Texsox

My son will be visiting his egg donor later this month and was interested in a jazz club and a blues club to visit. He's 21, so I assume any bar would be available. Anything up in the suburbs? He's going to be up in Mundelein.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Dec 3, 2009 -> 09:57 AM) [Remembers his rotten student days and smiles] before I forget, the only class I was ever kicked out of was 8th grade social studies, the same class I am teaching. Karma is a b****

Already I have completed withdrawal from soxtalk.I can live without posting all day. However, I do sometimes wonder what y'all are talking about

just yesterday a student tossed a stink bomb in my classroom, offering me the awesome opportunity to teach outside while the smell singed my nose hairs.

But is it worth $100,000??

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 30, 2009 -> 06:33 PM) You should feel dirty and ashamed. Now leave you man-card at the front door. Wait, there is always one exception, if it helps a guy get laid.

QUOTE (Cali @ Nov 30, 2009 -> 06:34 PM) This is gonna be a completely unpopular position, but I'll say it anyway. I understand what those top 4 bands did for music and that they inspired bands I listen to now etc. But I could really give a s***. I can't connect with a band that had their height in popularity and influence decades before i was born. I think it's a little weird to be 25 and the Beatles are your favorite band ever. My mom lived through Beatlemania, I could never like or appreciate that band as much as she did. Not weird at all, the sounds are so different. But I also do not thnk it is weird to enjoy music created decades or centuries before you were born. Mozart endures long after his life is over.

QUOTE (knightni @ Nov 30, 2009 -> 02:11 AM) Steal a sign, increase your chances of contact, hit a home run. Take a PED, improve your eyesight (increase your chances of contact), hit a home run. Both are cheating, both have the same result. In your one example they have the same result. But over a season, I do not believe they carry the same advantage. Knowing a fast ball is coming, does not tell you location, speed, etc. Adding the distance that steroids gives, resulting in your average distance per hit increases, takes what were warning track fly balls and puts them over the fence. And that advantage is every time you swing, not just when you can sit on a pitch. Plus the other team can change signs, try to prevent you from taking that advantage. They have no recourse with steroids. The umps and other team can't detect the cheating. I don't understand those that claim cheating is cheating and want to treat all cheating the same. I believe some forms of cheating are worse than others. Which is why the penalties vary from getting tossed from a game, to being banned for life. You may steal a sign or throw a few spit balls, but the umps can catch you. Take steroids and you are cheating 24/7 plus the resulting benefits are much greater. Spit balls and sign stealing have gone on forever, steroids for a decade or so. Look at the record books, steroids is far more advantageous than sign stealing. Every home run record is now held by a steroid user. If all forms of cheating helped the same, that would be an amazing coincidence, don't you think? I'll accept that sign stealing is a part of the game, without much hesitation, but to place it equal to steroids either overvalues sign stealing or undervalues steroids.

QUOTE (Felix @ Nov 30, 2009 -> 05:22 PM) I feel dirty saying it, but ABBA is one of my guilty pleasures. I saw Mamma Mia on Broadway awhile ago for my mom's birthday and really enjoyed it, despite expecting to hate it. Yeah, a friend left a greatest hits cd in my car, I started playing it and didn't stop for a week. Great vocals.

If I did the list between 1970 and 1990 The Who would have easily been #1 on my list. I can't believe then that Van Halen and Elton John were left out.

