The Critic

So I guess that means your "hi8is" is over? Welcome back.....I think.....

Oh, that is SO Photoshopped.... That is way too much hamburger.

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Jan 31, 2006 -> 07:54 AM) Friendship is now over. Beer in plastic is sooooooooo wrong. ....elitist....

I'm surprised and glad that they're even considering another COTC event, given the increased demand for tickets this year and last year's relatively poor turnout. I'm interested in going.

QUOTE(DukeNukeEm @ Jan 30, 2006 -> 09:29 PM) Further developments have indicated that your vagina is so gaping that NASA has issued the Hubble Space Telescope to photograph deep into its abyess. Wow. A vagina "joke". That must KILL in your 6th grade class. Good one. What's next, a gay "joke"? "Uncle Dice, what else is funny to say???"

QUOTE(nitetrain8601 @ Jan 30, 2006 -> 05:06 PM) So liquor should be taken out of glass bottles and be put in plastic then, right? Sure, why not? I'm not an alcohol purist. I don't care what the vessel's made of. If it reduces the chance and amount of glass being shattered on the ground by careless dickheads, I'm for it. After all, you have to try to legislate basic, lowest-level common decency because too many people won't exercise it otherwise.

WWE ( and yes, it's the same as WWF - the WWF had to change their initials after losing a court case to the pandaf***ers who also use WWF as initials ) is also running an angle with Shaquille O'Neal where he has knocked down Carlito at basketball arenas a couple of times. Vince LOVES using legit sports stars to cross-promote.

QUOTE(IlliniKrush @ Jan 30, 2006 -> 02:36 PM) This isn't Hawks related, but i thought it'd mention it. The Blues have begun their fire sale...they traded their two leading scorers...Weight to the Canes, Sillinger to the Preds What did they get for them? Trading those guys may not be that bad of an idea. The Blues are going NOWHERE this year and probably next year either, might as well get some up-and-coming players for them. If they traded them for old guys, then it makes no sense to me.

The nicest thing about the new seats is NOBODY's gonna even see them except when we all get up to cheer the Sox!

If it was a Cub fan, it wouldn't be so much "dating" as a drunken one-nighter behind the dumpster at Hi-Tops.

In related news, Coca-Cola also announced the return of shards of f***ing broken glass in streets, on sidewalks, and on playgrounds across America. And parents everywhere rejoiced.... Stupid stupid stupid idea.

QUOTE(IlliniKrush @ Jan 30, 2006 -> 12:38 AM) Only 6 games, then olympics Forgot about the Olympics, but I usually do.

It's so hard for me to decide which brand uses the best pig testicles and chicken beaks. Semi-seriously, I don't really have any preference. They all taste basically the same to me. I'm not a big fan of hot dogs, except on Thursdays during summer.

QUOTE(IlliniKrush @ Jan 29, 2006 -> 05:31 PM) The good news is that you can't go for over a month And the BAD news is: a month of televised Hawks games.

QUOTE(Dick Allen @ Jan 29, 2006 -> 04:48 PM) I think just about any guy dating her would probably have a hernia problem. I think it would be less hernias and more groin pulls.... Anyone dating Rosie O'Donnell would have to worry about hernias.

QUOTE(Drew @ Jan 29, 2006 -> 09:02 PM) My high school hockey team voted on who would wear the 'C' and both 'A's at the beginning of the season, as do most teams in that sport. While I can understand Ozzie's excited Paulie is back for all the reasons we're excited he's back, I think it is best left to the players to decide who is their elected voice. Granted, they'd probably end up giving the 'C' to Buehrle or Paulie, but it's the decision of the players who represents them as the captain. There are game situations in hockey that dictate Captains and Alternates' intercession with referees on the team's behalf. As we will see a week from today, in football it takes a delegation representing about 20% of each team to decide on heads or tails. But in baseball, there are no game situations in baseball that really call for a captain. But do baseball teams need captains? I'd venture to say they don't need any formalized institution of calling someone a captain. Every team has leaders, and these rise to the top. The players know who their leaders are, and everything else is window dressing. But in pro hockey the captains and alternates are decided by the coach, so Ozzie's making the decision falls in line with that. I think in baseball the captaincy is purely symbolic. I have no problem with Paul wearing the C, although like most others on the board I also feel it's unnecessary. The 2005 White Sox were a team in every sense of the word, no heroes yet ALL heroes.

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Jan 29, 2006 -> 12:11 PM) When I went to Sox fest, I saw very, very few kids. Everyone in the autograph lines was an adult. That's creepy? I don't think so. Creepy? No. Geeky? Maybe. Of course, my nephew is there with my green St. Patrick's Day Sox hat for signatures, so color me geeky!!!

QUOTE(caffeinated @ Jan 28, 2006 -> 10:10 PM) Hey, I recognize those dates, we sat next to each other. It was nice to meet you today. I was pleased with my picks too, although Critic swiped that 8/12 Detroit games just before it came to me. Here are my picks (in order selected) for those that care: 5/21 vs Cubs 4/5 vs Cleveland (Opening Series) 7/26 vs Minnesota 5/6 vs KC 5/7 vs KC 8/17 vs KC 8/27 vs Minnesota 6/4 vs Texas Because I live in Appleton, WI I favor day and weekend games. Luckily most of our syndicate seemed to shy away from the day games. "HEY, I know that duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude............" I wish the subject of message boards had come up - you'd have been the first Soxtalker I accidentally met! ....sorry again about August 12th.....

The Sox make a couple of weekend visits to the BaggieDome, and good seats are available right now. Just thought I'd pass that on - I'm not making any road trips this season, unfortunately.

QUOTE(SSH2005 @ Jan 28, 2006 -> 08:44 PM) Here's what Thome did say... http://chicago.whitesox.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb...t=.jsp&c_id=cws I know, that's why I added the "if..."

The Tampa Bay Cellar Dwellers? The Tampa Bay Trees Falling In A Forest? The Tampa Bay Who?

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Jan 28, 2006 -> 07:40 PM) Can I still call him Shaggy? What you guys do is your own business.....

QUOTE(santo=dorf @ Jan 28, 2006 -> 03:58 PM) So if someone questioned the logic in your contract you wouldn't be insulted? If someone said "But the bottom line is he's (referring to you) never done anything I haven't done on the baseball field" you wouldn't be insulted? If Thome was the kind of guy to fire back, an easy answer for that comment would be: "I've done ONE thing on the baseball field that Frank Thomas hasn't - I have PLAYED in a World Series."

QUOTE(winninguglyin83 @ Jan 28, 2006 -> 07:37 PM) not that media hype wins any game, but the sporting news yearbook believes the Sox were not a fluke. They're ranked Number One in the overall mlb powerpoll. Yankees are second, Cleveland fifth, Angels sixth, A's seventh, Blue Jays eight and Red Sox tenth, so it's tilted toward the AL. Six of their eight guys predict the Sox to win the Central, one has them winning the wildcard, one doesn't have them making the playoffs. And of the six that pick them to win the division, three have the Sox winning the World Series again. quite a change from last year. still some digs. One guy says Konerko is the most overrated player in the game. A lot of people on White Sox boards have said a LOT worse than that about Paulie. I'm sure he loses zero sleep over it.

Crede NEEDS the mullet, Anderson looks better without it.