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QUOTE (Texsox @ Jul 31, 2008 -> 07:37 AM) First of all, and to get accustomed to married life, what does your bride say? Do that. I personalized each gift to the groomsmen instead of a one gift fits someone, kind of. I received a personalized (with mine, not their names) money clip / knife I used for years and years. I also received a beer stein with their name and wedding date that was kind of nice. The engraving was very subtle. The bats would be kind of cool, but you are right, they could end up in the back of the closet. But then any gift could, and finding something that all the groomsmen like is really impossible. So, I'd try and pick a different gift for each guy. Ask their wives and girlfriends for advice. I pretty much did this. I picked out things I thought each of the guys would like.

QUOTE (RME JICO @ Jul 31, 2008 -> 07:46 AM) I'm in El Paso, TX and they said on the local sports radio that Griffey has already agreed, but is pending a physical. 2 minor leaguers, one is a PTBNL. FWIW. Interesting. That means both the Fields and Anderson stuff is 99% not true.

Don Cooper is on the Score now, and he just heard about the pending deal when Mully and Handly told him about it.

QUOTE (whitesoxbrian @ Jul 31, 2008 -> 07:14 AM) What is going on? That is the question of the moment. Nobody knows.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jul 31, 2008 -> 06:46 AM) Anyone else annoyed that Griffey is the only reported name and we're left here in suspense? YES! My mind is racing 100 mph over what could actually be going on here.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 31, 2008 -> 06:39 AM) Who would we possibly want to give up besides Masset or Logan, better yet, who would another team actually want? MacDougal, lol? I guess Russell is an outside shot, but I don't KW will give up on someone who throws in the mid to upper 90's quite so easily. Actually I was thinking relievers that WE would get. Another thought that I had would be that a deal would make sense as a large move, such as us getting a SP or RP from Cincy and taking Griffey's salary to not give up as much trade value.

Any relief pitchers that could be a part of this deal?

I guess he still has a .355 OBP. Any thoughts on if he or Swish is the better CF right now? I'll be honest, I haven't seen enough of Jr in years to say who is better.

Interesting. I would imagine the player we gave up depends on how much salary we were willing to pick it up. If we take over his salary, I can't imagine us giving up much. If we get them to pay, it might be someone decent.

60-46 +1.5 games

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jul 30, 2008 -> 02:49 PM) Sorry but I honestly can't think of a more lame reason not to vote for someone. Except think of it in this context how many people can't stand the Yankees, Cubs, Red Sox etc because of their fans? Way too many people vote for superficial reasons, so to think how their supporters act doesn't have an affect on how people look at a candidate is probably not accurate. Lame yes, true, no.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jul 30, 2008 -> 01:52 PM) To my knowledge there are no links between marijuana use and cancer. There was a guy on another board I go to that had access to databases of medical studies (not open membership unfortunately or I'd go dig it up) and he couldn't find any studies that said there was. No offense but that sounds like some tobacco company type propaganda. Besides how many people could conduct a study of an illegal activity? Sounds kinda shady to me.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jul 30, 2008 -> 01:42 PM) legalizing marijuana would save the states so much money. Are the health care costs for cancer figured in that?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/29/us/polit...amp;oref=slogin

QUOTE (jeffthedude @ Jul 30, 2008 -> 09:56 AM) I obviously don't contribute on here but that sounds about right. The deluded homer optimism on these fan sites is amazing. Just look at what the Sox are! Steve Stone said just the other day on the Score morning show that the Sox are an 86-87 win team. There's no shame in that. The question has always been, is the division so bad it can be won by an 86-win team, or is it better than that? And now it is completely clear the Twins are better than that, and better than us. They play a less challenging schedule than we do from here on out. If someone else saw a playoff team out there the past couple days, I'd like to know what game you were watching. The Sox need to drop the old, ineffective deadweight off this team and start stocking good young players for the future. The cupboard looks pretty bare right now. I'm not a negative fan. I follow the Sox for the fun of it, not just for the hope they will make the playoffs. They won't this year. You remind me of a troll I used to know...

