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QUOTE(witesoxfan @ Sep 5, 2005 -> 10:41 PM) This was one of the most f***ed up threads I've ever seen. Anyways, congrats Scott That's an understatement... and I struggle to understand why the effed up parts have remained. But ditto your second comment. Congrats Scott and Lisa.

QUOTE(aboz56 @ Sep 3, 2005 -> 08:15 AM) Two words for you: Low Balled. Enough said. I will never let the Score off the hook for this. Folks, don't let anyone tell you that this was John Rooney wanting to leave the White Sox. Ultimately, JR should have stepped in to get a deal done somehow. Now my choices for next season will be: 1) Watch the games muted. 2) Hope they find a good person to go with Farmio (who I love as much as Roons). And to think, a total joke of an announcer like Darrin Jackson gets a nice salary and they let the best PBP man in baseball leave? Bulls***. No need for a petition, this is done and over. I'll be coming out throwing fireballs at Soxfest. I hope most of you are right there behind me. Lowballed isn't even close to what I would call it. The word used was "sickening", IIRC. We talked about this when I got back from Boston. We knew this was a serious threat. As for JR, we'll be seeing John today... he said in Boston JR was involved already so I'd love to know what happened there and I'm going to ask. I don't think this would be a battle to bring to SF.. at least I hope it's not. John IS the BEST BPB man in baseball. They'll be sorry.

QUOTE(BlackBetsy @ Sep 3, 2005 -> 09:07 AM) The Score hires, but the Sox have the right to approve whoever they pick. The Score couldn't, for example, pick Chip Carey for radio PBP if the Sox didn't want him. I'll miss Rooney. He's a hell of an announcer. I have no idea what "approval" has to do with this... guess I missed that point in this thread, and I'd debate if that's fact based on what I know. But once again, the Score held the cards. John himself has said that his returning is the Score's fault.

QUOTE(bmags @ Sep 3, 2005 -> 11:55 AM) i've given what little money i have to the red cross...and i still think that bush did a s*** job and that the lower income status of most of the people stranded is a reason tehy didn't get as much help... so what the f*** does that make me? Count us in this club as well. We donated blood this morning and nearly half a mortgage payment. But we, especially Jim who's a serious republican, are questioning GDub's actions - or lack there of - on this one.

QUOTE(Jenks Heat @ Sep 2, 2005 -> 11:54 PM) The Score has nothing to do with the broadcasters it is the team that does. This is a Sox decision. The SCORE may ahve input but they work for the Sox. Incorrect. The Score holds the cards. Boz... interesting turn, eh?

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Sep 3, 2005 -> 02:51 AM) We're going into the hypothetical here but realize that anyone with Natalee's wealth split town as soon is it became clear things were gonna get ugly. Not hypothetical... those left were too poor to get out. That's fact. More than 50% of the NO population lives BELOW the poverty level. Although I'm not sure what that has to do with anything... People are stuck there, people are dying, who cares what they do for a living, or how much $$ they make, or what color their skin is... didn't I just read you say somthing similar above? And is it not common sense to get the hell out of dodge if you have the means when trouble is coming..? And what's the tie with Natalee...? How about rather than taking unwarranted shots at a family that has nothing to do with this tragedy we focus on the issue being discussed in this thread.

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Sep 2, 2005 -> 05:04 PM) I think it's the Louisiana State Patrol. It works. Are you listening...??? Someone said that snipers have taken control of the Bell South building and are holding fire fighters hostage..??? Also.. United Airlines is giving free flights to those that can get to operational airports.

I don't have any clue how this works.. but apparently if you have iTunes you can listen to the police communications down there... http://ev1helps.net:8080/lspbtr.m3u

Oh God.. I don't know if this is true... From the blog someone claiming "breaking news" "A bus, carrying evacuees, flipped over just minutes ago. It occurred 18 miles north. of Lafayette in Opelousas, LA. It's unknown how many evacuees were on the bus or the extent of injuries. It's believed the bus was headed to Dallas."

Gonna toot a horn a bit here.. My son-in-laws trailer is already in route to LSU filled with supplies. Jim also coordinated 2 trailers out of Florida, and one is currently being loaded at the Sams Club down Mannheim Road and will leave tomorrow. Another will be loaded here at corporate with employee donations and will leave on Wednesday morning. The donations coming in are amazing.

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Sep 2, 2005 -> 03:19 PM) A gathering for NASCAR? LMAO... Just what this thread needed.

Police outnumbered and outgunned Overnight, police snipers were stationed on the roof of their precinct, trying to protect it from gunmen roaming through the city, CNN's Chris Lawrence reported. One New Orleans police sergeant compared the situation to Somalia and said officers were outnumbered and outgunned by gangs in trucks. "It's a war zone, and they're not treating it like one," he said, referring to the federal government. (Watch the video report on explosions and gunfire -- 2:12) The officer hitched a ride to Baton Rouge Friday morning, after working 60 hours straight in the flooded city. He has not decided whether he will return. He broke down in tears when he described the deaths of his fellow officers, saying many had drowned doing their jobs. Other officers have turned in their badges as the situation continues to deteriorate. In one incident, the sergeant said gunmen fired rifles and AK-47s at the helicopters flying overhead. He said he saw bodies riddled with bullet holes, and the top of one man's head completely shot off. Lt. Gen Steven Blum of the National Guard said that as many as 2,600 National Guard troops were expected to arrive in Louisiana Friday to join the nearly 2,000 who went in Thursday. http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/02/katrina.impact/index.html

QUOTE(Texsox @ Sep 2, 2005 -> 02:34 PM) Then he would be an anonymous hack without and audience :headshake True. Back to the tragedy.. Here's the link to Mike again. Looks like they've gone to the roof to take more pictures. http://www.livejournal.com/users/interdictor/

QUOTE(Texsox @ Sep 2, 2005 -> 02:29 PM) He does do a nice job of listing what happened. If he could only find a way to do so without being such a s***.

http://video.freevideoblog.com/neworleans/index.htm Here's a faster - and seemingly more reliable - video stream.

