Steff

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ May 12, 2005 -> 10:52 AM) Of course itw ould be nice if it were sunny. You'd get more walk up sales and near sellout crowds. Still, weather is something you can't control and they have quite a few tickets sold for the whole series. Hopefully nothing gets postponed cause then its going to be a doubledip on Saturday or Sunday (with the O's not coming back into town again). Lets go Sox, show em why were the best in the bigs The wont double here.. they will double in Baltimore in late July.

QUOTE(shakes @ May 12, 2005 -> 10:50 AM) Why, were they giving up on the seeason iy they lost? :headshake I have no idea. It's none of my business. Just comments I overheard as a reason to buy or not to buy.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ May 12, 2005 -> 10:20 AM) Wow, those are way up from yesterday. During the broadcast they said Friday was at 26.5k and Saturday was at 30.5k. If we get anykind of weather, we might be looking at a sell out or two. I think the win yesterday helped. I know several folks here at work were waiting on buying tickets depending on if they got swept or not.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ May 12, 2005 -> 10:12 AM) As of the start of the game yesterday John and Ed said there were 107,000 tickets sold for the whole series. I do understand what he is saying though, it would be nice to push that to about 120,000 for the series and average 30K for the long weekend. Every seat we can sell now, is money towards a deal line deal, or a payroll increase in 2k6. Supposedly 29K+ for tomorrow night and 33K+ for Saturday (can't find a # for Sunday yet)... if it's anywhere near Fri & Sat then we'll hit 120K for the series easy.

QUOTE(retro1983hat @ May 12, 2005 -> 09:48 AM) No I am going Sat and Sun, I was just hoping we could get a good walk up today, but with rain, we won't. There are 26K+ tickets sold for today... not "good" enough for you..?

QUOTE(retro1983hat @ May 12, 2005 -> 08:32 AM) I know they can't start the game if it is raining at game time. But yes, if there is some kind of window, they will play. The weather screws us again. Good grief.. 11 hours to game time and you've called the game already..?

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ May 12, 2005 -> 08:13 AM) Steff, I was just saying that against the idea of it ever being done away with. I just never understood many of the anti-death penalty arguments when it comes to this type of thing. I understand if there is still questions. But the guy admitted to doing it, so why would anybody (outside of maybe his parents) want him alive? I just don't get that aspect of the anti-death crowd. Sorry bout that. I thought you interpreted the moratorium to mean there no longer is one in Illinois.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/05/12/fall.survival.ap/index.html FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida (AP) -- A 70-year-old woman survived a nine-story fall from a condominium tower Wednesday when she landed on a canopy, officials said. Gloria Jummati was cleaning her balcony at Coral Ridge Towers when she fell and landed on a first-floor canopy, according to the Fort Lauderdale Fire-Rescue. Jummati was alert and talking when rescuers arrived. She was transported to Broward General Medical Center with a broken arm and other non-life-threatening injuries, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported. http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/sou...-home-headlines Canopy saves life of Lauderdale woman who falls 9 stories By Brian Haas Staff Writer Posted May 12 2005 Gloria Jummati plummeted about 100 feet from her ninth-floor balcony Wednesday morning at the Coral Ridge Towers in east Fort Lauderdale. But instead of hitting the ground, the 70-year-old woman landed on a small canopy and survived with a shoulder injury. Her landing was perfect: exactly in the middle of the canopy, where two aluminum pipes meet. The pipes bent and cradled her body, stopping her just feet from the ground. The canvas didn't even rip. "It definitely saved her life," said Fort Lauderdale Fire-Rescue Division Chief James Sheehan. An inch or two off, and it would have been a different story. Jummati declined interviews through a spokeswoman at Broward General Medical Center. Sgt. Andy Pallen, spokesman for the Fort Lauderdale Police Department, said Jummati, a snowbird, somehow fell while cleaning her condo balcony at 3333 NE 34th St. in preparation for a return trip north. "She's very, very lucky," Pallen said. "She'd better go buy a lottery ticket."

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ May 12, 2005 -> 08:07 AM) Thats still too long to wait. As soon as he admitted it, he needed to be taken outside and done away with. There is no reform for s*** like him. Let's see, he's chased people with a chainsaw, and then was released after he was "reformed", and he proceeded to kill his own daughter of 8, and her friend who was 9. Both died in EXTREMELY violent fashion. Seems to me he got worse over time. No reform, and no chance at it, and no further life. THIS guy is why the death penalty should NEVER be done away with 100%. I have no interest in any of my tax money going to this POS to eat dinner and have a comfy blanky at night. But I will gladly hand over the money for a gun and a bullet for his head. It's not done away with.. and I think the pressure from this one will cause the chair to be plugged back in.. and soon.

