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I never get too invloved in politics, but this does seem odd. Terribly inexperienced and frankly, i had barely heard of her before a couple days ago. I am glad its not Romney though. I didnt vote for him in the primary for a reason.

QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ Aug 28, 2008 -> 11:30 PM) I just re-read the entire thing and i think i herniated myself from laughing so hard. :lolhitting I miss Apu Agreed. One of the funniest threads i ever read. I missed it the first time so this was great. Figures it'd be Apu who had started this.

QUOTE (Flash Tizzle @ Aug 28, 2008 -> 05:09 PM) What's unfortuante is those threads which were really objectionable (and would qualify as being hall of fame material) were deleted. Oh man, that reminds me of Beastly's old threads when he was Wsc245. "Showering while in high school" or his "what do people prefer sexually threads." Those were f***ing awesome. HAHA, here are some old threads. It's like a treasure of long forgotten soxtalk members. http://www.soxtalk.com/forums/index.php?sh...=9306&st=25 (note the argument on page 2 concerning nazi's with cwso and cerb. That epitomizes early Soxtalk) http://www.soxtalk.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=11150 (LONG read. Cwsox, an old member, was temporarily banned because of two incidents -- attacks within the infamous "are you gay thread; and alleged comments made towards Aboz). Even those these may be objectionable to post, everyone should know this site's history. It's the time on Soxtalk I refer to as the Dark Ages. I had only been here for a month when that went down. I cant believe its been 5 years already! Interesting seeing some of those names again.

QUOTE (stretchstretch @ Aug 28, 2008 -> 10:54 PM) both teams go 0-0 for 5 innings, then score one each in the 6th Top 8-- sh*tty team's, sh*tty reliever walks the first two guys he face, then Player X "doubles deep to left" per Gamecast, then shuts down next three batters sh*tty team sh*ts themselves in the bottom of the 9th Twins win by one run....... can't MN win a game like a winner, or lose like a loser, but stop eeking out these crap wins against crap teams. If you're going to earn the central playoff spot, the really win it...... slow night, watching another dragged out MN game on Gamecast and just seems like the same story evolving over and over......just can't bear another twin div. winner followed by a typical first round exit...... such a tired story.....pls Sox take them out..... Hmmm...

I used to always refer to Durham as "Ray Ray" and Jim Parque as "Butter" but many other people did too

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 28, 2008 -> 02:27 PM) Well now I know how a Chinese place can serve Wings...

QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ Aug 28, 2008 -> 01:54 PM) I was reading today that about 10 percent of the people in South Africa are white. So, doesn't that mean technically that if somebody in that grouping were to immigrate to the United States, they'd be "African-American" even with their skin complexion? Seems confusing to me. White Africans live in Zimbabwe, Angola and a couple other places too. I guess they would be "African Americans" but certain groups would go on to say they were actually just Dutch/Portuguese/English etc...

QUOTE (santo=dorf @ Aug 28, 2008 -> 01:38 PM) this whole thead is a riot: http://www.soxtalk.com/forums/index.php?sh...5780&st=242 Ha that was pretty funny. Odd seeing posts in there from 4 banned posters. And on that topic, redandwhite is banned? Huh, i never knew that, I wonder what he did I enjoyed reading his posts generally.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Aug 28, 2008 -> 12:41 PM) God, what was that guy's name? I know exactly who you are talking about and I'm pretty sure all the ESPN guys will too. I remember BoogAlou, but I can't remember if he was the poster in question or not. That and the format change(ugh, that completely destroyed the board, everyone was gone after that) were my reasons for the move. I think it was probably Boog. I remember explaining thigns to him in the most common sense way possible and he would be adamant about the total opposuite being right. Some times i couldnt tell whether he was flat out stupid/ignorant or whether he tried to be that way

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 28, 2008 -> 10:14 AM) I just found out the other day that he retired a couple of seasons ago. In checking out one of the cached pages I saw a blurb up top thanking all the Sox minor leaguers who posted or viewed the site wishing them luck. Among them was Josh Fields. Does/did he read or ever read this site? Or was it the other Josh Fields

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 28, 2008 -> 12:20 PM) For any area along a subduction zone...if you're having problems with a 6.1, it's probably a good idea to just move. The fault system offshore of the Pacific Coast of the US north of the San Andreas is the kind of fault that can produce the gargantuan magnitude 9+ events. Isnt that the one that caused the Alaska 9.1 or whatever it was earlier in the 20th century?

