southsideirish71

Traditional Irish farmhouse cheese, made and aged at my uncles farm in Co. Kilkenny.

Defending World Champs do not pick up the Josh Foggs of the world.

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Dec 21, 2005 -> 09:29 PM) Unfortunately that is easier said than done in a lot of small communities where Wal-Mart wiped away a bunch of small businesses. Easy to say in the Chicagoland area but not the same in a small town in Montana. I have no patience for the "well if you only understood that they live in a remote area with no opportunity". Oddly my father just after I was born, packed up the family with barely nothing in his pocket moved from Ireland to the US with pretty much no money, joined the Army, got out and worked a few jobs while he went to school at night, then made sure that all of his kids got their educations and went to college. Nothing that a lot of hard work, and some vision cannot fix. You can blame the walmarts of the world, or you can better yourself and your situation. People can get their degrees or learn a trade. If you dont want to go to college, become a carpenter, electrician, pipe fitter, or something. But dont get the job at walmart and then b**** because they are not paying you enough.

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Dec 21, 2005 -> 06:57 PM) You all can think what you want but I refuse to support a company which has 5 of the richest 10 people in the world yet contribute virtually nothing to charity. On the other hand, Bill Gates contributed over 50% of his personal income to charity in 2004 alone. The Walton family represents the ultimate in greed and it makes me sick. f*** them and their greed. I'll buy my milk elsewhere. The Microsoft Corporation is definately the one you want to use for fair trade practices and the interest of the smaller corporation. Nothing like a few anti-trade suits to make you charitable. But as long as the Waltons cut a check to Unicef then they will be okay in your book.

QUOTE(Mercy! @ Dec 21, 2005 -> 05:10 PM) Me. And I'd have them on trial for war crimes at The Hague, not at our puppet trial that almost no one else in the world believes has legitimacy. Of course, I'm referring to Hussein. Who's this Bin Laden you speak of? Is he that really bad guy we used to hear so much about? Considering they found Hussein with a gun, they should of just shot him dead right there in the spiderhole, took a few pictures to prove he is dead and then kicked some dirt over him. Then we wouldnt have people in a fit that the former iraqi thug is having his poor rights trampled on. He and his kids could be having a nice reunion in hell. They should of killed Bin Laden years before when a predator had him in his gunsights. But a previous president thought that it was a law enforcement issue instead of a war issue. Bin Laden could of been killed long time ago

QUOTE(Texsox @ Dec 21, 2005 -> 05:12 PM) WalMart is the shining example of American Capitalism. They beat the world at the US retail game. Using every advantage they could muster, they became the #1 retailer. Now we see what the victor looks like, and some people are unhappy with they picture. Survival of the fittest. Mom and Pop died because they couldn't compeat. Local manufactures died, because the couldn't compeat. Walmart remains standing. As long as I can get my gallon of milk for $1.98 at Walmart instead of shelling out 4 bucks at Jewel, they can keep that model going.

QUOTE(Spiff @ Dec 21, 2005 -> 03:57 PM) Well....I had blood tests every day, I was on oxygen for about two weeks, I had a bronchoscopy and a surgical lung biopsy which led to two different chest tubes (to cure a collapsed lung), and there was a span of three or four days where all I could eat was jello and chicken broth. So now I'm pale and out of shape, but at least I'm not coughing up blood with migratory arthritis (the reason I originally went in). Hopefully you are on the road to recovery. That entire ordeal sounds like hell. Thats a lot for anyone to go through, hopefully you are starting to feel better and can start on regular food again. Rest up and get better.

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Dec 21, 2005 -> 01:09 PM) Felix Diaz and Jon Adkins are gone. Let us mourn. I was at that 16 inning game last year, when everyone pitched so nicely, and Adkins came in and was slaughtered in one inning. I wished him gone that instant. Timo, Willie Harris, Felix Diaz, and Jon Adkins, + subtractions of Viz and Marte. Its been a great offseason.

This has probably been hashed and rehashed on this thread but these rotoworld quotes let you know a few things. Colletti is aggressive and is trying to put a contender on the field this year, and has money to spend. The dodgers can afford a top tier pitcher like Garland, and could have a 72 hour window to get a long term deal done. He is a better option from a durability standpoint than Millwood, and he provides a better pitcher than Weaver ever was. The fact that they are having Appier throwing in a workout doesnt mean that he will make the team, it just means that they are open to getting pitching in any form or manner for their team. Garland to Dodgers for top tier prospects sounds like a good fit for both teams.

QUOTE(WHarris1 @ Dec 21, 2005 -> 11:52 AM) GOOD We need to ride your gift for killing players on teams. I suggest that you change your avatar to Santana of the Twins, your name to IlovePronk, and have a sig pic of Maggs, Mauer, and Nathan. Pretty much we win 120 games then and the AL central is locked up for 10 years.

