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QUOTE(Kalapse @ Aug 29, 2005 -> 03:46 PM) *sigh* I'm aloud one a day. LMAO!!! I can't do it again...

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Aug 29, 2005 -> 03:43 PM) He doesn't care if Baj does pitch well down the stretch, he's set in his mind that he sucks and if he pitches in the playoffs he cannot be affective. Effective, too.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Aug 29, 2005 -> 03:40 PM) If you are on the 25 man roster, or the DL you can be used for the post season roster, unless there is an injury replacement needed for a guy who was on the roster September 1st. And is there a limit on how many times this can happen...?

Get yer ass out there Scott.. you have some ground to make up to get to 100 steals.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Aug 29, 2005 -> 03:35 PM) Wah? Is that speculation over what will happen or what??? Maybe that's what they wanted..??

QUOTE(Whitesoxfan56 @ Aug 29, 2005 -> 03:37 PM) if he is on the playoff roster we are in trouble. even if he has a outstanding september. dont get me wrong he is on the sox and i hope he does well, but its not gona be good if he is on the post season roster. LMAO.. which is it.. ? Wait and see, or just call it a day because he sucks regardless..

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Aug 29, 2005 -> 03:24 PM) It's a 2 way street, hold off on judgement until you see him pitch in September this year. You can't really call him great or say he sucks until he plays.

QUOTE(Whitesoxfan56 @ Aug 29, 2005 -> 03:21 PM) I want niether on the post season roster they both suck, lets see how Baj does at the show b4 everyone is so happy to bring him up. Yea.. let's see how he does before we s*** all over him.... right?

QUOTE(thedoctor @ Aug 29, 2005 -> 03:20 PM) i don't know what's funnier, the baj love-fest or the inevitable baj backlash. It's definitely close.

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Aug 29, 2005 -> 03:09 PM) I know...and that is why I hated mentioning him. I know some people here know these people personally, and it is a shame to see friends getting bashed. I always got the feeling Albert was a nice guy off the field and away from the fame. Maybe one of those guys that played for the love of the game, but hated the fame that went with it. Hey.. no s*** slinging from me. Your feeling on him is right on the money. He was a bear mainly because he knew his career was going to be cut short because of his hip. How hard that must be to know you have no control over your life and doing something you love so very much. I saw it and still have no idea.

QUOTE(alexgtp @ Aug 29, 2005 -> 03:06 PM) For as crappy as he pitched.. you just had to like his response to his production... "I suck right now..."

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Aug 29, 2005 -> 03:05 PM) As I eluded to, how much love is there for Albert Belle? I actually liked Albert, and found his attitude pretty dang funny. I like him...

