against their best self-interest. i wonder if you can elaborate on those ideas. >> guest: you said very eloquently everything that i agree with. over the last 30 years since ronald reagan, we have had the greatest wealth transfer of any period of any country in human history. 3-quarters of the wealth have gone to the top 1% of the u.s. population. that is a rema

to take a chance on him pretty soon whether it be at the end of this season or the beginning of next year. he's everything rick was talking about. he is big, he's strong, he's got very good mechanics. he's got four very good pitches. of all of the good young pitchers that the orioles have, i think this guy's got the best chance of being the ace of the staff. you give him a couple years of experience and i think he'll take over that role if he stays healthy. the i think thing i like the most right over the top good hard fastball, good rising football. he can make it move but he's got a very good off speed pitches to go with it. the good curve ball. very good slider. doesn't use it as much and an excellent change up. this is what keeps hitters off balance. i'm surprised they found some way to beat him three times so far this season. but in the minor leagues that can happen when you don't play on good infield and good back up defense as you're going to get here at the major league level. he's a can't miss guy and a guy i would want to develop as my ace. >> jake pitching tomorrow. time now to look at american leag

still time to next in your vote, a, b or c to 51682 and we'll have the results, tom and rick, on the o's post game. and strike one to melvin mora. still seeing izturis there after having the breaking ball hit him off the adam's apple. >> buck: and throwing that small breaking ball can get you out in front. >> jim: and checked the swing in time. bailey pitched in college at wagner, which is on stat on island. he was drafted and developed by the athletics. 6th round pick in 2006 and already in the big leagues. good eye by melvin. 2-2 the count. >> buck: one thing when you have a power arm like bailey, if he throws strike he can have success and he's shown the ability to throw strikes. 2-2, outside with ball 3. and melvin was down 0-2 after two pitches. now bailey has the count full. melvin 0 for 3 on the day, trying to get on. orioles need to get 2 on to get the tieing run up there. 3-2 on mora, with one out and none on. foul -- fouls it off to stay alive. melvin has grounded out twice and flied out to centerfield. and low, ball four. melvin works a 1-out walk. and the orioles need one

rick was a catcher for 24 years. the big league tell us what gregg zaun did right and wrong on the play at the plate. >> there's really no right or wrong about it at all. he made the right decision to try to cast short hop. the throw as you watch it just slightly right of home plate just far nt enough out of the baseline where you've got to make a real quick decision on really to come up on the ball, stay in the base pads. -- path -- base path. you cast ball. you see the throw just to the left of home plate. ronny took one swipe at the ball. he couldn't glove it. didn't hit in the pocket and had a little bit of contact right there just enough to knock the ball away, but he never had con troafl from the very beginning. nothing wrong about the play. nothing right about the play. it just didn't work for the o's. >> interesting. the orioles made a minor league deal today with the cleveland indians acquiring michael aubrey from the tribe for a player to be named later. aubrey was hitting .292 with five home runs, 29 rbi's at triple-a columbus. he was the first pick in the 2003 draft. orioles took nick markakis over aubrey in that year

or whatever and thank you very much. it's great to see you. [applause] >> rick steves is the author of many travel guides for europe and host travel shows on public television and public radio. mr. steves also writes a weekly syndicated column for the "chicago tribune." for more, visit big -- rick steves.com. >> there's lots more books and authors every weekend on book tv. our website has the entire schedule and great new features including streaming video, archives that are easy to search and simple ways to share your favorite programs. booktv.org. >> in her new book abigail thernstron says the 1965 voting acts right was official but in its current form is harmful to minorities. she said by creating majority black congressional districts in southern states, the candidates elected have limited appeal for the general electorate. from the american enterprise institute here in washington, she's joined by richard pildes of new york university law and michael carvin. this is about two hours. >> thank you very much for joining us at today's event. i'm henry olson. i'm

or no to. decisions on, i should say. we'll start off with rickteves. >> he's the europe through the back doors his travel series and he's really got some of the best travel books on the market but rick is also politically very active and the travel guides it's not appropriate to have political activism of travel guides but a lot of people want to make their own decisions but this is a long essay on the fact that when you travel that you actually are committing a political act and that when you travel you should -- that you you should consider where you're going and how you behave when you're in a place and that americans need to basically travel better and that you can learn as much from the culture you're going to visit. you'll see the cover has this suitcase on it and the idea is that when you come back from a place you should bring back as much of that place as possible, make america a more interesting interesting person. >> the cover, did you make that decision? did you have anything to do that? how did that come about? >> so that cover was a

