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QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Jan 31, 2007 -> 03:12 PM) Huh, never seen that movie associated with "greatness" before. For me, Mel will always get a pass on almost everything due to his real name being "Max". Oh ya another classic. Personally I think the Patriot (think of the tomahawk scene) has some absolutely amazing action segments. Its like a cult movie between me and a couple of my good buddies. Kind of like Transporter 2 (what we call the greatest comedy of all time).

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Jan 31, 2007 -> 03:05 PM) Pretty good episode of House. Wilson is cool. Ya, in fact it was a really good episode. House has to be one of the best shows on all of TV. Not only do you have interesting (albeit unrealistic) medical mysteries but you have the mysterious person (its is like two seperate drama's in one, plus dark humor.

QUOTE(BMac Attack @ Jan 31, 2007 -> 02:37 PM) I think it also makes a difference if you're calling on a land-line phone (which is likely to wake other people in the house up) versus a cell phone. I really don't care when people call my cell phone, but if they wake everyone else in the house up, then that's grounds to be pissed. Agreed

QUOTE(Soxbadger @ Jan 31, 2007 -> 02:32 PM) Yeah I know Oden is awesome. But is he even playing tonight? And how bad does it suck that ESPNHD barely plays HD basketball games. It sucks even worse when you DVR/Tivo it, it wastes all your memory and then is nto even HD. And ESPN2HD has had like one thing in high def since my cable company added it about a month ago.

QUOTE(Steff @ Jan 31, 2007 -> 02:14 PM) Flips aren't happening in Rockford Jas.. Well I'm not familiar with the area, but, I know it is a lot more common out here in SoCal where you have really high turnover in homes and far shorter sales windows (and I'm sure it happens a lot in the city where people pick up an old condo in a good area and try to clean it up and throw it back on the market). I know in a lot of areas where there isn't as much demand (homes typically sit on the market a lot longer...for example where my family is from in Iowa) flipping is very uncommon because no matter what type of deal you'll get its hard not to get killed when you end up holding onto a house for an extended period of time (not only the sell time, but also the time you are holding onto the home while you are making the repairs). I mean lets be honest, you don't really buy a house in Iowa and figure its going to make a ton of money (appreciation is just very rare since land is easy to find and as opposed to paying a high price for an already built house its just as easy for someone to go, buy some land and build there own place (this really limits appreciation). That said I'm always amazed at how old houses can go for so cheap because the option of rebuilding it (even if the land costs near nothing) is real expensive (since biulding costs have climbed over recent years). On a sidenote is that the Rockford where the Rockford Peaches are from (A league of there own??)

QUOTE(aboz56 @ Jan 31, 2007 -> 01:58 PM) Lighten up, unless you go to bed at 8 or something. Damn it, that post just woke me up

QUOTE(greasywheels121 @ Jan 31, 2007 -> 12:57 PM) Majerus usually does Saturday Big Ten games; we'll probably get him for IU-Iowa Saturday. Yes...what is great is when him and Alford do a game together (which used to happen ocassionally IIRC).

I saw the last couple minutes as I waited for house to start and that one girl was hillarious (I didn't see her sing, just saw her arguing with the two guys on the board).

QUOTE(DrunkBomber @ Jan 31, 2007 -> 12:59 PM) This thread loses all credibility without Britney Spears on the list, that was more of an overall meltdown though. Good call, of course her meltdown happened over the course of one day (the day she decided to marry K-Fed). That said her meltdown led to a great moment...K-Fed's career getting launched and him eventually joining the WWE (so pathetic its hillarious).

QUOTE(Jimbo @ Jan 31, 2007 -> 12:44 PM) I love the CBS Announcers, last years announcer during the Gonzaga/UCLA game was the best. I hate hate hate hate hate hate Mike"Duke"Patrick and Jimmy Dykes is the worst announcer in all of sports. Jimmy Dykes is by far the worse announcer I've ever heard. The fact I had to listen to him do the Iowa/ISU game last year made me want to throw up. He is so gosh darn awful. Luckily ESPN college crews that do big ten bball games typically consist of Aaron Andrews, Lavin & Musberger and ocassionally we'll get some of Majerus (although doesn't seem to be as much lately) and I am a big fan of all of them. Lavin because he absolutely cracks me up (he's a lot like DJ) and Majerus because of the X's and O's...Andrews well, that should be obvious (but she's also good at what she does)...and Musberger is a flat out pro. Jimmy Dykes makes me think Rex Hudler is a great announcer (and I think most on this board know my feelings of the incompotent jackass known as the "wonder dog").

