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QUOTE (iamshack @ Feb 12, 2016 -> 05:31 PM) What I would think right off the bat is maybe grocery stores would hire full time? Don't limit her options to just retail though. I'm certain she is capable of all kinds of other full-time employment. What about Costco? They pay pretty solid and have good benefits.

QUOTE (JoshPR @ Feb 15, 2016 -> 03:14 AM) I did a web search back in 02 or 03 and found this place. I posted at the old cubbune boards till the hosts started being nazis about everything. That group moved to a site named worldcrossing which was cool but eventually closed. I lurked on both forums. As WC closed Ive stuck around here. Dont post too much anymore tho. I recall a lot of you guys started as teenagers and now are grown men. Used to get a kick outta Beastly Ordoñez Josh - IIRC, you came from the same place Rexhudler did, but can't recall. If you did, do you keep in touch with him at all?

QUOTE (AustinIllini @ Feb 15, 2016 -> 08:22 AM) There shouldn't be non-MLB All-Star games. There's nothing in the All-Star game that's worth getting hurt over. And these are the best, highest players in the game. Unless they're playing for a competitive advantage later on (an idea I DO NOT endorse), they're not going to take it seriously. I don't particularly think the risk in the NBA is much different than baseball (in-terms of injury).

QUOTE (AustinIllini @ Feb 15, 2016 -> 08:26 AM) While I'm not sure how I feel about the Manning stuff, it's amazing how little airplay it is getting on ESPN. Just more proof ESPN is an arm of the NFL. ESPN has and will coverup articles to protect certain elements and they will likely continue to. Of course the one item I know about them keeping quiet (covering up might be the wrong word, rather decide not to cover), isn't near to the extent of what is happening here. You'd think Sports Illustrated or a competitor would be all over something like this though (if there were serious legs to it). The article was pretty damning (presuming all the information contained within it is true).

Well...I've always said I hated Manning and I had heard stories about the Mannings from some pretty keyed in people, but wow is all I can say. They are football's version of the Kennedy's.

It is why MLB still has the best ASG. I understand injury concerns, but dude, the NBA all star game could rival or be better than the MLB one if the guys played hard. An easy solution is to throw about 5M bucks to the winner. Maybe get crazy and throw a similar amount to charity. I guarantee you put something like that on the line, yes, these guys make a lot, but it would probably change the level of competition, etc. The game is just terrible. I'd love to see these guys actually play hard against each other (it would be so fun to watch).

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Feb 12, 2016 -> 02:06 PM) Did you go to Iowa or do you just have an odd attraction to bad midwest sports teams? I'll hang up and listen to your answer. Also the drama that is Ncorg got me hooked her. I was off this site for a couple of months years back and then poof he was gone and never learned why. Someone could probably post the story, I never really followed / knew much about ncgorl, other than he posted here plus whitesox.com and someone outed him for something or another (don't recall what as it was mainly whitesox.com drama). I reside in Sunny California so part of my starting of the whole thing was I took a webdesign class in highschool, liked the Sox, saw Mario post a message on some Sox site (WSI or White Sox.com) that he had started a website and sent an email asking if he could use help. From there, the rest is history. My family is however from Iowa (Dad) and Illinois (Mom). No one in my family is a fan of Chicago sports teams but myself (you can thank WGN and probably the existence of Frank Thomas and as I'll proudly admit as a kid I liked both teams and it wasn't until the early 2000's where I stopped following the Cubs (and focused solely on Sox). Iowa fan though because my dad is (and almost all of my cousins went there). I went to Cal State Fullerton, home to one of the greatest baseball programs on the planet Hopefully my kids will become fans (working on them) and who knows, one day there might be a 2nd generation of Chisoxfn's posting on here.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Feb 12, 2016 -> 01:13 PM) They don't care what the market is. They want to play different people at RB. They are moving on. Smear teams don't pay $$ to 30 year old RBs I think this is part of it, but they also want Forte to know he is free to do what they want and they want to manage the media perception, by letting everyone know up front what the plan is and giving Forte a good send off in the process and essentially wishing him all the best. It is essentially them trying to be the exact opposite of the Urlacher fiasco.

QUOTE (bmags @ Feb 12, 2016 -> 01:33 PM) I wish I remembered. They did a once a week podcast and were genuinely hilarious. When we acquired Manny it was pretty must-listen. Only issue is SoxNRoll was not around the dates you mentioned. I want to say those were pre world series.

QUOTE (bmags @ Feb 12, 2016 -> 01:21 PM) Can anyone help me remember the sox podcast around 2009-10-11 that was two younger dudes, lots of swearing, and in 2010 they had an excellent run of podcasts trying to end our losing start with different hexes? Obscure, and I don't know what else to search. Only podcasts I know of were SoxnRoll, which your description fits the bill and than Soxtalk had a podcast with Mario & I and than there was a seperate podcast, with Mario & Shipps (not necessarily White Sox related but part of astupid radio).

