Steff

QUOTE(S720 @ Sep 15, 2006 -> 09:48 AM) Thanks for the update Steve. I don't want to go through the 7 pages, but has anyone mentioned about the LEFT-HANDED hitter factor that we sorely needed. Thome makes our hitting lineup much more balanced. This doesn't mean that I am dissing Frank. I wish Frank can retire as a White Sox. Several hundred times...

QUOTE(vandy125 @ Sep 15, 2006 -> 07:43 AM) Ummm...I don't think that I have ever posted about Frank being or not being a cancer. IMO, from what I have heard, I do not think that he was a cancer at all, and he is still one of my favorite ball players. I grew up watching Frank, and he was what turned me into a Sox fan early on. So, thanks for dismissing my "call". Apologies. I mixed you up with Dixie Normus on the cancer call. Common sense dismisses the other call.

1 confirmed death, 6 in Palos Hospital. for everyone.

I'm trying to decide if this is more funny or stupid.

QUOTE(hammerhead johnson @ Sep 14, 2006 -> 10:17 PM) Ahh, he's feeding you a line of crap. Same as it ever was. And if the Thome trade set off something in this guy's brain and told him to stay DESPITE the fact that there was an enormous contract on the table AND we had just won a world series, then Konerko is country stupid. Well.. he did also say he consulted with his (at the time) 3 month old kid about the decision to stay...

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Sep 14, 2006 -> 10:10 PM) Moral of the story kids: Don't get your coffee at the White Hen. I would go somewhere else but it's right there on the way and I have no tolerance for driving around in the morning.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Sep 14, 2006 -> 06:23 AM) The morning shuffle: Salisbury Hill - Peter Gabriel (that came up for someone before too!) That just woke me up this morning.

QUOTE(vandy125 @ Sep 14, 2006 -> 09:47 PM) Regardless of what you say, Konerko has said that it was a factor for him. I would tend to believe what he says on his own decision more than what you believe. Sure, money is important, and we do not know all of the factors that came into the equation, but how can you so quickly dismiss the one factor that came straight from his mouth? I'm going to have to call BS on that. With your "call" on Frank being a cancer BS... pardon some of us if this call means not so much.

She's painting my toenails... she want's to be an oriental nail lady when she grows up.. LMAO Have a good one!!

QUOTE(TLAK @ Sep 14, 2006 -> 08:46 PM) 5 years $60 million guaranteed may also have been a factor in Konerko signing. Never believe ball players, its about the money. These guys have a short period of time to set up their families for generations to come. The LA offer was supposedly equal, the Baltimore one supposedly a little above but what doesn't make the newpapers is the terms of the deals and how they impact the real value of an offer to the player. I can't believe a player is going to turn down a superior offer just because he likes the guys. I call BS on that argument. Seriously. Equal money, WS fame, and just having a baby who's momma's family is not about to let her take their first grandbaby further than the burbs... that's why he stayed.

QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ Sep 14, 2006 -> 08:45 PM) It hasn't altered my mood or mental state, but damned if the pain has considerably gone away. When it does.. look out. I have my niece spending the night tonight so I'll get back to you on that stuff from earlier tomorrow. Sleep well...

QUOTE(Steff @ Sep 14, 2006 -> 06:43 AM) This completely ruined my day. While at White Hen getting the morning coffee today there was a woman with I would guess a 4 year old. He wanted one of those little boxes of cereal (the ones that you can pour the milk right in and eat). She said no and gave him a breakfast bar. The poor thing made a disappointed face (didn't even say a word) and the b**** slapped him across the face leaving a hand print. Right there in the middle of the White Hen. I, along with the other 10 or so customer, was stunned. Quietly the White Hen owner called the police. They arrived there just as I was leaving (police station is a block away thankfully). I can't wait to get an update this afternoon on the way home. People suck. So... it wasn't her kid. She was his "nanny". The mother and father were at Edward Hospital - one of their parents is apparently very ill - and the boy had stayed at the "nanny's" house and she was taking him home. I guess dad showed up and it was an ugly scene. They took it out of the White Hen so no one knows if she was arrested. They did take statements from the White Hen owners. Stupid b****. I hope she was arrested.

