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Why is anyone surprised that some Iraqi citizens support our efforts? I hope we aren't extrapolating that to mean the entire population is happy to be living in a war zone, where buying bread could get them killed. During the Vietnam War, the north Vietnamese could have printed hundreds and hundreds of pictures showing that Americans did not want to be at war. Yet we all know that our society is never 100% behind anything. Although Reagan - Mondale came very close. Another sceptical thought. Our government has paid US columnists to promote education initiatives and other policies, do you think they may have offered some families a few $$ to hold up signs? Just wondering. And I do believe many Iraqi people are happy we are there.

QUOTE(mreye @ Feb 23, 2005 -> 12:20 PM) How does one come up with something like this? Unbelievable! :headshake My guess is he wants the spotlight for a minute, to do something important. Obviously he probably has a mental problem. I was also fearing he would use that entrance for a sexual assault. It would be easy to gain access wearing a military uniform in a military town. And judging my that sketch, Crimson is right, he could be an alien.

QUOTE(CrimsonWeltall @ Feb 23, 2005 -> 12:13 PM) WTF. I can hardly stay awake watching NASCAR. Just LISTENING to it? VROOOM VROOM VROOOM VROOM VROOOM VROOM VROOOM VROOM VROOOM VROOM VROOOM VROOM OK JUNIOR IS PITTING NOW VROOOM VROOM VROOOM VROOM GORDON PASSES BUSCH VROOOM VROOM VROOOM VROOM VROOOM VROOM VROOOM VROOM They will probably also have the pit/driver communications as well. That's what really adds drama and excitement. I was never much of a fan, but I was at the Milwaukee race and a friend brought a handheld scanner and we listened in on each driver and his crew. Made the race much more interesting.

Call me crazy, but I want both. Currently, about all we can compete for is the Upper Mid-West Series. It would be nice of we could join the likes of Boston and New York as perennial contenders, but that seems unlikely. I don't believe the path to a winning chance at something is 25 homogenous baseball players, all worth $3,000,000. I don't think it is good business and I certainly know it isn't going to win us an AL Pennant. We cannot afford the really high tiered players like A-Rod or Beltran. We do need two or three top tier guys to have a reasonable chance. Guys like Kong, Mark, and 6 months ago, I would have said Lee.

Until someone comes up with a better guide to living, I'll accept the Bible. Worshipping nothing, worshiping whatever feels good, is a fine path to STDs, addictions, and a miserable life. Having said that, I also recognize that some people find interesting interpretations of Bible truths and IMHO are dangerous. But overall, I would rather be in business with a believer than a hedonistic, anything goes, "nice person".

QUOTE(Gene Honda Civic @ Feb 22, 2005 -> 10:22 PM) Siriusly though, I'm expecting an increase in spelling mistakes in the south. A couple days ago WDJ wrote he didn't mind gay jokes if they were actually funny. I didn't mind this rip on southerner's love for NASCAR and the old stereotype of being dim witted for that same reason. That was pretty damn original and funny

QUOTE(YASNY @ Feb 23, 2005 -> 11:50 AM) How many of those 150 other countries have tens of thousands of Americans firmly planted under crosses and stars of David on their soil. France, as an ally, is not worth the power to blow it hell and certainly not worth one more drop of American blood on their behalf. Period! Amen to that! But I still think the rest of the world choose sides in this, and they choose Russia, China, France and that group. So they aren't allies either they can run to China if they have a problem. How much money have we sent around the world in famine relief, how many Peace Corp workers lived in poverty digging wells and bringing clean drinking water? How many American souls were lost stopping Hitler for everybody?

Gas will not hit $3 per gallon. Dubya will fix that well before.

What a sick, disturb, bastard.

We also shouldn't allow American countries to operate in any country that isn't an ally. If they didn't back us on Iraq, pull every damn product out of there and start building it in the US. If an American company wants to operate in France or any otehr non ally, they can just close their doors here. Let's take back America!

QUOTE(YASNY @ Feb 23, 2005 -> 11:19 AM) Why are you so defensive of France? Me? I say screw France along with every other country on the planet that didn't back Dubya's play in Iraq. Why single out the French? There was about 150 other countries that did the same thing. They all suck.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Feb 23, 2005 -> 11:00 AM) I'm sorry people ... Use all the logic and political arguments you want. I feel that France has been anything but an ally and if somewone invades their pussy ass country, as far as I'm concerned, they can fight their own battles. They are not worth one drop of American blood. Same can be said for Canada, Mexico, China, Germany, Poland, Italy, and all the others that didn't back our action in Iraq. There were WMD, Bush knew it, and these "pussy ass countries" didn't do a thing to help. Edited to add: Here's the Coalition of the Willing Full list of coalition countries: Afghanistan, Albania, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Colombia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, El Salvador, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Georgia, Hungary, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, the Netherlands, Nicaragua, the Philippines, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom and Uzbekistan. The rest of the world can go to hell. Actually, with Pearl Harbor, screw Japan. Afghanistan helped Iran during the hostage crisis, so screw them. Any of the ex-Commie countries can get lost also.

