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You know the drill. I can't wait to be 100% done with all this site work so I can finally have a relaxing night.

Whether you have a question about a movie or if you just saw a movie and want to comment on it, this is the thread for you. I will start if off by saying I saw American Psycho last night and all I can say is what a strange strange movie. I also caught Harry Potter this week and must say that as a whole I was a bit disappointed. The movie wasn't near as good as its predecessors and it appeared to be much more of a set up for the next movie (in the sense that there really wasn't' much action while all the other movies had a lot of action packed/exciting moments).

Well it is the off-season in the NBA and NHL so I figured I'd create one of these catch all threads for those two sports (for news that doesn't quite need its own thread). IF you guys enjoy it great, if not, let me know and we'll dump the idea.

I'm starting a new one of these (those long long 70 thread posts aren't quite good on the server, so I'm gonna try and break down these threads a bit more often).

I want to point out that from now on, we will be treating this thread like we would treat Pale Hose Talk. If people come in here and want to flame wrestling, it will be no different than someone coming in and flaming the White Sox on PHT. This thread is for people to discuss wrestling with other members that enjoy the matches that go on in the "squared circle". So post away all you wrestle-maniacs

The Sox will look to redeem themselves from yet another blown game when they take on the Tribe @ 6 PM central time, but the real question is how many runs with the Sox pen give up tonight? Here's to everyone staying healthy and for the sox young players to do good and the guys that are on the block to do amazing so Ken Williams can get some A level prospects over to the southside (and by A I mean as a grade, not a ballers). Of course Ken Williams has said he will not blow up the team (we can only hope that is a cover....and I mean we can only hope cause if he sticks with this team I might just cry).

Bugs we need to fix: Fix the width of the smilie table Complete the new skin (the partial version is what you are possibly viewing right now).

We at Soxtalk.com have been working very very hard behind the scenes to complete a massive overhaul. The site is on a server with double the ram, double the cache, and more importantly a core duo processor (which gives us a lot more power). We have also completely upgraded the database as well as correct some past errors in our database. The site is now running the latest version of invision and with that you will notice some changes. You will also notice a brand new skin and what we believe is a much faster/efficient format. There is also a new profile system but for the most part the massive stuff was a behind the scenes all around improvement to the efficiency of our database. With that there is one con and that is that some of you may notice a few features behind hindered when you use Mozilla. We tried our best to prevent any issues and 99.9 of the time a mozilla user will notice no issues, however we, like most websites are still best viewed on Internet Explorer. With the upgrade out of the way we still have a few more behind the scenes issues left to tackle: 1. Scale Back the Database - Our database is massive and because it is so massive any major query puts additional pressure on the server. To relieve that we will be clearing all non baseball posts that are over 1 to 2 years old (we haven't yet decided on a date). This process will take limited time (like 10 minutes and will be done in the middle of the night and most of you won't even notice it). We will complete this overhaul in the off-season when we archive all baseball related posts 2 years back and move them to a seperate archived database (that will still be visible), however the breakup will make this site way more efficient. At that point, every year we will continue to archive and keep the database at a much more manageable level (this mean you will still be able to find old baseball posts on our archives...starting in the off-season, while still having your member totals and post counts). 2. Front Page - Now that this is done we can go back to completing our blog/news like front page that we have been working diligently on behind the scenes. Once done, we will be releasing what we think will be a simple, yet pretty, place to really make Soxtalk a one spot shop for all Sox news. We would like to thank you all for your patience and please post to us if you notice any errors.

They still have Aybar and could move Kendry Morales over to 2nd if they really wanted to as well. I'd love Aybar's speed (even though he's far from a sure thing and over-rated by many, including myself) and would be a fan of getting him but I'd be stunned if the Angels gave up much for a guy like Iguchi (or any team in general).

If the server isn't switched out tonight, I am going to be closing the site to do some work on my own (If the server is switched tonight, than tomorrow night I'll be doing my work).

At somepoint in hte next 24 hours you will see an outage related ot the server. You will also see an outage related to me doing some database work.

Gonna go tonight after my soccer game.

