Texsox

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Mar 16, 2007 -> 03:32 PM) +4

Should they nominate a politician or a celebrity/captain of industry/reality tv winner?

QUOTE(Jimbo @ May 2, 2007 -> 09:19 AM) Change is good, stop being so loyal to Walker. Hey looks like season tickets will be vastlly available next year, thats fine by me. We suck! Not loyal to Walker, I worry that wholesale changes would take weeks to learn and ultimately hurt more than help. It almost smacks of a white flag move way too early in the season. The change, as I posted earlier, should have been made before Spring training began.

Walk me through the change y'all are expecting. Wednesday, Walker gets released. Thursday a new hitting coach arrives. Friday he changes everyone's approach, notices mistakes that immediately are fixed, and the team is rolling by the weekend?

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ May 2, 2007 -> 08:16 AM) I agree the bill is crap. But you are saying the line of defense is the President, and he was a big part of the mess in the first place, so... he vetoed himself?! In a sense, yes.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ May 2, 2007 -> 08:02 AM) You can't be serious. In case you didn't notice, he's the one who bought the pooch in the first place. Serious as can be. If drew a line in the sand and said he would veto the bill. As you mentioned, everyone screwed this up. The line of defense is a Presidential veto and he did. I love it when our system works. And if Congress can muster the over ride, then so be it. That is exciting also. But I applaud Bush for his back bone in the matter. And again, that bill is almost a poster child for what is wrong in American politics. Take all the b.s., pork, and stuff that has nothing to do with the main bill out and start from there.

QUOTE(Jimbo @ May 1, 2007 -> 10:53 PM) CHANGE IS GOOD......do it I generally agree, but if the next coach comes in and starts making wholesale changes, that may be far worst. The time to make the switch is before Spring training begins.

QUOTE(The Critic @ May 1, 2007 -> 07:36 PM) First I ask them how the weather is up there. (That's always an awesome ice-breaker) Then I challenge them to a slam-dunk contest. (I let them win) Then I ask them to clean my gutters for me. (Selfish pricks always say no) Then I think of original nicknames for them like Stretch or Phone Pole or or Stilts or Manute Bol. They usually get pissed at some point, but I just keep running through their legs and they get frustrated cuz they can't catch me all the way down here. Then, to be nice, I offer them a ride wherever they're going, and I let them know it's cool cuz my car has a sunroof for their head. So yeah, we get along.

78, 6'1" Screw softball, it counds like we should be playing WSI in basketball.

I didn't realized he was married. I've been gone so long.

QUOTE(Dan @ May 1, 2007 -> 10:12 PM) What the gay? Street Legal

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ May 1, 2007 -> 10:29 PM) Mother rapers. Father stabbers. . . Father rapers! Father rapers sitting right there on the bench next to me! How many future leaders of industry and politics were on the "Group W" bench? The name is ironic now

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ May 1, 2007 -> 07:40 PM) Battlefield Earth was an excellent Sci-Fi book, and surprisingly L Ron Hubbard was an awesome Sci-Fi writer. The Mission Earth Series was the best I ever read. Looking back I think the reason he was so good at the genre was that he was a little wee bit out in space himself. Now the John Travolta movie just gives me yet another reason, after Grease and Saturday Night Fever, to dispise the man. . I've come to like Grease for what it is. Just a sappy, light weight musical. Not many musicals hit the big screen. I've wasted a couple hours on a lot worse. And come on, Olivia in the leather at the end

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ May 1, 2007 -> 06:32 PM) Everyone screwed the pooch on this one. And the one person that could stop it, did. This may be his best moment of 2007.

Welcome to the Bigs!!

Gee, I was planning on a late night. BTW, these announcers on mlb.tv are the worse. I forgot how bad they are.

QUOTE(Gene Honda Civic @ May 1, 2007 -> 05:22 PM) That's funny because Scarface (83) is the one movie that rappers universally try to emulate. Yep, and as rap has become more popular, the image of women has declined. We could mark '83 as the beginning of the decline.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ May 1, 2007 -> 05:25 PM) I feel like having a big turkey dinner now for some reason. you got a lot a damn gall to ask me if I've rehabilitated myself

Just hitting the wires. He said he would and he did. I am uncomfortable with the bill the way it is written and wish a better compromise could have been worked out. Stick to your guns Mr. President. This didn't take long

Here is your next car Rock

QUOTE(santo=dorf @ May 1, 2007 -> 04:57 PM) 80% Don't really care, and I'm sure Uncle Sam doesn't care as long as I am a true American.......one that pays lots of taxes. No. a true American pays no taxes.

The attitude that the women who are offended should get a reality check was more offensive to me. Guys just having fun? Dissing them as hoes. Reducing them to less than human for laughs? Sorry, women have a right to be offended by that. The early eighties, when I was in college, was far different. Aids was starting to really hit. The ERA was on its death bed, the free love and drugs had run its course. Rap was just starting to gain an audience. I believe there was much more respect for people then than now. In music, on tv, and movies.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ May 1, 2007 -> 04:20 PM) Just in inject a little fun, the AP got to ask seven candidates from each party about some of their personal side. Favorite foods, alternate career path, etc. This is part 1 of the series, and apparently there will be follow-up articles. Fun article. I also see why campaign managers hate this kind of unscripted, untested, stuff.

QUOTE(knightni @ May 1, 2007 -> 04:10 PM) Going to Jacobs Field on Thurs too. Making a few days of it. Do they let you holler "Free Bird!" when you get inside? LOL, I just realized how many years it has been since I was there. Forget my critique.