Rex Hudler

Apparently authorities are now saying it seems that the phone was forced down her throat and all they will say is they have a suspect. Maybe not such a dumb b****?? Wrong call on woman swallowing cell phone

Should be an interesting start to the Big Ten season for 3 of the conference heavyweights. 1st four games for Indiana, Illinois and Mich. St are: Indiana Michigan Ohio State @Michigan State Illinois Illinois Michigan State @Iowa Michigan @Indiana Michigan State @Illinois @Wisconsin Indiana @Ohio State These games could help separate a team from the pack right away or stick a team in a hole right away. I'm ready for some good hoops!

Steff got caught in the act??? I figured her for being a little smarter than that while being naughty!

How many times are they going to have to tell you not to drink a merlot with chicken!!

QUOTE(DukeNukeEm @ Dec 23, 2005 -> 04:55 PM) I like how nobody heard of the suspension until it was overturned. Racist NCAA. ?????

If the gift is appropriate and useful then regifting is fine by me. I'd say it is not acceptable if it is just a way to pass along junk to avoid spending money on someone. But if the gift is something they would enjoy, go for it!! The best gifts sometimes are the ones that are most appropriate for that particular person at that time. This is not an example of regifting, but I think the best gift I ever got my father for Christmas cost me $3. I walked into a Barnes & Noble a few days before Christmas many years ago and was perusing the Bargan Book section. I found a book basically chronicling (sp?) the Indiana 1993 basketball season, which was one of their better teams. Anyway, it was on clearance for $3 so I bought it, thinking my day would enjoy reading it. The next day, Indiana came to Evansville to play against UE. I worked at a bar at night and was out shopping that day. The girl on day shift called me and said Bob Knight and a few others just walked in to have lunch. I was about 5 minutes away so I headed over. As I was getting out of the car, I noticed I still had the book from the night before in the back seat. I brought it in with me. After eating lunch, Knight agreed to take some pictures with the staff and sign for a couple of people. There wasn't much of a crowd since this was more of a night spot (the food was still good). After everything calmed down, I asked him if he would sign it to my father. He did so with a brief message to my dad and then told me it would be a good idea to have the author sign it as well. I looked at him puzzled and he handed it to Bob Hammel sitting next to him and he autographed it as well. Basically I fell into a great gift with some dumb luck, but it fit perfectly for my dad who is a huge IU fan. Back to regifting... if it fits for the person you are giving it to, who the hell cares where or how you got it!

QUOTE(hammerhead johnson @ Dec 21, 2005 -> 12:44 AM) Good God, that is one big b****! I was going to say that she is a pretty girl. I'm sure that's what you meant. ;-)

Damn I was just about to get real excited too. Guess I better not now.

I say keep Jon Garland regardless. Garland could give the Sox something this year that no prospect would. 20 wins! I'd much rather have a hungry Jon Garland (if the Sox truly believe he has turned the corner) winning games for the Sox and if he walks, so be it. Offer him arbitration and get two draft picks for him. With a good year this year, Garland could help the Sox himself in 2006 more than any trade scenario.

QUOTE(aboz56 @ Dec 17, 2005 -> 08:26 PM) This is what Louisville gets for playing nobody. Neither they or Kentucky should be ranked. Oh well, maybe this helps MSU move up a few spots this week. alex, have you always been an MSU fan or did you grow up a UK or U of L fan and morph to MSU later with the emergence of Coach Izzo?

QUOTE(greg775 @ Dec 16, 2005 -> 01:32 AM) If he's this good a prospect, shouldn't we have gotten somebody better for him? That's all I'm asking. If he's this great why did we have to include 3 players in the deal? Simple answer is yes. You don't trade your best prospect and only marginably improve your club. Unless the D'backs sign Kenny Lofton, Chris Young will have every opportunity to be their Opening Day CF. Yes, this year.

