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QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Oct 12, 2010 -> 11:49 AM) That sounds mindblowingly good. I disagree. It sounds groin-grabbingly delicious.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 12, 2010 -> 11:20 AM) It depends on the TV/computer. The electronics stores tend to have different levels of sale. There will be a group of top-level items, like a loaded laptop for $250 or the ultimate TV package, that they'll have maybe a dozen or a few dozen on hand for. They do that because the top level sale is what draws in the lines. The people who get there 4 days in advance and camp outside are there for those sales. They're the ones that get on the news. All that publicity is good. They do this in particular with new items that may not have a lot of supply...the Wii, for example, took forever to have enough units to meet demand, so when that first 10 were gone, they were gone. Washer/dryer combos fit this category as well. Those items are usually marked in the ad, it will say "Minimum 10 units available per store". However, the store doesn't want the 25th person in line to come in, see that the #1 tv deal is gone, and just walk out the door and tell everyone in the line "everything's gone you can go home now", so they'll load their stockrooms to the brim with a quality deal on different models of laptops, TV's, whatever. Those may or may not carry the "minimum x units per store" line, because they still want people to come in early to grab them rather than buying something later in the day at a competitor. They will be the ones that are offered until noon, or with a special rebate, whatever. They want you in their store and they want you actually to spend money on those items, so they won't run out of them until late in the day, and they'll be more flexible on the deadlines until they clear that merchandise out. That must have been the deal with my TV. It wasn't absurdly priced, but it was a really good deal and I got it later in the day.

I watched Spinal Tap for the first time yesterday. I enjoyed it, but it was again one of those movies that I can tell was a whole lot funnier when it first came out. Very few movies stay hilarious between generations.

QUOTE (joeynach @ Oct 11, 2010 -> 11:38 PM) I think when the sox committed to pay Jackson something like $2M for the rest of 2010, $8.3M for 2011, and also committed $4M for 1 month of Manny to this payroll that our offseason was going to be very limited. I got the impression that that was our off season spending right there, instead of spending on the 2011 payroll the sox took a shot at 2010 bumped payroll in the 2nd half. That being said i expect the White Sox off season to be very quiet. Most likely AJ, PK, and Bobby are gone, its possible Putz and Vizquel come back because they are cheap. Your catcher is Castro and his $1.2M option, your 3B is Morel/Vizquel, your 1B is Viciedo, and your RF/DH combo is Quentin/Teahen. And with all that your Payroll is still about $95M. I don't see Putz being too cheap. QUOTE (Buehrlesque @ Oct 12, 2010 -> 12:51 AM) I think the Sox will be limited this offseason, but not that limited. Man, that's about as uninspiring a team as $95 million can possibly buy. Let's hope Kenny can make something more interesting than that happen. Exactly what I thought. I don't think it will end up looking that bad, but there's a legitimate chance that it is still very, very bad.

Let's go Giants and Rangers/Rays! Unfortunately, I don't believe there's much chance of any of them taking out the Yankees or Phillies. I gotta be honest, if it ends up being the Yankees/Phillies again in the WS, I'm going to lose a lot of interest in baseball for the foreseeable future.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 12, 2010 -> 07:43 AM) The Giants interrupting their celebration on the Braves field to give a salute to Bobby Cox? Totally awesome. Classy as f***.

QUOTE (pittshoganerkoff @ Oct 12, 2010 -> 07:54 AM) I always say I'm going to get up and find a deal. One of the years I actually will. I'll peruse the ads on Thanksgiving and make up my mind...and then try to actually wake up early. Two years ago, Circuit City had a good deal on flat screens. At the time, I lived just down the road from one. I slept in pretty late and the deal was only supposed to go through 12:00 p.m., but I decided to go when I woke up closer to 2:00. There were still a good amount of TV's and I got one, but that's my only experience of shopping after Thanksgiving.

When are these being posted?

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Oct 11, 2010 -> 11:24 PM) I can imitate most singers I listen to a lot, the high pitched ones like Bruce Dickinson & Steve Perry strain me to no end though. My bests are Axl Rose, Billy Joel, and Andre 3000. That's basically what I was getting at.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Oct 12, 2010 -> 09:44 AM) Thursday's may have been the best one ever, definitely in the top 3. The 80's montage was genius. Wow, we are so far apart. I hardly laughed at it, and you thought it was possibly the best episode ever.

