southsideirish71

I get a kick out of how self proclaimed athiest's have to prove the there is no God. If you dont believe great, keep that little tidbit to yourself and move on. Do you really think that you are going to change everyones minds that well you are right there is no God. Keep posting the links and the other internet drivel that is out there. BTW you can also find things on the Internet like Aliens are amongst us, we didnt go to the moon, Hitler's brain is alive in Argentina, Elvis owns a 7/11 in Alaska, how to use magic to influence your friends. I am not going to try and convince you that there is a God, that is your personal decision and I respect that. I dont respect however is when you decide that the people that do believe in God are someone just misguided fools who were tricked into this belief, and that its your duty to bring us out of this trance. How noble of you. I look at it very simple. If you are right, when I die I slip into nothingness as I just die, and I dont realize the error of my misguided views. If we are right then there is something good hopefully coming in the hearafter. Now if we are right, then you have some explaining to do.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Jan 11, 2006 -> 10:52 PM) Im waiting for Kennedy to publish a book entitled...........how to kill a young girl and get away with a simple "Im Sorry". I thought he already published.... Drinking and Driving for Dummies

QUOTE(chitownsportsfan @ Jan 11, 2006 -> 10:24 PM) Hey, Jimh, did you talk to Kenny Williams last night when he was drunk? Did you visit the Oracle at Delphi? Since it's widely been acknowledged that the Sox are employing sabermetrics more than ever, lets take a look at Abreu and Vasquez and try and come to a logical conclusion regarding if "they will never trade Vasquez for Abreu". I won't go into why here, (try here: http://www.tangotiger.net/rc2.html") but OBP is the most important statistic for a hitter. It has been proven that getting on base is the single most important thing for a hitter to do as it produces the highest increase in expected runs. Moreso than average, moreso than slugging, moreso than OPS. Don't even mention RBI's please. Lets look at Abreu's OBP compared to the league average the past 3 years: .409--league: .334 .428 .343 .405 .349 Lets do some simple math to realize how much more valuable those percentages are. Compared to the avg MLB player, over 500 AB's a player with a .400 OBP will get on 200 times. A player with a .350 OBP will get on base 175 times. Now, suppose Jim Thome bats behind Abreu, he gets 25 more times to hit with a runner on. That is valuable. If look at Abreu's career statistics, they are quite good, wow, borderline HOF good. http://www.baseball-reference.com/a/abreubo01.shtml Moving on to Vasquez: the man is a victim of one stat he doesn't seem able to change: his G/F ratio. Vasquez has suffered mightily the past two seasons due to both bad luck and a bad G/F ratio. In MLB, fly balls go for homeruns roughtly 10 percent of the time. But the past two seasons fly balls became HR's 13 and 16 percent of the tiem for Vasquez. Before you hollar, "well isn't HR rate per fly something a pitcher can control?", let me point you here: http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/article/...eeks-ago/" But anyways, we all know flyballs go out at The Cell rather often, both empirically and through statistics, so when Vasques posts G/F ratio's like he has been, it's kinda scary: 2001 1.28 2002 0.94 2003 0.83 2004 0.85 2005 1.19 That aside, Javier is pretty damn good pitcher. His DIPS suggest he has been unlucky. It just scares me to see a fly ball picher at US Cellular. For these reasons, it wouldn't surprise me at all to see Vasquez in a package for Abreu. Outside of all the SABR stats being spun out. Lets get back to common sense. Why would we get rid of Vazquez when he is under control for the next few years, and Contreras is not. Are we really advocating giving Contreras 13 million a year over a few years. How old is he again. How many great years has he had. He was great in the second half of last year. He was a horse in the playoffs. However we do not have monopoly money here. If you sign Conteras for this goofy amount of money, Kiss Buerhle goodbye. Because how much do you think your best horse is going to cost you. I would rather spend that type of money on Buerhle over spending it on Contreras.

