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QUOTE(nitetrain8601 @ May 16, 2005 -> 04:48 PM) Not happening. In fact, June would make it much worse. It'll show that even with the better weather, we won't sell out. Only games we'll sell out are Cubs, Yanks, Red Sox and Twins, and playoffs(if we get there). That's not alot at all. And I'm not even sure about the Red Sox series being sold out(probably close). That's pretty poor. How many sell outs would be good enough for you...?

QUOTE(mreye @ May 16, 2005 -> 03:37 PM) Oh, there have been a few people that have experienced Hurrican Steff. LMAO!!!

http://www.wral.com/news/4490560/detail.html Chapel Hill Community Searching For Answers In Double-Murder Teen Son Charged With First-Degree Murder In Deaths Of Parents UPDATED: 7:31 am EDT May 16, 2005 CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- The Sapikowski family had once been the center of a children's book and described by friends as a "model family" living the "American Dream." But now the parents -- James and Alison Sapikowski -- are dead, and one of their children has been charged with their murders. On Saturday, the Chapel Hill Police Department charged 16-year-old Adam Sapikowski with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of his parents. "Adam has submitted a statement indicating he is responsible for shooting his parents," Chapel Hill Police Chief Gregg Jarvies said Saturday. Investigators said Adam Sapikowski was a junior at Durham Academy, and they do not know the motive for the killings. "We have no record here in Chapel Hill that he’s ever been in trouble," Jarvies said. Jarvies said the investigation began Friday night at about 9:30 when an out-of-state relative called the Chapel Hill Police Department to report that she had been unable to contact the family in Chapel Hill for several days. Officers responded to the relative's concern and found the bodies of James Sapikowski, 52, and Alison Powell Sapikowski, 49, inside their residence on Whitley Drive early Saturday morning. "They were very fine people," said Rich Gonzales, one of the Sapikowskis' neighbors. James Sapikowski was a businessman and the head coach of the club ice hockey team at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Players with the team said they looked up to him as a father figure. "His commitment was unmatched," said Adam Arthur, a student at UNC-Chapel Hill who worked with the ice hockey team. "I've never seen anything like it. He was such a great guy and a father figure to so many of these guys; it was incredible." Arthur said the team suspected something was wrong. He said he traded emails with James Sapikowski several times a day. But Arthur said he had not spoken with James Sapikowski in about two weeks. "The last contact we had with him was on April 28," Arthur said. "We suspected something was wrong. Of course, we didn’t expect this." Justin Sirianni, who played hockey at UNC-Chapel Hill, added: "I just kept thinking, 'No, that can’t be him. His son wouldn’t have done that. It must be another Sapikowski.' "It's gonna be really hard to recover from this," he said. Gonzales said that the residents of The Oaks subdivision, where Adam Sapikowski lived with his parents, were stunned. The Sapikowski family was the subject of this children's book. "It's kind of numbing to see something like this occur," he said. "We don't think things like this happen in our area of the world, but here it is. Right across the street from where I live." The Sapikowskis, friends said, had been depicted as a "model family" in a children's book about a Spanish houseguest who riled up the children. James and Alison Sapikowski also had a daughter, Lauren. James Sapikowski had two children from a previous marriage. Investigators believe Adam Sapikowski was the only child living in the parents' home at the time of their deaths. Police are still investigating the scene. They have not determined when the shootings occurred. Jarvies said the couple had been dead for at least three days before their bodies were discovered. Investigators also continue to interview neighbors, friends and family to try to find a motive for the killings. Police said Adam Sapikowski confessed to killing his parents in their house (above). They said they would speak with people affiliated with Durham Academy to find out if Adam Sapikowski was in school this past week. He had been at a hotel in Durham when police discovered him early Saturday morning, they said. The headmaster at Durham Academy said there would be counselors at the school on Monday. Adam Sapikowski is currently being held in the Western Youth Institution in Morganton without bond. He has been charged as an adult. The facility is located in Burke County in western North Carolina and houses some of the youngest male inmates in the state prison system. Inmates can receive their GED, and they are offered vocational training while at Western.

