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The Sox are also back to their season high mark of 35 games over .500

QUOTE(the People's Champ @ Sep 3, 2005 -> 10:02 PM) boy thats blatantly out there, its a wonder that more hitters dont pick that up. Wonder if its hidden better from a frontal view From the batters box, that ball would still be behind his head, and the motion is so quick, it would be almost impossible to pick up.

Some encouraging notes from New Orleans... In some areas the water has receded by up to a foot. Also the city is down to only 60% flooded, versus 80% at the height of the flooding.

Congrats to AJ and Lisa

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Sep 7, 2005 -> 08:30 AM) Iowa doing it's part. Awesome. Wow does Iowa suck so bad that even people with nothing don't want to go there?

QUOTE(Balance @ Sep 6, 2005 -> 05:49 PM) If 64% of Americans wanted to teach our children that there are 30 letters in the English alphabet, should we teach that? If 64% of Americans wanted to teach our children that God does not exist, how would you feel about that? To further this point, there was a point in this countries history where a majority of the population thought discrimination was OK, does that mean if 50% +1 think that blacks or anyone else is an inferior race, that is would be OK to discriminate against them?

QUOTE(SnB @ Sep 6, 2005 -> 07:34 PM) ...calculus is dumb and stupid and i hate it. explain to me why i need to take this for a business major? Two words. Quantitative Analysis.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Sep 6, 2005 -> 04:01 PM) Roberts said abortion is "Settled law" while he was not in a position to do anything about it. The fact that he was willing to enforce that ruling while he was working for a lower court says absolutely nothing about how he would vote were he given the opportunity to restrict or overturn it. His lower court rulings on that issue are TOTALLY IRRELEVANT. Then why is everyone so worried about digging up every piece of work he has ever done if his previos rulings are totally irrelevant?

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Sep 7, 2005 -> 07:51 AM) And here's the heart of the matter. There apparently was no mechanism in place to assess ahead of time or in the immediate aftermath that this crisis obviously was exceeded the threshold to be considered catastrophic in the largest sense of the word, and since a coordinated, centralized (i.e., federal) response was absolutely imminent anyway it should have been THE primary response. The traditional strategy, where local officials try to control a situation, and fall back on state, regional, and federal support is certainly the preferred method for manageable situations. Wildfires, at least in the early stages. Unruly mobs, tornadoes, etc. Officials at all levels knew this was huge once the city evacuation orders were given, and that try/fail/ask for more help reiterative strategy should have been thrown out the window. It's easy to say it's all hindsight and how could anybody know etc. But we've spent BILLIONS of dollars on homeland security precisely so we would know how to handle response to catastrophes of this magnitude. None of us here were part of any of that preparation, but we don't have to be to be able to question how effective it all was as we see the results. It's been said before, but saying, 'who could have predicted the levees wouldn't hold' is as incredible a statement as Condi saying, 'well who would have thought they'd fly jet planes into buildings?' In both csaes, Plenty of people with expertise in those areas hade precicely those concerns. The ironic thing is dispite the supposed heirarchy outlined in that quote, there is still a power struggle going on between the Governor and the President over who is going to direct operations, which is dividing resources and personel, and I am sure that isn't helping to end all of the confusion. Heck it even took until yesterday for the mayor to order out all of the remaining people in New Orleans... why did that take so long? Why are there still 3 layers of government giving orders and directing operations? And we wonder why there is still a mess of things down there... There needs to be one group in charge, and everyone else needs to work for that group, and out of the three layers of government, FEMA is the closest thing to being ready for this, dispite their response so far. Once again everyone is so busy trying to look like their care and are doing the right thing in front of the cameras, that they people are suffering for it. This is a big enough mess by itself, 3 different responses to it are too many cooks in the kitchen.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Sep 7, 2005 -> 07:42 AM) I agree 100%. But to go from the lonely funk to nirvana takes some baby steps along the way. You meet the nicest people while volunteering. People with big hearts who also volunteer. If you hang around nice people, you begin to have nice friends. Nice friends become those that deep personal bonds are possible and lasting. Better than hanging around people who are more likely to be takers and just using you. But instead we waste our lives on Soxtalk :banghead

This is just fate's way of pokey Cincy's ownership right in the eye for teasing us like that. I'll never understand why they think that team is worth more with Griffey, than without him and having the payroll flexibility.

I can't wait, this ought to be fun

Happy Birthday Wino!!!! You dirty hippie, tree-hugging, French, liberal, communist.

Couldn't happen to a better organization.

QUOTE(Gene Honda Civic @ Sep 6, 2005 -> 01:22 PM) From today's Neyer Chat, RE: Shilling Way true. Without his velocity, Schilling is very underwealming right now. I wonder how many threads are on Redsoxtalk.com about how Epstein should be fired for not getting more pitching at the trade deadline?

September to remember is nice, an October to remember would be a dream come true

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Sep 6, 2005 -> 01:49 PM) Damn. RIP, Little Buddy. Took the words right out of my mouth.

Wow sorry to hear that Bham, prayers to you and all of your family.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Sep 6, 2005 -> 01:08 PM) Generalisimo Francisco Franco is still dead. As is Disco, thankfully.

Its a win-win situation with Borchard. Our only chance to get something for him is to play him and see if we can get his value up. If not, we are going to lose him for nothing or next to nothing anyway. I am estatic to see that Baj got the call over Adkins, like he should have a month ago. I also am looking forward to seeing more of the Brian Anderson show.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Sep 6, 2005 -> 11:49 AM) wow, already banned? More like banned again. Some people just can't take the hint the first 50 times.

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Sep 5, 2005 -> 09:45 PM) The Hawk/DJ shoutout was in response to one of our admins..... So I guess you could say my email got read on the air YES!

I used to be in the high 40's, but that was in college when I was running everyday, and 40 pounds ago.

QUOTE(Steff @ Sep 6, 2005 -> 09:57 AM) Dave Wills has a job, and is under contract. Wills could ask out of the contract if he were approached by someone. Also the Score could offer to buyout out his contract too.

Happy Belated SS71