The Critic

QUOTE (MHizzle85 @ Jul 18, 2008 -> 06:05 PM) If i'm home i'll be watching UFC and looking to download Affliction, I just prefer to see one of my favorite fighters (silva) live. On another note, Dana White confirmed the UFC coming to the Allstate Arena on October 25th. I'll be saving my cash for this. I'll get cheap seats for the UFC show here. Should be a fun atmosphere, but throw some alcohol into the mix and I'm sure you'll see some "amateur bouts" in the stands.

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Jul 18, 2008 -> 06:04 PM) Updates from opening cermonies of the convention: #3 to be retired this season for Pilote/Maggy Your new captain is #19 (for the next 10+ years) Pilote is a play-based retirement, Maggy is sentimental but I'm okay with it.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jul 18, 2008 -> 04:43 PM) I personally believe #7 should be retired, and the announcement should be at Wrigley on January 1st. Respectfully disagree. Chelios played for two other teams, won Cups with those teams, won zero Cups here. Plus, I personally think he's a cheap-shotter who never stood up to anyone his own size.

Perhaps an attempt at a deviously clever delivery to a local prison?

Updated my avatar to answer your question. "IT STINKS!!" Plus, it describes my personality quite nicely.

I would hope the service at the grocery stores would be better than that of the C an't T ravel A nywhere

My favorite is Park Ribs on Archer Ave. just east of Harlem Ave. I love their sauce!

QUOTE (LosMediasBlancas @ Jul 16, 2008 -> 09:22 AM) A million reasons. I like that it's outdoors and in the summer, so the weather is usually great. Can't say that about the other three major sports. I like that you can bring the entire family. Do you take small children or grandma to NFL games?? Well, I don't go to football games, but I do take the family to basketball and hockey games.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jul 15, 2008 -> 12:05 PM) I don't see why the Packers, after all that Favre has done for them, would not release him. Way to create a messy divorce for no reason. They'd be smartest to take him back, as he gives them the best chance to win a Superbowl, but to be absolute dicks and not release him is even lamer. I think they've just had it with his dicking them around every offseason about retiring/not retiring/retiring/unretiring, and they're just giving it back to him. I think the last straw was this recent one where he calls them, they get everything ready to reintroduce him, and then he calls two days before the presser and re-quits. It's too bad, but both sides seem to have an axe to grind in this, and the Packers know that if they grant Favre his release he'll probably end up a Viking. They seem more willing to rot him on the bench or try to work a non-divisional trade when someone's QB goes down.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jul 15, 2008 -> 03:55 AM) Brian Anderson:Vladimir Lenin::Paul Konerko:Joseph Stalin Darin Erstad is tied into this somewhere, but I'm not sure exactly where You obviously haven't seen Stalin's OPS for July. He's been RED hot!!!

Guys, come on. You haven't figured this out???? Come Sunday night, JBL will enter the ring, smug as can be, until THE ARENA GOES DARK!!!! THE BELLS RING!!!! AND INTO THE ARENA WALKS........ THE UNDERCENA!!!!!

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Jul 14, 2008 -> 08:09 PM) Waldo Cooney's, any of your South Siders ever had it? It's f***ing incredibly delicious. Their thin crust is so good. I've had it, it's good. Not on my list of favorites, but good pizza indeed. Papa Joe's is King s*** when it comes to South Side pizza IMO.

If you're going on a purely stat-based viewpoint, then I'd lean towards agreeing that Namath was overrated, but if we're talking about the total impact he had on the NFL's status, I'm not so sure. Namath gave the AFL credibility by bragging that the Jets would beat the Colts and then going out and doing it. This after the Packers had won the first two AFL/NFL games by scores of 35-10 and 33-14, and with the Jets being heavy underdogs to the Colts (15 to 20 point dogs, in fact). That has to enter into the equation somewhere. Sure, he was not a truly great QB, but I believe his leading the Jets to the Super Bowl win helped make the game bigger and more meaningful, and that went a long way towards his "rating" in many people's eyes. The fact that he played in New York at the time didn't hurt his cause, either.

