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QUOTE(CardsJimEdmonds15 @ Nov 11, 2005 -> 11:26 AM) Bernie is very reliable and always let's the Cards fans know things before they are announced. This move makes the most sense since he just moved but stayed in the area. He's been wanting this job for years..

QUOTE(JUGGERNAUT @ Nov 11, 2005 -> 11:24 AM) http://www.suntimes.com/output/sox/cst-nws-soxpay18.html 1) The ISFA gets $1.24M/yr in rent plus $4 for the first 500,000 full-priced tickets sold after attendance reaches 1.5 million. 2) The ISFA gets $1.5 for all full priced tickets sold after attendance reaches 2 million. The Sox get all reg season rev from concessions, parking, & merch sales. And... ? What does that have to do with your incorrect information about the Sox making 10's of $$'s of dollars from parking...?

QUOTE(Brian @ Nov 11, 2005 -> 11:22 AM) Is he safe because you can't be tried twice for the same crime or am I way off base? Read much..? Yea.. way off base. The 2 cases have nothing to do with eachother.

QUOTE(kyyle23 @ Nov 11, 2005 -> 11:17 AM) I also think the "Godzilla" moniker is undeserved. It is a neat piece to the evolutionary jigsaw puzzle, but come on. Saltwater crocs get bigger than 13 feet. Godzilla, this thing is not. And they aren't saying it is. The head does look like Godzilla, from movie pictures, to me.

http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/1-1...005-567412.html Wis. Man Wrongly Convicted in Spotlight By CARRIE ANTLFINGER The Associated Press MISHICOT, Wis. - Steven Avery spent nearly two decades in prison before DNA evidence exonerated him of rape and he walked out a free man in 2003. Now, the 43-year-old is in the spotlight again after a missing woman's family found her green 1999 Toyota Rav4 in the Avery family's salvage lot in this rural area 90 miles north of Milwaukee. Investigators discovered evidence, including DNA, that made them fear for the safety of 25-year-old Teresa Marie Halbach, Calumet County Sheriff Jerry Pagel said Tuesday. Pagel said authorities have not narrowed their investigation to a suspect, and no one has been arrested in the case. Avery has maintained he and his family had nothing to do with Halbach's disappearance. "I would never hurt nobody," said Avery, 43. "I'm not really violent. I might get loud once in a while, that's it. I'm a decent guy. I get along with everyone - except Manitowoc County." He fears Manitowoc County officials are trying to railroad him in retaliation for a $36 million lawsuit he filed against the county and its former sheriff and district attorney. It claims they ignored evidence of the real attacker in a July 1985 rape that wrongly sent him to prison for 18 years. "I'm even scared to go to sleep," he said. "They are going to come and get me and arrest me." Officials in Calumet County, where Halbach lives, are leading the investigation instead of those in Manitowoc County to avoid a conflict of interest. The day she disappeared, Halbach was taking pictures of cars for sale for Auto Trader Magazine. One of her last shoots was a 1989 maroon minivan at the Avery salvage yard. "It was like, 'Hi' and then 'Bye,' that's what mostly it was," Avery said. Halbach's family was struggling with the connection to Avery. "Is it a coincidence that this happened on his property?" asked Halbach's 23-year-old brother, Mike. "Maybe it's just a coincidence. Maybe there's more to do with it." Investigators have searched the 40-acre Avery's Auto Salvage lot near Mishicot and the family's homes, seizing Avery's car and the salvage yard's flatbed truck. The truck has been returned. Avery said the salvage yard would be an appealing place to dump a car, with more than 3,000 vehicles and multiple entrances. Authorities also have searched property not owned by the Averys. More than 100 volunteers have also been searching for Halbach. Avery, who lives in a trailer near the salvage yard, was imprisoned in 1985 after a jury convicted him of sexually assaulting a jogger on a Lake Michigan beach, largely based on her testimony. He was sentenced to 32 years in prison. A law school group convinced the same judge to allow new DNA testing of a pubic hair found on the victim. The testing linked the crime to a man serving a 60-year sentence for another sexual assault and ruled out Avery, who was freed on Sept. 11, 2003.

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Nov 11, 2005 -> 10:55 AM) I hear Cotts is coming out with "How to Look Like a Hobo: Looking Disgruntled and Dirty in 7 Easy Steps!" LMAO!!!

