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QUOTE (Jerksticks @ Sep 6, 2012 -> 04:56 AM) I think you are making Greg's point for him here. Great leaders rally their troops. Why can't Obama rally a few hundred Congressmen? Or inspire the American people? Where were those speeches that got him elected 4 years ago? Where's the clear direction, the focus? I don't know, he won't tell me. Not saying Romney would be any better, I think he's weak too. Obama is our President but a leader? No way! The average American's lack of faith in Washington is more than ever! Proof! Until a President unifies Washington I'm unimpressed. That will be a great man. That is what I'm trying to say, thanks Jerkssticks. That's it. My personal opinion is there are ways to unify the Republican bastards. From what I understand in the past, it means lobbying. It means meeting personally with some of the Republican bastards and making them feel important and all that and getting their damn support for those bills that are best for the country. Maybe it's impossible. I would pray it's not impossible.

I was hoping to make this a thread asking Soxtalk users to review the convention speech of Bill Clinton. Wow is all I can say. I am ultra impressed that he kept me glued to the TV all but probably five minutes of his 50 minute speech. I thought it was effective, convincing and inspiring. He pointed out that Democrats and Republicans CAN work together for the betterment of the country. He did so in citing instances in which he and Republicans indeed worked together to solve problems. He presented a very strong case why America should elect Obama. And he cited strong examples of the differences between Obama and Romney. I thought his speech was way way way better than Michelle Obama's. Bill Clinton ... what a speech. You sir, deserve an A. Michelle Obama? A B to B-. I'll be interested to hear the pundits' review of the speech. I briefly heard the old guy on NBC say it was fantastic; one guy on FOX said it was too long and he may have gotten some facts wrong; another guy on FOX saying Clinton gave a fantastic presentation; and one woman panelist said a lot of Democrats probably wished Clinton was the nominee.

This comment by Balta should make me look even better in regards to this argument. Great. I am glad he will be fearing sitting in a room 23 hours a day with his only reprieve one hour of sunlight per day. That is just as horrifying a thing as prison rape. So great, if it's more humanitarian, I can state I hope Holmes currently is fearing the possibility of sitting in a cell 23 hours a day the rest of his life. He won't know what day it is, what week it is, what holiday is coming up. He gave up the right to have a life by taking the lives of so many others. Fear that, Mr. Holmes because YOU CHOSE THAT, Mr. Holmes.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 5, 2012 -> 11:39 PM) What you say implies things, whether you meant for them to or not. Your protestations aside, your position leads to supporting the continuation of prison rape so that "bad people" fear it. That's deplorable. I can't believe my restating my position over and over can't clear up this misrepresentation of me by you.