The O's don't have a trip planned back here.. but if it's bed enough they may re-schedule it to be played in Baltimore at the end of July. But Mike is right.. they'll wait as long at 10pm to call it. I doubt it will be called. The rain looks like it will be consistant.. but light.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ May 12, 2005 -> 07:24 AM) No event is too important not to sneak out of to see if the Sox were winning, including your own wedding reception. Pffttt... a REAL Diehard would be sure to schedule their wedding on a day of a day game that will be over by the time the wedding starts.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ May 11, 2005 -> 07:44 PM) Ah, now it all makes sense. It is both of their faults. No, no, no... It's all Willie's fault.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ May 12, 2005 -> 07:12 AM) I hate to see young kids get ruined by s***ty organizations. Cough**Kerry Wood**cough

QUOTE(qwerty @ May 11, 2005 -> 04:59 PM) Why would he be? Four runs in 8 innings is not great. Don't really see a reason for him to close it out. If he is pissed that is f***ing stupid. A lot of "f***ing stupid" things around here lately.. :rolly Thanks for the updates guys.

QUOTE(ottawa_sox @ May 11, 2005 -> 04:57 PM) Ryan is in. I guess you would know better than most how he would feel. If I understand from my lurking, you have rubbed shoulders with him, so to speak. A victory over Santana looks good on his resume if you ask me. I know he'll be pleased. Solid performance resulting in a loss sucks for all of them. He got the win, which is good news. After last years performance here (when the Sox lit his ass on fire) I was extremely pleased to see he was not pitching this series.. means no one will be crabby at the bar.

Eh.. BJ's in.

QUOTE(ottawa_sox @ May 11, 2005 -> 04:52 PM) It's been an awfully long bottom of the 8th, so you gotta think Sid is done. Even though he is a bull. Hopefully he wont be pissed if he can't finish..

QUOTE(ottawa_sox @ May 11, 2005 -> 04:44 PM) 95. Thanks.

QUOTE(WHarris1 @ May 11, 2005 -> 04:44 PM) I think around 95, I could be wrong but I figure they will bring in Ryan who has been great. Yea he has.. but I kinda hope they leave him in.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ May 11, 2005 -> 04:42 PM) many times Yep.. and I think he's starting to get bothered by it. Don't know why.. he knew what was up before he said "I do"...

QUOTE(WHarris1 @ May 11, 2005 -> 04:41 PM) Yeah, probably not for the 9th though Pitch count..?

QUOTE(ottawa_sox @ May 11, 2005 -> 04:31 PM) 5-4 Orioles. Runners on the corners with nobody out in the 8th. Sid still in..??

