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If so, hopefully we can seal that deal in like the 8th inning of a really close game...

HELL YOU SAY!! Yes, this where we will disagree. As far as a new southside tradition, I'm pushing for a trip to the WS at least once a decade to be it.

Do your best to come home with as many scouts as you left with, the parrents always appreciate that. Have fun!

Second half of the season starts today with game 82. Seems like a good time to take the Little Boat out on a shakedown cruise, polish the guns, tend to the sails and whatnot. I don't know how much Sat is posting over on the MLB board thaese days, as I usually only get over there for the or when SoxTalk goes down... As far as the Bahama Mamas... Rumrunner is the new boat drink I have just conquered, and I now officially make the best ones this side of the Bermuda Triangle. I'll make sure there are plenty to go around if the Little Boat sets sail again this year.

From AP via ABCnews A good synopsis for people who didn't think the official numbers added up right. If the insurgents only numbered around 4,000 as the US military has officially reported, and we killed around 4,000 insurgents in April alone, that should have effectively put down the insurgency. The upshot of the piece is that too much has been made of the foriegn Islamic jihadist role in the insurgency, and a lot of it is Sunnis ticked off about losing power in the new Iraq and some well trained Saddam secret service survivors running the show. Troubling is that US military analysts have "learned that ridding Iraq of U.S. troops was the motivator for most insurgents, not the formation of an Islamic state." What is the right solution to any of this? I sure wish I knew. From the article...

I didn't see that, but if I had I would have been ticked off about it enough to have said something.

You deserve to be a Cub fan. See, s*** seeks it's own level.

It was all just more of the same. Buncha people cheering on Quickman/Base Ball... "way... to go... guy's an ass.... been asking for it...". Buncha people suggesting that spending a YEAR on this 'cloak and dagger' mission (where's a "jerk off" smiley when you need one?) says at least as much about Base Ball/Quickman as it does ncrgbl, to the point of supposedly getting some press guy to dig around the Sox org for a list of shareholders and upsetting them in the process, outing personal info about ncrgbl's family etc. Buncha back and forth sniping - but sniping without the love love we have over here... Final 'field report' indicating ncrgbl was a no show and Base Ball/Quickman missed a couple innings of the game to make that point, HSC suggesting they meet HER at the game tonight and she'll find his name on the investor list if it's there.... I guess it's alright for a summer replacement, but it wouldn't cut it for the fall lineup...

No it doesn't, it in large part defines Wrigleyville. The Southside has plenty of its own traditions and doesn't need this one. Send me the next Belliard ball and I'll give it to my kids.

So what is it this year... 18? 19? 21? 32?.... I'll stop now, before I run out of numbers. Most awesome, Happy, Happy Birthday, CW!

Don't hold back - tell us how you really feel about it.

Just call me Switzerland.

I speak no German, fluent or otherwise, and this wasn't asked of me, but... I liked Wings of desire very much when I saw it. I actually liked the sequel, Faraway, So Close!, even better and I'm not sure why (does that make me a bad person?). Maybe it was Natassja, Lou Reed, deFoe and Gorby. Never saw the American monygrabber remake (City of Angels?) but I'm sure it didn't hold a candle to either of the Wim Wenders originals.

Too funny!

Dunh Dunh Dunh!..... [/drama]

Yeah, I'm sure there's more than meets the eye with regard to all those events. Without getting embroiled in stuff that's under the bridge for the people involved, I try to give most everybody the benefit of the doubt but obviously crap has to start from somewhere. Thanks for the insights.

Sox finally win a game and I get all giddy I guess...

"And the categories for this round... 'Really Dirty Dancing,' 'Getting Hammered,' 'Having Only One Wife,' 'Those Other Tabernacle Choirs,' and 'How whacked was Joseph Smith?'..."

Garland, MB, and Freddie for us. Piniero goes tomorrow for Seatle and I don't know about the next two.

It's been a while since I've tuned in, but didn't they used to have like a 1-week limit on how many times a champ could come back?? 27 day champ. Wow.

SOX WIN!!!!!!!!

Val!!

K!! Way Damaso!

Timo!!!!

Yeah, but no golf stories thank God. Full count to Timo...