but when he has to repeat, it's not as sharp. now, the hitter's already seen a breaking ball with quickness, depth and sharpness. now they see one that's not quite as good, that's what happened with the base hits last night with mora to right field. he'd already seen a breaking ball. it wasn't quite as gas breaking ball before. i think this kid's going to be successful. you have to put together a lot of good outings in order to believe that yourself. i know he has the stuff, just got to get in that mind of his that he belongs up here in that late inning role. >> ray, let's break down last night. he comes in out of the bullpen last night, only goes 1/3 of an inning, gives up three hits, allows four earned runs and the video doesn't lie. the video will tell you exactly what happened when joel came in last night. >> see the breaking ball, it just stays there. it starts to break and it just stays right over the heart of the plate. then here's the breaking ball was really nice. that's what he used to do. there's another breaking ball,

you see a very sharp decline. oil revenues are likely to be back for the were in 2004. -- back to where they were in 2004. the world economy is still in recession and to think that oil prices will continue to rise is unlikely. whatever happens, we have seen a lot of pressure on the budget. on top of that, so much of the budget is wasted. that has really sapped money. but, the key political question is one to be inflation. unemployment is unpopular, but there is nothing more unpopular than inflation. inflation affects everybody at all income levels across society, and in most countries, the poor are the most unprotected in terms of inflation. we have seen a continuous rise in inflation levels throughout the mahmoud ahmadinejad for jan. he has kept interest rates and they have been churning money out like there was no tomorrow. a lot of this money has been squandered. inflation, on an average level, hit 25% last year higher. i have never seen an economy see the current regime return to power after that type of perfo

there is too much sand a variety to make a sharp distinction between us and them. and, of course, neither i nor anyone else can presume who

there is too much sand a variety to make a sharp distinction between us and them. and, of course, neither i nor anyone else can presume who speaks for us, but i will pretend it is possible. it is also a problem about the word crisis, which 13 have in mind? there are numerous very severe crises, many of them will be under discussion here, in a couple we said the united nations and their confidence on the world financial and economic crisis. and this crisis is interwoven and very complex way which make it, preclude any sharp separation, but again i will pretend otherwise for simplicity. one way to enter this morass was helpfully provided by the current issue of the new york review dated yesterday. the front cover headline reads: how to deal with the crisis? it features a symposium on specialists and that is worth reading, but with the intention to the definite article the crisis. pour the west the raise, the crisis, has a clear and not meaning. it is the financial crisis that hit the rich countries and therefore is of supreme importance, but in practice even for the

>> a very difficult tee shot, sharp dogleg left to right, sharp dogleg left to right, he struggled swingingn his rain jacket all day long, he was able to figure out a way to get the ball in the greenside bunker, played a nice shot leaving himself a five-footer to save par after the horrible tee shot. >> is wet sand easier to hit out of than dry by a factor of 100? >> absolutely. to make a four, what a great way to get started. >> to get your legs back beneath you, in spite of that wicked miss he makes par. on two. maybe gives themselves a chance at a birdie. >> uphill approach shot, hits a beautiful shot, expecting it to spin back, it does somewhat, this green is maybe the wettest green of them early in the day. they were squeegeeing this early in the morning. >> an option for the players to clear a path to the hole. as you will see -- when tiger putts he reacts, dragging his putter across. you can see how wet it was. >> parring two and three. second shot at the par 5 fourth plays dramatically uphill. ball coming up 20 yards short. it didn't get into the bunker. it got caught in the grass o

after two months of sharp congressional argument almost two-thirds of the country supported the program. yes, the decisions of our democracy may be slow, but when the decision is made it is proclaimed not with the voice of any one man but with the voice of 130 million spent a it is binding on all of us and the world is now left in doubt. roosevelt's approach should be president obama's model, they write. the democrats line, welcome. caller: think about this a little more. think of the bush approach -- although i do not agree with a lot of his policies a think you have to go into it with a presidential decision. it is not one man's decision. he is basing that on advisers, military generals and so forth. once you get congress in this and involved you go through legislation. the congress is voted in every two years, the senate every six years, so your constantly dealing with a wave of political public opinion which is skewed by held the story is told, how it is written about, what political pundits think. these opinions are based on not having the same information that the president or oth

you've got to do what you got to do to stay sharp. he has been able to raise his batting average to a point where coming into this game tonight, he was hitting .261. >> jim: gets into one foul down the left side 0-2. when you're 13-24 last, you're doing something right. >> buck: he's got his average up to .264 now. he's headed in the right direction for sure. >> jim: here is the 0-2. it's a little low the off-speed pitch. sean west trying to which his third game of the big leagues and this is his seventh start. fastball wide of the plate. he still does not have a three up, three down inning, but the orioles have stranded every base runner they've had in this game. six in all. florida had two innings where they kept a lot of pressure on rich hill. orioles have not been able to do that against sean west. >> buck: even when they got him into the stretch, they haven't put anything back to back and can't get things go joy -- going. >> jim: popped wide of first base. cantu sofer and runs out of room. it's back in the crowd. mora on deck. th

