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gotta horse... KUCH... in the 8th at arlington today... put your best customers on it... sorry it is a 5-2 favorite...

i think muslims desacrate the quran/koran more with their murderous interpretations of their holy book. now these goofs are saying it is ok to kill fellow muslims???

QUOTE(SleepyWhiteSox @ May 16, 2005 -> 02:25 PM) WTF? Somewhat of an ignorant comment, don't you think? sorry if it was offensive,... I didn't mean it as a insult to hispanics, but to our government that requires everything in spanish... I think hispanics are intelligient enough to understand english, our government doesn't...

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ May 19, 2005 -> 10:09 AM) Uhm, let's see... where can we find a biologist around here....? Uhm... wait, oh yeah, how about... ME!?! [Not that I feel slighted, of course...] SouthSider, I think you're actually asking a backwards version of the question, and this is possibly being borne out in the woefully small sample (n=2 = useless for all but idle speculation, but what the hell) of the currently infected Barry and Sammy. Some good research dating back a good 15 years, actually suggested a possible up-modulation in immune response in athletes taking anabolic steroids versus an unjuiced control group. The issue with the putative 'Roid Boyz right now (and here comes the idle speculation) is that being off of steroids now after presumably many years of use has severely compromised immune systems that had been artificially revved up by the anabolic steroids. The abstract of the paper that came to mind can be found here on PubMed. My interpretation follows. Your wife can help you translate the bio-babble, but the interesting part is that the steroid users in that study had significantly higher ability to proliferate B lymphocytes (the cells putting out antibodies in a cellular immune response) in response to exposure to SAC, which is a strain of (dum dum dumm!!) Staphylococcus. Juicers also had enhanced NK cell activity, but that would correspond to enhanced ability of these cells to seek and destroy cancerous cells or those infected by viruses. While not directly playing a role in fighting a staph infection, if NK effectiveness is compromised and the immune system is therefore overtaxed and stressed, it can certainly open up a person to a secondary bacterial infection like staph. A finding that seemed at first unusual to me (with rudimentary working knowledge of immunology but no expertise by any stretch) was the elevated immunoglobulin (=antibodies) levels in the unjuiced control group. In thinking about it though, that seems to make good sense as these circulating antibodies would be indicative of ongoing low grade cell-specific infections that a substantial portion of the control group is currently fighting. In contrast, the juicers don't have a lot of circulating antibodies because they are currently not fighting infection. If they became infected, their T cell-modulated scaling up of B cell numbers would be expected to be rapid and the infection quickly brought under control. The response would, of course rely on antibody proliferation, so if the juicers were sampled at the time of an incipient infection the immunoglobulin numbers would be extremely high. I'm not up on the follow-on research, but it's easily searchable on PubMed if you are interested. I encourage Soxy and Hurt and any other bio-geek types to offer their own assenting/dissenting interpretations of the research and add anything else they have. Also bear in mind something that has already been posted by Benchwarmerjim (pleased to meet you, btw), and that is that staph infections are becoming more tenacious and harder to fight with antibiotics, presumably yet another indication that our years and years of antibiotic overuse as a prophylaxis was a very bad idea and we've inadvertently selected for lots of superbugs. So, add that knowledge to the preceding for perhaps a clearer picture of the 'insult-to-injury' scenario being seen now. and people say math is hard????

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article....RTICLE_ID=44335 if this is true the troops aren't doing a good enough job...

did the cubs have a scout there?

to yesterday's pics as well... keep up the good work.... and btw what do ya mean "you hope to see the next game" you're ottawasoxfan and Frank is in ottawa... how often does that happen???

what about a jay marriotti dart board promotion at the cell??? jay's picture on a dart board thingy... it's not green 'cause i'm serious...

QUOTE(ChiSoxyGirl @ May 18, 2005 -> 12:29 PM) Suddenly starts replanning vacation. If only they can offer an assurance that Ross Gload will be there..... I'm guessing there will be players on aug 3rd.. and coaching staff on june 21st.. but just a guess

another reason to like brookfield zoo... they have a promotion and june 21st and aug 3 involving the WHITE SOX!!!! http://www.brookfieldzoo.org/0.asp?nSectio...d=167&nLinkID=4

she's better off now...

QUOTE(TheDybber @ May 18, 2005 -> 11:00 AM) I used to live on North and Clark and work on Clark and Belden. I used to love walking to or from work through the zoo. Where else can you walk to work and see pigmy hippos, lions, cougars, seals and penguins on the way? It's free, it's in the city, it's fun, it's fantastic people watching...what more could you ask for? what more could we ask for ??? how about live animals...

QUOTE(Steff @ May 18, 2005 -> 10:51 AM) He wasn't. He was 11-4 at the break. thanx...

I am not wagering on this series this year... I have a policy of not picking on the handicapped...

QUOTE(sec159row2 @ May 18, 2005 -> 10:20 AM) yes they did... i'm on the 32nd floor of one financial... and I remember :puke when the C flag went up... I'm just happy captivate network in the elevators finally gives the sox some billing... I almost positive the cubs flag went up... but people around me are telling me it didn't..

QUOTE(mreye @ May 18, 2005 -> 09:14 AM) P.S. when the Cubs were in the NLCS they didn't fly a Cubs flag! yes they did... i'm on the 32nd floor of one financial... and I remember :puke when the C flag went up... I'm just happy captivate network in the elevators finally gives the sox some billing...

QUOTE(Steff @ May 18, 2005 -> 09:22 AM) Yea, this stat is for most wins to start the season. JB was 7-0 until 5/26/00 when he got his first loss. this stat WAS for wins to start the season.. thanx...

QUOTE(Steff @ May 18, 2005 -> 09:22 AM) Yea, this stat is for most wins to start the season. JB was 7-0 until 5/26/00 when he got his first loss. if he got his first loss on 5/26/00 how was he 11-0 at the all-star break??

what about baldwin??? he was 11-0 at the all-star break in 2000... did he have a no decision or something, and this stat is for the first 8 starts???

the twins are always respectful in their comments.. but, in private I'm sure they HATE the sox...

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ May 16, 2005 -> 12:26 PM) As if horses weren't lucky enough to be.....well 'horses'. http://msn.foxsports.com/horseracing/story/3618790 what happens if the erection lasts longer than 4 hours???

QUOTE(SleepyWhiteSox @ May 16, 2005 -> 01:15 PM) He can read English. I'm sure he can read it very well. You don't live in the U.S. as long as he has and get hired as a major league manager without being able to read English. I'd have to hear it from Oz himself to believe it. Maybe he's pressed for time and needs help to read them all, or maybe he's using the slight language barrier as an excuse, which sometimes is done, but I highly doubt an e-mail from a fan would be so indecipherable for him that he would need assistance. why would have to learn english??? our government treats hispanics like the handicapped.. it seems everything is written in english and spanish... look at marriotti he's still learning english as a second language, because s*** usually comes out of his mouth..

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with all those people in the stands at wrigley you'd think they could assemble a bullpen...

JR has enron's accountants keeping these numbers down so he still gets his tax rebate