It started with a site called SoxNet (back in 2000 or 2001...definitely before 9/11 because I remember closing the forums on 9/11 and instead we had a link to the red cross). Originally forums were on various softwares and at one point the name Soxtalk didn't exist, rather, the place was SoxNet's forums. SoxNet was a news site well before blogs every existed and than the forum was the interactive discussion / comment side. Mario Scalise was the original creator of SoxNet and I was the 2nd in command (with Murcie eventually becoming the 3rd in command) and dealt with more the marketing side and the forums. Initially forum leveraged software from another site (a formal rival & insiders set that went independent and we stayed with them as it provided us with infrastructure that we didn't have). However, there were server issues, etc., that we couldn't control so eventually we took things off from there and I purchased Soxtalk.com and created our own independent forum, etc. SoxNet would eventually join the insiders for a period of time and than close due to various disagreements we had with them and at that point Soxtalk would remain (FutureSox had also been launched in this span). The initial Soxtalk was a small sub-set that grew from people who ventured here from web searches, official whitesox.com board, espn forums, and WSI. SoxnRoll was referenced, but that was a rogue radio network (RedPinStripes, CupKilla, and others) which had an affiliation with Soxtalk (independent but marketed within) and that also helped push more people to Soxtalk (from other platforms). Two items that always differentiated Soxtalk was the fact that it was affiliated with unique content, whether it was SoxNet in the early years or FutureSox, and it also differed in the stance that I have a much different mentality when it comes to running forums than they do (and this is not me knocking WSI, this is just me stating I have a different vision then them). I would lie if I told people I didn't compete with and didn't have a desire to be bigger than WSI, because I did, and WSI laughed and scoffed at the notion (and while I can take some solace in where the forum stands today, I also refuse to rest on that notion). I'll also caveat that as Soxtalk became what it was, it has been so long since I ever even concerned myself with WSI or any other Sox forum (because quite frankly, I don't care about anywhere else), but than other sites did occasionally try to spin-off from Soxtalk, whether it was southsiders.net (not sure what happened to it) or even southsidesox (where the Cheat was once a mod/admin here who eventually went on his own separate path building a fantastic blog that he eventually left for whatever reason). I honestly don't know what it would take to grow this place or create something from start today (as there are so many various channels to do this and a lot more competition, I feel like when this place started, we were still pretty cutting edge and that helped). It always amazes me the staying power and I'm always proud of the type of community and open style that exists here (as well as the comrodory between members and overall loyalty). I could tell you all about plenty of members on here as others can and that says a lot. At the same time, we still have tons of new members who become consistent and great contributors and that is huge too (because you always need knew members to keep things fresh). I also could tell you when I created this site, I would have never in my wildest dreams imagined it growing to the extent that it has. Whether it was threads getting featured in sports publications, receiving various sets of credentials, meeting great people, etc. I can remember how amazed I was when we got 100 visitors in a day and now I think of the fact that over the course of a month, we get over 15 million hits.

Anyone see Teddy Greenstein's piece in the trib? Anyone want to bet that Gar or someone close pushed this piece for the Trib to try and stop the bleeding from the media (who is all up in arms with where the Bulls are) . http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baske...212-column.html Some of Teddy's points are valid and clearly the roster with Taj out was awful, but still. Lets not forget that the 2014 team, had Noah (who was playing studly, but by this point on one knee and getting ready to have a pretty serious off-season surgery) with Hinrich and DJ Augustin getting the bulk of the minutes at the starting spot. That Wizards team was athletic and on the climb and there were some tight games in between. I'd argue the Bulls lost to the better team and I was so amazed that the 2014 team was able to get seeded where it was (given the talent it had or rather, didn't have). To me, it is more evidence that coaching can help a ton with seeding in the regular season, but in best of 7 series, coaching, while still key (due to in-game adjustments) can't out-battle talent differentials like the one between the Wizards and Bulls. Reality was, Bulls couldn't really elevate there game any more and they ultimately had zero scorers on that team at all (I suppose Boozer was the closet thing to a scorer on that squad and he clearly was on his last legs as evidenced by fact he played one more year with Lakers before dissapearing). Did Boozer retire or just decide he didn't want to be a role player (as I'd still think he could easily come off of plenty of teams benches, including, at this point, the Bulls bench).

QUOTE (MEANS @ Feb 12, 2016 -> 08:01 AM) A little late but last week the Toronto Maple Leafs unveiled their new logo and I designed it. It was a very crazy and surreal week to say the least. Probably my biggest accomplishment as a designer although the two locker room graphics for the last 2 Blackhawks Stanley Cup wins come pretty close too. That is badass.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Feb 12, 2016 -> 05:24 AM) One of my good friends lost his battle with cancer last night. He was 34. I really really hate that disease. I'll vote for the first candidate that wants to carpet bomb cancer. Terrible. So young. My condolences to you and his family.

