southsider2k5

WS for me. He struggled there at first, but then responded to hit well. Lets make sure he mastered High A first, then send him to BHam at midseason if he is hitting well.

Holy s***, I spelled it right

Quadrennial I believe... my spelling might be bad, but I think that is it.

All you had to do was ask. There would have been a line of people down Van Burean ready to oblige you

A real quick and easy way to do it is to cut and paste Spiff's list and then just delete the teams that you aren't picking. It took me under a couple of minutes, instead of taking the time to type everything out.

Saints Redskins Broncos Steelers Falcons Lions Packers Titans Chiefs Seahawks Browns Raiders Patriots Chargers Bengals ***Eagles***

Good to hear that something is getting back to normal, and that everyone has safely survived.

All right, to me the next step is to put the awards in order of which ones we will vote on first, second etc. Then start threads with nominations for each category so that we can have them narrowed down to 4 or 5 for each award.

In the last set of polls, Bush has a 6% lead in FL, 12% in OH, 6% in WI, 4% in NJ, 9% in TN, and 1% in PA for whatever that's worth. http://electoral-vote.com/ I know it is volitale, but this site is interesting to track. I know someone else posted it before, but they take the latest poll in each state and use that as if it were to determine the electoral college. The interesting thing is that Kerry poll numbers are starting to slip in states that had been taken for granted... For example his lead is only 4 percentage points in IL now. No one had even dreamed that IL would be close. And honestly, who knows, the polls are moving around so much now, this could be completely different tommorrow.

For the first time they are portraying the softer of Hitler, and it is causing controversy in Germany. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6019248/

More sick SOBs, this was in the next town over from me... http://www.nbc5.com/news/3732052/detail.ht...994&dppid=65192

It actually gives the NHL a guinne pig of some of the ideas that they had been talking about for new rules. As for the league, it keeps hockey around. And Darcy (see also my www. link)

If someone drops a team, I'll pick it up

I thought it sucked too. IN does a real good job of reinforcing stereotypes as well. I couldn't believe they put Amber Waves of Grain on our license plates at one time. Yes we are all hicks

Actually on a sort of related note, I LMAO when I saw the Wisconson quarter. Basically almost every stereotype of the state you can think of is on the quarter... Now all you need to make in complete is a fat girl in a Packers jersey.

http://money.cnn.com/2004/09/15/pf/new_nic...dex.htm?cnn=yes

Going to Mikes today I did only include fine dining. If we are including lunch spots... Billy Goat Mike's Chicken Gold Coast Dogs Harold's Chicken Shack

Players with succesful losing teams picked. (These are the ONLY people who can pick for week 2, also remember once you pick a team, you can't use them again for the rest of the season, or it is an automatic unsuccesful pick) Cardinals Knightni Danman31 Goldmember Soxnbears01 TheBones Texsox Giants Ishmookie DBAH0 WHarris1 Chimpy2121 San Francisco EvilJester99 Cubssuck1 colts Greasywheels121 Spiff Southsider2k4 Steff Dallas DonkeyKongerko JDsDirtySox Tampa Bay Whitesox56789 Oakland Chisoxrd5 Miami Savvy18 Houston Minnysoxfan Players who picked teams that won (these players are out of the contest) CWSguy Soxman352000 Heads22 CrimsonWetall BeGood ManofSteel Kapkomet Rowand44 AssHatSoxFan

Trying to stay with real Chicago stuff... Giordanos and Ditkas are great, as it Magnum's.

Looking at the radar loop, this storm is still moving very much straight to the north. Unless it starts to take a more easterly flow, it isn't out of the question that we could get smacked by some of the squal lines. This bears watching... This is the national radar loop. http://www.intellicast.com/Local/USNationa...op&prodnav=none

Maybe the fish need to play more of their games here, as they get swept in a big DH and fall 3 games behind the Cubs I guess its "Let's Go Giants" time. Barry

The son of an influential Chicago union boss got a job that required 6 years of prior education and experience at 19 years old. After word hit the press, yesterday he quit http://www.nbc5.com/politics/3735106/detai...994&dppid=65172

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6014362/

I am with you. I hate to see the silly plays, but I really think Crede will be a producer. Unfortunately I think the writing is on the wall, and KW will trade him and Jon Garland in the off-season.

The off topic stuff really picks up too. There was a huge NCAA hoops following last year, along with the SLaP was really hopping. Plus our membership is way up over last year, so there is no reason to believe it won't be better this year.