FlaSoxxJim

This has been a theme for my family this year. My dad has done a lot of reecollecting about '59, and he also shared what he remembered his Dad telling him about 1917 and 1919, which admittedly was not very much. The miles and miles of desert just make the Oases of October that much more inviting.

Let it be known that I lit up a 50 ring gage Havanah Cohiba tonight as well that I had been saving for just such an occasion. Viva the Cubano White Sox Hurlers!

The correct answer is Everyone But Marte. Damaso has become a waste of skin. My heart sank when he came in tonight, and I was yelling 'what about Hernandez?' at the TV. Great part about tonight for me, I took the family to the neighborhood Irish pub to watch the game and the place was absolutely crawling with arrogant Red Sox bandwaggoners like you might expect. Watching my 7 and 6 yaer olds give them all a little 'Na Na Na Na.... ' at the en of the night when it was all said and done. . . PRICELESS!!

Other than wanting Marte to be hit by a large truck, I am one happy Sox Fan. Three generations of fans have been waiting for this, and it ain't over yet.

QUOTE(LVSoxFan @ Oct 7, 2005 -> 12:33 PM) -Their are ticket brokers who have "insiders" at Ticketmaster who funnel to them huge chunks of tickets for a payoff, which the brokers then sell at scalped rates -I personally know a TM agent who will pull tix and get paid something like $50 per ticket from the scalpers. For something like this he probably gets $100. That is exactly right. And those guys are getting good money at $50 a ticket. The shyster record store manager who did this stuff when I worked there got maybe $200 total for an hour's worth of pulls from the guys he passed tthe tickets on to.

QUOTE(Punch and Judy Garland @ Oct 7, 2005 -> 12:39 PM) I think I have a favorite That's my favorite too. Well done Kev.

QUOTE(The Ginger Kid @ Oct 7, 2005 -> 12:17 PM) Noah was the s*** and there's no questioning the stones on Moses. And we all know a rolling Stone gathers Noah Moses.

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Oct 7, 2005 -> 10:08 AM) My only problem is my friends still think they should send it to my hotmail account, when I have one through GMail, my old ISP, ISU and FutureSox. But no, they send it to the one I check once a month to make sure nothing needed went in there. I also have a Hot Male email address that I use for strictly business purposes, but that's another story. . .

QUOTE(quade36 @ Oct 7, 2005 -> 10:05 AM) Wait, put this in perspective, close to 40,000 sold for 4 games???? Thats 10,000 a game. You figure 10,000 for season ticket holders. What happened to the other 20,000 per game?????? MLB, Sox, networks, and corporate sponsors all get a chunk.

QUOTE(ChiSox9 @ Oct 7, 2005 -> 09:55 AM) I bring this up because I noticed on the other white sox message board that there is a guy that has like over 100 tickets in the same section. What is to stop anyone from printing and copying the same email ticket over and over and selling it to fans on different sites????? Just think, selling the same ticket more than once (all it is is a piece of paper). Once the initial ticket is scanned at the front gate all others i believe are null a void. Fair?? I don't think many brokers are trying to sell their QuickTicket computer printer versions for exactly those reasons. They will pick up physical tickets from the ticket office or pay somebody to do it and will either espress mail physical tickets to buyers or drop tickets earmarked for them at will call if that is allowable.

QUOTE(rangercal @ Oct 7, 2005 -> 12:34 AM) Damn! Rex Kickass DOES look good in a pair of chaps and bent over a horse. . .

QUOTE(Rex Kickass @ Oct 7, 2005 -> 09:30 AM) You make me laugh. I got hit on yesterday. It went like this. "You'd look good in a pair of chaps and bent over a horse." Well, would you? [providing photographs is entirely optional of course]

Awesome! I loved it when he and his brother were on Star Trek. . .