QUOTE(Jenks Heat @ Nov 11, 2005 -> 10:32 AM) I always thought the group that ran the team ran the parking, thus parking could be purchased through the team. I would venture to guess that as the parking revenue goes up, so does the cut the White Sox get. Not in this case. A private group owns them. I have no idea of the deal the union has with the Sox, or if it's with the ISA - who leases the lots from the group. I'm sure the Sox get a cut, but what it is I have no idea. It's not 10's of millions of $$'s though.

QUOTE(CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Nov 11, 2005 -> 10:22 AM) Don't know but the parking prices are outrageous for those lots. I'm guessing they are at or near the top in parking lots prices. Edison Field is $7.Dodgers is $10. A real estate group.

:headshake http://www.king5.com/topstories/stories/NW...K.49978db4.html TACOMA -- A brawl broke out in Tacoma courtroom Thursday after a man was sentenced to 30 years for beating a man to death last January. Andrew Brown, 19, had pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in a brutal attack on 69-year-old Darrel Johnson, a retired Navy submarine electrician. The judge sentenced Brown to 30 years, but the courtroom erupted and fists started flying when someone suggested that the sentence was unfair because Johnson, because of his age, didn’t have that long live anyway. "The man was 69, he wasn't going to live forever," a woman said. No one was seriously injured in a brawl that broke out in a Tacoma courtroom after 19-year-old Andrew Brown was sentenced to 30 years in prison for his role in the beating death of a 69-year-old man. A courtroom security guard quickly tried to move the woman out of the room, but it was too late. The melee lasted for about 20 seconds. Pierce County Sheriff Paul Pastor said no one appeared to have been hurt in the brawl and only a few punches were thrown. No one was arrested, but Pastor said detectives will be reviewing the video shot at the incident to see if charges are warranted against anyone. Johnson, out for his usual morning walk Jan. 9, was found in a coma with at least 10 injuries, including a crushed neck. He died a week later. The brawl happened around 3 p.m. inside a courtroom packed with friends and relatives of both Brown and Johnson. During Thursday’s sentencing, Johnson’s family told the judge how his death had affected them and what they thought of Brown. Police had to restrain several people after someone suggested after that the sentencing of Andrew Brown for murder was too long because the victim was 69 and not "going to live forever anyway."

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Nov 10, 2005 -> 10:44 PM) Thanks Steff I was going to ask, I'm assuming the Sox could get this insured? FWIH.. it already is. But since this would be a new contract, and thanks to the Belle fiasco (the insurance company having to pay out over 70% of his Orioles contract) things are much different now in terms of what the IC's will pay in the event a claim is made. Basically that means that the Sox would have to pay more of the contract for a player who can't play, if his hip failed rapidly. Albert's case was a bit odd.. he was fine one year, then in massive pain the next. He was also a much more active player then Paul is - which IMO definitely contributed to the condition progressing faster.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Nov 11, 2005 -> 09:41 AM) old GF, or current? I met his old one a while ago when she worked at the Neutral Zone. That's the one he's marrying.

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Nov 11, 2005 -> 09:26 AM) ...what's "NAMBLA" again??? Is that the club for freaks and scum? Child molestors pretty much. Michael Jackson is a charter member.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Nov 11, 2005 -> 09:20 AM) Drink with Neal Cotts at a bar I used to work at all the time. I just did some shots with him 2 weekends ago, and told him that Keith Foulke has nothing on him. If he hasn't gotten his hair cut yet.. tell him Alex told him to.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Nov 11, 2005 -> 09:18 AM) Do you think the curtains match the drapes? :sleep Post #22..

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Nov 11, 2005 -> 09:07 AM) Causes 3x the number of blood clots, that is a serious problem. It seems like it woulkd be easy enough to scale back the amount of hormone by 60% in the next incarnation of the device, but that won't do the current cohort much good. Right.. additionally the current hormone level (fwiu) is at a level that is "universally effective". They don't want to customize them. Costs too much.

