another edition of rick dempseys clubhouse. >> i'm aubrey huff. >> and i'm rick dempsey. >> dempsey's cutups coming up. >> inside the game with another edition of dempsey's cut ups when we come back. affirmative, it's on. announcer: southwest airlines announces new service out of bwi airport, with three daily nonstop flights to new york laguardia for just 49 dollars one-way starting june 28th. grab your bag. it's on. - ( ding ) - book now at southwest.com. mazaro. mazaro. as the rockies. it's cold insurance, only from coors light. cold beer: that's our policy. frost-brewed coors light. the world's most refreshing beer. >>> markic is batting average. 2008 career highs 17 out field assists and a .346 average and that is our player profile of the orioles brought to you by the u.s. army. >>> and rick dempsey on sunday as the orioles get ready to face the a's. and i always mention on sundays, if it's sunday it's meet the press and here on masn if it's sunday it's another edition of dempsey's clubhouse. >> he was voted the most valuable player in 2008 and received a silver slugger award for

thank you so much for being with us, rowland-smith rick. >> you're welcome. >> amber with rick kranitzs pitching coach. chris ray pitched 1 2/3 inning last night and gave up a hit, struck out one. rick, did you see an improvement from chris ray since coming back? >> i have. i've seen a lot more life on his fastball that i've seen since he had the operation. i think that was the good thing about going back down to norfolk having an opportunity to really get on track and get a few more innings pitched. he's able to relax down there and not worry about the outcome of these ballgames. you'll see now that he's starting to be able to hit thepositions that he's looking for. at least he's on the same side of the plate where the glove is. that's one problem he had early on in the season. his location was terrible. that's something to be expected after you have an operation of that magnitude. alongside of that early in the season when it's cold and you're not that loose out there, you'll suffer a little with velocity. it started to warm up a little bit and his velocity has come back. i expect hi

jim hunter with rick dempsey. rick, baseball is such a funny game because, every time you think you have it figured out, you realize you can't figure it out. earlier this year, orioles are looking for consistent pitching. just get consistent pitching and we're going to go on a streak. and they get good pitching now and the hitting goes cold. >> you know, there are some pretty young pitchers who are putting on some good stretches. now, the offense taking a break. they are struggling to get over six hits a game. they have done that one time. you can't win ball games when everything does not come together. we talk about it all the time. you have to have timely hitting, good pitching, defense. the orioles seem to be able to get two of the three and that one usually costs them the ballgame. to get on that kind of a streak, you have to be able to put the three together. orioles with a 3.68 e.r.a. >> the orioles did make a roster move. this was highly anticipated and this is now a done deal as jamie walker has been relea

rick said there was no change. it's actually wasn't that me imposed the same requirements in 2006 through 2031, that they had imposed on selma, alabama, in 1965. they made it more difficult on covered jurisdictions, and that's the other language change i wanted to bring to your attention. the backdrop of this again is this ashcroft decision where the supreme court said, you can undo these majority-minority districts, you can bring it down to 30% and the parts sans didn't like that for republican reasons, they took a law that says you can't deny or abridge the right to vote and amended it in 2006 to say, you can't -- any voting qualification, that diminishes the opportunity to elect preferred candidates of choice, no redistricting scheme can elect minorityees ability to elect their preferred candidate of choice. well, outside of dade county, miami, of the preferred candidate of kiss is always a democrat, so you had a republican-controlled congress passing a federal law saying don't diminish the ability to elect demo

rick and jim gave everybody the statistics. for brian roberts in particular, i talked to him after the game on sunday. he talked about continuing the momentum into this series against the mets. i asked him does it appear that the offensive flood gates have opened up. >> hopefully, a little bit. i mean, i told you yesterday i think when you look at our team at the end of the year, you look and say they have a pretty good offensive team. we went through a two-we'll week hole. that happens. brian mccann back there catching goes, geez, you guys are good. it's a matter of days a couple days ago, you guys are the worst team i've ever seen. you never know in this game. >> boy, is brian roberts busted out that have slump he was in in a six-game span, he has hit con sectively, gotten a hit in every one of those games n that six-game period, he's batting .500. so, not only brian roberts, but the rest of the orioles looking to keep it going tonight in their third interleague series on the year. jim? >> amber, thank you very much. mets are

