Texsox

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Nov 1, 2006 -> 11:15 PM) why was that in green? ....the same reason THAT wasn't I kill myself. This is going to feel like a Republican budget plan. Here's the best plan. You have sex with Jim and pay him $5, he turns around and pays Mrs. PA $5 to have sex with her. You both could have all the sex you want, the budget will balance, you've helped education, and perhaps found some WMD.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Nov 2, 2006 -> 06:27 AM) OK the one thing that bugs me about this arguement is if John Kerry is traveling around the country speaking on behalf of the canditates why wouldn't we listen to him? Is he all of the sudden not a representative of his party? If that is the case, why doesn't he and anyone who isn't "running for office" just stay home, because their words don't matter anyway. I mean everyone was all but willing to jump all up into Rush's s*** when he said what he did about Michael J Fox, and I didn't hear anyone saying that it doesn't really matter, because even less then a Junior Senator and former Presidential canditate nominee, he is only a TV/radio personality, so what does it really matter? Now everyone wants to debate "the issues"? Please. SS. Excellent point. Goes to the heart of credibility. In an adjacent thought, I dislike the free pass candidates get on the campaign trail. "It's not what they *really* think." BTW, which party banner are you flying in your quest for world domination? Jim, no. Guess again.

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Nov 1, 2006 -> 03:52 PM) and have sex with him for $5.... I don't know I just felt like running way over the line, for funsies. There's your honeymoon idea. Go to Florida and have sex with Jim 500 times.

If we are playing guess the speaker, who said that?

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Nov 1, 2006 -> 01:03 PM) I had a can of spinach - cold, out of the can - and a 16 oz Rockstar Juiced energy drink. Nothing but the good life for this gentleman of leisure. Remember kids, stay in school, get your PhD, and you too can eat like Popeye

It is always tough on the egos when someone is being shopped. This becomes even bigger when the player is a superstar and bona fide HoF candidate.

QUOTE(Queen Prawn @ Nov 1, 2006 -> 12:11 PM) I am impressed that the driver took the blame completely. The company he works for and their insurance company are probably impressed as well.

Queen's posting, must be lunch time. I'm having some Gumbo

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Nov 1, 2006 -> 12:34 PM) Pate's Louis Armstrong meets Tom Waits vocal stylings in the first part of In the Ether are really irritating, which is unfortunate because I quite like that song. I'll get to the rest later, but my first time through, I heard that and thought who the f*** is singing, Pino?

QUOTE(Rex Kicka** @ Nov 1, 2006 -> 08:51 AM) I boycott Wal-Mart. Mostly because I've lived in small towns where not long after Wal-Mart opened, there wasn't any other place left to shop.... At the time, I was actually driving 15 miles to get my groceries at something that wasn't a big box store. They also unionbust to an extreme degree. On the same token, I also boycott Whole Foods. They unionbust too and frankly I find it hypocritical for a company to claim to be sooo progressive but still actively unionbust. Entertainmentwise, I tend to never listen to artists again after I meet them. They either aren't the person I expect - or are just so rude that I never want to give a dime to their work again. Unions are so 1910s. They prop up the poor worker and hurt the better. OSHA insures worker safety as well as a union. I know they kick me out of the DEM party and shun me, but I believe the days of the Union are behind us. We owe them a lot in many areas of employment law. Worker conditions and by extension, the products we buy, have all been made safer by their actions. But, like a winning Army, they aren't needed now.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Nov 1, 2006 -> 09:15 AM) I've just finished my first listening and I will need a few more before I can say a whole lot – other than current overall positive impressions. I think I need to catch up on Pete's The Boy Who Heard Music serialized novel before I get the full impact of the Wire and Glass mini-opera. But some of those songs from the mini-opera are among my favorites on first listening, and I wish their running times were longer. No sampling in Fragments or the Fragments of Fragments reprise, Tex. Rather, a de novo homage to some of the vintage arena rock Who anthems. Mostly it's a rendition of the Baba O'Reiley sequenced synth. I did not hear any Tricky Day in there - need to listen more closely. Hearing a whole lot of Quadrophenia in It's Not Enough and Sound Round, the frist song of the mini-opera. damn, if this album could have come out a couple years earlier, Entwhistle would have ablosluely played the $hit out of those songs. More later. . . I shouldn't have said sampling, more accurate would have been heavy influences. The Tricky Day just happened to be the point I was at as I typed. It's been going non stop all morning. I'm working with a very tedious document where later someone could use it to nail my ass to a wall, so I can't spend too much brain power on the music. Not certain who Entwhistle is, but if you mean Entwistle, good call

QUOTE(mreye @ Nov 1, 2006 -> 07:52 AM) Really cool video too. The guy that plays the young George Strait is spot on if you ask me. I love how the Mexican husband is brushed away in one line.

