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QUOTE(juddling @ Mar 7, 2008 -> 12:08 AM) I think it's Michael on the freighter. nothing to back that up other than my own opinion I'm positive it is Michael.

QUOTE(shipps @ Mar 8, 2008 -> 09:57 AM) Ya,I dont remember that.I just remember the DRay cheers out of you that made us all uncomfortable and somewhat fearful. And than remember the Rays actually blowing the game. God they suck.

Lloyd was once thought of as one of the young/upcoming WR's in the NFL. He had shown great hands and solid athletism and had success early in San Francisco (even with suspect QB play). He than took some heat in San Fran for calling out the QB and was dealt to Washington where attitude issues again put him in the doghouse. The Redskins also had poor QB play and were a run first run often offense which had some other weapons utilized well before Lloyd (Moss/Cooley and eventually Randle El). This put Lloyd in a tough spot and given him rubbing the coaching staff the wrong way (which is his fault) he didn't get the opportunity to show anything and than got hurt this season. We can only hope he learned that his attitude hurt him and that he'll have to temper himself and work hard and earn things. The Bears are thin at the WR spot and appear to be losing Davis (which I have no problem with because I don't think much of him). This means you have quite a few openings at the WR spot given that the top 3 from last year are likely gone. Booker is a vet, should be good on 3rd downs and helpful. Lloyd is a guy with the speed to get open and make plays and has good hands. He's suspect over the middle and that will have to change (however, given Rex's play Lloyd could be a pretty good fit as Rex has the arm to make a lot of plays to the sidelines and that is where Lloyd excels). Than there is Bradley/Hester who will be battling in there as well and get plenty of time, plus a draft pick. My guess is the Bears pass on WR in Rd 1 and take it in the 2nd, but again, you know they have 4 pretty key needs (WR/RB/Oline/QB). They technically have 4 picks in the first 3 rounds so the question is which rounds to they address the needs. WR has no top notch sure things, but enough solid guys for the 1st 3 rounds (because of this, maybe you are better just waiting till the 3rd and taking whoever grades higher, since it seems like no one really knows, besides Sweed/Kelly, who the next guy is). RB is loaded with talent, I think this is a good spot in the 1st or 2nd (you have guys like Felix Jones, maybe even Jonathan Stewart given the depth that might be there in the 2nd round that typically would be gone top 20). The Bears have done nothing on the RB front after indicating all off-season that they have little faith in Benson, which leads me to believe they feel pretty strongly about what they can get in an extremely deep RB pool. If you wait till the 3rd round you may really limit your chances at RB (yes good ones will be there, but you have potential pro-bowl type backs that could be there when you pick in the 2nd). At the oline you know at 14 you can get yourself one of the best ones in a strong draft. Again, you can hold and grab a 1st round graded olineman in the 2nd round (given the depth). Williams from Vandy is the risky pick at 14 (less of a sure thing, more likely to be a total road blocker though). Than there is QB, where if Flacco/Brohm are your guys you either have to go 1st rnd or 2nd round. Henne probably goes 2nd round but than there is a group of guys, including Justin Johnson (poor arm, hell of an athlete though) who you could grab in the latter rounds. Again, you also have Orton/Grossman who I think management believes in enough to consider passing and just taking a pure developmental pick (believing that one of these two above could be the guy) knowing that you have other more important needs (in the sense that a QB pick will not help you this year, while the other picks truly could help you win THIS YEAR).

When we saw Burke play last season in Seattle, I made sure to give him a good old ovation (just like I kept cheering kid weaver, haha). I always liked Burke, maybe it was from interviewing him down in AAA, or maybe it was because he had some quality play during his short ML stints with the Sox. Either way good story and I'm glad that at times, these type of things happen and people that stick it out for that long in the minors end up making it (even if it is just for a short span).

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Mar 7, 2008 -> 04:31 PM) Not that I like Selig, but $15 million a year of total compensation for a CEO overseeing a multibillion dollar industries is probably underpaying him by about a factor of 10. Remember he just gets the cash. Most of the guys in similar positions get cash, stock, stock options, and all kinds of other perks that baseball can't give him. No doubt about it. He is ridiculously underpaid given the options that a typical CEO would have. I also think he's a very good commissioner who gets way more heat than he deserves. The game has truly thrived with him in office, despite some bad things happening during his tenure (but that happens).

QUOTE(jackie hayes @ Mar 6, 2008 -> 07:46 AM) Bud Selig makes $15 mil as commissioner? Wtf? Good article, knightni. Thanks for the link. That is a pretty small chunk, given the fact that baseball is about a 5 billion dollar industry (or I think its somewhere in that range). Say what you want about Bud, but the sport has grown immensley under his tenure and more recently, despite the steroid incidence the sport is growing even faster than ever. They still have issues, ie, trying to rebuild inner city baseball play and just play amongst youth (because the sport must rely on young kids playing the game and either turning into future mlb players or future fans because i think you are more likely to become a fan if you play the game due to baseball having so many intangibles which to me make the game so interesting).

Fullerton picked up there third win in a row on Friday. The starter Jorgensen really struggled with his command but they brought in a freshman who had a filthy curve and shut down Souther Miss. After getting there asses handed to em by Stanford, Fullerton swept a midweek 2 game set against UCLA (home/road) and started things off right against Southern Miss (my frist game in attendance). Gonna hit it up on Sunday as well to see what there Friday night starter Kaplan is all about (It is weird how due to the additional mid-week games, you end up seeing on Friday/Saturday games teams going with bullpen by committee's as opposed to there #1/#2).

