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step one kid, tie your shoe . . . step two, tell him your team has free donuts by the bench

QUOTE(Dick Allen @ Apr 30, 2005 -> 04:53 PM) So Gload has been unavailable for days, Ozuna could only pinch run. Uribe was not ready. Why wasn't someone called up last night? They played 3 short after an off day. That is absolutely crazy. Welcome to "Smart Ball", don't worry we are just flying under the radar on this and taking it one day at a time.

What the team has learned so far this season is ow to win close games. That takes confidence, motivation, and a little luck. I believe you make a lot of your luck. Stats prove what you saw was what you saw and help predict future performance.

Couple thoughts reading through the thread. 1st Base has to be addressed for next year and Frank shouldn't be considered the everyday 1st baseman, no matter how healthy he returns. Of course Frank adds tremendous help in the area we are struggling in, offense. A healthy Frank is important if we are going to get over the hump later this summer. I never believe the stories coming out of the Sox. They play faster and loser with accuracy than most teams. I think Steff nailed in when she suggested the club is offering a worse case scenario. That's probably a good idea. IIRC the first date had him back last August. This seems to be a moving target. Anyone that has built anything understands the foundation is the key. If that isn't plumb and right, trouble creeps in up the chain. That's Frank's ankle.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Apr 28, 2005 -> 10:42 PM) There are only eleven times in history where the "F" word has been considered acceptable for use. They are as follows: 11. "What the @#$% do you mean, we are sinking?" -- Capt. E.J. Smith of RMS Titanic, 1912 10. "What the @#$ was that?" -- Mayor Of Hiroshima, 1945 9. "Where did all those @#$%ing Indians come from?" -- Custer, 1877 8. "Any @#$%ing idiot could understand that." -- Einstein, 1938 7. "It does so @#$%ing look like her!" -- Picasso, 1926 6. "How the @#$% did you work that out?" -- Pythagoras, 126 BC 5. "You want WHAT on the @#$%ing ceiling?" -- Michelangelo, 1566 4. "Where the @#$% are we?" -- Amelia Earhart, 1937 3. "Scattered @#$%ing showers, my butt!" -- Noah, 4314 BC 2. "Aw c'mon. Who the @#$% is going to find out?" -- Bill Clinton, 1998 and a drum roll please............! 1. "Geez, I didn't think they'd get this @%#*^ing mad." -- Saddam Hussein, And if you have seen this before, am I supposed to be @#$%ing sorry? Maybe if you didn't have me on ignore you would have read this weeks ago

There is no fame or fortune in stating the obvious. You aren't an expert if you pick the Yankees, Red Sox, Twins, and Angels to make the playoffs and pick the Red Sox or Yankees to repeat. Duh. Tell us something we don't know. Then when they do, they are idiots.

QUOTE(Queen Prawn @ Apr 27, 2005 -> 08:31 AM) My sister had that done as well as Brian (a couple times). The last time when I got home from work (he broke his hand at work and the doctor was going to pierce the nail and Brian said that he or his sister would - she is a CFD paramedic), and he made sure he waited to do that until I was home and proceeded to chase me around with the blood squirting out. Then of course later when the nail was about to fall off he made sure he showed me several times then as well lol. Now that's foreplay

Watch for bathrooms, all the plumbing causes loss of signal. Their tech support is pretty good, but you will have to travel p the staircase if you encounter a rare problem. I have four computers on my home network, when I added a new computer and upgraded another with a new motherboard and Windoze XP, I was on with tech support for a couple hours. Firewall.

QUOTE(ChiSoxyGirl @ Apr 27, 2005 -> 10:33 AM) Yeah. The situation was made worse, that when I last chatted with him (granted, last July) he wasn't seeing anyone... On the plus side, now, 1/2 of the guys I've dated are married or getting ready to be. That means I'll only have to get that call a few more times. Enjoy being young and the marriages and in a few years babies that happen to friends, it will happen to you, if you want it. The other end of the line is where life really sucks.

Becuase the know the owner of the animals, I wonder if they will charge the owner for the capture and he'll get a Buffalo Bill . . . I am so ashamed.