positive note, firms are making progress in shed din the unwanted inventories following last fall's sharpdownturn in sales. the commerce department estimates the pace of inventory liquidation quickened during the first quarter, accounting for a sizable decline in real gdp in that period. as inventory stocks move into better alignment, firms should be more willing to increase production. we continue to expect overall economic activity to bottom out and then to turn up later this year. our assessment that consumer spending and housing demand will stabilize and that the pace of inventory liquidation will slow are key building blocks of that forecast. final demand should also be supported by fiscal and monetary stimulus and u.s. exports may benefit if recent signs of stabilization and foreign economic activity prove accurate. a relapse in the financial sector would be a significant drag on economic activity and could cause the incipient recovery to stall. i will provide a brief update on financial markets in a moment. even after recovery gets under way, the rate of growth of real economic act

sharp lie higher taxes and deep cuts in programs and budget deficits that would begin to balloon and at some point explode and no one paid much attention to these dire warnings, is not surprising. we have a president who had no real interest in pushing for fundamental health reform. and, a deficit that, while unsustainable in the long run, appeared to be on the right path, in the short run. from 2004, until the economy tanked in 2008, the deficit was coming down, and people tend to forget this. by 2007, it reached a mere 180 billion dollars. or 1.2% of gdp. which is a lower figure than any that was experienced in the 22 years between 1975 and 1996. that the budget wonks were projecting fiscal disaster in 15, 20, 30 years fell on deaf ears because this number that counts in washington is this number of years until the next election. and by this measure the wolf was not anywhere near the door and the economy, while it wasn't great, was certainly okay. of course, the last year has seen all of these elements change. we now have a president who is deeply committed to fundamental health ca

they're not as sharp and defined as far as metrics that i would like to see. but they're not part of the council's purpose, and it's not part of the council's purpose to end the wasteful or ineffective programs that are already out there. the council, the coordinated council, i'm talking about requires specific plans for consolidating federal health programs and centers and plans to ensure that all federal prevention programs are based on sound science. the focus of the federal government shouldn't be on fixing what's wrong with what we're doing but fixing on what's wrong with what we're doing not telling local schools and businesses what's wrong with their efforts. so the idea just expands and changes senator harkin's idea to make it more directed, more specific, and with a focus of eliminating duplication, some of which was in the other discussions we had, and this, quite frankly, comes from the patient's choice act where we do exactly what senator harkin does but we do it with a sharper knife, more refined pencil where we're actually putting the people in t

paulson told and i ask this question, you are a sharp guy in my economics mr. paulson as a smart guy and you convinced that congress could go in and put a value on these assets and clean them off the books and everything would be wonderful and yet ten days after we passed this, i didn't vote but ten days after we passed you bring the nine biggest banks, don't tell them what the meeting is about and use completely changed strategy so when did you know that you would not t.a.r.p. you know before congress voted or after congress voted on it when you would not be able to go in and purchase these securities and do when you told us he were going to do? >> we knew after. one of the problems was -- >> this was a month-long -- i remember the first conference call we listened and september you had a whole month and get within ten days probably within a few days this strategy -- you have a month leading up to this convincing the congress you could do this and yet within ten days complete change and yet you are bringing nine biggest washington of telling what it's about or

you're a sharp guy, m.i.t. graduate, mr. paulson is smart, mr. geithner is smart. you convinced congress you could go in and clean off these assets and yet ten days after that, after we passed this, i didn't vote about it but ten days after you bring -- don't tell them what the meeting is about and you have completely clean gd strategies. so did you know before congress voted on it or did you know after congress voted on it that you would not be able to go in and purchase these securities and do what you told us you were going to do? >> we knew after. one of the problems was that -- >> but here is what i want to understand. this was a month-long -- i remember the first conference call we listened into as members of congress was in september. you had a whole month, yet within ten days the strategy, probably a few days -- you had a whole month leading up to this convincing congress you could do this and yet within ten days complete change and yet you're bringing nine banks to washington, not telling them what it's about, not telling them you're going to force them to