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Feb 23, 2005 -> 10:46 AM) I was merely agreeing with his point that anyone can make anything they want, but I was ultimately saying all of that crap is worthless and devoid of anything positive. Good point. I remember the Ayatollah Khomeini toilet paper of 1979. ANd all of the Khomeini dart boards with his picture and a bullseye.

The nice thing is, we only have one or two on the planet, so we can save ourselves a lot in foreign aid that would be spent on food, raiment, shelter for our citizens. England, Spain, and a couple other small countries are still in, for now.

QUOTE(Cerbaho-WG @ Feb 22, 2005 -> 11:19 PM) I feel proud that I have either confused or dumbed down a large population of the posters here at Soxtalk. Here's to another 3,000 posts or something! QUOTE(The Critic @ Feb 23, 2005 -> 08:02 AM) I just went back in the Soxtalk record books, and THREE of those posts DON'T COUNT!!!! Sorry for the Mr. 3000 reference..... to myself.... Nice touch on a baseball board.

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Feb 23, 2005 -> 10:29 AM) where were my purple heart band-aids again? Nothing like making fun and casting doubt on every Purple Heart ever awarded. Oh wait, Out of the tens of thousands of recipients, Kerry's was the only one in question. :headshake

QUOTE(YASNY @ Feb 23, 2005 -> 10:26 AM) That's all well and good, until the next time an equivilient of the Gestapo is running France. When that happens, the French can rot in hell as far as I'm concerned. An all or nothing foreign policy will work. Any country that doesn't 100% capitulate to US policies, wants, and desires is cut off forever. That should stop any country from going against US. Why have all this power if we don't use it?

QUOTE(YASNY @ Feb 23, 2005 -> 10:04 AM) Kerry on, my wayword son. Same old song, just a drop of water in an endless sea

That's why they invented the ignore feature. No need to read when you know what the post is about.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Feb 23, 2005 -> 09:53 AM) You mean you'd do it liberally! Some would Rush to do it

QUOTE(AnthraxFan93 @ Feb 23, 2005 -> 09:41 AM) As long as Frank comes back for 2mil a year I be happy on keeping both. 2/7 of our payroll is realistic, 20 mill of a 70 mil payroll, I don't see JR raising that, unless we have a huge attendance this year. The only good thing if we do rebuild it should be with a new GM.. something that should have taken place 2 years ago IMO. Congratulations on your 1,000 post slamming Kenny!! Not many people have the tenacity to post the same thing over and over again!! Way to Go. $2mil for Frank? I guess you don't want him. You don't want to reward loyalty, you don't want your #1 draw, you don't want the only guy who will be in Cooperstown wearing a White Sox cap the past 20 years. :headshake It seems like some people think we can put a bunch of $2mil a year guys out there and win something. If you load the team with all average players, you will get average results. Also, without some star drawing power, the casual fans aren't coming out to the game. So you could trade away anyone who ever makes an All-Star game to wins a post season award, but it costs you in the end. Imagine a promotional campaign built around Joe Crede and Russ Gload. Yeah!

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Feb 23, 2005 -> 08:24 AM) I say, let's wait and see what he does in 2005. And many teams do. But we certainly have a lot of experience with Paul, know his strengths and weaknesses. Using a 4 year contract as a starting point, the team and the player expect certain performances, whatever dollar amount they decide on, during those 4 years. So the team is guessing on 2006-2009. I think they could make that evaluation just as easily today as 5 months from now. If Paul has another solid to great season, waiting could price the Sox out of the market. If Paul returns to 2003 levels waiting could save them money. I think the best strategy is to sign him quickly to a 4-5 year deal.

I believe a 45 minute Oz fest would be hilarious. I don't put a lot of stock in motivational speeches from managers, not when these guys have millions of reasons to stay motivated.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Feb 23, 2005 -> 07:41 AM) I have no problem with a 3 year $25 million deal. Either would the White Sox. If I was Paul, I'd have a problem. He's going to be 29 in about a week or so. He better be looking at a 5-6 year deal. Someone will give it to him. My guess is if he signs with the Sox during the season it will be around 5/$50. If he waits until the season ends, has anything close to a season like last year, something closer to $60. If the Sox make the playoffs and he does anything in the playoffs, someone will really open the checkbook. Next question, When May becomes June and there isn't a signed contract do you see him getting traded for a couple second tier prospects and a serviceable 1st baseman? Obviously that will also depend on where we are in the standings. But I'll bet there are a lot of GMs in the league with Mr. Paul "Queen Prawn Fanof14" Konerko name in bold letters just waiting to see what happens. If I had to predict the 2006 home of PK, I'd say the Sox followed closely by Yankee pinstripes.

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