Gregory Pratt

Maybe he can rap with Rex?

He's got to be hurt. There's absolutely no other reason for anybody to have not scooped him up.

I'm scarred for the season on high hopes for our offense ever since King Durbin killed our lineup. That should be in green. But still, I've learned my lesson not to go into a game expecting anything other than a ballgame.

I don't like this matchup. Weaver is nasty.

Eduardo, unless I'm terrible wrong.

Of course you can't find "Edwardo."

QUOTE(Jordan4life_2007 @ Apr 27, 2007 -> 09:33 PM) If I could ever get my hands on that piece of s*** Posey! He'd beat the living hell out of you. I don't know many athletes that the average joe can beat up.

Way to go, Gio.

It might very well spark our team. It wouldn't be the first time a team lost a huge player in trade or injury then rallied. The Twins of last year are a good example, I think, with Liriano and Hunter (if I'm not mistaken). It wouldn't even be the first time with a Sox team -- Ventura, 97!

I'm tired of watching Sox players breath. I don't like the "it's cold" excuse but it's somewhat valid. Still don't like it. Wish it'd heat up. Everyone. Turn on your SUVs.

That's a ridiculous amount of money.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Apr 26, 2007 -> 01:08 AM) Well, except for the families of those dead kids. You very well know what I meant.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Apr 27, 2007 -> 01:21 PM) B I N G O !! Why didn't the trainer insist on it? They could have changed socks without changing the bandage. Why on Earth would they bother during a game?

I'm coming.

He shouldn't have been arrested, no charges, but he should be assigned counseling.

QUOTE(Flash Tizzle @ Apr 27, 2007 -> 12:40 AM) Inappropriate? Read the following information and tell me, in your honest opinion, whether federal agents raiding a shopping center to detain several alleged criminals was the correct choice. I believe in the raid -- I don't believe in the timing and I don't believe in the guns-drawn. Go to that little mall and you'll see why I think it's inappropriate to go in there with your weapons drawn in such a small-quarters type of place. That's a good point and well-made. No, no, I appreciate police officers in general but the Chicago PD makes me sick and every article I read about it makes me sick. Take what happened with the attempted cover-up of the beating-of-the-bartender; take what happened in that article I posted earlier, "Killed on Camera," and then we've got personal experiences with bad police officers. I was arrested in the seventh grade walking away from a friend who was vandalizing. Cop drove onto the sidewalk and took us both in. He was rough with a skinny seventh-grader (me) and unnecessarily so; and then he kept calling us spicks and talking about how we were good-for-nothings who'd be back and a few cops who were with him thought it was pretty funny. There are other little things. I know some shady, incredibly racist cops in Mt. Greenwood, where I go to school; when I was little, I was being bullied by some gang members and had to go to a store but was terrified to; a cop was passing by and I told him that I'd been threatened and if he'd keep a quick eye for me while I walked a couple of blocks and he said, "Get the f*** out of here, kid. It's not our problem." And then he drove a couple of blocks in the direction I was headed but pretty fast and I couldn't believe it. I've never, you know, called a cop a "pig" or declared hatred for police officers, but I don't believe in those words on their cars anymore. Is that their fault or mine? I don't know, man, but my house has been broken into a handful of times -- well, different apartments, I mean, but anyway, and cops took forever to get there. I have less complaints about this whole thing than I would if Patrick Fitzgerald weren't involved. I idolize Fitzgerald. But I'm still iffy on the timing and the guns-drawn. I'm iffy about the innocents held. As far as actually going in, or the warrants -- that's not a problem, if you get what I mean. I think there might be a misconception that I hate police officers. I don't. I'm not some nutty anarchist or anything. I just don't have nice things to see about a department that encourages corruption, blackmails beaten women and promotes a man who quite clearly shot someone in the face at point-blank range and lied through his teeth even with camera evidence that shows he was lying. And I'm baffled by what I see from policemen when things like VA Tech happen. It really makes me wonder what the hell's going on sometimes with our department and our people.

You think he could've changed the sock during the game?

You know, I still want to get back at Tom Cruise for Eyes Wide Shut, but this is ridiculous! Justice shouldn't operate like this anywhere. It ties up the system and corrupts it. We all know that I'm a critic of OUR justice system as well, but this sort of thing makes me appreciate ours...just a little bit.

Romney's a mormon from Taxland. That's why he won't get elected, more than anything. I can't believe people fall for McCain's act. He's hard Right with a good PR staff. He's Barry Goldwater, if he gets nominated.

God bless humanity.

I've known for a long time about the fake IDs there. Everyone does, especially in this neighborhood. People I've known have gone there for documents. It's just funny that finally, after years and years of what should be common knowledge amongst law enforcement, coinciding with the return of a protest that was very well-done last year as far as logistics go, the police burst into Little Village.

Flash I just don't see the cause for guns being drawn at that mall. It's inapprorpiate with the situation and the cause. Conversely, there are so many scenarios I've seen where a cop should do something and doesn't do anything, so I'm jaded. You don't think policemen are essentially historians? I got that from one of the most Conservative men I know. Says we need guns because the police can't help you out if you're being robbed or raped or your house is broken into or anything like that. All police officers do is interview and take down the paperwork and pull people over for drinking and driving and arrest minorities. I think it's a gross exaggeration but any good hyperbole has basis in reality. What else have I posted that's been so off-the-wall? Brian Anderson sux? QUOTE(NUKE @ Apr 26, 2007 -> 10:21 PM) If I were in that neighborhood I'd probably not feel comfortable unless I was armed also. As for these people. I don't know who the bloody hell they think they are. They feel as though they can just flout the law and then start a protest when they get arrested for doing so. And we tolerate it. We tolerate it because all these whiny leftist diversity nazi's get a woody at the thought of this country being overrun by illegal aliens. I doubt you've ever been in the Little Village plaza but it's not exactly intimidating. Of course I'm a mixed Mexican, so what do I know of the fears of a white man in a minority neighborhood? Or I only understand it halfway.

I love it. Let's go into a Mexican mall guns blazing because it's easier to detain them but do nothing when someone is shooting up a College or a High School. I don't have anything else to add on the issue. I just think that's noteworthy. The truth is that modern policemen are historians, for the most part.

It's definitely possible.