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QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 8, 2011 -> 06:56 PM) SoxAce, you can't keep Danks around and pay him superstar money....not with Dunn, Peavy and Rios still on the payroll. This is going to have to be a return to the pre-2005 thinking again. How can they split/allocate resources so you can get 4-8 players to contribute for the same amount of money you'd pay Buehrle and/or Danks. You've also got to make a decision about trading Carlos Quentin to free up more salary room, because he's one of the most tradeable assets in the current market for power hitters. Reed better have some totally nasty, dominating stuff that you would project him over Santos at this point. 17/20 save conversion rate is about as good as Bobby Jenks ever put up for us. But yeah, if you build around the core of Konerko, Beckham, Ramirez and Viciedo, that's a pretty good start. And we've got some new pitching assets in Humber and possibly even Hector Santiago, along with Sale. Christian Marrero seems doomed to the same fate as David Cook and Maurice Gartrell with our organization. konerko is not a good start on a rebuilding team.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Jul 8, 2011 -> 09:06 PM) Well then agree to extremely disagree, because I'm not going to sit here and try to argue who knows this girl more, me or some people on a message board. Just because I am infatuated with this girl does not mean I don't see her with flaws. She is f***ed up in a lot of ways, but I would never characterize her as a whore/slut/hooker etc. I'm not budging on that, and in the scheme of things here, it's not even the issue at hand. you don't see it yet, but you're head over heels for this floozy. anyone who's that easy to get naked has slut tendencies. sorry to break it to you. you may think you know this girl but you don't know all that much. and I'd say the behavior has a lot to do with the conversation.

Honestly, if this team doesn't plan on letting go of the coaching staff outside of Don, then I blow up the entire thing. You probably wouldn't be able to move Dunn. You have an outside chance at moving Rios. Danks, Buehrle, and Humber(if you can get someone to overpay for him) Konerko, Beckham, Pierre, Pierzynski, Quentin and Rios also gone. I want Viciedo up and I want to obtain the best prospects by far. Not even positional fits, but literally, just the best prospects we can get.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jul 8, 2011 -> 02:29 PM) This is all a bunch of crap. Unless you are a female that has been through something like that then don't make it sound like it's so easy to turn in your father. There are a million things going through someone's head in that scenario. "Will my father go to prison?" ""Will my family be torn apart?" "Will anyone believe me?" and so on. Don't make it sound like it's the same as turning in a shoplifter that you spotted. All I'm going to say is that as many girls who have actually suffered through such a horrendous experience, there are a ton of girls out there who lie about the situation and eventually start believing in that lie. I'm not going to harp on it anymore. QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Jul 8, 2011 -> 02:41 PM) Yeah, I completely believe her. Her mom left her when she was young, and was forced to live with her dad. What would happen if the only person that takes care of her went to jail? Orphanage? She is a very truthful person in my experience. Like I said before, she tells her boyfriend everything and was breaking down at my house because of how guilty she felt about the pool situation, and how she was going to explain it to him. I told her doesn't have to go in to details, but she said she never lies to him and will have to tell him or she will never sleep. I haven't talked to her very much at all since Wednesday night, but I'd imagine she has already told him about what happened. And no, I never asked her about what happened in depth. Not only do I not want her to have to relive those memories in front of me, and probably result in her breaking down, but I don't want to know details of s*** like that either. And she DOES tell me a lot of things. She has told me things that, according to her, only me and her boyfriend know about. She just feels completely trusting in me I guess. I had no reason to think this is making up horror stories for fun. That right there just sounds like she's pinning you against him, even if you don't want to be. I'm sure he doesn't either. She does all this stuff with you, then tells her boyfriend to make him jealous and give her more attention, even if negative which she wants, then goes to you, talks about how horrible the bf is, and you give her good attention. She gets the best of both worlds. And I guarantee, she does this with other guys before you and after you.