Good LORD, man! "Look at the size of that boy's head! I bet he cries himself to sleep on his ENORMOUS PILLOW!!" I wear a NON-freakish 7-1/2 or 7-5/8, depending on the manufacturer.

QUOTE (Brian @ Jul 12, 2008 -> 04:48 PM) The new Metallica coming this fall will be called "Death Magnetic!" Odd name but I thought that of St. Anger at first. Yeah, they're saying that DM is a "return to form" for Metallica. Of course, they said that about St. Anger, and THAT turned out to be a steaming pile, so color me skeptical. I'd love for Metallica to deliver something half as good as any of their first four albums, but I really doubt they have that in them any more. Edit to say that I think Death Magnetic is a pretty weak title.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 12, 2008 -> 09:36 PM) I am the one guy on Soxtalk who could honestly say that money wouldn't change me... I have always been a pretentious, egotistical, asshole... What's to change? Now you're just being self-deprecating - anyone who posts pictures of and gushes about his kid like you do ain't that much of an asshole. Money would just make me feel like I could say whatever I want to whomever I want. It's probably better for me never to have that much money, I'd likely end up getting shot or something.

QUOTE (Mr. Showtime @ Jul 12, 2008 -> 02:47 PM) I assume we're speaking of Wii Fit. If so, yes it's worth it. What the hell else would she be talking about???

Cubs survive another Marmol implosion, 8-7 in 11 innings. MUCH tougher than it should have been.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 12, 2008 -> 10:29 AM) After all of the immediate families were taken care of, I would buy a minority share of the White Sox to try to get onto the board of directors and get into the management side of sports. 2K5 on the Sox BOD = 51,000+ internal emails. QUOTE (almagest @ Jul 12, 2008 -> 11:13 AM) Five words... three hundred million lotto tickets. That made me laugh. If I won 300M, I'd buy houses in the Chicago area for everyone in my family.............and then move somewhere else.

QUOTE (whitesoxbrian @ Jul 11, 2008 -> 02:33 PM) Just call him Captain Toews dailyherald.com No surprise at all. The kid's a great choice to wear the C.

QUOTE (ChiSox35 @ Jul 10, 2008 -> 11:48 PM) The sharp decline in people over the last 20 years alone is astonishing. I can, but don't want to imagine what it will be like in another 20. Took the train downtown today and lost my phone. When I got back I had to call for a ride and I asked 4 people at the station if I could use their cell, even offered money. Shockingly, no one had one! Except 5 minutes later one of them was outed when his 43498 decibel symphony of a ringtone went off. I looked at him, shook my head and just walked home. Somewhere (I think Maryland) recently a guy was hit by a car in the street. People saw it, but no one stopped to help. Cars actually drove around him. And of course, the woman dying in the ER waiting room and everyone looks the other way. Well, not really. They looked directly at her. One employee even walked over to nudge her with her foot. First thing I thought when I read this was that you should have said "hey, your dick must be ringing....you know, since you have no phone...."

QUOTE (Brian @ Jul 11, 2008 -> 12:42 PM) My cousin is a huge Pearl Jam fan and in the Ten Club. He gets tickets early everytime they get to St. Louis. Yeah, one of my gifts to the Mrs. will be a Ten Club membership, so she can be in on the pre-sale the next time Pearl Jam tours. She's way more excited about the thought of seeing Pearl Jam again than she was about the Eddie solo tour (and she was very excited about the possibility of seeing Eddie).

I hate fan club pre-sales. I tried to buy my wife Eddie Vedder tickets, but at 11:00 AM when the tickets "went on sale", there were a grand total of ZERO tickets available for either show. Oh well. Guess Janet Jackson tickets will have to do......

I'll call your apples and I'll raise you some oranges. I was already tired of Ed Farmer saying "it feels like 2005, folks" twice a week, so I'm beyond bored at the comparison by now. For me, nothing can or will be better than the 2005 playoff run, so there's no point in any comparison. The 2005 regular season gave me some heartburn in the second half, but that playoff run was the best time I ever had watching sports.

A preview of Pratt's review of the Soxtalk/WSI rematch: My Charlie Brown Moment I took a liner off the face today.....