on a trove of documents discovered in afghanistan and they were able to show that there was a very sharp internal debate inside al qaeda with some people arguing that the 9/11 attacks would provoke the united states into a series of actions that would alienate the muslim world and create a mass uprising where muslims around the world would rise up against local pols tight regimes, throws them off and enable al qaeda to look as the vanguard of the muslim population. that was the al-zawahiri in lowden theory. there are others who argue differently and say the americans will come down like a ton of bricks and completely wrecked the progress we've made building a consensus to support us across the muslim world. that group of people ultimately lost out and then the 9/11 attacks were the result. of course the massive uprising didn't happen but a lot of things the united states did alienated people probably unnecessarily in some cases but other cases led to a substantial backlash against the united states and the end of 2004 bin laden issued this statement which i think it's to some a justifica

it's a sharp break from the past. it's better than what we have now, it improves the status quo. but progressive voices have never been satisfied with just doing marginally better. progressive voices have always said, we got to do way better. we got to do as well as we can do, not just as well as what we might be able to scrape by with. and so i invite people who have a vision for a clean energy future to step forward with their proposals. the other point is that -- not just limited to the bill, it's focused on the idea that this is an opportunity for basic civic engagement and real democratic participation in our society. as we are now having multiple debates not only on health care but also on foreign assistance reform, state department, as we're talking about appropriation bills which are probably going to keep us really busy over the next 30 days, the fact is we will be addressing this aces bill as well and we cannot allow the advocates for a clean energy, green energy future to not be a part of this critical conversation. so let me just go through a few more questions and th

poorer countries to try to recover from the devastation that's occurred by, in some cases, the very sharp economic down jrn turn of the larger more prosperous countries. . the g-20 agreed that they would come up with $500 billion. the united states, the wealthiest of the g-20 by far, has a 20% share of that. the president agreed the united states would with the g-20 meet its part of the obligation that had been agreed upon. since the senate included that and the answer to the gentleman's question is i fully expect that to be in the supplemental that we consider on the floor. mr. cantor: mr. speaker, i thank the gentleman. mr. speaker, i say to the gentleman that the belief on our side is that the purpose of the war funding bill should be to provide our troops with the support they need not this controversial global bailout money. mr. speaker, i'd say more than that what we believe is currently from the reports is that the bill would eliminate $5 billion from the defense spending directly for our troops and provide that $5 billion credit towards the guarantee that the united states would h

. >> bob: they hit the ball fairly sharp against him. he's registered four outs without a strikeout. that's okay. >> bob: next up gabe kapler. >> rob: on gross, he was right up on the plate. ross got inside on him and jammed him. if you throw as hard as ross detwiler, you're going to have guys hit shots off you. same thing for zimmermann. >> bob: ball one to kapler who's only at bat was a game winning home run in friday night's game. this year he's batting a buck 83 with two home runs. >> rob: he got a reprieve when johnson dropped that pop fly foul. >> bob: kapler has never had a great full season in the major leagues. he did have 18 homers for the tigers in 99 and 17 for the 01 rangers. often injured, out of baseball for a year. detwiler walks him on 4. we mentioned corey patterson's fourth start today. byron kerr with more. >> reporter: i talked to patterson before the game. he's going to work hard to play well for the nats. >> definitely. all the guys run pretty much. you never know when they'll take the extra base. you've got to be

thankfully we have begun to see a sharp change in direction for the t.a.r.p. program, from the home ownership preservation program which draws upon the $75 billion in t.a.r.p. funds to more accountability from firms which received taxpayer assistance. but as the news this week, the general meters was filing for bankruptcy reminds us, we're hardly out of the woods and i would add that this committee intends to hold another hearing next wednesday to examine the administration's plans to restructure gm and chrysler. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ h@ @ er. responsibility falls to you, to provide the kind of steady leadership our country needs to navigate through the complexities of this economic crisis. with america's financial system continuing to hang in the balance, this office that you'll be heading needs a strong and vigilant manager, someone who can follow through on commitments made and maximize the return to taxpayers as well as keeping them well informed and understandable language as to what is occurring, why it is occurring, what our plans are, and where we're hea

. >> johnny: your wife looks pretty darn sharp. >> rob: he's italian. she's olive colored.. i always did my best work at night. right around 10:00. i had it down to the minute. >> johnny: we need hits in this game. >> rob: we need some hits. we have three hits last night. >> johnny: going back to guzman t, -- the triple. >> rob: that's his mo strike early and often. whether they're great strike, fast or breaking balls, he's coming with them. that's a good breaking ball. >> johnny: 3-2 count is full. >> rob: you don't give up a home run in eight consecutive games with overpower stuff. down the strike zone, very consistent with the breaking balls. he's got no fear. >> johnny: bard with a base hit to right. that will get things going hopefully. let's see, switch hitter with the most home runs in reds history -- for the reds in one season. okay. i said young. >> rob: you're right. 21. i'm positive todd had more than 21, well maybe in a couple of years. >> johnny: yeah not just one. a nice play. they almost got him at 1st base. you saw phillips coming around as soon as the ball

when it loses velocity it breaks sharp and big.g with boddicker and stone, they had trouble commanding the conservator ball because it was such a big break, they didn't know where to start and it didn't have the tight spin that tippy martinez has. it's much tougher to control and much tougher to hit when they're throwing it over and that's what rick has done. >> rick will be back with me for post game show after the conclusion of the series in oakland. orioles baseball is next. ♪ ♪ (tucci) more bars in more places. at&t. the best coverage worldwide. buy the lg xenon messaging phone for 99.99 after mail-in rebate and get one free after mail-in-rebate. times may be tough 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.

