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Yet, by almost any yardstick, Ozzie is one of the top 10 Sox managers of all time. Amazing.

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ May 18, 2007 -> 08:09 PM) I'm so confused.... Just providing a hint, as you look for me among the living and the dead . . . I won't be on this weekend, honestly I forget about the game.

We have bloated SS to the point it doesn't resemble true retirement planning. A harsh way to put this is, the only difference between this and Public Aid is the semblance that most people have contributed to what they take out. The problem is we are now placing people into SS that should be in other public aid groups. If you are injured and can't work anymore, that should be in the unemployment arena or similar until you are 65.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ May 18, 2007 -> 04:54 PM) It' sbeen a long time for me since an 18+ Metro show, but I remember them checking ID's well enough that if you didn't have one that said you were 18 you were SOL. Then again, my girlfriend was the one who wanted to see Echo and the Bunnymen, not me. . Obviously a lie. You and a girlfriend

Spiff who? Happy Birthday!!

I'm starting to understand Rex a whole lot more . . .

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ May 18, 2007 -> 08:47 AM) ok, so you are a pker.....but I have a secret. so depending WHO you are (Ghoulius Caesar is my next guess) I'm actually winning, by a lot. wait.... yosemiteclimber?? I have waaaaay less time in the game then you do.

Even if the offended person handles it without complaining that doesn't make it right. I once asked a few of my Mexican-American Scouts why it was the Anglo kids in the Troop that were madder than they were when some kid started calling our guys wet backs and other slurs. They replied if they got upset every time they heard stuff like that they would be walking around mad all the time. The fact that they didn't complain or get upset doesn't mean they were not offended and hurt. It also doesn't mean those comments should be condoned.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ May 18, 2007 -> 08:26 AM) I liked it! I liked it!

QUOTE(YASNY @ May 18, 2007 -> 07:58 AM) Why debate a spokeskook? Usually it isn't a wise choice. I can only think of a few cases where it makes sense. If it is your only opponent in a political race. And if you are involved in a pseudo sport like Wrestling or NASCAR. BTW, I think I will trademark spokeskook. I can think of soooo many.

Again, it appears we protect those that we believe need protection and allow the others to fend for themselves. So "breeder" gets a pass and "that's so gay" doesn't. Americans usually pull for the underdog, we don't beat puppies, and don't drown kittens. We creat an elaborate system to produce hamburgers from one animal and an elaborate system to save other stray animals. Middle class white males with all the advantages are ok to satire and poor retarded children are protected. Not certain it fits anyones definition of fair, but that is our society. Work to change it. Some would say we work to change it by allowing anyone to insult anyone, others would want equal attention when they are referred to as breeders. Two totally different solutions.

A little Alice Cooper? Nice touch YAS

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ May 18, 2007 -> 07:35 AM) ? Not me. And btw lifetime, we're even.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ May 18, 2007 -> 07:31 AM) I love oxymorons. A stretch, but nice

QUOTE(YASNY @ May 18, 2007 -> 07:32 AM) So many people thought a President should give repeated audiences to Cindy Sheehan, also. And like now, I disagreed with 'so many people'. I didn't think she should have had one. And even if you ardently agreed with her, there are so many better spokespersons for the anti-war stance, why send a spokeskook?

guess again.

QUOTE(YASNY @ May 18, 2007 -> 12:48 AM) You say far left and looney tunes left like there is a difference. Yes, Thompson used it as an easy way to score points with conservatives and moderates. That's still no reason to dignify the far left Moore with a debate. It would only serve to legitimacize him. No one right of San Francisco would bother. Yet so many people thought a President of the US should answer the debate call.

A couple getting hot here and there throughout the summer would be fine.

Very good veteran players average out over a season. Every team hits a slump. Eventually veterans like Konerko, Dye, Gooch, AJ will come close to their career numbers, meaning they will have to heat up over their averages as much as they have been under. That's what you pay for in veterans over rookies (BA for example) All in all, at this point in the season, I am feeling optimistic based on three decades of watching the nation's pastime.

Winning series isn't a bad way to stay in the hunt.

Link?

QUOTE(YASNY @ May 17, 2007 -> 06:20 PM) I have seen the Cubs and Dusty Baker endlessly mocked on this site for over using Wood and Pryor down the stretch of a pennant race yet, now I see Ozzie being criticized for protecting a good young pitcher instead of using him in an oh so important rivalry game. It is always different YAS, it's always different. QUOTE(Dick Allen @ May 17, 2007 -> 07:03 PM) McCarthy. He did pretty well too. A windblown homer beat him. I could not remember if it was B-Mac or Rausch.