gregg zaun was talking yesterday, he said, because of my uncle, pat and rick dempsey, he said, i came to the big leagues probably or at least into professional ball at 18 knowing how to catch. it's the hitting problem that's always been the difficult thing. tonight that hasn't been a problem. >> jim h.: there's a base hit. belliard was able to freeze melvin mora momentarily so melvin has to be held at third by juan sam well, and the orioles have the bases loaded. >> jim p.: melvin's job is not to get doubled up. if the ball gets through for a base hit, you know the bases are going to be loaded. >> jim h.: so mora goes to third, zaun at second, andino is on at first with one down. here's brian roberts who is without a doubt due. he's 0 for 4 tonight and 0 for his last 14. >> jim p.: how about winning 11- 1 and one of the best lead-off guys in baseball having what for him is an off night. that 0 for 4 last night. >> jim h.: tonight he was robbed by gonzalez in the fifth inning on an amazing diving grab. there's been some spectacular defense played tonight on both sides. no errors in this game. high fly ball slicing f

or tv and repeated to their friends. one thing that we have seen was true until recently is most journalists who looked at the rick-- especially controversy as a must be two sides to the stories so they would get, there was a new chemical identified to be hazardous or the studies about global warming been the best examples, reporters that felt the need to get the opposite opinion and on one hand, the approach has been criticized especially think the best examples around global warming. there is a small number of the industry paid skeptics deniers, who we see saying no is not true and they have no credibility in the science community but reporters don't understand that. now reporters so that they do ethical net one of these global warming deniers that will say, this is an exxonmobil funded scientists to is the training or something like that, so they understand it. so people discounted and that is important i think we should be raising this with reporters. there are two sites this story or there's another side, u.s. side has a strong vested interest in promoting their position. if you are going to present that you have to prese

school players and college players and you have no idea how or if at all they will develop beyond what they are now and it could take years. >> ricka player goes unnoticed like a hernandez type player. he does not get picked up high and it motivates him to show everybody how good he is and you end up a guy who is a 16th, 17th round draft pick who excels through a and aa and goes to the major league. everybody wonders, how did he fall through the cracks? sometimes, scouts don't get a chance to see him like they should. sometimes, it takes more than one game to see him. just like nolan reimold. you get diamonds notice rough. if you don't pick in that first round, it motivates some young guys to show what they are worth. >> the players development is the rife blood of many systems. elsewhere in the american league tonight, let's start with the red sox and the rangers at fenway park. ian kins letter, top of the 5th, already 1-0 rangers. and kinsler makes it 4-0. boston strands 2 and texas holds on to win. kevin millwood was solid. >>> toronto, lyle overbay, a homerun off zach greinke, the first homerun that greinke has allowed. and ov

or whatever and thank you very much. it's great to see you. [applause] >> rick steves is the author of many travel guys for europe and host travel shows on public television and public radio. mr. steves also writes a weekly syndicated column for the "chicago tribune." for more, visit ricksteves.com. >> we're at the 2009 bookexpo america booksellers convention at the javits center in new york city. i'm here with stacy publicity director of city lights book out of san francisco. what do you have coming out this fall? >> well, this fall we actually have a couple of books coming out from angela davis. we have a collection of essays. it's her first book that's been published in about four years. that covers themes that she's particularly interested in. racism, sexism, the prison industrial complex and then particularly an interesting book that we're publishing with angela is a new edition of the narrative of the life of frederick douglass, an american slave which contains douglass' narrative that was part of a course she taut in ucla in the '70s so it really brings t

or no to. decisions on i should say. here is the travel memoirs spent a lot of people know rick steve's because he is europe to the backdoors of travel series. he has the best travel books on the market. rick is actually very active and the travel guide is not appropriate to have a lot of political activism in travel guides. this is a long essay on the fact that when you travel that you actually are committing a political act, and when you travel you should -- you should consider where you are going and how you behave when you're in a place, and americans need to basically travel better. you can learn as much from the culture that you are going to visit, and then you see the cover has the suitcase on a. any ideas that when you come back from a place you should bring back as much of that place is possible. make america a more interesting place, make you a more interesting individual. so it's a political essay on travel. back to the idea of you being publisher. the cover, did you make that decision? how do that, about? >> that was from perseus. we struggle because we knew it couldn't look like a conventional travel guide. it