some of your breaking stuff may not be as sharp as you would like. >> johnny: count full, tavarez delivers and dickerson pops it down the left field line. nice running grab for josh willingham. coming up tomorrow night at 7:30, the nationals and tampa. masn2. join in progress about 7:05. and sunday afternoon at 1:30. and then new york against the yankees on tuesday and thursday on the big network, masn hd, nats xtra starting 30 minutes before the first pitch is thrown. 2 out in the 7th. dickerson retired. now back to the top with the reds line-up and jerry hairston. the 0-1 pitch. hairston swings through it. strike one. hairston's 0-3 today. >> rob: that pitch on the pitch track, johnny, 0-1, really nice been. down in the zone, getting dirty. >> johnny: hairston's kind of tailed off a little bit the last 9 ballgames. hitting about a buck 75. driven in only 3 runs. tavarez the 0-2 pitch. some nights they have hairston leading off and some nights they have willy taveras leading off. taveras should be the lead off. trying to get one of them to take off the lead-off role. but taveras, the spee

it took sharp aim at obama's bridge with iran during the 2008 campaign season when the democrats insisted he was open to talks with iran without pre- condition. ruth on the republican line, which you make of the president's approach? caller: this last ellis of the same thing i wanted to sue. obama should just back off of iran and let them be. just let them do their own thing. the same thing in afghanistan and in the other countries. he wants to send money to build the mill. the money he wants to send over there we need over here. -- to bail them out. he always wants to give people money, give people money, but he doesn't for over here. our health program, they have synergy, and a first person who signs up on that there's a $6 charge. if they go up to $10 apiece if they add more people into the family they pay for all the medical. the prescriptions are all paid for and you do not have to worry if you have somebody who has cancer right now. anything now there will be covered under that insurance. there will not be charged any more for it. there is nowhere as you can buy insurance that will

sharp hit ball, wide to first.and he gets the out. >> buck: one thing bass has done is pitch down in the zone with both the sinker ball and the slider. and that has allowed him to come up for three easy outs since he's come into this game. he's been a valuable part of this bullpen. and the guy that's been very consistent and has been very reliable. >> jim: two down. that brings up cust. walked his first at-bat. and that is a strike. no one on base, the orioles go into the overshift on jack cust. you see the shortstop andino on the second base site and there is wigginton in shallow rightfield. fouled back, it's 0-2. >> buck: you look at the shift, wigginton out there in shallow rightfield and cust has always been a notorious all or nothing type of guy. he has patience. he'll take his loss but he'll also strike out a lot, but with that you get some pop. >> jim: 0-2. and that's outside. 1-2 on jack cust. who is a former first round draft pick. sliders in the dirt. the draft comes up on tuesday. jack cust, in 1997 out

his curve ball has been sharp, effective. he is throwing good fastballs to both sides of the plate and the cut fastball and that's the curve ball that he missed with there. >> gary: hannahan ahead on the count. outstanding club man at third base, really solid defensive player. and this team plays solid defense. strike on the i side corner, 2- 2. hannahan has never hit a lot at the plate but he earns his money with the glove. >> buck: he sure has. when you have young pitchers, you want to have the best defense possible so they never get discouraged. >> gary: another rebound and hannahan is retired. one away here in the 5th inning -- 4th, sorry. >> buck: third comebacker for mark hendrickson. you like those quick outs. >> gary: rajai davis, he delivered a hit and an rbi in the 1st inning, picked up the single. davis making the start in centerfield. he has started the last three now with sweeney out of there with that banged up knee. 14th overall start this year in center. davis will take the pitch. he has a three-game hit strea