For the Courson Family. http://news.yahoo.com/s/cpress/20051110/ca...HNlYwMlJVRPUCUl Thu Nov 10, 5:55 PM ET PITTSBURGH (AP) - Steve Courson, the former offensive lineman for the Pittsburgh Steelers who developed a heart problem after becoming one of the first NFL players to acknowledge using steroids, was killed Thursday when a tree he was cutting fell on him. He was 50. Courson was using a chainsaw to cut down a dead 13-metre tall tree when it fell on him, according to state police. The accident happened at his home in Henry Clay Township, Fayette County. Messages left for the county coroner were not immediately returned. Pastor Lois Van Orden, who was with Courson's mother, Elizabeth, at her Gettysburg, Pa., home, said the family had no immediate comment. Courson made the Steelers in 1978 as a free agent guard from South Carolina. He started more than half of the Steelers' games before he was traded to Tampa Bay in 1984, where he played another two seasons before being waived. He ended his career after the 1985 season, having played on the Steelers' Super Bowl championship teams in 1978 and 1979. In a statement, the Steelers said: "We are saddened to learn of the sudden and untimely death of Steve Courson. Our deepest sympathies go out to his family and friends during this extremely difficult time. "Steve was an integral member of our last two Super Bowl championship teams, and returned to the Pittsburgh area after he retired from football. Steve battled back from health problems in recent years and seemed to have made a full recovery." Courson was an early outspoken opponent of steroid use in the NFL, though he had used them himself and blamed them on a heart condition he said placed him on a transplant list for four years. He credited diet and exercise with reversing the condition. He went public with his steroid use in 1985 and was cut by Tampa Bay the next season. He also criticized the NFL's steroid testing program, which began a year after he retired. "It's as much drug abuse to take steroids as heroin or cocaine," Courson said in 1990. "When most people imagine drug abusers, their thoughts are of street people living in the gutter. Realistically, these people can't afford drugs, but professional athletes and middle and upper-class teenagers can." Courson testified about steroid use before Congress last spring. Earlier this year, Saints coach Jim Haslett claimed the Steelers' use of the drugs during Super Bowl championship seasons in the 1970s brought steroids into vogue around the NFL - even though star players such as Jack Lambert and Jack Ham were strongly opposed to drug use. "To say that anabolic steroids didn't play a role in the Steelers' success would be a falsehood," Courson said in 1990. "But this isn't a Steelers problem. It's a league-wide problem. . . . No one ever told me not to use or take steroids, or suggested I was killing myself." Courson was a native of Gettysburg, and played from 1973 to 1977 at South Carolina, where he said he first used steroids at age 18. In recent years, Courson made as many as 100 speeches a year to youth and sports groups urging young athletes to not use steroids.

QUOTE(JUGGERNAUT @ Nov 11, 2005 -> 08:39 AM) But keep in mind the team collects 10's of millions in parking revenue each year. They don't get 100% of that revenue as the Sox don't run the parking. They don't even own the lots.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051111/ap_on_...nA1BHNlYwMxNzAy Man Glued to Toilet Passes Polygraph Test Fri Nov 11, 4:30 AM ET DENVER - A man who sued Home Depot Inc. claiming that a prank left him glued to a restroom toilet seat has passed a lie detector test with questions about allegations that he made previous a similar claim in another town, a newspaper reported. Bob Dougherty answered 20 questions in the polygraph test, including four related to a former Nederland town official's allegation that Dougherty made similar claims there, The Rocky Mountain News reported in Thursday's editions. Dougherty, 57, had offered to take the test to dispel doubts about his story. The test, administered Wednesday, was paid for by television station KDVR. Ron Trzepacz, former director of operations in Nederland, where Dougherty lives, had said that Dougherty claimed in 2004 that he was glued to a toilet seat in the town's visitor center but pulled himself free. Dougherty has denied that and has said he did not know Trzepacz. Dougherty's lawsuit, filed Oct. 28, claims that officials at the Home Depot in Louisville called for an ambulance after he had been stuck for about 15 minutes. Paramedics unbolted the toilet seat, which separated from his skin, leaving abrasions, according to the suit. The lawsuit also claims Dougherty was recovering from heart bypass surgery and thought he was having a heart attack when he got stuck. The lawsuit claims he suffered pain, humiliation and financial losses and seeks $3 million in damages.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051111/ap_on_...XAwBHNlYwM3NTU- JOHN NADEL, AP Sports Writer 2 hours, 10 minutes ago LOS ANGELES - The NFL and city officials have reached a preliminary agreement on terms to bring a team back to the Los Angeles Coliseum. Commissioner Paul Tagliabue made the announcement Thursday on the steps of City Hall. But he didn't identify a potential tenant or speculate when Los Angeles might get the team. He also spoke positively about a team playing at a facility proposed for the Angel Stadium parking lot in Anaheim and didn't rule out the Rose Bowl in Pasadena as a possible home field, either. As Tagliabue entered a limousine, he was asked if he could assess the significance of what he had just announced. He replied, "I'd rather not try." The commissioner did say: "It's the first time we've had agreement on term sheets. We're one step closer, two or three steps closer. Whether it's 2009, 2010, or 2000-whatever, our goal is to have definitive agreements on all subject matters well before our league meetings in March." The Los Angeles area, the second-largest television market in the country, has been without an NFL team since the Raiders moved from the Coliseum back to Oakland and the Rams moved from Anaheim to St. Louis before the 1995 season. After announcing plans in the spring of 1999 to put an expansion team in the Coliseum, the NFL was unable to reach an agreement with the Los Angeles backers and instead awarded the 32nd franchise to Houston that October. Houston businessman Bob McNair and his backers offered to pay $700 million for the new franchise and spend another $310 million on a stadium, making it the NFL's first billion-dollar deal. The Texans began play in 2002. Tagliabue said significant progress has been made in the past year regarding the Coliseum. His statement came following a meeting with Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and before a session with Anaheim Mayor Curt Pringle. "I think the critical thing now is we're at the point where it's recognized, certainly by us, that the time is right," Tagliabue said. "We have to get agreements finalized. We'll be pursuing agreements in Anaheim. We're going to work with both communities for an agreement." He said there have been no in-depth discussions on whether the region would get an expansion or existing team. Tagliabue said last month that future expansion was unlikely anywhere but Los Angeles. He also said it was important to make sure Southern California, the nation's top-ranked college team, was comfortable with any agreement, since the Trojans have made the Coliseum their home since 1923. Tagliabue planned on meeting with USC coach Pete Carroll later Thursday. The commissioner met with Gov. Arnold Schwarzennegger late Wednesday. Tentative plans call for the NFL to finance construction of a $500 million stadium inside the Coliseum, home to the Rams from 1946-79 and the Raiders from 1982-94. City Councilman Bernard Parks said after listening to Tagliabue that he believes the Coliseum will eventually get an existing team rather than an expansion team. "The NFL is going to have a say on who's going to come here. The Coliseum has no role in selecting a team," Parks said. Asked when it might happen, Parks replied: "I don't know. Nobody's signed anything. They've got to say they're coming." That being said, Parks expressed optimism. "In my judgment, I don't believe these business people waste their time and money," he said. "They've spent a lot of time and money." While Tagliabue didn't rule out the Rose Bowl, the Pasadena City Council voted 5-2 with one abstention last June to pursue a plan for the stadium that doesn't involve the NFL. Carson dropped out of contention in May when city officials decided to build a mall on its proposed site.

