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It should be a good game though.

QUOTE(Buehrle>Wood @ Nov 21, 2005 -> 03:48 PM) I would may be give out some letter grades. You know, for us too lazy to actually read. I can't really do grades, its such a short season and its so hard to tell based on a players stats. Often times a player is simply in the fall league to work on one aspect of his game and because of that his overall numbers suffer. I just don't think it would be fair. For example Tracey was working on developing another pitch and therefor was working on his secondary pitches and the new pitch a lot more, which is why his numbers were a lot worse than usual. I wish I knew what all of them were working on and I'll try to ask around to find out cause I think that would be really informal.

2005 AFL Review: The Sox Bats By Jason Gage November 21, 2005 FutureSox.com The most prestigious off-season prospect league, the Arizona Fall League, has come to an end. Every major league team is entitled to send 6 prospects to the league. The White Sox representatives were Pedro Lopez (SS/2B; Replaced Robert Valido mid-way through), Josh Fields (3B), Chris Young (OF), Sean Tracey (RHP), Corwin Malone (LHP), and Paulino Reynoso (LHP)...MORE Tomorrow the pitchers portion of the writeup will be up. Please leave feedback. Its the first piece in a while and there was definately some rust (in terms of the grammar and writing, so I apologize).

QUOTE(Texsox @ Nov 21, 2005 -> 02:33 PM) Interesting you mentioned schools, I agree that is a key concept. I believe financing schools is the single biggest problem in our education system. Higher property values assure better schools in the neighborhoods that have the resources to send their kids to private schools and hurt the poorer community and schools that need public education the most. Well if its any consolation, the schools here year in year out demand more money from the taxpayers and everyyear it gets voted down with ease. None of them want to give the schools here any more funding. To be honest, I don't blame them, I think in a lot of instances people think throwing money at the school systems solves things, but quite frankly I think its how you spend the money and I think a lot of school systems could use some help with that.

QUOTE(Steff @ Nov 21, 2005 -> 02:51 PM) Hahahahaa... He is so kind to defer all the uncomfortable stuff to me. It's OK though.. we all (the girls - sisters, daughters, female cousins, etc.. ) get along very well. I'm just not sure because something like this has never happened.. I'm wondering if it was just a mistake.. but it's come up several times (like who's bringing what) and she never asked about my folks.. Maybe just ask innocently whether your folks should bring anything. I wouldn't worry too much about it, but it does sound odd that they wouldn't just invite them.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Nov 21, 2005 -> 02:21 PM) Which confirms my original assumption that all those cities would be largely GOP, with a well financed city budget for police patrols, most homes having security systems, fences, gates, perhaps some private gated communities. Last I looked the GOP held an adge with higher income families. How about spinning this off the politcs? What factors should be present to make a community safe? Does the local government play a role? Wealth of the city? I think the local government plays a huge role. The police forces are all very large in these areas and at the same time the school systems are very strong in this cities. I think all of this is because the community in itself is involved. And despite the fact I don't want to say this, but money is definately a reason why. Simply put more wealthy families (i'm not talking super upper class, but upper-middle class) typically are involved and demand quality schools. With quality schools on the most part you have students that stay in school and are educated. They also don't have near as many negative influences, so basically put both the young and old are far more responsible (of course drug abuse I think is high in upper middle class schools and especially in upper class schools). I'm sure I'm generalizing though and it definately depends on the areas you live in because in a lot of areas you don't have to be in a wealthy area for this to happen. Far put, if you live in an area where values are high and families are tight you can also have this exists, imo. In general I think a lot of this comes down to families and the values they have and teach.

QUOTE(Steff @ Nov 21, 2005 -> 11:15 AM) How far extended is acceptable (or un.. ) when inviting people over for the holiday's...?? As far as I'm concerned....the more relatives the worse the event That just holds true when it comes to my moms side of the family though I don't think there is ever anything wrong with inviting family or friends(even if they are very distant). Worse they can do is say no, and I think they always feel welcome for the invite.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Nov 21, 2005 -> 02:15 PM) Good point about state vs. local. One would have to look at mayoral races. But I ask again, what discussion is there that wouldn't be considered political? The police chief is generally picked by the mayor, sheriffs are elected officials. We look to our government for crime prevention and we know the government is political. Well than, lets not forget that a local election does not have parties involved. But since I'm from the area where two of those cities are listed (regardless of whether they supported or not) I can tell you that by and large they are republican cities located in a heavily republican county.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Nov 21, 2005 -> 06:59 AM) Then why are some cities safer than others? I always thought better economics = safer city better economics = GOP voting I was surprised to see the list didn't reflect that. Tex; Mission Viejo, Lake Forest...bot hare part of South Orange County, which is as republican of a county as there is as well as pretty much as safe and wealthy of a county as there is. Irvine, Newport, Mission Viejo, Laguna, Rancho Santa Margarita...I could list off tons of cities all heavy republican cities in the area that have been previously ranked as safest cities. I know Irvine has won the award a few times. I hate seeing politics shoved into this but if someone is gonna slam the party I back than I better at least throw out some facts and state this is a BS concept. And no, I'm not saying that republican cities are safer...all I'm saying is this is pure hogwash.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Nov 21, 2005 -> 06:36 AM) By state, Kerry won 8 of the 10. I guess when you feel safe, you can vote Democrat. I guarantee you he didn't win Mission Viejo and I doubt he won Lake Forest so I don't know how he did in the other cities. Both are very safe areas, although I must say I was surprised to see Lake Forest in there. There are other areas in South Orange County that I think of as safer and better, but Lake Forest is pretty small.

