The Critic

QUOTE(shipps @ Feb 12, 2008 -> 08:28 AM) The only thing missing is the acceptance speeches. OKAY! "I'd like to start by thanking the academy..............and by "the academy" I mean Jason............without him, there is no Soxtalk, and without Soxtalk I could not be voted the funniest motherf***er on Soxtalk. So thank you Jason for the time and money you waste on this hobby. Also, I'd like to thank the 18 people who voted for me. I consider this 0.0048% of the total Soxtalk population to be a MANDATE, and I will proceed as such. I have, in fact, noticed that the 18 votes I received is my lowest vote total ever. I blame this NOT on my being any less funny than in previous years. NO, instead I blame YOU, the other approximately 3,678 Soxtalkers who did NOT vote for me. I do not control my vote total, YOU do, and this failure to vote for me, to hitch your wagon to a WINNER, is your cross to bear and not mine. I cannot undo your apathy, or in some cases your completely illogical decision to vote for someone else. Look in the mirror, my friends.....take a good long look in the mirror. [music begins to play] It would be in good taste to turn off that music. [music gets louder] I SAID, IT WOULD BE IN GOOD.....OH f*** IT!! In closing, I pledge to be funny when it suits me, and to avoid being funny at all other times. When I attempt to be funny, and you fail to find me funny, please again take this as more of a barometer of your sense of humor and not mine, as I am the funniest person on this board, so where do you get off judging me? That last part was again directed at the 3,678 others, and NOT the 18 wise voters who followed their hearts and their funny bones. To my loyal 18 voters I say THANK YOU and I will do you proud in 2008!!! I OWN THIS b****!!!! [throws down microphone, at which point security drags me offstage and pummels me]

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Feb 12, 2008 -> 10:39 AM) Its about time! Dude, they're bangin' out the dents, shinin' it up real purty, gonna get some flames painted all around, and I'm going overboard and getting some rubber insulation along the rim of the lid to soundproof AND weatherproof the b****!! It's gonna be SUH-WEEEET!!!!!

We'll be getting some work done to Critic Towers with our check.

I keep meaning to get back to Slash's autobiography, but it's written in a style that sounds nothing like I imagine Slash to sound like, so it's too off-putting. I read about 3 chapters and it just doesn't read well. I will finish it at some point, though.

He's at least a two-time failure at radio. (Sporting News Radio and WMVP) His morals must be too high for radio success.

I'm enjoying "Road To Rampton", the latest disc by the Anti-Nowhere League, right now. I didn't even know they had a new one out, so I was very happy to discover this!

QUOTE(Jenks Heat @ Feb 11, 2008 -> 09:47 AM) I find it really odd that a team that literally is unable to score is going after defensemen. The defense looks solid while the forwards go long periods of time druing a game while generating no offense. On the Perrault wide open net he still should have been able to do something. I know the pass was deflected. The shootout was frusatrating as hell. Toews is a god by the way. I'll give Perrault a pass on that open net play. The puck was deflected to his feet and he just didn't have the time and room to get control of it in time. If he wasn't in so tight on the net he could have maybe kicked the puck to his stick and gotten some kind of shot off, but there just wasn't enough space. It seems like Tallon's waiting for Forsberg to make up his mind before he goes after any offensive players. That shootout was terrible - nobody made Luongo move at all.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Feb 11, 2008 -> 09:12 AM) And ladies and gentlemen, is an example of one too many jokes. Professionals call this painting a moustache on the Mona Lisa. :lol:

That huge trail of blood from the corner to the bench was kind of creepy. All signs are good for Zednik's recovery. Best of luck to him, especially when it comes time to get back on the ice. Clint Malarchuk has mentioned that the mental part of returning was tough for him after his similar injury.

QUOTE(kyyle23 @ Feb 11, 2008 -> 09:08 AM) Thats a pretty nice offer from WWE to put Scott Hall up in rehab considering Scott Halls long history of screwing over his employers. Yeah, the E threw out a blanket rehab offer to all their ex-employees, I think half as a nice gesture and half as a PR move against any possible steroid/PED investigations.

My favorite right now is Thome, but Bobby, Mark, JD, Paulie and AJ are all close behind. Is that too non-committal?

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Feb 11, 2008 -> 08:48 AM) How telling is this? I go to numerous message boards, and I have yet to find one with a thread about last nights Grammy's. All I've heard about on the radio was Kanye West blowing hard and Amy Crackhouse winning a bunch of awards.

QUOTE(IlliniKrush @ Feb 10, 2008 -> 11:57 PM) Reportedly throwing up throughout the 1st period. Did he see replays of his own play on the jumbotron?

Hey Yo, I got a problem: source: Wrestling Observer Newsletter -- Former WWE star "Razor Ramon" Scott Hall has taken up WWE's rehab offer. Apparently, Hall had a recent breakdown in Puerto Rico. He then decided to take up WWE's offer. Hall is staying at the same rehab center former WWE star Jake "The Snake" Roberts is currently situated at, which is in Atlanta. Roberts is currently nine weeks into his fourteen-week stay at the facility. They're just a couple guys away from a pretty decent indy show at that rehab center.