if there's a sharp ground ball, i imagine he'll come home with a one run lead. >> gary: orioles tryingth inning. >> jim: a couple at-bats for cora with one hit against hendrickson lifetime. >> gary: nowhere to put him. and the count will go to 3-1 on cora. >> jim: there's also nobody up behind him in the bullpen. >> gary: cora's walked 15 times while striking out only 12 times. some 90-plus at-bats. got that one in, just challenged him with it. >> jim: there are times in a game, that was one of them, when you're mark hendrickson, you have to say, i have no place to put him, got to throw it to the middle. and a pretty good pitch to hit. fouled it back. >> gary: put it in the strike zone and hope. it's fouled off by cora. >> jim: mark does have the big curveball. he's got a little bit of a slurment probably his best off- speed pitch is his change-up. every pitch, all five of them have been fastballs. that's what happens. we saw brian bass get caught in that situation because he didn't command anything else. >> gary: cora will ask for the time-out. >> jim: see that number. >> gary: very p

it is a very pointed and sharp conclusion. i just want to point out that the chief justice -- there's a reason they do not sign on to one another's concurring opinions. the chief justice did not sign onto alito's opinions. do not forget that president obama has trotted out this work into the -- trotted out to this word empathy. we have talked about that word for weeks, making ourselves crazy about what it could possibly mean. one of the very interesting things yesterday was this use of the word by ginsburg that say the fact -- this sympathy goes out to the sky. he seems like a great guy. i feel bad that he did not get what he wanted, but that is not the law. and here is alito who said, sympathy has nothing to do with it. look at this as framing some of obama's conversation that we're having about sonia sotomayor. host: the editorial cartoon in "the washington times" yester day. next to the firefighter is judge sonia sotomayor with the gasoline used to put out the fire. caller: one of the things that gets a little lost in this

he was sharp last night.cision but kept his team in the ballgame and that's what it's all about. >> johnny: when you talk about getting the job done, six homeruns allowed, 48 strikeouts and only 37 walks. >> phil: again, there is room for improvement with the walks but the point is that the walks have not killed them. that's the main thing. they have gotten a lot of double plays this month and while defensively, they still have their problems and they are still making errors, they still have the double plays helping the pitchers out night after night. >> johnny: people say, it takes a while for young guys to get acclimated. is there a projected time that you give a young guy where he's going to finally get it as he progresses? >> >> phil: nobody has a specific, you know, date that they're going to get it. i think it cops down to the experience they are getting on the major league level which they might not get otherwise with a better club. that's what it comes down to, really. when you are drafted by a club t

in sharp contrast in the dismal season they had in 2008.angers had at least a share of first place since may 6th. the latest they have been in the position since 1999. yes, the year that prince once sang about. padres scoring the least and up wouldn't know it today leading 7-3 in the top of the ninth. and eckstein with an r.b.i. double. and again a single in the sixth. and davis with the second home run in the last three games. >> and the best interleague performer this season, trying to keep it going against the d-backs. davis 1-5 at tomorrow. and the angels down 1-0. and aybar drops it down and it looks pretty routine and they throw it away. aybar heads to second and the double is nice. and aybar safe. and the throw, that sails out of town and aybar scores easily. and the second most errors in the majors. and the angels 13-4 in interleague play. and going 3-4 and .500 in the last seven games. >>> updating you on the giants and brewers now tied at 6-6 in the bottom of the ninth. the giants are doing their best to give the game away. brian

a fastball by ray who has come out and is looking very sharp.looking on three and he's been locating well. so five consecutive strikes here. >> jim p.: when you pitch an inning and 2/3 and give up five runs and seven hits, dave trembley talked about it, i watched the game, but the velocity was 96. he just made one real bad pitch. but they brought him out for the second inning after, and that just was a little too much. again, they were way behind in the ballgame. but this was a guy that three or four years ago is about as good as any young right-handed pitcher in baseball. had the tommy john surgery. it's taken a while to find his release point. >> bob: willie harris jacks one to right field, over the scoreboard and washington homers for the second time today and for willie harris, his third home run in the last two weeks. his fourth of the year makes it 4-1 washington. gets out of here in a hurry when it's in the middle of the plate, especially inside middle. >> rob: you talked about movement. his first few strikes were moving fastballs down an

/indian nuclear arguments, a sharp blow to the nonproliferation treaty. two countries have twice come to nuclear war. it was -- these developments pose a very serious threat to world peace, even to human survival. well, there's a lot to say about this crisis but no time here. coming back home, whether the deceit here about the monstrous enemy, johnson's case might as well have been sincere. suppose say 50 years ago americans had been given a choice of directing their tax money to development of information technology so that their grandchildren could have ipods and the internet, or else putting the same funds into developing a liveable and sustainable socioeconomic order. well, they might very well have made the latter choice but they had no choice. now, that's standard. there's a striking gap between public opinion and public policy on a host of major issues, domestic and foreign and at least in my judgment, public opinion is often a lot more sane. it also tends to be fairly consistent over time which is pretty astonishing because public concerns and asp