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jul 30, 2008 -> 09:31 AM) They had this thing where they were showing Tim Russert asking all these politicians if they had any plans to run for president. All of them said no when he backed them into a corner, lol. The moral of that story is to never take a denial of intentions like that at face value. Exactly the point I was trying to make. There is NO WAY that a person in their own party would be saying that they want Stevens seat right now.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jul 29, 2008 -> 09:08 PM) Holy cripes, Clayton Richard has one hell of an arm. I'm excited about what him, Danks, Floyd are going to do for the Sox over the next few years. I realize its just a few starts and I'm on the DVR (so I'm only into the top of the 5th) but he has a few different variations of the fastball and a very deceptive delivery (gets good sink on one of his FB's, plus has a very good looking changeup). After seeing him pitch, I really like his future. He would have been fine in the 5th if he didn't get intimidated and quit throwing strikes to load them up for Morneau.

QUOTE (Texsox @ Jul 29, 2008 -> 09:24 PM) The schools I have been close to did not seem to have too many administrators, although I imagine that could be an issue in some districts. Especially those poor ones that have to employ cops to assure safety for the students and teachers. With the teacher shortage that plagues most districts, firing crappy ones would be a dream to get to, but it would probably be more helpful to make the job attractive enough to hire better ones. Aministrators have become a necesary evil with the governmentalization of school systems. With all of the requirements and reporting that is done to the state and national educations depts, these people become needed to do all of the paperwork. Lots of it has been pushed onto teachers, but most is done at the administrative level. Its a huge waste of money. I agree with the idea behind NCLB, of being able to hold teachers accountable just like in any other profession, but the idea that their job preformance, and the preformance of entire school districts should be judged by standardized test scores is laughable, especially when you look deeper into thing about the way the tests are done, such as including the mentally handicapped learning disabled and the like into the scores just like anyone else. A 16 year old kid who has the mental capacity of a 6 year old, is expected to test like a 16 year old, or it is held against the school district. Tell me how that makes sense.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jul 30, 2008 -> 08:49 AM) I don't think you know what you're talking about. He refused to sign the 5-50 deal that was offered by the Bulls, as did Ben Gordon. Even after a down year, Deng still averaged 17 points and 6.3 boards despite being injured most of the season. I have a feeling he'll be averaging 22/8 this year. The Bulls offered Deng 5 for $57.5, or pretty close to what he signed for now.

Happy Birthday

If you can get ahold of Ozzie Jr., he has some great stories.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jul 29, 2008 -> 11:07 PM) and right on cue: from her press release: Palin said she has no interest in leaving her job as governor should the Republican Party look to find a replacement for Stevens on the election ballot.

QUOTE (LosMediasBlancas @ Jul 29, 2008 -> 05:31 PM) For those of you that hate AD, what shows do you think are witty or funny? Just wondering. The jokes go over their heads and they don't like that feeling

QUOTE (Texsox @ Jul 30, 2008 -> 08:28 AM) Business entertainment, expense account lunches, travelers, workers, etc. They may drop down a notch or two in where they go, but many will weather the storm. But I agree, why anyone would decide to go into the restaurant business, or loan money to someone to do that is crazy. BTW would you like to be partners in my new Texas BBQ joint I want to open in Woodfield? Margins are near zero in that field at most levels. You have to get into the high end before you really have a profit margin.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 29, 2008 -> 02:56 PM) Man, when they hit in the middle of a network, these computers are really, really fast at getting the hard data together. 10 years ago this stuff wouldn't have been available until days to weeks after an event. The joys of the internets. Turns out it's something we'd call a dip-slip event, not quite a strike slip signal and not quite a thrust signal, but somewhere in-between. Kind of makes sense based on the area it's happening, hit on a fault that likely didn't break the surface, but also hits in an area where there's sort of a directional change in the mountain range, so there's some shear force on the rocks as well. In something like 5-10% of quakes, there will be an aftershock larger than the initial large event, so folks at least should be moderately cautious over the next day or two. So in a quake that leads to the larger quake, is it something where the initial release of pressure ends up building more pressure at another point, which leads to a bigger quake?