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Shamrock4Life

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  1. You want to know how great MB is? Look at what the fans did in 2007 . I sseriously can't remember a time when a fan base (or at least the fans at a game) demanded that the organization resign a player. Sure there would be signs, but this was a chant. Maybe I am still a young-in, at 26, but his is one of the only times I remember something like this happening for anybody let alone just a White Sox.

  2. Per the JR interview in the Trib,

     

    Gar has said the organization wants to get back to more of a defensive philosophy. That's something you've endorsed in the past. Do you emphasize that to the coaching staff?

     

    Yes. I absolutely believe that in every sport that I'm familiar with defense is more important than offense. Even in tennis, just hit the ball back and the other person will eventually make a mistake. Golf, hit the ball down the middle. Clearly in the Super Bowl, the defensive teams win. In baseball, it's pitching and defense. I'm absolutely convinced that defense is more important and that we need to become a better defensive team than we were. We have things in place with the restructuring of the staff that that's going to happen.

     

    So seems even Jerry would have wanted BA to stick around.

  3. To quote:

     

    What company has placed you in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean?

     

    I work for an offshore drilling contractor, Transocean. I am currently riding a newly built drilling rig from Cape Town, South Africa to Port of Spain, Trinidad or even to the Louisiana coast. The rig was built in Singapore, my relief rode it from there to Cape Town. Rig will be working in the Gulf of Mexico finding new oil and gas by the end of the year.

     

    What's even considered in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean? St Helena? The Azores? Caper Verde Islands?

     

    Well as of now we are about 200 miles north of St. Helena, averaging 9 knots. So I will back home (in Houston) around August 20th or so.

     

    That said, mid-missouri is backwards as f***

     

    Went to school in Rolla, MO and couldn't agree more with this statement.

     

    That said, its pretty cool that the most powerful man in the world, is a Sox fan. Plus I like that jacket.

  4. yeah slow internet through various satelites really leaves no room for streaming media either, plus the whole company's internet filter screws it all up.

  5. J.R. was recruited as a buyer by Gerry Betteman (sp?), the NHL commissioner. The whole point of JR buying the Coyotes would be to keep them in Glendale, not to relocate them somewhere else. The whole reason the Coyote ownership filed for Chapter 11 is because the NHL would not approve the sale of the team to the founder of BlackBerry, who stated he wanted to move the team to Canada, near the Toronto and Buffalo teams.

     

    Betteman knows JR from is days in the NBA. The NHL presented the cause of buying the team to JR. I am sure just like the Bulls and Sox, JR put together a group of investors, and gave an offer to the Coyotes. That offer is no where near as large as the offer from the BB founder, thus to force the sale of team to the party that will give the most capital to the bankrupt team, they filed chapter 11. The NHL is suing to prevent this. Also the financing for the bankruptcy filing is being provided by the BB founder.

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