southsider2k5

Great episode. The Penny meeting was excellent.

oh kick ass retie with Eloise.

OK, so Charlie is crazy...

Nice crossover flash with Charlie in the water...

Faraday a classical musician, and Desmond is unmarried. Nice reprisal of the scotch scene....

The Widmore/Desmond hug was just creepy.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 6, 2010 -> 06:27 PM) It's probably a lot easier to get a handgun into a stadium and jump over the fence while shooting than it is to sneak a sniper rifle in. [dials FBI tip line]

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Apr 6, 2010 -> 04:07 PM) I'm actually taking Floyd above Zambrano too, but I'm also an admitted Floyd homer. Zambrano has more god given ability than anyone on our staff, but his mental state makes him dicey. I think I would take Floyd as well, because you know what you are going to get from him, especially in a big game.

QUOTE (chisoxfan09 @ Apr 6, 2010 -> 02:51 PM) Did anyone see Thorton´s velocity? Was it low 90´s or mid to high 90´s? 95-96 on the CSN gun.

Whatever show Mariotti is on.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Apr 6, 2010 -> 02:47 PM) All good points. I'm excited for next year, not just because Illinois should be better, but there's really no stand out team right now. Seems like there will be 10 teams that have the potential to win it all. Most it has to do with who comes back and who goes pro.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Apr 6, 2010 -> 01:57 PM) I really hate gotchya media these days. Like the President doesn't have enough on his mind, if he on the spot mispronounces something let's jump all over him. GMAFB. Except it really isn't a mispronounciation... That is how it gets said on the south side.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Apr 6, 2010 -> 12:05 PM) So you'd be happier if he wore Cubs gear all the time? If he keeps throwing out first pitches like that...

The race to dethrone Duke begins today.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 6, 2010 -> 11:15 AM) You know what he and Andruw Jones have in common? Their last big seasons were 2006, and they both are turning 33 during this season.

QUOTE (heirdog @ Apr 6, 2010 -> 10:47 AM) Here is how I remember Maggs over time: 1) Hit well in the minors for several years before coming to the big leagues (a bitter Ozzie, having just left the Sox, said something to the effect of "The White Sox don't bring him up because he is Venezuelan...") 2) A consistent statistical force in the middle of the line-up: .300, 30, 100 given each season. Met him once and he was very nice, though very quiet. Seemed to be a humble guy that just went about his business 3) Felt like the Sox weren't being loyal to a guy after he got hurt as I felt they should have stuck by him a little more with at least an incentive-laden deal (seems like the truth is different that what I perceived). 4) When he left, I felt like he was done as a top-end guy any way with the knee injury so didn't care much from a performance perspective but felt he was disrespected by the Sox 5) Found his comment after we won the World Series to be interesting and made me re-think my anger at how mgmt treated him. If I remember correctly, he said "If I knew they were going to win the World Series, I never would have left." Hmmm, so it was he who left and not the Sox who showed him the door. 6) Very happy he didn't win Series with Detroit in '06 7) Canseco story came out and immediately, I thought he was guilty. Perhaps due to feeling duped by him and also the numbers he was putting up, which were unexpected. He seemed to come out of nowhere to start hitting in the minors and then put up some incredible numbers in the majors and then he recovered quickly from some "Austrian" knee surgery. Canseco is a douche but he's been pretty much dead-on with all the players he has named as he likely is in the know from the baseball inside circle. Today, I don't think I really care or have even followed what Maggs has been doing since he was being benched the last couple years so that Detroit could avoid some plate appearance incentives. I am not sure if I hate Maggs or ever really hated him. I was always more vengeful of him meaning that I didn't want him to succeed once he left the Sox. Kenny Williams left a big contract extention on the table even after his injury. Ozzie even met with him in person to emphasize that he wanted him back, and how big it was of the Sox to still offer him a lot of money, even after his massive knee injury.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Apr 6, 2010 -> 09:58 AM) So all of a sudden $15M can't get you anything? Purnell? That's it? Obviously no one else jumped on that grenade, because they sure tried ringing every doorbell they could, including a guy like Steve Lavin, who doesn't even have a job.

And in the category of FWIW, there seems to be some history of people booing the President on Opening Day, yet this is the first thread I can recall about it... http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/30/bush-booed-nationals/

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 6, 2010 -> 09:18 AM) I thought it would be interesting to have a thread for people who went to Opening Day, to share with the SoxTalk crowd some of the sights and sounds that people who watched/heard it broadcast would have missed. Here are a few to start with... --The radar gun at the park was not working properly at the start of the game. MB's first fastball registered at 93 - which we all thought was strange. Then it got weirder, when another one hit... 107. After that, the radar wasn't showing at all anymore, then later in the game it came back on, and seemed back to normal. --Not one of the four Blackhawks throw a pitch even vaguely near the strike zone. But they did get some real nice applause when they were announced. --Saw KW and Big Frank having what looked like a very happy conversation, while getting ready to go on camera. Surprised to see that. --They had a moment of silence reel on the scoreboard during the opening ceremonies, showing people who had died during the past offseason. A couple jackasses in our area decided this was their big chance, and start yelling and hollering during it. They eventually left the area, to the cheers of people nearby. --Ballpark looked the same, didn't notice anything new. The Red Line CTA station now has TSA guards all over it, instead of just CPD officers. The CSN gun seemed to be on. MB was around 85-87 on the fastball.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Apr 6, 2010 -> 09:16 AM) I agree with your coaching suggestion, but even the hot assistant coaches are getting smarter these days. That program is a dead-end, and these guys are using enough foresight to have patience and avoid it for the chance at a quick buck. If you have any desire to spend your career coaching college basketball, and you're an assistant on the upswing, you'd be best to avoid a dead-end desitnation just so you can buy a bigger house earlier in your career. Great point. Why put your eggs in the DePaul basket as an assistant? You have a much better chance of building a winning reputation at a mid-major than you do at DP. You are pretty much set to be 15th or 16th place and fired in a few years time. After that you might not be able to get another job. At least if you start low and then move up and fail, you have the reputation of being decent a smaller school, and probably can get hired again.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Apr 6, 2010 -> 09:00 AM) Come on, it sure as hell is a rotten job. It's a city school with no fan base, rotten facilities, they play their games nowhere near the damn campus....they've sucked for the better part of 25 years now. They've shown very little ability to keep City recruits from heading elsewhere....I mean come on, this is just like people saying St John's is a good job. It just isn't. 20 years ago it was a good job. Not anymore. Yup. DePaul needs a miracle to be relevant again.

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2010/04/06/...agebusinessnews

QUOTE (chisoxfan09 @ Apr 6, 2010 -> 02:38 AM) Was she in attendance? I know this is off the mark but she has been the face of the frnachise entertainmentwise now for almost 4 decades. They gotta give her a tribute or a day of some kind. Have they am I retarded? They have, and I am sure they will again.

Twins pen opening this one up... 6-3 Angels in the bottom of the eighth after back to back homers for Anaheim.

QUOTE (Ranger @ Apr 5, 2010 -> 10:52 PM) It was a tradition because every President from Taft to Nixon threw out a first pitch in Washington at some point (while there was a team there). Obviously, they Senators left in the 70s and now the tradition has picked back up with the Nationals. All of them wore Washington Senators jackets?