It has to be Mel Gibson because he was never really in anything too controversial aside from being a religious christian and the whole passion of the christ thing. Michael Richards is a comedian and they tend to be controversial regardless, he just happened to cross the line but a comic crossing the line isn't that shocking and well Tom Cruise is and always has been a douche so no big shocker there. Cruise is already a religious nut job whose a member of a cult (good old scientology) and I could go on and on about what a piece of work he is but I'll disgress. That said, while I hate Tom Cruise, Mel Gibson is still one of my favorite actors because of the great movies known as Braveheart and Patriot. Russel Crowe in Gladiator (despite the fact he's an ass) is another personal favorite performance/movie.

QUOTE(Athomeboy_2000 @ Jan 31, 2007 -> 12:39 PM) This is part question, part needing to vent. Ok, so last night my wife went to bed around 9:30 and I stayed up and was watching TV. Around 10:30 PM, my sister-in-law calls to tell us she is pregnant. now keep in mind thi sisnt her first child. It's her second. Also, I have a very sick grandfather, so any calls late at night is a little scary. It could be "the call". Who the hell calls at 10:30 at night to tell you they are pregnant? Isnt that more of a 6-9 PM call? To me, 10:30 PM is reserved for emergancys like a death in the family. Thoughts? Given the situation I can understand the call considering she's probably really excited and wants to tell someone (2nd kid or not she's still going to be really excited, assuming they want to have another kid). That said if its my friends they all know they can call at all hours (as long as they don't decide to call me at 7AM on a Saturday or Sunday). I prefer to go with phone etiquette of...too early to call...because I get far more upset when someone wakes me up with a phone call early in the morning as opposed to late at night (unless they call at 2 AM to ask a really stupid question).

QUOTE(Soxbadger @ Jan 31, 2007 -> 12:04 PM) The madness of ESPN putting crappy games on my television. (shouldnt of put a ?) The worse part is they are freaking pathetic when it comes to broadcasting in High Def. Could they please start taking advantage of ESPN and ESPN2HD and start actually broadcasting all the games in high def (like CBS does). It would be nice, afterall, Iowa/Indiana is on later this week and of course, no high def. In fact very few college bball games on ESPN are on in high def and its a joke (Watching the Iowa/Wisc game on CBS was so freaking awesome compared to the crap the so called leader in sports, ESPN, throws out). If you claim to be the best sports network, not only have the most sporting events on, but also make sure you do everything with high broadcast standards (good announcers, great picture, all that jazz).

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Jan 31, 2007 -> 12:32 PM) That's what Mack is for - LF. If you really need a righty bat here and there, then go with Ozuna as a PH. I think we are really reaching if our concern is "righty backup outfielder". That's way, way down the list of concerns, behind things like starting pitching, starting pitching, starting pitching, Juan Uribe, leadoff hitter, CF situation, defense in general, Ozzie's managing, injuries, young bullpen, and a few dozen other things. Exactly, by acquiring Erstad the plan is that you now have both Erstad and Mack as capable LF backups as well as Ozuna. In addition, you know that Mack will not play CF which means if needed we could easily start him full time in LF (and no one would tell me he would be that horrible out there on a full time basis, not great either, but I could see a .270, 15, 75 or so line).

I'm assuming you have to live in the Chicago area for this one? I know one thing, I'll be pulling for any of you Soxtalkers that apply/shoot out an email.

Happy Bday to a real good poster Hope its a good one, aside from the Buckeyes doing well

QUOTE(whitesox61382 @ Jan 31, 2007 -> 09:09 AM) ND finally got some good recruiting news. Unfortunately, they lost out on Peters(GT) and Wright(Flo) as expected, but they were able to take away two other recruits. Walker(K) - Was committed to Louisville, but was wavering after Petrino left. Answered that he will change his commitment to ND today. This is a nice addition considering that ND's kicking game was bad to say the least last year, and freshman kicker Burkhart didn't instill much faith last year. Smith(LB) - Was committed to Iowa, but was always a big ND fan after his father played for the Irish. ND originally didn't offer him, but new DC Brown liked what he saw in Smith and ND offered him. He changed his commitment last night and gives ND a good looking four star LB for their new three-four defense. f***...I like ND but the Hawks are #1 in my world (ND #2) and they just nabbed our stud LB (but I guess at least he's going to my other team). Iowa just landed some new guy apparently from Ohio and I'm sure he isn't a 4 star. Our recruiting class isn't looking too good (from the Iowa perspective) after we lost on our 2 4 star RB's (and everyone out there had us getting at least one of them) and now Smith. At least we still have a stud safety and stud tackle. Iowa did sign a 3 star RB Jevon Pugh out of Florida and to replace Bryan Smith we signed a LB who was Ohio's defensive player of the year Bruce Davis (3 star, a bit undersized at 5'11). I'm guessing the loss of Smith will drop our recruiting class out of the top 25. Maybe Ferentz has a few last minute things up his sleeve though. And all that said, this is probably Ferentz 2nd best recruiting class ever.

