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Amazingly, this team is still one of the top 5 or 6 in all of baseball and would be a favorite in the first round of the playoffs. Since I missed all of June and July I can keep a more positive outlook. I also wasn't jumping off the cliff last year. Get the problems out now and let September roll.

QUOTE(DABearSoX @ Aug 8, 2006 -> 12:10 AM) WOW, Prodigy...... Think you got a few years on me TEX GEnie was even earlier. All menu based, no GUI. Real time chats. Now dialing into BBSs that was a thril. The sounds of modems making love

90s? LOL I had an AOL account when they had less than 100,000 subscribers. I also had a GEnie account, Prodigy, Earthlink before they sucked, and before that it was dial in with your modem to the Well, ExecPC in Wisconsin, and a host of others. I kept an AOL when that was the only way to connect at hotels. Every town had a local POP, which kept long distance charges down. AOL was a pioneer and out marketed everyone.

I wish I shared your optimism. I believe that nuclear bombs will be dropped within the next 10 - 15 years. As they become easier to produce, a nut job will get one and in a fit of suicide, it will be detonated.

As bad as it looks today, I still like the chances for a playoff spot. Added bonus, the team will be playing their best ball of the season in September. Nope, not drinking.

Something light hearted to take our minds off the Sox

I finally got to see a game on the big screen.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Aug 7, 2006 -> 09:18 PM) Tex, you ever watch that 70's show? Remind me of how many ways I can put my foot up your ass... LOL I may have to move to the Houston suburbs

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Aug 7, 2006 -> 09:13 PM) I don't know if that's good or bad. Could DeLay be back in Congress? Ugh. Parish the thought. He should be in the White House.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Amen

Fact of the matter is, sadly, millions if morons are thinking "he's right you know. He just shouldn't have said it out loud . . ."

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Aug 6, 2006 -> 11:20 PM) I dont think those who disagree with Isreal's methods are anti-semitic. I just think they're wrong. It's worked well so far . . . QUOTE(minors @ Aug 7, 2006 -> 12:25 AM) They will never understand Nuke. Iran and Syria are threats and people who don't see that are ignorant. It's not that people don't see them as threats, it's the best path to avoid sensless killings and forge some peaceful solution that reasonable, intelligent, people disagree with.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Aug 7, 2006 -> 08:22 AM) Hopefully the little guy is OK ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ times two

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QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Aug 4, 2006 -> 01:07 PM) Find me one person on the new SNL that has a glimmer of the talent that Bill Murray has. Or John Belushi...or Chevy Chase in his prime...or Gilda Radner. Will Ferrell is the best that show has turned out since Eddie Murphy, and no matter how much I might enjoy Ferrell, even he is nothing compared to those guys in their prime. I will agree with the generational thing to a degree, but with Murray and Belushi especially, there was no generation divide. Heck, I hear younger people speak poorly about Sandler as much as people my age. He yells...a lot...is that humor (sit down Mr. Kinison)? That divide rarely happened with Murray. Hey, but if you like SNL and all it's cast, then what the heck, ignore me. I'm old and forgetting where I put my dentures anyways. They also had the advantage of no ghosts to chase. What is interesting is how much credit we give the on-air talent, I believe the writers were better in the 70s. While the cast is important, without good material that matches their talents, the show sucks. I believe Chase, Belushi, etc couldn't be successful with some of those scripts.

I posted this to one of my Scouting e-lists. Cool event.

From a slightly different angle, is it possible to disagree with Israel's actions and reactions and the strategy they are taking, and not be perceived as an anti-semite? In most corners it seems not. Even though there are citizens in Israel that disagree with the current path, anyone else will come off as a hater. Israel is in a difficult situation. They are expected to always take the higher, moral path. To turn the other cheek. With the US footing the bill for much of their defense, but directly to them and in payments to their enemies to be nice, I believe the US should have a loud voice in Israel's actions and reactions.

QUOTE(Milkman delivers @ Aug 3, 2006 -> 03:58 PM) To be brutally honest, SNL needs more raging alcoholics and drug abusers. That was some of their best years.

I've always wondered why teams pitch to Crede in those situations. He rarely has an opportinuty to draw a walk, they just come at him. I keep waiting for teams to start pitching around him.

You planning on having Kap as your campaign treasurer? I'll bet there could be some really cool campaign posters. Let's have a Soxtalk, send Mike to the School Board contest I believe you would be excellent as a shool board member, you've been boaring us for years

QUOTE(Rex Kickass @ Aug 3, 2006 -> 07:24 AM) Uhhh, what? I just think that guns and booze don't mix. And any sheriff who can't see that and orders his deputies to be armed 24/7 regardless of situation or context is pretty dumb. Damn you Rex. This is law enforcement. They can do whatever they want, ordinary citizens have no right to criticize. Damn the Constitution!

QUOTE(minors @ Aug 3, 2006 -> 01:14 AM) Yeah our cops go around people all the time. I forgot that cops are the enemy and the murdering thugs are our friends. Way to go Joe now if any deputy sees these thugs in action he can take them down right then and there. I love a guy who is not worried about liberalism, lawsuits or being politicaly correct and only worries about the people of his county. And Rex forgot that cops are are not people also, and none of them actually have social lives that include having a drink. Wouldn't carrying their service gun place them on duty 24/7? Or can they carry and grab a couple beers at a game?

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