Yea.. I know most of you here don't need the patch... but maybe you can pass this info along to your wives, girlfriends, or sisters in case they use this product. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051111/ap_on_...DltBHNlYwM3MTY- Warning Issued for Birth-Control Patch By MARTHA MENDOZA, AP National Writer 16 minutes ago The Food and Drug Administration warned users of the popular Ortho Evra birth control patch that they are being exposed to more hormones, and are therefore at higher risk of blood clots and other serious side effects, than previously disclosed. Until now, regulators and patch-maker Ortho McNeil, a Johnson and Johnson subsidiary, had maintained the patch was expected to be associated with similar risks as the pill. But a strongly worded warning was added to the patch label Thursday that says women using the patch will be exposed to about 60 percent more estrogen than those using typical birth control pills. "I wish I had known. It's quite likely I would never have used it," said Jennifer Cowperthwaite, 26, of Broad Brook, Conn., who still suffers breathing problems after a blood clot reached her lungs two years ago after using the patch. Although most pills and the patch are loaded with the same amount of estrogen, hormones from patches go directly into the bloodstream while pills are swallowed and digested first. The result is that women using the patch have much higher levels of estrogen in their bodies. Thursday's warning comes four months after The Associated Press reported that patch users die and suffer blood clots at a rate three times higher than women taking the pill. Citing federal death and injury reports, the AP also found that about a dozen women, most in their late teens and early 20s, died in 2004 from blood clots believed to be related to the birth-control patch, and dozens more survived strokes and other clot-related problems. Ortho McNeil spokeswoman Bonnie Jacobs said the warning speaks for itself and that the company has been cooperating with the FDA, which distributed the new warning to health care providers. More than 4 million women have used the patch since it went on sale in 2002. Several lawsuits have been filed by families of women who died or suffered blood clots while using the patch, and lawyers said more are planned. Documents released to attorneys as a result of that litigation show Ortho McNeil has been analyzing the FDA's death and injury reports, creating its own charts that document a higher rate of blood clots and deaths in association with the patch than with the pill. In addition, an internal Ortho McNeil memo shows that the company refused, in 2003, to fund a study comparing its Ortho Evra patch to its Ortho-Cyclen pill because of concerns there was "too high a chance that study may not produce a positive result for Evra" and there was a "risk that Ortho Evra may be the same or worse than Ortho-Cyclen." Last week, in response to AP questions about the Ortho McNeil memo, company spokesman Michael Beckerich said in a written statement that "decisions to fund studies are based upon scientific merit." Beckerich said Ortho McNeil is conducting its own epidemiological study "designed with input from the FDA and similar to those previously conducted with the Pill." New published studies show that women using the patch absorb about 50 percent more estrogen than with the pill, said Dr. Leslie Miller, an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Washington. When women take the pill, the medication is absorbed into the bloodstream through the digestive tract. In the process, about half of the estrogen dose is lost. Hormone levels in women on the pill are highest one or two hours after taking it, Miller said. Twelve hours later, estrogen levels are quite low, meaning the body is not exposed to high levels of estrogen 24 hours a day. But the patch causes higher estrogen levels since delivery of medication continues all day. Those elevated levels may be high enough to increase some women's risk of blood clots, Miller said. "If the patch is delivering too much estrogen, then it may need to be redesigned," Miller said. "Women should not just take off their patch; they risk pregnancy. If they are worried and want to change off the patch, they can wait to get something else." Even before the warning, some advocacy groups and medical providers were raising questions about the patch. In September, Public Citizen's Health Research Group, a consumer advocacy organization, added Ortho Evra to its ongoing list of dangerous medicines, warning that there is "no medical reason for women to use the more dangerous Ortho Evra rather than one of the older, better understood, and equally effective oral contraceptives." And last month, Dr. Miguel Cano, an obstetrician and gynecologist in Reedley, Calif., sent a note to several thousand women patients recommending that they stop using the patch and that they come in for appointments to get a new form of birth control. Erika Klein's sister Kathleen Thoren died a year ago from blood clots in her brain that the coroner said were brought on by Ortho Evra. She said women deserve to be informed when making birth-control decisions. "Women have a right to know the true risks and make their decisions based on that information," she said. "No one should have to go through what my sister went through."