tom davis with rick dempsey in our studio. orioles had problems on the field last night in their 5-2 loss to the marlins. dave trembley summed up a lost night in miami. >> a lot of the success we've had recently is because we've played very good baseball and we played all 27 outs, but we gave some outs tonight. that was a difference of the game. that's about as direct as i can say it. [ indiscernible ] >> i forget what -- who is running, you know, so -- >> bonifacio? >> yeah, it's bonifacio. i try to throw home plate. know make a decision. i try to throw to home plate or second base. but when -- you know, that, mistake, that's my fault. i have to throw for the second base. that's my fault. >> obviously, felix pie had a tough game last night. it seemed like pie had trouble in more ways than one. >> you saw what felix pie said in that interview did he forget who is running. you cannot do that at the major league level. when you take a guy like this and look at him overall, you say what kind of player do we have. he's a player. h

rick and i are back with extra post game.3, and coming up here, it's a beautiful night for baseball, enjoy the game, everybody, gay and jim are next. we'll see you on the post game show. 

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 agait k-rod. reim

tom davis together with rick dempsey. the orioles five straight wins now, 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

the default things is one that rick and abbey alluded to is there are significant difference. one test is would he won the election if only black people had voted, so even in your example of 48%, that would still be considered racial live polarized voting. he got 40% of the black vote but 60% went to his opponent. so the minority preferred candidate is his opponent and even the significant inroads by unless you've achieved either majority, another way to look at it is people say there's a coalition, hispanics are supporting democrats, that's the hispanic preferred candidate, but in a lot of elections, the democrat would only get 60% of the hispanic vote. blacks would say, give 95. so you have a 35% gap and i would argue if whites gave the democratic candidate 25%, then they're just as close to the hispanics as the blacks are, but that's not the way the courts look at it. which a long way of telling you have it's strictly a numbers game, which almost inevitably, even with you're talking about the unusual kind of crossover vote, results if a finding of racial live polarized vote

this team does not hit. >> rick: that's right. this is another game where the orioles have less than six hits and one game. brian roberts with two hits tonight of the 5 with the amounts that they have. we are coming right back with o's extra post game. right now we go back to oakland to rejoin gary and buck. >> gary: thank you, guys. we will get it right back to you as it it will be a win. game 2, jason berken against trevor cahill. our coverage begins a half hour earlier. for buc martinez, amber theoharis, and the rest of our crew, thank you. braden the winner, 5-5 and guthrie the loser, 4-5. o's xtra right now. >> jim: hi, of course, welcome back in t is o's xtra presented by verizon. you talk about the orioles and what has become a lethargic offense on this west coast road trip now. in four games, the orioles are 1-3, have scored a total of six runs oakland scored six runs in the bottom of the 1st against jeremy guthrie. that's the kind of week it has been into into they don't seem to be putting things back to back. can't say m

rick's scouting report comes up next. your world delivered here on masn. >>> just a reminder meet adam jones oriole star on wednesday june 10 from noon to 1:00 at wendy's. visit masn sports.com for more information. o's extra brought to you by at&t. berken starting tonight for the orioles. enthused about berken and the oriole's young pitching staff. >> just by looking at him and seeing what his stuff does, it's exciting for me to be able to go to them and say you can do this. you can go there with this sequence and get guys out. and it's exciting. i love young pitchers. i love guys that come up. they're so eager. i think it's a boost for the whole ball club too. i know the guys that have been here for a long time. aubrey and b rob exciting about seeing these guys coming up and attack hitters. >> pitching coach rick. time now for rick dempsey's scouting report. >> off to a good start for 2009. two starts so far. five plus innings. 12 innings so far with three earned runs and lost his first game after giving up only one ear

and he's doing a nice job carrying it out. >> thank you very much, rick eckstein.k to johnny and ray. >> thank you very much. rick eckstein, the fifth year with the organization, fourth nationals hitting coach in the last four years, also at triple- a columbus last year. his stature may fool you. don't let the diminish you active nature of rick eckstein cloud the pick, but these guys respect what he does. >> he's got some fire. you look at his brother david, that family has tremendous fire. he's the only guy that i've seen come out of the dugout this year, this isn't knocking anybody else, but on a call to austin kearns on a ball that was definitely down in a critical part of the game, he jumped over that rail and says, what are you thinking? what are you thinking? he's got that fire blowing. he doesn't say a lot, i guarantee you, he's the guy that's going to be in that bunker next to you if you want to be defended. >> that was the same night you reached over to me, slapped the table, knocked the coffee over, look at him getting out of that dugout. >> we're going t