This man needs to meet the same fate he delivered.. http://cbs2chicago.com/topstories/local_story_131103130.html May 11, 2005 11:00 am US/Central WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) Jerry Hobbs told investigators he was angry at his 8-year-old daughter for breaking curfew when he tracked her and a young friend down in a wooded park, punched her and then killed both girls, stabbing his daughter over and over again in the neck and eyes, prosecutors said Wednesday at the man's first court appearance on murder charges. Hobbs, shackled and in a dark blue jail uniform, stared at the courtroom floor as Assistant Lake County State's Attorney Jeff Pavletic described the case against him. "This was a slaughter of two little girls," Pavletic said. The killer was so enraged, he said, that the knife wounds went through Laura Hobbs' neck into her spine. After hearing the prosecutor's descriptions, the judge ordered Hobbs held without bond. A public defender had not yet been appointed to represent him. Hobbs had led police to the bodies of Laura and her 9-year-old friend Krystal Tobias early Monday morning, claiming he had come across them just off the Beulah Park bike path while searching with relatives for his daughter, who had been missing since Mother's Day. In videotaped interviews over the following two days, however, prosecutors say Hobbs told them he killed both girls after Laura refused to leave the park and then dragged their bodies into the woods. Hobbs, 34, told investigators he had gone out looking for the girls between 4:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Sunday. He told his daughter to go home, then punched her when she disobeyed, Pavletic said. Krystal then pulled out a potato knife to try to defend her friend, and he attacked her as well, according to the interviews. Hobbs wrested the knife from her, hit her, and then stabbed both girls repeatedly, Pavletic said. He dragged them into the woods and left them face-up, side-by-side, Pavletic said. The girls had apparently taken their shoes off, and Hobbs had found them and left them in an orderly manner next to the bodies, he said. "It was a brutal beating, repeated punching of the two little girls and then repeated stabs. It's pretty horrible," State's Attorney Waller said. Laura was stabbed 20 times in the neck and abdomen and once in each eye, prosecutors said. Krystal was stabbed 11 times in the neck and torso. Waller said he didn't believe that Krystal had brought the knife, but that was what Hobbs had told investigators in the interviews and written statements. Pavletic said Hobbs, who had just been released from prison a month earlier for aggravated assault, told investigators he believed Laura had stolen money from her mother. She had been grounded, but her mother let her go out and play on Mother's Day. Lake County Public Defender David Brozsky said he hadn't seen details of the case and couldn't comment yet, but he said he would assign two capital defenders. The murders happened less than a month after Hobbs was released from prison for threatening his ex-girlfriend with a chainsaw. "There's no rational explanation or reasonable motive that can be ascribed to an act of horror like this," Lake County State's Attorney Michael Waller said. Hobbs, 34, had led police to the girls himself, claiming to have discovered their bodies while searching for his missing daughter early Monday with the girl's grandfather, Arthur Hollabaugh, Hollabaugh said. The father was questioned through the day Monday and again Tuesday in the deaths of Laura Hobbs, 8, and Krystal Tobias, 9. "I think it's safe to say his reaction to questions piqued the officers interest to question him further," Waller said. He told NBC's "Today" on Wednesday that there had been "a minor discipline problem" with Laura, but it had been resolved and was not considered the motive. Both girls had been beaten and stabbed multiple times and then left to die in the woods on Mother's Day, Lake County Coroner Richard Keller said. He said the girls were found side-by-side, facing up and did not appear to have been sexually assaulted. They appeared to have been killed near the area where they were found, he said. At a prayer vigil Tuesday evening, the slain girls' mothers hugged each other, crying. Through tears, Laura's mother, Sheila Hollabaugh, read a poem written by her daughter's classmate that referred to the girls as "little angels" and ended: "They died too young." Authorities said Tuesday additional charges could still be filed in the girls' slayings but did not specify what those might be. Hobbs did not yet have an attorney who could comment. Hobbs has an extensive criminal history dating back to 1990 in Texas, including prior arrests for assault and resisting arrest, according to records kept by the Texas Department of Public Safety. For the two years up until April 12, he was in a Texas prison serving time for assault involving an argument with Laura's mother, Sheila Hollabaugh, during which he grabbed a chain saw and chased neighbors through the trailer park where they lived, according to Wichita County, Texas, Assistant District Attorney Rick Mahler. No one was hurt in the 2001 incident and someone subdued Hobbs by hitting him in the back with a shovel, Mahler said. Hobbs was sentenced to 10 years probation but failed to appear for required meetings, so his probation was revoked in 2003 and he was imprisoned until last month. After the girls' disappearance, Arthur Hollabaugh said police searched his Zion home, where Hobbs was living with the family, and he said they took photos of his own shoe soles. "They went through our stuff, took clothes. They've taken his and my daughter's and taken the computer to see if my granddaughter was on an Internet chat room," he said. "Jerry just got out of prison for aggravated assault and I think they're holding that against him," Hollabaugh said. "I don't think he did it." Arthur Hollabaugh described the search for his missing granddaughter and said the two men were in the woods shortly before dawn Monday when they spotted Laura's bike part way down a ravine in the brush. Minutes later, he said, Hobbs was screaming that he had found the bodies. "I went and I seen them from a distance," said Hollabaugh. "It was clear they were laying there." At the entrance to Beulah Park on Tuesday more than a dozen young children stood quietly around a growing memorial of flowers, balloons and stuffed animals Tuesday afternoon. One sign read: "May your angels rest peacefully in heaven." Zion, along Lake Michigan, was founded in 1901 by a religious faith healer as a utopian community. It has about 22,000 residents but retains a quiet, at times rural feel despite being on the edge of both the Chicago and Milwaukee metropolitan areas. About 300 people, many whom were parents upset about the police response, packed a school gymnasium Tuesday night to hear public officials discuss the slayings, the charges and safety in the community. "We never thought a father would do that to a daughter. They were just babies. They didn't do anything wrong," said Krystal's 15-year-old brother, Alberto Segura. He said he had never met Hobbs but knew Hobbs was searching with his own family the night his sister was killed. Police didn't tell the family much about the investigation, and they didn't find out that Hobbs had been charged or was a suspect until they saw it on television, he said. His mother is distraught over the loss, he said. "She doesn't want to live anymore," he said. "She was the family's little girl and now she's dead."

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=747943 "Jerry Hobbs told investigators he was angry at his 8-year-old daughter for breaking curfew when he tracked her and a young friend down in a wooded park, punched her and then killed both girls, stabbing his daughter over and over again in the neck and eyes", prosecutors said his first court appearance Wednesday.

Sox win