I say no because I think it would only take like a year to pay for Office (since I'm imagining the 15 a month isn't for Office Professional that comes with powerpoint and all that jazz, rather it is for Office Basic).

QUOTE(fathom @ Jan 31, 2007 -> 09:04 AM) We still don't have a back-up righty outfielder. That's inexcusable after last season. Brian Anderson could be one of those guys and Pablo will probably be the other. Anderson will start against all lefties (maybe against most righties too, we shall see) and Pablo will obviously play LF for Pods. I realize its not the power bat off the bench that some people wanted, but I think it isn't quite accurate to say we don't have any righty bats that can play outfield (although I know some of you don't like seeing Pablo out in LF defensively, but for the most part he is a solid bat when he plays, he adds speed, does the things our manager likes, and has a good attitude). But I am a Pablo fan considering I think we need guys like him if we have Ozzie as manager. In fact, I have really liked what Ozzie has been saying most of this off-season (now whether he follows through with what he's said is another story).

In the past (when i was working for my dad who does real estate) I went into a couple projects like that where we would pick up a house, make repairs and sell it for more. However, that was in Socal and in a different market setting. We knew unless there was some sort of disaster that these houses were selling for a bunch more, plus since we are agents we were able to get 3% off the house when we bought it and typically we can find a client on our own to sell to (so we don't have to pay any selling comissions to an agent) which clears things up. But in this case you obviously own the house so the only comissions you'd potentially have to pay would be related to when you sell the house. However, we had a contractors license that we could use to purchase materials cheap and from the years of doing business we also had contacts of people that do good work for a very affordable price (hence we are able to do things for less than what a normal home buyer would be able to, which again gives you a little more leeway). The other key is we didn't have to do any structural repairs because honestly those are repairs 99% of home sellers are going to have to make prior to selling the house (even to people like us who were planning on flipping it). So basically put if these repairs are things such as new flooring/paint maybe just cleaning up and refinishing the cabinets than ya it could be worth while (again depending on the market where you live and if you see houses in this sort of shape going for quite a bit more than your home than put in that factor but don't forget stuff will cost money, take time, and obviously you'll have a selling comission to factor as well). But if you have to repair piping and all that other junk than I don't think your going to make money doing that, you'll probably lose money and I'd imagine when the home buyer gets the house inspected they are going to ask you to make those repairs (regardless of the price they are paying, unless they are getting a total bargain of a price) because the normal buyer isn't going to want to deal with that. Obviously you own the house which m

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Jan 31, 2007 -> 08:43 AM) One of the Perq's of a lifetime @ university is you don't have to spend more than a couple bucks for most Microsoft products. Indeed.

QUOTE(zygoat @ Jan 30, 2007 -> 07:39 PM) minny is much more dangerous than cleveland. Cleveland cant win any games with teams with losing records, twins are in it every single year. Minny is more dangerous I'd disagree. Right now If I were to rank out the division I'd have it being a full blown war between the Tribe (minor favorites) along with the Tigers and Sox. I think the Twins are just a bit below all three of these teams, although that is not to say they aren't capable of pulling guys out of nowhere and winning (they seem to find ways to do every damn year). The reason I put the Tribe ahead of the Tigers is simple. The Tigers will have some of there young arms struggle at times during there sophmore portion of the season. I also still think some of there guys had absolute career years. Nate Robertson and Rogers should both be worse and I wouldn't be shocked to see a few of there hitters get worse as well. Cleveland is flat out dangerous and if any team runs away with the division I think it would be the Tribe or Sox (not the Tigers). The Sox because if we get our front four to pitch at there best we are capable of just running away with things (even with a few holes in the offense) and the Tribe because they have a set 5 man rotation, a much improved (albeit old) bullpen, and a flat out loaded offense.

Position: Manny Ramirez Carlos Delgado Pitchers: Carlos Zambrano Roy Oswalt Barry Zito

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Jan 29, 2007 -> 10:37 PM) Our expectations of the general awareness of Americans is what's amazingly low. Unless the subject matter is who's favored to win the next American Idol title, that is. Those are the types of questions I'd fail.

I am in but like Dan I kind of quit on my team when they blew junks and forgot my roster. I think I had Vladdy but am not too sure about anything else.