Rooftop Shots

I heard on The Score today that if Boston wins today, that the Sox/Rays game will move to prime time 7:05 pm. If Angels win today, then it will stay at 4:05

When I talk of a cartoon I saw as a kid that had REALTALKING lips inserted into the face of the cartoon character, and I was looked at like..........H-UH???????? What the heck are you talking about. (By the way, the cartoon was called Clutch Kargo).

The Booner! Let him go join the Danny Wright fan club

Saved on Gas-a-lina!!!!!!!!!!

bought a Spectra

QUOTE (Sox It To Em @ Sep 27, 2008 -> 09:41 PM) I might be drinking the Kool-Aid, but I'm going down with the ship. Agreed! It's killing me seeing what has been happening these last 5 games. If the Sox go up....Great! I'll go "GA-GA!!!" If not, I'll watch them to the very end and go down with them. Obviously, it just hurts tremendously at the way that we are finishing, after so many months of hope! Right now, our hamburger is only cooked through on one side, It's time to flip it over and see if we are the ones that will be cookin'....or if we're the ones that will get "BURNED!" As of now....."Technically" we're still in it. Wierder unexpected things have happened in baseball. My thoughts as of April 1st of this year..............Season hasn't started, and we're done! Can you imagine what a tanked feeling we would have had if we started with an emotional high with Torii, Miggy, FuKu, Renteria, D-Train, and ended up like Detroit? We had a lot of nice surprises this year with long contracts to go with it "Q" "Cuban Missle" "Danks" "Floyd". I know it's a sickening long shot...........................but we still have something to watch.....and it's game #161 for us. As Hawk would say..........."Who would-a thunk it?" Last Thought!!!!!! Right now, our performance is about as twisted as a contortionist is, and if he can get his head out of his rear end when he's in his position, then maybe we can too!

with moldy bananas

I'll probably get ragged on for this thread, but here goes! If there is some positive hope among all of the emotional lows as of now, here's something to ponder. In 05' we also had a pretty dismal September. Bats were cold, we weren't playing with "aggression to win", but instead, playing as "trying not to lose". Everybody was cold. It looked just like it does now. Once we got into the playoffs, the pressure to do so subsided, and the team played with aggression again, and had a new breath of fresh air, and we played like our team was cabable of and the bats got hot again, along with the pitching. (I can only hope that it repeats itself this year and this thread will be looked upon in the future as "way to give us something to hang on to when we were in our doll-drums,.....instead of "Hey Rooftop.......wake up....smell the coffee............ and get a life. Open your eyes! We're dead meat!!!" You should be banned from posting for your insane daydreaming) Well, one more daydream before I ragged on and ..............get kicked off....... Another point, Boston wins Series, 1916, we win 1917, they win 1918, we (technically should have won) 1919, They win 2004, we win 2005, they win 2007, >>>>>>>>>>>> 2008????????? And 2008, we are in the same position that we were in in 2005.

2 things. 1) Definately at my job. Been doing the same thing for 30 years, and because of that, be able to manuever things with my machinery that continue to shake heads, and ask, "How the heck did he do that?" . 2) Spur-of-the-moment one liners when backed into a corner. When that takes place, something in my head immediately goes into another gear. Example...............my die-hard Cub fan uncle going on and on about how his Cubbies are known world wide and the Sox aren't. He said that he saw a guy on TV in Iraq that was wearing a Cubs hat. My reply "Of course! What else would you expect? Iraq is a war zone! You have to know who to shoot at!"

A one-liner to use on others if they rag on you about it is, "I'd rather lose what's on the outside, that what's on the inside". and "Grass doesn't grow on a busy street".

For the last few years at the cell, they periodically play an audio of what sounds like a bunch of cheerleaders making some sort of a call/chant/whatever it is , and at the end of it you hear a loud and long OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooo!!!!!! Does anybody know what the heck they are saying/chanting and what it supposedly represents?

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 12, 2008 -> 10:55 AM) Blizzards: I've lived in the Chicago area from 1972-1991, 1998-2001 and 2004 to present. So, all the big blizzards of those periods, including the ridiclous winter of '78. Also was in Denver when the one that killed 50 people came through in, I think, 1998. Also in 1967 we had a blizzard. in 78' it kept coming and coming all winter, but in 67' it all came at once. A guy across the street from me had a heart attack that day, and the ambulance couldn't get down the street, so they carried him on a stretcher all the way down the block in a ton of snow to the ambulance on the main highway. Incredibly.............he made it through OK.

