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QUOTE(kapkomet @ Nov 15, 2005 -> 11:49 AM) The post office was making a mint off the .37 cents for a while. They did a lot of re-bidding moving the postal mail around, cut costs, and fuel wasn't an issue really until about 15-18 months ago. In case you didn't know it, Fed-Ex moves most of the mail around now. I'm VERY familiar how all that went down. Yeah, IIRC they got the last increase after 9-11 and Anthrax stuff right? Fuel has got to be their big cost now, and I doubt they are effecient enough to actually hedge their costs like some of the airlines do.

FYI, The Trib is doing a special college preview section in tomorrows paper.

Why not just make it 40 cents and save another rate increase proposal in a year? To be honest with the increase in gas prices I am surprised they aren't looking for a bigger jump.

31. "Takes him 2 hours to watch '60-minutes'." Don't know why, but I love that one

1. Soxtalk.com

QUOTE(Antonio Osuna @ Nov 14, 2005 -> 06:00 PM) At the end of the day, its "Most Valuable Player", not "Best Player". If we want Best Player, we can just look at the stats. I'd argue that Ortiz was more valuable to the Red Sox than A-Rod was to the Yankees. But I'm not about to waste digital breath defending a member of the AL team I hate the most. If that was it, Travis Hafner and Paul Konerko should have been battling it out of the award instead of two guys who had 8 figure salary hitters protecting them. Hafner and Konerko were way more important to the Sox and Indians success than ARod and Ortiz were to the Red Sox success.

QUOTE(easyw @ Nov 14, 2005 -> 11:40 PM) Another thing to keep in mind, whatever the figure is for "full" season ticket holders, I'd bet about half of those seats are corporations, NOT individuals. The Sox have a huge - and growing - fan base, but it is not one with deep pockets. Corporations don't have deep pockets?

I feel sooooooooooooooooo bad for you. Signed Starts work at 7 am

Ask the Flying Spaghetti Monster. He knows.

QUOTE(KipWellsFan @ Nov 14, 2005 -> 11:53 PM) http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/News2Fram...stcountries.htm meh. LMAO! The Socialists don't even want to claim France

QUOTE(Flash Tizzle @ Nov 15, 2005 -> 03:22 AM) Although I love how the Tribune suggests Cubs stand a better chance of obtaining Eyre because of his 'familiarity' with the National League. Yeah, I'd don't believe familiarity is exactly a trait which relievers embrace. Ask Shingo, wherever he is. How about being familiar with an organization you used to pitch with

QUOTE(bighurt2719 @ Nov 14, 2005 -> 04:15 PM) and who the hell keeps messing with my sig? If I had to guess, you are stealing someones bandwidth and they don't like it.

QUOTE(Steff @ Nov 14, 2005 -> 04:08 PM) Ahhhhhh!!! My husband will kill you for posting that link!!! I could always forward it to him...

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Nov 14, 2005 -> 03:44 PM) oh gawd...I could only imagine the heckling if any of you sick freaks showed up at my wedding.... haha. I thought you weren't going to share our pet names with anyone else?

QUOTE(Steff @ Nov 14, 2005 -> 03:32 PM) The weird thing was I never heard it.. all of a sudden I got a bunch of emails and text messages.. Then I got the cliffs notes version.. "it was no big deal.. bla, bla. bla.. " and I figured there was more to it. MJH made it seem like there was more also.. but finally I heard the details and it was more pathetic on Bruce's part then I had thought. He's an idiot.. I pass along the bad taste we have for him every time I get the chance.. As someone who spent 3 years broadcasting sports in college, and spent two years as a program director for the same radio station, we would have kicked him off of the air. That ought to tell you something right there. It was amatuerish, and if he was truely confused, it should have been a 30 second conversation on the air, and then the rest of it should have been talked about between them during a commericial. It was embarassing at best.

QUOTE(Steff @ Nov 14, 2005 -> 03:25 PM) It was really nice to hear all the support when Bruce tried to start s*** with him on the radio.. I sent him the links to a few boards and he appreciated the comments. I wish he was going with.. their loss. Definately. I heard the clips on MJ&H and Bruce Levine sounded like a bad college radio rant. He needed to be suspended/fired on the spot. That was horrible. It turned a professional high profile radio show into a complete joke. It totally blew any credibility that he ever had in my eyes.

"Don't mess with me"

Interesting. I am going to reserve judgement until I hear who takes over. There is no denying that Brian got much better as the season went on, but he still was no Dave Wills. But good luck to Brian no matter where he lands.

QUOTE(Steff @ Nov 14, 2005 -> 01:36 PM) Aint me.. the word "b****" is nowhere in there.. ________ QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Nov 14, 2005 -> 02:55 PM) Just so we're clear... I got chastised and banned for using this same kind of "omission insults". I love the disparity. f you PA

QUOTE(bighurt2719 @ Nov 14, 2005 -> 03:05 PM) haha, thats a huge slap in the face, man. you better make sure before you say that to someone. thats like congratulating a really fat woman on being pregnant when she's just fat. QUOTE(bighurt2719 @ Nov 14, 2005 -> 03:08 PM) gays are a minority, so maybe you shouldnt make assumptions like that. maybe it would be a little bit safer to assume people are straight unless they say otherwise. its guarenteed to piss people off. You can quit trying to stir this up too, consider this your warning as well, as this is to anyone else who wants to be involved in this stuff. Get back to the topic at hand and let all of the gay stuff go. Thank you.

SSI/RockRaines, let it go guys. Consider this your warnings.

QUOTE(Wong & Owens @ Nov 14, 2005 -> 01:28 PM) I dont know why you people continue to argue with ___. It's obvious that_____, pompous ass that he/she is, considers him/herself to be all-knowing and infallible. Therefore, trying to debate anything with an arrogant windbag like _____ is pretty pointless, no? If I can learn that, believe me, anyone can! I just can't believe anyone would talk about Steff like that...

QUOTE(Steff @ Nov 14, 2005 -> 12:56 PM) A little birdy told me that season ticket holders are up to just under 17K... Awesome. That figure is so huge because it means the crap games in April will still have 20K. Nothing sells tickets like a world title, huh? Also this goes more and more towards the payroll getting a serious bump. I can see multi-year deals coming for AJ, Jon Garland, and Joe Crede very soon.

Excellent. Hopefully this furthers our inroads into the Asian/Japanese markets.

18 days in a row of violence, and finally Chirac decides to speak. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4434576.stm