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QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Aug 10, 2005 -> 08:50 AM) I'm used to Hawk, but if anything, I've noticed him crying about the umps a whole lot more lately. I think that is because the games mean more now, and everyone is noticing the little things a lot more. Heck I have noticed a whole lot more complaining about little things from everyone here too. If Timo gets into a game there are 8 threads calling for Ozzie's ritual suicide.

QUOTE(AddisonStSox @ Aug 9, 2005 -> 10:38 PM) Is it just me or is bunting nearly impossible. I swear to you, I can't get a bunt down to save my life. They pull the bat back the second the ball gets to the plate. Despite being something like 39-5 on All-Star--or whatever is above pro--difficulty, I can't lay the f'ing bunt down. I turned the bunt sliders way up and I still can't get a bunt down. What is the key??

QUOTE(Spod=Ratings @ Aug 10, 2005 -> 02:35 AM) autograph Ventura bat and Helmet, also my Carlos Lee and Rowand autograph ball, i have had bad luck with autographs, Howry got his next year gone, baldwin got his next year gone, foulke got his next year gone, ventura got his after gone, Daubauch got his gone, Brook fordyce got his next year gone, lee got his it took two years now gone, the only one i got left of an active sox is Rowand, i also got frank but its not mine Get Timo's autograph, please.

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

What crap. I hope Rogers fails miserably.

So how long until it is reported that this guy is a Sox fan?

Personally I would nuke Indiana south of Highway 30, and east of Highway 39, but that is just me.

QUOTE(The Critic @ Aug 9, 2005 -> 07:59 PM) What this proves is that not EVERYONE is looking to meet people via the Internet! I am a bit surprised that the sales are so low, but I have to say that this is not the kind of thing I'd really be all that interested in. The fact that I have 3 other games in September as well as other activities planned makes it easier to justify not going, but the fact is I probably wouldn't go to an Internet "meet-and-greet" anyway. That's just because you know everyone wants to meet you so they can kick your ass

QUOTE(SleepyWhiteSox @ Aug 10, 2005 -> 03:32 AM) Will we ever come to the realization that maybe Ozzie does know what he's doing, or at least more than the average fan does? The b****ing and complaining can be a bit too much sometimes. I'd take that a step further, and say that I would bet dollars to donuts that no one on this board understands the game of baseball or this team's intracies as well as Ozzie Guillen does. Its incredible to me to think that people honestly believe that Ozzie wouldn't be trying to win games of this calibur.

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Aug 9, 2005 -> 03:57 PM) Amen to that. Who wants to read page after page of "We are the best! Sox rule!". It's ok to be critical of the team. And who wants to read 20 pages of OMG THIS TEAM IS THE SUXORS!!11!! WE NEED OT TRADE 4 GRIF OR WWE ARE DONE. This team is the best team in baseball for a reason. They don't flip out everytime things get rough or tight. Some people could learn from Ozzie mentality on this.

With all due respect... Oh please. These countries have been trying to get their hands on nuclear weaponry for decades. Iran had a basically completed nuclear plant, way past what they have today, in October of 1981. Considering that the conservative President Reagan wasn't inaugurated until January of 1981, that is an incredibly effecient nuclear program if you ask me. I mean if they can build a nuclear plant in less than a year to counter the emergence of the neo-con movement, that is just the dedication that they have to counter our clear and presant danger to them. Besides that, once again, their history with a nuclear program dates way back before that, into the 1960's, long before there were US troops in any middle eastern country. South Korea just didn't jump on the nuclear map either. Their atomic research program dates all of the way back to the 1960's with them importing former Soviet engineers into the country to try to build them a bomb. In the middle 60's Russia built them a nuke plant to enrich uranium with. It was sometime in the late 70's to early 80's that they began trying to convert this plant and technology into more "practical" applications. If you want to look at more modern times it was actually 1993, or into the beginning of the neo-con Bill Clinton's term when North Korea withdrew from the non-proliferation treaty. They did sign the nuclear agreement in 1994, but by this time US intelligence indicated that they already had enough nuclear material to build 2-6 bombs, thus rendering their stoppage in production kind of moot. Besides that, PRNK admitted that they had had a clandestine nuclear program all along, and had never stopped working in the nuclear realm all along in violation of every treaty they had signed anyway.

Like it or not, what you are watching right now is playoff baseball. Quit b****ing, get used to it. Come September this is how every game will be.

QUOTE(Funkman7 @ Aug 10, 2005 -> 06:04 AM) Is it too late to get in on this? Anyone know? There is still time. Get your order in!!!

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2005/08...1165467-cp.html

QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ Aug 9, 2005 -> 01:28 PM) Nah, not everyone is panicking after 9 days of August... :rolly Speak for yourself man. When panic breaks out, the early looters get the plasma TV's!! THE SKY IS FALLING!!!!

QUOTE(Steff @ Aug 9, 2005 -> 01:21 PM) At 10 am...?!?! Drunks.

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Aug 9, 2005 -> 01:16 PM) Heck ya Mike, cause If you guys say softball and Sox games than I'll be on the 1st flight out to Chicago Regardless, bring your mits for the tailgate and maybe we can bring some whiffle ball stuff or something as well??? I'll have my softball stuff in the trunk most likely. We'll at least play catch. Also I can grab my frisbee and we can see if there is any interest in playing some Ultimate? Or we can just drink beer and eat!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4133374.stm

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8880663/

You guys can go ahead and unpin this... it doesn't look like we will have enough people. But with the general interest that we had, maybe we will try to do this again next year. Thanks

QUOTE(Steff @ Aug 9, 2005 -> 11:59 AM) Excellent. The foam issue apparently can't be resolved and while the "fix" in space was a success by definition, the risk of them having to do repairs in space is high. IMO, there is a good chance of more tragedy with this current fleet. The good news is the new birds are pretty close to production. It's just the funding that seems to be an issue. If they got the $$ I think it would be closer to '07.. but who knows. No doubt about that. The technology of the fleet is basically stuck in 1978. Literally much of the technology is so old, they can only buy spare parts off Ebay, because no one else makes them anymore. And because they don't want to alter just one shuttle, they haven't changed much at all that goes into the shuttle. Pretty much the controls that are running the space vehicle have less computers in it than the Ipod you are all toting around. The need for a new oribitor has been around for years, hopefully it gets done soon.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Aug 9, 2005 -> 11:42 AM) No, he did not get it that year. Only like 9 relief pitchers have earned it in history...2 in the last 15 years...Gagne and the Eck. I thought Willie Hernandez did in something like 1984?

So what is worse, whining about the umps, or whining about the whiners?

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Aug 9, 2005 -> 11:12 AM) Something tells me this may very well be the last time you get to write about any of those shuttles landing. At the very least it is going to be a while, no doubt about that.