take it away, tom and rick. >> tom davis, rick dempsey. welcome to "o's xtra" presented by verizon fios. orioles lose to the florida marlins 5-2. jason berken got in trouble in the beginning of the game. >> you can't walk the first man of the game. that will always come back to haunt you. what's any rule of game? nothing good ever happens after a walk am two walks for berken score on the day. orioles lose 5-2. berk begin no have the that bad a night. he pitched tough tough through parts this have ballgame, but the walk did him in. >> go back and take a look at the highlights from tonight's game. we begin in the first inning because the marlins got on the board quickly in the florida first. hanley ramirez comes through with a two-run sing toll right center field to give the marlins a 2-0 lead. this came after a walk and an error. >> there you go. you see hanley ramirez inside- outs that ball to right field. he's swinging a hot bat driving in a lost runs for the orioles right -- marlins right now. >> a grounder mishandled by emilio bonifacio

tom davis and rick dempsey and o's xtra. >> the e's complete a three game sweep, and rick, before we get into the orioles we have to talk about vin mazzaro. he hasn't given up a run in two professional games in the major leagues. >> he was 15 and 6 comes into the game and he doesn't strike out a lot of people but he doesn't give up very many runs either and that tells you something about the movement on his fastball and today he shows it. if you were watching the ballgame, you saw a lot of ground ball outs but that movement on the fastball and mixing in the slider and the curveball, he showed me a little something. in fact all of the oakland a aspishers showed me something, all young guys and very up and coming guys that are scary rights now. >> as we look at the recap. this is a one-inning recap when you get down to it for the oars and it fun turns out to be -- it turns out to be too many walks. giambi walks with the bases loaded and that brings in the first run. >> and hill just can't seem to find the plate. he hits another batter with the bases loaded. that puts to runs on the bar

. >> rick: it was. had was starting to swing the bat consistently. 11 for 28 at a .393 clip. not only that but the way he hit left handed pitching, the orioles orioles can't do without him in the order. that's something that they looked for for a long time. outstanding base runner. second right behind brian roberts who has 10 steals on the season. izturis had 9. this guy is going to be sorely missed. >> jim: we are not sure how long izturis will miss. if somebody is going to come up from the minor leagues, there are four players currently at aaa norfolk that can come up and it in at shortstop. rojas is probably the truest field another this group. you see he is batting just .160 for the tide. cabrera is the oldest for the group. the veteran guy, utility guy. turner, a second baseman but he may be able to play shortstop a couple of days. and dorya. one of these four might have to join this veteran team. you can't go into a game without a backup shortstop and right now robert andino is the only true short

rick, what an uplifting win. orioles had the lead and the mets able to tie it, but it didn't matter. the orioles pull it out. >> matt wieters hits his first home run of his career and his first two rbi's. >> outstanding back end of the bullpen work tonight. jim johnson two scoreless innings, and george sherrill picks up the save to even up the series at a game each. >> thanks very much. let's go down to the one of the stars at least tonight with amber. >> that's right. matt wieters gets his first home run in the major leagues. are you just glad you got it out of the way. you knew it was going to come at some point. >> i mean redding was a guy i faced a little bit in the minor leagues so i knew he threw a lot of strikes, i was fortunate enough to get it to carry out. it's good oh get the zeros out of the home run and rbi column. >> looking at what aubrey huff was able to do. this was a good ballgame going back and forth, but to come out on top in a game like this. >> it was, both the starters gave their teams a ch

kathy, you're on with rick. go ahead. caller: good morning, rick. how are you? i have a couple things to say. number one, i do commend president obama for doing what he is doing. although i feel disappointed as well because i feel it's only gone halfway to ensure gay and lesbian couples. the other side i want to maybe give you hope and support in some small way, i'm a 53 -year-old female who has seen many things in the last 50 years. i do have children. and one of the things that i have committed to in raising children, which is where i believe true change is going to happen, is to accept people and treat people based on how they are treated. and not to judge people simply because of their sexual orientation or their color. everybody in life has a story. and the way we learn and we grow and we truly become good human beings is to embrace everyone that we cannd and to learn from them. i realize that's probably a little, i don't know what the good terminology is, blazze or maybe a real undercover type of teaching. but i do believe that's where it is. and i'm very