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/241...p-8789755c.html NOAA By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Get your hurricane plans ready. It's going to be a bad hurricane season -- and the long-term trend suggests more bad seasons may follow, experts say. The Atlantic will have 12 to 15 tropical storms, seven to nine of them becoming hurricanes, and three to five of those hurricanes being major, Conrad Lautenbacher Jr., head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Monday. "We can't predict this far in advance how many will strike land," he said, standing in front of a "hurricane hunter" aircraft. But, given the active season, "We would say, `Be prepared for two or three of these to make landfall.'" Lautenbacher said the forecast was based on a large number of factors, including air pressure, surface temperatures, and upper-, lower-, and mid-level winds. They are "setting up to make the same kind of system we had last year, for a very, very severe system," he said. "Very little vertical windshear, which allows the hurricane to form. Then westerly winds which allow those winds to be pushed into an area where they can cause difficulties in our part of the world." He said the mild "El Nino" -- warm sea surfaces in parts of the equatorial Pacific -- is not expected to affect this season. Last year, 12 to 15 named storms were predicted, including six to eight hurricanes, two to four of them classified major. Instead, there were six major hurricanes out of nine hurricanes and 15 named storms. Forecasters at Colorado State University also predict a significantly above-average Atlantic hurricane season. In April, William Gray and his team said they expect 13 named storms including seven hurricanes, three of them major. The hurricane season begins June 1 and ends Nov. 30. The Atlantic seasons were relatively mild from the 1970s through 1994, and all but two since then have been above normal. The world may be just halfway through a 20-year cycle, Lautenbacher said. Speakers stressed that people need to plan. A recent Mason-Dixon poll of 1,100 people from Texas to Maine found that 47 percent of them had no hurricane plans. National Hurricane Center director Max Mayfield said experience from Florida's four hurricanes last year bears out the need for such plans. "People who had a hurricane plan did much better than those who didn't," he said. And, as he did at a hurricane conference in New Orleans earlier this year, Mayfield urged people to pay less attention to the black line which forecasters use for the most likely storm track, and more to the area on either side of it on the forecast map. Despite great strides in predicting landfall over the past 15 years, the average error during the last 24 hours is still 85 miles, Mayfield said. "Those storms can literally turn on a dime," added Mike Brown, director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

QUOTE(AnthraxFan93 @ May 16, 2005 -> 03:11 PM) It easy to sit back and enjoy the good times and forget all the bad times that we have endured...I will never forgot how KW f***ed this franchise for 4 years before this year. Because it makes a whole lot of sense to keep harping on the past when it's over and can't be changed.. :headshake

QUOTE(Queen Prawn @ May 16, 2005 -> 03:08 PM) They'll do that (sell the vest)? Cool! I will ask about that when we go in this week to pick out the tuxes. Just guessing but I can't imagine they wouldn't...?

If you can't find one.. buy a white one from the tux place and have it dyed the color you want.

QUOTE(Punch and Judy Garland @ May 16, 2005 -> 02:39 PM) Why did they post his e-mail? I hope it's a "public" one and not one he uses to talk with his friends and family with. I don't get it It's not

QUOTE(Queen Prawn @ May 16, 2005 -> 02:29 PM) Brian was telling me the same thing lol (he was downing those apple pucker and smirnoff drinks on Saturday lol) As if Friday wasn't enough.. I went back for more on Saturday.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file.../a104108D33.DTL Mother Charged in Hanging Death of Son Monday, May 16, 2005 (05-16) 10:41 PDT Chicago (AP) -- A woman was charged with first-degree murder Monday for allegedly hanging her 4-year-old son to death by wrapping a sheet from a bunk bed around his neck, authorities said. Nicole Harris, 23, is accused of killing Jaquari Dancy on Saturday after becoming angry at him for disobeying her orders to not leave the house when she went to do laundry. She discovered the boy and his 5-year-old brother outside when she returned about 45 minutes later, then beat him with a belt and sent him to his room, prosecutors said. When he would not stop crying, she wrapped a sheet from the a bunk bed around his neck and hanged him, prosecutors said. Chicago Police Officer Patrice Harper said Harris confessed to killing the boy in a statement to police. "She became angry at the child for being outside and ended up killing him," Harper said.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ May 16, 2005 -> 02:20 PM) C'mon. Get with it. I'm stuck in the weekend still. Too much drinking and not enough sleep. :sleep

QUOTE(Chisoxrd5 @ May 16, 2005 -> 02:17 PM) C'mon Steff...that was a rhetorical question if I've EVER read one... Oh. Sorry.

