greg775

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ May 10, 2017 -> 01:48 PM) I wouldnt say miserable as much as they are conditioned and trained in how to get discount/cheaper/free stuff. which is to fully abuse "The Customer is always right" principle As a delivery driver in college and also being on the local radio station, sometimes I delivered to coworkers at the station who also were part of making the radio ads from the pizza place I worked with. The guy stiffed me without a second thought, after he was getting half off his food already. And then acted like it never happened Some people are so cheap. Sickening really. That's a disgusting story about people at the station stiffing you. I always pick up the tab if I'm going to lunch or dinner if it's just one person with me that I haven't seen in a while, etc. I mean if it's a coworker or a group of people I'm not going to do it, but if it's a lunch or dinner it's with people I don't normally dine with or see, I always pay. It's funny to watch the cheap people; they are so happy they don't have to pay. Being cheap is really a sickness. It's sad. Folks you make money to spend it. Tip heavily if the service it good; pick up tabs. Being cheap is disgraceful. And the odds are some of you reading this are very cheap. You never tip well; you never pay for somebody else's meal or drinks. You know who you are. So explain your philosophy on life please.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ May 9, 2017 -> 06:44 PM) I mean, you chose Spirit. You knew it sucked. Cmon. If Spirit is a carrier, some people are going to fly it and expect the planes to show up, etc. Some smaller airlines were known for their great service, like that one that gave out the warm cookie, I forget which one that was. Just cause the company is small and upstart doesn't mean the customer should expect s*** service.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 9, 2017 -> 10:21 PM) They don't want to help you because people like you didn't feel like it was a big deal that they spent years telling you that poor people should not have health care. Her emails, you know. You had your priorities and they're acting on them, just like you told them to do. Not sure I understand your point. I never said I didn't want people with preexisting conditions to not be able to get health care. I never said I wanted people to have to deal with a lifetime cap on health care expenses. It seems to me like the government just wants everybody broke and in bankruptcy. Let's face it, people are getting sicker by the year. Hideous diseases and it's only going to get worse. And the government wants us all broke and without health care so we can just die away. Sad. Bernie did not want this. Cmon Hillary was as bad as Trump in terms of taking care of the rich.

Baltimore needs a closer too. We are going nowhere fast. Trade him now.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 10, 2017 -> 02:57 AM) Greg, homers are WAY up in baseball this year. The problem's not offense, it's your perception, because the White Sox and Royals are terrible offensively. It's like taking a point about the Big 12 in football or basketball and attempting to extrapolate it to the rest of the country. Be careful about your bias. I did not realize that, Caulfield. Thanx for the facts. I have watched some boring ball this season.

Poor Avi. He needs 3-4 days off. That was a meatball and he took it for strike three.

If I come to a game or two this summer, what's my best bet for great great seats at a low price? I need the Southside ballpark experience again.

Poor Stoney. Jason B is asking him a plethora of questions.

Do you think baseball is getting boring with more and more horrible teams? Is baseball near a hitting crisis? I have the Royals game on TV here and the Sox on the computer and Perez slashed a ball right up the middle. DP because of the shift. Players won't even try to beat the shift.

How could Saladino miss that pitch? I guess he's not as good as I thought. League musta caught up with him. He can't hit. I was fooled. Really thought he was a big league hitter.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 10, 2017 -> 03:06 AM) Beck is a disappointment. High hopes when drafted. He looks like meat. Was he really a second round pick? Or am I mistaken? I hate the draft.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 9, 2017 -> 08:18 PM) GOP Struggles to Explain AHCA’s $880 Billion Medicaid Cuts lol This bill will put the health of millions of Americans at risk and kill thousands of them a year. We've got to pray the Senate does the right thing and flips the bird to the bill. Why don't our government officials want to HELP US??? Mr. Brownback?? Others? WTF is this with not helping fellow Americans? Will the Senate do the right thing or not?

QUOTE (lasttriptotulsa @ May 9, 2017 -> 08:34 PM) Nobody is ever going to take you serious when you begin a post, "I listened to Rush while I was in the car today". The guy has multi million listeners. Some Americans like him.

QUOTE (ChiSox59 @ May 9, 2017 -> 07:28 PM) jeezus Since we're in a rebuild, why is Anderson learning in the bigs? I thought people on this board were in favor of not rushing prospects. I think many would agree with me his approach to hitting is horrific. And his fielding is average at best. Doesn't that scream MINORS in a rebuild?

