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I loved them - and I saved them because they became a part of the season for me - I checked them for the schedule and they just were a real part of my Sox experience in 2003. Thank you and heads for having taken the time to make those for us. They were wonderful desktops, each one different and special.

on my MAc with OSX, I now have all my jpgs as tile for the desktop, changing every five minutes - I had them changing every 5 seconds but that was too much - does give me a retrospective of heads and Mr S's calendars for (most) months of the 2003 season -- I want more! I really enjoyed them as the desktop and the creativity was wonderful it was also heads who found the palm pilot downloadable 2003 Sox schedule and I hope he comes through again please please please

Bush lied and over 500 and counting Americans died, the numbers of Iraqis who died as a result of American action ahs been estmated from 10,000 to 100,000 al qeda is now - wasn't before but thanks to Bush is now commiting terrorism in Iraq - what I fearded most, Bush's intemperate actions wuld increase al qeda's power snd spread - Bish lied, he lied, he lied.

those are sweet prices on the sweatshirts (not sweaters), really good prices - let me order tomorrow night, I gotta go to bed now - big day tomorrow and I will let you know if I have any good news

you forgetting cutomer #1? I never wear boxers but I will order a pair just because I am the third person in this wearing soxtalk frenzy, although cruelly forgotten by the Republican capatalist who started this can i get my favorite number placed on either side of the fly?

off the mark there PT The Beatles did not ever do teeny bopper music. I suggest that it would be helpful to seriously listen to what was popular music in 1963 in America. Bobby Vinton type pop stuff. Beach Boys. Jan and Dean. Rock and roll was dying as a music form. Because the Beatles music is so familiar to those who were born after that time, and especially might I say for those born after 1970 when the Beatles had already disbanded, what gets lost is the concept, the reality, of how revolutionary their music was. There was nothing like it before. It definately was not teeny bopper music. What was radical and a sea change then has become the music many here were raised on watching Muppets and other such as that, wjhatever it was. The revolutionary aspect of what the Beatles put forth in 1964 is not realized. And by 1966 they had moved incredible distance and were exploring every type of new musical pssoibility. Revolver and Rubber Soul were albums that took huge leaps over what had ever been done before. Sgt. Peppers was as is from another planet. They used 4 track I believe on that - never ever done before. Do people believe that Henry Ford's first car he ever built was a 2001 Mustang? Gees. The technology was almost not even in infant stages yet and the Beatles were experimenting with sounds never before heard. Their collective creative reaches were leap years beyond anything ever done - as true in 1967 as in was in 1964 and there is no band, no band ever, no musician, who ever grew and experiemented and changed as radically as the Beatles did in a 3 year period. No one heard what they heard and put it on vinyl and that kicked down the door for everyone else to come through. And what was the Beatles music of 1964? Certainly not teeny bopper stuff. It was not light fluff. It was hard driving, it was incredibly and radically different from everything out there. Looking back, it wass joyful, infectious, with a solidity of sound that was totally creative and new and light years away from what was pop music before Meet the Beatles was released in America. And the next stage - when the Beatles discovered power chords (which did not exist until them especially with I Feel Fine), feedback, distortion, minor chords - songs like If I Fell and And I Love Her may sound awfully familiar now but they were real experiments with minor chords - unheard of in rock and roll or pop music of any kind. Again, because it is so familiar to those who grew up post Beatles, if one is into grunge or alt or indistrial or heavy metal or indies, yes, the Beatles early stuff sound slight - but be very fair - put it into the context of its times and then listen again and hear the new things that the Beatles were doing, far, far, far beyond anything that is tenny booper s***. Some of may hear it that way becauise it was so familiar in culture as you grew up. But it was not familiar when they did it, it was not the music of teeny bopper lightweights, it was bursting with an energy and a creativity and a restlessness that just blew music apart. And it was heavily despised by the "adult music world" who saw in the Beatles the death of pop and something that could not fathom. When I hear "I want to hold your hand" now, I do think to myself, why did people get so upset about that? But then I remember - because it was a huge radical leap into a totally new sound and one that was not controlled by adults but an actual musical form that was solely owned by very young men. Even that the Beatles wrote their own songs - hey, that was not done in rock and roll or pop in the 50s and 60s. That itself was a revolutuonary act and beyond the ability of the adult world to control. So many things that are taken for granted now were explosively new with the huge impact of the Beatles. I won't get into the Beatles impact on hair styles, clothing (every day you wear jeans everywhere you go or as a male clothes that have color in them, or even a tshirt and cap, thank the Beatles, that was not done prior to them), the resdiscovery of American blues and roots music by white Americans who were redirected back to it by the Beatles, the impact on culture - on literature as authors like Tom Wolfe attempted to write in ways that reflected the new energy of the Beatles-present cultural scene - religion (the famous as./more famous than Jesus thing) art (Yoko was one of the first performance artists as one of the last gasps of dadaism), politics (Revolution was only part of a politcal statement that saw fruition in diverse things as the childrens crusade for Eugene McCarthy to the radical political groups) and everything that became known as the Youth Culture - it all started in 1964 at the Ed Sullivan theatre - and yes it is true that John and Paul taught Mick and Keith how to write a lyric and a tune - and the Beatles were out there in ront as a group and as individuals, not mastering every musical form but pointing the way by the experimentation to all kinds of new msuical expressions. Even Haight Asbury, the San Francisco sound, of Janis and Grace and the Dead and QMS and so many - there was George who had already established it as the place with his street live seranade of How Does it Feel to Be On of the Beautiful People... Kurt Colbein studied the Beatles and there is something very Beatlesque in Nirvana - and the influence is found in a lot of places directly or as heritage several creative steps removed - as it should be. God blessed us with the Beatles. Not everyone liked them then. Not everyone likes them now. If someone were to call Casablanca the greatest American movie ever, surely there will be those who will say it isn't - and that's ok - not everyone agrees on everything - I am comfortable enough with what I have seen myself in my own lifetime and that the academics are now teaching that in the universities of our nation. I know that my experence here has found it support in scholarship. Some people gainsay - hell, some people boo Frank. Its all ok. Its all ok. We were never created to all be clones of one another. to the Beatles and to those who have a widely divergent viewpoint but are at least thinking and to those who are our friends becuase what we all need is love

