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QUOTE (Jenks Heat @ Mar 23, 2010 -> 12:00 PM) Need to put in the time off request. Always the highlite of my time off request submissions well that and the annual physical. Someone needs to start a constitutional movement to make opening day a national holiday.

QUOTE (Brian @ Mar 23, 2010 -> 09:11 PM) Hell yeah. Damon and Carlton said before the season started that fans mayb have to be patient. I think we are about to get going. I'm guessing MIB doesn't really want to go home, but get off the island to spread evil or whatever. That's the thing, even if you took all of the major questions that were left from the first five seasons, you couldn't have filled an entire season up. You needed more to make it work. They are obviously headed towards the climax.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Mar 24, 2010 -> 08:26 AM) I've personally seen my internet service go from: Since the mid 80's when I first got involved. 300baud > 1200baud > 2400baud > 9600baud > 19200baud > 28k8baud > 56kdownbaud > 128k/128k sdsl > 512k/128k adsl > 1mbit/512k adsl > 2mbit/1mbit cable > 5mbit/2mbit cable > 12mbit/2mbit cable > 24mbit/10mbit cable (what I have now). So to say it hasn't gone anywhere is nonsense. Those are amazing jumps in speed considering the sheer size of this country. Unless you live in po-dunk, good internet service exists in many places and it's getting better by the day, with Verizon FIOS and Uverse beginning to step in, we are about to enter a boon era in terms of speed. And the po-dunk areas will eventually catch on, but maybe that's where the government needs to go spread it's debt...err, wealth, to bring them up to speed. Private companies have little need to spend billions expanding networks to towns where 3 people live. The increased competition from all of these companies, and more are coming, will put downward pressure on pricing, etc. Consider them "Bridges to Nowhere".

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 24, 2010 -> 08:11 AM) Interesting. 26% either scaled back or dropped it. I wonder what portion of each is in there? Article doesn't seem to say. And honestly, I'm shocked its only 26% that did one or the other - I thought the % would be higher. You'd have to know what percentage didn't offer it at all for it to me more relevant.

The most important part is who we cast as Oney.

QUOTE (flavum @ Mar 23, 2010 -> 07:06 PM) Cowley on Nix making the team. http://blogs.suntimes.com/whitesox/2010/03..._it_hes_in.html Thankfully he can stick more to pinchitting this year as Omar will be the primary defensive replacement.

This was the chance that something could happen to Ozzie. I figured if anything was going to get him it would be something to do with his kids, and yet this passed over pretty easily. He is going to be here for a while.

QUOTE (SoxFan562004 @ Mar 24, 2010 -> 07:02 AM) you would enjoy some of the deadspin articles that have candid photos of him creepily trolling bars... http://deadspin.com/5467201/our-deadspin-s...ct-jay-mariotti "Before we take this back to my place, I have to legally inform you about a couple of things..."

I can't believe St John's thought Billy Donavan might want to go there...

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Mar 23, 2010 -> 10:22 PM) Nah, go ahead. He pisses me off too. Figured i'd give the Sox Talk world one more glimpse of this worthless P.O.S, and then we call all move on. So, by all means shut this mother down. How about a title edit?

QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ Mar 23, 2010 -> 10:26 PM) .909 save percentage entering tonight, keep that in mind. He was outstanding tonight though for the most part, and a win over a team with 9 wins in a row in a game of this magnitude is nice to see. Need a strong finish for that #1 seed. I could give a s*** less what his save percentage was before tonight. He played like a #1 goalie in the biggest game of the season. If he can carry anything close to this through the rest of the season, the Hawks are a legit threat for the cup.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Mar 23, 2010 -> 09:03 PM) But the whole purpose of them dropping that benefit and paying the fine was because they were saving a significant amount of money, so there is a benefit to paying the fine instead, and they pocket that extra money...? If it was really zero sum then they might as well keep the benefit. But like Tex said in a roundabout way, now you as an employer look less attractive... it'd be the same thing as offering a lower salary. Think of it this way... How many companies offer a pension? It died when the government stepped in with social security. History tells me that the same thing will happen here.

Great ending too.

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Mar 23, 2010 -> 07:48 PM) Jason isn't used to getting money not stuffed in his Soxtalk G-string. But on the bright side, there is plenty of room for money in there, because there isn't much of anything else taking up space.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Mar 23, 2010 -> 08:48 PM) Now that is on a level I can understand.

QUOTE (Brian @ Mar 23, 2010 -> 06:11 PM) Sheldon is my favorite character on any sitcom right now. Talk about a night of TV that snuck up on me, Big Bang Theory and How I Met Your Mother are my favs now.

"That's the first sensible thing you have said"

Why does his f***ing name have to show up on Soxtalk again. Can't we just act like he is as irrelevant as he used to think bloggers were?

Nice twist.

So much for the statue...

Who was Hurley speaking Spanish to? Ana Lucia?

Welcome to the Hotel California!

So the wife got rearended on the way to work on last Wed by a student at the school where she teaches. Today, or six days later, she gets big old packets from two local ambulance chasers.

I go by the Ogden Dunes train station often...