Shamrock4Life

We should merge this with the mascot thread, because thats all he is right now for an allstar team. now if he hits .300 for the month of May, then I will entertain a discussion.

for all those trying to watch on DirecTV Extra Innings, it appears to be fing up. This sucks.

Its not going to happen, but Frank should retire as a White Sox. I am already making planes to be in Cooperstown for his induction.

The Sodfather one was the best, IMO. But lefty was pretty good.

Maybe its KW's secret way of telling the fans, we are going to spend some money shortly. More than likey its Reinsdorf's way of telling us he is done spending and the Sox will not file for bankruptcy protection.

The Echo company was incorporated in Illinois according to the reports. They just bought the factory in Iowa.

i would say no matter the outcome the company is the biggest bad guy. but depending on how this group of owners got funding for the iowa plant, BofA might be right behind them.

no, but it also makes the doctors refusing care slimy too. what i would like to know is whether or not the medicare payments covered the costs of the treatments (as in the doctors would not have lost money) and the docotrs still chose not to dole out care because johnny's parents have insurance that will pay more money for the same work or if the medicare payments were less than the costs of the treatment (as in the doctor loses money).

QUOTE (Texsox @ Dec 11, 2008 -> 10:00 AM) So it seems that maybe the company wasn't all that bad financially, just looking for a scapegoat to get out of an expensive labor market and into a cheaper one. Damn, why didn't they move to Mexico and help my area out? Seems that someone must have loaned them some money to buy the Iowa plant, or else they had a s*** load of cash on hand. Some conspiracy theories say that BofA was the bank that floated the loan for the purchase of the Iowa plant.

acutally it turns out this 8 million was to give doctors more money for working on children because the Medicare (or is it cade?) payments were not enough for the doctors to treat children. So doctors were turning down care to children in need of it, because they could make more money treating people who actually had real insurance. It was to go to an organization set up by Children's Hospital and other child care providers in the state.

agreed, and upping my post count. plus i just posted in a different thread in this forum.

I thought I read somewhere that the owners of this company, formed a different company and built a new factory in Iowa. Upon further review: here is a link to a google search: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls...owa&spell=1 figured I would post that instead of cherry picking a certain article. This whole things smells fishy. EDIT: to post a link where I actually spell "windows" correctly.

Dick Durbin's special election call was for the Senate Seat not the Governor spot.

I can't believe he is 52.

if the this team, as presently constructed, is the one in ST I will be dissappointed.

Yeah Hawk is going to pull the Harry Carry and die before he retires.

Ok after searching through the last 20 pages of threads, I figure this is as good as any to post this in.... At the bottom of Mark Gonzales's article about Beckam and the AFL, he adds this about DJ's future: Seems like, as of now, DJ is slotted to move to the Radio Booth for us. So Rally DJ can stay. :uhoh If this was already known sorry about the bump.

OK not sure if this was posted but from Jason Stark: Braves catcher Tyler Flowers (.394 AVG, .463 OBP, 1.014 SLG, 12 HRs in 71 ABs): "Big, strong, raw-boned guy. Very powerful offensive catcher. Defensively, needs polish. But better agility than you'd think he'd have. I'm not sure what they're going to do with him, with [brian] McCann there. But he's a player."

got the hat online a few days after the game. wore it for like 2-3 weeks, now its a piece of art in my tv room

Any chance we bring the Gooch back?

you are already losing 2 IF, don't know if you can lose a third. if OC is indeed gone and not coming back, I think you have to try and keep Uribe and have him fight Fields for the 3B job.

i don' like him. i would much rather have garland as the number 3 starter, uribe at short, and crede/fields at 3rd.

while not happy, i am not sad either. kinda empty a little bit. i mean going into this season, i didn't expect anything. i think i even picked us to finish 4th in the division. but come may and june, i started to taste the "pie" again. then starting to suck in september sucked ass. but coming back and doing what no other team in history has done (3 wins against 3 different teams in three consecutive games) was probably the 2nd best Sox feeling I have had in my life (the first was the whole 2005 season rolled into one). then to play this series and have our offense basically roll over, was kinda disheartening, but expected. its like i am in purgatory, where i can't feel horrible (like cub fans have to feel right now) but i also can't feel happy (like rays fans). its weird. Junior is was fun seeing you in a Sox uniform. Here's to you:

Don't the rays already have Longoria and somebody else locked up in long term deals?

just remember last time the dow dropped over 750 points in a day we won!!!