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well, that makes me feel better!

You always go for the really risky predictions?

and he didn't retire - for which I am very glad but never expected for several reasons, including the one RPS gave -

oh? I always wondered why he never got better and just regressed to nothingness. I had no idea about this. Another career lost to drugs.

when Carlos Lee gets his gold glove*, you can laugh at everyone! *and I suspect he'll get it by being a high bidder on ebay

after reading this thread, how can anyone say the art of conversation is dead?

Frank is not the only one who should avoid the media. If those are new quotes from PK and St. Jose, I am really pissed off at them for commenting again on Frank to the media. They should learn to shut up and stop talking to the press about their opinions on Frank or any team mate, it only keeps things stirred up. If those are old quotes recycled, they never should have made them to the press to begin with.

are we supposed to agree or disagree with this?

oh dear that would give us announcers who have never seen a winning team

attendance had bad luck in 2000 - I still remember the Memorial Day weekend series with Cleeveland which should have drawn big crowds drawing only the usual because the weather was so horrid - that Saturday it poured all day and stopped at game time but by then people had decided not to go, Sunday was very cold and windy - and it wasn't until June 2000 anyway that people realized the team was for real and not a mirage, not something that was a one month fluke - we had a lot of great crowds after that until September when it dropped like a rock again because I think people didn't expect to have meaningful ball games in September and made other plans - especially for Labor Day wekend - people haven't got it in their heads, Labor Day at the Cell, although they should - attendance is a habit and people have to get that habit for the payoff. And attendance can lag a year - look at the attendance we had in 84 - and look at what 94 was heading to be until the lock out - that would have been a great year attendance wise because it was the year afetr a playoff team and a very eal contender - I think it took until 2000 for a lot of anger to dissipate out of that. I expect attendance up a bit this season becuase of expectations but I wouldn't look for it to skyrocket at all with 3 wekeends with the Tigers but if we do as we ought, it should be a very solid attendance year, and if we come through, next year will be a great attendance year. Which only makes the liens longer at hge concessions, johns, and parking. 22,000 to 25,000 is perfect for short lines - but I do love to see the place filled until it happens for a few games and then i wish everyone would go away so I could have short liens again And I have to fight the urge to scream, "where have you been" to people when the place gets packed - the casual fan and the so-called loyal fan who never comes until the big games, they do get on my nerves. I think no one should be allowed to purchase post season tickets unless they actually attended at least 4 games againt Detroit and 2 each against KC and Tampa Bay. Real fans show up other than cubs games, opening day, yankees, and playoffs.

We lost some attendance because of JR's role in the 94 lock out in what was to be our year. If we lost any fans, they weren't real fans. I know that in 2000 in conversations with folks at the games, I heard more than a few times it was their first trip to see the Sox since 94. Even I managed to miss an entire season with Bevington as manager. While normally the 205 mile one way trip seems like a piece of cake, when Bevington was managing, it was an insurmountable distance.

From God's mouth to KW's ears I hope - as well as that dude who is KW's asistant whatever his name is who got so mad at me at SoxFest for saying out loud the first sentence of clujers that I quoted.

I would have to add Rocky Biddle to the list. He never pitched well enough long enough healthy enough for anything else than to say have fun in Montreal. I think the highlight of his career were the 3 innings, 6 Ks against the Cubs on the Saturday game in 2001 at Comiskey and then he took himself out top of the 4th because he was hurting. When he was on, I thought that one day he'd throw a no hitter. But he was never "on" enough.

If Colon pulls a Todd Ritchie I may jump of the Sears Tower. I do expect him to have an awesome season, along with MB.

real good points, CubKilla - real good thoughts from both you and clujer420 that I am reflecting on - thanks to you both

At a lot of the groups mentioned are great - for S&R though I think Local H's High Fivin' Mother f***er should get some air time too -

I will echgo your description of the broadcasts - Hawk and DJ are very fair announcers. They pull for the Sox but are very balanced in their reporting, which si the best of all worlds.

I may have to put in a word for my very obvious favorite - as well as for Ludacris and 50¢ - not that I expect anything but several posts saying they suck - I'd also suggest some opera - Mozart's Le Nozze Di Figaro is so beautiful and so is Verdi's Traviata which I am seeing in March - and I expect a few more posts saying they suck - oh well - what about Ronnie James Dio? Saw him in concert and loved it!

now that is a much better response to the article than urinating in one's clothes!

It works for me. Ashcroft is the most dangerous attorney general since - not even John Mitchell who planned criminal conspiracies in the attorney general's office - he is the most dangerous since Palmer following WW1, who I am sure is Ashcroft's role model.

I love it when you rewrite history! Your versions are so much more exciting than what really happened! Could you give me the new version of what happened in Georgia in last year's Senate election when Bush went there and accused Max Cleland of being soft on protecting America and homeland security - and supported a candidate who wouldn't serve in Vietnam because of the old trick knee - while Max Cleland, the soft on homeland security Senator according to Bush, lost his limbs in Vietnam - and why was Cleland soft on security? Because he wanted civil service protection for the new cabinent department, you know, civil service, which was instituted to eliminate patronage - but I am sure the revisionist version of that election will be so much more exciting than the truth, just as the revisionist theory of the 2000 Missouri election is.

I haven't actually had that problem since I was 2 - and I don't remember the details, but I don't think I ever wanted to do that, ever. a desire for urinary incontenence --

witesoxfan, very good analysis. thank you.

what is an asshat? that is not a phrase used in western Michigan and the picture in my mind is too bizarre for words - help me out here, please! And I will agree that Ashcroft is one, whatever it is.

And Psycho, there you are on the right track. All wars have begat more wars. War has never solved anything. The harvest of war may appear to be peace but it is only transient. There are other ways, there are better ways, there are more effective ways, more real ways than war to bring at least a state of co-existence. Had we followed through in Afgahanistan, istead of abandoning that nation in 1989, the Taliban and those they harbored would have had not come into being or had any effect.