QUOTE (farmteam @ Feb 11, 2016 -> 09:14 PM) Big win for the Hoosiers. Three-way tie for first. All three teams control their destiny. Crushed me. You guys couldn't miss in that first half. Good win.

I will always root for Forte. I realize the move makes sense, but still makes me sad.

Would certainly seem to me that Fowler is next on their radar.

You know...if the Sox add Desmond, this would be more turnover than I can remember in our lineup in a long time. If they somehow get Desmond and another outfielder, wow. Makes me excited.

QUOTE (Joshua Strong @ Feb 11, 2016 -> 02:54 PM) My first job on a major film set was secured today, I will be working with the Chicago team on Transformers 5. It seems like my hard work is beginning to pay off. That is awesome. Congrats!

I am the polar opposite of a lot of you and think Guerrero is the perfect candidate for a team to acquire (with upside). However, given where the Sox are, I do agree with most of you that he isn't a fit. When everyone says he can't field, it is because he's been completely dicked around by the entire Dodgers organization. And in terms of his bat, it plays and could be quite good, he just never got the playing time necessary. Guy has never had a shot to develop. My presumption is anyone who trades for him will do so working on some form of a new deal with him, but he is most valuable going to a team who isn't going to be great and can actually give him a chance to develop. The guy raked in his one season in the minors (until he got his ear bit off by Miguel Olivo). And when he got regular playing time with dodgers, he had a nice run. Great buy low candidate in my opinion (if we weren't already loaded in the areas he can play).

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Feb 11, 2016 -> 11:01 AM) For the Bulls to be a championship team in the next 4 or 5 years, they are either going to have to miss the playoffs and get unbelievably lucky in the lottery, or sign a free agent star. You would think signing the free agent star would be easier, but I don't know. I just think you decrease your odds of signing a star when Gar walks into the room, considering with the cap, the money is all the same. I agree on all counts. Getting a star is the key (in short-term) and to me that is much easier to do via FA than draft (given where Bulls stand). I wonder if Bulls can swing a deal with Sixers for Nerlens. There are young players out there who might be on the block.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Feb 11, 2016 -> 10:58 AM) I love Jo, but he's not a complete player, and it absolutely kills this team. It's 4 on 5 with him out there, even when healthy. They need to look elsewhere. Same with Pau. The rumors about resigning him for 20 million is absurd. Find the next superstar to pair with Butler. Hope Portis develops into a Taj-like contributor. Hope McDermott can hit open shots. Hope Mirotic plays with a brain. And then draft well. I figure that rumor from windhorst had to be the Bulls trying to gain leverage for a potential Pau trade.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Feb 11, 2016 -> 10:49 AM) Pssh, f*** no. He just sat out a game for being "sore." You know, of all people, I just live with it from him. As long as he plays aggressive when he's in. Right now, he's on pace for I think 70 games (*knock on wood*). Given where he's coming from, that is a good thing. And I still stick to my theory that post ASB Rose will be the best Rose anyone has seen post surgery. I'm curious if Butler being out will spark it or not. Reality is, only way Bulls don't keep losing is if Rose really puts this team on the back (something he has not really had to done since he went out with his initial injury). Does anyone think all these struggles make it more likely that the Bulls resign Noah (the true leader). Noah should be far more of a value too, given the fact that he's coming off injury.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Feb 11, 2016 -> 10:47 AM) I'm dubious about Rose and Thibs' relationship. A couple of weeks ago Rose said he hadn't spoken to Thibs since he was let go. What's that tell you? I think Taj is the only guy that was vocal about liking Thibs. Even Jimmy to a certain extent seemed to tire of him. Noah definitely. And Pau was probably never a fan based on style of play. IIRC, Butler was talking to Thibs in the off-season. So I don't buy it. I also have heard from people that Pau was pretty much the one primary player who was anti-Thibs (but not like he hated him, just wasn't 100% on board with everything Thibs did). I know Rose made those comments, but I think that is just more how Rose is. Too many times have we heard interviews of Rose and his loyalty and essentially he'll always back whomever he is with and as a result, I think it has more to do with Rose not wanting to stir the pot, etc, than anything else. I've never ever heard about an issue between Rose and Thibs. Rose & Gar, yes, but not Rose & Thibs.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ Feb 11, 2016 -> 10:46 AM) The funny thing is Pau played better under Thibs last year than he did his last few years in LA (some of that was actually being healthy) and he hasn't played any better this year under Hoidberg than he did last year. Yeah. When I say didn't like, I think pau had issues with Thibs style, but he also benefited from it. I think Butler would take over this team, but you do have the issue with Rose being there. If Rose was gone, I kind of think Jimmy could be that true leader, but with Rose here, it is that uncomfortable...if Jimmy says something Rose still has some of that persona from his past. Makes it awkward. I'm interested to see how Rose does with Jimmy out though (do we see more progress with him and do we see more of that "alpha" come out?