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QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Dec 10, 2006 -> 03:52 PM) This was the number one item on both my kids lists. My video game system expertise peaked right around the days of Intellivision, so I'm out of my realm. Any insights from folks more up to speed would be helpful. They are 7 and almost 9 years old, and they do have a PS2 console system. Santa will NOT be dropping a huge wad of cash on any next generation console systems, but he may relent and leave one or two of these if the reviews are favorable. Are there a good number of games for that age range between the DS games and the legacy gameboy Advance games? Is the wi-fi plug and play? I already have a IEEE 802.11 network at home so are these things good to go out of the box? If they each get their own unit (ouch!), would they also need to have duplicate game cards to play wirelessly against one another or can the machines read card data from each other? How rugged are they? Any other thoughts? Many thanks . . . slackers! 1. Yes. The DS is the best selling video game system of all-time, which means plenty of companies come out with plenty of games ranging in a wide range of categories. 2. Should work right out of the box with Wi-Fi. 3. Most games you will only need 1 cart to play each, some you may need 2. 4. Pretty much unbreakable.

QUOTE(aboz56 @ Dec 10, 2006 -> 12:38 AM) If IU is a mid-major, I'd hate to see what other programs would be called. 5 National Titles, yeah, mid major. Laughable. Guess EJ thought they were mid majors too. It was a jokkkkkkkkkke. And as for the EJ shot, I could care less on that situation.

QUOTE(EvilJester99 @ Dec 9, 2006 -> 11:41 PM) Anyone else having trouble getting onto TalkBhawks?? Works for me.

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Dec 9, 2006 -> 11:34 PM) I didn't list any mid majors. "IU-UK about to get underway, cmon Hoosiers!" "Wow IU." You didn't?

QUOTE(BobDylan @ Dec 9, 2006 -> 11:10 PM) I'd have killed all those funeral goers too. I believe they did.

QUOTE(JDsDirtySox @ Dec 9, 2006 -> 05:07 PM) Twins sign former Royal Ken Harvey to a minor league contract. http://www.startribune.com/509/story/863159.html Worst all-star ever.

WOW What a steal.

I don't care what music you listen too. So stop telling me.

QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ Dec 8, 2006 -> 04:20 AM) Uh, the players have more to do with that. It's not Bill Veeck's fault that the 1959 White Sox didn't beat the Dodgers and Reinsdorf doesn't deserve anymore credit for the Starting Four of 2005 especially now that he's crying poor and reverting to his true form. I'd wait to see if he spends that 10 million elsewhere before saying that. We're still looking at a payroll at about 90-100 million, which puts us near the top of the league.

QUOTE(RX Bandits @ Dec 7, 2006 -> 09:19 PM) This point was on B&B and it should shut up people complaining about the trade. Remember when KW traded "untouchable" miguel olivo (sucks now) for freddy garcia and sure some people on this board hated that trade. Fast forward to last year where he traded the greaest CF of all time Aaron Rowand for JIM THOME. Then turns around and trades Garcia who people b****ed about getting ini the first place, for prospects. In short, If you fall in love with players, it is costly, and baseball retarted. This point was on B&B and it should shut up people complaining about the trade. Remember when KW traded "untouchable" miguel olivo (sucks now) for freddy garcia and sure some people on this board hated that trade. Fast forward to last year where he traded the greaest CF of all time Aaron Rowand for JIM THOME. Then turns around and trades Garcia who people b****ed about getting ini the first place, for prospects. In short, If you fall in love with players, it is costly, and baseball retarted. I heard it too, but I think they missed the point. The problem here was not losing the player as it was in all those other cases. Everyone knew either Freddy of Javy would be gone by April 1st. What everyone here wants to know is wether we got enough in such a crazed market. Although I don't mind this trade so much, I don't think there is an argument against that.

It doesn't have to be one or the other. We can have a WS caliber ball-club and still have a solid minor-league system. The loss of Garcia is not too big on paper. We have guys who can fill that void. The only criticism of the trade should be on wether we got enough or not.

Is it going to be turned back on? Maybe I missed it, but was it just turned on to save traffic? Or has it been off for awhile now?

For Barry

The TB deals are making more and more sense. However, Floyd is still no replacement in a deal for McCarthy. I guess Floyd makes McCarthy more expendable for us, but I highly doubt we go into 07 with Floyd in the totation.

Where did this talk about getting Rowand start?

So earlier KW talked about a potential Wednesday deal that would be "full circle and come back to us". He means Gio?

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/hotstove06/n...tory?id=2688380 Freddy for Gio and Floyd. That's it.

How did Gio fare last year anyway?

Heard it too.

Best news of the offseason.

QUOTE(Flash Tizzle @ Dec 6, 2006 -> 12:56 AM) Only 6800 votes? And he came in third?! lol. /voted. 2 times. With so few votes, Soxtalk may have made the difference on someone getting on the HoF ballot and someone not getting on.

JD Drew to Red Sox for 5 years, 70 million? Anyone got further confirmation on this yet?

Zito should be getting about 100 mil a year based on this.

QUOTE(kyyle23 @ Dec 5, 2006 -> 03:50 AM) Tell me, from a pure Nintendo fanboy Zelda addict perspective: How good is Twilight Princess? Orgasmic. The game is absoluty fricken huge. It takes minutes just to travel across Hyrule field. Its certainly long too, I heard about 70 hours. I'm 20 hours in and have only beaten 2 temples. It's a bit like OoT, but that's not a bad thing. I'd say OoT is only slightly better, but it's close.