QUOTE (kjshoe04 @ Jul 8, 2011 -> 02:55 PM) Yeah, she told me how the last time one of his friends dated her that she broke up with him and he gave her the cold shoulder for almost a year so as long as I'm the one getting hurt, I shouldn't have to lose my friend. Plus, it's generally always me getting hurt with women so I got that going for me. Chipper up pal. You got something potentially going. Just ride the wave and let it leave you where it may.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Jul 8, 2011 -> 02:22 AM) She's not a slut, hooker, skeezer, whore, or floozy, and I 100% believe she has been sexually abused/raped whatever by her father. I'm sorry, but I know her a lot more than you do, so don't be surprised that I would take exception to people calling her such names and accusing her of lying about things like that. She is no angel, and could very quite possibly just be playin' me, but it's not fair to say those other things. Okedoke. You're entitled to have your opinion. Did she ever file a police report? Did she ever go ahead and tell any authoritative figure? Did she ever do anything about it? I'm going to guess the answer is no. And I bet it's going to be some typical response "Well, he's my dad" or "Who was I going to tell?" or even better "What could I have done about it?" Unless she was locked away somewhere(which does happen in this cruel world), she has no excuse. Yes, it may be her dad, but it's also her body. And if she felt she couldn't tell anybody, why would she tell you out of all people? What makes you so special? Even more special than her current bf who she trashes with you, but in secret, tells him how much she loves him. What could she have done about it? A ton. She may have very well been abused, but based on this girl's makeup, she wasn't. But if you ever question her about it, she won't want to answer about it. And she believes in her own lie so much she'll stick to it. That's not just from my experiences with these type of girl, but from my brothers' and friends' experiences. I had other girls telling me this at the time as well. You may not want to hear about it, but reality bites. QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Jul 8, 2011 -> 02:27 AM) Oh, and she has yet to send me a text since the "I feel you so hard" text earlier in the day. I think she either A) Has already gotten the hint I am pissed off , B) Is so embarrassed by what happened last night C) My buddy told her I was pissed off (they worked together tonight) or D) Just hasn't gotten around to it for the first time since we started constantly texting each other over a month ago. Regardless, I still keep thinking about everything. Had a softball game tonight, saw a massive barn fire in my neighborhood, went to a friends bonfire and then watched some Louie CK to take my mind off things, but almost every spare moment I had and my mind was wandering, I was thinking about her and what is going to happen. This blooooowwwwsss. It was probably a combination of A, B, and C. D is probably moreso what you wished happen. I won't say you're infatuated with her, you actually love her. You use the words infatuate around friends and a messageboard, but you love the fact that she needs you for help and you could provide it. You love the fact that you can comfort her in everyway. You love the fact that you work with her and are giddy whenever you two work together, though you don't show it much. Many times, you think the stuff she likes is everything you like, even if it's not true. If you don't run, one way or another soon though, you're going to crash into a brick wall. You think she's depressed, but when that happens, you'll just believe you can't believe you put that much effort into someone who doesn't love you back or even sees you that way. You are her emotional rag. It's either time to get something out of it and leave. Or just leave. Those are the only two plays here, or you'll get really hurt. QUOTE (greg775 @ Jul 8, 2011 -> 03:07 AM) This is what I don't get. You like her. You find her attractive and want to be with her and sleep with her if you were dating her. Yet you don't want to take the step to make the moves on her to see if she wants to date you. At any rate, put an end to it in some way. Either ask her if she wants to see you in a romantic way and dump her bf or just tell her you want more than she does and it's better you don't hang out any more but can chat at work. He's waiting for her to say she wants him so a)he won't feel guilty about the other guy and b)he'll feel that she genuinely loves him back. In reality, he'll just be an emotional doormat for the lady.

