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QUOTE(ChiSoxyGirl @ Jun 23, 2005 -> 10:53 AM) My friggin labmate/office partner is going on and on and on about how she's going to join MENSA. Hey good for you! Maybe you'll learn to be less socially inept--oh, wait, no probably not. Woohoo, that's great. More boring, crappy, pointless and condescending conversations about how smart you are. Sweeeeeeeeeet. I can't frigging wait. Days like this make me really, really, really miss my normal and socially competent college and high school friends. Then why do you come here?

QUOTE(mreye @ Jun 23, 2005 -> 11:40 AM) So if my neighbors across the street are black, it's OK if I burn a cross on my lawn? As long as it isn't an attempt to intimidate them, yes. (and like I said assuming your community lets you have open fires) If you do it on their lawn, that is a different story. QUOTE(TheDybber @ Jun 23, 2005 -> 11:57 AM) What if you were protesting the fact that the Catholic Church won't allow women to become priests and burned a cross on your front lawn with a black family across the street? What I'm saying is, if you burn a cross on the black family's lawn, that's pretty blatantly a hate crime, if you do it on your lawn, it would be nearly impossible to prove you were doing it as a hate crime, you could say anything and probably be let off, except for fire codes. That is pretty much exactly what I think. Freedom of speech means you are going to see and hear somethings that you don't agree with. Groups like PETA and NAMBLA have special places reserved for them, but the thing is they have the right to say and think what they want to do. What I think of them doesn't matter, what matters is as long as they aren't hurting anybody, they have their right to freedom of speech too.

QUOTE(mreye @ Jun 23, 2005 -> 10:11 AM) That's awesome!! That is a great line. If the team is so great and the fans are so stupid for not going to games, where was the omnipotent media??? Hypocrates.

QUOTE(Soxnbears01 @ Jun 23, 2005 -> 10:49 AM) the place will be packed this weekend that's enough time for me. The Sox are 49-22, that's enough for ME.

QUOTE(Yossarian @ Jun 23, 2005 -> 09:55 AM) I like reading you, but can't stand Downey who is in his second incarnation as a Chicago sportswriter. Thanks for the compliment I love the prespective you bring to the board. Not many people can talk about the things you can.

QUOTE(Tmar28 @ Jun 23, 2005 -> 10:26 AM) the last one is the best The game of Pong was f***ing sweeeeeet. Especially if you have ever played it.

The hometown manager almost always is on the All-Star staff, FWIW.

OMG, I can barely stand it. That was some hilarious s***.

I wonder how many people have starved to death for NKs nuclear program?

QUOTE(Wong & Owens @ Jun 23, 2005 -> 08:36 AM) Yes. I know the context of what mreye was going for, at least I think so, and if he was going for the whole Klan cross-burnings, that crosses the line of free-speech anyway. If you want to burn crosses on your own front lawn, and your locale allows it in their fire codes, have at it. If you want to burn crosses on someone else's lawn, it is a violation of free speech anyway.

QUOTE(mrzo2733 @ Jun 22, 2005 -> 10:56 PM) This is one of the better articles that Downey has written. Usually I find his articles unreadable. Now see I like Downey. I think he is one of the better new writers in Chicago.

QUOTE(JimH @ Jun 22, 2005 -> 06:07 PM) Stupid post. Quit beating it to death. Don't mind him Jim... after the off-season Anthrax had as a GM, he has got to get his shots in while he can.

I love threads like this... well except for the people who instantly try to ruin it for people who actually like to stop and smell the roses along the way... 10 games up in June, how f***ing awesome is that???

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Jun 23, 2005 -> 09:05 AM) Lord help us all... And the poor kid!!!!

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Jun 22, 2005 -> 03:59 PM) I like Mora better. Is Mora going to be healthy by the ASG?

There will be lots of people pissed off about the fan deck. On the bright side if they count those at tickets sold, we might get to 40K each day.

QUOTE(tonyho7476 @ Jun 23, 2005 -> 08:53 AM) I started going to sox games with my grandpa when I was a kid (we went from a bar in Berwyn in a bus with a keg)...and my dad had started going to games with his mother, when he was a kid....and I take my girlfriend, her kid, my dad, and my young cousins to games, to work on them...so this is obviously how things work... My grandpa recently died and I still picture him and I walking through the park, hand in hand, everytime I go there...he was my buddy and I miss him...especially when I go to games and remember that this started with him. I'm a 3rd generation Sox fan as well. My Grandpa took my dad, my dad took me, and I am going to raise a 4th generation soon. Taking kids to game is the best way to make lifelong fans. That's why I love the "family" approach on the southside. You can do the samething up north.

QUOTE(Hideaway Lights @ Jun 22, 2005 -> 04:27 PM) and you're not a Thomas apologist you say? uh.... anyway, I like Frank. I just always understood that your best hitter for average was your number 3 hitter.....Frank is no longer that guy. Sure, he's still getting a lot of walks, but if he hits, say .251 with an OBP of around .330 (the low end of the spectrum IMO, the high end I quoted earlier) is that appropriate for a number 3 hitter? btw, Rowand is a career .288 hitter, not .270. AH the old manipulation of statistics... Don't use Franks career statistics, but do use Aarons. Why is that? Because they don't fit with your arguement otherwise? Frank has a larger sample size and has much less varience on a year to year basis than Aaron does. Frank is much more likely to approach his career OBP than Aaron is, just looking at career numbers. You definately can't look at 35 ABs for Frank and a careers worth for Aaron to trend out what they will do for the rest of this season. More than likely Franks numbers will trend upward as he has been out of the game for year, and has historically shown that as he gets comfortable he gets on base and hits HRs.

This is the key comment and biggest trueism about the article The Sox even get the fact that a fan base isn't built in a day, or even a year. They are literally looking 10, 15, 20 years down the road, at literally growing White Sox fans from the womb. If the kids grow up going to Comiskey, they will keep wanting to go there. There is no doubt that the kids are the most important demographic, especially in this town, where you don't change the minds of older fans. You might pull in the casual fan, but if you are going to build the base, you have to do it on people you can win loyalty from.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Jun 23, 2005 -> 07:37 AM) Singing along with Nancy brings back sooooo many great Sox memories. Some of my favorite memories in life are set with Nancy Faust music in the backround. She is the ultimate White Sox fan.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Jun 23, 2005 -> 08:00 AM) Nah, he's making me stay at a hotel. That was my idea

There is one guy in the city of Chicago sportsworld who walks right into the owners office and negotiates his contract face to face, without an agent present. Frank and Jerry negotiate contracts with none of the BS. If Frank wants to come back to Chicago next year, and doesn't want an insane amount of money, he will be here. Period.

Ozzie gets a pass? That's rich... What next, Frank Thomas gets a pass?

QUOTE(Texsox @ Jun 23, 2005 -> 04:03 AM) As in pack your bags and get out Start one. All it takes is dad's credit card and a few friends. Plenty of pack fans here And I know someone who does hosting cheap