Steff

QUOTE(maki @ Oct 20, 2005 -> 02:05 PM) thought i saw somewhere its 79.99. my guess is that they might start giving these away to people who sign up for a year anyway, kinda like cell phones. Sounds like it's the newest one which iirc is $179 at Best Buy. I have the portable one, which is the only way to go, IMO. But if I didn't have that I would take advantage of this one for sure.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Oct 20, 2005 -> 01:58 PM) Re-up = re-enlist. Yes How much money you get primarily depends on your job. If you're in a field that is under-strength and hard to retain then you can really cash in. Over-strength fields you wont get as much but they can still make some decent money, especially if they make the commitment in a combat zone. Thats where the tax free deal comes into play. It doesn't surprise me that people are staying in in greater numbers though because the military is finally realizing that if you want people to do dangerous work then you have to give them greater incentive to stay on. Also, in addition to paying out larger bonuses to troops they are also talking about making the GI Bill benefits transferrable to your spouse and kids. Thanks. My uncle knows a lot, but not all, of the army works. His best friend is Army (he's AF) so that's where he gets his info from.

I really don't think anyone knows the true #. My uncle - career AF - agrees the numbers are up.. 107% up.. his # definitely wasn't that high.

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Oct 20, 2005 -> 01:47 PM) No interest in other games? I got it to listen to Wills, and found myself listening to tons of other games. It's rather addicting.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Oct 20, 2005 -> 01:43 PM) Yes. But if life was so horrible in the military and they were so fed up with it then what would a few thousand extra dollars mean? Tax-Free bonuses are given to soldiers who re-up while deployed in a combat zone. 100% Tuition assistance and the G.I. bill come standard and have been for a long time. I have no idea. Just going from what my uncle told me. "Re-up" = "re-enlist" correct..? Those tax bonuses are huge. Decent article with some re-enlistment details. http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/v...p-4547341c.html

QUOTE(SouthSidePride05 @ Oct 20, 2005 -> 01:38 PM) I wonder how many people are gonna actually use the coupons? You still have to pay $40.00 to get the radio. I think I'll take a pass. I'll just be happy to be in the stadium for a WS game.. something I never dreamed I would experience!!! It's a $200 value.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Oct 20, 2005 -> 01:35 PM) After reading all that I have just one question. If the Army is "demoralized" and "voting with their feet" then why are re-enlistments running about 107% of plan? Just curious. Anything to do with the tax-free bonuses, educational opportunities and other benefits...?

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Oct 20, 2005 -> 01:35 PM) Well its either that or "security" might just show up looking for you... Knock, knock, knock....

QUOTE(greasywheels121 @ Oct 20, 2005 -> 12:58 PM) Tix look to be gone now though too. http://whitesox.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/cws/community/soxfest.jsp I was just looking at this link yesterday, and there were green links to buy tickets for the whole weekend or individual days. They're gone, and what AllSox said verifies that too. Perhaps someone who booked and got 4 passes will not need the other 2...

QUOTE(greasywheels121 @ Oct 20, 2005 -> 12:56 PM) Wow...I was just telling SnB that the hotel packages were sold out, and something needed to be figured out. The hotel's been sold out for a couple weeks now. Try the Embassy Suites 2 blocks down Michigan. I'm sure there will be extra tickets floating around here..

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Oct 20, 2005 -> 12:49 PM) DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN!!! Here, here, please, take some salt, and pour it in this wound. Man, ya know, if you can afford the price of these damn tickets, you sure don't need a gift of this sort. Sorry kid..

QUOTE(Chisoxrd5 @ Oct 20, 2005 -> 12:51 PM) Well then what are you gonna do with that gift certificate? I dunno... know anyone that wants it?

Didn't read this all to see if it's here (sorry if it is) but here's Scott's 3 year totals against Houston.. vs. HOU 149 23 43 7 2 7 18 13 0 3 0 18 3 .289 .346 .503 .849 13 BBs, 18 steals (3 CS), and 7 HRs Not too bad.

...by their beloved empty park.