obviously, rick, they're talking a little bit about the mishaps tonight. i guess the one that glared out the most is on the stolen base that bonifacio was able to run from first to the plate. >> he went from first base on a stolen base and it's up to felix pie to pick that ball up and get it back into the infield scwix you can. you learn that in class a ball. he helped on to the ball, hopped, skipped and jumped and stood flatfootedded. he could have run it in quicker than he threw it. you can't give that much time -- that much time to bonifacio because he's too fast. all he needed was one-half a step extra out there and he got and he scored easily on the play. there's no way that that should happen. there are other plays in the course of the game that i thought need add little more emergency involved into it and that was when luke scott was down in the corner and picked the ball up off the wall and kind of threw it to the cutoff man. there was no emergency there thinking that they had a play at home plate and then they ended up losing the run at home plate

we welcome in rick reilly, a casualty of the weather.erhaps it's fitting that tiger woods had a wardrobe change. >> yeah, this is suit number two. because some of us aren't smart enough to bring a rain suit. for guys like me that love to see pro golfers suffering and disorganized and wet, it was a sort of soggy pair diez. >> golf is very big on jackets. green jackets, red jackets, blue jackets. jackets made of former couches. even occasionally, straight jackets. but, thursday, the u.s. open set an all-time record for taking off and putting back on of jackets. breaking a record previously set by suzi orman. >> the man who seemed to be most con founded by his pullover, half sleeved goretex jacket was tiger woods. the man couldn't seem to decide whether to wear it or not wear it. jacket on for the drive at 1. jacket off for the flamingo on 4. jacket off for the double bogie on 5. but jacket on for the birdie at 6. >> exotic dancers have changed clothes less. you had to feel for his caddy, stevie williams. not only was he having to work the

espn's baseball analyst rick sutcliffe has the call with dave o'brien for the phillies and the jays. espn, 7:00 eastern. rick, thank you so much for your insight and perspective. >> dave o'brien's right here. >> still to come on espnews, his wife is battling cancer and phil mickelson is playing in this year's u.s. open. year's (announcer) what does greatness taste like? miller lite. (announcer on call) off the glass, centered in front... oh what a great move, another great move... he skates in on goal... he scores! unbelievable! it's all over! oh my... (announcer) that's what greatness tastes like. triple hops brewed. great pilsner taste. miller lite. taste greatness. go to hotwire.com. when four-star hotels have unsold rooms, they use hotwire to fill them... so you get the lowest prices on four-star hotels, guaranteed. ♪ h-o-t-w-i-r-e ♪ hotwire.com >> as the sun says so long on wednesday afternoon at bethpage black, it might be saying so long for the week. not only does the weather forecast tush a bit bleak, the players know what awaits them. phil mickelson on the grounds wednesday

rick eckstein told me austin kearns is so close to getting hits.s really pleased with some of his at-bats this past road trip. he hit that ball last night 405 feet that brent gardener caught up against the wall injuring himself. so, eckstein is not at all reluctant to see austin kearns in there hacking. if he says so, that's good enough for me because he can tell when a hitter is just about getting back to where he should be. now it's 3-0. i think rick is one of those guys who really takes it personally when his guys aren't going well. he's going to do anything he can to get it going. >> rob: let's check out carlson's delivery now. if you're at first base, if that front foot crosses that line, you can take off because he will be going to the plate. right there he's just on that border. you want to -- you don't want to take off because then he can throw to first. then, you see if he does a balk move and does bring that front leg behind the rubber and that imaginary line he cut it off by walking towards the run you are -- runner. kind of a little bit

and thanks as well to michael carvin and rick pildes. these are two incredibly eminent men who have busy schedules and for whom i have the deepest intellectual admiration and they made time to come here so i feel very indebted. well, what a terrific time to be talking about minority voting rights. not only do we have an enormously important supreme court decision on the constitutionality of the most radical provision in the 1965 voting rights act sure to be announced by the end of this month. but more importantly, the election of barack obama marked the close of an era. and the welcomed beginning of a new one. what everyone thinks of his politics, his stunning success with 43% of the white vote and record high turnout by minority voters is a historic turning point. integration was the aim of the civil rights movement in the 1950s, much of the 1960s and by the ultimate test, american politics is now integrated. blacks have been a major political force for decades. and now an african-american man has reached the highest peak. when the 1965