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Aug 28, 2008 -> 10:54 AM) Thats rough, getting cut 4 days before the rosters expand to 40...although I'm sure they did it with the playoff roster in mind Which is odd, because if they left him on until Sept 1 they would have a free 25 man playoff spot to use on whoever they wanted after they released him. Surprised they didnt take advantage of that loop hole

I just joined the saturday draft league as the 11th team so one more person has to sign up

I watched my parents cat and dogs when they were away this summer and I had to give the cat a pill every day. It was a capsule and my mom told me to open it, dump the powder out into a can of "wet" food, mix it up and give it to her. She ate the food as normal as if nothing was in it. If its a solid pill, try grinding it up and see if that works

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Aug 28, 2008 -> 10:01 AM) Also the O's are a very good offensive team, its their pitching that sucks. I dont think people totally understand that, I know coming in I had no idea how good they were. Roberts, Huff, Mora, Scott, Hernandez and Markakis are all good players and Millar's no slouch. I was surprised to see they had I think 4 or 5 .300 hitters in the lineup yesterday. That being said, both pitchers still pitched poorly. Also, after reading that TSN article whitesoxbrian posted, I believe Danks was just off, not that he hit a wall. It says in the article that if his motion is off he has a hard time not leaving the ball up, which was his problem yesterday. Unless I see this in his next two outings, I'm gonna say it was just a bad game.

Has Jon Link blown a save in 3 straight games now?

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Aug 28, 2008 -> 03:41 AM) Iim nnoit wone to breakj a promnise. imn onhort of eads, ibnvest in hi muy nAMNE Iss blkank nmae taags. "I'm not one to break a promise. I'm (short of ideas?), invest in my name is blank name tags." What?

QUOTE (WilliamTell @ Aug 27, 2008 -> 11:16 PM) I was with the ESPN boards in 2003 and 2004 and loved it at first. I remember those guys and I got along with Hawkiconk very well. I wonder if any of those guys still post there. Imann was very cool I thought. BoogAlou98 or 95 or whatever his number was, I did not enjoy very much. There was another guy that started with ChiSox and had some numbers after, he was an interesting guy and everyone seemed to hate him, I think Mike might've been his name but I can't remember. Anyways once the new format came for the espn boards, the Sox board and most other boards lost a lot of people. Soxtalk used to be slammed quite a bit, which is how I found out about soxtalk. ChiSox361, and yea, he was annoying

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ Aug 27, 2008 -> 08:22 PM) The original ESPNers were a good group. I was over there as well. Hawkiconk, Rdivaldi, Mike, and a few others were over in the ESPN world. At lot of these guys went to other boards, fell off the end of the universe, or arrived here. ESPN wasnt bad, and we had a lot of good banter with some of the other boards. Ofx over on the ESPN Twins board, Imann over on the ESPN Royals board were a few I got along with quite a bit. One particular anti-fan and his nonsense and the endless trolls trashing the board were the reasons I found myself here. Imann was actually the exact guy i was talking about. I forgot about RD. Shame he doesnt post here

QUOTE (whitesoxbrian @ Aug 27, 2008 -> 08:04 PM) Okay, 1 day you're Mr. Pessimistic and the next day you love the team. Figure it out. heh

Unfortunate that he walked 5 guys (and with some patience it undoubtedly would have been more) and we couldnt make him pay for it

Difference is the O's have gotten 4 runs home with 2 outs while we've left runners on with 2 outs

We need to get a couple back right here

We're getting beaten by Lou Montanez and Juan Castro...we deserve to lose allowing that

I actually commend Oz here for taking out Danks and not rolling the dice for another inning