QUOTE (RockRaines @ May 9, 2017 -> 06:13 PM) I get it behind my knee and on my elbows. I just developed it. If hyrdocortisone doesnt work then it may be something like detergent, food etc. Mine is actually being caused by wheat beer as well as dry cleaning. I play volleyball frequently and I've worn active ankle braces since I played club in HS. They have saved me a broken ankle or 3. For softball, nada. Any suggestions to cure the incredible itching? Just got diagnosed and told what to put on it. Going to buy some now. Is it harmless as long as you resist the temptation to itch the bastard?

QUOTE (fathom @ May 9, 2017 -> 01:57 AM) Bernstein had Dan Hayes on the show today and suggested Anderson be sent down to AAA if his slump continues. I was surprised that Hayes didn't rule it out. Hayes actually thought it could be a good idea. I'd send him down for the rest of the season and work with the Big Hurt on pitch selection. You can't make it hacking at everything. Send him down and have a proven big leaguer like Big Hurt show him how to use his talent. If not he's destined for failure the way he hits. His fielding is not so hot either.

Has anybody on here ever had what's diagnosed by the lab as eczema on the soft skin area BEHIND the knee? Itches like a mofo and the lab said it's commonplace. Just wondered if any Soxtalk medical people were experts on how to get rid of this bulls*** itching forevermore? p.s. Do any of you who play sports have issues regarding sprains? Do you tape your ankles before playing softball or basketball? Any recommended brand of shoes or do you just go play and let your ankles respond the way they may?

I listened to Rush while I was in the car today. He went wild saying Trump has been amazing and blamed the media for refusing to point out anything positive that Trump does. Hadn't heard Rush in a while and that's what he was spouting. He said the liberal media is hurting the Democratic party by trying to help it. Don't shoot the messenger here. Just reporting what I heard.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ May 8, 2017 -> 05:55 PM) I imagine that Beta chapter will also be eliminated. Fraternities can be great and I wouldn't be the person I am today without joining mine, but, frankly, they can be incredibly dangerous too for any number of reasons. To Penn State's credit, they immediately disbanded the Beta house when the kid died and allegations surfaced. Boom. No more Beta house. As far as your last sentence, why fraternities are great ... (mine had a rule against hazing and it was pretty much abided to, the rule was an active must do the same stuff as a pledge or the pledge doesn't have to do it. They had some big paddling ceremony one time when I was a pledge and my active big brother knew I thought it was bulls*** and didn't want to get slammed with a paddle so he just tapped me; he was on the football team so when he got booed he told them all to f*** off and do something about it). POSITIVES -- I made some lifelong friends. I was in about 10 weddings of my best friend frat guys, best man in many. -- Met women from sororities who came to our parties. Automatic way to meet women. -- Automatic social life in going to school out of state; had immediate friends. -- Intramurals were a blast and living with 80 guys could always get a game of football, softball, tennis, awesome. -- Quiet places to study during study hours. -- Good test file where we could find professors' past tests -- Good advice from older guys on what classes to take -- Great social life -- Very good food; breakfast, lunch dinner all taken care of. Regular meals without cooking them yourself. -- Met some big wig adults on campus who were affiliated with our frat NEGATIVES -- Sleeping dorm. Way too cold in winter. Horrible setup. -- Had to put up with some bulls*** my freshman year, not hazing but had to take some formal written test about the history of the frat (I'm trying to make honor roll and get all As and I've got to study for some bulls*** frat test??? Awful). -- Hated mandatory housecleaning duties (hey, somebody has to clean the place though). -- Had to find places to study on campus when house had a big party or dad's day or something. -- Had to go on a walkout to another state freshman year when I was really trying to get off on a good foot academically; hard to get good grades when you got tests on a Monday and you are out of town drinking all weekend for some mandatory walk out. Postives outweighed the negatives IMO. --

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ May 8, 2017 -> 02:13 PM) It is pretty easy to call these kids criminals. They knew something was wrong, they waited 12 hours after he hit his head to call the police and they organized a common story that did not include the part about him falling down the stairs. Everything they did leading up to the moment when he lost consciousness was dumb college kid stuff, everything they did afterwards was criminal, they basically let the kid die of a brain bleed instead of calling an ambulance I agree. QUOTE (RockRaines @ May 8, 2017 -> 03:34 PM) We always had at least 2 sober supervisors at events like that so people could make actual adult decisions. Clearly these morons were more interested in self preservation. This is actually something I've not heard of and could be an amazing solution. Sober supervisors would have worked in this case big time. However, the hazing part of it is already against campus rules and enough to get the chapter suspended and/or its charter revoked. But I love the sober supervisor idea. Somebody, anybody in charge. The fact the fraternity president is facing manslaughter charges in this case means he approved of the hazing bulls***, however.

