Texsox

Christmas is almost here.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Dec 20, 2012 -> 10:27 PM) If you're in the business of selling dangerous weapons and you can't secure them, then too bad if you get penalized. People's lives are at stake. I doubt those who'd risk stealing guns are stealing them to protect their chicken coop. Would you arrest the bank president if the bank gets robbed? I believe there should be minimum security standards and reporting that should be required and a failure to conform would results in fines and/or jail time. But to arrest victims of crimes doesn't make sense. The laws should include what the dealer has control over, they have no control over criminals.

Isn't punishing someone for having something stolen punishing the victim?

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Dec 20, 2012 -> 08:37 PM) At this point, it's just about better then any alternative any of these dumbs***s can come up with. 12/20/2012 Kap and I agreed in the 'buster for the second time in a month. f***, those Mayans may have been right.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Dec 20, 2012 -> 08:23 PM) Yea. Just like health care. Jam everything up our ass!! YEA! And both sides are to blame. I do believe the most vocal "no compromise" segment is the Tea Party. I hope they stick to their principles and hold out.

Yeahfor the bottom line, we'll see about the box score.

Well both my favorite players in the past ten years are gone. Thanks AJ.

I played on a travelling team and the coach was a huge Cub fan. Later he bought a bus and painted it white with blue pinstripes. Our uniforms were white with blue pin stripes. I'd have been thrilled if the Sox sponsored us instead of Lakes Bowl and Ace Hardware

QUOTE (YASNY @ Dec 15, 2012 -> 03:33 AM) Clemente was absolutely a great, great baseball player. And an awesome human being. Guys that that made baseball America's past time, cheats and liars tarnish it.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Dec 14, 2012 -> 01:25 PM) One of the best stories I've read on ESPN http://espn.go.com/espn/story/_/page/Rober...to-clemente-bat I finally had a chance to read this, thanks for sharing.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Dec 20, 2012 -> 01:35 PM) You fake ass Texan!!!!! For the record, I love ribs, but I prefer a good brisket. f***ing awesome. I wish I had room for a smoker and I would make those all summer long. I am driving a V-8 4x4 F-150 to the BBQ joint.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Dec 20, 2012 -> 01:21 PM) http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/suz...hamilton-136952 Interesting story about a former olympian becoming a prostitute just for the fun of it. Wow. Interesting read.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Dec 20, 2012 -> 01:13 PM) they must not have read your posts on Soxtalk... My fiancee and I make a nice team. I fact checked dates, sequences, all the logic kind of stuff. She handled the grammar. Together we helped with some suggestions on syntax, plot elements, etc. The author is from South Padre and after a few conversations he asked if we would take on the project.

1. Place phone call to any mom and pop Texas BBQ joint 2. Hop in pick up and take out 3. While there, buy a 1/2 pound of brisket

I am officially a freelance book editor. Cashed the first check and received an advance on the second.

And it seems we have soured on the alphabet.

Whle the term is designed to scare people, the sunny side is deficit reductions by stuff that both sides protect. It is a way for both sides to makethe sacrifices that need to be done and have political cover to do it.

QUOTE (ScottyDo @ Dec 20, 2012 -> 12:31 PM) Well, we could trade for a player with a bigger contract if we are currently spending less on payroll. I get that, I'm just not coming up with a likely scenario.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Dec 20, 2012 -> 12:10 PM) Testing clean doesn't mean players are 100% for sure clean. See also Armstrong, Lance. http://www.texasmonthly.com/2013-01-01/editorsletter.php 2012 Texas Monthly Bum Steer of the Year Winner. Beat out Snoop Dog (busted for pot at a checkpoint after Willie was busted at the same one), Randy Travis (found naked and drunk passed on in the center of the road), and Rick Perry (how not to succeed in the GOP primary).

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Dec 19, 2012 -> 03:00 PM) And use the extra millions to improve something else. I am thinking of areas that could be improved and trying to think how money will help fill that hole. So far I'm kind of at a blank.

Grades were posted, if I was a battery, I'd be a AA

I was thinking about supply and demand and the comments that criminals will get guns anyways. If my economics logic isn't faulty, being able to rent a gun on the street for less than $10 tells me that there is a large supply to meet the demand. If the supply was reduced, guns would cost more to rent, and disrupt the nickle and dime armed robberies.

What I've learned is we can throw away all the laws. Criminals ignore them and it restricts responsible citizens. So forget drunk driving laws, people already drive drunk. Forget basically every law.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Dec 16, 2012 -> 07:58 AM) Is the answer to make them safer take away MY guns? Seriously, because some people are f*cked in the head, do you think the solution is to stop ME from having a gun? And Tex, your suicide story would have happened anyway. He didn't just decide to do it because he had access to a gun. That is a whole different bag of issue. I'm not certain the suicide would have happened without a gun, but I will take your word for it. What I do know is with all those options, he selected a gun. Good choice, not many survive that attempt. But I do know that death by gun was at least one option he picked. What other options did he consider? And no, taking away our guns isn't the solution. We raised the drinking age and lowered the blood alcohol limit before someone is considered drunk driving. Now that hasn't stopped anyone from drunk driving or from 20 year olds from getting alcohol. Using the gun argument, we should eliminate those laws and allow anyone to drink and drive. There are plenty of responsible 17 year olds that could sit and have a couple drinks without any problems. But we decided that the answer to drunk driving was taking away their beer. Currently the debate will not be what is best for the country, the debate will be based on how much money the gun industry is willing to spend. The NRA will send out a fundraising appeal and people will line up to donate. I get it, if criminals are going to do it anyway, than why have the law? I'm just not certain if we would have any laws then.

After 9/11, to make planes safer we banned liquid soap and nail files because they are too dangerous. But to make theaters, schools, shopping malls, and damn well every other public place safer is more guns? Really? I just wish we could sweep away the bull s*** and have a national debate on what should, and what should not, be allowed. The world has changed since the original Constitution was *changed* with the 2nd Amendment. We now have a very large standing army to protect us. We now have supermarkets with lots of meat. We have gone from weapons that could be reloaded and shot once every 60 or 90 seconds to shots per second. We've gone from a single round in the gun to large capacity clips. We've improved the accuracy from 25 yards to half a mile. Certainly the boys who wrote the changes that were approved in 1791 would have had different ideas based on today's facts about armies and weaponry. Let's stop pretending that a gun is the same as a knife, bat, or pencil. Come back when you killed a deer with a baseball bat. A gun is one damn fine killing machine. They are incredible tools, with awesome capabilities. They are fun to shoot. But better than a Charles Atlas workout, they turn cowards into wanna be Rambos, they allow someone to extract violence from a distance. They can be used in moments, they don't take many steps like bombs or cyanide (couple emails I received showing how similar things are). I've told the story before, I made the decision when my kids were small to not have a gun readily available in my home for protection. To be ready, it needs to be easily accessible, loaded, and probably without a safety. You'll only have seconds. That is a recipe for disaster. But my attitude was shaped when I was in H.S. A neighbor of my girlfriend shot himself with his parent's gun. They said all the things that parents say who do have guns around "we taught him to respect it","he knew how to safely handle it", "we went to the range all the time", it didn't seem depressed". Now that my kids are older and mentally healthy, I keep a gun or two around. I don't need a M-16, I don't need high capacity clips, I don't need 10,000 rounds stored in a bunker.