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QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Sep 25, 2007 -> 08:15 AM) Boy you seem awful familiar with that... Accountant by Day....Male Stripper By Night. Oh Heads, your mom says Hi

Man...I can't wait till I get off work and pick up this game.

Happy Birthday Steff!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hope everything is going good

Wow...the Saints are making me feel better about the Bears collapse.

QUOTE(CWSGuy406 @ Sep 24, 2007 -> 08:18 PM) I still think Furcal is the guy to go after. He'll make $13 million next season and is certainly has to be viewed as a "bad contract" right about now. This is also his first season in his career where he's going to finish with a slugging percentage below .360. He'll be 30 next year so a bounceback isn't out of the question. The issue then would be matching who the Dodgers would want from the Sox. I wouldn't trade Garland for Furcal straight up -- I might have said that I would have a month or two ago, but not now -- and I don't think Contreras for Furcal makes sense (as much as we might hope). If the Sox could get a good prosepct along with Furcal I'd give them Garland. Otherwise I'd give up Contreras and a good prospect for Furcal (Broadway type of prospect...not Gio/DLS).

QUOTE(witesoxfan @ Sep 24, 2007 -> 08:13 PM) I don't know the circumstances, but I would consider the last big move they made to be the Edmonds deal. Guillen turned into a bit of a cancer, the Erstad deal was vetoed, and the Appier deal was more a bad contract for a bad contract. Edmonds had demanded a trade and the Angels were more than happy to meet the request as they were very frustrated with Edmonds consistently getting injured. Of course Edmonds turned into a star in St. Louis (he was good in Anaheim, but never stayed healthy for long enough time to ever be the type of player he was in St. Louis for a good chunk of his career). Bottenfield was coming off a career year and it was an assinine move to pick him up (I still don't know why they did it) and Kennedy was a highly touted prospect (who was a good pickup and had a good career in Anaheim). At the time Guillen was traded, he was a very productive player with a cannon arm, good power, and a solid average (all while knocking in a good number of runs for the Angels).

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 24, 2007 -> 04:11 PM) He is actually pretty good out there, but does still need work. I want to see what his arm is like next year - and know if this "injury" thing is really what is most effecting it, because he is pretty weak right now (almost as weak as Pods). The org has been spouting about some mysterious arm injury with Owens for over 2 years (its a crock of crap). I will say, aside from his arm, he's been better than expected defensively (in fact I consider him serviceable out there).

QUOTE(fathom @ Sep 24, 2007 -> 07:33 PM) He had such a massive hitch in his swing. I don't know how they could have ever been confident he'd hit good pitching. Anyone associated with the org could have told you about the holes Anderson had in his swing from day one. I know that pretty much every writeup I had on Anderson (both on here and on FutureSox) back when he was in the minors discussed the fact that he had to make adjustments to succeed and every year I would be proven wrong as he would get to a new level and just rake. Turns out once he got to the major league level, the hole was exploited and the guy ended up looking worse than a good chunk of pitchers in baseball at the plate (I remember saying that after watching about a week's worth of major league at bats and it never ever got much better...but after being wrong for 3 years I figured maybe he would figure things out and get by but I am completely sure he will fail unless he makes some miraculous changes to that swing).

QUOTE(witesoxfan @ Sep 24, 2007 -> 05:25 PM) The Angels rarely ever make trades as it is, just because they don't seem to like giving up that talent. And if they need a big bat in the offseason, the GOAT is a free agent, even if he is 44. I seem to recall trying to find the last time the Angels made a huge trade once upon a time, and I really don't think they've made one in the 2000s, and I'm not sure when it was before that. It has been a really long time. They traded Mo Vaughn for Kevin Appier, but both were hasbeens when the move was made (although I still say without that deal they don't win the World Series). Hell, the biggest trade they made was the one that got vetoed (Erstad for Singleton, Garland and another player). The Angels typically make signings, not trades. When they do make trades its typically trading minor league arms or back of the pen arms for other young arms that they like and that Stoneman projects can help the pen for a couple years. Stoneman is also a shark on the waiver wires looking for young guys that he thinks would be good fits (Eckstein would be an example). The last true big move they made would have been the Jose Guillen for Juan Rivera deal (and that was a deal that was kind of forced on them based on Scioscia wanting Guillen out). Oh and the Edmonds for Bottenfield and Kennedy deal.

QUOTE(IlliniKrush @ Sep 24, 2007 -> 05:09 PM) My guess is way too expensive to bring HD equpiment on the road. The Sox don't do it either, I don't think many teams do on the road, maybe i'm wrong. All of the Angels games are broadcasted in HD and the same with the Dodgers from what I know. It doesn't make sense to me because I assume they don't necessarily bring in the camera eqiupment (it just stays at the various stadiums throughout the year). Than again I could be wrong and maybe they do bring the cameras to the stadium for each homestand or game.

I don't get it, why no games in HD. I know the home game thing (and I know how assinine it is and I think its pathetic the league's commissioner doesn't step in and tell Wirtz he has to broadcast the home games to the people within Chicago for the greater good of hockey).

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Sep 23, 2007 -> 10:15 AM) My mom is going to one in Las Vegas tonight, I guess. That wasn't Dick's Last Resort she's going to...it was Thunder from Down Under.