Plenty of good seats available: sources: Wrestling Observer, Wrestling Observer Newsletter, www.f4wonline.com -- As of this weekend, TNA has sold between 1,500 and 2,000 tickets for tomorrow's Against All Odds pay-per-view at the BI-LO Center in Greenville, South Carolina. The building holds at least 11,000 people for wrestling. Due to sluggish ticket sales, TNA has begun papering the event, in other words, giving away tickets for free. They are even giving away the pricier ringside tickets that cost $150 as some of the Bi-Lo Center contacts have been offered them. Although, it seems like not too many of their contacts have taken up the offer as second row seating is still available for purchase at TicketMaster.com. Also, TicketMaster is apparently having a complimentary ticket offer for the show as one person was planning on buying tickets, but came away with three complimentary tickets and didn't pay a penny.

DAAAAAAAAAMN!!! source: Wrestling Observer Newsletter -- If you're wondering where Ron Simmons has been in recent weeks, he recently took up WWE's rehab offer. Simmons is currently staying at a rehab center in Atlanta. Simmons was last seen on television at the 12/29 Raw taping in Greensboro in a "Happy New Year's" vignette with Jillian Hall.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Feb 9, 2008 -> 02:22 PM) Simpler time? For simpler people? Gee talking about offensive I guess us simple old folks are lucky to have y'all around to learn us something. Not all of us use a Mac . . .

QUOTE(iamshack @ Feb 9, 2008 -> 11:59 AM) If you go through life always worrying about offending no one, you won't accomplish much of anything... And if you barrel through life not worrying about anything you say and that everyone else should "lighten up", neither will you. It's all situational, and in his situation there were consequences to his stupidity. If his joke was about Finfer, then he simply could have replaced "Jewish" with "Finfer" - that way, if any other Jewish person took offense, it would be their own fault for extrapolating Coppock's remark about one person into thinking it was about all Jews. But Coppock's not that smart.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Feb 9, 2008 -> 10:56 AM) Peace, love, and ensure to all of us oldsters $30 for a case of 8 oz. cans online..............orrrrrrrrr so I've heard!!! Of course, it all Depends on whether or not you need it!!!

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Feb 9, 2008 -> 09:34 AM) Does anyone here have any family members by-marriage who are just such a great fit and so wonderful that they become as close or closer to you than your blood relations? That was my "Uncle" Joe. Not really an uncle, but married to a first cousin. Unbelievably great guy, generous beyond measure, and lifelong diehard Sox fan to boot. He was diagnosed with lymphoma a couple of years back, and it progressed unbelievably rapidly and just ate him up. He died yesterday, way before he should have, leaving a wife, children, and new grandchildren way too soon. You will be missed by many, Uncle Joe. :crying I'm really sorry for your loss, Jim. He'll always live on in your hearts and in your memories, though. My prayers go out to you and his entire family.

I love being old and married. Life is easy when the race is over.

QUOTE(iamshack @ Feb 8, 2008 -> 08:21 PM) You know Ben Finfer is Jewish, right? He was probably just razzing his ass...they were probably bothing razzing each other's asses. I don't know, people need to lighten up a bit IMO. I'm not saying it was a smart thing to say, but honestly, would you be offended if the guy had told a polish joke about them having a screen door in a submarine? Would I be offended? No. I'm of Polish descent and I'm never offended by jokes, because I know they don't apply to me. Would I assume that everyone listening to a major-market radio show (low-rated though it may be) would also be OK with it? No. Would I take the chance that any of my Polish bosses or Polish advertisers might be offended? No. I'd like the world to lighten up, too, but that simply isn't the way things are these days, and it was stupid of Coppock to blurt something like that into an open mic.

QUOTE(iamshack @ Feb 8, 2008 -> 08:08 PM) In no way do I advocate the use of insults and slurs as a way of discussing people or ethnic groups. But come on, let's not take all the fun out of every little humorous jab we can take at one another to keep things fun and entertaining. But was that comment fun and entertaining? I didn't find it either of those things. I think busting someone's balls on an individual basis is much funnier and can give insight into the relationships between people you hear on the radio. Tired racial remarks and stereotypes don't entertain me. Maybe I read too much into it, I don't know, but I just want something a little more clever than that.

QUOTE(BearSox @ Feb 8, 2008 -> 08:04 PM) I know that, and it was ignorant and stupid, but puh-lease. If someone was actually offended by that, give me a break. I agree with the suspension just on the basis of Chet being too clueless and self-absorbed to realize that it's a stupid, tired, unfunny, uninteresting, irrelevant, time-wasting remark that no doubt was offensive to someone, most likely someone in management at his place of employment. I really would like to know the context of the conversation, to find out how the question of "how to spell Jewish" even came up. Someone that dumb obviously needs the month off to try to come up with something better to say than that.

QUOTE(BearSox @ Feb 8, 2008 -> 07:48 PM) I don't know who the guy is, and I'm not defending him... but what's so offensive about that? Give me a f***ing break. Really? You don't understand the stereotype about Jewish people and money? It's an ignorant, stupid and antiquated remark. Chet Coppock, btw, is a Chicago radio has-been from a simpler time. His questions to his guests are often much longer than the answers.