here is an odd thing but true today I had 4 Macs upgraded from Systrem 9.1 or 9.2 to Panhter (System 10, whatever version). On every single Mac, in the upgrade, soxtalk.com was lost as a bookmark from Netscape and now that I think about it from IE too. I lost a few other book marks but losing soxtalk on every Mac is really weird.

damn straight!

you all ain't good enough for the upper deck! ok what have I missed - Sox 7 is now Sox 9? that is a crock unless you get all games against the cubs and sell the extra tickets on ebay I know my seasons tickets went up this year and I was not too thrilled about it at all - but such is life I guess

you might have to make a banner with that in there!

that was the funniest comment here in a long time!

this says it all for me!

yes, and that was why it was worded that way

personally I thought the shirt with the name of your very first customer looked better

if only you were in the Texas National Giard you could take a year off at a time, just not show up... talk about making yourself disappear! I am now ducking befoe the nuke blasts my way

if I were almost any other poster that line would have been in my signature since you said it

I understand Letterman tonight is playing both the original 2-9-64 Beatles appearances on his show tonight which makes sense since it happened in the ed Sullivan theatre... and someday 2K4 will agree with me that the 40th anniversary is in fact on 2-9 and not on 2-2

totally wrong. Get Macs.

mac, that is sweet indeed- rudylaw, I love yours too but that has to be a 2000 or earlier picture of Comiskey since the scoreboard has the coke and not pepsi sign on it! And the reason that catches my eye is how hard the Sox worked on airbrushing the Coke sign from all the promo materials for 2001 and did such a lousy job at it these are my favorite offering,s from you two, to date

Jas will probably ask for money to take it off their hands

I presumed it was you. There is something about the colors that is really excellent - that splash of red work really works well My warmest compliments

oh f*** you just ruined the season for me

well of course if you drink every time we hit into a double play, you'll be passed out by the 5th inning every game!

ok, I will change my theory to yours -- actually I knew mine wasn't totally right and someone would correct me! thanks!

that is just about how I remember it I remember doing a lot of screaming about how are we suppsoed to win without the Cy Young pitcher, Manager of the Year manager, Julio Franco and Darrin Jackson. Gees I used to repeat that a lot.