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QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Mar 20, 2009 -> 03:13 PM) I love the fact that there is never any in-between in regards to Brian Anderson. People either love him or hate him. You never see the "eh, he's OK" eh, he's ok.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Mar 20, 2009 -> 02:14 PM) First of all, get off your phone while you are driving. Geez... pissy much?

QUOTE (shipps @ Mar 20, 2009 -> 08:35 AM) Ok,so I am going to be the lead singer in a band. Iam really intimidated because I am gonna be working with a few seasoned musicians from Chicago and this is my first time doing anything seriously in music. I have always had the ability to sing but just never had the desire to get up in front of people. My friend is a drummer from The Soul People(will also drum for this band) and has been telling me to do this for a long time. I dont know how its gonna workout, he said I have all the freedom to take the band in any direction that I want. Feels kinda crazy right now. You'll be great! Just relax and channel the inner you while singing. Taking a band in a different musical direction is easier if you play an instrument and can write your own songs. Do you?

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Mar 19, 2009 -> 10:13 AM) I was referring to a video broadcast. I'm not going to sit at my computer listening to a spring training game, it's boring enough watching these games, I can't imagine listening to them. That's too bad. The sox radio broadcasts have been pretty good - much better than that televised crapfest with Bill Melton & Whoever.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Mar 19, 2009 -> 10:06 AM) Eh, sadly there's no broadcast for today's game, I'll probably be watching the tournament around 3 o'clock. I'll of course check the box score periodically to see just how many ground balls to the right side Jerry can muster off the high 90's fastball of Matt Cain. He might have to own the left side of the infield today. Gameday Audio says they have it.

Christian is the smoke monster.

QUOTE (BearSox @ Mar 9, 2009 -> 07:13 PM) This time the Catholic Church in Brazil got it wrong. I'm just guessing here, but likely Religion is a whole lot bigger in Brazil and they are likely a whole lot more old school. I support abortion in only two forms. 1, in rape victims. 2, where the mother's life is in serious danger if she gives birth. And this falls into category #2. Abortion is illegal in Brazil as well except in these cases, and the doctors in this case felt that the girl's life was in danger. What burns me is the church removing any chance of "salvation" for the girl for making a choice to save her own life. The cardinals who made this decision deserve to burn in hell.

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Mar 17, 2009 -> 10:52 AM) Three piece punk rock band with great hooks and distinctive vocals. Now We Can See might be their most accessible album yet, but The Body, The Blood, The Machine is my favorite album of 2006. If you want anything I can PM it to you. I DLed it on your recommendation - and I like it. It's only my first listen, but it's not bad. It's not punk btw, but it's not bad.

gameday?

gameday?

lineup: Wise, CF Lillibridge, SS Kroeger, LF Konerko, 1B Fields, 3B Restovich, RF Allen, DH Getz, 2B Miller, C Colon, P

Apparently they had broken up a few months ago, but still close. Her myspace message was pretty sad.

Christian qualifies for MITB tonite! It's now him, MVP, Shelton Benjamin, CM Punk, Kofi Kingston, Kane, Mark Henry, and one more to qualify on SD on Friday. Sweet!

Sounds like he only went to the Sox/Indians game and hasn't seen Poreda pitch otherwise.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Mar 8, 2009 -> 07:49 PM) I guess my question about all of this is if Alexei's best position is supposedly ss, why the hell are we going to move him to CF so Beckham can play ss? My view is that a middle infield of Alexei/Beckham with Brian in CF is better all-around (meaning both offensively and defensively, comprehensively) than a middle infield of Beckham/Getz with Alexei in CF. Just my opinion, obviously I'd need to see both scenarios play out... Thank you! We tried the Alexei-in-Center experiment last year - why would we try this again? Leave him at short - if he screws it up, then we'll discuss. And last I checked, we have 4 weeks of Spring Training left - let's not hand out the 2B job to anyone just yet.

QUOTE (The Critic @ Mar 5, 2009 -> 02:43 PM) Nope. Don't like either one of 'em. I understand their place in rock history, but I don't enjoy their music. That's fine. QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ Mar 5, 2009 -> 08:35 PM) I like them both. Ditto for Little Richard, Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison, Buddy Holly, Chubby Checker, the Everlys, etc. Great, pure stuff that thumbed it's nose at the social and musical establishments as much as anything since, and laid out the rules that everybody since then has been bending but never quite breaking. Yup. Great, important stuff.

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Mar 6, 2009 -> 09:51 AM) Pitchfork Music Festival's initial lineup: Friday*: The Jesus Lizard Built to Spill Yo La Tengo Tortoise Saturday: The National Pharoahe Monch The Pains of Being Pure at Heart Sunday: Grizzly Bear The Walkmen Vivian Girls *fans vote on setlist. This is about 1/3 of the lineup btw. I'm pretty stoked, this is about as good as it's ever been for them. The Jesus Lizard is a huge get. Yeah, that Friday nite is pretty sweet.