TMZ got copies of the filing yesterday. http://www.tmz.com/2006/09/13/tmz-obtains-...eparation-docs/ Her attny is Stephen Kolodny which is a pretty good indicator that Bobby Brown aint getting one dime of her $$...

QUOTE(mreye @ Sep 14, 2006 -> 09:55 AM) Just to point out that NO ONE is interested. Come on, Steff. Crap.. sorry. I don't know what I was thinking.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Sep 14, 2006 -> 06:15 AM) furry poop machines/python food Garden eaters/killers as well. I hate rabbits.

QUOTE(shawnhillegas @ Sep 14, 2006 -> 09:49 AM) Mariotti should be fired for writing that article. It has nothing to do with anything, its pointless, its not really about sports, and NO ONE is interested in his opinions on the superstitions of baseball. The whole feud aside, its just really a ridiculous thing to print. Yet there is a thread on every WhiteSox message board about it...

Excuse me.... but why in the hell is there even a game like this...??? And WTF is wrong with the assholes that find this entertaining? http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060914/ap_on_...ollege_shooting MONTREAL - A man with a black trench coat whose shooting rampage in a Montreal college killed one person and wounded 19 others before he was slain by police said on a blog in his name that he liked to play a role-playing Internet game about the Columbine shootings. The gunman who opened fire at Dawson College on Wednesday was Kimveer Gill, 25, of Laval, near Montreal, a police official said Thursday, speaking on condition of anonymity because authorities were not ready to announce it publicly yet. Six victims remained in critical condition, including two in extremely critical condition. The official said police had searched Gill's home. In postings on a Web site called VampireFreaks.com, blogs in Gill's name show more than 50 photos depicting the young man in various poses holding a rifle and donning a long black trench coat and combat boots. One photo has a tombstone with his name printed on it — below it the phrase: "Lived fast died young. Left a mangled corpse." The last of six journal entries Wednesday was posted at 10:41 a.m, about two hours before the gunmen was shot to death after the college shooting. He said on the site that he liked to play "Super Columbine Massacre," an Internet-based computer game that simulated the April 20, 1999, shootings at the Colorado high school by two of its students that left 13 people dead. "His name is Trench. you will come to know him as the Angel of Death," he wrote on his vampirefreaks.com profile. "He is not a people person." He wrote that he hates jocks, preppies, country music and hip-hop. "I think I have an obsession with guns ... muahahaha," is the inscription below another picture of Gill aiming the barrel of the gun at the camera. "Anger and hatred simmers within me," said another caption below a picture of Gill grimacing. He wrote that he is 6-foot-1, was born in Montreal and is of Indian heritage. He said his weakness is laziness and that he fears nothing. Responding to the question, "How do you want to die?" Gill replied "like Romeo and Juliet — or in a hail of gunfire." Montreal Police Chief Yvan Delorme said the lessons learned from other mass shootings had taught police to try to stop such assaults as quickly as possible. "Before our technique was to establish a perimeter around the place and wait for the SWAT team. Now the first police officers go right inside. The way they acted saved lives," he said. Witnesses said Gill started shooting outside the college, then entered the second-floor cafeteria and opened fire without uttering a word. At times, he hid behind vending machines before emerging to take aim — at one point at a teenager who tried to photograph him with his cell phone. Police dismissed suggestions that terrorism played a role in the lunch-hour attack. The gunman opened fire haphazardly at no target in particular, until he saw the police and took aim at them, Delorme said. Police hid behind a wall as they exchanged fire with the gunman, whose back was against a vending machine, said student Andrea Barone, who was in the cafeteria. He said the officers proceeded cautiously because many students were trapped around the assailant, who yelled "Get back! Get back!" every time an officer tried to move closer. Eventually, Barone said, the gunman went down in a hail of gunfire. Delorme said some officers were at the school on an unrelated matter when the shooting erupted. He said reinforcements rushed to the scene and took part in the shooting. Scores of students fled into the streets after the shooting began. Some had clothes stained with blood; others cried and clung to each other. Two nearby shopping centers and a daycare center also were evacuated and subway service was disrupted. "I was terrified. The guy was shooting at people randomly. He didn't care, he was just shooting at everybody," said student Devansh Smri Vastava. "There were cops firing. It was so crazy." Police said the attacker had a rapid-fire rifle and two other weapons. They did not provide details. Although police initially suggested the gunman had killed himself, Delorme later said at a news conference that "based on current information, the suspect was killed by police." "Today we have witnessed a cowardly and senseless act of violence unfold at Montreal's Dawson College," Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said. "Our primary concern right now is to ensure the safety and recovery of all those who were injured during this tragedy." The school was closed until Monday. Canada's worst mass shooting took place in Montreal when gunman Marc Lepine, 25, killed 14 women at the Ecole Polytechnic on Dec. 6, 1989, before shooting himself. That shooting spurred efforts for new gun laws achieved mainly as the results of efforts by survivors and relatives of Lepine's victims. Dawson, with about 10,000 students, was the first English-language institution in Quebec's network of university preparatory colleges when it was founded in 1969.

