FlaSoxxJim

Excerpted from today's ABCNews "The Note":

QUOTE(Middle Buffalo @ Oct 6, 2005 -> 11:43 AM) "Which Doobie you be?" Classic "What's Happening" episode. One Doobie died, BTW. So did Rerun and Shirley from What's Happenin?, so it's all coming full circle.

QUOTE(ZoomSlowik @ Oct 6, 2005 -> 12:47 PM) My Dad and I got on shortly after noon on 3 different computers and got squat. Squat Nation. We are Legion.

Ach!!! Had 4 computers chugging away at noon central, and nothing to show for it. My first mistake was using Safari browser. Off the bat I got right into the system, and after placing the order when the visual proof word was supposed to come up all I got was a broken link. Tried to pursue the ticket pull using the visually impaired option but then got the database error everybody else got. By that time it was 5 minutes into the sale. I switched browsers and got into the cue on 4 different machines for the 4 different game dates, where I lingered and died. Oh well. I was trying to snag tix for family anyway, as next week is a travel no go for me. I was looking to curry favor with any family I could help out, because my schedule is WIDE OPEN for games 1 and 2 of the WS!

QUOTE(the People's Champ @ Oct 6, 2005 -> 09:51 AM) Very well put, all except the not being proud to wear the hat thing. I'll always rock my Sox hat even when they suck. Thats the kind of fan I am. Amen. Live and die with the team and wear it proud. Right now, though, I couldn't be more proud of them, and the fans. It's quite simple, really. We f***ing rock!

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Oct 6, 2005 -> 09:39 AM) That's a pretty sad list... With Picasso, Roseannes TV sister, Ray f***in' Rayner, and the guy who wrote A Christmans Story?!? I THINK NOT!!!

My college roommate/Best Man from my wedding called me from the Cell 30 seconds after Gooch hit it and we screamed "It's our year!!" at each other for a couple of minutes.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Oct 5, 2005 -> 09:41 PM) Except a lot less meaningful. Not to White Sox fans. :rolly

QUOTE(Nokona @ Oct 5, 2005 -> 09:40 PM) Bill Buckner the Second. I thought that the second the ball went through Graffy's legs. Croquet, anyone?

MB Gooch! Bobby Fuching Jenks!!! :headbang

GOOCH!!!

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Oct 5, 2005 -> 12:11 PM) It seems like everyone's pissed off at the choice. That means she probably really is the best woman for the job. Harry Reid seems happy enough. Of course I'm sure his happiness is over the fact that he was able to successfully suggest a nominee that he knew was going to drive a major wedge in the GOP base. His apparent behind the scenes mechanations are something Karl Rove could be proud of.

My assumption is that the reassurances may have been in terms of sharing her personal viewpoints with the religious Right's movers and shakers. eg, Miers' history as a Roman Catholic turned Evengelical Christian, personal belief that life begins at conception as stated by her sometimes-boyfriend, reversal of her personal views on a woman's right to choice over the past 20 years, etc.

QUOTE(LVSoxFan @ Oct 5, 2005 -> 11:18 AM) I have tix for the first series but somehow bungled getting them for the next two. So my question is this: do they sell SRO tix for playoffs? I remember going up to the window at probably the Red Sox and Cubs series the day of--when the games were long since announced as sold out--and finding out there were SRO tix available. Fine with me! I took 'em like that! And those would be fine with me for the ALCS and beyond if they have 'em. Anybody know? General release tix for the ALCS go on sale at noon tomorrow, you haven't missed the boat yet.

QUOTE(kyyle23 @ Oct 5, 2005 -> 11:14 AM) Who knows, maybe he will choose not to apply the shaving cream so he is in the clear, and maybe his curve wont have that bite to it. But Balco and Barry Bonds taught us that it's illegal to be in the Clear as well. What's a cheater to do?

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Oct 5, 2005 -> 11:03 AM) I don't think you can beat Wells mentally. Mind tricks don't work for him. Not even if you whisper "Sizzler, all you can eat!" in his ear? I think the Buerhle/Wells matchup is pretty epic stuff. The Young Apprentice has to confront and defeat his Jedi Master turned Dark Lord of the BoSith.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Oct 5, 2005 -> 11:00 AM) And you call yourself a Sox fan?

QUOTE(Bias @ Oct 5, 2005 -> 10:54 AM) If he gets the job done I wouldn't hesitate to hug and kiss him! lol Get a room, you crazy kids!

Awww. Maybe it's the hopeless romantic in me, but I love it when couples work out their differences. :wub:

QUOTE(DBAH0 @ Oct 5, 2005 -> 09:43 AM) Ok who started the rain dance? Francona?

QUOTE(sayitaintso @ Oct 4, 2005 -> 07:18 PM) How could he do it. It's not like he brings out the ball with him every inning or he has a can of shaving cream in his back pocket. Read the article. It's supposedly on his forearms before the game starts. Whatever he does, he's had a ton of postseason success. Time to take him down a peg.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Oct 4, 2005 -> 10:30 AM) The official prediction is for lots of thunder – followed by fireworks – in the bottom half of every inning today. Ahem. . . I just have one thing to say: WHO DA WEATHER MAN?!?!!

What a nail biter. . .

QUOTE(The Ginger Kid @ Oct 4, 2005 -> 12:35 PM) What's the story with this "Ramirez" fellow and that "Ortiz" guy? Are they any good? They made the post-season roster by the skin of their teeth I hear.

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Oct 4, 2005 -> 12:19 PM) I believe it was the 1918 Series that the Cubs threw, to the Bo Sox. Allegedly threw to the BoSox. :rolly