he reacted with a very sharp increase in military spending. which the russian military later tried to match. that's tanking the economy as khrushchev had anticipated. that was the crucial moment in the soviet economy collapsed. well, what everyone thinks of the defensive pretext for nato at least had some credibility. but what happens when the soviet union is gone? and the pretext disappears? well, it got more extreme. gorbachev permitted a unified germany to join a hostile military alliance run by the global superpower. that is astonishing in the light of history. germany alone had practically destroyed russia twice in the century. now, there was a quid pro quo. this is bush number one and james baker. it had been thought up until a couple months ago that bush and baker promised not to expand nato to the eastern european former soviet satellites but there was the first careful study of the original documents came out by mark kramer, a cold war historian. he believes that he's refuting charges of u.s. duplicity but, in fact, what he shows is t

what this has done is cause a sharp reduction in revenues and an increase in spending on cyclically sensitiveentitlements. the administration and congress have also enacted a huge stimulus package and used various other forms of financial wizardry to prop up asset values and give a boost to the financial sector and, of course, pick up a few car companies on the cheap. [laughter] >> the bottom line of all of this is that our deficits are soaring. cbo has estimated that for the current fiscal year, we will have a deficit of around $1.8 trillion or 13% of g.d.p., which is over twice as large as any deficit we've experienced since the end of world war ii. in percent of g.d.p. terms. looking at fiscal 2010, the next year, doesn't look a whole lot better, a deficit of something in the order of 1.4 trillion or 10% of g.d.p. and even looking out over the full 10-year period, the cbo projections of what the president's policies would entail are pretty, pretty bleak. the specter of a financial disaster is no longer two or three decades away. in short, the wolf -- if the wolf is not at the door, we shou

. >> be able to do two and two- thirds innings you said you felt like you weren't as sharp as before. >> having a good slider tonight was key for me. kept the batters off balance. my first two starts i didn't really have the feel for my slider. tonight it was really low. >> thanks. >> thanks amber. >> david hernandez with amber. tomorrow conclude the three game series. rich hill gets the start for the bird. >> he has been pitching well for the orioles as of late. he's established that curve ball. i don't think anybody in the league can hit. they almost have to just take that pitch and go ahead and wait for the fastball because they're just not going to hit it. when he keeps his fastball, curve ball in the strike zone and football up in the strike zone, he is very very tough to get any runs off of. he's a guy now that's really establishing himself with consistency that starters need. he's had one shaky game so far this season. the rest have been very good. >> back to oakland real fast and try to check in with jason berken. >> obviously i know you're disappointed walking away from that

he came back so sharp. give you an example how awful jon smoltz was a year after a layoff. this is only about a month layoff. maybe a little morement he came back with a great changeup, great breaking ball, good velocity. maybe debbi taylor can do a little digging to find out how the kid's arm felt today and his shoulder. bottom line is, no walks, seven punch outs, seven innings, but he had command of the game the entire time i liked his attitude coming off the mound. -- i liked his attitude. coming off the mound, hot under the collar and and mean. great when he's on the field. -- off the field. when uehara you're on the field, you have to be all business. >> bob: here is hermida who was at the plate when hanley ramirez thought he would further embarrass the nationals by trying to steal third with a left-handed batter up there. >> rob: that's a good word, bob, "embarrassed." if guys are going to do that out there, you have to take care of business because they're in your division. you don't want ramirez or bonifacio or anybody else thinking we can just steal on those catche

lot of confidence right now, and wouldn't you know it, luke scott comes off the bench, deliver as sharpp the middle. so mora's two-out base hit and now luke scott's two-out base hit has set the table for matt wieters. >> jim: and lindstrom is fortunate that the hard smash went right to the second baseman. that may have been the hardest hit ball in the inning so the orioles have a chance with wieters ahome run threat up against lindstrom. lindstrom has allowed only two home runs on the year in his previous 31 appearances. >> buck: jim johnson, just in case. >> jim: he was going for it and he swings through it. here is wet neither the eighth inning. >> buck: hitting left-handed against leo nunez. he gets the fastball up out of the plate and drills intoit the seats. his second home run of his young career. >> jim: hard hit ball, base hit into right field. melvin mora heading around third and he will score and scott goes to third and wieters keeps it going with an rbi single. tree straight hits after two men down and a two rbi night for wieters! >> buck: he caught up with that low fastball.

