Buehrle>Wood

We usually get a pretty big thread going every Halloween so I figured I'd start one. Who is going tomorrow? I hope to make it. It's going to be very interesting to see where they go with the stroyline to say the least.

One meaningless vote for McCain in Illinois.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Oct 23, 2008 -> 12:53 AM) If anyone wants a Call of Duty 5 beta code tell me, I have one to give. By the way this if for 360 to avoid any further confusion, lol. Still up for grabs.

If anyone wants a Call of Duty 5 beta code tell me, I have one to give.

Wouldn't the free rent make him ineligible?

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Oct 20, 2008 -> 05:58 PM) Who expected us to win the division this year? I thought we would be terrible. Yes, but once it became clear what we had(and what our competition didn't), there was no excuse at all not to make the play-offs. 2000 was different in that we were routing teams that were probably much better than us. That stretch against the Yankees and Indians was a turning point for the franchise.

Boxing's savior loses his first bout. I guess he was utterly dominated too. That makes me one sad panda. How shocking. Bernard still has it.

That was great though I'm pretty sure none of the audience watched last week's episode.

Nothing can top the Illini's Paint the Hall Orange. And that's for just 16,000 people. If the Bears could get 60,000 people wearing Orange, that would certainly be awesome.

Keith Law is also the one with some sort of weird vendetta against Alexei IIRC. Also he's not a big fan of Quentin either. How that could possibly be, I don't know. Actually I'm getting the feeling he isn't a big fan of any decent White Sox player.

I think we could beat just about anyone if we didn't have to play in a stinkin' dome.

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“When you get that nice celebration coming into the dugout and you’re getting your ass hammered by guys — there’s no better feeling than to have that done.” -Matt Stairs

QUOTE (JuiceCruz16 @ Oct 15, 2008 -> 07:49 PM) I already got the tickets to see them and Valpo play at the United Center, I'll be there.

Should be Ventura and Thomas. Ventura was a face of the franchise for nearly a decade and would have been the face had he played in any other era.

Reminder that Alexei is a terrific CFer if we can find 2 new middle infielders.

Will Indiana win a Big Ten game?

QUOTE (chimpy2121 @ Oct 14, 2008 -> 09:55 PM) Kentucky's new jerseys=fugly. What were they thinking? Seriously. Ugh.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Oct 11, 2008 -> 01:11 AM) that would be the Los Angeles Dodgers, as in the 2nd largest TV market in the united states. We and Houston are of course the 3rd and 4th largest markets, and we were 3rd to last in all-time ratings. Boston and Colorado last year were last.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Oct 10, 2008 -> 05:03 PM) But was it for all games at all times? I can run some games, like Uncharted, without any graphical issues, but madden and NCAA always have it (though it's not the same spot on the screens cuz it follows certain players. I did a little research and I think it's called artifacting - basically the gpu and/or graphics card are not working properly. So I called Sony yesterday and they basically said I could get it fixed for $150 bucks, plus additional fees if necessary, plus the cost to ship a refurbed system to me. I have the original launch 60gb, so she wasn't able to tell me if i'd get it back or not (i.e. they just throw in the broken piece and send me back mine). Since they don't have 60gb's anymore, I'll probably get the 80gb without the ps/ps1 compatabiltiy, which i guess isn't a huge issue since i have yet to play one and i still have both of those systems. Still though, I complained about the price of fixing it and basically told the customer service rep that it's ridiculous to expect me to spend 150 bucks when i spent 600 at launch, only to have the price of the machine drop 200 within a couple of months. I said you've made your money off me already, might as well make me happy. I also reminded her of the fact that it's going to be a material defect of the machine and that I could easily stop being a long-time Sony customer and buy a brand new 360 for the same price. None of this meant anything to her, she put me on hold to get a supervisor and then my phone dropped its signal. So who knows if they'll try and work for me. If you don't want to pay, tell them GTA4 freezes at the title screen for you all the time. This was a huge problem for 60GB launch systems so they have to replace the system for free. That's what I did(mine was well out of warranty) and I didn't even have GTA4 at the time(I had it for about 1 day before returning it; this was months before actually sending my PS3 in). They never asked me to prove it or anything, all I to do was tell them it did not work. The only reason I was sending it in of course was the line problem, I don't really care that much about GTA. Got my refurb in just a couple days ago, not sure if it's a 60GB or not.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Oct 9, 2008 -> 06:55 PM) Yeah that's what I use. Surely that's not the problem though. It's not like one line in the middle of the screen, it follows the players. Imagine a 10 foot line extended off the back of a players foot. Whenever the player runs the line follows up and down. There's something about if at any point you unplugged your HDMI while the console is on it screws up the picture permanently no matter the output source. Kind of sucks and they should put a much bigger warning about it then they do. I had the same problem with random lines appearing at seemingly random times. I used HDMI, so I think that's what I did, though I'm not really sure. I turned my PS3 in for free and got a perfect refurb.

Hey let's shop half of our sure things in the bullpen. Because, you know, we proved having 2 good bullpen arms was way too many this year. Also, ignore Thorton's career 26% save percentage.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Oct 9, 2008 -> 04:44 PM) I'm a happy ps3 customer, although I'm going to have to send my PS3 in here shortly because the graphics on some of the games are messed up (spikes and lines coming out of players in Madden and NCAA football). Otherwise though I'm very, very happy with it. Do you/have you used HDMI?

QUOTE (LosMediasBlancas @ Oct 8, 2008 -> 07:05 AM) Sounds hilarious, any video footage? Just check your listings for FSN or CSN, I'm sure they'll replay it. It's great.

The English is fine if you just get rid of the question mark. "Two scouts with American League organizations independently arrived at the same conclusion about Iglesias, an 18-year-old middle infielder. Both compared him to Orlando Cabrera for his batting stance, infield actions and offensive potential. "He’s a stud," one of the scouts said. "He’s a plus run and plus arm Orlando Cabrera clone. He’s got a quick bat but I didn’t see much power." I like the sound of that.