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QUOTE(DonkeyKongerko @ Nov 30, 2005 -> 07:49 PM) Brussel Sprouts smell pretty nasty but I can swallow em. Beets may cause gagging. I agree on cheesecake. Cake is a dessert whereas cheese is not. The two should not be mixed. Mushrooms are so good though. You guys are all missing out. Seriously, some sauteed or steamed mushrooms...yumm. One of my favs and a must have on pizza, imo.

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Nov 30, 2005 -> 01:40 PM) Mushrooms, olives, tomatoes, anything that ends in melon or remotely resmbles a melon, cucumbers, salsa, and I tried my Uncle's pickled herring once. Never again. Pickled Herron must be an Iowa thing. Every time were back visiting our family (my grandparents, my dads parents) we picked up Pickled Herron from the store for my grandpa. Finally a couple years back I tried the stuff, I can safely say it was the nastiest thing I ever ate in my entire life (aside from the chicken I cooked once that led to me getting food poisoning).

QUOTE(SnB @ Nov 30, 2005 -> 11:41 AM) I think we've had a favorite foods thread at some point, but how about foods you can't stand. 1) cottage cheese, i don't even understand what it is, and it tastes like wet cardboard. 2) mushrooms, i love vegetables, but this is a dirty fungis. 1. Olives...I used to like them, now I can't stand them. Once I decided I liked them, my dad (who loves them) decided to cook them in everything he made. Very quickly I started to hate them and now I will pick em all out before eating them. 2. Sushi and shelled fish - I love seafood, but crabs/lobsters/shrimp along with uncooked fish are disgusting to me.

How could I forget House...thats tops on my list with Lost.

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Nov 30, 2005 -> 12:21 PM) T S O CHICKEN. Waffles with peanut butter and syrup...YUMMM Things I can't stomach...cheerios and OJ, cheerios and beer. Neither are good substitutes for milk (you know for those times you poor the cheerios and than realize you have no milk in the house).

QUOTE(White Sox Josh @ Nov 30, 2005 -> 04:21 PM) I got to thinking that there are so many bad movies that are out that you like. Roger Ebert explained it best when he said in his review of The Fast & The Furious "There are so few great movies that you have to learn to love the great trash." That is so true in so many ways. Here are my "great trash" movies: Bad Company Tomcats Big Daddy Blade III: Trinity Resident Evil Scary Movie 3 Resident Evil and Resident Evil 2. For whatever reason I like those movies. Under Siege is another great movie in my book. Just some badas actoin scenes. Of course #1 on my all time list is Transporter 2. That is the single funniest movie ever made. One question, do you all ever watch a movie on some channel and you realize it sucks but for some reason you just keep watching it thinking it is going to get better. Every once in a while I find myself doing that and I sit there and think why, yet don't change the channel (usually it happens when I'm at home sick and resting).

Thats crazy goldy. Glad your OK and that no one was harmed in the accident. Thats all that matters in the end. Hopefully your ankle/leg is fine.

Lost, Prison Break, 24, House, Smallville, Nip Tuck, Curb Your Enthusiasm, My Name is Earl, Sopranos (well new episodes).

I was even thinking if somehow like a Illini Board a Bulls Board, a Bears board all seperate but the off topic boards all tie into one or something.

Here's the question, would the speed of the dome help him (ie he would hit grounders so hard they get through) or would it hurt him because it would prevent him from beating out infield hits.

QUOTE(Randar68 @ Dec 1, 2005 -> 07:28 AM) Our lefty depth will depend a lot on the development of Liotta and Ryan Rodgriguez, who I think is poised to have a great year. In addition, Lumsden getting healthy and Whisler figuring things out, all go a long way. Hell, might as well include Malone in this as well. We have some high-ceiling lefties, hopefully a couple reach that potential. I just hope Lummy can get healthy cause the Kid has an arm. Liotta will hopefully improve and Rodriguez has kind of been hovering (ocassionally going on some hot streaks). I think Rodriguez would be the guy in the minors that I'd think is destined for a breakout year. He has a good pitchers build, good stuff, but hasn't put it all together yet. As far as Whisler goes, I just hope I was wrong and that somehow he will figure things out.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Dec 1, 2005 -> 09:24 AM) Byrd won't be leaving Anaheim as long as the Angels offer is close to what the other suitors are offering

QUOTE(timotime @ Nov 30, 2005 -> 05:43 PM) yes, exactly Agreed

QUOTE(Tony82087 @ Dec 1, 2005 -> 10:21 AM) Just to add, I think to make the Kong deal even better, is the fact that Kenny can now go into the winter meetings and not have that on his mind at all, and focus his attention to other things. Ya, thats the big thing and we will see another move by the end of the meetings.

QUOTE(SSH2005 @ Dec 1, 2005 -> 10:10 AM) I would love if Garland agreed to a 3 year, $21 million contract but if he repeats on his 2005 season, he could make that contract look like chump change via free agency. I think that deal would have to be nearer to 24 million with a 4th year option at like 9 or 10 million a year. Start the 1st year at 7 or 7.5 and slowly escalate it up. Than he would have a buyout that would ensure that he would at the very least average 8 million a year for 3 years and if he stuck around he'd get a little more. This isn't done, the Sox made an initial attempt and I'm guessing they will now turn to AJP and focus on the winter meetings coming up. Once those are over they will get back into business. I could even see them agreeing to a 1yr deal sometime quickly (to avoid arbitration) only to have told each other they would come back and look at a multi year deal later in the off-season.