QUOTE (FlySox87 @ Jul 8, 2011 -> 08:32 AM) You're not talking about fun here. And you're not talking about hooking up. You're talking about getting a girl drunk so you can have sex with her, and a girl who has a boyfriend to boot. The first part is borderline rape, and the second part is outright sleaziness. I'm not gonna act like some sort of mega-puritan like I've never had sex or even sex with a random girl, but there is nothing honorable about boozing up an underage girl and boning her. I think Joe is better than that, but I could be wrong. Oh wow, no it's not. Talk about jumping the shark. You make it sound like he's trying to roofie her up and make her drink. Greg is saying, just hit it and quit it. And to hurry the process up, get some liquor. This happens every day. Secondly, the whole purpose is to get her to either sleep with him or leave him alone which is what Joe needs. QUOTE (FlySox87 @ Jul 8, 2011 -> 08:36 AM) Joe, you still haven't told us how you would feel if you were this girl's boyfriend. We can disagree all we want about whether she's a whore (it's a little sad that your only qualifications for whoredom are how many people she's slept with and what sort of clothes she wears), but do you really feel like she's being an honest girlfriend? If your answer is no, then you should listen to your morals. And if you wouldn't like someone else doing it to you, don't you do it to someone else. Back then, I'd feel horrible if I were the bf. But after growing up a little(I'm 25), I wouldn't necessarily get too upset because it wasn't meant to be. If it wasn't Joe Joe that breaks her, it would be his friend or someone else. Fact: She is going to cheat because she has serious issues. The faster that BF realizes that, the better in the long term.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Jul 7, 2011 -> 09:20 PM) She is certainly not a dream girl for me, but I would never characterize her as a "hooker", "slut", or "whore" like some people have mentioned. If it wasn't completely innappropriate, I would post pictures of her so you guys could see. She reminds me of Ellen Page, and does not wear sleazy clothes at all. In fact, one of my petnames for her is "Juno" and "Junebug" because of the character Ellen Page portrays in the movie Juno. She has only had sex with 2 people in her life (consensually), and I honestly had no idea she has a great pair of titties because she doesn't wear revealing clothes. Like I said, she is kind of tomboyish in a sense. Nah bruh, she is a slut, hooker, skeezer, whore, or floozy. Whatever you want to call her, she is. She's doing it for attention. You've put in so much work, you might as well get some benefit before you end this. Else, you're going to think about her when you leave for college kicking yourself in the ass for wanting her. And my thought process is, for this chick in particular, if she's going to cheat(which I guarantee she will and probably already has), why shouldn't Joe who's been very good to her, not have a turn. And don't bring up her current boyfriend. She doesn't deserve him neither. The earlier her bf realizes that, the better off everyone else will be. BTW Joe, I wouldn't even buy the whole "I've been raped" jazz. That one girl I told you about earlier claimed rape when she was 13 by her brother's really good friend. I asked why she never reported it or said anything about it to anyone else, and she said because she didn't want to get him in trouble or create problems. In the end, she told everyone who would listen she was "raped" and she was actually very much into this guy and was good friends with him. Not by intimidation, as I met the guy(without realizing that was who raped her supposedly) and he was probably one of laid back people ever. Based on my experience, you're girl is lying about being raped as well.

No way. Only because half the purpose of Dunn was to have a power left handed hitter. Yes, he's had a bad year, but I'm willing to bet on him bouncing back over Soriano. Now if Soriano played 2B and batted lefty, then maybe.

QUOTE (PlaySumFnJurny @ Jul 7, 2011 -> 04:51 PM) JC -- There are numerous signs flashing at you in blinding neon light, all of which read: RUN FAST. RUN FAR. Seriously, you sound like too nice a guy to get ensnared in all this psycho-drama. Nothing is worth that. She was likley nuts long before she met you, and will remain nuts long after you're gone from the picture. There's nothing you can do to change that, and therefore nothing assholic whatsoever about checking out immediately. Its completely the best thing for you to do. Yes, but if this is the first time he's been in this situation, then despite us telling him what he shouldn't do, he's going to do it anyway. It's very hard to resist such temptation. Honestly Joe, just hit it a few times, make her cook you eggs, and then bounce.