rick is away and we wish him well and certainly con dell lenses to his family. again, it is just a subtle change and this is the same guy that ended up pitching for the orioles in the all-star game and he was a dominant closer, too. he had arm problems. a couple of months of the season. >> rob: you make the point about albers, the more time it takes you to get to your release point, if there is a guy on base and he is a quick base stealer, that is a millie second you're not getting the ball to the catcher. you want to get to the catcher as quickly as possible so he has a chance to throw people out. george sherrill doesn't have to be as quick as a right-handed pitcher, but the righties have to get the ball to home plate. >> jim: bounced to second base off the bat of willie harris. bobbled there and bobbled again and safe at first as harris as brian roberts bobbles it twice. >> rob: you want to be about 1.2 seconds 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 wi

and rick atkinson is working on a trilogy and published the first two books on the second world war, and specifically, the first volume on the american involvement in north africa and this second on the italian campaign, which was a bloody, bloody affair and doesn't get a lot of attention in at thises and obviously deserves a lot more. and rick atkinson, a journalist with the "washington post" is just a luminescent writer, wolf, wonderful piece of history, and great, great writing. but a book i would recommend for people who want to understand what went wrong in iraq is a book called fiasco, tom ricks and he has written a sequel which is called "the gamble" and i haven't read that, but it is really a great book in terms of peeling away what happened in iraq. and, you know, essentially, the united states made some very critical mistakes we are paying a heavy price for even now. the first was, the inadequacy of the troops that went into iraq. which meant that while we could tom the regime we could not restore law and order and so, a mass looting occurred, and american troops all too of

for rick dempsey, this is tom davis. thank you for watching masn.ugh today, but the things we all look forward to haven't changed. like owning a home. watching our children grow. and retiring with confidence. so whatever you're looking forward to, m&t bank is here to help you get there. m&t bank. understanding what's important. part of that coaching staff and i said no, i really didn't. >> we now join or regularly scheduled programming, already in progress. do. so i opted out at that time. i was asked by the canadians if i'd like to coach their olympic team. and you know, steve nash wasn't a mature enough player yet so i turned that one down. >> reporter: kobe's never been anything but hungry but have you ever seen him hungrier than he is at this moment? >> i think it's a culmination of having, you know, that total effort that he had to give for the olympic team and dedication over two years and two summers and then coming back last year and having the opportunity to get to the finals and then denied. i think it just made this more of a challenge, i

rick, looking back on last night's game, it was all about the errors.you commit three errors in the game, you really can't expect to win. >> you have to say jeremy guthrie did a good job for four innings, then the hitting came late, but by that time the defense did not supported jeremy enough to really hold up enough for him. i thought we were going to get a real good effort after him, but he gave up four hits, and that pretty much did him in for the night. they scored four runs. >> let's look back on the game highlights. it's a scoreless game after a lead-off walk. here is beltran, double play ball to brian roberts, but he boots it. >> you don't see this happen very often. every now and then when you're trying to turn that double play, you take your eye off the ball just a hair too soon. >> so the next batter with two on and none out, david wright, he delivers a base hit to left field. >> he comes in and he shows a pretty good swing right here. good low fastball. this is what puts the first run on the board for the mets. >> mets went on to score four r

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and it was brutal. >> rick eckstein there fighting for the nats in a 3-2 loss for the reds. look at the draft picks, stephen strasburg the number 1 with a bullet for the nats and we break down the reds game number 1. stay there. welcome to chili's. something new is on the grill. try chili's new fire-grilled quesadillas, starting at just $6.99. like our bacon-ranch chicken quesadilla, flame-grilled tortillas layered with all white meat chicken, applewood smoked bacon, jack cheese, and ranch dressing. they're crispy on the outside, melted to perfection on the inside. you've never tasted quesadillas like this before. new fire-grilled quesadillas, starting at just $6.99. only at chili's. we've got a ton of stuff we've gotta pay for. and a few things we want to pay for. on top of it all, we're still trying to put away some money for the future. with the wish list, we can save up for anything we want. and still have enough to cover the day-t0-day. plus, the savings engine helps our money grow. and that's something we need and want. introducing the virtual wallet from pnc, a high d

