WilliamTell

no surprise there!

lol Alexei would hit twice as many homers in 1 day as he has in over 110 games.

Thanks!

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jul 29, 2013 -> 09:51 PM) @ESPNStatsInfo: Jason Giambi is the oldest player in MLB history to hit a walk-off home run. Record previously held by Hank Aaron in 1976. (@EliasSports) Oh great.........this season keeps getting better.

QUOTE (flavum @ Jul 28, 2013 -> 05:15 PM) Konerko with a gem: https://twitter.com/scotgregor/status/361609448223031298 I needed a good laugh today!

Thanks both of you! Jake let me know how it goes tomorrow. Best of luck to you!

Basically I'm tired of my job. I graduated college with a Bachelor's Degree in Public Administration nearly 5 years ago and I cannot find a job that deals with my major. My current job has extremely low pay and no room for advancement. It's just time to change things for my career and since I live in small town Iowa, finding a job related to my field is extremely hard. Getting my Master's has always been something I wanted to do so I feel this would be a good time to try to achieve that goal. My question is what's a good website to take practice tests for the exam?

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jul 23, 2013 -> 09:08 PM) Wow, Soxtalkers have been busy over the last year or so. Congrats guys! Shows you how boring it's been here the last 2 years or so. Haha joking! Last season was a good season down til the end.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jul 28, 2013 -> 06:43 PM) Was it bad? Not the twist, the movie I liked it a lot. Really liked the end credits scene too. Probably my favorite end credit scene of all Marvel movies. But I've always been a huge Wolverine fan.

QUOTE (knightni @ Jul 27, 2013 -> 02:29 AM) My story is very similar. I'd have to check my genealogy for the royal inseminator in question. Haha awesome. I meant King Henry VIII. Forgot an I!

QUOTE (knightni @ Jul 24, 2013 -> 02:33 AM) Me too! ^5! I make a joke of this because according to my family history book I'm a descendant of King Henry VII. He had an illegitimate child named Richard Edwards who I'm a descendant of. So if that's correct King Henry VII is 14 generations up. It doesn't mean anything, it's just fun to joke about it.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jul 22, 2013 -> 03:40 PM) OMG EVERYONE! Kate delivered her baby vaginally! I was so worried!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Seriously, wtf. That information was a breaking news headline on CNN.com. I HAVE A NEW (extremely distant) COUSIN!!!!!

I'll piggy back off of this one too since I never made a birth announcement. My daughter Brooklynn Bree turns 6 months today!

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Jul 16, 2013 -> 06:15 PM) You guys must have skipped ahead, it was all in there. Start at about 6:15 and they show him walking, and he reaches the bullpen about 30 seconds later. Also, WilliamTell...I'm not sure it was "water"... Haha I saw the beer in the video. For some reason I thought fans were dumping buckets of water on the Tigers bullpen that day. Could be wrong though, it was a long time ago!

QUOTE (Brian @ Jul 16, 2013 -> 11:16 AM) Is the part where fans are throwing stuff on Weaver or Fick in this video? I may have missed it I think I know what you're talking about, and I didn't see it in this clip either. I remember on SportsCenter they showed fans dumping water on a Tigers player in the bullpen area I thought. At the time I thought it was the coolest thing ever haha.

QUOTE (Brian @ Jul 16, 2013 -> 05:52 AM) Was at SIU when this happened and never got to see the full incidents. Just the quick highlights on SportsCenter. Yeah same here. Although I would've been in 8th grade at the time, haha. It'd be nice to find some clips to see how Hawk reacted.

I apologize if this has been posted in the last month. But since this video is just a month old I figured maybe some of you haven't seen it yet. For me, I've spent years trying to find this video and now here it is! It starts with a Royals/Indians brawl though. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yB4FsQAcPAc

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jul 15, 2013 -> 07:32 PM) It doesn't sound to me that she has any problem with him working out. It seems as though their problem is they don't particularly even like each other very much. If that's the case, the rest doesn't matter much. If it were me, I'd be spending my time trying to figure out how to spare the kid of this disaster somehow. I do love her and she says she loves me which I believe. Overall we had a great first year, just the last few months have been a little rocky but I'm hoping we can figure it out. I'm not going to call it a disaster yet but we both realize we need to have our baby's interest first overall. If we're going to keep fighting it's not best for the baby to be around that. She wants us to go to counseling so I'm going to give it a chance. I'm sure I'll learn a lot out of it. One thing she has said a couple times is she thinks we're more like roommates right now instead of boyfriend and girlfriend. Haha I NEED TO BE MORE ROMANTIC!!!!! But at least Bar Rescue has started up again because we both love watching that show haha. All in all I believe we can work this out. There's not another person I would rather be with.