The terrible grammar in all of those quotes tells me all I need to hear.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Oct 11, 2010 -> 11:39 AM) I took Pan's Labyrinth out at the last second. I left it in because of that monster that ate the fairies.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 11, 2010 -> 11:43 AM) 27% would be about where they are if they wound up 8th out of 30 teams. It's also worth noting that if we're being rigorous about the fact that the Sox had money coming in from the Dodgers and Royals, the teams behind them didn't stay fixed during the season. Both teams behind the Sox subtracted from their early season payroll during the year, while the Sox added to it by trading for Jackson. The Angels shed some salary down the stretch (i.e. Fuentes), the Mariners shed a boatload of salary mid-season by dealing Lee. And it's also entirely possible that the teams behind the Sox had people chipping in for their players as well in ways that we don't know about. Except they didn't, as Kalapse said.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 11, 2010 -> 08:31 AM) What kind of metric takes someone in the upper 27% and says "that's closer to 50% than to 1%"? Hey Balta, I know you don't like to be wrong, but is 27 closer to 50 or 1? And where did you even get 27%? Wouldn't it be 33%, if you say they're 10th in the league?

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Oct 11, 2010 -> 07:42 AM) I thought the episode was hilarious. Anything involving that midget dude is priceless. Really, that guy is hilarious.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Oct 10, 2010 -> 07:10 PM) We got $8.5M from the Royals and Dodgers dropping us to 10th or 11th about even with the Twins. Which, as I said, puts us closer to the middle of the pack than the top of the league.

QUOTE (qwerty @ Oct 10, 2010 -> 11:46 PM) How about this? What's that?

QUOTE (Felix @ Oct 9, 2010 -> 12:56 PM) AMC says hi, especially once Walking Dead starts up. I don't think any network is even close to FX.

QUOTE (bucket-of-suck @ Oct 9, 2010 -> 06:30 PM) The Sox took on $120M in new contracts in 2009. Yeah, I want to know where they rank in the MLB in regards to payroll.

QUOTE (joeynach @ Oct 8, 2010 -> 08:09 PM) I dont disagree with you, I think the Phillies are a fine model. They seem to make moves with winning the world series in mind, not just winning the division or getting to the post season. However, I read a really good article I think in Forbes that highlighted how the Phillies were able to make a sustained playoff runs, become and stay a world series contender, and really cement themselves as baseball elite. The article highlighted the sacrifices and strategic planning that was set forth in the late 1990's that laid the foundation for the Phillies team you see today and the last 5 or 6 seasons. Basically the article said the Phillies success in 2008, 2009, 2010 all started when the team made a conscious decision back in the mid to late 1990s to be bad. They traded away their best player in Schilling, committed to reduce payroll, and planned to stock pile high draft picks for next several years. The idea was that they didnt feel they could compete in the current landscape, both economically speaking and player personnel wise. They felt trapped by poor attendance and a dilapidated stadium. So knowing that their new stadium was a few years away, they decided to bite the bullet, put up with fans and media getting on their backs about fielding a poor team and plan for the future. Low and behold they get their new stadium (I think 2003), revenue increases considerably, and they have draft picks such as Utley, Howard, Hamels, Rollins, Werth, Victorino etc on the rise. Their young picks turn out to be stars and they decide to both lock up their own guys with mutually beneficial long term contracts, but also begin to spend $$ effectively to surround their talented core with solid veteran and role players (Lee, Halladay, Ibanez, Polanco, Lidge, etc) . They make splashes for real impact players, the type than can win the World Series for you not just help you get past the Braves. Several 90+ Win seasons, division championships, 1 WS title, 2 NL Pennants later the Phillies plan has come to fruition and the city, team and fans are reaping the reward of effective planning and PLENTY OF PATIENCE!! Man, I've wanted the Sox to do something like this for the past few seasons. Nobody has the patience for it, though.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 8, 2010 -> 09:37 PM) So people are allowed to compare them to other teams, but when the other teams comparisons are used back, that doesn't belong... Sure that makes sense. He was talking about the Twins under the "guise" of talking about Ozzie in the White Sox portion of the site in order to take a dig at people. I don't see how it's not considered baiting, other than the fact that he's an admin. If he had said the same thing in the Diamond Club in one of the threads discussing the Twins, it would make sense. That was just an obvious bait, sorry.

FX has got to be the best overall station at this point.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 8, 2010 -> 05:25 PM) That sums up how I feel about the commentary on the Twins/White Sox matchup too. Then perhaps you should avoid the forum in which the White Sox are always discussed? I see no reason why a post regarding mismanagement of a team that isn't the White Sox should be mentioned in the White Sox forum unless it were only meant to bait certain posters. I'm not a mod, though, so what do I know.

QUOTE (JPN366 @ Oct 8, 2010 -> 05:30 PM) No. This obsession with singing has to stop. Who the f*** doesn't sing? I mean in the shower, in the car, when you're drunk, etc. I'm not talking about going on American Idol.

It's Kind of a Funny Story was awesome, in my opinion. If someone else sees it, let me know.