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And btw, I know the Hawks played last night but what a terrible showing of fans last night given that it was half price Monday and the weather was immaculate. But I guess it's to be expected with the way the team has played.

QUOTE (T R U @ May 4, 2010 -> 01:37 PM) Hey like I said, if you liked the original one there really isnt any reason you wont enjoy this one.. I liked the original one but I was in 4th grade at the time. My tastes probably aren't the same after 20+ years.

Trivia question: What are the maximum number of outs in an inning?

I cheered him last night in his first AB but also wanted to see him go 0-4 with 4 GIDPs.

QUOTE (Capn12 @ May 4, 2010 -> 02:54 PM) Optimal lineup IMO. Thats about as good as we're gonna get right now. I agree with your 2nd statement not your first. Having Rio lead off or bat 2nd is optimal. He needs to see more ABs than Pierre or Beckham. But then again we know Ozzie won't do that.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 4, 2010 -> 02:55 PM) Well of course everyone remembers those!! If D. Jeter made the catch that he did in the 9th inning, we would have never seen the end of it. I still don't think I've ever been as angry in my life as when Ozzie let Hermanson pitch in Game 3 in the 8th inning. Probably lost 8 years of my life that night...but it was worth it! I want to punch everyone that says they are a Sox fan and went to bed before that game was over. For real. I wound up walking about 6 miles home in the middle of the night because I had no money on me (just my CTA pass) and didn't realize when I got off on the Belmont Blue Line stop that the bus no longer ran at night. Neither did the Addison bus.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ May 4, 2010 -> 02:42 PM) http://mapcenter.hamweather.com/records/7d...ax,highmin,snow Look at the amount of low temp records just in the last WEEK. And yeah, the same graph also shows the number of high temp records too (274 v. 203). My point is that if there was some general warming trend, it makes no sense that there would also be low temp records (especially that many). To me that just shows that weather patterns change on a daily basis. Have you ever taken a statistics class? Are you familiar with terms like exponential smoothing or moving averages?

We must preserve our family values and not allow the gays to marry.

Unfortunately I believe Gavin will allow 5 hits today.

I see no reason why it hasn't been fully repealed yet. (DADT)

I know it's a long read but it's rather fascinating... Do 'Family Values' Weaken Families?

I really hope he figures it out soon. We can't afford to have that type of production out of the 2 hole if we want to get back into this thing. The walks yesterday were a positive.

I was pretty close in the game thread. I called a no hitter from Peavy and he only gave up 4.

Happy birthday!

Lost re-run tomorrow night, right?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 3, 2010 -> 10:11 PM) If you look at his career year by year, it is pretty easy to see which of the years doesn't fit. How did his CS look on TV? He looked safe from my perspective at the game.

QUOTE (flavum @ May 3, 2010 -> 09:49 PM) If anyone went to the game is reading this, what were people booing about in the 3rd inning? Good fight? I think some douche Cub fan was starting s*** in LF.

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 3, 2010 -> 03:07 PM) What the f*** difference does it make where he bats? Since you don't think lineups matter, you'd be ok with something like this? Paulie Kotsay Pierre Teahen Ramirez AJ Beckham Carlos Jones

QUOTE (Cknolls @ May 3, 2010 -> 02:49 PM) Except when its inside a woman. :lolhitting :lolhitting :lolhitting :lolhitting I look forward to your comedy central special.

QUOTE (Controlled Chaos @ May 3, 2010 -> 02:40 PM) Think you need to look up the word murder. Having machine guns set up to automatically kill anything that moves = murder in most sane people's standards.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ May 3, 2010 -> 02:37 PM) Sometimes people tend to get heated in political discussions, they should always be accounted for. People often say over the top things, such as that, in such discussions. Take them with a grain of salt. Of the 4 other couples at the table, none of them disagreed with that suggestion. In fact, they all thought it was reasonable. I was floored. Perhaps I was raised differently but advocating murder is unacceptable.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ May 3, 2010 -> 02:32 PM) That doesn't mean they have zero compassion. I think it'd take more than a singular conversation to make such a judgment on a person.

Back to the incredibly effective duo of Pierre and Beckham at the top of the lineup.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 3, 2010 -> 02:22 PM) I just wish Buehrle and Danks were pitching so that they could pick him off like eight times. You really think he'd reach base 8 times?

Just wanted to interject a little story. Went to a baptism and luncheon yesterday in the burbs for a childhood friend's daughter. The wife and I were assigned to sit at a table with a bunch of people we didn't know. Somehow the topic of conversation switched to Arizona and the immigration issue. The 2 of us proceeded to listen to everyone else comment on their opinions on the matter which included everything from the least alarming ("round 'em all up and ship 'em out!") to the disconcerting ("they should have M-16s set up along the border with heat sensors to kill on sight"). And this was a very serious discussion, not lighthearted barbs. It was hard to bite my tongue sitting at a table of ultra right wingers but it made me sad that there are so many people out there with absolutely zero compassion.