QUOTE(greasywheels121 @ Nov 21, 2005 -> 01:47 PM) ^^^ Majerus and Steve Lavin are great analysts. Ya, I'm very surprised that Lavin hasn't gotten another coaching job. He's a great analyst, but he was also a very strong recruiter and a solid coach. UCLA has a cures that if you can't win it all after a few years your going to be fired. Despite that Lavin did do a pretty good job. They made like 5 or 6 sweet sixteen and the only year they didn't he was fired.

Michigan State looks freaking horrible. They are winning but Chaminade is not a good team, just like Hawaii is not a good team.

I throw up at the idea of Ed Farmer anywhere near the broadcasts. I've never ever been a fan and him doing PBP is gonna be bad. If North is involved it will be even worse. Why didn't they get rid of Farmer and keep Rooney. That would have been nice.

I wonder how well he'll be able to communicate with the pitchers here?

This year two guys I think would be good candidates are Nathan Chandler (TE of the Hawkeyes) and Solomon (WR of the Hawkeyes). I think both will be mid round to late round draft picks and both have some skills. Chandler is a good athlete (maybe he'll go in the 3rd round) and Solomon had some injuries earlier in the year but probably has 2nd round potential although I doubt he'll go that high. Fasano at ND would be another great candidate but I think he'll go early 2nd while Maurice Stovall has definately seen his stock rise and he's probably a mid to late 2nd rounder.

Ya he is. I just got back from the game and despite Kobe going off, Deng should be starting. Holy cripes did he play some really nice D on Kobe when he was in there. I was dissapointed about two things. The Bulls stopped going down low to Sweentey when Bynum was in the game. He could have destroyed him. Secondly, they had both Hinrich and Duhon on Kobe for a few minute stretch at the end of the 2nd quarter (Kobe was going off during this point) while Deng was on the court (no reason for that, none). Fun game to watch, me and my dad were going back and forth and I must admit when the Lakers took that big lead in the 4th I thought we were toast. Duhon came up huge (as did Hinrich and Sweetney). Chandler played a lot better too tonight. I finally got to see a win at one of the Bulls games I attended.

QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ Nov 20, 2005 -> 09:23 PM) Obviously your not supersticious. During the White Sox playoff streak, I wore the same pants and shirt for every game and never washed them and look how that turned out! The Sox won and your still single

Your right, they did lose to George Mason. At the same time Mason lost by like 5 to Wake Forest and thats Mason's only loss.

QUOTE(whitesoxfan101 @ Nov 20, 2005 -> 02:18 PM) Yeah, but this years defense is a lot better, the offensive line is a lot better, the running game is better (not a lot, but butter). All the '01 team over this years is that they were a lot more lucky and Miller was decent, that's about it. I do think you could make a case that the 01 team had a better receiving core. Booker was the man that year, but Thomas Jones/Apete and Benson is a better backfield.

QUOTE(Jordan4life_2005 @ Nov 20, 2005 -> 02:16 PM) I don't know about that. I'd take Jim Miller over Orton. A-train had a fabolous rookie season. And I don't think the 01 defense is as good as the 05 d, but it's close. The 05 defense is a lot better. We have a much stronger secondary, and a superior defensive front. However, that team may have had a better linebacking core, but I think this Urlacher is >>>> the Urlacher from that year and I like Briggs almost as much as I liked Colvin (in fact I think Briggs is a better all around lb) and Hillmeyer isn't as talented as Holdman was, but he seems to be a better player.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Nov 20, 2005 -> 02:11 PM) Actually the NFL Primetime crew has had nothing but good things to say about the Bears all season. Ya, there were a couple jokes about the division being bad and the Bears being the best of a bad group, but for the most part they've given this team respect and I guarantee your going to here a lot of people talking about the Bears being one of the top teams in the NFC following this win. Personally I still think its a little premature cause this team has more to prove against good teams. Its gonna be a big game next week @ 7-3 Tampa.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Nov 20, 2005 -> 02:07 PM) Im just enjoying the ride. Nobody.....I MEAN NOBODY thought they'd be 7-3. Hell ya Nuke. I'm just having fun. I love watching this defense hit people. I have long said the best I could see the Bears doing is laying out a team in the playoffs and than getting knocked out. That said if Orton can make a few more plays as the season goes on, I could see a little more. Still this was one great game, but they have quite a few tough games left and are going to be tested a whole lot. I guarantee you teams are going to be focused even more when they go up against them following this win against Carolina. It was an awesome game and its been a fun season. Its a definate building block to next year, which I have already dubbed a special season. I'm just hoping that maybe now we'll get lucky and see a special season right here

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Its going to be a shootout. I took Cincy and the points, but who knows.

QUOTE(whitesoxfan101 @ Nov 20, 2005 -> 01:31 PM) Tampa Bay picks up a giant road win in Atlanta, 30-27. It's a showdown of 7-3 squads next week in Central Florida, should be fun. It will be a huge game and its going to be a real battle. The Bucs offense has been on a roll and at the same time there defense hasn't been near as sharp the past couple weeks (both were high scoring wins though). I can't wait, I'm so excited. I got to admit, I had zero faith in the Bears pulling it out tonight but they brought there A game and flat out kicked the piss out of Carolina. I hope they build on this game and go out and play there asses off again next week.