Titanic & Clinton Book Study Class Students were assigned to read 2 books, "Titanic" & "My Life" by Bill Clinton. One student turned in the following book report, with the proposition that they were nearly identical stories! His professor gave him an A+ for this report: Titanic:..... $29.99 Clinton:..... $29.99 Titanic:..... Over 3 hours to read Clinton:..... Over 3 hours to read Titanic:..... The story of Jack and Rose, their forbidden love, and subsequent catastrophe. Clinton:..... The story of Bill and Monica, their forbidden love, and subsequent catastrophe. Titanic:..... Jack is a starving artist. Clinton:..... Bill is a bulls*** artist. Titanic:..... In one scene, Jack enjoys a good cigar. Clinton:..... Ditto for Bill. Titanic:..... During ordeal, Rose's dress gets ruined. Clinton:..... Ditto for Monica. Titanic:..... Jack teaches Rose to spit. Clinton:..... Let's not go there. Titanic:..... Rose gets to keep her jewelry. Clinton:..... Monica's forced to return her gifts. Titanic:..... Rose remembers Jack for the rest of her life. Clinton:..... Clinton doesn't remember Jack. Titanic:..... Rose goes down on a vessel full of seamen. Clinton:..... Monica..., let's not go there, either. Titanic:..... Jack surrenders to an icy death. Clinton:..... Bill goes home to Hilary...basically the same thing.

Classic looking Deploderer, I like it.. Very clean, nice font, very professional looking.

Youngest member of the chat crew

QUOTE(WilliamTell @ Jan 10, 2006 -> 12:58 PM) lol shucks I wish I would've seen it. Those boards are Bush League compared to this one though. I remember those guys always used to complain about soxtalk and when soxtalk passed the ESPN White Sox board in total posts everyone was pissed off. I laughed about it and had to check out soxtalk but I didn't become a member for a longtime. My favorite poster there was Bridgeport Joe and Chisox361 always made me laugh. I haven't seen either of them over there for a long time now. BPJ hasnt been on the site in years. The reason you wont see 361 is he is only there when Frank is playing. Chisox361 was not a sox fan, he is a fan of Frank. He would start fights with the twink fans over the bad calls going against Frank. Anything that Frank hit in the air was a screaming line drive. Grounders were only caught by stretched out amazing plays that were Alomaresque. All strikeouts were dirty umps who had a grudge against him. All fly balls were almost out of there, only to be held up by gale force winds that appear only when Frank hits a popout.

Is the defender of all things Mike Caruso.

QUOTE(Wong & Owens @ Jan 10, 2006 -> 01:25 PM) It's not arrogant, it's the truth. You spend years and years sending missionaries down to these countries where people have no food, no rights no shelter, etc. And show them some kindness by providing food, medicine, etc.(which is a great thing and kudos to those respective religious groups for their generosity) and they will believe in whatever religion you teach them, because you've given them the only hope they have. Why is it that all these countries are churning out huge number of catholics/christians, but no buddhists or hindus or taoists? It must be all of the Islamic missonaries giving out sandwiches that is making it the fastest growing religion on earth. Your statements are ignorant at best. I understand that you are a "recovering" catholic and for whatever reason you feel its in the best interest of everyone to s*** on Catholics and the church in general but find a new act. The only way you know about missonaries is if you travelled with them, and worked directly with them. Just because they glossed over it in class doesnt mean that you have the working knowledge of how it works. And this is my 16 years of Catholic Schools telling me this. 22 years of catholic schools huh, you must have your doctorate.

QUOTE(Wong & Owens @ Jan 10, 2006 -> 11:45 AM) And we won't, eventually: http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/20060109/...nA2BHNlYwM3NDI- Think that won't happen here at some point? Got news for you, it already is, right or wrong. Well nice quote there Frenchy. Maybe he should of said the majority, or some or whatever. Unfortunately he has never been to Ireland where religion is part of society. Where religion has been in the government for years. Where as of today religion is still how many Irish identify themselves. I dont see Ireland waning due to the fact that the religion is still the identity of the Irish today.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Jan 10, 2006 -> 10:52 AM) ^^ That's almost exactly how I got here... I wonder if Boog has had the balls to show his face for the last 4 months? Actually he seemed to have died since the World Series win. Veeky/ESPN john shows up from time to time. They have mods now, the one of the whitesox board is rdivaldi I think.

I was raised on the Southside of Chicago, I am Irish and the 71 is my birth year. I have been using this handle on message boards since 2000 when I broke my whitesox message board cherry with ESPN. After dealing with sensless cub trolls and the king of trolls Boog I found my way like a lot of ex-ESPN'ers to the hallowed grounds of soxtalk.

This is something that the baseball prospectus people should enter in on their formula. Julio Zuleta is a triple crown threat in Japan. End of simulation.

His avatar has a stunning resemblance to my 4th grade Teacher Sister Mary Pat, except Sister Mary was a bit more scary.