There is the proof the liberals have been looking for, the torture of an enemy fighter. Thank God Ramsey Clark is there to help him out.

QUOTE(fathom @ Dec 20, 2005 -> 11:47 PM) BTW, Felix Diaz was non-tendered as well. Please a moment of silence for Mr. Diaz

QUOTE(Balance @ Dec 20, 2005 -> 02:18 PM) Hey, I know we've debated a lot of the issues that Conyers raises until we're blue in our proverbial faces. But I don't think you can simply dismiss the accusations he makes by calling him a wacko. If you think he's lying, why not show some evidence that he's lying? I think there's enough evidence in the public record to, at the very least, support an investigation into the conduct of which he's accusing the Bush administration. And Cknolls, why is it that whenever there's a serious allegation leveled against a prominent Republican, the best many Republicans can do is to try and change the subject to Clinton? He holds make believe impeachment hearings more than 6 months before he comes with this. Sure lets take that for what its worth.

QUOTE(Balance @ Dec 20, 2005 -> 02:10 PM) Southside and Nuke- lots of name-calling, not a lot of substance. Conyers talks about impeaching bosh in 2003 with the likes of Ramsey Clark and the anti-war bandwagon. He holds a mock Impeachment hearing over the summer. And now this. Sounds like an agenda and that agenda is hate and it has no substance.

QUOTE(jphat007 @ Dec 20, 2005 -> 01:41 PM) LOL. See. People like you make s*** up. Too bad it was an ERA difference of about 1.40 at the time. If you are going to try and talk s*** at least get your facts straight so you don't look like a dumbass when you do it. Actually it was the middle of August (Buerhle had a 3.07 and Santana had a (3.37). Sorry technically it was a .30 difference. They were going head to head. Buerhle gave up a bunch of runs, I made a comment in the game thread that we should have an ACE like Santana and you jumped on how Buerhle was better because at the time he had more wins and a better ERA by a small margin.

QUOTE(jphat007 @ Dec 20, 2005 -> 01:36 PM) One, I'm not anybody named Bob, so you need to get your facts straight. Two, I never said I'd rather have Buerhle over Santana. I might have said Buerhle was having a better year when Santana was sucking and Buerhle was dominating. Get your facts straight before you spout off buddy. Santana was sucking???? When was this.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Dec 20, 2005 -> 01:32 PM) Was his argument that Mark pitches better than Santana into a headwind, and because there are alot of headwinds at the Cell then he is a more effective pitcher? Actually at the time the difference between ERA was like .07. It was smaller than anything.

QUOTE(SSH2005 @ Dec 20, 2005 -> 01:26 PM) Just scanning this thread, the majority of posters think that Blalock is a better player than Crede. RockRaines doesn't really need anyone to back up his argument. Why do people take Bob seriously. JP(bob) was the one that also said last year that he would rather have Buerhle than Johan Santana because at the time Santana's Era was slightly higher and Buerhle had more wins. Santana had a lower WHIP, higher Ks and outside of JP's world everyone in baseball including Mark's mother would agree that Santana is a better pitcher. Mark B is a great guy and all but come on. I told him that if Santana was offered for Buerhle straight up, that before TR said SANTA KW would of said DEAL!!!! In game chat we had a good laugh over that one.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Dec 20, 2005 -> 12:39 PM) Representative John Conyers, Jr., Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, is unleashing a potential s*** storm. (Forewarning: It's a Raw Story link, for those of you who don't care for that outlet. They do get scoops sometimes though). Here we go the wacko liberal attempt to do what their "voting machine" couldnt. The hatred for Bush is so deep in the liberal wing of the democrats they want to impeach bush. Conyers has no credibility he is as left as you can get. The only wacko that has less is Dennis Kucinich, who is probably already jumping up and down like a muppet. Maybe they can get Ramsey Clark back from defending the enemy and we can have the entire anti-war nut group back. Conyers has been planning this for a while 2003 Conyers started to work up the impeachment crap

Lets all have a moment of silence for Timo Perez, the shortest first baseman last year. I wonder if Ozzie will return to the team after his MVP was non-tendered.

I was one of Jose's biggest detractors on the site. He always had the million dollar arm and the ten cent head. He proved me wrong, and I hope he is a member of the whitesox for a long time. 94-96 with control and that splitter, he can win 17-20 games this year if he puts it together for an entire year. Hopefully Coop can do whatever he did with Conteras and do it with Vasquez.

Great job Admin and Mod teams. Now those left wingers have no place to run or hide from the right.