Iowa pulls off another win against a top 25 opponent. Thus far they are 2-1 against ranked teams and there only loss was to the #2 team in the country (a game they led for a lot of the way, until they faded due to foul trouble). The thing that impresses me the most about Iowa is that they have grinded out these wins and usually haven't had all 3 of there big 3 rolling in any one game (Haluska, Brunner, Horner). Horner is really pressing and Brunner was really shut down by Simmons for most of the game. In the end Brunner had some really key buckets as did Horner and Haluska. Iowa was able to grind it out in what was a rather ugly game by both teams. You could tell NCState tried to slow things down, but it was looking like a blowout in the early minutes of the game and than NC State shut things down and Iowa couldn't buy a bucket (and when they had a nice look in the paint, Simmons would find a way to block it). I'm impressed with the Hawkeyes thus far and I really think this tough non-conference schedule will help them, especially late in the season. I'm hoping the comittee will only be looking at there resume to decide just how high Iowa will be seeded. Iowa, IU, MSU, and Illinois are the 4 teams I see battling it out for the Big 10 title. I got to say that the team thats most impressed me is IU and what they have down without DJ White. Its a really strong year in the Big 10 (at least near the top of the Big 10) and I could see 1 or 2 big 10 teams making the final four and quite frankly all 4 of these teams in the Sweet Sixteen. Lots can happen between now and than and I'm gonna have to remind myself how Alfords teams tend to suck early in the big 10 schedule. Hopefully they can stay strong and tough though and continue to improve because defensively they are strong and offensively they have some weapons. They aren't incredibly deep though.

QUOTE(AnthraxFan93 @ Nov 30, 2005 -> 08:55 PM) To Quote hawk.. Where is he going to play? Just where he is. If Owens is going to replace anyone it would be Pods, not Dye. Owens isn't capable of being even an average Cfer, imo. He's a good athlete and very quick and he has an oustanding work ethic, but Anderson is going to be playing CF until Chris Young replaces him. The only reason I think Young will take over CF is because Anderson has the arm of a RFer and Young is really good defensively in CF (so is Anderson) but doesn't have as good of an arm. I'm not going to pencil in or not pick up an incredibly affordable option on Dye unless Dye is totally hurt or not producing at all. Otherwise it would be foolish to not bring him back, imo. Plus, Chris Young is who will be getting groomed in 07 as far as I'm concerned. First we got to play this year though.

Paulie/Thome isn't the best 1-2 punch in baseball until Thome proves he's completely healthy. I think there is a good shot Paulie will put up similar numbers to last year, although I'd expect his RBI total to rise. If Thome is healthy and productive I could see each hitting 40 plus HR's and each knocking in 125 plus. If thats done it is obviously one of the best 1-2 punches in the game, but I still need to see Thome healthy. I think Manny/Ortiz or Vladdy/Manny is much more of a sure thing.

QUOTE(The Critic @ Nov 30, 2005 -> 05:25 PM) Good point, but the Sox would be down to Cotts if Marte was dealt. I'm not a minor-league guru, so I have no idea if any lefty relievers ( or starters like Cotts was ) are ready to contribute soon. Any lefty arms growin' on the farm? We have some, but none are ready to contribute at the major league level next year. If they were to deal Marte, they would need to sign a lefty or trade for a lefty reliever.

Ignore what I posted. I was wrong. I noticed he played a lot more games in CF this year than prior years. I don't watch much any Nat games so I can't say anything about his defense.

I like Wilkerson. I think he's a good player. How good is he defensively in CF. I'm assuming thats what your thinking? I don't see why he'd be a really good #2 hitter though. Its not like he's a great average hitter (although maybe he handles the bat better). He is a good OBP guy. However, while he has a great eye, he also will strike out 150 times, plus I don't think the Sox want to go that way defensively. They would be much better off defensiely with Pods in left and Anderson in CF.

Take a look now. Goldy made this AMAZING wallpaper. He joins Myself, Showtime (whose done 99% of them), Murcie, and Greasy as the only people to ever make wallpapers for Soxtalk.com Oh and mine were not wallpapers, they were garbage from the original days.

QUOTE(hammerhead johnson @ Nov 30, 2005 -> 02:41 PM) Dude, the Knicks are terrible. These teams are pretty f***ing far from even. Of course that doesn't mean the Knicks won't be motivated (especially Jamal and Eddy). I'm guessing Eddy is still out? So is tonights game on WGN or something?

QUOTE(qwerty @ Nov 30, 2005 -> 02:41 PM) Cubs have a bigger board than the bulls specificly do. I don't know if the bears have a specific board or not but i do know a couple off message boards ( that cover the entire nfl) are surrounded with bears fans for whatever reason. www.nflfans.com/bearstalk is a Bears message board. Not a ton of traffic though, but its been around a long time.

You want loud...check out a home Cal State Fullerton basketball game. Wowzers, every once in a great while, you'll hear something. But the loudest sports event I was ever at was Angels/Yanks (the game they eliminated the Yanks) the year they won the World Series. It was basically the beginning of the thunder sticks and you couldn't hear a thing. 2nd loudest was the Pads/Yanks (1st Pads home game of the series). The place was really rocking, well until Brosius sealed it with a big HR.