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Sep 14, 2006 -> 08:22 AM) Pretty sure Eddie and Alex are on the "outs" with Michael due to his continued friendship with Sammy. Eddie was just on Stern and said that him, Alex, and Wolfie are contemplating a VH reunion tour.

QUOTE(tonyho7476 @ Sep 14, 2006 -> 07:39 AM) I am sick of Tommy Lee and his giant penis...I hope this project fails miserably...and it should. Tony, are you guys going to the Bob Levy show in Tinley Park next month? Richard and Sal are also going to be there.

This completely ruined my day. While at White Hen getting the morning coffee today there was a woman with I would guess a 4 year old. He wanted one of those little boxes of cereal (the ones that you can pour the milk right in and eat). She said no and gave him a breakfast bar. The poor thing made a disappointed face (didn't even say a word) and the b**** slapped him across the face leaving a hand print. Right there in the middle of the White Hen. I, along with the other 10 or so customer, was stunned. Quietly the White Hen owner called the police. They arrived there just as I was leaving (police station is a block away thankfully). I can't wait to get an update this afternoon on the way home. People suck.

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Sep 13, 2006 -> 06:34 PM) DM Register says it's not him. Yea. Just read this. So sad...

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Sep 13, 2006 -> 06:29 PM) Oh jeez, if wite goes, I'm there for sure. Yippie! A meeting of the "outs".

Sounds like the mother might be responsible for the boys disappearance, Nancy called her on it, and she killed herself.

Oh my goodness...

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/custom/...story?track=rss By Jeremy Gorner Tribune staff reporter Published September 13, 2006, 12:49 PM CDT Authorities were responding to a hostage situation this morning at a bank in south suburban Dolton, prompting police to close every street within about a mile, authorities said. One gunman was believed to be holding "at least two or three possible hostages" inside the Heritage Community Bank, located at Sibley Boulevard and Chicago Road, said Sean Howard, a Dolton spokesman. The botched robbery began sometime before 11 a.m. "There were individuals that were able to leave during the inception of the robbery attempt itself," Howard told WGN-Ch. 9. Police have cordoned off streets within a six- to seven-block radius of the bank, according to Howard. He urged the public not to travel in that vicinity. Jorge Hernandez, 21, an employee at Pepe's Tacos, a restaurant located near the bank, said two bank employees entered the restaurant around 11 a.m. after being instructed to leave the building by their manager. They described to Hernandez a gunman who had a handkerchief over his face, and they said the gunman was in the bank vault with at least two hostages, Hernandez said. ``They were scared more than upset,'' Hernandez said in a phone interview with the Associated Press. ``They were scared for their co-workers.'' Hernandez said he and other employees were locked inside the restaurant on the instructions of police, who also told him to stay away from the windows and hang up the phone. The two bank employees had previously been escorted out by police, Hernandez said. Bennie Wright, 40, said from a nearby Domino's Pizza that he could see police from Dolton and the surrounding towns of South Holland and Riverdale surrounding the bank, some holding weapons. He said the scene was calm as police grouped together near a van. ``They've got it well maintained,'' Wright said. ``It looks like they're mapping out a strategy right now.'' The FBI, the South Suburban Major Crimes Task Force and police from neighboring towns are assisting Dolton police, Howard said. Police will discuss the holdup during a media briefing at 14844 Chicago Road at 1 p.m. no one gets hurt.