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Lorenzo Charles from NC State. Part of one of the biggest upsets in NCAA tourney history, and the reason we get the scene every year during the tournament of Jim Valvano running around the court looking for someone to hug . http://joeposnanski.si.com/2011/06/28/lore...ction=si_latest

I still feel like Dunn will hit 40 hrs this year. Nothing he's done supports that idea, but I can't see him not eventually hitting hrs.

QUOTE (StatManDu @ May 28, 2011 -> 08:29 AM) Or how about this wild one ... On this date in 1995, the White Sox and Tigers treated 10,813 at Tiger Stadium to a good old fashioned slugfest....Ray Durham, Ron Karkovice and Craig Grebeck hit consecutive home runs marking just the fourth time in club history that feat has been accomplished. Durham's dong was the first of his career. That name should be assigned to the next person to join this site.

QUOTE (Tex @ May 25, 2011 -> 05:52 AM) Just a side note, once I understood that "legalese" was actually "precise and exact" I understood it much better.... I don't feel that I can read any legal document without being completely confused. Each paragraph seems to contradict the one it follows. That said, the original post looks good to me. Of course, like most legal documents, I read the first three sentences and assumed the rest was fine.

QUOTE (SoxPride56 @ May 13, 2011 -> 08:16 PM) I didn't realize anything until you said something, but it is on my TV as well. I checked 3 in the house, all with that pink tint. I don't have any color problems, but I want to choke my tv. Every time the Sox are on WGN, the crowd mics are louder than the announcers. I don't know if it's a local thing (Cox AZ) or if other peopl;e have the same problem. I didn't mind it so much when DJ was in the booth, but I don't like missing out on Stone or Wimpy.

QUOTE (maggsmaggs @ May 9, 2011 -> 08:21 PM) If you think Paulie is gonna reach 550, you also love some other stuff (it's white and powdery). J/K Sounds like you're talking about PK's "Gold Bond Medicated Powder!"

Goe'd to the local buffet with the family yesterday. Packed. Line out the door. At least everyone showed up in their best t-shirts. Happy Mother's Day, for sure.

Beatle Paul McCartney getting married again. http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/stopthepr...-nancy-shevell/ I don't understand why celebs keep marrying. I tend to doubt that most are religious (or even have outside forces pressuring them to conform), so why do it?

QUOTE (Art Vandelay @ May 5, 2011 -> 07:46 AM) He was saying this year's White Sox team is better than the '67 Red Sox. Ok, Hawk. I thought the same thing. Looking at the '67 Sawx roster, it's not as outlandish as it sounded. Only Yaz is a great. http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/BOS/1967.shtml I do tire of Hawk making statements like this though.

QUOTE (Controlled Chaos @ May 2, 2011 -> 08:50 AM) Maybe he was feeling/looking good because he was the one who actually pulled the trigger. Not that you should care, but I think it's pretty cool that one of the people that I recognize as a conservative on this site posted that pic.

Mission accomplished!

QUOTE (flippedoutpunk @ Apr 28, 2011 -> 11:12 AM) Holy crap this is a baseball forum?? I glanced at your banner (if that's what it's called), and thought that Frank's poor daughter looks just like him.

Skip to 2:58. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=684cTZ_2Pdo...feature=related What can I say, I grew up Brady.

I don't want to overstate my value to the team, but I haven't watched a minute of the Sox yet this season. I'm sure once I start sitting back, relaxing and strapping it down, the Sox will, too. So we've got that going for us - which is good.

OK - I went down the rabbit hole for a little while with the google advanced search. And now I forget what I read about the roids issue (was a pretty hot topic a few years ago), but I didn't make a Manny alegation that I was able to find. Milkman and Steff did have a little fight in regard to ARow. Started slow, ended with Steff calling Milkman a douche. I will have to remember not to use google adv search again as it would lead to hours of unproductivity.

I've only heard highlights, haven't been able to see any games live yet, so it might be just be in the small sample that I've heard that Hawk sounds different. He sounds old. He sounds like he has a new accent. Did he get new teeth? Am I crazy?

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Apr 12, 2011 -> 09:59 PM) I remember saying that Rowand was an obvious juicer years ago and Steff tearing me a new one because there was just no way it was possible. Her defense of Rowand had something to do with him being a great guy with a great family. Solid stuff. I think I mentioned Manny Ramirez as a suspect in the same thread and was shouted down. Damn search feature.

