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More good news... gasoline futures are still falling, they are under 1.80 and still going. Crude has broke under the $70 ppb, and natural gas is flirting with $6. Hopefully the lack of bad news keeps up, because we all can sure use the lower fuel/heating bills.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Aug 29, 2006 -> 08:50 AM) Makes me forget about the last guy we had out in right . . . Joe Borchard? He was a good kid, and he got us Thornton

QUOTE(Steff @ Aug 29, 2006 -> 08:14 AM) From everything we know about Brandon (from him and from rumors) we've yet to hear anything bad from the clubhouse - correct me if I am wrong and you've heard something different - so the only conclusion I have is that he's just too "quiet" for Oz. It's silly, but I do think it's very plausable. Carlos also wasn't part of that gang and you see how fast he was chastized and shipped (though the move was a logical fit). Brandon is definately a quiet kid from what I have seen. He seems like a really good kid who keeps his nose clean, stays out of trouble, and has an almost 24/7 focus on baseball and its knowledge. In other words he is Ozzie's antithisis.

QUOTE(chimpy2121 @ Aug 29, 2006 -> 08:23 AM) Ughh...8:00 lecture classes=not cool Now it's time to do laundry! Even more fun Wait until you have to be at work that early... or earlier.

QUOTE(Steff @ Aug 29, 2006 -> 08:08 AM) Don't they have a turn in program at college? At St Xaviar we had that where you turned in your books at the end of the semester, got some $$ back, and they were resold to incomming students. While the course changed some, the books were usually goot for 3 or 4 cycles. It was a ripoff when I was in school. No one really did it much unless they really needed the money, as it was usually better just to waiting and sell books directly to the next class.

Am I the only person left in the world who doesn't own an Ipod?

Congrats to JD, hopefully it is the first of much more hardware, both of the personal, and team oriented variety.

QUOTE(PA32R @ Aug 28, 2006 -> 05:25 PM) I assumed from the title "lack of Widger hurting team" that you must have meant that, with him gone, there must be a lack of the circumstance of him hurting the team. Now I'm not so sure... Its a joke. Its all good sarcasm. Welcome to Soxtalk if you have not been formerly welcomed to the fray

QUOTE(cgaudin @ Aug 28, 2006 -> 05:59 PM) Now, there's a way to arise a man's curiosity. Inquiring minds wanna know. Now see, that is the great thing about secrets... If someone tells you, it isn't a secret anymore

QUOTE(fathom @ Aug 28, 2006 -> 03:59 PM) He looked much more decisive and confident. The first steal was all him, as he had a great jump (I'm still confused at the slide he attempted). The second steal was more due to a bad throw by the catcher. Redmond was the catcher, and the best thing you can say about his arm is that he's a good hitter. However, I don't care who is behind the plate. It's nice to see Pods try to get some swagger back. Watching the replays I think they would have still had to get a picture perfect tag to get Pods on the second attempt. It looked like it would have been really close if they throw had been there. But I definately agree something looked different. That second bunt he laid down was absolutely perfect. It was right onto the dirt of the 3rd base line about half way up the line, with perfect spin and everything. The steal attempts just looked like he KNEW when Silva was going home, and took off for second base. It could have been a fluke, but sometimes you can just see a light go on in a players head, and feel they have a hot streak coming. I got that feeling with the way Pods went about his business, and I was curious if anyone else saw what I did? QUOTE(Steff @ Aug 28, 2006 -> 04:10 PM) Jas, I think it's Brandon's "professional" attitude that rubs Oz the wrong way. Mike, please chime in with your thoughts also. That's the same attitude and feeling I got. Brandon just isn't a real loose guy from what I can tell (granted I am not in the clubhouse or anything so I am not preaching this as gospel). The guy is very ritualistic, and likes to keep the same routine, as it keeps him in a mental comfort zone. Something like this is 180 degrees from the way Ozzie is, and I don't know if this is the problem, if there is a real personality conflict, or for some reason, Ozzie just doesn't believe Brandon is nearly as talented as everyone else does, or what. Heck it could even be something as petty as Ozzie is sick of hearing about how great Brandon is going to be, and that is why he refuses to use him more often, I have no idea, but something is there in my eyes. Think about it. Ozzie goes out of his way to test his players and to try them in just about every possible situation, to see if they can contribute in other ways, and at other times. By the time his teams get to September, he knows where he can trust his guys, and where he can't. For example, I know it has pissed everyone off all year long, but Ozzie knows that he can't trust Vazquez in the 6th and later. Instead of pulling a Manuel and jerking the guy out right away everytime, he tested him to see if he could handle it. Now if it gets to the point where the game is on the line, he doesn't have to wonder... he knows. Anyways, Ozzie never really did this with Brandon this year. He really used him in vanilla situations all year long, and never really threw him to the fire, the way he did with guys like Montero, Logan, Riske, Cotts, etc. If anyone can answer "why", I'd love to hear it. QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Aug 28, 2006 -> 04:24 PM) You know that I love Paulie, my favorite player in baseball. Well aside from that MVP candidate we had last year, I think his name was....WILLIE HARRIS MVP! MVP! MVP! MVP!