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Sep 2, 2005 -> 02:27 PM) And there it is. Thanks for being the first person to bring race into this Mike. You self-serving piece of s***. Uhh.. no. He's not the first. Yesterday some moron politician made a comment about the "blacks" - his word, not mine.

Nope Kid.. not his style. Anyway.. here's some sites with a ton of pictures Mike the blogger took http://east-boston.utopus.net/katrina http://east-boston.utopus.net/katrina2

He's so good at pouring salt in the wound.. but he does make a few good points. From: "[email protected]" Date: September 2, 2005 2:18:40 AM PDT Subject: Vacation is Over... an open letter from Michael Moore to George W. Bush Reply-To: [email protected] Friday, September 2nd, 2005 Dear Mr. Bush: Any idea where all our helicopters are? It's Day 5 of Hurricane Katrina and thousands remain stranded in New Orleans and need to be airlifted. Where on earth could you have misplaced all our military choppers? Do you need help finding them? I once lost my car in a Sears parking lot. Man, was that a drag. Also, any idea where all our national guard soldiers are? We could really use them right now for the type of thing they signed up to do like helping with national disasters. How come they weren't there to begin with? Last Thursday I was in south Florida and sat outside while the eye of Hurricane Katrina passed over my head. It was only a Category 1 then but it was pretty nasty. Eleven people died and, as of today, there were still homes without power. That night the weatherman said this storm was on its way to New Orleans. That was Thursday! Did anybody tell you? I know you didn't want to interrupt your vacation and I know how you don't like to get bad news. Plus, you had fundraisers to go to and mothers of dead soldiers to ignore and smear. You sure showed her! I especially like how, the day after the hurricane, instead of flying to Louisiana, you flew to San Diego to party with your business peeps. Don't let people criticize you for this -- after all, the hurricane was over and what the heck could you do, put your finger in the dike? And don't listen to those who, in the coming days, will reveal how you specifically reduced the Army Corps of Engineers' budget for New Orleans this summer for the third year in a row. You just tell them that even if you hadn't cut the money to fix those levees, there weren't going to be any Army engineers to fix them anyway because you had a much more important construction job for them -- BUILDING DEMOCRACY IN IRAQ! On Day 3, when you finally left your vacation home, I have to say I was moved by how you had your Air Force One pilot descend from the clouds as you flew over New Orleans so you could catch a quick look of the disaster. Hey, I know you couldn't stop and grab a bullhorn and stand on some rubble and act like a commander in chief. Been there done that. There will be those who will try to politicize this tragedy and try to use it against you. Just have your people keep pointing that out. Respond to nothing. Even those pesky scientists who predicted this would happen because the water in the Gulf of Mexico is getting hotter and hotter making a storm like this inevitable. Ignore them and all their global warming Chicken Littles. There is nothing unusual about a hurricane that was so wide it would be like having one F-4 tornado that stretched from New York to Cleveland. No, Mr. Bush, you just stay the course. It's not your fault that 30 percent of New Orleans lives in poverty or that tens of thousands had no transportation to get out of town. C'mon, they're black! I mean, it's not like this happened to Kennebunkport. Can you imagine leaving white people on their roofs for five days? Don't make me laugh! Race has nothing -- NOTHING -- to do with this! You hang in there, Mr. Bush. Just try to find a few of our Army helicopters and send them there. Pretend the people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast are near Tikrit. Yours, Michael Moore www.MichaelMoore.com P.S. That annoying mother, Cindy Sheehan, is no longer at your ranch. She and dozens of other relatives of the Iraqi War dead are now driving across the country, stopping in many cities along the way. Maybe you can catch up with them before they get to DC on September 21st.

The building that was on fire collapsed in downtown NO.

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Sep 2, 2005 -> 01:44 PM) I swear this is becoming one of those bad Hollywood movies about a meteor hitting Earth or the earth freezing over. Get this: Huge oil spill from reserve tanks spotted on the Miss. river downstream from New Orleans. Yep. 2 leaks from a source holding millions of barrels. Unreal.

QUOTE(SleepyWhiteSox @ Sep 2, 2005 -> 12:32 PM) Quick question: Was there any logic given for why snipers were reportedly shooting at helicopters transporting hospital patients and others? I only caught some of that briefly in the morning but had to hurry out. In case this wasn't answered (haven't read all of the last 2 pages) They are trying to force them to come help them.

QUOTE(whitesoxfan99 @ Sep 2, 2005 -> 12:31 PM) What about that glorified photo op did you find impressive. I'd like to know that also - no offense to anyone, but him smiling and hugging people did nothing for me.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9164073/ MSNBC article about Michael and the blog I've been keeping up with. A quote from Mike.. "It is a zoo out there though, make no mistake. Anyone who is on the streets is in immediate danger of being robbed and killed. It's that bad."

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Sep 2, 2005 -> 11:42 AM) Un-f***ing-real. You can say that again.

Reddy.. I agree. The blog I am reading and the camera I am watching indicates way more then just a "few" looters.