in april 2009 it was up to 5.7%, a sharp rise from just one year ago.t the to cleveland on our republican line. -- let's go to cleveland. caller: i have seen a little infrastructure improvement, but it seems like a small amount. our road system is over 60 years old and a water system is over 100 years old. they could have spent more to help that. the biggest thing to hurt us is the loss of industrial manufacturing jobs. all the so-called economic experts the said it would not heard anything have been proven wrong. china has built itself into an economic superpower through industrial manufacturing. go to your local hardware store. hardly anything is made here anymore. until we get off this disastrous free trade policy i don't see things getting better. the have to put a cap on immigration. we think letting more people into this country

sharp divergence from a standard that justice harlan articulated in maryland v. west in 1968, whether there was a rational basis for the congressional decision. so that as justice scalia noted in his dissent in blane v. tennessee, the standard of congruence and proportionality was flabby, and justice scalia went on to say this: "worse still, it tasks this court in the role of congress's fask h. task master. under it the courts and this court must regularly check congress's homework to make sure it has identified sufficient constitutional violations to make us remedy constitutional -- its remedy constitutional and proportional." in the confirmation hearings of chief justice roberts, he responded in a way very supportive of the role of congress where the court should be differential to the congress. in response to a question by senator dewine, he said that the supreme court ought to defer to congressional findings, and the answer will be in the record with this letter. in response to my quelg, chief justice roberts said the following: "and i appreciate very much th

moments after he took the oath, president obama had to contend with a sharp downturn in the economy, rising unemployment, and a financial system that need a lot of help, to say the least. there were problems beyond our shores like iraq, afghanistan, and north korea. prognosticators have been saying this would be an extraordinary decade, and it appears they are right. while it is impossible to predict what will happen next, david brooks, and op-ed columnist for "the new york times," will provide us with his insights on politics in the age of obama. let me offer some background. before joining the "times" he worked for "the weekly standard ." prior to that he worked at a competitor, "the wall street journal conchobar his last position was op-ed editor. he was also stationed in brussels, covering a small be, russia, middle east, south africa, and you are a. he demonstrated versatility as editor of the book review sessioction. he is the author of several books, and the reason c-span is here today televising this session. given his business better, it is a special honor to welcome him to

but these sharp increases raised concerns. are these increases the results of a lack of competition in a highly concentrated market? will consumers continue to see similar increases for this and other services they have become dependent upon, such as internet connection and basic voice service? do text message price increases represent a warning sign for the state of competition in the industry as a whole? a concentrated nation of this market should make us wary of other challenges to competition. smaller competitors raise serious questions about practices that prevent them from being able to fairly compete. these range from deals that deny competitors access to the most in demand telephones, to limitations on the ability of new competitors to rome on other networks, to difficulties in obtaining needed spectrum. it is imperative we work to remove barriers to ensure consumers the best rates. we urge the fcc to take all necessary action to remove each of these barriers to competition. removing these barriers will insure that the

it is partly the fact that we had this very sharp decline in the latter part of last year related to the financial crisis. that caused the big buildup of inventories. very importantly, as i discussed earlier, we seem to have gotten -- done a -- achieved a good deal of progress in stabilizing financial system. that has helped restore confidence. final demand is beginning to stabilize. we still had a very bad first quarter and we may yet have a negative second quarter because of the need to work down those inventories. but because the financial markets are doing better, because there is more confidence in the economy, in the financial system, as those inventories work down, we should begin to see a modest increase in growth. i would put the internal dynamics of the economy, in terms of inconvenient toirz and so on, as being part of it. i also would like to give credit to actions taken by the treasury, the fed, the fdic and the congress to help stabilize the financial system. >> thank you, and i yield back. >> thank you so much, mr. chairman. and thank you, mr. chairman, for being patie

a sharp accident from him. this case is quite significant, and it will take some time to shake out. i wanted to make a point in looking at the court, how we look at the justices. obviously an interesting lineup. kennedy writes the accident, and briar joining roberts and alito in the accident. talking about how new justices can change the court, obviously we will see society mayor have her own impact on the court. >> if you look back to his first term on the supreme court, there was a case called white versus illinois. a man was convicted in a sex abuse case and he was trying to argue that the girl who accused him should have to go in and testify so he could confront her. he said no. whether or not the evidence was reliable as hear say. thomas wrote a powerful concurrence in which he urged the court to rethink the way it has looked at this entire issue. he looked back historically at how the framers surely must have been concerned about what they had season in english. he talked about the trial of sir walter raleigh, and the framers were concerned we not have these kinds of trials by

there had been wiped out to a man, and when the cook denied them the extra sausage and potatoes, one sharp guy, the narrator in the book, says, yes, but the most severe infraction is wasting food, and when they come around and see that you wasted half the food, u-your neck will be in a noose, and the cook is caught in the dilemma and finally... well, any way, nobody could answer the question. because that is not the kind of question that is asked. your reading has been shaped by scoring well. the only anecdote is if your parents actually know how to read and they read for nuances. and for tiny detail and for connecting the dots, and instead of memorizing them. so, these results that emerge are frequently cooked in advance, this is an expression from chess puzzles. they are pre-destin ated, the answer and they can be made to see the results are falling one way because, obviously, these are superior people. over 30 years teaching, i absolutely know that if you took all of the a-students and put them in a class, and you had to pick a-students as a class, b-students, c, combined and d, the one