QUOTE (docsox24 @ Apr 5, 2011 -> 09:11 PM) I have sat there a bunch of times. You get a parking pass for the lot closest to the park and right by the scout seats entrance. You eat a buffet underneath, no view of the field but there is a lot of cool sox memorabilia. The food is pretty good, very similar to the stadium club. Unlimited drinks, beer and alcohol. Then you go to your seats, which is a decent ways away. There is a popcorn machine, a barrel of peanuts and a good humor type ice cream freezer with various treats. Also a pop machine. The seats are cushioned and bigger than the regular seats. Of course its a great view. There is a waitress service there with a menu of food like they serve in the club level. bascially sandwiches and nacho type things. You can get beer and some select mixed drinks. There is also a guy who walks around and throws hot dogs and polish sausage at you. Thats pretty fun. Its a fun thing to do as a treat, but you would go broke sitting there a lot! I actually like the Jim Beam club better. Less people in there, the food is better and the bar is right next to the seats. But both are a great time. My brother gets those seats through work and I've gone with him a few times. ^ This is a pretty concise breakdown of the experience. There's a small buffet, before the game underneath. Pizza, pasta, carving station, chicken, etc. I wouldn't fill up here, though. When you get to your seats, you get a menu and can order sangwiches, hot dogs, etc. It's a good idea to tip the guy inside a few bucks (he'll bring you your drinks), and then outside, if it's a different person (and I think it usually is), tip that person a decent amount in the first inning and order drinks and food as you wish during the game. Have fun. It's worth it.

* Fantasy football pre-internet was an entirely different animal. My league used to have both opponents use a newspaper to total up the score of the game and compare with each other, then call the total into the commish. * The library thing is huge. I made the trek to the library once or twice a week in grade school and high school, and there were semesters in college that I might as well have lived there. Sometimes it was just a quiet place to get work done. * Downloading music. In the mid-80s I used to hold my "boombox" up to the tv and record music off the video channel. I didn't have cable (wasn't in our area yet), so I think it was channel 60 or 66 that had videos on every day for an hour. * Maybe one of the older guys can tell us how Sox games were back in the pre-internet days. That would probably be well received.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Mar 30, 2011 -> 10:18 PM) Dude, I HATE your avy. Any chance you'll ever change it? If it ever goes out of style.

Don Mattingly needs to grow the mustache again. I can't get used to seeing him without it. I have a cousin who did the same thing. My cousin hasn't had a mustache for 25 years, and still every time I see him I think he looks odd without it. C'mon Donny Baseball, do the right thing.

QUOTE (Tex @ Mar 26, 2011 -> 03:30 AM) Some of the guys around here with 20+ years following the team have had some side chats about the expectations of the newer fans. Fans in their twenties have arguable witnessed the greatest streak in White Sox history since the 1910's. Fans under thirty rightfully expect this team to compete for a world series every year. Fans in their 40s and 50s have much different expectations. Winning a world series should be the goal of every mlb team. But as a fan to expect that from your team, you are setting yourself up for frustration year after year. The most successful franchise, the Yankees average winning a ws every four years. Eight franchises have never won a world series, five have never been to a world series. The second most successful team, the Cards, average a world series win every 10 years. The sixth most successful, the Reds or Pirates, a win every 22 years, and they may never win another one. Teams win ws when things go right. No one has amassed a team that couldn't be beat. No matter the level of talent, teams win the ws with a little luck, guys having career years, balls falling their way. Try to focus on what can go right for the team to win. There are hundreds of ways for the team to fail, hell only one team is going to win the ws, all the rest either won't get there or lose once they are there. Stuff will go wrong on every one of those teams. It isn't that hard, it doesn't prove your baseball acumen, to figure out what can go wrong. Guys are getting too old, guys don't have enough experience, guys never did it before, it just isn't that hard to find the weak spots. IMHO, to survive as a baseball fan to the ripe old age of BigEdWalsh, YASNY, or FlaSoxxJim you have to be a fan of the game. You have to enjoy a baseball game, win or lose. Be a fan for 30 years and your team will lose over 2,000 games. Attend a lot of games and your team will probably lose close to half of them. Find something to get excited about. Enjoy the sights, the sounds, the smell of the ball park. Baseball is an awesome game. If you can't watch a well played game where your team loses without throwing s*** and being upset, you're killing yourself for nothing. The old guys around here have sat through many a White Sox season where we knew the team had zero chance of making the playoffs. We came away with some great memories. People we met, things we did, great experiences at the games. We saw some great plays from terrible players, we watched some interesting characters. A good season was when a team was competitive until the Bears started playing. Relax and watch the season unfold. Be a fan, look for what could go right. Let your expectations rise, this team, if things go their way, will be in the hunt all summer. Get out of the gloomy shadows of negativity and spend some time in the sunshine thinking about all that is right with the 2011 Sox. If things go to hell, there will be plenty of time to wail and cry. But April is for optimism. Grandpa Tex and his wooden teeth have spoken.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Mar 10, 2011 -> 07:48 AM) Make sure to check out the Cheesecake Factory. This made me laugh.

I was actually thinking of starting a similar thread. Plantar fasciitis. I have it really bad in my right foot, and I think favoring led to it in the left - I have it there, too. I went to a foot doctor and he said that I broke my ankle - I think it happened about 20 years ago (I thought it was a sprain at the time), and it didn't heal correctly. That probably led to the plantar injuries. I've had inserts in both shoes for more than a year, but I don't see any improvement. I think those things are a scam because I had them years ago and never saw any improvement. And those things are expensive. Anyway, I stretch and massage my feet constantly. No improvement. I've been icing and heating them with a gel pack for the last few days, and I've noticed some improvement. I'd like to be able to exercise without pain, too. If anyone has a cure, or even if you want to take a shift massaging my feet....

Seinfeld. Great show in its time, but I can't make myself watch the reruns. It just seems so dated.