Texsox

QUOTE(The Critic @ Feb 21, 2006 -> 02:39 PM) Oh, I disagree. When I see those pictures from Arizona, I can just FEEL the season coming! When there were 6 inches of snow on the ground ( not that YOU'D know... ) and all we had to watch is the stumbling Bulls and the bumbling Blackhawks, THAT's when it felt like baseball season would never get here!! I use to say that the baseball season in Chicago started when the Bulls played their last game and ended when the Bears played their first. As I've gotten older, and moved from Chicago, baseball has become my #1 spectator sport.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Feb 21, 2006 -> 01:30 AM) Here's the ultimate dimemma. If you are Cub fan sitting in the Wrigley bleachers and catch Bonds record breaking homer, do you throw it back? However, if you are a Cub fan you'd be asking who's Barry Bonds?

I hate the tease. I keep looking at the calendar and seeing Opening Day. That is still a long way off. Spring Training makes it seem even longer to me. I could ignore the baseball news when it is all rumour and financial stuff, but this is actual leather and wood.

Of all the comments, I still like SS's Who? The best. Sitting around like jilted lovers, saying I hate this guy, seems so funny to me. Decisions are made all the time in baseball regarding who plays where. We should be grateful that winning a WS isn't the only criteria. If it was, imagine everyone wanting to play in NY for the MLB minimum salary. Players talk about wanting to win a WS, and for most that is true, but it doesn't dominate their entire existance. They know how uncertain anything is in sports. Outside of hardcore Sox fans, who would have predicted a Sox WS win? Did Dye make his decision on best place to win it all? Maggs is gone, long live Dye. Frank is gone, long live Thome.

don't discount the power of the hair. My 880 time was screwed when I worked for Six Flags and had to cut my hair. I was so use to the pattern of my hair hitting my shoulders, I instantly knew my pace. No hair, weird feeling, I was confused.

I find it hard to believe that players are sitting around crying, wishing they won the WS last season.

QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ Feb 20, 2006 -> 07:37 PM) Touring Alaska with my Godfather from April 7th to the 16th SOunds way cool. Where are you going and how are you traveling?

We just have to give up our freedoms or the terrorists and criminals will win. Everyone will be ok with their every move in public video taped. Plus, think how great American's Funniest Hoe Videos will be with everything you do in public recorded.

QUOTE(Jordan4life_2006 @ Feb 20, 2006 -> 06:56 PM) So basically, if you weren't part of the 05 championship team, you ain't s***? Lucky Frank, or his achievements wouldn't have amounted to s*** without him winning that World Series ring.

Which situation was worse? Maggs stiffing the Sox Sox stiffing Frank Both are examples of teams and players looking out for their best interest. Frank was no longer a value to the team, so he was shown the door. There is no loyalty in baseball, or any sport, and it seems silly that we should somehow demand it from players. Certainly every player wishes they won the final game of the season, but do you really think Clemens wishes he had signed with the Sox? I can't believe people really "hate" someone over this. BTW, wasn't Dye a greedy bastard for signing with the Sox as a free agent?

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Feb 20, 2006 -> 05:59 PM) Haven't we started drilling for oil there yet? Way off shore. There was a bunch of rigs that came into the Port of Brownsville for repairs after the hurricane.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Feb 20, 2006 -> 05:51 PM) Who? ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ best quote so far.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Feb 20, 2006 -> 05:16 PM) Ronald Reagan. Id have about a bazillion questions to ask him but Id really love to find about all that went on behind the scenes that helped end the Cold War. Debt, lots and lots of debt.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Feb 20, 2006 -> 05:09 PM) While you're at it there should be laws in place that deny Labor Unions the ability to use union dues for political purposes unless the membership approves. I found it SOOOOOOOO funny that they were so vocally opposed to that measure. I mean God forbid they use their money on what the membership actually wants it used for. Would that also apply to the NRA? Both groups spend the money for the same reasons, to advance their membership's mission. I didn't notice the NRA allowing me to opt out of its' contributing to GOP candidates. LOL, this is really about the GOP, who is anti-Union trying to stop funds going to candidates who are pro-Union. Don't pretend it is anything else.

What's everyone's Spring Break plans? I'm spending March 3~26 on South Padre Island. 13-17 is Texas Week, when things get the craziest. This year Oklahoma and almost all of the Texas Universities are out the same week. Any good message boards for spring breakers?

QUOTE(ZoomSlowik @ Feb 20, 2006 -> 01:49 PM) Personally, I'd go Buehrle-Garcia-Contreras-Garland-Vazquez, which isn't a choice on your poll. I think the first two are your veterans and have been more consistent in the past, Contreras goes before Garland because he is more dominating when he's going well, and Vazquez last in large part because he's the new guy. You could easily move things around though. You gotta love this rotation, considering that even your number 5 can be an ace type pitcher for long stretches. ^^^^^^ for about the same reasons. Buerhle, I can't imagine anyone else. By the time he finishes his career, we'll be saying we saw the greatest Sox hitter and greatest Sox pitcher in our lifetime. Garcia, confidence. Contreras, strong finish last season, but over their careers, I feel better about Garcia. But you can throw both names in a hat and pick either one. Garland Vasquez Again, throw both names in and take your pick. The back of the order suited Garland last season, and I don't see where moving him up helps anybody.

I'd line up Noah and ask him why the f*** he let the mosquitos on board

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Feb 20, 2006 -> 03:40 PM) Shouldn't Flaxx have commented by now? His Mac is down and it will be 6 weeks before he finds someone that knows how to work on it

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Feb 20, 2006 -> 03:12 PM) People like that should be rounded up and locked in a 5' x 5' cell for a whole lot of years. Just small enough so you cant stand up or lay down. Nuke received a A in his military prison guard class.

I wonder if 750 players on MLB rosters were all crying in their beer this off season because they didn't become free agents and sign with the White Sox at any price? HA HA those dumb bastards Thomas will be the next one to sing the blues. He should have begged Kenny to keep him at any price. And what about Sandy Alomar? dumb ass signs with Texas! They were out of it in June.

QUOTE(Athomeboy_2000 @ Feb 20, 2006 -> 12:51 PM) Hate to disapoint, but viruses have NOTHING to do with the proccessor a computer uses. It's about vulnerablities in the OS. OS X is more secure than Windows, but not totally impenitrable. My understanding was the language changes to the Mac OS to accomodate Intel would make virus writing easier for the mainstream virus writer. It would be less of a learning curve. You are right, now that I put my hardware brain back on, it really shouldn't make much of a difference.

QUOTE(Queen Prawn @ Feb 20, 2006 -> 12:25 PM) Congrats Kap!! Must be lunch time, we have to get you a new job.

Not a fan. Work on changing the laws, not by ruining someone's life.

BTW, if I was a Mac OS user, I'd be more worried about the viruses that will follow the move to Intel architecture. It will make Mac a nicer target.

QUOTE(Athomeboy_2000 @ Feb 20, 2006 -> 12:09 PM) I have no problem with this. It's a website that shows how to circumnavigate a copywrite and illegally hack an OS. THis is no differant that shutting down Napster for illegally sharring music. No No No, read again, they had links to the sites that do that. So if we liked to them, Apple could shut us down. BTW, that is why soxtalk doesn't allow links of that kind. We also shut down any threads talking about pirated software, etc. ^^^^^^^^^^^ For Apple's benefit