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Jul 6, 2011 -> 10:39 PM) What the f***? When I told her that, I didn't mean it literally. I told her I have no reason to conversate with her and I know she's just using me for attention that her bf is there for. I also told her, I didn't care for her situation anymore, to not bother contacting me, I wasn't interested in being her friend or having any relationship with her. She then kept sending me pictures of concerts she was going to which annoyed me. so that's when I told her what she should do. As far as the accident, it was a driving one apparently. Don't know much about it other than a semi was involved. My buddy was talking to her, even though I didn't want him to. It got to the point, where I didn't care as long as he didn't try to talk about her or with her around me. He didn't talk to her on a daily or weekly basis, just randomly. He found out a day after it happened on facebook and called me immediately and wanted to know if I wanted to pay my respects, but I didn't have any respect for her anymore. So I said it was better that I left that alone. My girlfriend was shocked, but that whole situation was tumultuous and unhealthy. She claimed all the things that Joe has claimed this girl has in his posts. Many were lies. She also had a huge tendency to talk about all of her friends very negatively, as well as her bf behind their backs. Like seriously, I would have no idea these people were her friends.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Jul 7, 2011 -> 03:09 PM) I agree with everything you guys are saying, I just hope I have enough will power to resist getting sucked in to her again. Wow bro, run! I've had similar episodes with that one girl I posted about. It'll get worse. $20 says she texts you about her offing herself so you can get worked up, give her a bunch of attention and in the end, you find out it was literally nothing but her wanting so much attention.

QUOTE (Brian @ Jul 6, 2011 -> 06:54 PM) Didn't Punk beat him clean on Raw a few weeks ago? Maybe. I haven't watched Raw for the most part in 2 months. Before that loss though, when was the last time he lost clean? Heck, when was the last time he lost the title clean? Or when was the last time he lost at a PPV clean?

QUOTE (The Critic @ Jul 6, 2011 -> 03:19 PM) If SuperCena is not taking time off to heal some lingering injuries or make another unwatchable movie, I can see Vince doing this...and messing up another opportunity for a good storyline. Yep. He botched that Nexxus storyline big time. I don't even remember the last time Cena lost clean. All I know, is that I'm going to be upset after watching the PPV. It's almost a guarantee.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jul 6, 2011 -> 05:12 PM) Would that manager continue batting a terrible contact hitter 3rd and claim there's no room for a hot hitting minor leaguer on the current roster? Would that manager also continue to put his team in the worst position to succeed or the best?

No, but honestly, I think Dunn can bounce back. Just not in this atmosphere, with this coaching staff. I've given up all hope on them. Sadly, I've given up all hope that management will can all of them because they haven't done so yet. Especially Walker. We've seen this poo for the past 5 years, nothing has changed except for the players, but it still is not his fault.

Honestly, the only thing I don't hate other than Coop is the players. If Coop is gone because the whole staff is, then it was a good ride Coop, but something must be done.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Jul 6, 2011 -> 12:53 PM) A girl that can lie to her guy like that will lie again. She probably needs constant attention and has cheated before which is why her guy is jealous in the first place. I agree. I was with a girl who is as exactly as described and gave her my all. I always tried to make her happy. It was a mission for me. Same type of background and abuse. And I mean all of it matches up 100%. She broke up with her "abusive" bf, and started going out with me. Then she'd just use me up to talk to me because I could make her feel good, especially emotionally. She would always still find a reason to talk to her ex bf though. And the alarming thing that I should've saw was that she always remained friends with her ex bf's no matter what. In the end, she supposedly asked for money from the ex, went to his place to get it, then had relations and tried to claim it wasn't her fault and she wasn't in control. Now keep in mind, she never mentioned money problems, nor should she have had money problems considering she still lived with her parents and did not pay a bill. All she did was pay for her gas and insurance. I ended contact with her. This all happened when she said she needed a break as she wasn't ready for a relationship. After that, she would attempt to contact me and sometimes I would randomly reply. She found out where I lived which was waaaaaay far from her after she saw me come home at 11pm at night on a weeknight. She supposedly wanted to say hi, but didn't because her "ex-bf" was with her. She would always say I shouldn't be jealous of him as he was jealous of me because she was only happy with me. I'm like, "whatever" and asked her not to follow me home. I thought it was done with until she contacted me around my birthday. Mine and hers were a week apart from each other and she wanted me to take her out for her birthday and she would bake me a cake and take me out for mine. She stood me up, and then I told her to end herself. And that was the end. PS, she ended up in an accident that took her away about 3 months later. And no, I didn't have anything to do with it, nor did I even know until a friend of mine told me about it when it happened. As bad as it sounds, I couldn't care less. PPS, she would always make up some story about her being depressed, but wouldn't want me to do anything about it, she wanted to go to the woods in the middle of the night alone, cried about a miscarriage(that I believe she was lying about) and would basically drive anyone sane, batty. Long story short...RUN!

