Milkman delivers

QUOTE (YASNY @ Aug 22, 2008 -> 08:50 AM) Stat worthiness has been discussed on Soxtalk ad nausem, and will continue to be discussed. But you take one sentence out of a "favorite players" bio because you happen to disagree with and start sniping. The man was enjoying writing these bio's and had stepped up and volunteered to help write as many he can. Now, he's washed his hands of the whole damn thing and I don't blame him one iota. This thread, and the others like it are meant to light and fun. There are plenty of threads where discussion and disagreement can take place and be totally appropriate, but this wasn't one them. Basically, by turning into a discussion on the value of a save to judge a player, you hijacked the thread. Oh, and Milkman, before you jump all over me for this post, I took into consideration what you said about me being critical of negative posts and decided you may have a valid point so I backed off and have refrained from doing that quite so much. However, I couldn't let this go without putting in my two cents. It's not so much the negative posts themselves, it's the thread that they occured and the time and effort being put into these threads by various people to make this a fun and enjoyable series of threads. Ha, it's all good.

QUOTE (whitesoxbrian @ Aug 21, 2008 -> 11:37 PM) They didn't necessarily give up on Volquez- they just had much more faith in Hamilton. He didn't say they gave up on him. He said they gave him up. Those are clearly different.

QUOTE (Brian @ Aug 22, 2008 -> 03:50 PM) Alright, here we go. I didn't think "Tropic Thunder" was as bad as a lot of people say. I laughed a few times and was entertained. It wasn't as great as some critics say. McConaghey was awesome and RDJr. It's one of those movies I watched, liked, but won't buy or watch again. The part I laughed the most at, was when McConaghey tells Stiller that he is lucky that he gets to pick his son. Than pans to the photo of him with the cheesy smile next to his son. I have no idea why I found it so hilarious, but it took me like a minute to settle down. Also, like 4 people walked out in the middle of it. I think that is stupid. You pay $7 a piece to see a movie than leave in the middle of it. I have paid to see some stinkers and stuck around for the whole thing so I don't feel jipped. First of all, that's an insult to my proud Gypsy heritage. Second, I've only walked out of (I think) three movies in my entire life. And I've seen a ton of movies. The reason I understand walking out of a movie goes back to basic economics. You already paid the money. It's a sunk cost, and you are not getting it back. But, you could presumably spend the rest of the time, that you would have been in the theater, doing something you actually like. I wouldn't do it that often, as I said that I've only done it a couple of times, but sometimes it is warranted.

QUOTE (Texsox @ Aug 21, 2008 -> 07:55 PM) The team is in first. We put togewther a list of the fan's favorites and instead the usual soxtalk negativity comes s***ting through. What you call negativity, another poster may call the truth. Felix didn't say Gagne had a better season to be a dick, he said it because he believes that Gagne had a better season.

How many blown saves did Thigpen have in his record year?

QUOTE (DBAHO @ Aug 21, 2008 -> 09:24 AM) Oh just that you don't like him. Don't know if I should have said disagree or not (basically because he's been my favorite wrestler over the past decade since the E & C days), and the way he has evolved over time. Yeah, it came across weird to me.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ Aug 20, 2008 -> 12:20 PM) The United States male volleyball team erases 1 to 0 and 2 to 1 game deficits to win 3-2 over Serbia in the tiebreaker and advance to the semifinals. The women's volleyball team won in almost identical fashion over Italy yesterday to advance to the semifinals as well. The women's water polo team is already in the finals, and the men's water polo team plays Serbia (seems like quite a few battles between those two nations in the olympics) in the semifinals. The beach volleyball finals on the men's and women's sides both have U.S. teams in it too. The U.S. softball team is in the finals after an extra inning win last night, and the U.S. baseball team plays Cuba in the semifinals. The men's and women's basketball teams are in the semifinals as well obviously. As for Usain Bolt, wow. Even by his lofty standards, wow. Hehehe.

QUOTE (DBAHO @ Aug 20, 2008 -> 10:56 AM) Completely disagree there with you Milkman, I'd say Edge has carried that company for the past 18-24 months (basically agreeing with Paul Heyman here). He's the best all round heel the WWE has had for a long, long time. I wonder if they're goin to carry on with the Vicky / Fox storyline at any point though from here. Also I'll be seeing Raw on Saturday Night being taped at Madison Square Garden. Wish it was Smackdown I was seeing though. What do you disagree with?

QUOTE (kyyle23 @ Aug 19, 2008 -> 04:11 PM) Ouch tony, 1 for 7 I think that deserves its own thread.