QUOTE(JimH @ Oct 7, 2005 -> 09:02 AM) It is simply supply and demand. No, it's supply, demand, and graft during the initial sale. Then it is supply and demand from a much richer crowd during the resale from brokers. I would really love to know what percentage of the 10K or so tickets to each of the games us ordinary people going through ordinary channels actually have a chance of getting for face value through TicketMaster. People can say what they like about Eddie Vedder and company musically. But he hit it on the head when he came out and said TicketMaster and the unfair advantage they give the brokers keeps the average fan of modest means from getting tickets to the events they care about, while assholes with money to burn perpetuate the problem by paying 5-10x face and lining the pockets of the scalpers.

Yeah, but now the inventor is an Ig Nobel laureate. Lick 'em if you got 'em, doggies!

That is definately a way to get around the intentional vaguaness fo the Espionage Act.

QUOTE(MurcieOne @ Oct 7, 2005 -> 12:19 AM) Proof Porkchop!!!

Maybe they'll let Andy the Clown back in?

FWIW, Luskin is still perpetuating the incorrect belief that Rove had to receive a target letter befor being indicted, which is not at all the case.

QUOTE(rangercal @ Oct 6, 2005 -> 11:24 PM) Bulls***, We would not get screwed as much as we did today. If we could wait in line we can "control our own destiny" and not depend on the flaws of the ticket master system. Again, the Sox org would only be able to realeas a token few tickets at the Cell box office, because MLB owns the tickets and they contract with Ticketmaster to sell them. Do you remember how pissed off fans were after waiting in line and not being able to buy crappy blue busted upper deck chairs last year? How do you think it would go down if 10K people show up and wait overnight in line for 1,500 tickets? That would be a P.R. nightmare for the Sox. The Ticketmaster bull is largely out of their control.

QUOTE(Middle Buffalo @ Oct 6, 2005 -> 11:17 PM) So is Harry Potter a bone smuggler, or what? Well, Ron has been very jealous of his magic wand.

Meh, it's still got nothing on the "Who" drinking game when teh Grinch comes on at Christmas time. Take a drink every time they asy or sing 'who' (Whoville, who hash, Cindy Lue Who..) and you will be warm and toasty in no time.

QUOTE(Mercy! @ Oct 6, 2005 -> 11:04 PM) Isn't ANY Stephen King movie adaptation For most full-length novels that is true, with Carrie, the Shining, and possibly teh original Dead Zone being the exceptions. For the short stories like hawshank and The Body (= Stand By Me) I'd say no, the fleshing out of the story in teh feature-length treatment gave the stories depth that the short stories didn't achieve.

QUOTE(greasywheels121 @ Oct 6, 2005 -> 10:38 PM) From Reifert: Tickets to potential LCS games at U.S. Cellular Field went on sale today at noon. Demand was intense. Close to 40,000 tickets were sold to the general public in 48 minutes via on-line and TicketMaster phone lines. At peak time, 137,000 people were in line on their computers to purchase tickets. That type of demand is through the roof, but it also means many Sox fans ended up disappointed and without tickets to one of the four possible games. There were no problem with the system, just incredible demand for tickets. But the numbers don't seem to jibe with the poor success rates of those of us here, who are all by and large way more tech saavy than the average fan. We can assume "peak time" is the first 15-20 minutes today when a few of us got lucky and te rest of us got reemed. Even if we round that peak demand up to 160K, if we divide that by the 40K tickets sold tthere should be more happy people around here than there are. I agree with those who say the Sox org doesn't have much to do with the situation, and I think even if they had the powere to sell some tickets at the ticket windows it woudl be a token amount of tickets because MLB has a contract with Ticketmaster to distribute the bulk of available tix to the public. In my time working at the record store I learned something else about Ticketmaster. Since a site that wasn't supposed to sell tickets to an event still could access them, an industrous employee could go into the scalping business by pulling tickets rapidly as soon as the event opened in the system. The manager of the store in Champaign where I worked made quite a bit of money by doing unauthorized pulls for big Chicago areas shows, even as us piddling employees were telling customers we couldn't sell that event. That, fellow ham-n-eggers, is where a large amount of those broker tickets come from.