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I had these people on my train in the morning. My favorite Idol encounter was the young girl all dress up for preforming including her cute little hat, and asked me which way "Lake Shore" was, while standing in front of the Sears Tower.

Glad to hear that you enjoyed the show as much as I did a couple of years ago. One of the things that amazed me is how vibrant he still is at 63. The rest of us can only hope we have half of that energy, and that is without mentioning the ability to preform. He did change around something since I went, and one of the songs that wasn't played was "Here, There and Everywhere" which was the song my wife and I danced to for our first dance. From now on I'll just assume that he played it just for us

QUOTE(IlliniKrush @ Sep 19, 2005 -> 01:27 AM) "We'd have 10,000 a lot of nights in Chicago [and] they were loud and a great 10,000, but outside of that little loyal bunch, fan support there stinks," Howry said of Sox crowds that average 17th in the league at 28,692. "It's brutal. You have a team that for the longest time had the best record in baseball and a team that's been in first place by a huge margin all year long, and you can't pull fan support?" f*** Bob Howry. If Chicago fans are so great, what are Indians fans who are 24th in attendance drawing 4000 less fans a night, with no second option to go see. http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/attendance Indians fans are the biggest bandwagon fans there are. There attendance fell 50% in two years after they quit winning. Try looking in the mirror before you speak, idiot.

Is this a victory for Bush and the 6 way negotiations???

QUOTE(Gene Honda Civic @ Sep 17, 2005 -> 10:39 AM) Sure, but I still want this game. Bad. Runs to make Step it up El Duque thread. Of course we all WANT this game, but the situation is a lot less dire with a 5 loss lead.

I am a little disappointed not to see Spods in the line up. Even if we can't hit Santana, we need guys to work the counts deep and get him out of the game ASAP. This would have been a perfect game for a Frank Thomas 15 pitch AB.

QUOTE(Jordan4life_2005 @ Sep 17, 2005 -> 02:40 AM) Jon stepped up tonight. All be it against a very weak hitting team. We needed a domiant performance tonight and we got one. Jon's preformance makes today's game a lot less desperate.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Sep 17, 2005 -> 02:31 AM) I'll bet they got a good celebration in tonight for Bobby's first ML win. Just watch...I bet tomorrow you'll see us looking 10x as loose as we've looked the last week. Finally someone else said it. To me that is the HUGE difference between April-July and now. All of the players look like they are trying to win a game on every pitch, on every swing, and every defensive chance. They are soooooo uptight it is scary. It isn't that this team has quit, or isn't playing hard, they are trying to hard. Heck they have all gotten that Paul Konerko syndrome where they are stressed out of their minds during a slump. They need to relax, take it one pitch at a time, and if it doesn't work, get 'em the next pitch.

Let's make this a fitting farewell to one of the best announcers in Chicago sports history. The whole city of Sox fans is going to be tuned in to hear John Rooney work his magic for a captive audience. Let's make it a good one.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Sep 16, 2005 -> 05:12 PM) In that case...then yes, Nuke and I actually seem to be in full agreement on an issue. So let's see...first the 15 game lead falls to 4.5 Then Nuke and Balta agree on something... Presumably the next step involves 4 guys on horseback? [checks cubs magic number] Nope you guys are all right for at least another year.

I notice Chavez didn't call for someone else to be the primary monitary supporter of the UN :rolly

QUOTE(Yossarian @ Sep 16, 2005 -> 02:07 PM) PHG is doing his best imitation of Joe Stalin. Too bad, there are lots of great features on that site. That is true. They have some excellent content, such as pictures and articles. They are just amazing at the rate that they are driving people off at an incredible rate.

QUOTE(nitetrain8601 @ Sep 16, 2005 -> 01:51 PM) Damnit, only if we could get him. He'll probably be dealt to Boston since I don't think Boston is going to resign Damon or maybe even the Yankees who are feenin' for a CF. There is no doubt in my mind that Hunter will land either with the Yankees, Red Sox, or Cubs.