TCQ.

But I have high hopes for Watchmen - seeing tomorrow night at the Cinerama Dome in Hollywood.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 3, 2009 -> 02:19 PM) Um... no, I wasn't taking it seriously. Obviously it wasn't meant to be. I'm saying, even as a fun action movie, it was an utter failure. I agree - I was bored out of my mind.

QUOTE (bmags @ Mar 4, 2009 -> 03:33 PM) Once again, I don't believe importance translates into enjoying musical, or else everyone in here would be listening to Bach or monk chants because they originated the s***, man I never said that importance should equal tastes, but whoever said it's different for non-Rock music, I kinda agree with that. QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ Mar 4, 2009 -> 07:14 PM) If you're trying to argue that Nirvana's arrival changed the rock and roll landscape more than the Beatles' arrival, then okee dokee. At least it's an entertaining opinion. I'm certainly NOT arguing that point nor do I believe it. Again, there were like 10 important artists/people in the history of Rock. The Beatles were one. Nirvana was one. QUOTE (LosMediasBlancas @ Mar 4, 2009 -> 10:42 PM) And for all of you claiming to not like Nirvana, I don't care if you do or don't, but I don't believe you. I think you think it makes you sound interesting to say you don't like a popular band. As for the generational thing, the dickless, bearded, folkies you call rock n roll today have nothing on the 90s. I think you know you missed out on a great time in American music and it bothers you. But hey, I'm just guessing. QFT. QUOTE (bmags @ Mar 5, 2009 -> 08:32 AM) It's a pretty bad guess, am I mad I wasn't old enough to see guided by voices live or being able to anticipate a Beck or Flaming lips album before they cornered themselves, yeah, Am I mad I couldn't be at a nirvana concert in 93 with pissed off kids decrying corporate oppression with their right hand and grabbing a starbucks with their left, no, not really. Commercialism did exist to an extent back in the early 90s, but nowhere near what it is now. I don't even think Illinois had a Starbucks in 1993. FYI. QUOTE (The Critic @ Mar 5, 2009 -> 09:06 AM) I wasn't expecting much because I had read and heard that Kurt was kind of, not mailing it in, but focusing on lesser-known songs (which was fine by me) and playing mellower stuff (which wasn't, really), but they were ON that night. They even played "Smells Like Teen Spirit", which was becoming kind of a rare thing by that point. I wanted to hear it, since I liked that song a lot - it hasn't aged well, though, in my opinion. Sounds kind of dated by now. They were really, really good that night, though, and I was glad I saw them. I was at that show too. The Saturday show was pure brilliance - the Monday show (after which Kurt did a Rolling Stone interview decrying the Aragon and its awful sound) was pretty bad. Years later, I met Dave Grohl and I told him I saw Nirvana in Chicago in 93. He said "Oh no, I'm sorry." I said, "No, I was at the good show!" and he said "Thank God - that other show was s***." LOL.

QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ Mar 3, 2009 -> 12:58 PM) This side of The Pond, the Beach Boys and the Beatles were not contemporaries in terms of when they emerged. The Beach Boys had already released 4 albums and were recording number 5 in January 1964 when Introducing the Beatles and meet the Beatles were released. Sure, they continued to record, and yes they sold, but there is no disputing that the Beatles won the battle or rock and roll superiority and eclipsed the Beach Boys. As to the late 1960s decline of the Beach Boys being a product of the counterculture but not because of the Beatles. . . what album release ushered in the Summer of Love? I'm a Beach Boys fan, mind you. I'm only pointing out an historical fact, that the Beatles knocked them from the top spot and they never took it back. I didn't say the Beach Boys were JUST AS popular as the Beatles - they weren't, but they were FAR AND AWAY number 2 - and still insanely popular through Pet Sounds (which inspired Sgt Pepper.) And don't forget "Good Vibrations", which had its part in the Summer of Love too. You said "By late 1963/early 1964, the Beach Boys sound was largely played out, and a post-JFK assassination America was ready for a new direction", and that is JUST NOT TRUE. Played out is not a term for a artist that is still popular and having #1 hits.

QUOTE (bmags @ Mar 3, 2009 -> 01:52 PM) and, again, I just think it says a lot about that generation that they let an average rock band change the face of music. That you think they are an "average rock band" is sad. Few artists (again, about 10 in the entire history of R&R) changed the course of Rock so much that pre & post terms have to be used in reference to music history a la "the pre-Nirvana era" or "the post-Nirvana era". This is how important they are to Rock. I don't like Radiohead's music much post-Bends but to deny their influence and their importance would just be silly.

WGN.

To be fair, I don't think he "considered changing" the constitution - just disregarding the part he didn't want to follow.