QUOTE(LowerCaseRepublican @ Aug 29, 2006 -> 06:28 AM) The locked door thing is actually the policy at the junior high I'm at. Students get 3 minute passing periods. When the bell rings, all the doors get shut and then staff "sweeps" the halls where they get the late students with passes and then let them into the room. Students get a detention for the first two tardies and then harsher punishments as it goes on. The administration should have gone with in-school suspensions. I kinda fail to see how sending them home with no supervision, TV, video games etc. is a real punishment. With an in-school suspension, they get all their work and are supervised that they spend the day doing their homework. MCHS actually has the sweep policy as well. They just started it last year, along with the reduced number of tardy's. They also have it to where so many tardys equal an absence, and so many absenses equal an automatic failure of that grading period, although according to my wife, I don't believe she ever had a kid fail for attendance, who wasn't going to fail for grades anyway.

Apparently they forced Saddam to watch the South Park movie repeatedly while in custody... http://uk.news.yahoo.com/28082006/344/sadd...oon-capers.html

Karr DNA does NOT match, he will not be charged in CO.

QUOTE(Cuck the Fubs @ Aug 27, 2006 -> 11:32 AM) When did this happen?? I didn't hear about this. You musta been watching the Cubs...

Interesting about Pods, he had two beautiful bunt singles and a couple of steals this weekend... I wonder if he is finally ready to go now, or if this is just a tease?

QUOTE(StrangeSox @ Aug 28, 2006 -> 12:26 PM) Chicks dig the long ball, man. Anyone want to figure out how many times Minn. and Det. have started their starting lineup? The Twins had 4 different line ups in the last 6 games we played against them. They used to two different ones, twice, and two different ones, once.

I think the most interesting part of this is the Tigers story line... Is this the collapse that everyone was waiting for? Verlander seems to be getting hit much harder lately... Polanco being out has really seemed to put a kink in their line up... Maggs has been really quiet, especially for a guy making $15 million a year to pound the ball... Kenny Rogers has been really hot, he might be the only thing holding them into first place right now...

QUOTE(jasonxctf @ Aug 28, 2006 -> 12:03 PM) but you're missing the point. the students learned more in that class, because they had respect and admiration for the teacher, than in any other class they took. it's not a coincedence why. And how many workplaces would suspend the dress code to gain the "respect and admiration" of its employees? Employers don't care about being liked for the most part. They care about getting the work done, and anything that would take away from that is detremental to productivity. If some girl wants to show up for work showing cleavage, or a guy thinks that showing off his Joe Boxers is cool, the boss isn't really going to have patience for it, especially if it attracts the attention of other employees. You can bet those employees are going to have a minimal amount of chances to conform or find somewhere else to work. The work place could give a crap about respect and admiration. There is no reason for kids to have to learn how to dress decently by getting fired, when they should learn it at the elementary schol level. There is appropriate dress for every envoirnment you are in. Going to school with your chest, your belly, or or ass sticking out is not conducive to working or schooling. QUOTE(RockRaines @ Aug 28, 2006 -> 12:12 PM) Yes, wearing a uniform will prepare them for their job at McD's Fedex and Coldstone. Which if kids can follow a simple dress code, they had better get familiar with...

