Steff

:puke

Apparently they found him in a wooded area attempting to kill himself by slitting his wrists...?

OK.. I had a meeting.. what did Willie do to put this lead in jeopardy..??

QUOTE(whitesoxin' @ Apr 7, 2005 -> 03:46 PM) When I'm an adult and have a family I am going to buy season tickets for sure as long as I don't live incredilbly far from the stadium. But right now, I would like to settle in the Chicago suburbs so that shouldn't be a problem. And now that I have my license and a car I'll be going a lot more, but it sucks because my parents don't want me driving into the city or I would go at least once every homestand. I lived in Alsip previous to Plainfield.. straight shot down the Dan Ryan was simple.. my grama lives in Oak Lawn and still goes to 40+ games a year. And like I've said before we make it to 50+ living in Plainfield. The drive home is about an hour on weeknights.

CANTON, Texas – The father of a high school football player shot and wounded the team's coach with an assault rifle Thursday and fled in a pickup loaded with weapons, claiming to have a hit list, state officials said. Gary Joe Kinne was airlifted to a hospital in Tyler. Schools in the district were locked down while police searched for the suspected shooter, Jeffrey Doyle Robertson. His truck was found abandoned about two hours after the shooting near a golf course outside Canton, and he was captured soon after, authorities said. No other details were available. Gary Joe Kinne, who is also the Canton High School athletic director, was shot in the school's field house with an AK-47 rifle, according to the state's Homeland Security office. Kinne was airlifted to a hospital in nearby Tyler, but authorities were not releasing his condition. Police Chief Mike Echols said Kinne, a former assistant coach at Mesquite High School, was shot in the chest. Police were investigating a possible motive. Robertson had said he had a hit list, Homeland Security spokeswoman Sophie Yanez said. Robertson had been banned from the Canton High School campus and told not to attend school functions, Echols said. Robertson had previous confrontations with some of the coaches, including Kinne, who took over the football program in 2003, authorities said. Kinne's son was the team's quarterback. Kinne, 37, was airlifted to a hospital in nearby Tyler, officials said. Authorities declined to release information on his condition. Diane Price, a cashier at Sister's Cafe in Canton, said she has known Robertson for 37 years; he was a high school classmate of her daughter. She said after the coach was shot, customers told her that Robertson, whose birthday was Wednesday, had gotten drunk at a party last night and bragged about his plans. "I've heard that he was ill and not expected to live and he was going to even some scores," said Price, who didn't know what illness Robertson supposedly suffered. Another Canton resident said Robertson threatened his son last year. "He's a very high-strung, hot-tempered individual," said Steve Smith, a Canton business owner and the father of another athlete. "I had an encounter with him a year-and-a-half ago, when I got a call from my son, who told me this guy had just threatened to kill him." The threat arose from an incident on the field, Smith told the Tyler newspaper. Robertson's son, a freshman football player then, was walking off the field, when some older students "razzed" him, Smith said. "This guy blew up," Smith said. "He thought some kids were picking on his son. My son wasn't even the one who said anything. But he threatened to kill him." Smith said he complained to the school and to police, but Robertson was never charged. Amanda Sheperd, owner of Backwoods Bar-B-Que in Canton, said she was alarmed when she heard about the shooting because her ninth-grade grandson, Ty Sheperd, plays baseball and has a class in the field house. She believes he had left the fieldhouse and gone to band class before the shooting. "I talked to the school just now and they said the kids were taken care of, and they're not letting anybody in or out," said Sheperd, who was continuing to serve lunch customers as news helicopters hovered overhead the school about a half-mile away. "The guy's on the loose, so they're out looking for him." Kinne was named coach and athletic director at Canton in May 2003. Also Online Rebecca Lopez reports He was an assistant coach at Mesquite High School. He was promoted to defensive coordinator in 2002 after Mesquite won the 2001 Class 5A Division I state championship with a 15-0 record. Kinne also was a standout linebacker at North Mesquite in 1983 and '84 - being named the district defensive player of the year his senior year. He played for Grant Teaff at Baylor. Kinne was a three-year starting middle linebacker and was the second-leading tackler for a stingy Bears' defense that had future NFL starters James Francis and Robert Blackmon. Nearly all of Kinne's life has taken place within an hour's drive of Mesquite. That geography made Canton appealing when he was hired there. His son, G. J. Kinne, was the AP 3A All-state honorable mention quarterback last season. http://www.dallasnews.com

QUOTE(TheBigHurt35 @ Apr 7, 2005 -> 02:34 PM) Is it raining up there as well? Bad enough to call the game? The sun is shining there..