QUOTE(Controlled Chaos @ Oct 20, 2005 -> 12:23 PM) What a nooB.... http://www.soxtalk.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=41787 Silly me.. I need to spend MORE time here so I can read EVERY thread.. Merge please.. TY.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story...=jackson/051019 By Scoop Jackson Page 2 CHICAGO -- I knew it was serious when my father called. When the phone rang just after Jose Contreras let pitch No. 114 leave his right hand, after it found Casey Kotchman's bat, after it found Paul Konerko's glove, after Paulie's right foot found first base, I knew just how real this is. It's not like my Pops never calls; it's quite the opposite. We talk all the time. But the phone rang differently this time, and it had nothing to do with stolen preset Scott Storch ring tones. This ring had a different sound. See, my Pops was born in Chicago. On the South Side. Been there when Martin Luther King Drive was called South Park, when the Dan Ryan Expressway was Lake Michigan. His call was about history. And like any offspring in my situation who has been thoroughly raised, reared, educated and baptized in, on, of and about South Side history, I didn't answer the phone. I knew what he was going to ask and I didn't have the heart to tell him no. Not at this moment. After a few hours passed, after several other "I can't believe this!" phone calls, after watching a team of clubhouse-cancerous, chemically imbalanced, unknown and unwanted ballplayers create a chemical balance not seen in this town, in this sport, since Robert Quinn sounded the sirens in '59, after watching the Latin-born manager, the African-American general manager and a pitching coach who is borderline genius hug each other along with one of the most maligned owners in professional sports, after watching the mayor celebrate harder than he had after any one of the five elections he's won since '89, after watching 25 "guys" in a locker room drown the ghost of Shoeless Joe Jackson in champagne and Miller Lite, after soaking in what this all meant . . . . . . I called my father back. "Hey, you know, since the White Sox are in it," he said with that once-in-a-lifetime voice, "If there's a chance that you can get World Series tickets . . . " I had to tell him that that was impossible. He paused. Understood. "Well, you know I was there. I covered the Sox [for the Chicago American] the last time they went to the Series in 1959 . . . " -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I knew it was serious when people started lining West 63rd Street at 4 a.m., waiting for a plane to arrive. Hail the conquering local hero, skipper Ozzie Guillen. As they came off the plane, one by one, getting into cars and limos, they found out the minute they exited the parking lot what this was really all about to the people south of the Mississippi, south of Cermack. It was Ozzie, the manager who flew over the cuckoo's nest, the one who was born in Venezuela but is closer to having Chicago roots than most people in this unit, who understood the most. Which is why he got out of his white stretch and walked to the corner and acknowledged the several hundreds of South Siders who feel everything he stands for. They screamed his name. He waved both hands. Mouthed, "Thank you." They screamed that they loved him back. "When Ozzie got out of the limo," one resident said to a CLTV camera at 6-something a.m., "that was class. Real Chicago class." "He's a hero," said another, this one female, into a WFLD Fox-32 camera. "A true Chicago hero." It takes someone who's been here, been in Chicago as long as Guillen has, been a part of this side of town (as he has) to know that this is so much more than just the end of a drought of World Series wins and appearances. This is about something even Red Sox Nation couldn't understand. See, in the 86 years that the Red Sox went without a World Series ring, they at least had two teams capable of winning a gold, 30-flag trophy. At least Boston has a Bill Buckner highlight. The South Siders don't. It became serious when the sun came up and Grandstand in Bridgeport had a line outside that never left. When an ethnically and economically diverse group of people stood, patiently impatient, for the authentic 2005 American League Champions locker room caps and shirts to arrive. White Sox Fever is catching on at the Grandstand souvenir store near U.S. Cellular Field. It became serious when the Tribune, the city newspaper that owns the Cubs, was dropped off, and it included a piece from non-sports columnist but resident South Sider Dawn Turner Trice, with the perfect epilogue for all to read: "If you live on the South