or no to on decisions. we will start with wrecks steves, the travel memoirs. >> a lot of people know rick steves because he said europe through the back door in the travel series and he's got some of the best travel books on the market but rick is also very politically active and the travel guide isn't appropriate to have because people want to make their own decision how they are going to travel but this is a long essay on the fact that when you travel you actually are committing a political act and when you travel you should -- you should consider where you're going and how you behave when you're in a place and that americans need to basically travel better and that you can learn as much from the culture that you're going to visit and you will see the cover house this suitcase and the idea is when you come back from a place you should bring back as much of that place as possible. mick america a more interesting place and make you a more interesting individual. so it's a political essay on travel. >> getting back to the idea of you being the publisher. the cover, did you make the decision? how did that co

or eight innings like that. >> he's only faced the orioles once in his career. that ended up being a no decision. what's the rickpsey key to the game? >> you've got to be in the lead after six innings. the orioles so far this year, it's been amazing, have an mazing record when they're in the lead after six innings, they're 21-2, their record. when they're not in the lead after six innings, it's 2 and 30 which is the worst in all of major league baseball. i do everything i could possibly do to get that lead in the 6th, even if it was squeezing the guy home from third. >> when you have a pitcher on the mound, redding, most of the earned runs have come in two starts. what you want to do is try to get a lead on him so you could play that type of game where you get the add-on runs. >> make him pitch from the stretch. they can't stop the running game. they start to change everything around, so that's a key tonight, too, is to try to get guys out there on the bases who can steal bases. >> when we come back on "o's xtra," it's a family affair in the orioles organization. there's the b on the write and his son steven. it

or health situations don't keep people from buying health insurance. we require more transparency from physicians and hospitals about pricing. i know if rick talks at all today about how you can simplify pricing and save money, everybody comes out a winner. we just need to have more disclosure there. we do have some lawsuit abuse reform in this bill, too. but all in all, it's simple. you like what you've got, keep it. if you want to buy health insurance yourself, you get a $5,000 certificate a year for your family and make it more competitive to buy insurance policies. folks, we need to advocate a plan that helps people get insurance. we don't need to compromise at all on the expansion of government health care. there will be no private insurance market if the government expands any more than it is right now. already, it is throwing such additional cost on to the private market that it has a hard time functioning. so let's work together and get behind plans that help people get health insurance. thank you very much. [applause] >> if you and the congressman want to stay here and we'll take questions for the senator and the congressman, and

or four weeks of the season. >> one of the reasons josh bard is swinging the bat so good might be the hitting coach of the nationals, rickbbi taylor caught up with him a few minutes ago. >> rick, you have had such a knack for being able to personalize your approach to the different individual hitters. how difficult is that to do? >> it's not easy. it takes time to sit down with each individual and go through a game plan and go through an approach, a swing approach, and then the daily maintenance on that, then you go back and make your adjustments and, so it's a constant process of communication and work ethic and putting it together in the games. >> this season has been difficult at times, but some bright spots, and cristian guzman is one guy who is fourth in the majors in hitting and just what are you seeing with him at the senate. >> cristian is a very good hitter in his own right. he's aggressive and he's aggressive in the strike zone, and, you know, probably the biggest at tribute that cristian does is it never changes. when he's in situations, when he's leading off an inning or coming up with runners in scoring posi

or a mortgage, to get a loan, and understand it every document. we want the american people to know what they're buying. host: charlestown, west virginia, rick, independent line. caller: thank you for taking my call. i wanted to know your position on granting more power to the federal reserve. i have a personal story. i submitted a request to the federal reserve to get the original shareholders. as i suspected, it is a private entity. the shareholders understood the amount they paid in 1913. it is a private bank in charge of other private banks. guest: i think we're going to review just what the new powers at the federal reserve are going to be. i do not think -- i mean, there are two ways of doing this. you are either going to give one person and a lot of power, hopefully with the manpower to oversee and to make sure that there is transparency in the process. that is that you can put a new chief of police in the financial institution, give the chief of police broad power, give them the proper policing to get there. so is that going to be the effect? i think that is part of the debate to begin today, at least for me, when secretary geithner

