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Yeah, all the issues I'm seeing are with Firefox. For example, the pulldowns at the right of the forum, are transparent on FireFox but have a background on them in IE.

LOL, why is that guy wearing a glove?

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ May 9, 2006 -> 09:13 AM) I actually had to stop and think a little bit before I answered this. I'll admit my first thought was to come on here and just tear this whole thing apart in a blazing flame job. Then the more I thought about it, if you didn't get the original post, you probably wouldn't get this either, but I also wanted to explain something that other people should understand. You used the term moral compass like a term of derision. Something you completely missed is that the admins/mods of a good website are exactly that. Especially in a situtation where you expect more out of an individual poster, good leadership steps to the plate and does something to rectify the situation. Now I now my answer should have been a little bit less bitter, and I will freely admit that. But the point of the post stands, the attacks were questionable at best. I have seen people trying to justify them by the kids attitude and the way he posed his question etc, but on the flip side of things, the guy has eight posts, and obviously has no idea of Soxtalk etiquette, so what happens? Instead of someone explaining to him what he should be doing, they rip the kid apart. Then to top it off, when all of the people who were yelling so loudly about everything were proven completely and 100% wrong, only one person had the moxie to apologize. Now many of the people who were chirping the loudest, I don't expect anything from, as they have demonstrated nothing that would indicate they would have the decency to look themselves in the mirror and admit a mistake in the first place, so why would they in this situation, right? But others I was extremely disappointed in. Some people you just expect more from. As a matter of a fact, you would expect them to be a sort of moral compass. Someone to help out new people, and be man enough to admit when they are wrong, not to further add to the embarassment by acting like they are above common decency. Another big problem here is that I know of people personally through emails and PMs who refuse to post any new info because of threads exactly like this. Egotisitcal people is a rush to look better than someone else overreact to a situation, and immediately attack the messenger. This has led to more than a few of our "inside" sources either quitting the site, or just not posting anything edgy anymore. The funny thing is that the losers in these situations are all of the same people who are causing this problem in the first place. If you don't believe me take a look around at the people who aren't posting here anymore, and the disappearence of minor league posters and "breaking" news from certian posters anymore, then add it all up yourself. One definate problem here, is this whole clique mentality that has developed here lately, sucks. Its like you have to be a part of the "group" or you are no one. If your opinion doesn't conform, you are driven off as somekind of outcast or idiot, which has become very reminisent of a situation that many of our posters fled other places on the internet. Many days and threads turn out like a bad teen movie with all of the little princesses fighting over who is the prom queen. Well girls, I am here to tell you that you are all snobs. Call me the moral compass, and damn it I am proud of that. I want Soxtalk to be a FREE and OPEN exchange of information and ideas. I want Soxtalk to be a place where someone new can come and fit in, just as well as someone who has been here since day one. I don't want a situation where just because someone has a lot of posts, they can label and deride someone just because. Part of my role as an administrator at Soxtalk is to make a situation here where exactly the ideal situations for member are occuring, and sometimes that means being a moral compass. When I see a situation where I can educate someone on being a better poster, I'll will take that chance, because in the long run, it is for the good of the site as a whole. I don't regret calling out people at all for this. People needed to hear how they were acting, and if they chose to ignore the feedback they are getting, from MANY more people than just me, well that is up to them. Excellent post Mike. This site will never grow for the better, if people are going to treat people a certain way just by their post count. Every one of the posters that was bashing wcw was a newbie with a handful of posts at one time too. Yesterday was certainly disappointing, and hopefully we don't see any other cases like this. No one is better than anyone here, and some people certainly thought otherwise yesterday.

QUOTE(jackie hayes @ May 8, 2006 -> 11:30 PM) This board is getting pussified fast today. In the end, he was right, so the doubters have to eat it. But he didn't call anything, he just asked, so he doesn't have much to crow about. In the end, noone's got much to talk about, so this long argument about who should be apologizing looks pretty dumb. No, he stated it here at the same time. You may have saw the thread title earlier with question marks and the word "rumor" in the title. I changed it to that earlier this afternoon, because we had no confirming evidence either way. However, it wasn't worthy to close the thread, until we determined the fate of the news one way or another.

