Steff

QUOTE(IlliniKrush @ Mar 7, 2005 -> 03:00 PM) Fly out to left, inning over. 4-2 after 2 and a half. Sidenote, Cotts needs to shave. Steff buy him a razor Pass.

Even though that's bulls***.. I think it should be removed.

QUOTE(KWs OK for Me @ Mar 7, 2005 -> 02:55 PM) Whose that coming out of the pen? Cotts

QUOTE(Iwritecode @ Mar 7, 2005 -> 12:12 PM) I've always understood that you are sanctioned as soon as you pay your yearly dues. I think you are right.. I think I'm getting that and what qualifies a sub to bowl in a position round mixed up.

Just stay at the Pfister with us.

QUOTE(Iwritecode @ Mar 7, 2005 -> 11:20 AM) Let me know what kind of award you get. I got my first (and only) 300 game when I was 15 but I didn't get a single thing for it. I don't think jr. bowlers are allowed to receive 300 rings because of the monetary value. At least that's what I was told. I was also told that since I rolled mine on the first day of the bowling season that I didn't have an established average and that had something to do with it. Needless to say, I couldn't carry the 232 average I ended up with. You're next goal should be a 700 and/or 800 series. I once missed a 300 game by missing the 11th strike and then ended up with a 793 series. That really sucked... IIRC, sanction rules changed in 1997 to allow Jr's to get rings. But it being your first game and not having an established HCP, and likely not being sanctioned (I think you have to have rolled 12 games to be sanctioned...??) that's probably why you didn't get one also.

QUOTE(greasywheels121 @ Mar 7, 2005 -> 11:31 AM) Same age as Frank. Same age +7 maybe....

1-A nurse walks into a bank, preparing to endorse a check. She reaches in her pocket and pulls out a rectal thermometer and tries to write with it. She looks up at the teller, pauses for a moment, then realizing her mistake, she says, "Well that's great......just great.....Some asshole's got my pen." 2- Reporters interviewing a 104 year-old woman: "And what do you think is the best thing about being 104?" the reporter asked. She simply replied, "No peer pressure." 3-The nice thing about being senile is you can hide your own Easter Eggs. 4- Just before the funeral services, the undertaker came up to the very elderly widow and asked, 'How old was your husband?" "98," she replied. "Two years older than me." "So you're 96," the undertaker commented. She responded, "Hardly worth going home is it?" 5- I've sure gotten old. I've had 2 By-pass surgeries. A hip replacement, new knees. Fought prostate cancer, and diabetes. I'm half blind, can't hear anything quieter than a jet engine, take 40 different medications that make me dizzy, winded, and subject to blackouts. Have bouts with dementia. Have poor circulation,hardly feel my hands and feet anymore. Can't remember if I'm 85 or 92. Have lost all my friends. But.....Thank God, I still have my Florida driver's license! 6-A 97 year old man goes into his doctor's office and says, "Doc, I want my sex drive lowered." "Sir", replied the doctor, "You're 97. Don't you think your sex drive is all in your head." "You're damned right it is!" replied the old man. "That's why I want it lowered!" 7-An elderly woman from Brooklyn decided to prepare her will. She told her rabbi she had two final requests. First, she wanted to be cremated, and second, she wanted her ashes scattered over Walmart. "Walmart!" the rabbi exclaimed. "Why Walmart?" "Then I'll be sure my daughters visit me twice a week.

We watched "Paparazzi" last night.. love it. Tom Sizemore plays a great bad guy. Also watched "Ray" Friday.. enjoyed that also.

Does anyone know if this game started late...?? FWIU, Sosa had already pissed off the ump staff because he was late to the field. Supposely they waited for him for more than 5 minutes..?

QUOTE(CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Mar 5, 2005 -> 10:25 AM) Frank Thomas' influence re: "right way to do things" means nothing if you don't have his kind of physique, which is why guys use the stuff in the first place. No offense, but IMO this is BS also. I know plenty of sucess stories in MLB that are much smaller than Frank. They did things the right way.

Jason.. thanks got the help. Regarding the trades I'll look at things this afternoon and get back to whomever I need to. Sorry guys.. this weekend was jam packed with family stuff.

QUOTE(ChiSoxyGirl @ Mar 4, 2005 -> 09:35 PM) Why, why, why aren't you banned yet? Now Soxy... why'd you have to go and bring some common sense into this thread..?

QUOTE(YASNY @ Mar 5, 2005 -> 07:06 AM) Good. They should include Mr. Bonds with an invitation to the party. The rumor is that the call to Bonds agent was responded with a rather stern "no, he is not intersted in attending" :rolly

Just a buzz... But apparently subpeona's are going to be issued.

1. Only in America......can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance. 2. Only in America......are there handicap parking places in front of a skating rink. 3. Only in America......do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front. 4. Only in America......do people order double cheese burgers, large fries, and a diet Coke. 5. Only in America......do banks leave both doors to the vault open and then chain the pens to the counters. 6. Only in America......do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway and put our useless junk in the garage. 7. Only in America......do we use answering machines to screen calls and then have call waiting so we won't miss a call from someone we didn't want to talk to in the first place. 8. Only in America......do we buy hot dogs in packages of ten and buns in packages of eight. 9. Only in America......do we use the word "politics" to describe the process so well: "poli" in Latin meaning "many" and "tics" meaning "bloodsucking creatures." 10. Only in America......do they have drive-up ATM machines with Braille lettering.

