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Jeff Bajenaru

Congrats!!!

QUOTE (Jimbo's Drinker @ Aug 18, 2008 -> 02:58 PM) Ill trade someone a sweet lunch in the loop for a job interview with their companies.... god damn economy. What do you do?

QUOTE (Pants Rowland @ Aug 18, 2008 -> 03:29 PM) Jaffa Bagel inside Ogilvie Transportation Center - Great roast turkey sandwiches fresh off the carcass. Made to order but watch so they do not skimp on the toppings. Great unknown there. It is favorite of mine.

QUOTE (LosMediasBlancas @ Aug 18, 2008 -> 02:48 PM) How about Chicken Planet on Jackson just off of State? Half a roasted chicken, bread, two sides + drink= $6.00 Chicken Planet is most excellent, but I have found a new spot I actually like better. Pollittos over on 39 N. Wells between Madison and Washington. Best Rotisserre chicken downtown.

This is the quickest surrender I have ever seen that didn't involve the French...

71-53 +1 game over MN

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Aug 18, 2008 -> 02:09 PM) I always forget you work over there, ever go to Boni Vino's When I worked at the CBOE and CHX I would pop over there every once in a while. I liked the deal at Reggie's better.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Aug 18, 2008 -> 02:05 PM) Abe's deli on franklin and adams. Its decent, but expensive. Another fav of mine is Coca's soul food, also on Clark Street, just south of Mikes.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Aug 18, 2008 -> 01:55 PM) The Sox are 10-6 since the Rally Boone was implemented. With duck and moves like that, you should be running for President.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Aug 18, 2008 -> 01:53 PM) Paulie's Stats since i instituted the Rally Jobu on Paulie: .308 AVG, .431 OBP, 1.021 OPS, 3 HR, 7 RBI What does Boone's line look like?

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Aug 18, 2008 -> 01:45 PM) I said 50,000 posts for a reason. That reason was so that we all could call you a f***ing prick [hugs] I knew you still cared... Now don't you have a thread to lock?

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Aug 18, 2008 -> 01:36 PM) Behind the scenes, the mods/admins are constantly discussing ways to improve the site. However, as everyone knows, we also believe that a good mod presence is one which is never really seen or heard from. The mods do an outstanding job of taking care of issues quickly and away from the everyday discussions. We feel we give everyone a more than fair shake to share there opinions on Soxtalk and the only real way you get banned is by constantly making inappropriate posts/attacks. And I mean constantly since we pretty much have a multiple strikes and your out policy (rarely is anyone, aside from trolls, banned on a first instance). This more lenient attitude can lead to a bit more rampant negativity and the ocassional thread that spins out of control but long-term we feel the benefits (the freedom to discuss 99.9% of all topics) far outwieghs the negatives. As a whole I know my personal level of action at Soxtalk has decreased. At this point I'm more of a figure-head who tries to point things in the right direction but leans heavily on the mods/admins who are around on a day to day, hour to hour basis. The site has grown and that does lead to more stress and more new posters who may not be familiar with the "norms" of Soxtalk. This ocassionally leads to a less than friendly welcome and its the one thing I would really like to see change at Soxtalk. When Soxtalk was founded, I went out of my way to welcome any and all members. Many people had dumb first posts (lord knows I have about 40,000 dumb posts, and about 1 million grammar errors) and eventually evolved into tremendous posters/assets to the community. I think we all need to remember this when someone jumps down a newbs throat and calls them stupid. Rather, try to educate such person. Its the education and great discussion amongst posters I have a familiarity with that keeps me coming back (That and ownership, LOL). I always considered myself a smart baseball person but I've learned a vast amount since joining this site and will continue to learn many new things. In short, I ask each and every member here at Soxtalk to try and do one thing, show respect to your fellow poster (whether they have 50,000 posts or 1 post). What a f***ing load of s***.... I mean welcome back Jason :0)

One more thing to keep in mind is the Rich Daley factor. Love him or hate him, he is man who gets things done. How many of the other people pushing bids could bulldoze an airport in the middle of the night and get re-elected with 80% of the vote? Besides in an Olympic committee rife with corruption, lets just say Richie speaks their language.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Aug 18, 2008 -> 11:05 AM) So, has anyone else noticed that this big $7500 tax credit for new home buyers isn't a credit at all? Its a loan? Basically, the government says it wants to rescue citizens from a poor housing market and questionable loan practices, by engaging them in a questionable loan practice. f***ing brilliant. I hadn't read that yet. And here I thought the bailout bill couldn't have been any worse. Well sadly Congress proved me wrong AGAIN.

QUOTE (whitesoxbrian @ Aug 16, 2008 -> 09:27 PM) I'll be going to Cincinnati for all 3 and Milwaukee for 1 or 2. Thanks, WSF1986! We have- I went that year and Piazza signed a baseball for me. I'm guessing it was a 2 and 2 year deal we signed with Pittsburgh- we played them in 2006 and 2007 at home, and will be playing them next year and we already played them this year. We also played the Dodgers in 2005- AJ hit that walkoff HR to left-center on 1959 night. We played in Cincinnati in 2006, too- we swept. Remember Garland hit the HR in the 3rd game?? We played in Milwaukee in 2001 or 2002, too. We don't "sign" deals to play teams. This isn't the NCAA. MLB schedulers decide who plays each other.