Ya, draft a QB the year after you just made it to the Superbowl with a young QB who had a little over half of a probowl season and about half of a terrible season (something you expect from a young guy). I would have tarred and feathered Bears brass for making such an assinine decision.

Fullerton beats #3 UCLA yesterday. They have another game against the Bruins tonight.

Happy Bday to one of the site's fourfathers!!!! Hope its a good one buddy

Boylan is freaking terrible....terrible.

QUOTE(fathom @ Mar 1, 2008 -> 06:29 PM) So, my brother thinks I'm nuts cause I think Mayo and Bayless will be better pros than Beasley. I know Mayo hasn't lived up to his reputation for much of the year, but he'll be much better in a more open situation. I'll never understand why Tim Floyd plays a slow style with that roster. Beasley is the best player I've ever seen at the college level. The guy is ridiculous and there is a no way that Mayo will be a better pro.

Stoked to have Briggsy back. Time to get Javon Walker and Booker in at the WR position (or Walker and a draft pick).

QUOTE(DrunkBomber @ Mar 1, 2008 -> 06:31 PM) Boy will they look stupid going out and having fun when you are following these strangers around video taping them because you think they are beneath you. POST THE YOUTUBE LINK!!!!! I'll pay you to film the stupid s*** I do. I always wish I could see more of me drunk on tv. As long as it isn't me drunk getting arrested.

Fullerton got beat down by Stanford yesterday and today. I hate this new f***ing schedule. Quality games like UCLA get moved to the middle of the week so I can't go. It will be interesting to see if they can pull anything out against the Tree's before playing the studly Bruins in a midweek series. Fullerton is way too young and I have my fears about them with this new schedule.

I can't say this should belong in here. But last weekend I went to a costume party, designed a costume as a 10 key (hell, I'm an accountant so I wanted to make fun of that fact) and than afterwards went out to the bars absolutely trashed. To say the least, it was a great night.

How is the blu-ray player in it? I'm thinking of getting a blu-ray player as a gift to myself for surviving my busy season (our client sign-off is Thursday and I've worked 80 hr's this week already and average about 65 hr's a week dating back to January 10th) but I was going to see if I would just be better off going with a PS3 (using it primarily as a blu-ray player and than on rare ocassions if a real good game came out I'd use it as that). I say that because I love my 360 and have all the controllers and a decent collection of games (so the only thing I'd ever get for PS3 would be a game I like that is specific to such system). Is the BluRay player real good on it or is it like the old school ps2 where the dvd player was completely sub-standard?

QUOTE(shipps @ Feb 27, 2008 -> 08:56 AM) Ya its official.The guys on Soxtalk are some really conceited superficial motherf******. And thats why you can't get enough of this place Ship. You should already know by now how god damn conceited I am.

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Feb 26, 2008 -> 02:16 PM) sounds like a movie title...a bad, bad Paris Hilton movie. linky you be the judge: the blonde ain't bad...but the uggo who looks like she got beat with a stick certainly isn't. Bahaha, the blonde is acceptable but neither of them have anything to brag about let alone claim that everyone on the flight was jealous. When some dork who has enough time to build a White Sox message board gets girls on a better level than these chicks than you probably shouldn't be bragging ladies

Rockets go down tonight against the Bulls. Got that stuff DVR'd and I can't wait to watch it. I am really excited to see the youngsters play down low (game 2 in the post Wallace era). God I'm glad Wallace is gone. I don't think I've ever been happier to see a player go than I am to see Wallace gone.

I'm not a huge partier, but in college (I still do it now) at least a few times a month I'd go all out and just let lose. For me it was nice to have some drinks (probably a few more than I should have, haha), joke around with friends, make jackasses out of each other and just have a blast and if single at the time, maybe get lucky). I can have tons of fun with a drink in my hand or without it, but don't consider people idiots just because they drink. Nor think that they need a drink in there hands to have fun. I'd never play Magic the Gathering, but are we sitting around stereotyping you as an idiot for playing that, no. So why stereotype us for having a drink in our hand. And in terms of grades, I graduated with a 3.75 so I don't think it ever got in my way (obviously for some people it might, but that is just because that person doesn't have there priorities straight). I'd bet there are more people failing out of school from playing Warcart and crap like that than from boozing.

QUOTE(SoxAce @ Feb 24, 2008 -> 02:17 AM) alrite look, I'm fguckinfg drunk n sjhit,, i've been partyinfg 4 l\ike 2 or 3 dayz now. . i wanna fuuckinfg s\ay i l\uv u al\l\, l\iuke a fatt lkid l\uves cake n s*** dude.. I anm f***ig hammered 12 beers n 4 or 555 shots later, im tjhe f***ing man y am i up at 4 300ish on tjhe computer cuz i l\efgt it on.. i s\jhoul\d b fguckinfg passed out im probabl\y buzzed then or sumthin. i l\uvuuuuvvv ST.co, m n tjhees stupid virus\es\ lllllluuuuuuv u!!!!!!!!!!!!# WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOYYYYYYYYYYYYYYOKTFGGGGGGGGGGTUJTFGFGGGGGGGXXXXXXXXXUMMMMMMMM Haha, Friday night I was in that sort of state....woke up Saturday and had no idea what I did the night before. The only remnensce was me hitting up the porcelain god a few times.

We'll see if I can finally see a Blackhawks win in person. At least this time around they have Toews back on the ice because last time was when they were first hit with the massive rash of injuries .

I'm glad Rex is back. Suntimes is reporting the Bears talking about extending Orton's contract. I just hope there is an open competition with a 1st day (but 2nd or 3rd rd) QB being brought in.

I love where they are going with this new season. This weeks episode was fantastic.