QUOTE (kev211 @ Sep 6, 2012 -> 01:22 AM) Question Greg. If Obama really does give the greatest speech of all time Thursday how will you know if you've convinced yourself that he can't and the media is in the bag for him. Obama put himself on the national map for his awesome speech at the 2004 DNC, was that just the media being in the bag for him then or was it great speech? Michelle Obama gave an really good speech last night. Maybe it didn't deserve all the crazy stuff said about it, but it was still really good. She wrote that speech herself and the way she delivered it you could tell she really believed in it that's why I thought it was a really good speech. I don't need the media to form my opinions I watched it and enjoyed it. Now my liberal views may create a bias, but I am not afraid to admit that. I thought her speech was good, but not crazy good or anything. It's nice she's more in love with Sox fan Barack now than ever before. That's great. I like Barack. Like I said, how can you not like a Sox fan? It's great that being President didn't negatively affect her family. Fine. But the speech was OK, nothing worth slobbering over. To tell u the honest truth, I didn't see Mrs. Romney's. I did watch some of Mitt's which was really blah. I thought he was making weird faces as well. he's going to get annihilated in the election. My guess is most of America sees what I see in Mitt: A rich pretty boy who is just not an impressive person (outwardly). As far as your question ... well, I guess I enter the speech incapable of calling it one of the best ever because of one major reason: He's already been President for four years and done a s***ty job IMO. I already know his policies; I already know what he's about. So if he just gives ideological bulls***, or a similar speech like Michelle's in which he talks about his relatives and his upbringing, I think that's bulls***. Because he's an incumbent president who already has a track record. I don't think any of the puffery should be considered by the pundits when rating an incumbent's convention speech. I mean Barack is old news in a sense. I think any stuff of the rah-rah variety should be reserved for his speech four years ago when he stumped for CHANGE. CHANGE that arguably did not happen. All I see in the USA is unemployment right now. Of all the people I know, the job outlook is grim and has been grim. Those with jobs are being treated poorly. Why? Because as their bosses tell them, "You may not get a raise; your health benefits may now suck, but hey YOU ARE LUCKY TO HAVE A JOB." Phooey.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Sep 5, 2012 -> 10:46 PM) And they don't play tomorrow, so you are in then too. Then, the Royals come to town. Damn. The Royals. If the Sox are truly serious about winning this thing, you'd think they could sweep KC for once. I hope they get after it at least and compete. There's no reason to not play good, hard nosed, smart baseball and beat KC 2 of 3 or all 3.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Sep 6, 2012 -> 02:11 AM) Doesn't get on base enough. I'd rather have Quentin hit 3. This is a good year for me on here. People have been praising a lot of Sox I stood up for in the past on here: Quentin, D. Wise all have been getting plenty of love. How bout some love for Pods now?

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Sep 6, 2012 -> 01:45 AM) If you really want to know whether or not this is true, find out where AJ is. If he's having a suspension announced tomorrow, then he's cleaned out his locker and left town. If he's out somewhere in Chicago, then no way he's getting suspended starting tomorrow. That's probably true, but not necessarily. I think Melky had a press conference to apologize, didn't he? Unless it was a statement he issued.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 5, 2012 -> 10:17 PM) You are correct when you say that the perception would linger for years after the problem stopped. What makes you a bad guy is endorsing the current situation that leads to that very legitimate perception. You want people like Holmes fearing it, but if it stopped tomorrow, then they wouldn't fear it in, say, 25 years. That implies that you're in favor of rape-as-punishment culture continuing in prisons so that bad people will fear being raped if not actually be raped. Holmes is a bad person, but so is anyone who wants to further rape-as-punishment. The key words here .... "That implies" I've said over and over what I meant and what my stance is, so I'm not implying anything. You guys don't want to address that part of my argument which is crazy. How many times do I have to say it? I'm not implying anything.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Sep 5, 2012 -> 08:06 PM) It will only take a semi-competent speaker to look better than Romney did, you do understand that right? Obama's #1 quality is that he's a good speaker and people like him. It has nothing to do with media portrayal. But this has nothing to do with Romney. I'm saying without mentioning Romney, the Democrat-laden media will proclaim this speech on its own merit as one of the best ever, or since Kennedy. QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Sep 5, 2012 -> 08:21 PM) Greg is killing me In a good or bad way? QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Sep 5, 2012 -> 09:56 PM) PWNDTT What's that mean. At least I apologize unlike some mods (not you) who accused me of something in another thread that I didn't say. Some are too proud to apologize even on a message board; if I err or offend incorrectly I will apologize.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 5, 2012 -> 09:59 PM) That perception is there because there's a huge amount of prison rape that actually happens. If that wasn't true, there wouldn't be fear of it. Prison rape in America is so prevalent that more men are raped than women in this country. Rape or fear of rape should never be seen as a punishment. My point is even if all prison rape stopped today, which it should cause it's against the law, that the perception (fear) that it could occur would still be out there for the next 25 years or so. Whenever you hear about a child molester going to jail, somebody out there mentions the fact the prison population will be happy to meet this molester up close and personal. That won't change for 50 years even if all rape stopped today. I'm against prison rape, but for people like Holmes fearing it. I don't know why that makes me a bad guy. The bad guy here is Holmes, the scum of the earth in fact is he.

