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Don't get Roman started

He has 3 broken bones in his back, but still thinks he is going to play. Man I wish our players had half his guts http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=1621280

J/K HSC http://www.bcentral.com/articles/isyn/defa...nd=msn&LID=3800 I remember being shocked when typewriters began showing up in antique stores. It's gotten worse. You can now find early computers there - or in the antiques section of Web sites like Ebay. It got me thinking about a new definition of old. Old doesn't just apply to those who can remember life before airplanes or television. You qualify if things you once considered cutting-edge technology are now antiques. Or when the latest trends you swear you embraced just yesterday are things the MTV generation never heard of. So, today, a list. You know you're getting up there if you remember when: * Your computer's ready-mode was a black screen with a single curser. * Apple was bigger than Windows. * Or should I say PCs, since for a while, there was no such thing as Windows. * There was just "DOS." * And they were called microcomputers instead of PCs. * Contrary to free-market theory, your phone choices and bills were much easier because AT&T was a good old-fashioned monopoly. * There was this amazing new video game called "Pong." * And you thought it had the most advanced graphics imaginable. * AOL was just another start-up online service that could easily have lost out to rivals called Compuserve and Prodigy. * A 20-something guy named Dell came up with the nutty idea of selling computers by mail. * Jane Fonda went from sex symbol, to feminist activist, to dutiful wife of a powerful man, to obscurity. * And that powerful man was known not as Ted Turner founder of CNN - but "Blackbeard Among the Bluebloods" for winning the America's Cup while scandalizing Newport society with raucus behavior. * And there was no question U.S. sailors would of course win the Cup - forever. * It was called VD instead of an STD. * The first true laptop computer was a Radio Shack TRS-80. * And if you were hip, you referred to it affectionately as a TRASH-80. * Burning a CD was the act of a pyromaniac. * Sean Connery was Pierce Brosnan. * The new walkaround phone that gave you astonishing mobility was a cordless one you could take around the house. * And it got better reception than the one you can now take all over the country. * Only wives got alimony. * Steve Jobs ran Apple. I mean, the first time. * There was a guy on 60 Minutes named Mike Wallace who was so old you figured he'd retire at the latest by 1990. * TheMideast was simpler because Iran was run by a dictator called The Shah, who wanted power rather than Jihad. * Mail was something you wrote on a piece of paper and put into a stamped envelope. * And you didn't get 110 unsolicited pieces of it every morning promising to enhance your anatomical assets. * No normal person had speakers on their computer. * The diners at the next restaurant table were smoking cigarettes and you barely noticed. * The only thing you knew about Robin Williams was he played a weird alien named "Mork" on television. * A 1-gig hard drive seemed as big as a warehouse. (Today, most are 40-times that.) * An 8-track tape the size of a paperback book was an advanced concept in compact music recording. * Everyone knew what an LP was. And now the final test of whether you're getting up there: * Even though there are plenty of LPs in antiques stores, you still have 400 in your attic, because deep down, you still think the format will come back. Mark Patinkin can be reached at [email protected].

In all seriousness, if we have minority posters who frequent these parts, I would curious to hear serious opinions and facts on this. Is is a fear of white power type organizations, is it an illegal activity, or is there something I am missing?

Frank Thomas the season is over, he can resume hitting now.

Anybody out there follow the other Chicago teams?

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Anyone got any ideas? Should we turn this into Hawks, Bulls, Blackhawks talk, sort of a Chicago off season sports board? Or we could turn this into the brawl room where people come to argue and fight? Any other ideas?

Jas, or whoever is interested. Everytime I posted on the PTC board, I got a weird message about mail failure, but the post did go through.

But nothing for us

Jose's hero at the plate? http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...item=2753808397

If anyone is interested

The Bears

As I understand it, it was actually for 1100 PAs in the two years of his contract. He had 527 last year, and he has 545 this year, so he needs 28 more, during the next 7 games to be vested in next years option.

The magic number is 573. I don't know where he is now, but hope we face a lot of lefties

We wouldn't have even been in contention, in order to fail if it wasn't for Loiaza.

Well I will say this much. The stupid mistake he made in the first inning where he was standing on the mound watching instead of backing up home plate really pissed me off. That is crap they teach you in T-ball. Other than that, I don't see the equity in benching Jon over all of the other people who have just mailed it in. Why not Carlos, Konerko, and or Crede who went 1-29 against the Royals last series? Why not Thomas who went 1-12 in MN, and then complained to the media about it? Why not Olivo who hasn't hit anything since June or so? Because they aren't pitchers?? I just hate to see one player get singled out, when there is plenty of blame to go around...

Hey I guess I got signed as an undrafted free agent or something I'll have to talk to my agent about that

Well I will say this much. The stupid mistake he made in the first inning where he was standing on the mound watching instead of backing up home plate really pissed me off. That is crap they teach you in T-ball. Other than that, I don't see the equity in benching Jon over all of the other people who have just mailed it in. Why not Carlos, Konerko, and or Crede who went 1-29 against the Royals last series? Why not Thomas who went 1-12 in MN, and then complained to the media about it? Why not Olivo who hasn't hit anything since June or so?