Beckham is a bust by the standards he was supposed to live up to. I don't know if it had to do with him switching positions, or what, but he's definitely a bust.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jun 30, 2011 -> 09:30 AM) Ah, ok...for the experience. I'll see what I can do to help then. Your hardware setup is fine. What you need to do is login to the Linksys, and configure a shared connection (where the Linksys acts as the gateway to the internet). Here you will configure a DHCP network for all of your internal machines, that way they will all be on the same subnet and be able to openly communicate with each other...however, you will still have to open the necessary security settings on the workstations/servers themselves. For example, all of your machines should have similar IP's on the same netblock: These numbers are all RFC1918 (fake internet addresses reserved for internal networks), and are just examples. You could statically assign these IP's, however, since you are already using an DHCP setup for this, you may as well just use DHCP reservations to auto-assign IP's to servers/printers which you always want to have the same IP. Server: 10.11.12.2 (Create a DHCP reservation for this machine, bound to it's MAC address, this way it always has the same IP) Workstation #1: 10.11.12.3 Workstation #2: 10.11.12.4 Printer: 10.11.12.10 (Create a DHCP reservation for this printer, same as above, so it's IP never changes) Gateway: (The Linksys) 10.11.12.1 (Usually, using .1 is standard practice for gateways in most organizations/companies) After you do this, you will need to check the firewall settings on the servers/workstations to make sure they can see each other, to start, you might want to just disable the software firewall on your machines, it's not needed anyway. Nothing from the outside world will be able to route into your machines until/unless you assign port mapping on the router, so it doesn't matter anyway. I recommend also assigning the DNS servers via the Linksys, too. Use Primary: 8.8.8.8 and Secondary 8.8.4.4 (These are Googles public DNS servers, I recommend them as they're always easy to remember the IP addresses of. After you bring up the network in this way, verify communications via a CMD prompt, and just type: ping x.x.x.x (where x.x.x.x is the IP of the various servers/workstations on the network), you should get icmp replies to this if they can see each other. After communication is verified, you can then begin "networking" by trying to share a folder (for example), on your file server, then, to access that shared folder, on any of the other workstations, go to start, run and type the following: \\x.x.x.x\ (where x.x.x.x is the IP address of your file server, it's also possible you can try to access it by name, it will send out a L2 request to see if anyone responds, for example ping inamedmyworkstationChester -- the workstation named that will probably reply with it's IP, etc.) As a default, you could also just trying accessing the shared drives Microsoft defaults onto everything (in their infinite wisdom), to do this you'd browse to the file server or workstation in question the same way as above but tag on c$ for the c drive, or d$ for the d drive. \\x.x.x.x\c$ or \\x.x.x.x\d$ This will probably request an administrator user/pass, but it default exists on every Windows computer, and basically gives you access to the entire filesystem. Oh, on the fileserver, you will need to make sure the server and workstation services are started -- to check this, click start/run, and type in services.msc -- if the server service isn't running, start it/set it to automatic, same with workstation, etc... Thanks for the help! I'm going to try this weekend.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jun 29, 2011 -> 05:35 PM) I think I understand what it is you want to do, but the question is why do you want to do it? There was a time that a file/application server was a necessity out of lack of workstation processing power, but as it stands today, the only thing you'd really be doing is slowing yourself down if you want to go through the app server for everything you do. Accessing the Internet is as simple as just creating a wireless/wired network that assigns a range of DHCP ip's and shares a single access point (usually the router itself would have your ISP assigned IP address on it, and it would assign the range of DHCP addresses to whatever workstations/servers that connect to it), for your printers and whatnot you can reserve specific IP's from the DHCP table so they will always get the same IP, you do this via the MAC address of whatever system in question. For the file server, you'd merely create the necessary usernames/passwords, enable file sharing, and set the permission on the shared drives/directories. This would be another server you want a DHCP ip reserved for, so it always has the same IP address and when you want to use it, you know where it will always be. If you want browsing around your network to be truly easy, simply enable NetBIOS on every machine, it would simplify things a lot. If you do not want to use NetBIOS, because it's quite old now, you'd merely enable Computer Browser services on every machine on the network (if it's still called that), so they can see each other when you go into "my network", or "my network places" as I think it's called today. As for the "app server" part of the equation, it would be easier to just install the app on every machine and use it that way, versus sharing the applications through that server. I want to do it for experience mostly. So as I understand it, I can simply plug in my server into my router under one of the LAN ports of my router then follow your directions of assigning IPs for the certain tasks? Currently my setup is: Cable Modem --> Linksys WRT54G router --> Lan Port 1 = Server, Lan Port 2 = Workstation, and everything else wi-fi. When I attempted to install Server 2003 this past weekend, I was able to install it, but none of my other machines could read it, nor was I even able to connect to the internet with it at the very least to obtain updates.