Greasy.. it was mentioned. But I don't think he ended up making the trip. Didn't see it reported anywhere anyway.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9116360/ Topless virgins vie for Swaziland’s king Updated: 12:48 p.m. ET Aug. 29, 2005 LUDZIDZINI ROYAL VILLAGE, Swaziland - More than 50,000 bare-breasted virgins vied to become the King of Swaziland’s 13th wife on Monday in a ceremony which critics say ill befits a country with the world’s highest HIV/AIDS rate. King Mswati III, sub-Saharan Africa’s last absolute monarch, arrived dressed in a leopard-skin loincloth to watch the Reed Dance ceremony, which he has used since 1999 to pluck new brides from the girls dressed in little more than beaded mini-skirts. Wielding machetes and singing tributes to the king and queen mother, also known as the Great She-Elephant, the girls danced around the royal stadium in the hope of catching the eye of the 37-year-old monarch. “I want to live a nice life, have money, be rich, have a BMW and cellphone,” said one dancer, 16-year-old Zodwa Mamba, who wore a traditional brightly colored tasseled scarf. Critics say Mswati, who has courted controversy for his lavish lifestyle while two thirds of his subjects live in abject poverty, sets a bad example by encouraging polygamy and teenage sex in a country where 40 percent of adults live with HIV. Some say the Reed Dance, traditionally meant to celebrate womanhood and virginity, has become little more than a showcase for the king’s young would-be brides. “The Reed Dance has been abused for one man’s personal satisfaction,” Mario Masuku, leader of the banned opposition party, told Reuters. “The king has a passion for young women and opulence.” But many Swazis say the young monarch has a right to do as he pleases, defending his penchant for young brides as Swazi tradition and arguing that ceremonies like the Reed Dance, which this year drew a record 50,000 maidens, cement national identity. “The king takes a wife whenever he wants and that’s the way it is. This is our culture and we will never change,” said Tsandzile Ndluva, 21, another dancer. Ticket to wealth Many maidens, who come from villages across the country, dream of joining the king’s wives who each have their own palace and BMW car. But others were scared catching the royal eye could curtail their freedom and force them into a polygamous marriage. “Marriage is about love, not money,” said trainee police officer Patience Dlamini, who jazzed up her traditional outfit with a fake diamond necklace. “This thing of many wives is not good, how does he satisfy them all?” The king has also drawn censure from rights groups and the international community for entrenching a ban on political parties in the nation of 1 million people squashed between South Africa and Mozambique. But despite criticism of Mswati abroad, Masuku’s outlawed People’s United Democratic Movement (PUDEMO) has failed to muster much support at home, partly because many ordinary people back the king and ceremonies like the Reed Dance as symbols of national identity. Monday’s ceremony was the culmination of a week of preparations, which included the lifting of a royal ban on sex with virgins, decreed in 2001 to help rein in HIV. Days after reviving the ancient ban, Mswati in 2001, married a virgin and fined himself one cow. Last week he lifted the five-year ban a year early, ordering thousands of maidens to throw off chastity scarves worn to ward of preying men. “What the king did by taking another wife was not good, because he was meant to keep virginity,” said 20-year-old Zanele Dlamini, a health worker who chose not to join in the dance. “He is not a good leader because multiple wives can spread HIV.” Palace officials said that if the king did select a new wife at Monday’s dance, the announcement would not be made immediately.

I can just see it now... "eff you... he is NOT the worst....." It's begging to be closed... give in. Please...

QUOTE(hammerhead johnson @ Aug 29, 2005 -> 02:21 PM) Okay, I can see your point. Tupac is like the best of the worst I guess you can say, whereas, you couldn't possibly put on anything that sucks more than a 50 Cent song. Insane Clown Posse...

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Aug 29, 2005 -> 02:14 PM) Its a LOT of both. OPEC produced about 30 million barrels of oil a day, just for perspectives sake. The markets are MUCH more worried about the lost natural gas production, as the NG markets stayed way higher than the rest of the energies did on the day. OK.. I'm way out of my league in this discussion.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Aug 29, 2005 -> 02:16 PM) Yeah... I am hoping to see him and Brandon at the patio party to give em a little bit of congrats I'm sure we can scoot to 159... I'll give NC advance warning.

QUOTE(Milkman delivers @ Aug 29, 2005 -> 02:08 PM) Yeah, that part made me laught. There's not many people on that list that interest me much, except maybe Walker or even Aurilia. I don't think Catalanotto would even be traded. That list is just the tip of the iceburg. There are over 350 names on the insider list. Most of the Sox are on the list.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Aug 29, 2005 -> 02:15 PM) WELCOME BACK JEFF!!!! :headbang :headbang Weird.. didn't we just talk about this yesterday?

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Aug 29, 2005 -> 02:08 PM) CNBC flashed that 2.38 million bbp of crude and 8.3 million bcfd of natural gas production are shutdown right now. Uh.. thanks. Translation please..?

QUOTE(hammerhead johnson @ Aug 29, 2005 -> 01:42 PM) And yes, I am of the opinion that one must be damn near braindead to enjoy the subject matter in Tupac or 50 Cent songs. But without 50 cent how on earth would we know how to party and drink bacardi like it's our birthday...

QUOTE(santo=dorf @ Aug 29, 2005 -> 02:05 PM) My south korean buddy translated the other ones for me. I'll ask when I get a chance. Thanks!!

All of those are on the insider list as well. Plus a few more obviously. LMAO @ "18 Brewers".

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Aug 29, 2005 -> 01:53 PM) To continue on this thought, they just showed a stat on CNBC that said 92% of crude oil production, and 83% of natural gas production out of the Gulf of Mexico is currently shut down. Equivalent to some 600K barrels a day... did I hear that right..???