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QUOTE(Whitesoxfan56 @ Sep 22, 2005 -> 11:36 AM) So I take it that you dont think that Managment is cheap... Its an easy question, just want your opinion here. I take it your challenge means that you chickened out of my challenge to prove the Sox are cheap. Not a big surprise to be honest. Its easy to say, not nearly as easy to actually prove. But that's OK, I'll play along and let you change the subject. To be honest I believe the payroll is fair for the level of attendance we have. Historically the Sox payroll always goes up by the amount of profits that the team makes in the previous season, and you can't ask for much more. If you don't believe me, go back and check the annual Forbes reports on MLB and take the Sox annual profits. Then go to a list of their annual payrolls and correlate the change to the teams annual PnL. You'll find minus a small profit, they are almost identical. That doesn't bother me at all. A team is a business, and all taking a loss insures is that future teams and organizations will have to pay off those debts somewhere along the way. The only thing the owners of this team are making any money on, is when the value of the team increases, and they can't realize any of those profits until they sell their shares. Sure I'd love a $150 million payroll, but until we draw 35k a night, every night, but it isn't going to happen. If you want to talk about cheap, you need to look at organizations like Tampa Bay and Pittsburgh who are making money hand over fist because they have a minimal payroll, while at the sametime pocketing the revenue sharing money from the other teams. Heck look at a team like the Cubs whose payroll is only $25 million a year more than they Sox, while drawing 10,000 a night more, having a way bigger TV contract, selling way more advertising, having way higher ticket prices (not to mention their little scalping business), and having a much bigger national following.

QUOTE(SnB @ Sep 22, 2005 -> 11:34 AM) i haven't read or seen much about this one, but mya ccy proffesor mentioned that she heard gas prices might be around $5/gal, by the end of the weekend, true? It wouldn't surprise me at all. If this ends up making landfall around the TX/LA border, you would be putting a direct hit on the biggest US pumping capacity that wasn't already devestated by Katrina. If you put a direct his on Galveston that would be battering the single biggest unleaded gasoline refineries in the US.

QUOTE(Whitesoxfan56 @ Sep 22, 2005 -> 11:32 AM) Well because this trade happend to free up money to get the other players. If he wasnt cheap they wouldnt have had to trade Lee to free up more money. That is why Mention nothing of the $12 million that our payroll went up this year...

QUOTE(Whitesoxfan56 @ Sep 22, 2005 -> 11:30 AM) Are you trying to back up Jerry? Are you trying to say he isnt cheap? I am backing up the truth here, I don't care who it is. Just because people keep repeating something doesn't make it true.

QUOTE(Whitesoxfan56 @ Sep 22, 2005 -> 11:24 AM) I guess it just goes to show how cheap the managemnt is on the South Side I'd love to see you back up that statement with any facts or figures, that couldn't be instantly blown out of the water.

An interesting read from February in the Houston Chronicle on what to expect if a Cat 4/5 hurricane hit Houston/Galveston http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/m...politan/3046592

Mad Money is easily the worst show on CNBC. The only person in the neighborhood is Suze Orman.

QUOTE(The Critic @ Sep 22, 2005 -> 11:02 AM) Both sides got what they needed. Pods got hurt, Lee didn't. Where's the "neither" or "both" option? And where is the option for "Not this crap again"?

We obviously don't need Ozzie since the job is so easy that any message board poster can do it...

See video of casino barge impolsion

I [heart] snopes.

Bonderman is going to be good, he was just in the majors two years too early. Problem is by the time he is REALLY good, he will be a Yankee or a Red Sox, because the idiot Tigers wasted two years he should have been in the minors.

QUOTE(ChiSoxyGirl @ Sep 22, 2005 -> 09:47 AM) Congrats Kap and Mrs. Kap! I'm not drinking any of the water around here--I don't want to catch any of this baby stuff! That's all right, we'll all let you babysit instead

READ THE BLOG :headshake Seriously though, everything is going really well for us. We had our housewarming party/baby shower last weekend, and we were really lucky as well. We have literally a pile of stuff in the living room, 3 boxes of stuff that needs to be assembled, and another pile of stuff in the garage. It also was great to see a lot of people that we don't get to see nearly often enough, and the weekend was topped of by Kap and the Mrs's news.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/09/22...reut/index.html

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Sep 22, 2005 -> 07:48 AM) Well, everything has shifted away from us. Watching the weather right now and now they are saying for Dallas we might not get ANYTHING. NO rain! I'll be shocked if that happens. Rita is weakening, you can see it. It's not as symetrical. Now, they are saying even EAST of Houston/Galveston. Which would put it on course for the biggest concentration of oil rigs in the country. Last I heard was sustained winds now at 170 mph. Not good, not good at all.

QUOTE(knightni @ Sep 22, 2005 -> 01:44 AM) The guests need to be restricted from searching. There are ALWAYS lurkers looking at REAL old threads. Guest searches were eliminated too, for at least the time being. If you want to search for something you have to be a member.

QUOTE(knightni @ Sep 22, 2005 -> 01:41 AM) I wonder if lurkers and Google/Archive cause more strain than anyone... There are ALWAYS guests looking at threads that are MONTHS old. We did knock out the search spiders for now, as they are a big strain.

Rooney tells us that it was indeed a sell-out crowd tonight at about 36,500

Dye grounds out to end the 7th

Why can we not square up Elarton????

PK pops out, one down.

QUOTE(WHarris1 @ Sep 21, 2005 -> 08:47 PM) If the offense pisses away that momentum I might just have to pound the hell out of something with my other hand That'll teach em

f*** YES!!!! WAY TO PITCH OUT OF IT JONNY!!!

I need a hero