QUOTE(Jabroni @ Apr 27, 2005 -> 06:32 AM) http://www.suntimes.com/output/sox/cst-spt-doug27.html What a ballsy mofo. Actually it's not that tough of a thing to do. One of my Scouts had a boulder roll on his toe while we were at summer camp. We took a sewing needle later that night and drilled through the nail to relieve the pressure of the blood that was pooling under the nail. Remember your nail has no nerves and doesn't hurt when cut. The alternate route is under the nail, while that is easier to get through, that hurts when you pry through.

Well you wouldn't keep her in the oven . . . I know, collects ticket to hell

QUOTE(winninguglyin83 @ Apr 25, 2005 -> 11:31 PM) What other Chicago team? Aren't the Kane County Cougars still around??

I was expecting a great year from Jon. But this is well beyond anything I dreamed. I figured he to be #2 or #3 in wins on the staff. What an unbelievable start to the season.

Thank you. I realized last night some of the guilt I was feeling was there are many posters here who I would feel a much greater loss if they passed, then someone who I knew since junior high school and who I was closer to than my own brother. It was a big strange to read his obituary and find out all the cool things he had done, that I was unaware of. I am up in Dallas for a week of training, which relieved myself of any duty I felt to attend the wake or funeral. I also provided a great bit of therapy to spend the evening with one of our admins and his lovely wife. Thanks Kap.

QUOTE(CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Apr 25, 2005 -> 12:00 AM) One really has nothing to do with the other. I mean all of us here at Soxtalk know what we're talking about and we've never played any pro ball. Good Commentators all like the Sox Evil ones do not 30 teams in MLB, each team should, in theory, be the top story once a month.

QUOTE(EvilMonkey @ Apr 24, 2005 -> 11:08 PM) http://www.canada.com/national/nationalpos...26-6ae788a3ea57 Maybe the influx of all those medical dollars here will help with the trade deficit. Evil are you able to offer health insurance benefits for your employees? How long did it take your business to get in that position? Small businesses are the ones that will not outsource to Taipai, the grow roots in a community, yet have the hardest time offering decent benefits to their employees. I know we could do better than England and Canada with a single payer system. I have employees making between $6.75 and $10 per hour. If I covered their health insurance it would result in a 40% tod 90% increase in my labor costs. We have to do something in this area to strengthen American small business.

Tommie Quebec here.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Apr 24, 2005 -> 06:06 PM) I can with near-certainty guarantee that the Falstaff brand will be sold and resurrected in someone else's portfolio. The original Falstaff Brewery got into serious financial trouble back in teh early 70s spreading itself too thin with the Ballentine acquisition, and it had been a hard grind and a bounce from brewery to brewery ever since. But there is too much history and name recognition for the brand to stay dormant for too long. Let's pool our money. I'll kick in $55.87

QUOTE(YASNY @ Apr 23, 2005 -> 10:42 PM) I really think the next attack will come into the US over the Mexico border. I believe it will be on a flight from Europe or possibly home grown again. With tourism making it very easy to visit the US, the terrorists would recruit people without records to travel to the US. Nice and easy. Hop on an airplane and arrive in the front door. Why take the risk of never making it by running out of water, snakes, sensors, patrols, etc? It is much easier to come right in the front door.

http://www.falstaffbrewing.com/interest.htm

maybe he's enjoying hehe a Falstaff!hehe. Holy Cow! Have another Falstaff, folks! Where the hell am I? what the hell is going on? Is that Nomore Garshrea, Garseeaprer hell whose that guy in a Cubs uniform? Is that Busty Faker in the dugout? backwards that's no worldseries

OMG, that last bit is funny in a bizarro sort of way.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Apr 23, 2005 -> 10:22 PM) I never said I had all the answers. If I did, I'd give Hillary a run for her money in '08. But we do need more effective border control. Somehow. I agree. We could start by acknowledging that a couple million migrant workers come to the US every year, stay for 8 or 9 months, then return to Mexico without hurting anyone, taking someone's job they want, planting bombs, etc. Employers need them, they need the employers. We are far safer when we have prosperous neighbors than starving neighbors. We should fear economic ruin before bombs. We are borrowing hundreds of millions of dollars every year from foreign banks and countries. The next act of terrorism will be financial. Do we really think Bin Laden would send terrorists into the country with nothing more than a gallon water jug and the clothes on their backs?

QUOTE(YASNY @ Apr 23, 2005 -> 09:40 PM) This game had LOSS written all over it. How the hell did we dodge that bullet? The last season where we expected to win these games was 2000.