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QUOTE(Dick Allen @ Mar 16, 2008 -> 06:39 PM) No, my point was since the White Sox let him become a free agent and he did hit 40 homers and had a big year, not many people would have thought there was any chance of him being back, and most likely if the Sox didn't win the title, he would not have been back. A lot of players have been getting rid of Boras lately, and Joe may step in like ARod and take over at some point. Its a risk, especially considering the SS is also a FA to be, but might be worth it. It only will be if the rotation is at least half as good as KW has it cracked up to be. If pitching won't be a problem, like he said several months ago, and he's right, acquiring Roberts without cutting into the line-up makes this team a lot better. Usually Boras is cut out of the mix AFTER he has already bagged his client a huge payday. Sheffield, Jones, A-Rod all got their big paydays before they let him go. I dont know that Crede is going to take that risk

QUOTE(bigruss22 @ Mar 16, 2008 -> 02:29 PM) Thanks guys, thats all im looking for, just trying to reinforce my feeling that I should stay out of it(which I prefer anyway ). Alright resume your nonhighschool normal lives The only thing I would say, if anything, is in regards to the pants-getting-into "pssst. protection. that is all"

QUOTE(bigruss22 @ Mar 16, 2008 -> 01:51 PM) You guys suck I didnt ask or want to be in this situation, but whateve I am now. Since I usually avoid this type of stuff I wondered if anybody else here had some advice, guess not, oh well All I am saying is that if it is indeed a high school drama, just let it play out. high school kids are high school kids, they are gonna do what they want because they need to figure it out.

is this really set in High School? If so, I have no comment

QUOTE(fathom @ Mar 16, 2008 -> 12:01 PM) Virginia has been extended a bid to the CBI. Bradley accepted an exclusive bid because they felt they had no shot at the NIT http://www.pjstar.com/stories/031608/SPO_BG2DMNS5.080.php

I wonder if the CBI is going to change the NIT selection process. Whereas before they had to exclude the BCS conference teams with sub-par records, now they can include those schools and usher off the non-BCS schools to the CBI and not have to worry about as much of a backlash because the teams were left out.

QUOTE(The Beast @ Mar 16, 2008 -> 11:23 AM) And I thought I was going to read a thread full of intellectual thoughts. Bummer. In the SLAM forum? hardly

Just noticing that this post was at 9:10 and the deep thoughts thread was created at 8:57. Im guessing the local convenience store had to restock the funyuns and nachos at 9:35, and rock was drunk dialing at 9:54.

QUOTE(Dick Allen @ Mar 16, 2008 -> 08:31 AM) Carlos Zambrano in the Suntimes: ''I told my family and my friends that before my career ends, I want to play for the White Sox. Right now, my priority is helping this club. That's what I am trying to do. But I used to be, when I was growing up, I was a White Sox fan. But every time I say that, the Chicago Cubs fans get jealous and pissed off.'' LMAO!!!! That is going to turn the Cubs faithful on him in a hurry if he starts off slow

What do you think would be the worse reaction, seeing an adult with braces, or seeing an adult with a gap between his teeth that should have been fixed years ago? Get it done and over with, you will be happy you did

SLAM deserves a Soxtalk Hall of Shame forum for posting while inebriated. I bet that it would be quite busy after games and in the offseason.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Mar 15, 2008 -> 09:20 AM) You're right, of course the audience now is a little more sophisticated than comic book readers in 1963. Still in all, just looking at comics I think Marvel and (especially) DC have retconned some of the coolest features of their respective universes out of existence by trying to keep things interesting after a several-decades long run. I guess I'm just the crusty old guy that doesn't want anybody f**king around too much with the things I got off on as a kid. And that is completely understandable. Right now I think that directors biggest problem with adapting comics is retaining the same nostalgic qualities about the movie, and bringing the story up to speed without completely destroying the actual characters sensibilities. We arent going to want to see Batman ask a computer bigger than himself a question about a case, and watch the computer make some beeble bobble noises, blink 50 different panel lights, and spit out a long narrow piece of paper with the answer to his question on it. We dont want to see Superman fight Lex Luthor for the 4th time in 5 movies(although we did. And i think it was a mistake, even though I enjoyed the movie). I think it is pretty safe to say we dont want to see Spiderman with another love story involving Mary jane. But at the same time, what DO we want to see? If you go back through the aforementioned characters storylines, a huge portion of the older comics contain what i said we dont want to see anymore. I think that comic book movies are starting to change from the "origins" that we had to endure because fans are sick of it. they know where the characters are from, how they got there, and what makes them tick. Now lets see them do what they do, and hope that it rocks. Thats pretty much how I feel about the Hulk. We know how he became the Hulk, the movie is supposed to start where the Ang Lee movie finished off, in the Amazon forest. Now the Banner is going to come to terms with himself and fight a bad guy. i cant ask for much more than that from a Hulk story.

