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There were a couple for me. I got offered a bunch of positions in broadcasting out of college, and I always wondered how those would have turned out. I didn't follow that route because it would have been minimum wage and way too many years of grief for me at that time. I also got a call for an interview to an entry level position with the White Sox two weeks after I started working on the trading floor, and couldn't take anytime off yet to go to an interview.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Oct 13, 2005 -> 05:37 PM) Oh great, now I don't have a clue what to believe about that letter. Could it have been a forgery? Sure, why not. We tried to justify an invasion with one. Could Zawahiri be panicking now that a letter got out? Sure, why not. Somehow, I doubt telling the truth is one of his biggest priorities. Especially since they are trained to lie to paint America in the worst possible light, such as claiming torture while under arrest etc. Who knows who to believe, but it doesn't surprise me that they are claiming a forgery even if it was true.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Oct 13, 2005 -> 03:18 PM) IF that's true, and a good part of me hopes it is...they will sit down and work this thing out a week after the season is over, and it'll turn out to be a fair deal for both sides. I feel fairly confident that KW doesn't want to endure another Ordonez style long-term negotiation and negative parting. It also puts a ton of pressure on Kenny to bring him back and make him a fair offer. They don't have the standard attendance excuses to fall back on anymore.

I think the White Sox have the biggest statement to make tonight. They have had to sit and listen for two days to the national media b**** about how the White Sox stole that game from the Angels (nevermind the execution that came after that play vital to winning the game), and I think they want to make sure that they win the rest of these games to make sure there is no taint on the Sox victory. They want to be able to say clearly that they deserve this and no umpire gave it to them.

QUOTE(sayitaintso @ Oct 13, 2005 -> 05:40 PM) I was also that and i can say, that was the best game i have EVER been to. QUOTE(Whitesoxfan56 @ Oct 13, 2005 -> 07:52 PM) I was also at the game, and still almost 24 hours later all i can keep on saying is "best f***en game ever" im still in shock i think and still speachless. that game was amazing Agree 100%. And I have been to TONS of big sporting events. This was #1 BY FAR!

I don't know if anyone saw AJ on Jim Rome's show yesterday but it was priceless. At one point Rome is on his assinine rant about "there is no doubt that Paul caught the ball. It is one hundred percent clear, and there is no question in my mind." AJ looks at him and saids, "You're a So-Cal homer, of course you would say that." LMFAO

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Oct 13, 2005 -> 06:48 PM) I'll be trying. Maybe some of us can work out some deals where if some get lucky we get 4 and cut them to other people who weren't so. I am going to try, but 4 tickets together might be harder to come by. QUOTE(IlliniKrush @ Oct 13, 2005 -> 07:43 PM) Do i even bother trying? Seriously? Hell yeah. We need every possible person, trying every possible way. We want to make sure that as many tickets as possible go to people who bleed for the White Sox, and not some coroporate shill who is there because it is cool. QUOTE(SnB @ Oct 13, 2005 -> 08:00 PM) we both won the "right to purchase" cardinal world series tickets on saturday. Not exactly sure if that guarantees us anything, but we'll see. You might think of setting up a buy it now auction on EBay to sell the right to buy the tickets to a Cardinals fan. That might make you the cash needed to buy yourself world series tickets. That was why I tried for them, but I didn't win.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Oct 13, 2005 -> 03:15 PM) I could imagine the chairman spending $90 on a team that makes the world series. I can't imagine him topping triple digits. Not yet anyway. Just going off of the last 5 years or so, the profit/loss of a prior season, is about 95% responsible for the increase/decrease in the following seasons payroll. It has been almost uncanny. If you take the Forbes figures of PnL and the payrolls, it is a direct 1 to 1 correlation.

QUOTE(Randar68 @ Oct 13, 2005 -> 02:46 PM) If you'd like to now divert to the question of whether or not 85 million is realistic, that's an entirely different discussion. I am going to go out on a limb and say $85 million is the lowest that our 2006 payroll will be. With a 20% attendance increase, on top of a large ticket price increase, plus at least two playoff rounds, there is some cash to be spent. Don't doubt it for a minute. If we play one or two more LCS games at home, and make it to the World Series, we could realistically be looking at a $100 million payroll for 2006.

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Oct 13, 2005 -> 02:46 PM) I'm also Soxtalk's most ruthless admin.... Psssht. Whateva. :sleep

http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/TV/10/13/s...e.ap/index.html

QUOTE(Texsox @ Oct 13, 2005 -> 02:11 PM) I was wearing my 1919 road gray cap by the 9th inning. I had one by one tossed them aside, trying to find the correct rally cap. I forgot about the significance until Cheat's shop-job. What sucks is after we attract all the casual Cub fans to Cominsky, they'll take up collections to get poor Joe some shoes After all they bought Woo-woo some teeth...