QUOTE(Mercy! @ Dec 16, 2005 -> 02:54 AM) Well, I won’t get into an argument about corporal punishment with anyone. But I hope if you have any children, you’ll be the one doing the ass-kicking. On a more practical level, if you seriously believe the conduct in the news article is acceptable, how do you communicate to a very young child that some kinds of physical contact with adults are unacceptable, but that there are other types they should submit to even if they might feel frightened or humiliated by it? Yuck. No thanks. Mercy there is no way that you, nor I, nor anyone else reading that article could get the full picture of what happened. So no, I can't say it was acceptable or unacceptable. I won't get into corporal punishment and all that either, but I certainly do believe that kids need to learn to respect authority. I know this kid was only 5 and we don't know all the details. But I do believe that there are times other adults need to discipline kids, whether that be coaches, teachers or whatever. As far as who does the ass kicking (I hope you know I didn't mean that literally), I guess that depends on the situation. I don't have kids, but I believe in my heart that if I did, and my kids were in the presence of a trusted adult in a position of authority and my kids acted up, they would handle it. Of course, I'd probably handle it again at home. If discipline (I'm not talking about strictly physical) is not an option and is not backed by the parents, how will kids ever learn to respect authority? Again, not all cases are equal, so you have to trust the hands of the people you leave your kids with. There is no way to make the world black and white. There will always be gray areas where people have to make judgements and we have to trust people to make judgements. Those judgements need to be critiqued on a case by case basis sometimes. No law or rule can cover every situation, nor should it. I'll admit the world has changed and things aren't as simple as they used to be. But it drives me nuts that some parents are so protective that they won't let kids be kids. Kids can't cross the street. They have to wear a helmet, knee and elbow pads riding a bike, etc. Part of being a kid is wrecking a bike and skinning your knee. I just wish the world weren't the way it is in some aspects, ya know? Man that was one helluva ramble. Hopefully there was a point made somewhere in there!

QUOTE(mreye @ Dec 15, 2005 -> 03:23 PM) The point is, that very people know how to work on a gas furnace. So to say someone got "taken" is implicating that companies are ripping people off. I guess you could say the same thing for an expensive MRI or a nice steak dinner, because those things don't cost anywhere near what companies charge. If you can do it yourself, great. More power to you. But keep in mind, that professionals go behind do-it-yourself-ers on a daily basis and fix messes that could have been avoided in the first place. Just last week, we had to replace a circuit board, a contactor a transformer, among other things (I don't have the whole invoice memorized) because a guy decided to change his own thermostat and connected the wires wrong. It fried a whole line of parts that cost him nearly a thousand bucks when all was said and done. So it isn't as simple as a $25 part, especially when you are working with gas, which could kill you.

Damn, if I came home and told my parents that, they would have sent me to my room the rest of the night. I also don't see the big deal. Granted, none of us were there to see exactly what happened and how it happened, so no one can truly say whether this was a big deal or not. But society has definitely changed. A good kick in the ass used to straighten kids out. Today it's abuse.

QUOTE(greg775 @ Dec 15, 2005 -> 06:39 AM) I'm not thrilled with the trade but wasn't Jeremy Reed supposed to be awesome, too. He sucked last year. Ditto Olivo whom I loved as a Sox. Didn't hit for squat. Is this guy supposed to be better than Reed was? Just askin. The Freddy Garcia trade ended up being a very good trade for the Sox because of how Garcia performed. But don't think for a second that it is legit to evaluate the prospects given up in that trade after only one year. While Olivo struggled in Seattle, he played well in San Diego after being traded and the Pads love him. I still believe Reed will become a very solid player. Not all young players have instant success, yet some of them still turn out to be very nice players. Time will tell. It is way too soon to act like we gave up nothing in that trade.

QUOTE(CWSGuy406 @ Dec 15, 2005 -> 05:54 AM) Caught this snippet at the end of the organizational reports. Anyone have any more information on this kid? Sorry if there's any typos, I'm typing it myself, not cut-and-paste... Apparently, he's 24, so I probably shouldn't expect a whole lot, but why exactly did he go to the minors first, then to football? And then back to baseball? That seems to me to be an odd route... He struggled in the minors, never realizing the potential the Sox thought he had. Apparently he was a HS All-America football player originally recruited by Nick Saban when he was at Michigan St. West's decision to quit baseball coincided with Saban getting the LSU job (I think it was actually a year later). It also coincided with him becoming seriously involved with a girl from that area (engaged, I think). Whatever the reasons, West said he lost his love for baseball and decided to go back to school. He had already spoken to Saban about coming to LSU apparently. West went from not having played football since the fall of 1998 to leaving the Barons in August and enrolling at LSU in 1994. Five months later he was playing a backup role at defensive end for LSU in the National Championship game. He never became a starter at LSU, but played. His first year he was typically playing 12-15 downs a game. For some reason quit after last year when Saban went to the Dolphins. I guess he missed baseball again and contacted the Sox about coming back. When he originally left the Sox, there were rumors that the Sox pressed him to return part of his original signing bonus. That was never confirmed, nor was any outcome. That is about all of the details I know.

