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QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Nov 14, 2005 -> 02:28 PM) I think Ozzie's been giving the boss down there a few pointers on how to deal with other people. Next thing you know Chavez is going to refer to Fox as "That Mexican f***" LMAO!!!

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Nov 14, 2005 -> 02:28 PM) Definately. I heard the clips on MJ&H and Bruce Levine sounded like a bad college radio rant. He needed to be suspended/fired on the spot. That was horrible. It turned a professional high profile radio show into a complete joke. It totally blew any credibility that he ever had in my eyes. The weird thing was I never heard it.. all of a sudden I got a bunch of emails and text messages.. Then I got the cliffs notes version.. "it was no big deal.. bla, bla. bla.. " and I figured there was more to it. MJH made it seem like there was more also.. but finally I heard the details and it was more pathetic on Bruce's part then I had thought. He's an idiot.. I pass along the bad taste we have for him every time I get the chance..

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Nov 14, 2005 -> 02:21 PM) http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/11/...a.ap/index.html Sometimes I think this guy just talks cause he likes the sound of his own voice. All Venezuelans are like that.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Nov 14, 2005 -> 02:21 PM) Yeah, it took a while for him to find his stride, but I grew to really like his postgame show toward the end of the season. It was really nice to hear all the support when Bruce tried to start s*** with him on the radio.. I sent him the links to a few boards and he appreciated the comments. I wish he was going with.. their loss.

QUOTE(SleepyWhiteSox @ Nov 14, 2005 -> 02:16 PM) I believe mcdonald's owns the real estate, but don't quote me on that. I heard this about what White Hen does.. you buy (rent... ) the franchise rights then they set you up. But if you don't do well then they close you up... no questions asked or answered.

QUOTE(mreye @ Nov 14, 2005 -> 01:56 PM) Oh, OK, an individual store. I thought by "here" you meant the Chicago market. Gotcha. Aren't McDonalds individually owned..? Like White Hens..?

Bryan will be doing pre & post for Notre Dame mens basketball I hear which is good for him. I also hear that the Score will not be bringing him along to do the Sox pre & post.. which, IMO, is bad for Sox fans.

QUOTE(Spiff @ Nov 14, 2005 -> 12:38 PM) Fibula is the one in the back, and it's smaller. That's weird.. I always thought the shin bone was smaller. Thanks spiff.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Nov 14, 2005 -> 12:35 PM) I just can't believe anyone would talk about Steff like that... Aint me.. the word "b****" is nowhere in there..

QUOTE(Tony82087 @ Nov 14, 2005 -> 12:34 PM) No idea, I remember seeing it as a little tid-bit in one of the papers during the playoffs. JR maybe? I have no idea, but I remember reading that it was placed right by the door of the lockeroom. It was right outside Ozzie's office.

LMAO W&O...

QUOTE(Tony82087 @ Nov 14, 2005 -> 12:28 PM) I call that, and raise you this..... http://www.steinersports.com/ssm/control/p...d=WHITPHS016013 If I had the money, I think that is awesome. LMAO.. that is nice.. But I like the picture better. I actually like the wall thing better. I think I am ordering that and taking a piece of it to Soxfest to get it signed.

http://shop.mlb.com/product/index.jsp?prod...6901&cp=1452347

QUOTE(tonyho7476 @ Nov 14, 2005 -> 12:14 PM) So what? you get to buy extra tix to these games? Yes.

QUOTE(tonyho7476 @ Nov 14, 2005 -> 12:12 PM) Steff, my guy is still working on getting me a partial plan in the lower bowl...so I don't know what you mean by order form. Can you explain? It applies to existing holders.

QUOTE(The Critic @ Nov 14, 2005 -> 12:02 PM) I was told late November/early December. That's what I heard as well. Also, for those ticket holders looking for the order form for opening day and Sox/Cubs.. after they get all st orders processed they will be sending them out.

In the middle of earthquake country. Calif. May Build Tunnel in Quake Region Nov 12, 7:46 PM (ET) By GILLIAN FLACCUS ALISO VIEJO, Calif. (AP) - Traffic is so bad along the eastern rim of Los Angeles' suburban ring that regional planners are considering the once unthinkable - an 11-mile tunnel through a mountain range in earthquake country. Critics question the logic of building a multibillion-dollar project in a region so prone to earthquakes that an alternate proposal for a double-decker highway was deemed too dangerous. The tunnel would begin barely a mile from a fault that produced a 6.0-magnitude earthquake about a century ago. "It's absolutely absurd to have a tunnel 700 feet below ground in earthquake country," said Cathryn DeYoung, mayor of Laguna Niguel and a vocal opponent. "I mean, would you want to be in that tunnel?" Planners are due to make a decision in mid November on whether to pursue the project. The proposal for what would be the world's second-longest road tunnel would create a new path between sprawling inland suburbs and Orange County, which has become one of Southern California's fastest-growing job centers. Such a project could cost up to $9 billion and take 25 years. Transportation officials insist something drastic must be done to deal with the crippling traffic congestion between Orange and Riverside counties, which are separated by the 25-mile-long Santa Ana Mountains. Nearly 400,000 people commute into Orange County daily from four surrounding counties and nearly all of them drive. California Highway 91, the only major road connecting Riverside County, where homes are more affordable, to jobs-rich northern Orange County carries 268,000 cars a day, nearly 50,000 more than it was built to handle. Officials expect that to increase over the next 25 years to nearly a half-million cars per day. Howard Gottesman, 44, can spend 1 1/2 hours on Highway 91 to travel just six miles from his job as a property manager in Orange County to his home in Corona, just inside Riverside County. "I call it the longest six miles in the world. It's wear and tear on the car and it's wear and tear on me," said Gottesman. "They need to do something, whether it's double-decking the freeway or tunneling under the mountains. We need relief." Planners for Orange and Riverside counties have spent the past 18 months and $15 million in federal funds studying the issue. A committee of local and regional officials is expected to choose elements from three main alternatives by Nov. 18. Two of those alternatives include a version of the tunnel. Selecting a tunnel option would trigger years more of studies. As currently conceived, the four- or six-lane tunnel would make up more than two-thirds of a 15-mile corridor connecting Interstate 15 with two toll roads in central Orange County. The tunnel would rank second in length to Norway's 15-mile Laerdal Tunnel, which opened in 2000, said Michael Litschi, spokesman for the Orange County Transportation Authority. There are longer railroad tunnels, including the 33.5-mile Seikan Tunnel in Japan and the 31.3-mile Channel Tunnel linking England and France. Litschi said engineers were waiting to see if the committee chooses the tunnel option before doing more studies on the Lake Elsinore fault system, but acknowledged that seismic activity is a "major concern." Local officials have worked closely with a British engineering company that has helped build some of the largest tunnels in the world and has concluded that the tunnel is "viable and feasible," said H. Tony Rahimian, a consultant who helped devise the tunnel proposal. "A tunnel is actually a very safe place. We don't want to run it through the faults and we're going to avoid that," he said. Many critics say a tunnel will never suffice and suggest more mass transit. "Every study shows that you can't build your way out of congestion," said Karl Warkomski, mayor of Aliso Viejo, in southern Orange County. "Eventually, you're going to get a point where you're back to square one - where we are now, or even worse."

