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QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Apr 23, 2007 -> 08:36 AM) [waves to the cameras] /thanks mom and Intel

QUOTE(jasonxctf @ Apr 23, 2007 -> 08:42 AM) so if you are voting now, how do you know who deserves it? Based upon 15 games? Or do you wait until June, when things have leveled off a bit? I wait. It is just stupid to start the voting now.

What makes a great song. Music, rhythms, timing, tempo, vocals, style, subject, lyrics, hooks, arrangements? Balance it out. Can you forgive bad music for great lyrics, forgive bad lyrics for great music?

Take your time Paulie is playing fine. Oops, I forgot, he's a catcher. I could have swore I saw him playing first base when he was injured.

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Apr 22, 2007 -> 01:19 PM) real. we also take suggestions, cause we had to inflate the numbers thanks to posters who are nuts I'm practicing waving, I'm almost the 3rd base couch . . .

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Apr 23, 2007 -> 07:10 AM) Good for them. Hopefully the press listens to them, and respects their wishes. Of course there will then be some who say the media never follows up. They exploit the tragedy, then leave when the blood dries and never think about the after math. But hey, we've lost interest, who wants to hear anything more about VT? Take down the VT avatars and move on.

QUOTE(witesoxfan @ Apr 22, 2007 -> 04:42 PM) cuz were homers Hawk would be proud I vote for the guys that deserve it.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Part II I hope they find an AB for the kid.

Any improvement from Erstad to Anderson would be incremental at this point and barely worth talking about. It isn't like we're going from a AAAA player to an All-Star. It's about as important as mouse sweat. Erstad's best years are in the rear view mirror, Anderson's are in front of him. So the question becomes here and now. Over the course of the season, there will be less mental errors with Erstad. He will set a better example of what it takes to play on the mlb level. Anderson must learn how to prepare and be ready when he gets those chances and I believe sometime this summer he'll receive a serious stint in the starting lineup. But until that point Erstad = Anderson in the lineup, each offering something different but the net contribution is about the same.

It's been 70 years since back to back no nos.

QUOTE(BearSox @ Apr 22, 2007 -> 10:56 PM) Guns are good, people are bad. They need stricter laws on who can buy/sell guns. And there is no better home safety weapon other then the shotgun. With kids around also? I decided when my youngest was tottling around that the risks of them finds one of my guns and having an accident was greater than a criminal breaking into my home. I don't think a shot gun is very good home protection unless it is unlocked and loaded and ready to go. Most stories I've heard has the intruder already in your home by the time you hear them.

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Apr 22, 2007 -> 06:09 PM) Thanks for the birthday wishes everyone. I'm missing some names and some people are getting suspended. Happy Birthday !!!

QUOTE(Mplssoxfan @ Apr 22, 2007 -> 06:37 PM) A panel Sparky never would have drawn, but very funny nonetheless. Wow a baseball avatar on a baseball site, amazing :-)

Makes me home sick just looking at it.

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Apr 21, 2007 -> 05:06 PM) He'll be missed, but he's already earned a spot in my personal hall of fame of baseball players (while he's no Pedro or Maddux, he is included with those guys as some of my favorite all time players to watch/cheer for). ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ what he said. For some unexplained reason, I am optimistic that Mark will remain in a Sox uniform.

QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ Apr 21, 2007 -> 03:53 PM) Isn't Officer Pat the banned poster who threatened to "pull a Cho"? Fixed, and yes

Animation has come a long way from Walt Disney's drawings.

QUOTE(NUKE @ Apr 21, 2007 -> 09:50 AM) One thing I heard talked about would be reforming the 1968 guidelines that state that anyone who was involuntarily committed to a mental institution can't buy a gun. Tweaking it to say anyone who has been to one whether voluntary or not should not be able to get one. That's something I can support. With some mechanism to regain that right of proven competent. One issue is privacy and the medical records. I also wouldn't want people to not seek help if they thought it would hurt them later. I'm not certain we really need any more laws, we just need a way to enforce the ones we have. If I understand the alws in Virginia, he should not have been able to purchase a gun. I think the easy access contributed to this. He may have been able to obtain one illegally, but I'm not certain of that.

Rate the avatar and of the person posting above you.

May I toss another log on the Ozzie fire. If you compare team photos from 2005 and 2007 you will probably notice some new faces. We do know that Ozzie could manage that 2005 team to a WS win. We don't know if he can manage the 2007 team to anything. It's the whole package. A manager might be great with one group of players and God awful with another. And they may be wearing the same color uniforms. So for the love of exploding scoreboards, drop the '05 comparisons.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Apr 21, 2007 -> 09:24 AM) The name escapes me ... and it's driving me nuts because I should know it ... but someone back in the 60's? pitched back to back no-no's. Vander Meer in the 30s was the first. I remember because Leo Durocher, later a Cubs Manager, was the final out of the second game.

I agree with almost every thing you wrote. I do believe that many, many people are comforted to know that others are praying for them, keeping them in their thoughts, sending Karma their way, or whatever you want to call it. Shouldering the anguish alone is about the most difficult thing I could imagine. I would take comfort, and have during trying times, in knowing that others are there and doing whatever little they can. People try to help in different ways. The attention grabbing, over the top, stuff seems lame to me.

QUOTE(NUKE @ Apr 21, 2007 -> 02:12 AM) Well for one thing this massacre could have been prevented had someone paid attention when that teacher raised a red flag that this guy was a little off his rocker. Within our current laws, what do you propose that we could have done with him? There are some people here who appear a little off their rocker (Soxy, is that the medical term) and are prone to outbursts. What should we do in those cases?

QUOTE(Alpha Dog @ Apr 20, 2007 -> 09:11 PM) Wouldn't you rather learn from someone who had to mkae the choices, and made the RIGHT ones? You can't assume the professors haven't had any tough choices to make simply because they dare not in jail or don't have a record. As for wanting to know why he did what he did, that would make an interesting lecture, in a car-accident kind of way, but to teach a whole class about that? It just seems like he is a person that doesn't deserve this easy of a path with the choices he has made to date. No doubt I would rather have both. But which lesson would you remember, the hundred times you touched a stove and it was cold, or the time you touched the stove and it was hot? People always learn from their, and others, mistakes, few learn from their successes. And, whenever religion comes up around here, many people here reject it immediately. Wouldn't you consider religion an ethical system of making the right choices? I think you will have many more students paying attention to the guy with the horns and scars, than the guy with the halo.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Apr 20, 2007 -> 02:59 PM) So today I took the day off of work and stayed home with Madison. We re-watched the no hitter, and I taught her how to boo Sammy Sosa. I am the best dad ever. After that wonderful Father-Daughter moment, rent RV with Robin Williams, it will put it all together for you.