I know a couple of people here are great IT people. What I want to do is simple. I want to setup Windows Server 2003 in my house to act as an application server and file server. I also want to be able to access the internet on all machines. I have an old laptop that I will be using that meets the requirements. I have a few basic questions. How would I connect it. I've searched high and low on the internet, and everywhere I go, I can't find an answer. Even an example. So can someone tell me how it would look in order to get the functionality I want. I have 2 laptops, a PS3, Xbox 360 which all will be wireless, and a desktop that will be hardwired. Again, I want the internet, to share files, to share applications and to share printers(though this I know how to do). I have experience with Active Directory and such. I'm using Server 2003 because it's free for me and my laptop does not meet the requirements for Server 2008.

I'd prefer to keep Kenny because he seems to have some sort of plan. Ozzie just goes with his heart and instincts, regardless of what numbers say. Think about it, people knew Dunn would strikeout a lot, but no one knew he would have this bad of overall numbers, especially homers. I mean, no one. Every liked the Peavy trade at the time. The Jackson trade is the only one where I can say, there was at least half the board that hated it.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jun 28, 2011 -> 06:56 PM) I still fancy Ellis. I'll take the pros over the cons. The Bulls don't. That kills that talk. As far as JR Smith vs Jason Richardson, I'd say Richardson is a better bet to be more consistent, but JR Smith provides elite scoring when he's on. He goes through hot and cold streaks big time. Richardson is more even keel. Smith will give you a 50 point game when feeling it and given the ball. But he'll come out with a 12 point game under the exact same circumstances the following game. Richardson will give you 18 one game, then 16 the next.

QUOTE (MexSoxFan#1 @ Jun 28, 2011 -> 11:25 AM) I have game 4 recorded and on the last shot Rose took on LBJ, the right side of the floor was open and Boozer had his man sealed off...why Rose didn't try to take it to the rim is beyond me, LBJ is a heck of a defensive player but anyting but a jumper there is a better shot.Rose absolutly needed to attack LBJ there, hopefully he learns from that. Because the defense would've collapsed. Korver didn't have a good game that series. Boozer was throwing up weak stuff all series. Literally, everyone knew on Miami's side, Derrick was going to drive it and wasn't going to dish it. He wouldn't have had a lane to do so at all and Miami would've blocked that garbage. With the Iso jumper, he had a legit one on one shot, he simply missed.