QUOTE(captain54 @ Sep 16, 2005 -> 01:57 PM) Was a member of the White Sox Interactive board since 2000 and was banned for telling the mods that their board wasn't nearly as negative as the Yankee/Met boards... Ouch. Well, welcome to Soxtalk anyways

QUOTE(nitetrain8601 @ Sep 16, 2005 -> 01:49 PM) Isn't it fair to say that if you have a tired arm or injury that it messes up your mechanics? If he had a tired arm, it would show up on the radar gun, and it hasn't so far. Also I am not sure what kind of mechanical problem due to a tired arm would cause you to slow your arm motion on a change up, but not on a fastball? His fastball is still hitting 89-91 consistantly on the gun, so he is still throwing his normal speeds.

QUOTE(nitetrain8601 @ Sep 16, 2005 -> 01:32 PM) Maybe pitching all those innings finally got to him. He has pitched the most innings since 2001, remember that. Guys can't consistantly pitch as many innings as he has for years without getting some type of injury or tired arm. This may be the year that he has it. Who knows? Many guys have put much harder innings on their arms for much longer periods of time, and still been fine. Roger Clemens is still doing it at 15 years older than Buehrle. And keep in mind a speed difference that you get from a tired arm isn't going to affect a guy like Mark Buehrle nearly as much as a guy who has a big fastball. Buehrle is all about placement and deception. Everyone in the world knows that his pitches aren't that great on their own. Its not like Bobby Jenks who can tell you his fastball is coming and you would still miss it. If you know Buehrle is throwing a fastball, it is pedestrian at best. The thing that makes Buehrle hard to hit is not knowing whether you are getting a 90 mph fastball, or a 76 mph change up out of the same motion and release point. It is the speed differential that gets you, not the speed itself. If he had a dead arm, the speed on his fastball would be down into the mid 80s and its not.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Sep 16, 2005 -> 01:08 PM) So, I'm not in the mood to give this its own thread...but did anyone else think Bush's collar looked quite odd during his speech last night...like he didn't have it buttoned properly and 1 side was longer than the other? Maybe my eyes are playing tricks on me...take a look: I think the one side is just propped up higher against his neck.

Seriously how many times has this exact question been asked, answered, and printed in the papers? :sleep

QUOTE(Yossarian @ Sep 16, 2005 -> 12:54 PM) Much better you than that obscene cretin Mike North. I fancied myself as a pretty good announcer back in the day, thank you very much The Manchester High School Squires, and the Manchester College Lady Spartans liked me well enough anyway

I went back and got out a Sox hat that I hadn't wore in a long time, and dug out my spring road Sox jacket to get back a little bit of that April and May luck. Hopefully it works

f*** it. Hire me. [/thread]

QUOTE(aboz56 @ Sep 16, 2005 -> 11:49 AM) Too bad we'd have no shot to get him, I'd deal for him in a heartbeat. f*** Yeah!!! How stellar would an OF with Hunter and Rowand be? Too bad it will never happen.

QUOTE(WSoxMatt @ Sep 16, 2005 -> 11:28 AM) Last I read that was going to be a no go cuz our baseball ratings for the Sox actually suck again this year...lus arent the Cubs/Cards supposed to be on, you know as a whole, Chicago would rather see that game! Actually if that were true, Fox would be more likely to release the game, because they DON'T want competition, which is why they negotiated an exclusive time slot on Saturday in the first place. If they didn't think they would hurt their own ratings they would have released the game a long time ago.

Last I heard, they were still negotiating to get Fox to allow them to broadcast in the Chicago market only.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Sep 16, 2005 -> 10:46 AM) At least I'm not the only one who thinks Mark's problems are almost totally in his mechanics, and that it's not his arm being worn out or something else that wouldn't make sense given the pitcher we're talking about. Actually it was your posts about his historical innings pitched that finished convincing me it was mechanical. If this were his first year of throwing a bunch of innings that would be one thing. He is way over 900 innings in the last 4 full years, so he is used to the work. Plus Mark was getting hit way to hard to be just having a bad outing. The Royals knew what was coming, that was obvious to me.