Side, you've grown accustomed to you and your team being perceived, at best, as second class. "And despite all that's fractured on the South Side, right now everybody is feeling kind of pieced together and on top. No matter how rough the edges. "If you live on the South Side, you don't depend on baseball for your good mental health and eternal happiness. "You understand that not even the kiss of a cylindrical block of wood against a spherical, tightly wound wad of yarn can provide that. "Still, you're just thrilled knowing this may be the year that your White Sox head to the World Series and bring the gold back to, where? "The South Side." We know, as we look at the fabric that makes us up, how right she is. And how wrong. We know that at this moment, at 7:10 a.m., baseball does not define us. But that the Tina Yothers of Chicago baseball are about to define baseball in Chicago. Regardless of how big Albert Pujols comes up in the next night or two. Because unlike all the other major league teams in major league cities, the White Sox are local. There is no national following, not even a city following. Just a few hundred thousand people on one side of town who don't pull for as much as feel for one another. Sound the sirens again. The Sox are in the Series. Unlike our haters up North, the folks who dwell on the Honorable Harold Washington's side of town won't be defined by days like this, whether our team wins the World Series or not. And unlike our haters up North, we're not settling for or accepting anything less than more champagne by Oct. 30. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I knew it was serious when grown men began crying on the radio. Announcers. Show hosts. Been South Side since they were born and had to defend this team, not just all year long but all their lives. They broke down. I won't name names. They know who they are. I knew it was serious when I heard a grown man in a faded 1993 Chicago Bulls locker room authentic T, watching the Bulls lose to Minnesota in a preseason game, talk about the depth of contempt he still holds toward Jerry Reinsdorf for breaking up the last true dynasty in sports. He said, between sips of beer: "I can't stand him . . . but it would be nice to see him win one with the Sox." I knew it was serious when I heard little black kids walk past my house after they got out of school and pronounce Pierzynski's name right. I knew it was serious when I drove downtown to pick up my wife from work and heard someone in a group of white businessmen actually say: "Even though he's not the prototype executive, Kenny Williams is the best general manager in Chicago sports history." I knew it was serious when I got back home and did a national talk radio show that played house music as an intro for me. "Why?" I asked. The answer: "Because that's what we heard you all listen to on the South Side." I knew it was serious when I turned on the news after "Monday Night Football" and saw a man who purchased "Sox AL Champs" banners to place over his parents' grave sites because, he said, "They waited for this moment their whole lives and they somehow still need to be a part of it." This is what it's all about for South Siders. It's reached that point. That place where it's hard to understand how the sports world -- for a day, for the moment -- is all about the invisible team in Chi-City. It has reached the point in which the people who were scared to put both feet on the bandwagon, even when the team had a 15-game lead in the division and the best record in baseball, these same people are now putting rims on the wagon and filling up the tank with BP Ultimate. Years of fear and faith have disappeared. Complete games, A.J.'s instincts, Konerko's bat, Uribe's glove, Podsednik's feet, the bullpen's rest ... all have the city believing that this is it. Ten wins in the last 11 games against the team that almost got the wild card, against the team that was the wild card, and then against the team that was supposed to be better than the team with the best record in the American League. As the Sun-Times headlined: "Yes, In-Crede!" The South Side might finally get one before Chicago does. And even though in our hearts, we know what winning the pennant means nationally, there's still a part of this side of town that simply wants to have something the other side of town doesn't. We got one; now we need the other. That's the only way we'll get respect, the only way in this city our Sox will get truly recognized. As much as it will be about the Astros or the Cards in the World Series, it's always going to be about the Cubs on this side of town. It's so necessary. It's that serious.