Pictures at link. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9993914/ Scientists find strange fossils in Patagonia The fossil of the "Godzilla" croc with digitized flesh added. National Geographic Society By Robert Roy Britt Updated: 2:55 p.m. ET Nov. 10, 2005 A newfound ancient sea creature looks to be part crocodile, part T. rex, and 100 percent terrifying. The 13-foot long beast, Dakosaurus andiniensis, had a massive 18-inch-long jaw with interlocking 4-inch teeth. It is a long-lost relative of the crocodile yet it had fins. A digital rendering of the creature reveals the sort of thing typically reserved for horror movies. The sheer strangeness of the Dakosaurus andiniensis, found in South America and announced today, led its discoverers to call it Godzilla after the huge, amphibious, dinosaur-like movie icon. "This species was very unusual, because other marine crocodiles that were around at the same time had very delicate features — long, skinny snouts and needle-like teeth for catching small fish and mollusks," said Ohio State University researcher Diego Pol, who determined the crocodile lineage. "But this croc was just the opposite. It had a short snout, and large teeth with serrated edges. It was definitely a predator of large sea creatures." The fossils were found in Patagonia, in an area that was once a deep tropical bay attached to the Pacific Ocean, by paleontologists Zulma Gasparini and Luis Spalletti of the National University of La Plata in Argentina. The finding is detailed in the Nov. 11 issue of the journal Science. There were many types of crocodiles around 135 million years ago, when Dakosaurus andiniensis roamed the sea. None were as big, however. And none had such a short, stout snout or so few teeth. "This is the most remarkable change in the size and shape of the teeth and snout in the history of marine crocs," Pol said. Based on the size of its teeth, the beast dubbed Godzilla probably fed on other sea-going reptiles and big prey rather than fish, the researchers said.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Nov 9, 2005 -> 06:35 PM) Congratulations Oswaldo Reagarding the list, one of those will be a Hall of Fame manager when he is through. Larussa no doubt as well.

QUOTE(The Critic @ Nov 11, 2005 -> 06:53 AM) Oh, I thought you were busy alphabetizing your list and separating them by decade, position and throwing arm..... And by league and team.. duh!!

QUOTE(WSoxMatt @ Nov 10, 2005 -> 07:56 PM) Food4Less sells Groceries but its Kroger brand name stuff, common in Central and SOuthern Illinois, good cheap place IMO...We have 1 here in Bolingbrook!! Thanks Matt & Sleepy. Never heard of them before.

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