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I thought I was the oldest member here - now it is you! Thanks! Just because the KC A's chose to be a major league farm team for the Yankees, why the insults? That was so blatently obvious, I am amazed it lasted as long as it did.

In case anyone wonders why this book would begin with 1952, a seemingly arbitrary choice, know that in 1952 an event happened that ushered in a whole new era of Sox history - I was born!

On opening day Mrs. B made a comment about the lack of run support that MB gets - little did we know she was the voice of prophecy - this is a loss on the record but he threw a 1 run game - our hitters aren't.

I'll be watching the game at the Cell! 24 hours from now we'll be setting up our sleeping bags on the outfield - I am getting psyched - big time!!!!!

we all wonder what we would ahve done - imagine what it was like to be utterly secure and then realize you will probably die within the hour in the cold north Atlantic - beig clergy, I suppose that I would ended up with those on the Titanic, none of them survived, they stayed and led prayers with the doomed until the first time the bow shot up...

at the Museum of Science and Industry exhibit, I lived, I was a member of the crew who survived - I went the best day, a holiday weekend and I got there just at the peak of the crowds so it thinned out and I actually spent 4 hours just taking in every piece there - there is a show in Detroit now still I think which I must get the grandson to - I have a shelf full of books and charts and maps and diagrams - thanks for the tips about Las Vegas! From the Chicago exhibit I bought a piece of genuine Titanic coal just to have something that was from the ship - and I keep it tucked away here at home. When my grandson comes over, he is the only person who knows where it is (or even that I ahve it) and he gets it out very ceremoniously and we look at with reverence - many the times we sit with the books and the passenger list and discuss what happened and how it could have - the story of human what, arrogance, folly, presumption, greed - and we ponder what we would have done had we been there - I wish I had know you at the time of the Titanic exhibit, it would have been good to share that with someone - the Eastman exhibit that went with it, my mother's mothers family are Bohemians and of course it was mostly Bohemians who worked at Western Electric and it was last minute decision of my aunts not to go - one of their closest friends died on it and my mother had her ring (recovered with her body) and now my sister does - of course my aunts and grandmother knew a lot of victims - when you walk through the Bohemian national cemetary (Foster and Pulaski) you keep seeing the same year of death on so many grave stones.

oh? we then have that in common. I still have my very first copy of A Night to Remember, a bantam paperbook, 40¢. My grandson in pretty good on it too. He is working on memorzing every deck - we are on the orlop deck now.

he did it again? what a jerk he is.

I have a great deal of affection for Greise and I am not a Bears fan really and I am a Dolphins fan - so that that into account - the Bears diid not need Greise at all, and that would have been the worst thing they could ahve done if they had sigend him. You can have a present qb and a future qb but not TWO present qbs and a future qb. More qb controversy is not what the Bears need, and to have Greise, Stewart, and Grossman would have probably ended up in three different camps of qb supporters on your team.

That would be nerves of "steel" - and please do not be posting my name or any letter of it - that is reserved for my friends. Maybe if we meet and get to be buds or we IM or email a bunch of times and hit it off and I know personal details about you, it would be different, but those things have not happened. It comes across as condescending to use my name or initial. I think Bullard was clear that he did not post because of comments about him. He has some general points and some specific points about West. This is all good because I have learned a great deal about West in the last 2 hours. And we have wanted the 2003 Sox to play like a team - we saluted the 2000 team for sticking up for one another - we appluaded Colon getting suspended not because he got suspended but because he stuck up for a team mate - I am thrilled that our minor leaguers have that stick up for one another spirit. It bodes well for the future.

Maybe the same goes for you? Sometimes it seems that you attack pretty fast when ever you feel that you are insulted -

for the record, let me say that I think Jason and Cerb did some nice work on the listings - of course it is a guess - what separates the 47th player from thre 37th - what Jason and Cerb did was very helpful to me to know our minor league players. If I correctly read what Bullard is saying, and I cannot find the thread of the rankings where West was included, but I have just re-read two other rankings, the players are commenting on the negativity of - not Jason and Cerb's work which I think has very little negative stuff - but some of the commentary that followed. And it was more interesting to read those threads in the light of what was said in this thread. I don't think the players posting is a sign of hypersensitivity at all. For what it is worth, I know what it is to be on tv, the radio, the newspaper, and be praised and ripped. No one can say that some comments do not hurt here and there, even when you blow off the rest. It never is fun to criticized in public. My delight in this is in the fans who have re-acted as if they have been attacked because some players gave their opinions - which is their right, they are posters here too! And they have every right to offer their insights and the hypersensitivity - it seems very clear to me - is in those who feel so outraged that players have offered their comments, and take offense at what they perceive is the slightest criticism of themselves. Yet they feel free to say some pretty tough stuff about others. It does go both ways and everyone has a right to speak! Molto: my comment about a top 50's poster list is to make the point that you did - these things are all very relative. What makes one better than another is totally subjective. Of course each person feels that their statements are "the truth" and "objective" because no one believes things that they don't think are right! But so often when there are posts that say "so and so is better than so and so and this is a fact" what is lost sight of is the subjectivity in all of this. In those threads there is not even an agreed opinion of what a "prospect" is.

JB, BW, NC etc., post away! I'm loving it! Maybe you guys should do a ranking of the top 50 fans! Go for it! Fair is fair!

soxtalk.com is great because it sees itself as a work in progress - it is great because we have great founders and good posters - and I think its fantastic that players felt comfortable enough to post their thoughts - that makes the conversation even better - and I like these 3 players now more than ever! Its what we want - that 2000 spirit - players seeing themselves as one team and covering each others back -

That is one of the funniest - and most true - things ever posted!

and stay away from the live porn over there too

what is with the Titanic avatar? I have always been fascinated by the Titanic -

Frank will do it but I can't pick him today - so for the hell of it: St. JosE6

where have you gone, Greg Norton and Mike Squires?

favorite team: 1906 2nd favorite: 1917 1971 - coming back from a dreadful year before, we thought it would be ours in a few tears 1977 - they were fun to watch 1983 - of course 1993-94 - 94 was such a good team 2000 - that was fun I guess all standard answers

but not, say, interesting enough to post on what was said?

from Craig Kilbourn last night: when Sammy's bat broke and the cork popped out, the Cubs didn't know what to do because they have never heard corks pop before and What Sammy has done gives a bad message to all the youth of America: steroids alone aren't enough.

works for me DLo

agreed very much. The bat broke open on the field in a game for all the world to see. That cannot be ignored.

Now that is such a good post I will repeat it (and only change one word): Blowing this out of proportion? I beg to differ. This asshole has built a career out of self promotion. Blowing kisses to the TV camera, doing his little hop after a home run. Hugging Mark McGwire after Mac had just homered against Sammy's own team. He did all this to bring attention to himself. Well, now he's got plenty of it. What goes around, comes around.