as rick again was pointing out, all kinds of losses by minority supported candidates have nothing to do with the race of the voter or the candidate, just because they happen to live in a predominantly republican district, like i have happen to live in a predominantly republican district and if racial live polarized voting means black votes different than "outdoor wisconsin," every county in the country, including the district of column beef is racially polarized, because there's no county that votes 90 to 95% democratic, not hispanics, not gays, not union members. so there's always going to be -- so if you start confusing racial disadvantage with political disadvantage, you have taken something normal, the perfectly fine operation of the democratic processes and somehow labeled it illegal and it's very difficult, i would argue, and impossible to distinguish between political disadvantage, the norm lal operation of politics, and other factors. how are you supposed to figure out without psycho analyzing every voter who cast a vote whether race entered into his calculus and then there's the final issue, which abbey tal

or less to home plate. >> jim: here is the voting. brad bergesen, 54% and aubrey huff 13%. still time to text in your vote to 51862 and tom and rick will have the results coming up on "o's xtra" post-game. so a runner on, and there's a strike. i was talking to george the other night about how he started in proball, and he had to go the independent league route, and he whereas saying how those leagues are more competitive than you might think because all of the players there want to get back into an organization, so they have a chance to get to the major leagues. so they work very hard, it is competitive, and it is more so than you even imagine. >> jim: it is cutthroat where as you're in a minor league situation. obviously everyone wants to get in the big leagues. >> jim: ground ball to second and out at second base as roberts is able to get it to robert andino for the force. two men down. >> jim: this time brian snares it and makes sure he get dps out with a 10-run lead. andino has played so well at shortstop. he knows there is no possible chance to turn the double play. he just turns the play. you make a great point. when i playe

or five games, it's good. >> aubrey is stand on this sie because he won't get the pie in the face. he knows what he's done. >> a veteran move! that's exactly what rick and i noticed. the veteran move, he was not going to get the shaving cream pipe in the face. this was such an ex-tightening win. we have the spire -- excitig win. we don't need this format. the orioles came back and won. the orioles win it 5-4. bottom of the 3rd. andino doing a great job fillg in foresee car -- for salazar. what a big job that was. >> andino gets the orioles on the board, 1-0 os. it stayed that way until the bottom of the 5th. matt wieters would score, and this gives the orioles a 2-0 lead. >> gary: you see wieters coming around to score. two big runs for wietere night. top of the 7th. david murphy, rbi double, this gives the mets a lead. >> they come battling back. they get the lead on this double. david murphy last year withe rangers comes up big for the mets. >> that forces him pie pinch upping with the tieing run as they have the infield in, and you have a against k-the robbe owens -- and aubrey huff agai

rick, yesterday the news broke obviously that sammy sosa's name is reportedly one of the 104 that tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs. that was in '03. you are a beloved or you are beloved by cubs' fans for what you did. there you know sosa, as well. how much does this affect his legacy? >> >> wow. reich, yeah i don't even know where to start. the first thought they had was of being disappointed, how sad i thought this was. i remember a few years ago when he got caught with a corked bat, i went into the trainer's room at wrigley and said, "what happened?" with tears in his eyes, he said, during batting practice they want me to put on a show. he said, i had this one bat i did that with. i've got to be honest, right now i question a lot of things, but again, this is a preliminary report. let's wait until we get all the facts. >> as far as waiting and all that, obviously this has been a trickle of names. i heard the term as far as this is baseball's dripping faucet. we're hearing people such as lou piniella, such as ozzie guillen saying they wish the names would all be released. what are your thoughts? >> to begin with, having been a former player, when you

or 6'7" like andrew miller, you cownd do that down-- downward angle. >> jim: coghlan heads down to first. ledezma let's head downstairs. >> well, a walk is not what pitching coach rick kranitz wanted to see especially after berken's last outing after he was able to get back on track after two tough outings back in june. rick said he was able to get back on track. he said after the game against the mets on the 18th, he saw -- he repeat his arm slot and release on his pitch is at the same point for every pitch. if we can see that delivery repeated tonight, rick kranitz says he likes jason berken's chance against the marlins. jim? >> jim: amber. thanks. there's strike one to emilio bonifacio. he's the number two batter. bonifacio scored the game- winning run last night getting on on a leadoff walk. that was in the 12th inning against brian bass. just outside. 1-1. buck, this is the kind of a hitter when you look at his numbers on the year, he is a hacker. >> buck: the 20th time proved to be the biggest run of his season as he came around to score last night in the 12th inning. >> jim: all with a strike on him. berken taking his time steps off. coghlan has four steals o

