Leonard Zelig

Catbird seat

Where are they playing? There's nobody there.

QUOTE (fathom @ Mar 6, 2009 -> 03:08 PM) Chris Snelling I guess Dave Nilsson isn't walking through that door! Isn't Balfour Australian?

Does Australia have any major league players?

QUOTE (scenario @ Mar 5, 2009 -> 03:50 PM) Carney Lansford Thank you.

What's Kroeger's defense like?

QUOTE (Jimmywins1 @ Mar 5, 2009 -> 03:00 PM) Anyone know who's pitching this game? Marquez is starting.

QUOTE (Cali @ Mar 5, 2009 -> 02:56 PM) Oh yeah it's the f***ing Cubs broadcasters AGAIN! They couldn't have switched for game 2? The whole Vegas trip is the Cubs' thing. Our guys are probably doing the other game anyway.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Mar 5, 2009 -> 11:14 AM) Only if you're high. Which he likely is. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Does anybody remember who it was that said that Nix was the second best defensive 2B he had ever seen play?

NIce find, I think I am gong to like Beckham.

QUOTE (shipps @ Mar 4, 2009 -> 12:43 PM) I know in these economic times I shouldnt complain about my job cause I should be thankful......but what the f***?! This place is a f***ing circus today and now Iam crying as I am typing. hohum How can you complain about a job where you spend the whole day on Soxtalk?

Not really MLB news, but the guy who was traded for ten bats last year died of a drug overdose. Link

So the over under for wins is 78.5, but their odds for winning the pennant is 4-1? Something is off there.

QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ Mar 3, 2009 -> 08:20 AM) Sure, but you're arguing two sides of the same coin. Without something. . . anything better than the hair band drek, that's what the labels would have kept signing and ramming down people's throats for as long as they could have gotten away with it. The Beach Boys could have put it on autopilot and mailed it in for several more years if the Beatles hadn't come along when they did and give pop music an alternative. Exactly, anyway, I didn't say they killed hair metal, there are people out there still doing it because there are people who will still buy it. They did turn the tide of what was popular rock at the time and for the better, in my opinion.

QUOTE (bmags @ Mar 2, 2009 -> 10:39 PM) he did say 'if' I like how we are jumping all over duke for stating that nirvana isn't that likeable to people our age and that U2 is currently awful. these are two pretty standard opinions. moving on. You have to realize that at that time there was no internet, no itunes, no myspace, no youtube or anything. Independent music was a whole lot harder to find back then. You had the radio and MTV. Nirvana pretty much single handedly saved popular rock music from the hair metal bands. You guys may not like them, but you have plenty to thank them for.

Where did you see this?

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Mar 2, 2009 -> 08:01 PM) It's OK to not like Nirvana. If there is an end-all-be-all to music they certainly aren't it. Let me guess, it's the Hold Steady, right?

QUOTE (lostfan @ Mar 1, 2009 -> 03:48 PM) Please elaborate. Generally, I'm pretty hands-off in here especially with the regulars, except when people get to sniping one another and being snarky or spilling arguments into inappropriate threads. Please don't tell me that the mods and admins only enforce the rules on a particular set of political orientations though because there is no credibility to that statement whatsoever. I wasn't meaning to attack any mods, and I didn't mean politics had anything to do with it. I just meant that sometimes things are OK to say and sometimes they get a warning, so it's not always clear to everybody what is acceptable. You used to not be able to call something "gay" and now apparantly you can. Not that I am offended by it, it is just an example of an inconsistancy.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 1, 2009 -> 03:14 PM) Please be careful with your ad hominem stuff (calling someone "ignorat"), which is against the rules. Please make sure you have read the MUST READ thread pinned in this forum, and if you haven't, post your acknowledgement in it. Further, I'd caution you about your blanket statements about religious believers as well. The religion is one thing, but, you are also sometimes targeting all those who believe, and labeling them as pathetic or ignorant. Its a personal attack, and should be avoided. I would just like to point out that you guys (mods. & admins) are pretty selective on who you decide to call out on the "rules".

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Feb 28, 2009 -> 11:33 PM) I know Mike Shannon (broadcaster) had a restaurant (or still has) in St. Louis downtown...not sure if the Bucks were a partner or not. Does Ozzie Guillen have one? He's about the only Sox player I think who could compete with Ozzie Smith in terms of popularity. MAYBE Willie McGee or Joe McEwing. If never seemed to the be the kind of thing someone like McDowell, Ventura (I know they spend most of their time in Cali now), Fisk, Baines, etc., would have much of an interest in...and opening it in the teeth of a recession doesn't seem like wise timing for new bars and restaurants. Ozzie Smith, Albert Pujols, Mike Shannon, The Bucks, Al Hrabosky, and Jim Edmonds all have places in St. Louis that are still open.

QUOTE (knightni @ Feb 28, 2009 -> 08:20 PM) Yeah, it will suck only doing 3 lesson plans a week as opposed to 5 and finishing the school year on May 15. The classes in your proposed schedule are way too long for middle school students.

Still Around New Comiskey/US Cellular Wrigley Turner Fenway Tropicana Kaufman New Busch Bank One Goners Comiskey Park County Stadium Old Busch

QUOTE (Jimbo's Drinker @ Feb 25, 2009 -> 05:11 PM) Calm down people, day 1

Middle School Education--Math