QUOTE(santo=dorf @ Jul 11, 2007 -> 04:56 PM) Yep. I'll take Thome for half the price. I won't....Hafner is younger and far more likely to stay healthy for the next couple seasons while Thome's production is gonna continue to decrease and decrease (plus he's gonna continue to get more and more banged up).

QUOTE(Buehrle>Wood @ Jul 11, 2007 -> 07:53 PM) By my count that's two hitting coaches gone this season and neither of them were named Walker. Three...Dodgers/Mets/Dbacks.

QUOTE(AssHatSoxFan @ Jul 12, 2007 -> 06:59 AM) http://sports.aol.com/fanhouse/2007/07/12/...-ruin-baseball/ I was listening to the radio blurb from Sampson (president of the Marlins) and he was just ripping into how this contract would ruin baseball and how awful it is to give 5 years and 20 million to a player of Ichiro's caliber. He also said no player in baseball is worth that type of money (so that gives you a bit of an understanding of where he is coming from). Still I think from a purely baseball standpoint, anything over 15 mill a year for 3-4 years would have been severly overpaying (and I always tend to think 10 mill players should be special guys but I've also came to realize in this day and age it just isn't always the case).

This was odd, but I guess with Beltran and Delgado really struggling they decided to make a move (although last I looked both Beltran and Delgado had been hitting much better the past month). I was thinking Rickey was making a comeback when I saw his name scroll on bottom line and I was stunned to see him brought in as a hitting coach.

QUOTE(Jenks Heat @ Jul 12, 2007 -> 08:54 AM) IF the cub is sold the new owner will show his colors early in the process if he goes after A-Rod as he appears to like Lou. Arte Moreno will spend a ton to get him and possibly out bid the Yanks. The Yanks though are desperate. Unless there is a ton of new cash for teams 8yr/$240M.....I'll pass. I don't know if the Angels will have the funds to get him. They'd have to clear some cap room in other areas (but maybe Colon's contract is up this year, although I think he still has a year left). Plus the Angels got to worry about bringing back Cabrera and reinking Vladdy (cause both are due to be FA's either this off-season or a year from now).

QUOTE(fathom @ Jul 12, 2007 -> 09:22 AM) I'd rather have Xavier Nady, but he's doing too good for them right now to get him without overpaying. Its too bad, for a long long time this guy was incredibly undervalued. Nady has a good arm in the OF and is a good hitter. I have long said he'd be an awesome fit for the Sox offense (especially since he can rake LHP, IIRC).

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Jun 20, 2007 -> 08:04 PM) Brad Banks traded for Kliff Kingsbury today. I love Brad Banks...kind of like you live Seneca Wallace. QUOTE(Soxbadger @ Jul 10, 2007 -> 11:00 AM) John Clay, Wisconsin RB, has been ruled academically ineligible for the 2007 season. I'm still bitter he's not a hawkeye, but this makes me feel at least a little better.

QUOTE(BearSox @ Jul 12, 2007 -> 07:33 AM) Carter and Gartrell really belong at least at W-S if not Birmingham. Also, why is Logan Johnson still at R ball? And anyone know where the hell Poreda has been? They skipped his last start but it didn't sound like it was due to any sort of injury, just the Sox being careful with him considering he's coming off a full college season.

QUOTE(wcw2323 @ Jul 11, 2007 -> 07:32 PM) He's on his way to Baltimore as we speak.....Good luck Charlie, welcome to the show! Cool stuff and for the couple of you that made some posts before anything was announced I just want to say thanks...we always appreciate that type of info

QUOTE(DrunkBomber @ Jul 11, 2007 -> 07:21 PM) Its a post count, who cares....... seriously though, youre not resetting it talkbears though right???????? Nope, those Db's are perfectly squared away. Only stuff left on there is just to kind of get things set up based upon the new version of the boards (hopefully we are done with that by weekend's end).

QUOTE(mr_genius @ Jul 11, 2007 -> 04:18 PM) I can probably help you fix the database (for free of course). I sent you a PM Cool...I'm getting slammed at work but I'll shoot you something tomorrow. Basically I want to get an understanding if we are using a corrupt database or not (because maybe we aren't). We are gonna be switching over to a brand new server (a cadillac compared to what we are running now) tomorrow night and than from there plan on making the DB switch.