QUOTE(The Critic @ Oct 20, 2005 -> 12:16 PM) Too bad it's not Sirius, though, eh Steff? No kidding.. though I'm getting that for Christmas... I have this already also, but it's pretty damn cool regardless.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Oct 20, 2005 -> 12:09 PM) Daaayum! That's TOTALLY kick ass! Very. Bar far the best WS gift. In the past I got a nice duffle bag, a jacket, and a signed team photo and ball. AS games they gave us player 8X10's and seat cushions and some other stuff. This is definitely way above those.

Holy crap!! http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/051020/dcth030.html?.v=29 Free XM Satellite Radio for Every Fan at Game One of the 2005 World Series Thursday October 20, 12:35 pm ET In the Largest Giveaway in the 102-year History of the World Series, Fans to Receive Coupon for RoadyXT Satellite Radio at U.S. Cellular Field in Chicago for Game One and Minute Maid Park in Houston for Game Five WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- To celebrate the first game of the 2005 World Series, XM Satellite Radio will offer a free satellite radio to every fan who enters U.S. Cellular Field in Chicago for Game One this Saturday, it was announced today by XM and Major League Baseball. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20000724/XMSATLOGO ) The giveaway will be the largest in the 102-year history of the World Series. When fans arrive at the ballpark for the first game of the Fall Classic, every ticket holder will receive a coupon good for the brand-new Delphi XM RoadyXT satellite radio (MSRP: $79.99), plus a World Series commemorative pin attached to the coupon. In addition, if the 2005 World Series goes to a fifth game, XM will extend this offer to fans at the Minute Maid Park in Houston for Game Five. The 2005 World Series caps the first season of Major League Baseball action carried live and nationwide on XM, the official satellite radio network of MLB. XM carried every single game of the 2005 regular season, and is carrying all postseason games through the World Series. "XM raised the bar for Major League Baseball coverage by giving fans across the country every game, all season long," said Howard Jacobs, senior vice president of strategic partnership marketing, XM Satellite Radio. "In the one year since XM announced it would carry Major League Baseball games, XM's customer base has doubled to more than five million subscribers. We want every fan at the first game of the World Series to experience XM Satellite Radio for themselves. And if the series goes to five games, we will do it again for Game Five." Fans have enjoyed unprecedented coverage of the postseason on XM, which broadcast four feeds of each game during the league championship series: the home team feed, visiting team feed, national feed on ESPN Radio, and Spanish- language play by play from ESPN Espanol. This comprehensive, four-feed coverage will continue through the World Series. Plus, XM's exclusive baseball talk radio channel MLB Home Plate (XM Channel 175) will broadcast live from the stadiums and other locations in Chicago and Houston during the World Series. XM will have a major in-stadium presence in Chicago and Houston, including XM listening stations and XM signage. The Delphi XM RoadyXT is the newest satellite radio for listening to XM's 150-plus channels of live sports, commercial-free music, and a wide variety of other entertainment choices. The respected PC Magazine recently awarded the RoadyXT radio an "Editor's Choice" distinction in a five-star review. Each RoadyXT coupon distributed at the ballpark will have a unique code number. The coupon holder can use the code number to order the RoadyXT online. Consumers pay a $12.95 monthly subscription to listen to the XM service. When ordering the RoadyXT, the coupon holder must prepay for the first three months of service. About XM Satellite Radio XM (Nasdaq: XMSR - News) is America's number one satellite radio service with more than 5 million subscribers. Broadcasting live daily from studios in Washington, DC, New York City and Nashville at the Country Music Hall of Fame, XM's 2005 lineup includes more than 150 digital channels of choice from coast to coast: the most commercial-free music channels, plus premier sports, talk, comedy, children's and entertainment programming; and 21 channels of the most advanced traffic and weather information. XM was named Best Radio Service at the 2004 Billboard Digital Entertainment Awards. XM, the leader in satellite-delivered entertainment and data services for the automobile market through partnerships with General Motors, Honda, Toyota, Hyundai, Nissan, Porsche, and Volkswagen/Audi, is available in more than 120 different vehicle models for 2005. XM's industry-leading products are available at consumer electronics retailers nationwide. For more information about XM hardware, programming and partnerships, please visit http://www.xmradio.com. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements in this press release include demand for XM Satellite Radio's service, the Company's dependence on technology and third party vendors, its potential need for additional financing, as well as other risks described in XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc.'s Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on 8-5-05. Copies of the filing are available upon request from XM Radio's Investor Relations Department. For photos of the RoadyXT radio, contact David Butler at [email protected].

QUOTE(greasywheels121 @ Oct 20, 2005 -> 11:34 AM) Yep, only for the Angels. If Konerko goes to Boston, this rumor doesn't count. ROTFLMAO!!!

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Oct 20, 2005 -> 11:16 AM) Almost my whole family is December babies. We were much more into the Spring Flings. I can think of no better way to celebrate pitcher and catchers reporting.. (hehe... underlying sexual inuendo there.. )

QUOTE(Brian @ Oct 20, 2005 -> 10:44 AM) Party Pooper. Pfftt.. I don't care. And maybe it'll help those that are looking to scalp tickets...? "Fake fans" wont want to sit out in the rain..

Weather doesn't look so good..

QUOTE(retro1983hat @ Oct 20, 2005 -> 10:33 AM) FYI ... I read that October has the most people with birthdays. Think about the people you know. I know me, my wife, my dad, my grandmother, two cousins, and three friends have October birthdays. But this would be true for Chicagoans. Think about it, there is not much to do in Chicago in January ... EXCEPT . But these guys live in warm climates during the off season. I think it has something more to do with New Years . September is a close second, iirc, being approx 9 months from Christmastime.

QUOTE(Chisoxrd5 @ Oct 20, 2005 -> 10:26 AM) I really hope you can do the math on this and figure out why they are all having kids now....somehow I doubt it. I'm wondering if he really thinks it's the players that are having them..