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does every friday night thread have to be so surprised people aren't on?

QUOTE(maggsmaggs @ May 26, 2007 -> 02:38 AM) amen to that. This semester should be a breeze for me based on the teachers (Brian Brooks is apparently easy for CCJ.) yep. The first week he'll give you a lot of work then the rest of the time he just talks to you. You learn a lot, thou.

I never use ratemyprofessor, i find it useless, the only real tool you need and I use is the grade distribution the school provides, showing the avg. GPA handed out, and even amt. of A's, B's, C's etc.

it's possilbe that the tribune encourages their writers to be more transparent to their readers. A trait i find laughable in sports writing but still cool as a fan.

rick usuallly replies with a "thank you", but Phil Rogers has been so great in emails I've sent him. Big fan of phil.

i wanted to go to friday so badly but it's just not possible for me to make it back to chicago in time. maggliopipe, we are gonna get along just fine.

so, I went to this game. My bro (damen) kindly paid for me. This is the second game I've seen this season before I'm off to mizzou for the summer. In 2 games, 18 innings, I've seen the sox score 1 run. That one run was walked in. These pitchers? No, not Santana or Sabathia or Bonderman, De Los Santos and Gaudin. On top of that we were sitting in the bleachers, next to the most obnoxious idiot fans I've ever sat next to, and behind us the most benign chatter about childrens movies nonstop for the entire game, and when the entire bleachers were yelling to throw the home run ball back, I just put my head down and thought "I just may have decided to go to the worst white sox game ever"/

It clearly says clinton portis. i really liked this finale but hated this "future look" thing they did with Jack. Absolutely hated it. Was jumping up and down when sayid was still alive thou, just the boost i needed after seeing this terrrrrible sox game live.

well, i'm not gonna hand danks the ROY yet, i realize the more he pitches the more other teams can try and form a battle plan against him.

ohhh lord, so nice to watch a blowout. Thome with a friggen rocket home run.

like others have said, i think danks has the one up for a rookie of the year award being that many have a "not a true rookie" kind of bias.

just nails on a chalkboard to me.

if its bad we can have cintron at SS and uribe at 3b though maybe?

QUOTE(Beltin @ May 22, 2007 -> 11:19 PM) My baseball roots go back to the old AL West. Without a doubt the top rivalries for the Sox were the Athletics, Royals, and Twins in that order. The Royals were once a very proud and competitve franchise and gave the Sox fits. Despite losing in '83, I never recall the Orioles being really hated. I really hated the As, though. Talking to my father, whose roots go back to the pre-expansion AL, the true league rivals from the 50s and 60s were the Yankees, White Sox, Tigers and Indians. Those teams were always fighting it out for the pennant with the Yankees frequently (and sadly) grabbing the crown. The Orioles were a non-factor until the late seventies, the A's were in KC and floundering (with the exception of three games late in 1964, ugh!), and the Angels were also a second tier team. I believe the Twins were still the Senators in D.C. and not much to speak of either. What is interesting is the Red Sox were a total joke and never really competed for the pennant until they miraculously won it in the late 60s. As a fan of the game and history, I lament the loss of some of those rivalries that even still existed after the divisions were formed. The unbalanced schedule and interleague play have marginalized some great old rivalries that should still be in place, in particular, White Sox-Yankees, Indians-Yankees, and Tigers-Yankees with special mention to White Sox-As. 37% may say the Cubs are the White Sox' biggest rival, but I would love to eliminate interleague play and start playing the AL East and West more frequently via a balanced schedule. It would definitely make the wild card victor far more deserving with such even criteria. awesome read, thank you.

does any male not get a boner from those numbers?

can you do it for me???? pllzzz!!!

as far as my lifetime goes of following the sox, I still think Cleveland is our biggest rival.

siamese dream was a great album.

boy do i loathe in the backseat.

wait, a facebook group made someone mad? and...i'm rootin for biomass...goooooo biomass!

i don't know, its funny though.

oh man national are great. Alligator was tops.

the two jokes i was about to make have been taken.

QUOTE(fathom @ May 18, 2007 -> 04:09 AM) It's hard to be optimistic until we see Thome again with the big league club. I guess no news is good news about him leaving for a pinch hitter tonight. oh man i hope it's nothing.

i think crede'll end up at about .240 this year, but i'm excited for an inevitable heat up. Theres no way we stay at .200 all year all throughout the middle of the order.