rick visits with the athletes right in their home towns in the company of the people that mean the mosto them. on this father's day, here are these athletes and their fathers. listen to their stories about shaping a life's path. >> tell us about your dad. >> tough guy. very tough guy, but, you know, the type of man that that you really respected. you knew that if you didn't do your job, you would get disciplined, and my father would take me to work with him during the summer. >> what did he do in >> he was a bricklayer, and my job was to make sure that he had bricks to lay. >> in the summer? >> in the summer, like 110 degrees every day. it was very, very difficult work, but it taught me the meaning of hard work. >> i don't know if i've ever known an athlete that was closer to his dad than you were. i remember you saying you loved to play catch, baseball catch with your dad, but in the sixth grade he stopped playing with you. do you remember why? >> because i started throwing the ball hard enough he couldn't hold a martini in the other hand. [laughter] once i could throw it hard enough t

republican line, with congressman rick boucher. caller: i worked in a power plant for 33 years, cold-fired. -- coal-fire. it was dirty. when technology can through, when i retired at 84, all the available -- that is not enough for you people. you have to keep throwing this stuff at us. it is going to cost early, sir, for the power plants to have the cap and trade, and it is going to go right on the people. now, people in your -- al gore claimed that the climate change, man-made, so-called, it is nothing but a theory, sir. it has not been proven. it has not been proven that it is man-made. guest: first, let me say that we have consulted, over 2.5 years now, with the electric utility industry, and primarily with those electric utilities that are using coal in order to generate electricity. let me just note one in particular. the largest coal-fired utility in the united states is american electric power, and chief executive officer of american electric power, michael morris, has been a frequent participant with us in hearings before t

so that's actually a suitcase that rick steve's owns and we put stickers on it. it's not a stock photo that we found. we put it together and then decide around. i like the way it's clean, but it's on. >> some of our viewers are at the bookstore so they know a lot has been put into these covers? >> covers are one of the toughest things that we do because everybody has a legitimate opinion about what works as a cover. sometimes i'm doing is just filtering through the many different legitimate voices and just trying to pick the one i think is going to help us in the long run. >> all the books we're talking about here on the table are out right now, these are spring titles. >> that's right. this show is usually to talk about all books that don't also bring spring books that had just landed. that book just published last month. >> two books on the economy. two divergent takes on the economy? >> robert frank to just simple by things i would say a liberal economist. he writes for "the new york times." here that cornell and he has done this economic national is the secon

van deer veen and here is rick, he can't believe that pitch. rick eckstein to the left. >> rob: the last pitch right here, that pitch is way low and that's the reaction from the bench.   . >> johnny: he couldn't be it when he was called out on strikes, neither could austin kearn, that is the ball game. the nationals can't get a run in the bottom of the ninth inning and cincinnati holds on to win this ball game. and they are still barking at andy fletcher from that national's budget. well for rob dibble and debbie taylor i'm johnny holiday, the nationals and reds continue this series tomorrow. nats extra, visit nats for all the news from the nationals. this has been a presentation of masn. hangs on to beat washington 3- 2. stay tuned for nats extra postgame coming up right now.    it didn't s low, you can't, there is no way you can call that pitch a strike. that may be the, i'm not one to say much about the strike zone but that pitch right there was s

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 on the year. he has not yet been caught. mora in tight at third. bonifacio shows bunt and takes low. >> buck: this is a good ballpark for jason berken to be aggressive. throw the bal

you know, rick, you know this as well as do i. what did mike flanagan used to say? a lost times when you get trouble, you have to try easier. i think jeremy is one of these high-effort guys. he has marvelous ability but knees -- needs to throw 1-2-3 inning down when he gets in trouble. he had trouble doing that. hurt by the defense big time you look back over the last three games that the orioles had played before the off day. they were really putting together some are pretty good rallies. they had a nice, little like 41 hits in those three ballgames. tonight, it looked like they would come through with these late-inning rallies. they did it last year. this year they're coming up that one hit short when they need it the most. >> you know, pelfrey was working on a no hitter going in until markakis got his base hit in the fourth inning. he walked three in a row and then the big pitch of the night at that point was getting brian roberts out on a 3-2 breaking ball. then, the next inning you get three or four guys on in a row and get the markakis home run. he threw a cha

