G&T

QUOTE (lostfan @ Aug 21, 2010 -> 06:13 PM) lol. Yes. I knew she had made some bad money decisions before she met me but I thought I thought by now, along with some financial stability I would've taught her basic competence. It's more work than I thought. Here's what I have learned about women: there are some things that they don't want to learn. For each it could be something different, but it's something. Men will try to figure something out until we either learn it, or are forced to quit.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Aug 21, 2010 -> 07:06 PM) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctVmNbVu2KA...;feature=search I challenge everyone to watch this and not crack up. Much like purgatory, it was so so.

QUOTE (OilCan @ Aug 21, 2010 -> 09:23 PM) And there goes Hawk about WE'RE CURSED IN THIS BALLPARK banter. Shut Up. So that makes the Colosseum, Target, and Kauffman. That's a problem.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Aug 21, 2010 -> 05:57 PM) That's the idea but she f***s up the simplest things and I don't want to confiscate her whole check and start paying it all myself and putting her on an allowance but I might have to if she can't get it together. We're talking about the woman who backed into a parked taxi on the day we got married. (She doesn't read Soxtalk so I can talk as much s*** as I want) Had you met this woman prior to the wedding?

QUOTE (knightni @ Aug 20, 2010 -> 06:08 PM) Probably "Palehosed." There are quite a few WSI castoffs there. Yeah that's it. My brother was part of that mass banning.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Aug 19, 2010 -> 06:53 PM) I wish I married someone with good credit. Don't marry your fiance if her score is less than 660. lol. Make her print it out for you if necessary. People really should talk about financial goals before they get married. We did. We have a plan for saving money and building credit before we buy a house, etc. This is a really big reason why living together before marriage is important. A lot of this stuff cannot be hidden when you are both seeing the same bills.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 20, 2010 -> 09:29 AM) Baseballs dry your hands out. Usually pitchers don't have to scrape their tongues.

AJ has a been a vocal opponent of anyone replacing him.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Aug 19, 2010 -> 04:00 PM) That's a spitball at its finest Spitballs use snot. I don't know what that guy was doing.

I hate the start of football because it marks the end to summer. Since I was a kid, football training camp meant I was heading back to school and I have hated it forever. I like football when it gives me another excuse to drink on a cold ass day in December.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 18, 2010 -> 08:22 PM) If he hadn't have done it in the Can of Corn, there wouldn't have been a need to stretch. No matter where he did it he would have been BLEEPIN himself.

QUOTE (Cali @ Aug 18, 2010 -> 11:14 AM) How is e-mail too slow? What's the alternative? I think they mean texting.

Just a couple weeks ago I would sit in my office on a hot day sweating my balls off. Well apparently they fixed the AC and it turns out I have a vent all to myself, which is nice except now I'm freezing and my balls are shriveling.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Aug 16, 2010 -> 07:39 PM) Not sure if actually went without mentioning on here, but Kevin Slowey was pulled from a no-hitter yesterday. Apparently Gardenhire agrees with J4L that no-hitters don't mean s*** anymore. His arm would have fallen off.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 16, 2010 -> 02:03 PM) This is cool by Neyer...

QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ Aug 15, 2010 -> 06:56 PM) I enjoyed a 750 ml bottle of Cascade Brewing Company's Kreik Ale that was surprisingly good. The bottle calls it a "northwest style sour ale" refermented with cheries, and it was totally balls-on lactic Belgian in flavor. I had intended to split the bottle with the Missus who is quite a beer hound in her own right, but the sour bite was a bit much for her and I ended up drinking most of the bottle myself. VERY similar to Cantillon's fruit lambics which are way more tart and biting than Linderman or Timmerman and the like. Conceded, this is not a product of spontaneous fermenation like a true Lembeek lambic, but flavor-wise it hits all the right notes. Very much like a gueuze with a hint of fruit and no real sweetness to speak of. At $19 a bottle, it won't be something I pick up regularly — but then again, it's a seasonal that isn't around too often to tempt me. On the other hand, I have 750's of their apricot- and grape- refermented ales on the counter waiting to be enjoyed as well. Looks to be a very sour couple of weeks! I don't know about you, but people should give me some space if I'm drinking lambics. But now I want to go find those. I don't know that they are sold up here (never heard of it). BTW, Dogfish Head Indian Brown Ale is yummy.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 16, 2010 -> 03:08 PM) Some of the places I read suggested the problem could actually be related to Verizon's network, either it being excessively hit by a new type of phone or that the phone was struggling to interface with that network. I hate AT&T as much as anyone and that's why i don't have an iPhone yet, but there is some logic to the argument that the reason AT&T's network is below everyone else's in quality is that they have iPhones on it. (Edit: one way to test this of course would be to put an iPhone on another network and let holdouts like me finally have the chance to buy and use them). Studies have shown that more data is actually used on Verizon than on AT&T despite the iPhone. Who knows though. By the way, you should ask about AT&T in your area. In smaller cities, AT&T is pretty good. Here, we have no problem. 3G will cut out in the farms, but I don't drop calls. I know a lot of people with AT&T and no one complains. Chicago and NYC are another story...