Everyday our lives are made better by firemen, policemen, soldiers, and a slew of others who have entered public service. They are largely uncelebrated until moments like this. to them and their families.

It almost feels like two albums, a collection of songs to start and it segues into almost an opera for the second half. I had set my expectations low, a la Hell Freezes Over, and am pleasantly surprised. BTW, the opening number seems to sample a few of their songs, I'm hearing Tricky Day and a couple others.

The problem with George is the hits are one after the other and who can keep up. Every writer wants him to do one of their songs and he has all the best material to choose from. Very similar to Elvis during his prime. Beaches of Old Mexico is one of my current favs of all time.

Sure I would do it, in a heartbeat, and without any hesitation, laughing all the way and wondering if the Commissioner would allow it to go through. If I was the Yankees!

QUOTE(mreye @ Nov 1, 2006 -> 07:15 AM) PDs? Program Directors Rex is getting all indie lingo on us. IIRC, Toby jumped on that little parade and blew it much bigger. Perhaps it would have been that big all on it's own, but Toby pumped a lot of life into it. How do you like the new George Strait?

You should 1. Ask Mrs. PA where she wants to go. 2. Thank God she wants to go with you. 3. Make all the reservations,plans, etc. 4. Thank God she wants to go with you. 5. Show here the brochures. 6. Thank God she wants to go with you. 7. Thank her for all the wedding planing she is doing. 8. Thank God she wants to go with you.

QUOTE(Rex Kicka** @ Oct 31, 2006 -> 11:16 PM) Barbara Streisand actively and openly campaigned for Bill Clinton in 1992 and was one of his biggest fundraisers. She has been actively campaigning for Democratic candidates throughout the 1980s and even campaigned for Bella Abzug in 1970. She hosted a benefit for liberal Democrat Senators and Congressmen in 1986 that was broadcast live on HBO with the specific stated purpose of helping to maintain a Democratic Congressional Majority and protect the pro-choice movement. So much of what she's done professionally, she's tied into her politics. Since the early 1960s. That's kind of what I was thinking as well. I can't remember a time when she wasn't active in politics as a fund raiser and platform speaker. However, she's no Bea Arthur . . . Entertainers have that issue with their audience. The audience expects a certain performance and when they do not get that, they are upset. It doesn't matter what the performer veers off to do. The stupidest I can remember was when Clapton embarked on a blue tour. I caught him on that tour and half the crowd walked out when he wasn't playing Layla, Cocaine, etc. What part of Blues Tour did they not understand?

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Oct 31, 2006 -> 07:34 PM) They call me The Seeker.They call me meaty beaty big and bouncy, but what does that have to so with the conversation?

To celebrate, a Price is Right youtube moment

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Oct 31, 2006 -> 03:05 PM) Well, now that's a bit more twisted. Good ol' Pete, the Freudian Slip Kid touche. That one was so good, who are you?

QUOTE(witesoxfan @ Oct 31, 2006 -> 03:01 PM) Fair enough. I can agree with that. A great example of that would be Bernie Williams and the Yankees. They did have use for him, and he could still play the field, so he signed on as a 4th OFer for them last year.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Oct 31, 2006 -> 02:38 PM) If only he'd have been satisfied sticking with pictures of Lilly. . . or mamma's squeeze box

QUOTE(witesoxfan @ Oct 31, 2006 -> 01:47 PM) Tex, the White Sox gave Frank opportunity after opportunity to prove himself...after 1999, after 2001, after 2002, after 2004, and 4 injury riddled/mediocre seasons broke the camel's back. How many people would have given Frank $1 mill during those years, let alone the multi-millions that the Sox gave him? If that's not loyalty, I'm not sure what is. He got his ring, but they couldn't bank on his health going into 2006. In hindsight, it may be a poor decision, but NO ONE in the entire MLB counted on him to be healthy this year. The A's gave him a heavily incentive laden contract, and it was simply a low-risk, high-reward type of deal. If the Sox were to have hung on to him, it would have almost undoubtedly cost more than that, because he only signed the deal with the A's after he couldn't get any other offer for a substantial amount of money from anywhere else. The A's were pretty much his only option, other than retirement. There is a line between loyalty and stupidity, and the White Sox FO knew they couldn't cross it. They didn't, and hindsight bit them in the ass. I'm not saying it was the wrong decision, but pointing out that loyalty is gone in sports. We could also examine the coming and going to guys like Baines, Alomar, etc. When it fits it fits. When the situation works for the player and the team, great. If it doesn't, I will not fault a player for bidding adieu.