internet reports to show the last moments of nada, a young iranian woman shot in the heart by government sharp shooters. overnight she has become a symbol of the opposition. the shaky blurred images of a young woman collapses on to the pavement. a dark pool of blood spreads beneath her body. two men kneel against the -- next to the woman and press on her chest emscreaming. the camera filming him zooms in on her face, her face turns to the side and blood streams out of her nose an mouth. madda, don't be afraid says 1 man. another man seeks to put her in the car and the video stops. the video appeared on the network sites facebook and twitter saturday evening and it became a sensation being forwarded repeatedly. user groups were determined to get around youtube's ability to get around the graphic film. it became forwarded so often, that it became imresponsible for youtube to remove it. so -- so, mr. president, we've seen, as we have in cases of brutal repression throughout history, the living example or the dying example of martyrdom. and by sunday morning nada became the fifth more commented to

members on welfare see a sharp increase in the welfare rolls which were slow to rise and actually fell in many states early in the recession are now coming across the country for the first time since president clinton signed legislation pledging to end welfare as we know it more than one decade ago. 23 of the 30 largest states which account for more than 80% of the total population see welfare caseloads above year-ago levels. as more people run out of the unemployment compensation many are turning to welfare as a stopgap. to trenton, new jersey, good morning on the democrat's lead. caller: its trenton, tennessee. all of the industry has moved from here. there are absolutely no factory jobs available in any of the towns around west tennessee. it has all moved from the country. we have an educated laborers out there with no jobs. they have to depend on welfare. i think the stimulus plan is going in the wrong direction. people talked about this kind of education and that kind, but we still have people up there who were born in the 1950's and 1960's who could not afford a college education

staying his first at bat little flare to get it going and then a sharp hit into right field in his first two at bats. hopefully that will be a sign of things to turn around for him. >> gary: takes that one to center field. all kinds of room and he'll put it away. so cahill retiring the side in order for the second time and that's eight in a row he has let down. a's have the lead 1-0. change it up a bit... and you're sure to get a reaction. [ motorcycle engine growl ] ♪ don't let erectile dysfunction slow things down. ♪ viva viagra! viagra, america's most prescribed ed treatment, can help you enjoy a more satisfying sexual experience. to learn more, cruise on over to viagra.com. ask your doctor if your heart is healthy enough for sex. don't take viagra if you take nitrates for chest pain... as it may cause an unsafe drop in blood pressure. side effects may include headache, flushing, upset stomach, and abnormal vision. to avoid long-term injury, seek immediate medical help... for an erection lasting more than four hours. stop taking viagra and call your doctor right away... if you experie

pleasant -- plus entries, governor pete degette [laughter] to have an nih budget of $442 million as a sharp pretreat from what the chairman used to insist on 3.5 billion a year increases. senator harkin wouldn't settle for anything less for most of the decade. i guess it isn't entirely true. occasionally he settled for 3 billion. but if you take a look at the cost of living in just meant inflation rate about 3.3%, thatn i would urge you to take another look. we want to stay within our budget. i would appreciate it if you took another look at that. the $10 billion that was added in the stimulus package brought an enormous wave of excitement. scientists. and i think we have to maintain the growth rate. we talked about cutting down the cost health care. what better way of the cost factor than to prevent government and during the purple of time when senator harkin had his way increasing from 12 to $30 billion on the death rate -- >> we imminent, i was a ranking member then. i was ranking member of that time. >> come to think of that he didn't have all that much to do with it. [laughter] but on

you get the whole brim the same color whether it's orange or -- i got did you have a sharp belt buckle too? >> jim: no, i could never figure that one out. thought about it. >> gary: tried it. three up, two downt count down. delivery to scott. he walked him. pelfrey close to the end. he got that double play and enormously important double play. he's now surrender three walks in the ballgame and keeps the sixth inning alive. >> jim: he's made two really huge pitches. one to strikeout. brian roberts to get out of the fifth. then, the double play ball to mora. until then, he was lights out. >> gary: jerry manuel takes the big hop to the third-base line and makes his to the mound. that will be it. the walk to scott will send the mets to their bullpen. green will come on to do thepitching. orioles will get the potential tying run to the plate in the person of nolan reimold. two runs in on the markakis homer here in the sixth. it's made it a 4-2 game. times may be tough today, but the things we all look forward to haven't changed. like owning a home. watching our children grow. and retiring w