We are down to 2.79 in MC, after being as high as 3.09 during the last spurt.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Aug 17, 2006 -> 12:15 PM) Gas futures have fallen off about 40 cents in the last 3 weeks or so since the Prudehoe Bay highs, all by themselves. Personally I don't think the fall at the pump will be this dramatic, as the run up in the futures never really was fully felt at the pump, but I think we could be looking at 20-25 cents lower at pump by the weekend after Labor Day. Yeah!!! http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14545630/

QUOTE(jasonxctf @ Aug 28, 2006 -> 10:10 AM) these kids are being forced to go to school. we shouldnt force them to wear or not wear certain clothes at the same time. the business analogy sounds good and all, but you aren't forced to work at a particular business. you choose to work there and thus choose to accept their dress code. Some businesses have a suit-only dress code, others go business casual, others say anything is fine. if we dont treat high school students like adults, how are we supposed to expect them to act like adults? I thought kids were only required to be in school until age 16? Does that means a dress code would be OK since you are in school "by choice" at that point? The other thing in my point of view is that teaching kids things that are going to happen as adults is treating them like adults. Being an adult isn't all about being able to buy beer and vote. There are responsibilities that go with it too, and there is nothing wrong with that stuff being taught as well. I doubt for most places of business having your asscrack hanging out is in the dress code. The code is sounds like is being enforced here is a very basic deal, and not like requiring a shirt/tie of the males, and skirt of the females. They want kids to be presentable, not even anything close to a real business dress code.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Aug 28, 2006 -> 09:37 AM) Let me ask you this... How many places of work can you walk into as an employee with pants down to your ass and a tank top? The answer is very few. And school is supposed to teach kids the things they need to know to survive and succeed in the real world. Asking them to pull up their pants and have sleeves on their shirts isn't nearly as much to ask as many of their future jobs have. This was exactly one of the points I made during my school board testimony. As much as we are educating kids, we are also giving them the tools that they need to succeed at whatever they are going to do after they leave our educational system. Things as simple as how you dress in a professional enviornment are important lessons to have learned when entering the workforce. And if you think the baggy pants thing is bad, the chair of the accounting department used to regulate his classroom like the workplace. You actually had to show up to class in professional accounting dress. If you were not on time, he locked the door at the second the bell rang. He made people quit activities and sports, not related to accounting on a regular basis. etc. His rational was that this is the way it was going to be in the real world, you might as well get used to it now.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Aug 28, 2006 -> 09:18 AM) At least LA has been preparing for it, to an extent. I'm more scared for what Memphis and St. Louis will look like when New Madrid goes again (which is past due now, by most accounts). St. Louis has done some things to prepare, but not much. Memphis has wholesale ignored the problem. And whats worse, Memphis is sitting on a sinking bluff of sand and mud - which, if an earthquake occurs, creates what is known as a liquification zone. The effect of the tremors is magnified (unlike in California, where big rocky mountains can quickly dissipate the energy, preventing it from spreading far from the quake, in certain areas). Anything stronger than a 7.0 and Memphis will be an unimagineable disaster area - way worse than New Orleans, and with no warning at all. The other scenario that isn't really talked about much is the NYC hurricane. Try moving 10 million people out of the way of a fast moving nor-eastern hurricane, when much of the city doesn't have a car, and there are a limited number of ways off of long island.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Aug 28, 2006 -> 08:19 AM) This is an intersting crossroads. Telling people they can not rebuild in their neighborhood doesn't seem right, but the alternative, houses without infrastructure doesn't work either. I can see why a master plan hasn't been finalized in a year. Could you imagine the infighting that must be occuring? Where would you rebuild in Chicago first? Gold Coast? Southside, Westside, Downtown? Just wait until a monster quake hits LA, then we will find out what the true definition of chaos really is. For all of the fuss, New Orleans isn't even close to as big of an area that sits with a natural disaster bullseye in the United States. Hopefullly we are learning from this mess, not only in our disaster planning, but in the thinking of avoiding areas prone to disaster. QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Aug 28, 2006 -> 09:07 AM) I personally believe that the smart plan would involve a lot less rebuilding of homes at all. Rebuild in certain areas that are lower risk for future disaster, and leave the flood plains to be park land, open space, recreation facilities, etc. This would serve all sorts of positive purposes, including... --Condensing the remaining population into less area, making those residential areas faster to recover --Creating open space and recreational opportunities for a city that has historically struggled with creating a positive lifestyle culture for its residents --Reducing future damage due to future hurrincanes and floods (which WILL happen again) - this is probably the single most important reason --Serve as a focal point for marketing the city's recovery, and convincing others to come to NO to live and do business Very good thoughts. To most people it is obvious that NO will never be the same. To me the key if you are going to rebuild there, is to avoid the same stupid mistakes in building, which we can control.

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