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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 . . .

Not very secretive since so many people seem to know his exact medical condition. Remember, the team is also facing a PR battle. Losing their best player, and getting zero in return, is not something that helps sell tickets. I can respect the fact that many people prefer to accept whatever the club is telling them, I am not that trusting. I haven't been since the White Flag days. The club has a terrible track record of dealing with Boras and has stated they will not negotiate with him. So they cut themselves off from many top players. Is that to our advantage? How excited are you about profits vs. World Series wins? When they publish the standings based on profits, not wins and loses, I'll care more. If the situation was reversed, and we were buying Maggs, instead of selling, we wouldn't worry too much about what he did and didn't tell KW. Remember this is the same city that embraced Rodman after all the crap he pulled in a Piston's uniform. Until Maggs is an unrestricted free agent, nobody will really know what his medical condition is. Of course with all the Doctors we have here, speculation is probably right. He has rejected the Sox offers and his taking the path he feels is best for himself and his family. He didn't owe us anything beyond the contract he signed. The Club won the PR battle. Sox fans are screaming good riddance to our best player. Gotta love that if you're the club, too bad it doesn't move us up in the standings.

Political Humor

Times Link More at Link Don't these people realize with 51% of the vote, Bush won in a major landslide, and has a clear mandate to do whatever the hell he wants? Geez, form a conga line behind the President and let's dance!

Since so many people here wouldn't want Maggs after the contract b.s. and not accepting the Sox offer, does that mean you wouldn't want a free agent player coming to the Sox that did that to his team? Y'all would turn down Beltran after he didn't accept theRoyals or Astros offers? Greedy bastard Hang a sign outside KW office, we only want free agents who were not offered contracts by their teams.

11-9: so close. To the undiscerning eye, you look like one of us. ~~Me~~

It is impossible to write anything in English and not have it become bias. We have so many regional phrases. If I mention a water fountain, some of you are picturing Buckingham Fountain, some will be thinking a wall mounted device to drink from. If I start talking about my pop, some are thinking a can of coke, others my father. I couldn't even begin to offer examples of phrases that kids in the Robert Taylor Homes may grow up with that a child from the Appalachian Mountains would have no clue about. Then consider first generation Americans whose native language is not English. I invite y'all to take a standardized test in Mexico after a couple years of Spanish lessons.

Why would a guy with his cash have to pay for it? Think about that for a moment. He'd pay for it one way or another. Dinner, drinks, and gifts with some broad he isn't the least bit interested in or a fast, guaranteed direct exchange of cash for services. Dinner and drinks would cost him more. Plus this way he was able to get his picture taken by the police and everyone gets to talk about him A better question is why a guy with his cash be messing with a $40 street whore, he should have a discreet i.e. Mayflower Madam, name in his wallet for just such errr emergencies, like wanting to be "comfortable".

OK, you want to be an electrician in the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW). You will do your apprenticeship for Square D in Port Aransas, Texas and if you complete the apprectice program you will be assigned to their crew in Seattle. You will pledge allegiance to Square D, the City of Seattle, and the IBEW. If a non union company or another union shop offers you more money or a chance to move somewhere you want to live, you will turn it down or be called a greedy bastard And I did say, if the real world worked like baseball.

Too bad for her Perhaps he needs to see his Doctor about Viagra. And I wouldn't tell a baseball stadium full of people . . .

yeah, but when I posted it there was a reply Sorry .

Sorry, I missed the medical report, I didn't know he wouldn't be back until 2006. No one else wanted him? I wasn't aware of that. I thought we brought him up from Nashville, was he out of baseball at some time? Imagine if the rest of the world worked this way. You want to be in retail sales? Great. Sears drafted you in the 4th round. You must go to Des Moines, Iowa. You must state that the customers in Des Moines are the greatest anywhere. You must have total loyalty to Sears and Des Moines for the rest of your life. If JC Penny wants to pay you more, you must tell them no, that you will remain loyal to the great shoppers at Sears, or else you are a greedy SOB.

You could take a chance and spend the $40 on drinks but why take any chances that there will not be a horny chick at the bar and just put your drunk ass behind the wheel, head down to some crummy neighborhood, and spend $40 on a sure thing?

Dikta had a drunk driving arrest and broke his hand punching a locker. Just thought I'd toss that out. I possibly could care less about Wally (what the hell kind of a name is Wally for a Manager?) but I don't think so.

IMHO, that is the easiest to read and most entertaining translation and because of that, it misses the mark. Beowulf was meant as an oral history at most, or at least as an oral performance. As soon as it is put down on paper, it loses it's meaning and power. The verse was written not for grammatic or literary purposes, but to aid in the memorization.