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Jul 15, 2013 -> 01:53 PM) Damn dude. Your situation is the epitome of being between a rock and a hard place. It put things in perspective about relationships for me. I just don't have things as tough as probably most. I know being around people excessively will cause both parties to see the worst in each other. I really hope both of you can work it out for your child's sake. I see so many parents stay together when they absolutely want to decapitate each other for the sake of the kids. My girl simply annoys the s*** out of me with her excessive syrupy-ness, her obsession with animals, and her adolescent speak. Other than that, she's alright. Maybe I am between a rock and a hard place, but I honestly feel lucky having a baby daughter, and I do believe I have a wonderful girlfriend, I just need to do a better job with priorities and I think both of us need to focus on giving positive attention to each other. We focus on the baby and rightfully so. And Rock, thanks for the input. I definitely want to keep this little family I have going intact and hopefully counseling can help give us a better chance at making this work.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jul 15, 2013 -> 03:38 PM) Let me just say that you seem to not have your priorities straight. You child's grandfather was getting remarried. Your evening belongs to that. Discuss things with her. It's not like she's pissy because you're working out - it's because you're in the basement for an hour in the evening when you have a 6 month old child at home and maybe she wants some time with you while baby is in bed. She just had a child. She can obviously feel the relationship is a bit rocky, too. Think about her needs and then adjust from there. Watching a Sox game on a DVR and managing a softball team should be the least of your worries. I'm old-fashioned, maybe. I've been married almost 7 years and absolutely adore my wife and do everything within reason to show her and make sure she knows it. Skipping one softball game, when clearly she's lost every Friday night to softball since you were in high school, isn't a huge loss. I probably didn't explain myself as well as I should have, but I also think you're right about trying to change priorities. She normally wants "alone time" most nights and I'm totally ok with that. When she has her alone time I take the baby downstairs and work out. The baby likes watching me do P90X and loves watching baseball (probably the green grass but whatever, it makes me happy, haha.) When she wants a bottle, I stop and give her one, when she wants to play, I make sure she's having fun.) So that's where part of my issues come with my girlfriend, she wants her alone time and I let her have it. In regards to the rehearsal, yeah that's way more important than softball, just didn't like how she told me, "Oh I guess you don't need to be here after all, you can leave for your game if you want to."

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Jul 15, 2013 -> 06:50 AM) I'm sorry, but father-in-law's wedding rehearsal >>>>>> Friday night softball. And honestly, if you both work traditional M-F schedules, I can't believe there haven't been other things in the relationship that shouldn't have taken precedence over Friday night softball. Yeah I agree that's more important than a softball game, just didn't like how she said I didn't need to be there after the rehearsal was going on. And I realize there needs to be sacrifices made.

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Jul 9, 2013 -> 10:34 AM) Bump... Has anyone ever had the problem when you're working out and losing weight that your SO tries to stop you? Or compliments your not so attractive areas in an attempt to sabotage you? I understand where you're coming from. When I started dating my girlfriend in March of last year she was aware that I work out basically every day. We moved in together in December and me working out has bothered her ever since. Especially when I record the Sox games and go downstairs to workout. It's not like I take 3 hours to watch the games, instead I take about 45 minutes to an hour, however long I make my workout that day. But my girlfriend and I are having tons of issues right now unfortunately. It's been a busy 16 months between moving in together and getting her pregnant within 2 months of dating. We have a near 6 month old daughter who I really love and so does she, but the love for each other has seem to become extremely complicated sadly. We annoy each other and get into arguments every day it seems. Plus she absolutely hates sports. Such as this past weekend, her dad was getting remarried and had a wedding rehearsal on Friday. I manage the softball team that I play on Friday nights and I hadn't missed a game since high school because of baseball, but I missed this one because of the wedding rehearsal. We went weeks arguing about me wanting to leave early to play softball and finally I gave in because I feel my relationship is more important than softball even though I hadn't missed a game in this league in 9 years. So 15 minutes before our game time she tells me that I probably didn't need to be there in the first place and if I wanted to go to softball I could, which of course pissed me off. But with our relationship now, it's just so distant. We both want to be around the baby, but I honestly think that's probably the only reason we're still together. We don't have a lot of things in common and our work schedules aren't parallel with each other and honestly right now I'm happy about that. I'm sure there's someone on this site that's been in my shoes before with this situation. I still love my girlfriend and love my baby more than I've ever loved anything, but my relationship is looking more and more bleak as the weeks go on. I'm starting to feel it's not worth dating her just because we have a baby together and it's very painful to realize that could be the only reason we're still together currently. We're planning on going to a counselor as a last chance to see if we can work this out. I suppose I'm just tired of the fights, and looking for a place to sleep once every couple weeks for the past few months. Packing my stuff to move out 2 times already too.

No hitter!!!!!!

Quentin's hit sounded more solid than it was. Just a routine fly out to left. 1 strike away.....

QUOTE (Noonskadoodle @ Jul 13, 2013 -> 11:42 PM) Dang. Lincecum with a no hitter with 2 outs in the 8th Hunter Pence just saved a hit to get Lincecum to the 9th now.