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QUOTE (Flash Tizzle @ Oct 31, 2009 -> 04:01 PM) I'm with Milk, I'd like to hear some of those. I've been in a similar situation and could definitely relate. Well, aside from the murder angle to the story. I've worked overnights before at Toyota Park (a 20,000+ seat stadium) in Bridgeview and it's an eerie experience. It's hard to explain until you're there, by yourself, at 2:00am, when it's pitch black out and there are no lights on in the stadium. You begin to think to yourself, "no one is within 500 ft of this stadium; what is something happens?" The overnight person's duty is simply to monitor the cameras and occasionally patrol certain areas of the stadium, but even then, there's that slight part of me that would expect something weird to appear on screen. And then when I attempt to look back on it (all video is continuously recorded) it wouldn't be there. Or I'd be walking through the stadium checking to see if all doors were shut and would come across a pale woman standing, starring at me at the other end of a long hallway. Even though I don't believe in ghosts, there's always that feeling of dread when you're by yourself. I worked Security at Grand Geneva in Lake Geneva for five years and even there it's a little creepy sometimes walking the hallways at night. But, NOTHING like the hallways at the Abbey. Jesus!

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Oct 31, 2009 -> 01:58 PM) Please tell them, seriously. Well, for starters, the murder was in 1974. I began working there in 1980. A few people that I worked with were employed there when the murder happened. A maid was brutally murdered in a room where she had been cleaning. The murder was sadistic, violent and sexual. A guy who worked Security had been a County deputy and was on the scene at the time of the killing. He knew all the grisly details. He was one of a number of Security guys who several times saw "Paula" walking in the hallways late at night. One of them told me that he passed a woman in a hallway one night and felt something was kinda weird about her. He turned immediately after passing her but she wasn't there. The guy who was a county deputy saw her at least twice that he told me about right away after it happened. He told me he saw her a lot.. He said she would often just pass from one room to another across the hall without a sound, without a door opening and closing. . One of my co-workers was in the basement one night with another Security officer. They were down at housekeeping to get a cot and they saw Paula and said she walked right into a wall and just vanished. My co-worker was telling me about this about a half-hour after it had happened and he had goosebumps. He said it really freaked him out. The only things that I ever witnessed was once seeing someone in the office out of the corner of my eye. She moved really fast and just sort of was suddenly there and then gone. But, I definitely briefly saw her and it was a woman. Another time I was going to a restaurant to Z out the register and as I approached the restaurant double doors just slowly opened up for me. These were glass doors. There was nobody else around and being that they were glass I would have seen if there was somebody on the other side opening the doors. This was indoors and there was no air-conditioning or breeze. There's no explanation for the doors opening the way they did. We used to get our work done and take turns going to rooms to have a little nap (this was third shift remember). On a couple of occasions I had such an uncomfortable feeling in rooms. I just felt that I wasn't alone. It was very creepy and I'd get kinda a sense of dread. One time I was awakened by someone touching my arm and trust me, I was alone. Walking down hallways late at night I often felt very creeped out and was almost afraid to look behind me. Oh, one other weird thing. There are 334 rooms in the hotel and while I worked there, 2 other hotel guests died. One died in a restaurant and the other died jerking off in his bed. But, the strange thing was they were both occupants of the same room, which I might add was not the room the murder had happened in. Just a strange coincidence. Just for the record this was at The Abbey in Fontana, Wisconsin.

Wow. That was really hard. I got 59. The hardest ones are the newer teams that haven't been around forever.

The Shining is for me easily the scariest movie ever. The original The Haunting is real good too. Being old as I am, I love the old Universal horror movies, Frankenstein, Dracula, The Wolfman, The Mummy and all the sequels too. On the subject of The Shining, I worked nights for fifteen years at a resort where a grisly murder had happened (not too many years before I worked there) and I could tell you some pretty creepy stories.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Oct 31, 2009 -> 06:53 AM) Favorite Thanksgiving plate(what do you put on your plate for your first dinner "run") That's a good one. How about favorite sports teams to hate?

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Oct 28, 2009 -> 06:38 PM) You can pick out any 6 or 7 guys on Soxtalk, and make them the on field staff for the Yankees and they are still going to make the playoffs. Could I be the first base coach, please???

QUOTE (knightni @ Oct 27, 2009 -> 05:14 PM) I lose to a guy by 80 that was 1-5 and started a guy on his bye week. :| That's too funny! Not to you I'm sure.