QUOTE(Beastly @ May 8, 2006 -> 11:21 PM) And so my fellow soxtalkians, this is why we let people speak here on the board, and wait before we can prove them untrue and believe EVERYTHING THAT IS INACCURATE is farfetched. Have a nice evening, everyone.

Nice job completing the show under the weather Jas; the Rally Crede got you through it. Excellent job on breaking the story on Count. That’s very cool that Mario had that. Good point on Gload. Unfortunately, he’s just a lost cause for us. Because we really have no need for him, but we need him as insurance. However, it’s unfair to expect anything for someone that only plays a few times a month, if he’s lucky. And I’m also wanting more from Mack too; hopefully he gets in one of those hot streaks soon. I agree with both of you on BA. You’ve got to stick with him. We don’t have any options readily available. He’s looked good the past couple games; hopefully he’ll continue to progress off that. And I don’t want Lofton either; I’m not too fond of that player either. The squeeze was a good call yesterday too. I don’t think we should get away from small-ball. Obviously the pitching was the primary piece of the puzzle to winning the World Series; however, I consider the small ball just as important. I love how you both closed that topic; it’s not all about stats.

Welcome. This has been discussed several times. Crede's certainly deserving. He's ALWAYS had the great glove, but it's been under the radar before his bat got hot last fall. However, the gold glove is a bit of a farce, in that you must be a good offensive player to earn the gold glove also. If Crede continues hitting the way he does, he'll have no problem taking the hardware home.

I think I'm getting this tomorrow. http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?sk...d=1124432186876

Game day operations for the Fort Wayne Wizards and I interviewed to work at a golf shop today too.

Sad that I missed this. And I understand Stuart Scott did this? Whyyyyyyy? I like David Blaine though.

QUOTE(Tmar28 @ May 8, 2006 -> 06:48 PM)

Ha holy f***, and you guys were all giving him s*** before I left. I'm not even going to try to read this thread. But this is great proof that people shouldn't start s*** just to start s***. I hope the ones that started talking in the beginning of this thread apologized. The mods/admins at SoxTalk will take care of it, if there is a problem or a farce. There's absolutely no reason to quick judge, ever.

QUOTE(kyyle23 @ May 8, 2006 -> 03:57 PM) It isnt on Whitesox.com I don't believe this for a second either, but we've beaten ChiSox.com on everything.

The title has been changed until efficently proven.

Sweet. I got stuff to do right now, and I work my first game tonight. This will definitely be on the agenda for when I get back.

I throw/eat/write left-handed, but I bat/kick/golf right-handed.

I'd actually prefer it be done on the road. It'd be much more entertaining.

Out Loud.

That's how they're all written.

(100%) 1: Joe Crede Information (96%) 2: AJ Pierzynski Information (88%) 3: Mark Buehrle Information (88%) 4: Jermaine Dye Information (85%) 5: Tadahito Iguchi Information (85%) 6: Jon Garland Information (85%) 7: Brian Anderson Information (80%) 8: Jose Contreras Information (74%) 9: Bobby Jenks Information (66%) 10: Hawk Harrelson Information

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ May 7, 2006 -> 10:05 PM) Of course...its the only way to be.

QUOTE(whitesoxin' @ May 7, 2006 -> 09:47 PM) Are you serious? It's a disgrace to baseball that he is going to break the Babe's record. Some reason they both like him and at least one of them doesn't even believe he's taken steroids.

QUOTE(Cuck the Fubs @ May 7, 2006 -> 05:40 PM) People working undercover to design undectable steriods? Apparently you want the answer to be yes. Yes, Jim Thome will be under steroid scrutiny. :rolly

And the videos Bri and I have posted don't even come close to resembling some box bulls***.

QUOTE(bulokis @ May 7, 2006 -> 04:45 PM) Crede has been great since making great plays and being a clutch hitter during the world series run. Even longer than that. Ever since he came off of the DL, he's been fantastic. But he was always clutch for some reason.