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I am glad we've reached a consensus.

Actually, it's not quite correct. Aunuld's Nazi-sympathizing wife-beating scumbag father never actually implied that Jews manually controlled the 9/11 planes to crash into WTC and Pentagon. Mel Gibson's daddy, on the other hand....

I am rooting against 3 team in particular this upcoming season: 1. Cubs 2. Red Sox 3. Twins 4. Yankees.

Well, you like Queen and Enrico Fermi....that's taste right there AI had Jude Law in it an that can't be too bad.

Cubs-Sox is the biggest/best rivalry out there. Simple as that. I understand that it's hard to wrap your mind around this fact if you're of the conventional division/NL/newspaper hype linear thinking. If you're not from Chicago. Yankees-RedSox is overblown because NOBODY is ever gonna have bragging rights on ther Yankees. Red Sox could win 10 WS in a row, and they still won't come close. They play each other so much, it's becomes something trivial at some point. Cards are so far and above the Cubs it's not even funny. Also not even in the same damn city. Play each other for decades 12-19 times a year. Too diluted. Dodgers-Giants? Both teams are HAVE's. Winning another title for either fo them wouldn't be such a huge deal. They are from a place where baseball is simply not taken quite as seriously (just ask Dusty) and football/basketball are the s***. Cubs-Sox is THE rivalry, the rivalry of HAVE-NOT's-- and we all know how much more vicious warring poor people are than their rich counter-parts! Both teams are from a city that is absolutely f***ing STARVED for a PLAYOFF appearance let alone a WS title 183 years in the making. From the Sox standpoint, Cubs have been stealing our casual fans for decades; they are basically stealing from our payroll purse and are negatively affecting our chances of winning EVERY year. And will be doing so 50 years from now when Twins and Royals are long contracted and Tribe are in another city/division/league...... Georgaphically, Cubs -Sox are the closest. We only play 3-6 games each year for about 7 years now; any single game draws far more excitement than any one of those aformentioned rivalries. For me, winning 4 games from the Cubs is VERY important. The ONLY way Sox will ever be brought back to prominence/relevance is by winning the World Series a couple of times WHILE the Cubs are losing. Period.

uR jus jellas thacha late to da Tolleson parte. :finger

Not to me.

AI was such depressig f***ing movie. What's worse, I saw it back to back with Vanilla Sky and Little boy and fat man. Unholy Trinity of Suckage. :puke :puke

Looks like Vishvanathan Anand and Kramink are still battling it out.

Here's to Fox Mulder of SoxTalk. And a damn fine bar historian!

What did I miss? FSJ being usurped again? Should I break out jungle fever pic as a form of protest?

That's because you're a crazy, militant, idealistic bastard. But you're OUR bastard. And some day you're gonna make us all proud as hell.

It looks like this movei did a LOT of business this weekend-- to the tune of 42 Mill. At least You Got Served got somethimg like 17 Mill....let's not tell Cali or he'll freak.

Mods, please move this thread to the off-topic boards. Many boards have the "don't talk about the board on the board" policy. The first person who gets META gets banned. I don't think we should go to these extremes, but it should be a given that if somebody starts a NON-baseball topic on Pale Hose Forum, it should be MOVED or DELETED within minutes. How hard can it be?

JimH, I disagree to an extent. I was not raised on the South side of Chicago. I was not raised in Chicago. I was not raised in the States. I was not raised in the Western hemisphere. My parents wouldn't know a Zambrano from a Zapruder. And yet I despise Cubs with a passion. Because I want to. Because I can. Because it's fun. Because I am a true Sox fan and you don't have TWO wives. Because I know how much revenue we lose annually because those bastards on the NS have grabbed a large share of the casual fan market. That alone is responsible for our payroll not being in the 80-90s Mill range AT LEAST. Blaming it on Reindorf is not being honest with yourself. I don't hope Cubs go 0-162. I would much rather their fans be super excited about their team only to have their hearts figuratively ripped apart with anguish. I can be a bigger man than that but I CHOOSE not to. Because I can. Now....Kittie, kittie, kittie.

Prostate the size of a football field. Liver transplant. Other than that, better than ever. And f*** yeah! You graduated yet?

Hey kiddo, I was just asking about you a few weeks ago.

Like I said, Internet chess, speed chess = NO chess. I perfectly understand what you mean by hitting a talent plateu. I hit mine when I was about 14. Played only a few sessions since. I don't love the game. But I respect it, the atmosphere around it, the history. I don't remember who said it, but chess was said to be the model for conversion of static energy into kinetic one. Or some such. On the abstract and philosophical levels, chess is something I am totally mystified by. It's silly, but that's how I have alweays viewed it. Do you play Go? What an invention, eh?

Unless it's to the White Sox.....no matter.

Cubs and Cards aren't in the same city, are they? Cubs will never have bragging rights over the Cards. But they might have them over the Sox should your magnificent squad make the Series, let alone win it. I wish all your players simulteneously go into Konerko-esque existential funk and your ballclub becomes the Mets of the NLC in 2004 and beyond. I hereby put a hex on your team. Now all I have to do is bleed my neighbor's cat at mid-night and your team's f***ed. Not even Dick Pole can bail you out this time.

I haven't seen Gattica yet (tho Uma Thurman's under-age tits in Dangerous Liaisons still resonate with me) but I thought Jude Law was pretty good in Talented Mr. Ripey. Him and Ewan McGregor (Trainspotting, Velvet Goldmine) are solid, solid actors. Did he and ReZe get nominated for Cold Mountain, right? You're right about PA, though. He like that movie very much.

White Sox had 86 years to win the Series and have the ulimate bragging rights over their biggest rival, Cubs. They failed. They chose the bottom line instead. I ain't no sucka. I can maybe understand losing if Cubs are also losing. Losing while Cubs are winning is INCONGRUENT with my very constitution. Last 3 years of futility have prepared me for this next step. Trading Thomas and Valentin for peanuts will push me further. Cubs making the World Series will be the final straw.

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