or the other. i have thought i would try to focus on some of the same issues shall maybe from a more straightforward legal perspective and cat about some of the points rick made as well. and one of the easiest ways to do this is one of the many virtues of abbey's book is she includes an appendix of the statutory language and how the statutes have evolved over the years and it's really kind of interesting to look at what the original voting rights act said and how it's evolved and the two kinds of evils that we're trying to get at and i'll start with the 1965 version of section 2, which was very straightforward, that there can't be any voting qualification that abridges the right of any citizen to vote on the basis of race or color. you can't exclude access to the ballot to the right to vote because of somebody's skin color. that among right-thinking people is not controversial and a very appropriate role for the federal government to do. section 5 had almost identical language, the original section 5, and that was por controversial, because -- por controversial, because it had divvied up america into two groups, which were subject to extraordinary precle

rick, is luke scott a clean up hitter? >> we don't know until we give him a chance. right now the way the things are going for the orioles not getting many runs or even hits but the one guy who is is luke scott. you kind of have to give him a shot. he's been the guy that backed up the number four hitter. gives stability to the offensive lineup in that respect. throw him in the number four spot because the way things are going right now it's not working. i like the moves he made. markakis back to the second slot and jones to the third slot. jones should never really be a number two guy. it worked for the first month natch of the season. but he's hitting the ball with so much power right now and playing the ball around the ballpark. you can't defend him easily. he's a guy that's going to drive in a lot of runs for the future. take your shot and see what he's going to do for you. i like the lineup tonight. >> definitely. let's check out the a's starting lineup. jack cust hit a three run homer last night will be batting thursday. holliday bats clean up. also had a three run homer last night. the a's have beaten the orioles 22 of their last 30 in oak

we come back, rick dempsey has his scouting report on tonight's starters when we continue "o's xtra" brought to you by at&t here on masn. commute. ♪ commuté. with a mcdonald's mccafé hot ord mocha, a better day is possible. or possiblé. here you go. thanks! cubiclé. if you haven't tried a mocha yet, mccafé your day. ♪ ba da ba ba ba >>> you know, i just remember being batboy and going to the games watching my brothers play. that's probably the first baseball memory and also my first red sox game. i remember going. i got one of the little wooden bats. i was on my dad's shoulders when we were going back to the train to take it home. i was banging it on the telephone poles all the way. when i got home, it had all these dents all over it. >> you'll hear from rich's brother, lloyd, from tonight's game. that's covering the bases by home depot. visit homedepot.com/spring. more saving, more doing. that's the power of the home depot. time now for rick dempsey's scouting report on tonight's pitchersment when we look at rich hill, what do you see? >> he's pitching best on the road for the orioles so far this season. five starts, a #-1 record with a 3.16 e.r.a. he feels much, much m

or should he be considered for the possible rookie of the year. here are some of the other rookie pitchers around the american league who are also off to good starts. of course, rick porello in detroit 7-43.71 e.r.a. nearly i'd cal. josh out man out in oakland. he's 4-1. matt palmer with the angels, 6-0 with eight straight starts. 4.11 e.r.a. there's a long way to go in this there. -- in this. we're only in mid-june. if bergesen continues to be consistent in particular when the orioles get back into the a. l. east, he'll get competition because the orioles playing the toughest division. >> the e.r.a. is the key. it doesn't matter. some teams, you go out to the west coast, it's easier for offenses to be productive in that sort of weather out here you get back on the west coast. very, very tough to put up as many wins. bergesen is one of those guys who is getting better and better as he goes along. he could possibly do that. i think before the season is over, you're going to see him in contention for the win lead. right now, other guy has 6-0 at this point. i think he'll be in contention for that. he's some kind of strike thrower. i think that's going to pay in the

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or in speeches during his time in office, the president is certainly -- has certainly tried to sound reasonable on the issue of life. but the administration's actions belie its words. during a campaign appearance with pastor rick war on august 167, 2009, then-candidate barack obama made clear that his goal was to, quote, reduce the number of abortions. in fact, he said that he had, quote, inserted this into the democratic party platform. how do we reduce the number of abortions, end quote. now given the administration's expressed support for roe v. wade i never expected nor do not expect it to suddenly reverse its course. however, one way to reduce the number of abortions and a way that works and one that is a common ground issue for the american people is not to allow taxpayer funded abortions. violating the consciences of millions of pro life americans to fund a procedure which they object to based on a deeply held religious belief, a moral belief by allowing taxpayers to fund abortions actually increases the number of abortions performed. according to the research arm of planned parenthood. honoring the deeply held religious and moral beliefs of taxpayers actually decreases abortion by about 30% system of t