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Zero was just yanking my chain

Closer than grabbing a package from Jewel's butcher shop. Remember, someone had to kill the cow. I respect a vegetarian for criticizing hunting, but when someone criticizes hunting while munching down on their McDonald's Big Mac, I have to laugh. IMHO anyone who eats meat should be required to kill and process an animal. If after that you still want a nice t-bone, you earned it. The season is just now beginning in south Texas. One of the adjustments I had moving down here is everything is on private land and they charge $$$$ for access. No friendly farmers wanting you to thin the herd. Here it is expensive leases. Besides all the usual expenses of travel, processing, etc. add $1,500 and up for access. As a side note, we also have a big feral hog population. Those can be had for almost nothing. They love the corn that is put out for the deer.

Too bad the GOP Radio Network cannot speak in green I do believe, as victor, Bush should have some claim to pushing ahead his agenda. It worries me when I read his own party is concerned about some provisions. But then again, those party members were there before Bush and hope to be there long after Bush, and have a much different view of the political world.

Perhaps Maggs never intended to sign a contract with the Sox. Healthy or not. Maximum salary or not. I think Maggs could be pissed that the team shopped him during the last off season and decided to leave then, but for PR reasons isn't making that declaration (smart guy). Signing with Boras is not something you would do if you wanted a decent chance of re-signing with the Sox. There are other top notch agents that he could have signed with. He saw what hell A-Rod went through when he wanted out of Texas, why make that same mistake? If that scenario is accurate, he wants out of Chicago, I wonder how many people that think he should sign with Chicago for less, would respect him for going somewhere else for less, if that's what he wants? No matter what the scenario, I do not see him improving on the last Sox offer. Financially he will be signing a worse contract than he could have had before the injury. If all he wanted was to maximize his paycheck, he lost that gamble. If he wants out of Chicago, he will get that desire. Do we really think that any team is going to sign him without a workout and full disclosure of his medical records?

Texas has been screwed the past few seasons.

I was trying to see if someone was doing Christmas words or a Sox fan

takes one to know one

Actually the computers seemed to like Texas and the humans voted Cal, at least from what I could see on ESPNs site. IMHO the weak sister in the Utah, Texas, Cal trio was Utah. You could build a great case with any of those teams, but in a round robin tourny, I think Utah is the weakest link. All great teams who had excellent seasons. One team won a weaker conference the other two finished second in their conference with their only loss to a team playing for the National Title. I'd bet Auburn would love a playoff chance.

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try switching browsers, it may be the settings in Netscape. I am using firefox, and that suually acts the same as netscape,o I'm surprised you had a problem with it.

LOL

As soon as we have steroid testing at soxtalk we'll see an * on southsider's post count

On this, my 11,000 post, I am making a list and checking it twice and would like to say f*** you, f*** you, you're cool, you are very cool, wish I say you in real life, f*** you, your cool, I want to party with you, you are an ass, you are the man , thank you, thank you, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, hell, mega dittos sorry, I hope you always post here thank you. But most of all, thank you all for helping a home sick Chicago boy stay connected and when I miss Chicago so much it hurts, this site usually helps.

QWERTY, What browser are you using?

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bottom left everyone? Grab a letter

I kept trying to help people spell words. I had almost all of soxtalk up for a second

just look at the pretty red and blue maps . . . With all the heavy spinning the GOP put into the election results, I figured we all bought into it by now. Gash, please report for your programming It's times like these I am glad we have so many checks and balances to protect our freedoms. I am certain if the government goes overboard in vilating our freedoms and rights, the courts wiull step in and rectify. As much as I've lost respect, and been of the opposite opinion on several of their cases, of the ACLU, I know they will challenge the government anytime they try and limited our constitutional rights.

Maggs has every incentive to appear as healthy as possible, the team has every incentive to make Maggs look like the worse player and the most unhealthy player in MLB. Once again to fill a couple holes we open a bigger one. It seems to me creating one large pot hole to fill two smaller ones is not paving our way to a playoff spot, let's not even think about a WS win. In the end, we wind up with a flock of Davis' and Harris' and something that resembles more Maplewood Avenue than the autobahn.

. . . my wife will be back in town tomorrow . . .

Compare some interior lineman to Barry Bonds and Sosa. It's easy to get tough on someone who no one outside their family recognizes. It's another to get tough on your marquee player or the guy blowing kisses to his adoring fans. Unfortunately, and perhaps counter-intuitively, steroid use makes a great economic impact for the game of baseball then football.

Again, I said IF the real world worked like baseball . . . I am not offering to throw a pity party for pro athletes. I am pointing out that the only route for players to excercise any of the freedoms we take for granted is via free agency. Imagine being told who and where to work. And if you ever mention you may like to live somewhere else, you have hell to pay. Remember Mark Buerhle and his Cardinals crush? I love free enterprise and capitalism. Both sides are negotiating in a high stakes game. The team doesn't want to let a popular player go and have the only reason be monetary. So they have to make him less popular by the time he's gone. The Sox have done an excellent job in that regard. The player, if he's even half way competitive, wants to step on the field and be the highest paid guy. I doubt anyone here doesn't want to be the highest paid person doing their job at their company. Why should pro athletes, who we value for the competitiveness, check that at the door during salary negotiations? I want players that will A. Fight tooth and nail for the best deal possible. B. Shut up and play and don't whine when someone beats their deal. Don't give me the respect b.s. Shut up and play hard. You signed the deal, live with it. And let's remember the guy who is working two jobs to make ends meet, and they aren't, is telling *you* to quit b****ing and enjoy your job.

Amen to that. It should be automatic, wthout any discussion at this point. I would suggest doing it at his last game, I doubt he'll ver return to the old ballpark, aka #72

. . . before you go on, I want you to know, it's not you, it's me . . .