Count me in minority with those that absolutely HATE this trade. You don't trade your best prospect, not to mention two Major League players without improving your club a lot. I don't think the Sox today are any better than before this trade. The difference in what Vazquez will give you over McCarthy and/or El Duque is marginable, in my opinion. IF he is even better. The guy had demanded a trade. The Diamondbacks did NOT have the leverage here. Chris Young will have every opportunity to start this season in CF for the D'backs. Don't be shocked if he is in their Opening Day lineup. In fact, the job is his to lose.

Two very good baseball books that I believe would stand the test of time are: Men at Work, written by George F. Will The Mental Game of Baseball, written by H A Dorfman

QUOTE(mreye @ Dec 14, 2005 -> 01:52 PM) If you paid $229 for an ignitor you got taken. Let's break this down..... To get the $24.99 ignitor you linked to, you would have to pay $32.98 after shipping and then wait for 3-5 days without heat for delivery. The company has to pay a technician to drive to the home and diagnose the problem. There is your service call. The technician has to drive to a parts house to get the part and back, then install the part, verify that was the only problem, cycle the unit to make sure it is working properly. Depending on travel time, time of day (was the call after hours? on a weekend?), a professional diagnosing the problem, installing the part, cost of gas, truck, tools, business overhead, the individual market and margin, the price could easily be justified. Service companies are not just charging for a part, they are charging for their time and services as well. FWIW, here in Birmingham, our company would charge as follows: Service call/Diagnostic Fee: $77 Flat rate price for ignitor and installation: $109 to $140 Possible return trip charge: $18 to $24 Energy and materials charge: $5 The charges vary depending on if the customer has an existing preventative maintenance agreement. So I guess a normal customer has the choice of paying $36 for an ignitor, waiting 3-5 days to get it and then paying someone to install it, hoping that is the only problem. Or paying a couple hundred bucks to a professional to handle it and have heat the same day (or worse, the next if the part is not available at night). I know which choice I would make.

QUOTE(mreye @ Dec 13, 2005 -> 02:07 PM) You sure it was only the ignitor? If so, you got taken. http://uapinc.net/WebPages/ClimateControl/...aceigniters.htm Define "taken"

Tim Tebow picks Florida over Alabama today in what may have been the most anticipated recruiting decision in a long time. His "press conference" was covered live by ESPN News.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Dec 12, 2005 -> 08:08 PM) So while this thread is being kicked around - if I read that one article right, you can compress down to where the DVD's will fit to one burned DVD? Most "old" dvd burner programs didn't give that option. If that is the case, do you all think that the quality goes down enough to not do that? Thoughts, please? I'll let you know when I get my DVD's of all 4 World Series games done. I have a friend that is working on them for me. He has already copied them from my DVR to his hard drive and edited out the commercials in all of the games. In the next week or two he will compress them to make them fit on a DVD. He uses dual layer DVD's for added space, I think. Most of this is above my head, but he is doing it for me as a favor and as a test for him. It may take two DVD's for Game 3, even without the commercials. I'll let you know what the quality looks like.

Listened to his new CD tonight. I would like others opinions that have taken it for a test drive. I am a bit biased since he is from my current neck of the woods. While I don't think any of the songs stood way out, I thought all of it was solid. It was easy to listen to. I was doing other things online, so I wasn't focused solely on that, but overall, I enjoyed it. Has anyone else actually listened to any of it?

QUOTE(daa84 @ Dec 12, 2005 -> 01:19 AM) i can tell you for a fact that paul moviel will be on the AA birmingham roster....i talked to his brother today, they told him he would start at AA. im not sure whether it will be in teh pen or as a starter I can tell you for a fact that while Paul Moviel may or may not start at Birmingham, his brother doesn't have a clue where he is going to start the season. First of all, he hasn't pitched above Rookie ball and secondly they don't tell players where they will be the next year because too many things change. Don't believe me? Ask Mr. Bullard. It is possible his brother misunderstood and that he may be on the Birmingham roster right now, but that does not translate to him starting in Birmingham. Right now, minor league affiliate rosters are paper rosters and that's it. The Major League roster is 40 players, so that automatically means 15 players will be in the Minors, effectively pushing players from Charlotte's roster down to Birmingham and players on Birmingham's roster down to Winston-Salem or even lower. Off-season free agent (minor league) signings affect roster distribution as well. My money is that he is nowhere near Birmingham at the start of the season, but stranger things have happened.

I hear it will be making an appearance in Birmingham this coming season.