QUOTE(LowerCaseRepublican @ Dec 19, 2005 -> 09:28 PM) To connect this with the ANWR energy problem, Iraq "war for oil" etc. We no longer need energy from petroleum. Just set up generators on the caskets of Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin. Their spinning will give us more energy than we can ever use. And there used to be another country that spied on people for their own protection -- those wonderful democratic countries like the former USSR or modern-day China. If you want domestic surveillance of people without 4th Amendment warrants, go live in China...and don't let the door hit your authoritarian ass on the way out. I love the outrage and the anger over something that has been going on for years. Whats the difference, one president actually admitted doing it. BTW Apu if you want to find that perfect democracy that would never ever spy on their own people, I would start by eliminating the partners in the Echelon network England, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. I am sure the French and the Russians today dont spy on their own, but then again they do. Actually outside of fairytale would you find a single country in the world, if not in modern history that hasnt performed survelliance /spying on their own people. But I guess thats ok because its not the hated George Bush. Now who is behind the biggest upgrades and push to Echelon. Was it Bush in a post 9/11 push of fear and anger. No it was President Clinton. Echelon and spying on your own people is not something new. The system was built in the 70's, and the biggest upgrad happened under Clintons watch. Only a fool would believe that this is something unique to the evil republicans and their leader George Bush cooked up. Clinton seem to love this spying thing. I guess its okay if a Dem orders the spying I wonder how many these companies gave to the Clinton campaign fund. I am pretty sure that all US presidents have acted in this manner. They have all had some sort of survelliance in some sort of manner behind the closed doors. Do you really believe that the military under FDR wasnt spying on japanese americans, or that Eisnhower or JFK didnt do the same thing. Come on. The only difference is today we have better technology. What is the difference between those presidents and Bush. Bush admits it. Why because he feels he is doing it for the best interests of the US. Just like all of the presidents before him probably thought. Get over the conspiracy theories and the "OMG MY RIGHTS ARE BEING VIOLATED". Let me sum it up for you everyone is spying on you. When you go to work and you send an email or use the computer your company is spying on you. I work as a security engineer at my company. We watch every single thing every one of our associates do(email, call detail, internet, im, fax transmissions). I can pull up an IM conversation in session, and see Jimmy trying to pick up random internet chick on company time. And everyone of our users have volunteered for this. Because they click on a little I agree icon(acceptable use policy). Then when we are firing them for surfing for porn, or sending our patents to our competitors. They cry about their rights. I am sure that most have done this at their work and dont think about it. If you use any electronic mediums to communicate you should pretty much assume that it isnt safe. Why because the government is listening to you. No because your neighbor with some smarts in electronics can spy on your cell phone calls, or your home cordless phones. Your email is open to the world, your computer probably has had some spyware on it and has sent out some of your personal information. Your web browsing is being documented probably by others. BTW make sure you triple sooper dooper shred your documents or someone will do some dumpster diving and steal your info.Yes this is the Assume the worst, and then lose the paranoia for a few minutes and put down the Orwell chronicles and figure that maybe just maybe this doesnt have anything to do with you. Are these intercepts by your neighbor, unintended personelle illegal. Yes. But you go ahead and try and catch them. You try and pinpoint someone who is passively intercepting your information. In the end this has been happening for years, stop watching "Enemy of the State" and drink a beer. Go back into the matrix neo, its ok.

QUOTE(VAfan @ Dec 19, 2005 -> 03:57 PM) I must say, I should know precisely where Crede is in the arbitration/FA cycle. I'm sure he's not a FA next year, but I assume he would be in 2 years, correct?? That being the case, if Crede eliminates his terrible months, he's going to crack 30 HRs, with an OPS in the mid-.800s. At that point, Boras is going to start demanding $8-10 million/season, and he'd certainly get it the last year of arbitration and the first year of free agency. So a 3/15 deal seems pretty reasonable for the Sox to me. Remember, we can always insure the contract in case Crede's back puts him on the DL. 5 million per for .240-.250 and 22 homers and a bad back. Crede would be a thief to get this. Wow what how much does a good hitter cost.

QUOTE(jphat007 @ Dec 19, 2005 -> 02:47 PM) KW said that Crede was doing well in the offseason and that he will be good to go. Buts its possible KW doesn't know what hes talking about. I mean he's only the GM Or he could be bluffing so he isnt making trades from a point of weakness. Texas can you please take our 3rd baseman he can barely sit up, and our pitcher wants to take FA and has his heart set on pitching for the Dodgers or Angels. Can we have Blalock please. Last year before we signed Iguchi KW was touting our 2nd baseman Willie Harris. How we were ready to go into ST with Willie as our starting 2b. Now do you think that he was saying to for our benefit or for the benefit of negotiating with Iguchi's agent.