I only caught a glimpse of this on the news early this moring before I went to work, so I can't give any details. Anybody hear about this or know anything that can add to the validity of this incident? Here's what they showed on the clip on WGN news/sports at 6:15 this morning. Sean Rodriguez from LAA was at bat. Ball four was thrown to him, but he never went to first, and the ump did not send him. He stayed in the batters box until the next pitch, and then he struck out. The WGN sports announcer said that NO ONE caught it until the game was over. How can no umps, managers, players not see that? Anyone ever hear anything like that before??

QUOTE (LosMediasBlancas @ Sep 3, 2008 -> 04:39 PM) Sorry, but this is just golden: http://music.ndtv.com/story.asp?id=ENTEN20080063912 With all of the fake-ness and falsities that they have both aquired, caked on, and added to themselves through the years, if you mixed them both up, and put them both back together again, they could make up 2 people. One real and one mannequin. Boy, you talk about a day and night relationship......or should it be called "Day and Day!"

QUOTE (The Critic @ Aug 31, 2008 -> 09:55 AM) Anybody else ever play 500? One guy would hit a rubber ball (or a softball) and if you caught it on a fly it was worth 100 points, one bounce was 75, two bounces 50, three bounces 25 and no points for 4 or more bounces. First guy to 500 was the batter for the next game. It would get pretty physical once someone got close to 500. Boy, now your bringing back some memories. I forgot about that one. Yeah....we played that a lot.

QUOTE (WilliamTell @ Aug 29, 2008 -> 12:03 AM) obviously, but most are going to think that. I can't say I'm going to have a gay old time like the Flinstones once did. Words have different meaning now. I think I've got it now. This isn't meant to be offensive to anyone, it's just an example of how words can drastically change their meaning during the course of time. It's also what the ENGLISH call cigarettes to this day.

QUOTE (WilliamTell @ Aug 29, 2008 -> 12:03 AM) obviously, but most are going to think that. I can't say I'm going to have a gay old time like the Flinstones once did. Words have different meaning now. (I'll try again, if this doesn't work, I'll post the link.) http://www.methodshop.com/picts/ads-1930s/f**.jpg

QUOTE (WilliamTell @ Aug 29, 2008 -> 12:03 AM) obviously, but most are going to think that. I can't say I'm going to have a gay old time like the Flinstones once did. Words have different meaning now. They sure do. Look at this cigarette ad from the 50's

This is kind of a "Part 2" to "shipps" topic on favorite kids games What I meant by "call outs" was "How did you start your game"? Examples below: If we played hide and go seek or catch one catch all or ghosts in the gravewyard, to start the game, everyone would put one of their feet in a circle with everyone elses. Then each person would take a turn at a "call out" to see who would be eliminated. As you said each word in your call out, you finger would touch another shoe. Whoever had the shoe that your finger was on at the end of a call-out, he would be OUT. When you get to the last 2 individuals, whoever was left at the end was "IT" and would have to seek out everyone else. The standard call was "Blue shoe blue shoe, how old are you?" You'd count to that persons age,and whoever your finger landed on, he was out. Another one was "Engine engine # 9 coming down Chicago line, if it fell off the track, would you get your money back. O-U-T spells out you go!

Anyone play "Mother May I?" "All American Eagles?" or our old time south side Calumet Park favorite "Kill The Guy With The Football" (I grew up in a little town of Calumet Park. For those of you who don't know where that is, it's just east of Blue Island between Halsted and Ashland ave on 127th street)

Almost anything to do with baseball. If it wasn't a league day, we would get a bunch of guys together and play lob pitch league ball in our local prairie or baseball diamond. Sometimes left or right field would be "out" if we didn't have enough guys. If we only had 2 or 4 guys, then we would go to the local school or VFW hall, get some chalk and draw a square box on a brick wall, and play a game of "fast pitch" or "strikeout" (whatever you called it depend on where you grew up). At night, we would play what we called "Catch one-Catch All" The idea was that if you were "IT" and you tagged someone, you would be "IT" together, and then so on and so on.. We would play the using the whole block and hide anywhere, while the first guy was "IT" and counted to 50. The object, if there was anyone that was not caught before curfew hit, (or whoever was the last one caught or found) he would be the winner. Sometimes there would be up to 20-25 of us at the start of it.

I once had an old boss that used this one a REAL LOT. If something went real well, he would always say , "Slicker than a cows foot stuck in the mud"

With the game on the line, I think that it's about time for me to really SINK MY TEETH into to one!

OOPS! Forgot the link! http://tvplanner.comcast.net/#initView=gri...l,1219627807318