QUOTE(santo=dorf @ Sep 24, 2007 -> 02:59 PM) I have a hard time seeing someone roll a cigarette who doesn't look like a guest on the Jerry Springer show. I'm having that same image. I know people that have rolled there own cloves but thats a bit different (at least I think it is).

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Sep 24, 2007 -> 02:21 PM) ooh boy, I like number 5 Those are your look alikes?

QUOTE(Texsox @ Sep 24, 2007 -> 02:03 PM) But you wouldn't care if you were overpaid for years? I'm certain the mortgage companies in Detroit would not mind if a few thousand workers defaulted. They would also be forced to buy cheaper foreign cars Well I'm not currently in that situation. I'm on the opposite side of the spectrum as I'm vastly underpaid (and I state that knowing if I left today I could get with ease a 15-20K a year raise). However, if I stay where I am for a couple more years, I can see that raise when I switch jobs grow exponentially. That said If I knew I couldn't find a job elsewhere or something along those lines, than yes, I would take a pay cut knowing it would be in my best interest (key word being my best interest). And many of these employees do not have other options and would have to relearn new skills if they got jobs elsewhere so they should be willing to take a cut.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Sep 24, 2007 -> 01:07 PM) So im contemplating upgrading to the xbox 360 from my original xbox. I do not game very much, but I am interested in moving forward with the purchase. I notice that I basically have 2 options, the premium and the elite version. Which one would work for me? Im leaning towards the premium because its cheap, and I do not think I have that much need for the 120 gig hd. Your thoughts? The Premium is fine. Especially because the elite's main benefit is the HDMI and larger hard drive and while HDMI would be cool because than you could utilize the 1080P option (if your TV has 1080P) the difference in minimal. In fact, if you wait about a month you should be able to buy the cheaper version with the HDMI (as all new Xbox360's will come with HDMI). The elite, imo, is a rip unless you want to download just a ton of stuff (if they had a wireless adapater included with it than it wouldn't be a rip). I should point out, depending on the type of TV you have, you can get the 1080P through the component connection (its just most HD tv's component ports do no support 1080P). Either way I think as long as you play some games from time to time (even if its just once in a great while) you really will enjoy the all around upgrade of the 360 compared with the regular.

QUOTE(shipps @ Sep 24, 2007 -> 02:06 PM) Iam Turtle from entourage only tall. Too bad we didn't see any Furries in Canada. Speaking of which, send me those damn pictures.

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Sep 24, 2007 -> 01:57 PM) Sounds like we need to post pictures of what we look like so we can all be jealous of Gage's facial hair and all around sexiness. Quote Edited

QUOTE(Texsox @ Sep 24, 2007 -> 10:48 AM) I am certain anyone here would take a decrease in pay and benefits to keep our jobs. That would be my perfect excuse to run away.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 24, 2007 -> 10:37 AM) I wish that was true, but it really isn't. Japanese companies have been producing and selling hybrids that are much more fuel efficient, and doing it for a much longer period of time. Check out the stats - Japanese model sales dwarf those of American companies' cars. Also, the next generation hybrids (cars that get in the territory of 100 mpg) are well underway in Japan, whereas American companies aren't even on that playing field yet. As for alternative fuel like E85, that is a short-term bridge technology that saves very little in total oil consumption. The Japanese companies aren't even bothering with it. Here is an article about how GM is marketing the Chevy Volt, even though not only does a prototype not even exist, the underlying technology hasn't been completed yet. I'd love it if American companies actually got competitive in this arena, but they are nowhere near that right now. I was reading in one of the business magazines and it was all about the alternative fuel and it was talking about some new technology that GM is developing that is more advanced than what the japanese manufactuers and other American manufacturers have. The article than went on to rip the rest of the american car companies for being so far behind in the process. I don't remember the exact technology GM was working on but it sounded very cutting edge (I'll have to find the article and than I'll post more info on it).

QUOTE(Gene Honda Civic @ Sep 24, 2007 -> 12:17 PM) 20 isn't considered old for rookie ball. 22 is. the pioneer league is also the second stop for the Twins, whereas it's the first for the White Sox, so they should be slightly more advanced. Without even looking at the list, I suspect the Twins player to whom you're referring in the Dutch 7 footer, who will be listed for the simple fact of being a 7 foot tall pitcher. That's something you can't teach. Bristol is the Sox lowest league. It is where they typically send high schoolers while Great Falls gets more of the collegiate players and more advanced dominican league guys (with Bristol getting the most raw ones). Great Falls tends to even have a couple older older guys as well. EDIT: Just saw Polar's post saying the same thing (I assume its just a typo by Gene though)

Singleton, when with the Sox, was a very good defensive centerfielder. Owens will never be that.

I saw this and thought Mark Bradley...and I was like how the heck did he do that, he doesn't even play.

GM has one major thing going for it. They seem to be ahead of the Japanese Auto Makers when it comes to altnerative fuel technology and it appears they have a solid chance at passing them at Hybrid technology as well and I think long-term GM has a very good prognosis and outlook.

QUOTE(Gage Loves Me @ Sep 24, 2007 -> 09:31 AM) Yea, I wouldn't mind a few tears. A little salt would add a kick to the cheesesteak. Oh, since this is cheaper than a text.....Halo bbq at my place on Saturday (and I'm sure somewhere in there I'll have time to beat u in a couple quick games of NHL)