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 16, 2010 -> 03:03 PM) Where are you reading that their reception problems are worse than the iPhone's? I just went through a handful of sites, including apple friendly ones, and got the "haha" impression more than the "This is absolutely terrible" impression. Not that I'm defending either since I have zero horses in this race. Even if the Droid's problem is worse than the iPhone's, no one will notice because Verizon is a better network.

QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ Aug 14, 2010 -> 10:11 AM) G&T, have you had anything from New York's Southern Tier Brewery yet? We just started getting this in Florida and I just had their imperial IPA yesterday and it was very good. I wish we got all the Smuttynose stuff here. Their regular offerings are always good and some of the beers in the Big Beer Series look very appealing. How is the farmhouse ale that was released last month? I haven't had much Southern Tier. I tried a couple offerings a while back and didn't much care for them because they came off as over sweet. If I recall, they make a good pumpkin ale. Smuttynose is hit or miss. They rarely hit the mark for the style they are attempting, but that's not always a bad thing. The farmhouse is a good summer quencher but calling it a farmhouse is a stretch, though it isn't easily classifiable elsewhere either. However, their beers are cheap and it's hard to find a better brewery for the price. I found out last week that Allagash has been pulled from upstate NY to meet demand in NYC. So I am without it until they increase capacity. I hate NYC.

Tonight I finished off the week with a Smuttynose Gravitation. A member of the Smuttynose Big Beer Series, this is rather large quad weighing in at 12%. The best comparison I can give is that this tastes like Raison d'Extra if that beer were drinkable. Here we have almost no head but plenty of raisin, banana, caramel, and a touch of alcohol in the nose. Taste is fruity and sweet, perhaps with a touch of apple. It's not a normal quad but my taste buds are enjoying it. Lately, quads have all come off as flat pop to me. Even Rochefort 10. The Gravitation is a different animal but is a fine beer all it's own. Also, is easy on the wallet at $7 a bomber. At 12% abv, it's a night of drinking.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Aug 12, 2010 -> 05:58 PM) As a switch hitter. Which is harder to do IMO. It would be easier as a switch hitter because he has the advantage of seeing the ball better from both righties and lefites. If it wasn't an advantage to the hitter, then why would he do it?

QUOTE (knightni @ Aug 9, 2010 -> 12:59 AM) You know until the US dropped the bomb, the Japanese Emperor was considered to be a literal god. Infallible and undefeatable. I don't think that surrender would have happened without the proof that the emperor was fallible by not being able to stop the bombs; and thus, not a god. Part of the condition of surrendor was for the emporer to go on the radio and tell the nation that he was not a god and not infallibel.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Aug 10, 2010 -> 09:12 PM) Actually, this will get done whenever we do the next upgrade... (which is after college football season because that's when everyone will be able to pitch in... the next upgrade is a f***er of an upgrade). So you don't just push "Upgrade" and it just happens?

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Aug 8, 2010 -> 10:02 AM) As much as I have been rooting for Hudson to do well, I am starting to turn against him because I am getting a little sick of my Dbacks friend texting me telling me "Thanks for giving us Hudson" I really hope EJax can dominate, so it will shut his ass up. I'll take Jackson and a pennant race over Hudson and irrelevance.

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Aug 8, 2010 -> 09:39 AM) Ozzie is losing a lot more games for this team then a manager ever should. A manager's job is to put his team in the best position to ball games, Ozzie isn't doing that. Instead, he's handicapping this team by being stubborn and shortsighted. According to the Pythagorean, since June 9th, the Sox have played to their exact expected record. Prior to June 9th, they played 1 game better than expected. So if Pythagorean is to hold any credibility, Ozzie cannot be blamed for losing games.