Henry Burris vs Crack is a showdown of epic proportions. Im not sure how pudding got a 1 seed, I think it is because Bernstein hates it

QUOTE(DrunkBomber @ Mar 14, 2008 -> 08:40 PM) Ive never seen the original show and Im a big Hirsch fan but I have no idea what is going on there. Is it in the future, is he imaging it? No, the Speedracer movie looks as much like a direct translation as anything you will see. Surreal futuristic car racing, lots of lights and colors, strange sidekicks and friends, huge conglomerate businesses controlling everything, even Racer X from the side making veiled threats. If you ever see the show, and then watch a Speedracer trailer you will see that the Wachowski brothers(or brother and sister, depending on how you look at it) are being as faithful as possible to the source material.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Mar 14, 2008 -> 11:00 AM) Yeah, folks who want comic book heroes to be more plausible just don't get comic books imo. You said you don't want characters to be different from the comic versions, but for that matter the whole reboot of the Hulk origin – lab experiment gone wrong versus the cheesy but brilliant GAMMA BOMB BLAST!!! – is a big revision that irks me. I know that Silver Age comics were really hokey and completely implausible and all, but that's what I loved about them. Heck, the Golden Age stuff was even worse, but if they ever do a film version of the Jay Garrick Flash then he sure as hell had better have gotten his powers by breathing hard water fumes ( :lolhitting ) or I will channel the spirit of Gardner Fox and kick some Hollywod screenwriter's a$$. I believe that the masses that pay to see the movies in the theatres have a bigger impact on "re-imaginations" and "reboots" that we keep seeing. The directors get killed by critics and viewers alike for not being realistic enough in this day and age of CGI effects and HD. The Hulk in the comic books evolved into something different, I think I can accept a movie evolution as well.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Mar 13, 2008 -> 01:24 AM) Hulk looks good in the trailer, but I dislike the updated abomination from what i can see in the trailer. I also see that Robert Downey is going to cameo in this film as Tony Stark,so having some actor continuity in the new slate of films will be good. I assume that means both Downy and Norton will reprise their roles for th Avengers film when it comes out. there is an interview of the director on screenrant, here is part of his explanation of the Abomination:

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Mar 14, 2008 -> 09:43 AM) OK, then, I'll rescind my suspicions over your herp acumen. And now I know who to talk with about crazy-cool things like anoles having two penises and such that usually make normal people wriggle a bit uncomfortably. LOL, we can talk herps anytime. I had a Vieled Chameleon for 6 years before he passed away(considering life expectancy is 4-6 years, I wasnt completely heartbroken). Its going to be a while, but I think I am going for a monkey-tailed skink as my next lizard. I havent owned a completely vegetarian lizard since I had an iguana in high school(which had to go, those things are just a pain in the arse). I saw a MT Skink at a herp show and I really liked how laid back they were. If not, I would like a Euromastyx, but the heat specifications for those things are off the charts because they are desert lizards. I think I read somewhere they need a consistent 95- 105 degree spot in their cage, and the rest of the cage can be no cooler than 85 degrees? Thats nuts

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Mar 14, 2008 -> 09:13 AM) Beg differ, but your mad herpetologist skilz apparently aren't what they used to be. The animal pictured in that piece is in fact a New Caledonian crested gecko, Rhacodactylus ciliatus. The spikey projections above the eyes are a dead giveaway. Some other shots of this species that include the more gecko-like anatomical aspects. The head of the animal pictured in the article doesn't look quite as robust as the shots above, but there is quite a bit of morphological variation among the strains sold as pets. The thin-head animals are sometimes called crowned geckos. There is also sexual dimorphism in teh species, with only the males having the crown. And while they have spikes just about everywhere else, none of the Pogona (bearded dragons) species I know of have the eyelash=looking things the crested geckos have. Pagona vitticeps (pic below), is the one typicallly sold as pets, and you can see it's quite a bit different than the crested gecko. the initial picture on the page was changed. It was a Bearded first, then they changed it to a gecko later in the day, probably due to someone like me emailing them about it. I owned both, I had Leopard, brown, and tokay Geckos, and a female Bearded dragon. It was a stock photo from getty images of a dragon on a vet table or something

QUOTE(Reddy @ Mar 14, 2008 -> 02:41 AM) How bout this one: Kaz Matsui-2B- Astros Mar. 13 - 8:03 pm et Kaz Matsui is hoping to return to action this weekend. He's been out for a week with an anal fissure. Source: Astros.mlb.com Related: Felix Pie LOL, was that really the related story? Thats awesome

QUOTE(Texsox @ Mar 14, 2008 -> 09:03 AM) The Sox stance and track record with Boras is going to keep making this difficult. Everyone in baseball knows the situation and will low ball. Joe isnt helping the situation batting .080 either.

I was against this one at first. I have since changed my mind

QUOTE(StrangeSox @ Mar 13, 2008 -> 03:52 PM) Early on, Steve made a comment that pot will not be legalized unless they're some sort of on-the-spot test like their is for alcohol, and I was pointing out examples of other things that impair your driving but for which there are no on-the-spot tests. I was talking about that line of thought, not what you said. Yeah, there are plenty of things that cannot be tested for immediately. In fact, alcohol seems to be in an exclusive group in terms of a breathalyzer

QUOTE(StrangeSox @ Mar 13, 2008 -> 02:45 PM) Put the same warning on the pack/bag of pot. Lots and lots of things can make you too messed up to drive. Can they do breathalyser tests for sleeping pills? pain killers? cough medicine? I would agree if it became legal. At this point it is not, so im not going to continue to argue "well this is also/more dangerous, why isnt it illegal as well?" because it is pointless. I never said anything about a breathalyzer for pot, sleeping pills, pain killers, or cough medecine. I said you could be tested (blood, urine)for narcotics in your system at the time of arrest. You can be too wasted on over the counter stuff to drive. It doesnt happen all the time, but it does happen. QUOTE(Texsox @ Mar 13, 2008 -> 03:10 PM) Step back for a moment. Why are people taking cough medicine and why are they smoking pot? There is a difference in application which is probably relevant. Not too many are texting all their friends to take some Nyquil, but they are making invitations to get baked. Some kids do drink cough medicine for the "high" effect.

QUOTE(Dick Allen @ Mar 13, 2008 -> 01:13 PM) So can Nyquil. Do they have a test for that? Sure, they can test you if you have a some sort of ephedrine in your system. And they put on the bottle "Do not drive or operate heavy machinery...."

LOL, i like the thread name change