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Apr 7, 2005 -> 02:14 PM) Easy with the wording there... that's not exactly board friendly. GMAFB. QP.. where are you..?

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Apr 7, 2005 -> 02:09 PM) slowest man ever scores from 2nd Konerko was on...???

QUOTE(SleepyWhiteSox @ Apr 7, 2005 -> 01:58 PM) "You cheered in the stands, I laughed in the press box." LOL.. that ONE time you were allowed in there idiot.. ?

Addison... How's Jose look today..??

Willie eff anything up yet..??

QUOTE(Cali @ Apr 7, 2005 -> 01:47 PM) Motherf***ing MLB.TV, it's freezing up every 10 seconds or so. Not Buffering like my connection is bad, just freezing. And that 10 seconds equates to just about every damn pitch. The pitcher starts his wind up, and right before he releases the ball it's freezes. Then I either hear the crack of the bat and have no clue what's happening, or miss if it's a ball or strike. I have to go off of what the announcers say, and it's the Indian announcers too, I just can't win. Do you know how annoying that is? Jesus f***..... [/rant] It's all those cheap ass Sox fans who didn't make their way to the park today for one reason or another loggin on to see what they are missing... :rolly

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Apr 7, 2005 -> 12:11 PM) That article has no direct quotes from him, so for me, it's iffy to begin with. In the past, he has said that he loves acting but hates Hollywood. I would imagine the 'exhuastion' is more along the lines of being fed up and having to deal with Hollywood. Besides, belive it or not, acting can be tiring work. Not in the same way that construction work is tiring, but it can wear you down, mentally and emotionally. Not his political affiliation? "I hear Iraq is nice this time of year", sounded like a shot at his very anti war stance to me. You say tomatoe.. I say tamatoe...

QUOTE(nitetrain8601 @ Apr 7, 2005 -> 12:03 PM) It's sad that most White Sox fans just find excuses not to go. Hell Cub fans find ways to get to our games on half price nights. I'm telling you.. all this stupid ass ignorant generalization s*** is really starting to piss me off. How many games do you go to...? I live in Plainfield.. it's 60 effing miles home. 50+ times a year we make that drive. You are preaching to the effing choir here.. go b**** at the ones that do make excuses. Clearly.. they don't post here.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Apr 7, 2005 -> 12:03 PM) What about the bullpen? Pfffttt... so last year.. :rolly

I never even pay attention to the intro.. just the game.

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Apr 7, 2005 -> 11:46 AM) The guy is a brillaint actor. If you don't like him or his poltics, that's your problem. Maybe he is.. and personally I don't care about his politics.. but when a pampered millionaire cries about being tired I have no sympathy. I interprete that's what most in this thread are saying and not basing anything on his political offiliation.

I only liked him in that prison movie he was in. IMO that was the only one he carried.

Umm.. did Paul not lead the team last year with 41 homers (going from memory here so please don't kill me if I'm off by a few... ) ?

QUOTE(greasywheels121 @ Apr 7, 2005 -> 11:01 AM) Always the negative with you Steff.....

QUOTE(Queen Prawn @ Apr 7, 2005 -> 10:49 AM) Trying to make sure this game thread is interesting before the game even starts, eh? Just doing my "satanly" duties...

QUOTE(YASNY @ Apr 7, 2005 -> 10:41 AM) Screw the electric company, I'm going to see the Sox! :headshake Eh.. power is over-rated anyway. Just dont jip your ticket connection.. LMAO

Willie is going to suck.... again.. today.

QUOTE(chi-guy2 @ Apr 7, 2005 -> 10:39 AM) sucks when its empty and the day games dont help the cause, people are cheap thats the real reason they dont show Maybe you are... I sure as hell don't consider anyone who spends money on entertainment "cheap".

QUOTE(JimH @ Apr 7, 2005 -> 10:34 AM) I remember as a kid going to some day games in April at old Comiskey, and even more April night games there ... talk about an empty stadium. My dad and I used to laugh because he could sit in our seats (144 row 2) and I could go sit in 122 and we could barely raise our voices and hear eachother across the park. Those used to be the only games my Grampa and Great Grampa would attend because they didn't like all the people.