I'll give the Sox credit for winning a series immediately after the Tigers disaster. I'll never balk at 2 of 3.

QUOTE (TitoMB @ Sep 5, 2012 -> 11:06 PM) Lol :lolhitting I know he won't do it, cause he didn't do anything like that regarding Melky, but AJ's power surge this season was hugely dramatic. You gotta admit.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Sep 5, 2012 -> 10:48 PM) BUMP The catch-all is dreadful. It's clear that it kills discussion on this board. Very true. I am scared to death to start a new thread ever. And believe me, I'd be starting a ton of threads if this board was new-thread-friendly.

QUOTE (South Side Fireworks Man @ Sep 5, 2012 -> 11:03 PM) Sportsmanship??? So a team starts a player at 3B who can't move and it's poor sportsmanship to bunt towards him? By that logic the Sox could start an injured pitcher and it would be poor sportsmanship for the Tigers to swing at the meatballs he throws up there. Or let's say a team has a catcher that is leading the league in hitting, home runs, RBIs and OBP. But he recently injured his throwing arm so that although it doesn't affect his hitting, he can barely throw the ball back to the pitcher. If the team starts him at Catcher to keep his bat in the lineup, would it be poor sportsmanship for the opposing team to steal second and third every time a runner reaches base? The Tigers wanted to keep Cabrera's bat in the lineup so they started him at 3B even though they knew he probably couldn't field a bunt. There is nothing unsportsmanlike to take advantage of the situation, and it's foolish to let him beat you with his bat and not take advantage of his defenseive shortcomings. Wilber Wood was bunted out of baseball. He could still pitch, but because of the bad wheels, teams bunted against him so much he was done. He simply could not field the position.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Sep 5, 2012 -> 10:44 PM) I'm hearing that he failed the test 2 weeks ago. There will be a press conference tomorrow where his suspension will be made official. Makes sense since they just brought up Gimenez. Well, that's too bad. If this is true, I wonder if Selig would take the stance of making the Sox forfeit every game AJ hit a homer in after surpassing last year's HR total. If AJ did this, it definitely showed in his power numbers.

Sox have to do this; Q is Humber-like right now. Unless it's something that can be fixed, Q needs an extended time on the bench.