QUOTE (Felix @ Oct 27, 2009 -> 05:16 PM) Awesome. Sly and the Family Stone is fantastic. I almost saw Sly and the Family Stone at Grant Park in 1970. Problem was they didn't show up and a riot ensued. It's generally believed that the There's A Riot Goin' On album was in reference to that summer day in Chicago, but Sly denies it. Anyway, that was a crazy day. Lots of people were injured and the riot spilled over into the Loop where cars were overturned and store windows smashed. I got the hell outta there pretty quick. But not before I stopped at Rose's Records and bought the Electric Flag album A Long Time Comin'. Funny how ya remember some things. 1. Emmaretta = Deep Purple 2. Black Pearl = Sonny Charles & The Checkmates 3. No Rain = Blind Melon 4. Hey St. Peter = Flash and the Pan 5. Do You Believe In Magic = The Lovin' Spoonful 6. Drivin' = The Kinks 7. Stroll On = The Yardbirds 8. 21st Century Schizoid Man = King Crimson 9. T. B. Sheets = Van Morrison 10. Hells Bells = AC/DC

1. I'm Flying Home = Merrel Fankhauser & H.M.S. Bounty 2. You're On My Mind = The Animals 3. Nightmares = The Creation 4. Never Tell Your Mother She's Out of Tune = Jack Bruce 5. Lord Franklin = Martin Carthy 6. Stone Cold Fever = Humble Pie 7. Little Miss Can't Be Wrong = Spin Doctors 8. Stranded = Budgie 9. Buffalo Stance = Neneh Cherry 10. Family Affair = Sly & The Family Stone Bonus: An Invitation To Cry = The Magicians

It surprised me that Luke Appling wasn't among the leaders, at least at the bottom of the list. I know he wasn't a power hitter by any stretch of the imagination but the guy played about 20 years for the Sox. I figured if he hit 5 or so a year he'd at least be ahead of Ron Karkovice!

Rest, Critic. Get plenty of rest and have some chicken noodle soup.

Koala bears are cute.

1. Sweet and Dandy = Toots and the Maytals 2. We Gotta Get You A Woman = Todd Rundgren 3. Heroes Are Hard To Find = Fleetwood Mac 4. Roundabout = Keef Hartley Band 5. Spoonful = Cream 6. Stop Your Sobbing = The Pretenders 7. Keep a Knockin' = The Sonics 8. Sweet Angeline = Mott The Hoople 9. Fast Cars = The Buzzcocks 10. Theme From An Imaginary Western = Mountain

20/20. Helps being old.

Two weeks in a row I've had next to nothing from Robbie Gould. Yesterday Hines Ward was slightly more than 17 points under his projected. Ouch!! Fred Jackson and Leon Washington had not so great days too. Crap. I pretty much have to hope McNabb has a crummy game tonight and the Eagles maybe get shutout because my opponent has both McNabb and Akers. Currently my lead in slightly over 14.

Boom-shaka-laka-laka-boom (boom) ...Boom-shaka-laka-laka-boom (boom)!

QUOTE (MHizzle85 @ Oct 25, 2009 -> 12:32 AM) 15/28 for me. I got 15 too. I wonder if we had the same 15?

Yes indeed, and now it's down to VII.

I love that video. That was probably the coolest moment of my White Sox fandom. What a moment! This is another clip. Pretty good.

Xavier University of Louisiana.

Sad to hear about Soupy. Here's Hunt and Tony in their first band. Hunt was only 11 or 12. Tony and the Tigers

Bulls = 73-9 A bit more realistically, 43-39.

QUOTE (Tex @ Oct 21, 2009 -> 06:49 AM) I miss the stadium I f***ing miss Chicago! Thanks for posting that SockMe. Incidentally, I used to live in Glen Ellyn (back in the early 70's). In the condos across the street from Glenbard West.

Can't forget about The Edge.

1. I Was Made To Love Her = Stevie Wonder 2. Riding With The Angels = Samson 3. It's Just A Thought = Creedence Clearwater Revival 4. Pictures of Lily = The Who 5. If 6 Was 9 = The Jimi Hendrix Experience 6. Jump Into The Fire = Harry Nilsson 7. Tangled Up In Blue = Bob Dylan 8. Care of Cell 44 = The Zombies 9. Itchycoo Park = Small Faces 10. Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon = Urge Overkill