A little birdy told me that season ticket holders are up to just under 17K...

QUOTE(rangercal @ Nov 14, 2005 -> 11:42 AM) Yes, the back one is the fibula, the huge upper bone is the femur Thank you Dr. ranger.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Nov 14, 2005 -> 11:29 AM) Technically I guess so. But the meat is processed so it's basically to real ribs what Mac Nuggitzis are to real chicken. LOL.. I don't eat those either. I've maybe eaten lunch from there once in the past year. Grilled Chicken. Although, I do like their breakfast sammiches..

QUOTE(kyyle23 @ Nov 14, 2005 -> 11:25 AM) Im thinking he broke the smaller bone in his lower leg(The fibula?). Alot of players have actually played with that bone being broken Isn't the smaller front one the tibia..?

QUOTE(Tony82087 @ Nov 14, 2005 -> 11:24 AM) I can't imagine he will be around much longer at IT...... :puke :puke I've never had one.. isn't it just a bbq rib sammich without the bones..?

QUOTE(mreye @ Nov 14, 2005 -> 11:13 AM) Where? I think you're mistaken, Steff. The corner of Roosevelt and Mannheim. One of the IT guys is addicted to them. Gets it at least twice a week.

QUOTE(Soxy @ Nov 14, 2005 -> 08:16 AM) I believe that's called PBS. Speaking of PBS... PBS wants to be top banana Ann Oldenburg, USA TODAY Mon Nov 14, 6:44 AM ET Coming off a rocky period in which its budget was threatened on Capitol Hill, one of its shows came under fire for featuring lesbians, and the former chairman of its main funding source, The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, resigned after criticism of his leadership, the Public Broadcasting System is now focusing on one of its most important franchises - kids. "We've always been a leader in this area, and now we're putting more of our own resources here again so that we can continue to be a leader," says Lesli Rotenberg, who is heading up the new five-year initiative called PBS Kids Next Generation Media. (Related story: New 'neighbors' are coming to PBS) She says the plan isn't a response to all those troubles but more a reflection of new "prioritizing." The overall goal isn't so much different from what the goals have always been: "a well-balanced diet of learning," says Rotenberg. "The curriculum will include math, science, literacy, music. Every program will have a big dose of social and emotional learning, too, teaching values about respect. The kinds of things we know that parents today are demanding." Here are three shows slated for next year: •It's a Big, Big World. Jan. 2 on PBS Kids. A "special sneak" will air on Nov. 25 on PBS. The preschool series, from Mitchell Kriegman (Bear in the Big Blue House, Clarissa Explains It All), is about group of animal characters in a lush rain forest. The main one, Snook, is a sloth. "He's an adult, but he's got a great laid-back, Zen style," says Kriegman. "He's not stuffy, not goofy, not infantile. He's kind of the cool guy." Snook lives in The World Tree, home to many animals and the show's metaphor for the world as a whole. It is filled with different creatures from Burdette, a bird who knows it all, to Bob the anteater, who is constantly overwhelmed. The setting will allow for an exploration of science and geography. The series is being produced with a new look devised by Kriegman called "Shadowmation," blending puppetry, animatronics and computer-generated animation. •FETCH! June on PBS Kids, part of the Go! programming block. The title stands for Fabulously Entertaining TV with a Canine Host. Described as part game show, part reality series, part spoof, its star is a dog named Ruff Ruffman, who develops, produces and hosts his own brand of reality television. He hires six kids who tackle wacky challenges. •Curious George. Fall 2006 on PBS Kids. The show, narrated by William H. Macy, will be part of the block with It's a Big, Big World. The little monkey's curious nature will introduce preschoolers to concepts in math, science and engineering. "Some of the stories will be from the old books, some will be new," says Linda Simensky, senior director of children's programming. She has seen the first few episodes. "In one, the man in the yellow hat explains what zero is. He tells George that 'alone, it means nothing.' So George, who is bringing a note to the doughnut shop to get doughnuts, keeps adding zeroes, and he winds up ordering 100 boxes."