Word to the wise on this one. Dont get into a debate with a teacher unless you want to see it in your grades. A healthy debate is good, however with politics and religion keep your views out of the teachers heads. Only if your view and the teachers view match will you survive without issue. I had a Christian Ethics class at St Xavier. You have to take two religion classes and my friend told me he was in this class and it was all girls, except for 2 guys. Stupid me didnt put two and two together so I signed up. I couldnt get over the fact that ratio of hot girls in the class, it seemed like a win win. The teacher was definately a man hater. To start the class of you had to say In the name of the creator, the redeamer and the holy spirt. I asked her why cant we say Father son holy spirt. She told me I was trained by a sexist society who trounces the views of women. I told myself, well keep your yap shut, memorize the material take good notes and you will be ok. Nothing could be further from the truth. There was a midterm and a final. I memorized the information for the midterm. I scored a nice D+ on my midterm, while the girl next to me who never showed up got an A. It was a essay test. Now I took my answers directly from the book and from the notes. However the girl, In her example of ethics issues and how they plague the bible. She stated, "Mary was a virgin, but they called her a prostitute later. How can the mother of Jesus be a prostitute. That is an ethics issue and sexist." Yup one grossly inaccurate line of crap, Mary the mother of Jesus and Mary Magdallen the prostitute are two seperate people, however she got an A. I just asked her if I could borrow her test so I could see how she did so good, made a copy as we were beyond drop date and took it with my D+ final to the dean and oddly I got a B in the class. The other guy in the class who didnt drop it got his overturned also. Nice bottle of man hate to go with your catholic college.

QUOTE(kyyle23 @ Jan 9, 2006 -> 04:52 PM) yay for threads that feature scantily clad pictures of Lisa Dergen! Too bad I can't post the good ones.

A couple of cub fan quotes responding to the trade of CPAT. LOL

QUOTE(bmags @ Jan 9, 2006 -> 04:23 PM) if kw made this trade i would riot.... lisa dergan is the only untouchable on this team Actually she looks very touchable to me.....

QUOTE(samclemens @ Jan 9, 2006 -> 03:02 PM) The Phills will easily swap Abreu for Lisa Dergan. What do you all think, yea or nay? p.s. there is nothing to talk about in baseball right now, I need the season to start No to that trade. I would rather have Lisa Dergan, unless you traded us Carmen Electra, and a McCarthy girl to be named later.

QUOTE(Steve Bartman's my idol @ Jan 9, 2006 -> 01:41 PM) Muslims that want Israel destroyed??? Who'd have thunk it? :banghead This pretty much tells you that this is not about a claim to an area or their right to return. Because even after phase 1 happens, you know the Israel driven into the sea and the infadels run out of the middle east. We then move on to phase 2, which speaks volumes to what the real agenda of the terrorists are, to install Sharia everywhere in the world. Everything is Islamic or you die. So for all of the liberals who think that this is just about giving the terrorists a bit of land in Israel, or the right to return. They basically want the destruction of all things not muslim and will call for Jihad until the world is one big Islamic Fundamentalist state.

QUOTE(DonkeyKongerko @ Jan 9, 2006 -> 12:06 PM) Another horrible outing by our starting pitching, but the bullpen and offense comes through. We're still undefeated on the road this postseason. Crede 4 MVP!! http://baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=4695 God our starting pitching sucks in this simuluation. Garland last only 1.2 innings and gives up a 5 spot. Hermanson and his bad back are running out of the pen, while Uncle Cliff is riding the pine.

A few years ago, the Twins had Johan Santana in their pen in long relief. At the time he was much better than their fifth starter. Fans wanted him in the rotation. They eased him along due to their pitching depth. Now Bmac is most likely not a Johan Santana. But if we have to deal with Bmac in the pen for this year, its not a bad thing. Mark Buerhle was in the pen his first year. Ask yourself this, would of Bmac prefered to be up with the big club pitching in whatever role or starting every 5 days for the Knights. I think he will be okay with his spot and it will help out.

QUOTE(FGarcia34 @ Jan 7, 2006 -> 06:47 PM) Sounds like we need a new player to drool over. And so with a loud thunderous sound Abreutalk was born.

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Jan 7, 2006 -> 02:03 PM) I stand by that opinion. But you do convey a "feeling" from peoples post, and then stand by it just after you posted the above. I see the logic now. :banghead You should run for congress.

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Jan 7, 2006 -> 01:59 PM) Unfortunately posting on a message board doesn't convey feeling. I did not 'snap'. I am not shaking with anger. Just providing my viewpoints and opinions. I respect yours. I hope you respect mine. Maybe then you should can the "I just got back from San Antonio where my daughter lives. I didn't get such a blatantly racist vibe that I am getting from this thread. " It reads a bit like you are conveying feeling from others.