Yay! We win, so I'm still in. I go day to day in my fandom.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Sep 5, 2012 -> 08:08 PM) Eh hell be lucky if he gets a 5/10 from me (although to be fair I doubt I will watch.) I dont really like Obama's public speaking style, its too vanilla and rehearsed. But then again in the age of the teleprompter you have to kill it for me to really respect the speech. A great speech should come from within, you can prepare, but in the moment you have to feel the environment and make them believe. You just can not effectively do that if you have pre-written the entire speech. There just is no way to feel the response and build on it. Please watch it Badger. I want to see your review because it's going to be the only one that doesn't proclaim it the best speech since Kennedy. Oh there will be comparisons to the greatest speeches of all time. This one will be right up there. The word "trust" will be in it a lot. I would think he'd have a catch phrase like "let me complete the deal!" but that might have some sexual innuendo so he probably can't go there. He'll come up with some good catch phrases. It can't be "change" however. We know that.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Sep 5, 2012 -> 08:06 PM) that is beyond f***ed up man. sorry you have to be put through that s***. Your story is very sad. I wish you the best. QUOTE (Reddy @ Sep 5, 2012 -> 08:07 PM) owned me? i'm on his side. Ooops. My bad. Apologies.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 5, 2012 -> 11:48 AM) Nobody is offended that you think he's a piece of s***. We're disgusted that you think fear of being raped is a good thing. Because that means there's a lot of rape. That doesn't mean we're taking anyone's side apart from "nobody should be raped, including prisoners." I don't think it means there's a lot of rape. There's a perception out there that prisoners bang each other in prison and some of it is forced. That perception will probably be there forever cause there's no proof of it either way. So would I be happy if Holmes fears the possibility of that? Sure. I don't like Holmes. I am a supporter of victims; I don't care about the people who ruin lives. Always been that way. Just because I want him to fear the possibility of what lies ahead doesn't mean I want prisoners to break the law and rape him or whack him in the knees with a baseball bat. But should he fear that, that'd be nice. And judging from what I read about Holmes complaining about the prison food, I'm thinking he will be a little concerned about what awaits him in general population if he doesn't get a cushy 40-year stay in a mental hospital.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Sep 5, 2012 -> 03:11 PM) Michele Obama's speech was unbelievably bad. Admit it It was not worth slobbering over that is for sure and Wolf and Company act like she is some stranger who was introduced to America. We know all about Barack and the blah job he did the last four years. Ridiculous QUOTE (MexSoxFan#1 @ Sep 5, 2012 -> 03:44 PM) U mad? No. Obama's a Sox fan. I like him. I just laugh that the Democrats in the media got to have their little party last night. Wait til Barack's speech. They are going to proclaim its the best speech of all time. "Barack Obama made a convincing claim that he just needs four more years to complete his mission. He stressed over and over to trust him that he needs more time. It's obvious he's won the trust of America after that speech and the election is a mere formality. No president in modern time has made a more convincing point. Trust me and I will complete the deal. America flat out believes in Barack Obama. After that speech, frankly how can anybody not believe in him?" QUOTE (flippedoutpunk @ Sep 5, 2012 -> 05:23 PM) yep, im voting for romney only because when a republican is in office that means bigger raises and more action/jobs for us military folk.. jobs are good, obamas been downsizing the s*** out of us and now you have hundreds of thousands of unemployed vets competing with other unemployed vets for jobs (I'm one of them). I feel for you. You deserve a job; you deserve a raise. QUOTE (flippedoutpunk @ Sep 5, 2012 -> 06:26 PM) I am back in school, double majoring in elementary ed and computer science while getting screwed by congress as they nickle and dime the post 9-11 GI Bill to the point where veterans end up with no money to pay rent, groceries, or hell even buy books for their classes! Build a business i couldnt get a loan unless i robbed a bank. I dont necessarily want more wars but at least bring the numbers back up so that those that planned to retire working for uncle sam while doing their 20 years could still do so. Nice post. You owned him with that one. p.s. The easiest prediction in America is ALL media PUNDITS will be proclaiming Barack's speech one of the best of all time. It doesn't matter what he says; they are Democrats; they are about to give the biggest slobber since his last convention speech. Only this one???? It will be magical; it will unify America; it will bring tears to everybody's eyes. The best speech in history is coming up Thursday folks.

No reason to speculate. You could start a rumor about anybody in baseball. Hopefully nothing will come of it and he's clean.

As expected ... the Democrats in the media slobber over Obama's speech. CNN's Wolf Blitzer: "The First Lady not hitting a home run, but probably a Grand Slam." NBC's Chuck Todd: "Michelle Obama owned this convention in a way that no speaker owned the convention in Tampa." CNN analyst David Gergen: "If they have two more nights like this, they can probably break this race open." Fox News's Martha McCallum: "Very positive response here from the floor, and very enthusiastic from people listening to this." Fox News' Brit Hume: "Extremely impressive woman." MSNBC's Rachel Maddow: "Oh my god." MSNBC's Ed Schultz: "Tonight we were reintroduced to a star." CNN analyst Donna Brazille: "Love is in the air." The same Wolf Blitzer who sneered at Romney's wife. What a joke. I concede Obama is going to win. I like Obama enough in that he's a Sox fan. But my god, the man's four years were a joke. How bout at least mentioning that Michelle Obama's speech doesn't mean jack s*** because we already know who Barack is from four years in the office. The media bias amazes me. It was a good speech; it was not earth shattering. My god, Wolf.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 5, 2012 -> 12:40 AM) Which prisoners are ok to rape and hitch aren't? We need to know the rules here, and you've decided that you're a good person to judge, so please let us know when it's ok. No prisoners are ok to rape. But do i hope Holmes every moment of his waking day fears what's ahead for him, of course I want that. I want every moment of the rest of his life to be hell.