Tonight?

QUOTE (Brian @ Aug 18, 2008 -> 07:22 PM) God forbid Mark pitch over it at least. He never does. I've said this for years.

This is what I despise about Buehrle. You make an error/mistake behind him, and it's a guarantee that he'll give up about 5 runs.

Is there going to be a really good QB in the draft this year?

QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ Aug 18, 2008 -> 06:04 PM) Nobody has won a medal in boxing yet. However, the US only has one guy who even made the medal rounds. I think boxing has dropped significantly in popularity in the US which hurts the medal count. But Olympic boxing just has no similarities with the type of boxing Americans are used to seeing and I don't think American fighters are trained to be successful in that atmosphere. You mean Olympic boxing is entertaining?

QUOTE (Brian @ Aug 18, 2008 -> 05:56 PM) I was really surprised how much I got into Cena/Batista. Thought it would be crap but was very good IMO. Poor Edge. Carry a show for a month and than put over the injury prone returnee. I don't like Edge at all. I know he's a great wrestler and all, but I just don't care for him. And to be honest, I felt a little angry at the end that he had to do the job.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 18, 2008 -> 09:03 AM) The first time we have won a season series with Oakland since 2000. Also this was the first time since that same year that we won two straight games in Oakland. So, I was basically right. Our struggles in Oakland seem to be way exaggerated in the last few seasons (since 2005). I'm sure we still don't have a winning record there, but I'd bet it's not truly awful.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Aug 18, 2008 -> 05:25 PM) only if you touch yourself Way ahead of you.

QUOTE (kyyle23 @ Aug 18, 2008 -> 05:25 PM) maybe just maybe. If you promise to show your pretty face I'll post pics.

Anyone going to be in there tonight?

QUOTE (The Critic @ Aug 18, 2008 -> 05:03 PM) That must have been some kind of inside joke between Norm and Bob, or Norm and the other comics. If it wasn't, then Norm completely mailed it in. Either way, he sucked the funny right out of the room. It was painful to watch. I didn't laugh once. Then Jeff Garlin came up and failed at his routine, too, and he was clearly trying to be funny. Cloris was great, no matter who wrote her jokes. Her delivery was spot-on. My favorite joke of hers (trying to repeat it as best I can, but the gist is there): "Would someone please punch me in the face so I can see some stars?" :lol: The other comedians seemed to enjoy it. I'm looking around the internet, and it seems people are taking polar opposite stances on that routine. People like me, who thought it was hilarious/original, and people that think it was pathetic.

QUOTE (Leonard Zelig @ Aug 18, 2008 -> 03:13 PM) Yeah, Norm had to do that on purpose. I thought Cloris Leachman was surprisingly funny. I would have liked to hear the part of Gilbert's joke that they totally cut out. I don't know if it could be more obvious that it was on purpose. He was telling jokes that you'd hear in first grade or the early 1900's. I wonder if Cloris Leachman actually wrote her own stuff, though.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 18, 2008 -> 11:15 AM) I want to go back and watch the whole show, but Norm MacDonald's bit during the Bob Saget roast was the least funniest thing I think I have ever seen. I have seen trainwrecks that were funnier than that. I like Norm MacDonald, so I disagree. I believe he was intentionally telling awful jokes in such a deadpan, sarcastic tone that he pushed you to the point of having to laugh at how bad it was. It seemed like a mockery of what made him so great on Weekend Update. He was given terrible jokes to work with back then, but told them anyway and mocked them in doing so. It's probably a very acquired taste. Gilbert Gottfried was, by far, the funniest up there, though. So, if you have any proof that BOB SAGET RAPED AND KILLED A GIRL IN 1990, stop gossiping and go to the police.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Aug 18, 2008 -> 07:16 AM) I think i read in the recap this is our first series win in Oakland in 7 or 8 years I think we won a few series there in the last couple of years.

QUOTE (Jenks Heat @ Aug 17, 2008 -> 08:19 PM) ESPN Radio had some stupid poll of who is greater Phelps or the cubs. The cubs were getting 64% of the vote, I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP! Well, they're very similar when you think about it. One has broken the all-time Olympic gold medal count and the record for gold medals in a single Olympiad, while the other hasn't won a World Series since 1908 or been to one since 1945.

Wow, that HHH/Khali match was the best match of the night, so far. I don't see Khali very much, but I have to admit that he's come a long way since first coming to the WWE. That's not saying too much, but I mean it as a compliment.