jim hunter and rick demps getting ready for the "o's xtra". orioles down by four.ot 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 last outings. for a youngster, only been scored on 23-31 times

for rick sutcliffe, i'm dave o'brien, let's toss it back to the studio. >> thanks so much. this is the second time in which the red sox have won at least the first seven games of the season against the yankees. the other was in 1912 when they won the first 14 meetings. >> and some drama going on at citi field. tied at four and in the top of the 11th inning, bobby parnell came in this relief, first batter, chase utley, 3 for 5, two home runs, bringing his total to 15. right now two outs in the top of the 11th inning, can the mets come back? they have a two-game deficit at the top of the nl east. we'll see what happens. >> phil mickelson is returning to the pga tour for the first time since he and his wife, amy, has discovered that she has breast cancer. mickelson who expects to play at bethpage next week is making his emotional speech in memphis. >> we're going through a tough time right now. we won't get started on our treatment until july 1, and in the meantime, we're fortunate that we believe we caught it early enough to where we don't have to rush into decisions and we c

the results on o's extra on the post game with jim and rick coming up. two down.ill stand in. double single, 2-4. starter. jason berken will take the loss here and be 1-2. cahill will get his third win against five losses and get out of the streak of four games without a win. three losses and a no decision. jumping up to get that one. >> buck: this will be the fifth win in a row for the oakland a's. the starters have won every one of those decisions. that's how you get back to it. good starting pitching and i don't care how. >> gary: tom davis i know what you got there. that one just right on by. a 1-2 count. markakis fouls back into the screen. oakland's going to win their fifth in a row. and their seventh in a row against the orioles going back to last year. orioles will have a four game losing streak and full-time game of the road trip tomorrow. 1-2 delivery. markakis battles it away. it will stay at 1-2. orioles on this road trip now have been outscored 29-10. five games. that one for a shortcut off to 3rd. play to 1s. just in time. and this one's in the books

and as you said, rick, earlier the walks all scored. it's tough. >> you look at the chart the way that we do this and you see that after every walk is a base hit. jason giambi has always been a dangerous hitter. we just talked about it without seeing the clip about how many good pitches they had to hit. the oakland a's are the worst hitting team in the american league right now. it's not tough to put the ball in play when you get good pitches and a double that cost two more rbis. this game here you see another dip by kennedy going to the gap too. seems like all the pitches are a clone of one another. all right there in the strike zone but belt high or above. berken had a real tough night and something he should learn by because even the catcher should learn by this zaun was behind home plate and he knows. he knows move the target down in the zone. you have to get the ball down and that's one adjustment the orioles did not make tonight. >> the a's have hit the ball hard. when you look back at the 18 runs they've scored, three swings acco

rick, thanks.me i learned every contributor of every issue from national review got such a card from william f. buckley, jr. did not diminish its value, rather than the reverse. it was a courtesy and profession that often skipped courtesies. over the years i saved many such cards, a fraction of all the ones i was sent. since they are undated, i can't tell now which one came first. no matter, they were a beam of attention from the top. and then i go on a little bit to give the back-story of big and the back-story of 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 the early '60s, william rickenbacker a younger colleague sat in on one of his interviews. bill was in fine form like a jet with a switchblade. door, bill smartly knocked it aside. when the door closed, he turned to rickenbacker and grinned i can keep this crap up until i'm 40. [laughter] >> he kept it up much longer. but even there is senses where h

please welcome our moderator rick kogan of the "chicago tribune." >> hi there.applause] >> look at these clapping trying to curry favor with me. jeff, i want to start with you. in that you didn't really go searching for this book. this book kind of found you, did it not? >> yeah, i think that's safe to say. i'm a reporter for the tribune and i covered this trial in 2007. ..