QUOTE (Jerksticks @ May 8, 2017 -> 03:02 AM) but it's also hard for me to count those young men as criminals. Agreed but a lot of bad judgment to say the least. For example, the one fraternity member who sent out the email saying 'we may have a problem; so and so was drunk and fell" Also the one fraternity member who told everybody in the frat to say the same thing to authorities, that they found the kid drunk behind the bar shivering at 10 a.m. If they had told the truth maybe they'd have checked for head trauma. Finally, the police incident report was almost written like the deceased was trying to "escape" a torture chamber. Several times it said he got up to get out and then would fall again, the one time hitting his head again. Lot of really bad judgment and from the tone of the police and the DA and everybody, you are going to see a lot of 2 to 5 year prison sentences in this case. A lot of these college kids are gonna wind up serving 15 months or so in jail.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 7, 2017 -> 07:43 PM) i understand being young, scared and stupid, but to not call for help after they found him at the bottom of the stairs is hard to comprehend. There apparently are some bad people in that house. You would think at least one person would have realized what needed to be done and did it, but no. The story made it seem like he had a good chance at surviving had he been given help hours sooner. It sure did sound like he had many opportunities to survive like you said, Dick. I couldn't believe the one line about how when he fell in the room off the couch somebody punched him in the stomach. WTF is that? One time when I was in a frat, a bunch of guys were sitting in a circle on the floor. This wasn't a hazing thing, just stupid frat s***. I walked in the room and saw they had several bottles of whiskey and each were taking a chug and passing it. The one freshman opened his throat and whiskey was guzzling down his throat into his stomach like in the movies or a Three Stooges short when they are chugging the whole bottle. As the booze was emptying the bottle I screamed, "Stop him!" and I knocked the bottle away from him. Anyhow, they stopped playing and about 10 minutes later the freshman was s***faced drunk just like in this story. Some asshole threw him in the shower and turned the water on him. Again I was prepared to step in, but this time somebody else screamed, "Leave him alone! Turn that water off him!!!" Anyhow somebody immediately drove him (he might have dried off a bit) to the hospital. They pumped his stomach or did whatever and he was OK. He went on to lead a great life; he's still living and a millionaire I believe. The frat didn't get in trouble because it wasn't forced drinking. The kid was doing it in the circle to impress I guess. My question is ... if he had died would I be in prison? Or would I not be charged? Would any of the frat guys who chugged with him been charged with murder? Would the guy who turned the water on him in the shower be in jail now? Would those who watched him get the water turned on him be in jail now? I tell you, this hazing bulls*** has to stop. Why? Because a.) people can die. b.) people can be charged with murder if they die. I feel like each fraternity in the USA should have an apartment in which a police officer resides in the frat. You have 80-100 guys in one building and alcohol and rituals of "Hazing" still in existence, that's asking for TRAGEDY. Do any of you have stories of hazing? Or a story like mine where somebody you know almost died from drinking at a frat?

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ May 7, 2017 -> 11:45 PM) Looks like a re-building team to me, one that's on its way to the cellar. It's going to be a brutal season, we knew it. It's gonna be brutal only cause Cleveland is still really good. The rest of the teams in our division suck. Sox can't beat the Baltimore's of the world, but if they got rid of a few horrific players and tinkered here and there they might be able to hang around .500. That's because the manager is pretty good. Will be interesting to see if this three game sweep starts the trip to oblivion or if Renteria can get the team to shrug it off. Baltimore is on a different level; we're not gonna beat teams like that.

What do you think of the situation at Penn State? A pledge died in February after getting s***faced drunk during a hazing game and the actives would not call 911 until 10:30 in the morning when they concocted a story that he was found behind the bar freezing. Some horrible details available in the link I provided. There were multiple opportunities to help the pledge or get him to the hospital. None were employed so 18 students were charged, some with involuntary manslaughter. A have a lot of opinions on this, too many to even write down. One death like this is too many. http://abcnews.go.com/US/penn-state-frater...ory?id=47226888

QUOTE (ptatc @ May 5, 2017 -> 04:36 AM) I've always wondered about that really slow windup but other than that it really isn't remarkable. He does throw from a pretty low arm slot, that can add stress to the elbow. Ptatc ... I thought the way he violently cocks his arm back away from his body was different than most. No? Like Keith Foulke did as well. I'd appreciate if you watched a clip of what his right arm and hand do on each pitch, then comment for me if you think it is conducive to injury. Thank u.