QUOTE(ZoomSlowik @ Oct 13, 2005 -> 02:08 PM) That little for those two guys? I keep hearing at least $10 mil for Paulie, and I doubt we could get Giles for only $5 mil. I was going more along the assumption of Pauly's contract already being factored into the payroll, so the only thing you would be looking at was his raise. (so about 3-4 million to get from 8 mil to 11/12 mil or so) The rest of the money would be to pay for the big time #4 hitter that people are trying to add.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Oct 13, 2005 -> 01:50 PM) LOL, was that actually in the paper or did someone just make that? Something tells me that was Cheat Photoshop special

QUOTE(BlackBetsy @ Oct 13, 2005 -> 10:35 AM) I think Paulie is the #4 hitter next year, and he'll be in line for a $2-$3 million raise only. ($10-$11 million) A fair amount of money will come off the books in 2006 - Everett ($4m), Thomas ($8m), such that the Sox can get a #3 hitter and stay roughly even with 2005. Mind you, I can also see the Sox giving Big Frank a 1-year, $6 million deal. Reinsdorf loves Frank, and will want to keep him if it makes sense. Frank was a very good citizen this year, too. They'll owe him $3.5 million from buy out, so it'll cost the Sox only $2.5 million. If Frank is healthy, he'd still be the most dangerous hitter on the Sox, even if he declines to .265/.370/.550. Not sure who else would sign Frank; in the AL (Frank can only play DH at this point), the Yankees are set on DH with Giambi, and the Red Sox with Big Papi. I guess the Angels are one option (close to Frank's Vegas home), but everyone else is too cheap to dish out the $5 million it'll take to risk on Frank. As close as I can tell the money coming off of the books, pretty well balances out the raises that are on the books. Garland, Crede, and Buehrle are in line for some big raises. A couple of other guys are also working their ways up the ladders of payroll. Frank has a $3.5 million buyout regardless of what we do with him next year. Unless we exercize his $10 million option (which won't happen) we have to pay him that money. Now if we resign him, we have to add that money on top of it all. If we sign pay him $6 million next year, we are only saving two million. It is also under the big assumption that Frank is ready to play next year. It took him a solid year to recover from an indentical injury this year, will it take that long again? Who knows. I was also more dealing with the posters who seem to think that we are going to sign a big price tagged #4 hitter from outside of the system, instead of using an inhouse solution. I keep seeing names like Giles and Konerko bantered about, and the combination of those two, or someone like Giles and someone to replace Konerko would end up costing the White Sox about $15 million a season.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Oct 13, 2005 -> 01:09 PM) Calling fellow posters assholes is not allowed. Just because you don't like someone's opinions doesn't make those people ignorant. As a matter of a fact I have seen some of the most in depth and intelligent arguements made on both sides of the fence, which really makes your shallow comments which completely lacked detail and depth look, well for lack of a better term, ignorant. There is no need to make loud sweeping comments about a group of people. Especially when there is plenty of lack of evidence to the opposite.

Wait, Kap is white? I wonder if his mom knows?

That last line was a little ignorant if you ask me...

They should have just done the Lawrence Taylor treatment and send some hooker and an 8 ball over there...

Many of you might know that Steve Dahl has been doing a diary/column for the playoffs in the Trib. Here are a couple of gems from today's write up.

QUOTE(AddisonStSox @ Oct 13, 2005 -> 12:42 PM) You make a great point. However, I'm still going to maintain Sciocia's biggest mistake was belaboring the call with the officiating crew as long as he did. Escobar was really in a groove, his team was playing on their toes, and he took the wind right out of their sails with the lengthy objection. I'm not saying he shouldn't have argued the call--in fact, he would have been wrong NOT to--however, I really, truly think he may have hurt his ballclub more than helping them by staying out there for as long as he did. He would have been much better getting the guys together, giving his pitcher a pat on the rear-end and clapping his hands while walking back to the dugout. I mean, you really felt he knew his team was going to fail in that inning. It was a sign of things to come both figuretively and literally. To be fair to Mike, he was trying to argue the call from every angle, trying to get Eddings to involve the other umpires hoping that one of them could/would overrule the call. That couldn't happen until Eddings asked their opinions, and that took a while. The second time he went out there, I believe he was protesting the game, which was fully in his rights to do, and probably not a bad idea either. Ask George Brett, but you never know what could happen under protest. Now I do agree with you that Sciocia should have gathered his team up, and had a real official mound visit to calm everyone down and refocus them. You could tell everyone was too hung up on "the call" to focus on what they needed to do. If you ask me, it was very Prior/Gonzalez-esque in the way that it played out.

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Oct 13, 2005 -> 12:41 PM) If so, I didn't notice any pain in that arm when he gunned down 2 guys in game 1. ^^^ Well to be fair, one of them was AJ

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Oct 13, 2005 -> 10:55 AM) HB, POTUS. Hope if your friends throw you a party it's not BYOB, or else some people might say WTF and then decide not to RSVP. And with all those guests MIA the hosts of the party would be SOL. It really begs the question, WWJD? :D FYI, FWIW There is only one appropriate reply to this... ROTFLMFAO!

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Oct 13, 2005 -> 10:57 AM) Here, Here!! Although I gotta think Yoda slipped somebody a sweet bribe to pull ahead of everybody in the standings like that. . . $20, $40, $60, $80, $100... Oh Um, I mean uh, I finally got my welfare check cashed... I am off to uh, uh, go get some groceries.

QUOTE(The Critic @ Oct 13, 2005 -> 11:32 AM) Over/Under ( in minutes ) on availability of porn on the PornPod: 6 minutes after the PornPod is released to the public. Or however fast the Critic can type