to have rick here as well. finally, r.e.m. writer editor and publisher with american journalism and review. and now you can give your applause. thank you. >> it may come as a surprise to some of you here today as you've watched our speakers luncheons over the years that we do not intend to site members of the press to speak at the podium. for one thing it would get way out of control if we start letting those doors open, right? but we have a special cause to do that today because our speaker is truly a special individual. but generally we think that journalists cover the news and we try not to perhaps put them in a spotlight they might otherwise feel uncomfortable in. but as i said, today's guest is an exception. david simon, a long time journalist at the baltimore sun, honed his skills reporting on the streets of one of the the most dangerous cities of our country. and after years of reporting the realities of inner city life it, wasn't the murder, drugs or other horrific crimes that drove him out of the journ

please welcome our moderator rick kogan of the "chicago tribune." >> hi there.se] >> look at these clapping trying to curry favor with me. jeff, i want to start with you. in that you didn't really go searching for this book. this book kind of found you, did it not? >> yeah, i think that's safe to say. i'm a reporter for the tribune and i covered this trial in 2007. .. might be here in the audience. making money, his name is art and he's a counterfeiter. he was on probation and was driving paul a around the city come paul is a producer from hollywood, telling him you are from hollywood, you should hear my story. i've got a great story, i w a

mora thinks about a throw, but no throw at first base and now rick kranitz is trying to slow down themarlins here. four hits in the inning after the lead-off home run. four hits in the inning including the lead-off home run, i should say. >> jim: and all four of those balls hit very, very hard. don't forget on friday the orioles are back home at cold. it is an interleague match-up against the nationals. state of the union night presented by at&t. students of any age can receive a left-field upper reserve seat for just $6 with your valid school i.d. it is also fireworks night. all fans are invited to remain after the game for a spectacular fireworks display. for tickets, 888-84-bird or online at orioles.com. so there are the runners, baker, miller and coghlan and it is emilio bonifacio at the plate. a high pop-up. foul ground. mora over hoping for a play and he runs out of room. bonifacio again going after a first pitch. >> buck: that is just bad patience at the plate. he steps to the plate. he hasn't delivered anything with the bases loaded and chases the first pitch and pops it out o

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

it was kind of interesting, 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 bot

please welcome the moderators, elizabeth taylor and rick kogan of "the chicago tribune." [applause] .. i know you agree liz, paul and harvey, how did you do this, who was the genius who came up with this? it is unbelievably good. >> paul. i mean, paul deserves i think you know, paul desserts you know, like i think airlines share of the material, i mean the praise for doing the book. for one thing he has taught oral history for a long time at brown university, and he has for long time been a studs terkel admire and fan. i think that you know, i think the art work was a real nice too. >> it is not all yours either. it is not all yours. >> i didn't mess around with his words. i did not change anything. so, you know. i just broke the text down into panels. some of the artists apparently didn't want to, i don't know what. but anyway, that's-- paul, i have been working with paul on a few projects now and he suggests-- >> when he suggested this did you all of a sudden go, were you excited immediately about it? >> i am always excited when i get a chance to make more money. [laugh

so i think all the goods, rick -- thanks for your ads on tv. we need to move from just criticizing what the democrats and obama are proposing to actually proposing a solution that would work. i welcome the debate on health care, because it is time we give fair treatment to all americans. if you work for someone that offers health insurance, your employer can deduct the cost of that insurance and the employee is exempted from paying any taxes on that benefit. and that's the way we ought to keep it. but we ought to give fair treatment to the americans who don't get their health insurance through their employers and encourage the individual market by giving every family a $5,000 certificate, which basically equals what that benefit will be in the workplace, or an individual $2,000. now just think about this as common sense. if you think about what works in health care today, what works the best is when an individual has health insurance, they can pick their own doctors, and they can decide what their doctor -- what their health care will be. the p

rick said he's got a great routine, he simplified his approach at the plate and he shortened his swing which is very difficult to do at the big league level. >> jim h.: all right, debbi, thank you. >> rob: the more he catches, the more reps he gets at the plate, we really see the offense coming out of the bard now. but he's also, like i said, last night calling better games, defensively he's gotten better, throwing people out. so every part of his game has gotten better the more he's behind the plate. >> jim h.: fouled back, 2-2. >> rob: josh bard has been hitting the ball the other way. he's driven the ball into the gaps and hit a couple of home runs. the only guy with a couple of hits last night. you see him in the last six games he's been on fire. right now it's hard for manny acta to get him out of the line- up. >> jim h.: and he fouls it back. guthrie has five wins on the year, three here at camden yards, two on the road, and his e.r.a. is dramatically better here at home, three runs a game less. >> jim p.: he really mirrors the orioles pitching staff. they're down in the low 40's