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Texas has been screwed the past few seasons.

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

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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.

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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 . . .

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.

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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.