QUOTE(Soxnbears01 @ May 16, 2005 -> 02:14 PM) if they promote it right it won't be a problem. If my 1st place team is at home on the 4th of july, I know i'll be there. They are. Playing the Rays.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ May 16, 2005 -> 02:01 PM) *Ahem*

http://www.wkyc.com/news/news_fullstory.asp?id=34952 Death row inmate wants to donate liver to sister MICHIGAN CITY, Indiana -- Lawyers for an Indiana death row inmate will argue today for a brief reprieve for their client, who wants to donate a part of his liver to his dying sister. Gregory Johnson is scheduled to die by lethal injection on May 25th for the 1985 murder of an 82-year-old woman who was beaten, stomped and set on fire. But, his lawyers are asking the state to allow him to be tested as a possible donor and to undergo the procedure if his liver is compatible. Johnson’s lawyers say it would be up to Indiana’s governor to order a delay for medical testing to take place. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Think they should grant the delay to see if he's a match for her...??

QUOTE(YASNY @ May 16, 2005 -> 01:04 PM) I'll be in touch. LMAO at you and 01!! I'm sure Brian will be dialing as well.

I'd say he's pretty on regarding Frank running the show back then. That was a much different clubhouse though, and I don't think it has anything to do with Frank not being as good as he was then versus much different personalities on, and running, the team.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ May 16, 2005 -> 11:55 AM) Looking at what Carl has hit, and what Dye has hit, you almost have to give it a chance. After talking to him at SF I have to admit I am much more comfortable with him out there than I was thinking about him out there over the winter. Mike.. you have any thoughts on him pre/post fest..?

I had a dream the other night that Sweeney was on first base.. in a Sox uni..

QUOTE(The Critic @ May 16, 2005 -> 11:47 AM) That's an awesome idea. Glad they're doing this, I'll have a tape running. Why isn't Santo doing the call of BP? "That's hit......IT HIT THE WALL........NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.............NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO..............we have a fax from Evelyn in Iowa......." No idea.. but thank God. Also, for those of you that don't know.. the games will be broadcast with both teams announcers. So you can listen to H&DJ or those 2 morons who call the Cubs games. I think one is on WGN and the other on Comcast.

QUOTE(Chisoxrd5 @ May 16, 2005 -> 11:25 AM) I'm not sure! Sorry...had to do it Well.. I can ask. What's the worst that can happen.. LMAO.. we are dorks.

QUOTE(Sirotka33 @ May 16, 2005 -> 11:21 AM) My wife has learned that after a loss just to leave me alone for about a half hour. During the Billy botch days she would leave the room whenever he came into the game as chances were that I was going to start yelling at the TV in frustration. That's how Jim deals with me..

QUOTE(Chisoxrd5 @ May 16, 2005 -> 11:23 AM) I agree...at least on saturday and sunday the gates should open earlier...make it happen And I better include Mr: as he has made an appearance in each of our last four posts. LMAO.. I'll get right on that. Think they will listen to me.. ? ( )

QUOTE(Chisoxrd5 @ May 16, 2005 -> 11:17 AM) I think the gates opening 1 1/2 hours b4 game time coincided with them allowing tailgating in the parking lots. I guess they figured people can spend that time outside tailgaiting instead of being inside the park for that extra half hour...I could be wrong I would think they would welcome the option of people eating and drinking in the park for another hour.. Wouldn't stop me from tailgating on the weekends.. and we would likely get there earlier on weekdays if we could get in the park.

QUOTE(Chisoxrd5 @ May 16, 2005 -> 11:11 AM) I think they used to open 2 hrs before the game prior to 1998 Yea.. now that I am thinking about it.. I remember getting there right from work downtown in '96 and '97 and watching them. Maybe it would be something they would reconsider doing if there was fan request for it.