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QUOTE (Flash Tizzle @ May 6, 2008 -> 08:38 PM) THE DOLLS WORKED! HAHAHAHA Atleast we'l have something legitimate to distract the media off that non story from earlier today. Rally Dolls. This years Rally Crede.

Our starting pitching has been nails. Hopefully the offense decides to wake up for a while. I was hoping the kid would do it, but 2 times this year he has had no hit stuff. Nice game all around.

QUOTE (Linnwood @ May 6, 2008 -> 05:31 PM) More from Cowley: Nice cover. Posting that black tuesday is coming, and the reaper is coming and naming players is bad journalism. What a pile of dung this was from a reporting standpoint.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ May 6, 2008 -> 04:49 PM) Uribe is in the lineup for tonights game FWIW. Cowley is working quickly towards full bombarder status.

QUOTE (Texsox @ May 6, 2008 -> 04:29 PM) So you are defending the doll based on there being worse things out there? And comparing the doll to a triple rape? OK. I'm done. I do not have any response to logic like that. I am done with this as well. Its a doll, get over it. If the team or mlb have something to say then it makes a difference. But this over analysis of a silly act is amazing.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ May 6, 2008 -> 04:21 PM) You're just deflecting the argument. You claimed that kids, your son in particular, would not be exposed to this story because it's all about going to the game and focusing on the 25 man roster that day. My story had a caveat. I didnt know of any children that listened to the media and that they worried about the team in particular and the results however that they would be exposed to worse off things if they did enter the media stream.

QUOTE (Texsox @ May 6, 2008 -> 04:21 PM) Are you suggesting that because there was a triple rape in Lincoln Park, that we should allow any behavior less reprehensible than that? No there is outrage based on the poor child that could hear the story. I suggest listening to he news/radio or surfing the net can find you a whole bag of worms that is worse than the Doll story.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ May 6, 2008 -> 04:16 PM) Really? When I was growing up I would run down the street each morning and pick up a Trib or Sun Times to read the baseball stats and game results. This is when I was in 3rd and 4th grade. You're telling me that kids today can't easily go to ESPN.com or other sites on the web to follow their favorite team? And what story will offend them more. The story of the plastic doll with a bat with no more than a basic description of the act. Or the front page story of the triple rape in Lincoln Park. Hell a few years back we had a president who decided to drop some DNA on a blue dress that was more offensive than this. And the internet, good luck with that. If this is the worst thing they see they are lucky.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ May 6, 2008 -> 04:09 PM) I can with 100% certainty say that TexSox would not have cared at all about this had the Sox not violated the female reporter's rights and had this viewable to the media, thus leaking the story and effecting the view of this franchise and getting a story about blow up dolls on the radio that could be heard by children. He's not a champion for dolls rights. What child is listening to Sports Radio/News. Trust me there is a hell of a lot that you will hear on there that will get questions asked before the plastic doll question. If we are so worried about the child's ears, then I suggest you turn the radio down, and find something a bit more less riskee.

QUOTE (Texsox @ May 6, 2008 -> 03:59 PM) It's extreme to expect adults to act in a manner that the youngest fans can view? I dont understand this. When I take my son to a baseball game its the game on the field. The same as my dad did when he took me. We dont stroll into the dugout, hang out with the ballplayers, and dive into that life. The team to me is about the 25 guys on the field playing the game. All of the other crap doesnt involve me, doesnt involve my son and we move on. I dont know what child listens to sports radio or the news in general, so we can eliminate that outlet as a possible influence. Well unless Disney or Boomerang starts to break into Mickey Mouse's Playhouse with Inflatable Doll stories. On the news tonight there will be a short quick blurb about it on TV. Now if I am worried about the Plastic Doll story, dont worry the triple murder and the serial rapist stories will distract him enough to render that pointless. This has nothing to do with the influence of children and is such a non story from that standpoint.

QUOTE (knightni @ May 6, 2008 -> 02:08 PM) Any more posting of pictures of blowup dolls, naked cartoons etc. gets you 10 days. This is your only warning. That was a cartoon that was printed in a public newspaper. So we are censoring beyond what a public newspaper can sell anyone for 50 cents.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ May 6, 2008 -> 02:03 PM) Therein lies the disconnect. It effects any female professional who ever hopes to step into a baseball clubhouse to do her job reporting. What's more likely to happen in a club house. 1.) And inflatable doll appears with a bat in the backside. 2.) Mr Snake and his two friends makes an appearance in the towel show. 3.) A player invites a girl to interview Mr. Snake and the twins in a more private location. I would say that out of that list, number 1 is the least offensive and number 1 is the least likely to happen.

QUOTE (Texsox @ May 6, 2008 -> 01:51 PM) They both are bad. The obvious joke because someone had to go buy the doll, position the doll, and stick the bats. Players have been fined for flashing reporters. And in a world that people are tortured and murdered everyday, should we really use the lowest denominator to determine what is acceptable behavior? Why prosecute stealing when other people are murdering? Why prosecute stealing a stereo when other people steal cars? It's a terrible argument to make. Wow where do you get the straw to build one that big.

