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they hold the single-season championships record for 2005.

sox gear is scarce out here. pretty much the only supporters are transplants like myself, or reds fans who hate the indians.

QUOTE(chimpy2121 @ May 8, 2006 -> 11:32 AM) I write, throw a frisbee and eat with my left, but I throw a baseball/football and bat with my right. ^ditto i also take care of personal business with the left.

myself and my daughter and my cousin and her daughter:

"the teal jedi" lmfao!

QUOTE(RockRaines @ May 5, 2006 -> 03:22 PM) God damn thats a great matchup. Oden will slap those hoes. i've heard matta is also trying to schedule a game at florida next year.

contreras has just been unbelieveable for awhile now. with all he's went through it's great to see him have this level of success.

q and a with illinois recruit eric gordon

having grown up on the south side, i've been well-versed in the sox-cubs debate since pretty much i can remember. in 1984 i actually rooted for the cubs, although that was probably for the same reason i was a bon jovi fan for a time. i was young, had bad taste and just didn't know any better. after the cubs choked in 84 i pretty much swore off that s***. for a long, long time i was a big-time cub hater. it seemed at every juncture of my life there were cub fans around raving about gary scott, kevin orie, etc. etc. that s*** was irritating as f***. these days, i'm more indifferent. i've met and know a lot of cub fans who know their baseball, guys who i respect and know play against the cub fan stereotype. but, i will never root for them. ever. and i'm comfortable with that.

manny does yardwork. bosox up 8-5. indian bullpen imploding again.

QUOTE(SouthSidePride05 @ Apr 25, 2006 -> 06:51 PM) My sister's family just moved to the Chicagoland area, and they had been living in North Dakota for the past 10 years. My brother in law was happy to move back to Chicago because he's a big sports fan, but what bothers me the most is he thinks it's ok to be both a Cubs and Sox fan. He thinks everyone in Chicago follows both teams and just jumps on the bandwagon of the team that's playing better. I went over to their house recently for my nephew's birthday and the kid was wearing a Cubs hat. Then later that week my bro in law took me to a Sox game, and he had nothing nice to say about the experience. It pissed me off because he was ripping on everything from "This is a shame, this place should be full on a half price night" to "So many people here are way too drunk, this is ridiculous". On the drive home, we passed a beat up car full of high school students who were mostly hammered and making a scene, and he said "I guarantee those losers were at the game". Overall, he had a bad experience and even commented something about there's nothing like historic Wrigley. He also thought it was "retarded" that the crowd booed Cub fans dressed in Cub gear. He just doesn't get it. He follows both teams and flips between the 2 when they're on tv at the same time. Should I give up? Or is there a way I can convince him to pick 1 team. He keeps forgetting that I hate the Cubs and thinks I follow them too; I'm just a Sox fan because they're the World Champs. The whole family's driving me crazy.. and to think I have to babysit again tonight! anyone who goes to a sox game and spends the whole time talking about attendance, who's drinking what, and anything other than the game is not a sox fan.

QUOTE(False Alarm @ Apr 25, 2006 -> 07:48 PM) did mel kiper coin, or just popularize, the word "tweener"? regardless, i love him for it. no, i think that was alexis arquette...

QUOTE(Cuck the Fubs @ Apr 25, 2006 -> 05:38 PM) It says he won't face criminal charges correct. if he enters and completes the diversion program (community service, counseling, etc.) this will not go on his record. still, he has to show better judgment than this. this stuff is unacceptable.

not too sharp of a move

i've actually started to like mel a lot more listening to his work on espnradio every saturday. i think he has a pretty decent sense of humor and presents valid arguments for his opinions. in terms of his talent evaluating, it's hit or miss. but really, what evaluator isn't? general managers blow it every year and they're supposed to be the real experts. this is such an inexact science, that those "in the know" are bound to be wrong a lot. the only thing i don't like about mel is the fact he eats pumpkin pie for breakfast every morning. that's just downright weird.

he gone mayo has recently visited oak hil academy.

QUOTE(Soxbadger @ Apr 24, 2006 -> 11:46 PM) Did not say he wouldnt make them better. I did say he would not have made a difference. To me keeping games close is not a "difference". A difference would be if he made the Illini bowl contenders, which he would not have. well, i'll take your point of clarification. but to me, saying a player would "not have made any difference on the illini" is pretty definitive. i said initially that i did not think he would have made them contenders. but any difference? if the illini got one more win i think it's a difference, from a fan's standpoint at least.

QUOTE(Soxbadger @ Apr 24, 2006 -> 09:26 PM) Cutler benefited greatly from the SEC having a down year, especially in the defense department. Also he never put up more than 300 yards in a game where the other team did not score over 20 points. That generally means that he got to throw 80%-90% of the time. If you compare his 2004 when he only threw for 2k yards, he actually had a better QB rating. In my opinion, Cutler would of been roughed up bad in the Big 10, where they are not going to let the game turn into a track meet. i'm no huge fan of cutler and think he's a bit overhyped right now. but is he better than the guys illinois's been running out there at quarterback the past few years? it's not even close. tim brasic wouldn't start for most mac teams. to say illinois wouldn't have been better last year with jay cutler rather than with tim brasic is just plain wrong, imo.

QUOTE(Soxbadger @ Apr 24, 2006 -> 08:10 PM) Cutler would not have made any difference on the Illini. well, that's debateable. would illinois have been a league title contender with cutler? probably not. would they have been more competitive? i think so. granted, defensively they still would have been horrid, but i think they'd at least had a capable offense that could keep games close, which was not the case with beutjer, pazan, brasic, bower, etc.

QUOTE(GoSox05 @ Apr 24, 2006 -> 07:56 PM) what an idiot. I love when people show how old and out of date they are. Does he still got that stupid Mustache yep. and he's still a douchebag of the highest order. he's no walt frazier, that's for sure.

well, at least we got matt dlugolecki. :banghead

"looks like no play for mr. gray"

really, to me the lack of aa baseball players is just representative of the fact that kids in general are not playing the game the way they did. there's many reasons for this, most of them brought up here. i think one of the biggest reasons is baseball's a difficult game to play without a fair amount of kids. when i was growing up it was nothing to get eight-10 kids and play a game of whiffleball. i can't say that's the same today. another factor is that baseball is an incredibly nuanced game. football, basketball and soccer are all based on similar "protect my territory" elements. baseball is completely different from that, and sometimes i wonder if kids have the attention span for it. lastly, i think major league baseball has done a horrible job of marketing the sport to a younger age demographic. every time it seems they try to go that route, they come across like the creepy, out-of-touch old guy down the block who's always telling you to stay off his lawn. i think they are getting better, but in general they still run behind the curve. i think if major league baseball wants to do a better job of marketing to kids, they ought to place a call to brooks boyer. the sox have done it the right way, imo.

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