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well how long can you call someone elitist when you yourself came from a prominent family, are rich as hell and wear $4000 shoes and have more houses than you can count? Just because you were dumb in the naval academy doesn't mean you are a good ole boy.

my friend works at a graveyard and says he's had to do this several times. He describes it in excruciating detail cause he can see me cringe.

Uh-Oh was great. He actually had a pretty good "going going gone" this year. BUt today's was pretty terrible.

QUOTE (Texsox @ Aug 20, 2008 -> 11:10 PM) I also would have prefered someone who would have better moral conservative credentials. Vito Foselli, David Vitter, Larry Craig or Mark Foley?

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Aug 21, 2008 -> 12:47 AM) wow, the TV Media isn't covering his talking points? No, I won't get into this argument again. He gets more coverage, less favorable coverage. CNN had a segment asking whether Obama was the anti-christ.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 21, 2008 -> 12:15 AM) Part of the problem though was that against Hillary, the campaign put together a strategy where they didn't need to go negative at all. They won it by winning Iowa, outworking Hillary for every delegate they could steal on Super Tuesday, and then putting her away with strong showings in the late Feb. states where she hadn't planned to compete at all. He never had to go negative against her that much to win, he just had to endure her barrage and not totally foul anything up before PA and NC hit. So far, they're using the same basic playbook here...outworking McCain while he tries to keep swinging a club. They haven't hit him all that hard yet except on the couple of local issues (Ralph Reed in GA, the DHL thing in Ohio). They may not want to go harder after him than that...up to this point in the Campaign, they've never had to. Obama seems more invisible now while they set up the ground offices. He is being massively outspent in TV ads by McCain and doesn't have the luxury of having his talking points spoken by the TV media. After the convention the advertisement saturation will begin.

I've never felt badly about our team vs. a knuckler - granted THIS team I haven't seen. I bet alexei gets some nice hits. Thome takes advantage of one and Griffey gets ANGRY and hits dingers if he plays.

AWESOME GAME

Bill Clinton sunk his wife.

It's seems like in good seasons, it's stuff like this that has to happen. The mediocre prospects that come into the middle of the pennant race and succeed. In a 162 game season so much can go wrong, and so much can go right. Luckily for us it's been going right (quintin, alexei, danks, floyd, carrasco, uribe) after things had gone wrong.

I feel like Hermanson and Thomas in 05 were pretty serious injuries even though we had people step up. edit: I thought this thread someone made a comment about how in 05 we had no serious injuries...but maybe not.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Aug 19, 2008 -> 06:27 PM) But he throws a knuckleball. How many of our guys have faced someone like him beofre? I'd say there's about as good of a chance that our offense lays an egg against him as there is they light him up for 10+ runs. I feel like we've done well against knuckle ballers.

QUOTE (bmags @ Feb 16, 2008 -> 06:32 PM) The world series will be renamed The U.S. Cellular Series in part of a huge block from google against microsoft. Thome will hit a ball into the lights, causing sparks and mass mayhem the sox have not seen since disco demolition night. it's coming, just wait.

right thread?

It's good he can spell.

never been in a fight. Closest we got was confronting a guy who just slapped a girl but he ran in his truck and drove off. I was willing to kick his shins.

QUOTE (HawkDJ @ Aug 19, 2008 -> 02:29 PM) So I'm a huge Obama supporter and registered to vote in Illinois. I'm away at school in North Carolina and just realized my vote would probably mean more if I register in North Carolina, it seems there is an off chance we could go blue this year whereas Illinois will most definitely go blue. What do you guys think? If I want to do this, how do I go about canceling my Illinois registration? I was in the same situation in Missouri. I registered in Missouri. Check if there is a democratic office or an Obama office in your town and I'm sure they can help.

yeah that's pretty stupid. I'm going to do drugs in my roommates room now. I guess I just like him for his "noun, verb and 9/11" quip

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Aug 19, 2008 -> 12:55 AM) no offense, but lot of elected Democrats are bats*** crazy. not compared to the constitutional party's platform.

I think Biden is a lot like what McCain is. Then what does McCain have then?

I still feel pretty confident here tonight

QUOTE (knightni @ Aug 19, 2008 -> 12:58 AM) I wonder how much range at 1B that Aaron Gray would have? He is over 7' after all. that would be SICK!

QUOTE (G&T @ Aug 19, 2008 -> 01:16 AM) I think there is a simple explanation for the "slow down:" not much to say that hasn't been said. What I mean is, when someone posts I can almost predict the reaction. I'm sure other people can too. I think this is why there is more activity in the non-baseball forums where conversations aren't as predictable...or so it seems to me. and you see the people are still there when something like the KGJ trade happens.

specifically the past two weeks seem to be pretty busy for a very young group of posters that very much make up a large part of this site. I don't really see soxtalk going down hill at all. Still the best sox message board I've found in terms of prospects and analysis. Around my friends I know the most about the Sox, for the most part, on here, I just read and react because some are so great at explaining the team and game to me.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Aug 19, 2008 -> 12:49 AM) Uribe seems to play better when he knows he's either about to get benched or he knows he's not the starter. If we could psychologically trick him into thinking that way all the time I'd give him a 100 million dollar contract to play SS. threaten no dinner every night.