QUOTE (Texsox @ May 6, 2008 -> 01:40 PM) I am sitting here trying to understand the logic If you are a company where the public will never see your employees, blow dolls with bats in the butts is bad. If you are a company where this will be publicized all over the world, which spends millions marketing to families and young kids, it's ok? This may be the first time Sox fans have really surprised me. To defend that kind of image for our team just doesn't make sense. What is worse Tex, the plastic blow up dolls that are an obvious joke, or the amount of penis that they may see during a walk through after the game.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ May 6, 2008 -> 01:39 PM) They arent even close to the same thing, which is why making a big deal out of this is ridiculous and is an obvious outlet for the frustration of losing. Clubhouses and locker rooms do many things that arent even close to what are acceptable in a working environment, thats because they ARENT THE SAME THING. Dont you have these issues at your work Rock. 1999 Wall Street Journal article, retired NFL defensive end Reggie White wrote that he couldn't see a legitimate reason "for forcing male athletes to walk around naked in front of women who aren't their wives." White claimed to have seen female reporters "ogling guys in the locker room," and encouraged players to fight against equal access for female reporters.

QUOTE (Texsox @ May 6, 2008 -> 11:26 AM) When Thome missed an appearnce to promote the team because of a family obligation everyone fawned over him and shouted the atta boys. No one complained the press should not have reported it. The team was promoting that wholesome family man image. Now, it appears that some of you do not want the press to print anything negative, so are you demanding the press misleads the public? You know, when I think of a paper promoting the sox and their core values Immediately the Suntimes comes to mind. Jay, Greg and Carol print lots of articles fluffing the sox. It happens all the time. In fact I hear that Jay and JR have dinner all the time as well.

I think I found the reporter that ratted out the sox on this. He wrote a poem about it and used Dolphin safe tuna as well.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ May 6, 2008 -> 09:28 AM) Sexual assault on a boat=typical clubhouse antics Ah yes, I see the similarity And what is going to get more questions from the 7 year old boy. Is it, what is a plastic doll or is it, why is Brian Anderson dressed like Cinderella and why is Boone Logan wearing a pink purse.

QUOTE (YASNY @ May 6, 2008 -> 09:46 AM) I don't what your definition of a man is, but I can think of several very solid men whose manhood would not be questioned by anybody with half a brain who would be offended such a vulgar display. You've got kids that look up to these guys and a franchise that pushes a family atmosphere at the Cell. Not only is this wrong, but it's very wrong. The family atmosphere is the product on the field. I am sure that the parents of the kids who look up to these guys would be equally offended by their language, and their partying on the road, and with some infidelity over a stunt with a doll.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ May 6, 2008 -> 08:46 AM) Brilliant argument. I could poll 100 guys and what one guy out of the hundred might be offended by blow up dolls.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ May 6, 2008 -> 08:44 AM) Dude it's completely different than that and I don't know why that's hard to understand. There isn't a national media following Jimmy in his cube, this is a baseball team that makes a lot of money because of the exposure provided by the media. During designated times, reporters are allowed to conduct interviews, and not allowing women in would be limiting their hireability as reporters when everything should be fair and equal. It's not like these sexed up female reporters are roaming the locker room looking for piles of cock, they are coming in to do their job to better their careers and to go home to their families. They needn't be subjected to blow up dolls at their place of work. Take a blow up doll into your workplace and stick some pens in it and see how long you last before your canned. You can't compare one activity in the workplace to another. If I intercept electronic communication its called me doing my job. If you do it in accounting you can go to jail. Remember them spraying champagne and drinking beer after the WS. Can you do that at your job, no matter what happened, NO. Its called a unique workplace.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ May 6, 2008 -> 08:42 AM) Here's an idea. How about the locker room should be a locker room, and keep ALL the press out of it? They want interviews, they can do them in a green room outside the locker room. The locker room should be a sanctuary of sorts. I don't think press should be in there at all, except maybe for the once-a-year champagne popping when they win a pennant. ^^^^^ This is perfect.

QUOTE (Texsox @ May 6, 2008 -> 08:41 AM) Wow, PC crap? yeah, if them broads, n-s, w-ps, sp-s, and j-ps, can't take a joke, f*** 'em. The all-male, anti-broad, blow up doll team!

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ May 6, 2008 -> 08:40 AM) So women can't be sports reporters now? During DESIGNATED TIMES women of course should be allowed in because of their profession. If you want to stop that, that's discrimination. And I don't think I'm pushing it that perhaps a few male sports reporters might feel uncomfortable with it as well. If a guy was offended by that I would suggest they check in their man card.

QUOTE (Texsox @ May 6, 2008 -> 08:36 AM) Unless you work in a strip club or adult book store, you would not be allowed to bring a sex doll to work and display it at your desk. I'm with Steve, grow the hell up and act like adult men of 35 not some drunk college guy. Well are women allowed in your locker room at the heatlh club, no. I have a solution, kick the women out of the locker room if they are overly offended. This is a game the guys are playing. Lets not apply the same rules that Jimmy in his cube gets to the 15 million dollar a year guy who swings a bat at a ball.