I want to go back and watch the whole show, but Norm MacDonald's bit during the Bob Saget roast was the least funniest thing I think I have ever seen. I have seen trainwrecks that were funnier than that.

QUOTE (thedoctor @ Aug 18, 2008 -> 08:05 AM) cool, i would appreciate that. i enjoyed the people on that board. i posted there under this same name, although i was far from a regular poster. i used to frequent the bears team board back in the day when guys like natas, cbus, and mouse used to post regularly there. as time went on i posted less frequently on the team board and more at nfl-fans. then i went through some life stuff where i wasn't posting much anywhere, and when i was able to post more again nfl-fans was gone. i'd always been curious what had happened to it. thanks for filling me in. FWIW our Bears sister site is very active now. http://www.talkbears.com

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Aug 18, 2008 -> 06:16 AM) I think i read in the recap this is our first series win in Oakland in 7 or 8 years The first time we have won a season series with Oakland since 2000. Also this was the first time since that same year that we won two straight games in Oakland.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Aug 18, 2008 -> 07:57 AM) That's what I'm thinking. Politics be damned, it would have a nice residual effect on the city afterwards. I drove through Atlanta in the spring of 1996 and the amount of work that was done to the city was unbelievable. I'd love to see that done to Chicago.

Bolt's 100 meter final was the single greatest domination of a race since Michael Johnson's 19.32 in the 200 meters in Atlanta. For me, THAT was the preformance of the Olympics.

It would be a huge shot in the arm to a crumbling infrastructure and neighborhoods that really need rebuilding. I would love to see it happen.

QUOTE (Texsox @ Aug 16, 2008 -> 06:58 PM) And think about how ungratful they were to then leave via free agency. Greedy bums. It does highlight one thing, and I do think this is a good thing. We set our sights much higher today as Sox fans. Back in '77 a Chicago baseball playoff berth was huge. Now it seems very obtainable and more aggravating if we miss out. This team for example, os not a "hey, we had a lot of fun this summer, to bad we just missed" team. It's a dammit, you better make the playoffs. Anything less should be worthy of fan scorn. In '77 we'd be giggly with excitement at today's record and standing. Looking at this offense, they have a LOT in common with the southside hitmen.

Eh, I didn't mean to post that yet, as I had one more thing I wanted to talk about. -The catch-all threads came out of a couple of factors. First was repeat subject postings. The Second was super-high volume making it hard to keep up with the different threads. We sure can think about changing that if a lot of people don't like the format, even if it is just in PaleHoseTalk. And finally, as always, if you have issues let us know. We talk about anything and everything, so PM, Email, or post to us. We do listen.

There are a bunch of different factors at work here. -Most of the people who run Soxtalk are fairly young, and have gone through life style changes that have completely changed their freetime dynamics. Heck in the 5 1/2 years I have been here, I know I have a job where I work a lot more now, and I have had two kids and bought a house. I don't have time to post 40 times a day like I used to. Most of the admins are in the same boat, so things aren't as well looked after and active as they used to be. -Things aren't as friendly as they used to be, and all you have to do is look at a couple of the initial responses in this very thread for evidence of that. Personally I think as the site has gotten older and the posting base has gotten used to each other, many of the early nicities have gone away. Its almost like instead of being on our best behavior and polite to each other as we were new here, we have become family, and don't feel the need to waste our time with that anymore. In general its not a big deal, but for people who haven't been around a long time, it comes off as brash and rude. It doesn't make someone who isn't in the loop feel welcome. I know I have been as guilty of that as anyone, so maybe we all just need to take a second to reflect before we submit posts. -The game threads poster was just an honest mistake. We have had a system for two seasons now where whoever posts the game thread for a particular day has the right to keep posting the next one until the team loses. I know you were upset, but just PM someone and ask what happened. We'll let you know. -There has been an on-going pissing match between a couple of different groups of people for a while now. There is the group who feels that it is their duty to point out everything wrong with the team. There is the group who feels like it is their duty to point out every good thing about this team. There are the groups who feel that no matter what they say, THEY should never be the ones being judged. Some of those groups overlap, but conflict is pretty inherent between these groups. I have seen posts from all groups involved here, sniping at their opposites, and the net effect is that the quality of posting itself loses. The basic problem is that too many people have become obsessed with being right over all other things, and will do what it takes to prove themselves right. What is the solution? I have no idea. Some people see Soxtalk as their personal place to unload everything, others see it as a place to enjoy the White Sox with other fans. The biggest issue has been that neither side shows the other side much respect. Maybe again the solution is to think before you post and wonder what your reaction would be to the post you are about to make. -Game threads are what they are. Maybe it is the instant nature of reaction, but they are pretty much going to be dictated by who is in them. For some reason, the people who post in them mostly have initial reactions that are negative. Its not my favorite thing, but it is what it is. People react the way that they react, and there isn't much you can do about that. The only way to change that is for the people who want to see more positive stuff talked about, post more and drown out the negative talk. -WSI has its own style, and that is fine with us. We don't take ourselves too seriously, but we also don't spend as much time and money on the site as they do. That could be a very big part of why they take their mod/admin posts more aggressively than we do. We have always had more open philosophy, and the fact that this thread still exists and has had a good many of Soxtalk staff post in it, is a first hand testimony to how we view ourselves. A lot of people here use both sites to get their information and discussion fixes, and that is great. WSI does a great job, and I have nothing but respect for what they contribute for Sox fans. Would I run my site like they do? No. Does that take away from the work that they do? Hell no.