An update Chimps Maul Visitor at Calif. Sanctuary Fri Mar 4,10:03 AM ET U.S. National - AP By KIM CURTIS, Associated Press Writer BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - A couple's plans for a birthday party for their former pet chimpanzee turned tragic when two other chimps at an animal sanctuary escaped from their cage and attacked. The man was critically injured with massive wounds to his face, body and limbs, and the attacking animals were shot dead. Chimpanzees Maul Man in California (AP Video) St. James and LaDonna Davis were at the Animal Haven Ranch in Caliente to celebrate the birthday of Moe, a 39-year-old chimpanzee who was taken from their suburban Los Angeles home in 1999 after biting off part of a woman's finger. Moe was not involved in Thursday's attack, said Steve Martarano, a spokesman for the California Department of Fish and Game. The couple had brought Moe a cake and were standing outside his cage when Buddy and Ollie, two of four chimpanzees in the adjoining cage, attacked St. James Davis, Martarano said. Officials have not determined how the chimps got out of their enclosure, he said. LaDonna Davis, 64, suffered a bite wound to the hand while trying to help her 62-year-old husband, Martarano said. The son-in-law of the sanctuary's owner killed the attacking animals, Martarano said. "He saw what was happening and had one kind of weapon with him and then got another he felt would be more substantial and shot them," Martarano said. "He pretty much saved a life." St. James Davis had severe facial injuries and would require extensive surgery in an attempt to reattach his nose, Dr. Maureen Martin of Kern Medical Center told KGET-TV of Bakersfield. His testicles and a foot also were severed, Kern County Sheriff's Cmdr. Hal Chealander told The Bakersfield Californian. Davis was transported to Loma Linda University Medical Center, where he was undergoing surgery late Thursday, Martarano said. Buddy, a 16-year-old male chimp, initiated the attack and after he was shot, Ollie, a 13-year-old male, grabbed the gravely injured man and dragged him down the road, authorities said. "Everybody was trying to get the chimp off," Chealander said. Two other chimps, females named Susie and Bones, also escaped from the cage they shared with Ollie and Buddy, prompting sheriff's deputies, animal control workers, and Fish and Game officials to launch a search. The wayward pair were recovered by Animal Haven owner Virginia Brauer after five hours. Martarano said one chimp was two miles from the sanctuary, located 25 miles southeast of Bakersfield. The Davises had waged an unsuccessful legal fight to bring Moe back to their West Covina home and visited him regularly at the sanctuary where he had been living since October. They brought the chimp from Africa decades ago after a poacher killed his mother. Animal Haven Ranch has held state permits to shelter animals since 1985 and serves as a sanctuary for animals that have been confiscated or discovered lost, Martarano said. It is allowed to house up to nine primates at one time and is home to one spider monkey and six chimpanzees, he said. The permits are held by Virginia and Ralph Brauer, whom neighbors described as responsible animal lovers. "She's devoted her whole life to taking care of these chimpanzees," said Jeanne Miller, a family friend.

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/news/030305_nw...mps_attack.html CALIENTE, Calif. — There's more information coming out Kern County in the wake of a vicious chimpanzee attack on two visitors to an animal sanctuary near Caliente. The person most seriously injured in today's attack was a man named Saint James Davis, of West Covina. He and his wife LaDonna were visiting a chimpanzee they used to take care of for decades named Moe. The couple was bringing Moe a birthday cake which evidently didn't sit well with some of the other chimps. A doctor at Kern Medical Center tells a local radio station that the monkeys that attacked Mister Davis essentially chewed his face off. Doctor Maureen Martin says it will require extensive microvascular surgery just to try to reattach Davis' nose. He was also being treated for a nearly severed hand and foot, after being transported to Loma Linda University's medical center. His wife was treated for a bite to her hand. Two chimps named Buddy and Ollie were shot and killed at the scene. They were believed to be the animals that attacked the couple, authorities say. The others chimps were eventually returned to their enclosures after a brief flight with freedom.

QUOTE(Controlled Chaos @ Mar 4, 2005 -> 01:59 PM) They had birth certificates in 1880? I have my great, to the 3rd, grandmothers birth cert from Italy from 1735

If a tree falls in the woods.. and no one is around to hear it.. does it make any noise..??

QUOTE(qwerty @ Mar 4, 2005 -> 01:29 PM) I am sorry. Yea.. no kidding. You'd think he'd at least go to a female strip club.

QUOTE(WilliamTell @ Mar 4, 2005 -> 11:40 AM) That does get me kinda upset that he has to testify for this. He doesn't have to do anything.. he was asked to.

Bonds wasn't invited.

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Mar 4, 2005 -> 10:37 AM) Fairly recently, TCF banks were being held up left and right. Serveral of those turned out to be inside jobs... a couple of them the managers were involved.

QUOTE(TheBigHurt35 @ Mar 4, 2005 -> 10:15 AM) Wow, that's really screwed up. I'm glad to hear that you're OK. I've had a gun pulled on me before (by a gang member, after I tried to stop his buddy from kicking the crap out of my friend), so I can definitely empathize. Sorry to hijack.. but I have to tell this story.. Back in the day there was a bar on 95th street in Oak Lawn called O'Neils.. total crap hole meat market.. of course.. me and all my friends went there. One night after partying we went to White Castles on the corner of Cicero and 95th street.. we're maybe the 5th or 6th car in the line and in pulls this lowrider type thing.. music playing loud, etc.. out gets out 4 or 5 guys.. total gangbanger types. A few minutes later another lowrider pulls in and parks... but they didn't get out. After a good 15 minutes (damn chicken sandwiches) the guys that had gotten out of the first car come walking out of the White Castles and the guys in the other car stick a gun out of the window at them.. they start screaming, yelling, etc, etc.. we pulled out of that line so fast and darted across 95th street not even looking to see if cars were coming.. I was scared s***less. Nothing ever came of it - didn't hear about it on the news anyway - but I just remember I was sooo freaked out by it. I can't imagine having a gun pointed my way.