unless it is not in green, it must mean

I've done worse for a woman.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Nov 29, 2009 -> 09:22 PM) The only thing that bothers me about your argument, Tex, is that it doesn't account for Bonds' right to be paid according to how he fit in amongst his peers in the game. Baseball is a game where you are compensated based on your statistical performance relative to the rest of the players in the league. If other players in the league are cheating, and that impacts your paycheck, how do you account for that? If you read the book on Bonds and his alleged drug use, it begins with a passage about Bonds seeing McGwire and Sosa in the home run chase, knowing full-well that they were cheating, and being ticked off that they were getting all the press and hype when Bonds believed he was the better player. That is when he supposedly decided to start doing PED's - to keep up with the Jones's. How do you address that part of it? Easy, and you are correct, the only way compensation is fair is if everyone is playing under equal conditions. So why not publish a lengthy list of the rules and demand everyone follow the same list? Sounds easier than allowing everyone to create their own list. You would be placing a non existent right to cheat above your stated right to be fairly compensated. That leads to the inequities you mentioned. And it also highlights why I think owners and league management deserve a black eye in this, they silently allowed it to go on, for the same reason, money. Longshot, yes, many sports have passed me by, Today, other than a golf course, I'd lose to most of the youngins. But when I was younger I beat those that played fair and I beat the cheaters like yourself. Damn, that is a good feeling. Too bad you will never understand that. You never beat someone in a fair contest. You probably should go back to cheating and have someone write your posts for you. It is the old person, the guy who is too slow, too weak, that needs to cheat to catch up. You would think someone for whom the game has not passed them by wouldn't need to cheat. Those that think cheating is OK, is it not then hypocritical to enforce the rules?

QUOTE (BigEdWalsh @ Nov 29, 2009 -> 08:58 PM) That'd be my guess. We'll see. No Van Halen? No Jimmy Buffet? No Michael Jackson, ok that one would be fine. LOL

QUOTE (greg775 @ Nov 29, 2009 -> 02:01 PM) I commend Tex. Upstanding posts. Are you pro Bonds people thinking about what would show up in ST? The guy is OLD. Remember Michael with the Wizards? He sucked and it was an ugly sight to see. As I recall he was so bad the novelty even wore off and the games weren't on TV much. Bonds is old. He's done with baseball. Thome would be a much better option and he's getting up there. Thank you. I just noticed you are in Lawrence. One of my fav authors, William Burroughs lived the last years of his life there. I believe his literary executor, James Grauerholz, still lives there.

Who, Zep, Beatles? Maybe.

Whoa, the Who will not make the top 50?? That's crazy.

QUOTE (Felix @ Nov 29, 2009 -> 06:55 PM) Something tells me there's a Steve Vai connection there, but I don't know when it happened. Exactly. Frank to Weird Al?

Frank Zappa to David Lee Roth

QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ Nov 29, 2009 -> 01:20 PM) Well done with Eddie Jobson. The most famous FZ/Deep purple connection is, of course, Montreux Switzerland, and the casino burning down during a Mothers show due to "some stupid with a flare gun", as immortalize on Smoke on the Water. not that good, I thought his name was Jacobson, I should have looked it up. The only reason I knew that is my son plays violin and I've picked up some R&R violin trivia. There are not a lot of R&R violinists out there.

QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ Nov 29, 2009 -> 01:11 PM) Good job with Aynsley. For the ELO connection, I've only come up with something tenuous, in the form of Ringo Starr. Ringo starred in 200 Motels as Larry the Dwarf, and he has appeared as a guest studio musician on a more recent ELO album. If there is a more solid connection I will keep thinking about it. Here's another one for you to work on: FZ and Duran Duran? Perhaps too hard. Aynsley also worked with John Lennon, who played in an obscure band with George Harrison, who was in the Travelling Wilburys with Jeff Lynne who was in ELO. OI couldn't even tell you who was in Duran Duran, so you got me.

Zappa and Deep Purple?

QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ Nov 29, 2009 -> 01:00 PM) Two Canned Heat connections I know of. The most important is that Sunflower Vestine, an early MOI member (pre Freak our, but he's on some FZ demos and rarities that have been relesaed) was a guitarist and founding member of Canned Heat. The second connection is that MOI core member Don Preston spent a small amount of time with Canned Heat. On the subject of Canned Heat, I am a cardholding member of the Bob the Bear Hit Society ("He Came, He Walked Around, He Died"), although not in good standing because the only real stipulation for being a member is you have to drink your beer with your left hand and I can't remember to do that. OK, next Zappa connection: FZ and Jethro Tull. Eddie Jacobson and his violin.

QUOTE (Whitewashed in '05 @ Nov 29, 2009 -> 11:11 AM) I don't think he's done a bad job. It's been time for someone new for a while though. I know people will criticize him because of the steroids, but overall I think he's been fine with the restructuring of the divisions and playoffs. I certainly don't like the "meaning" of the ASG. and the steroid issue is probably the clearest in my mind where he looked out for the benefits of his peers (owners) instead of the well being of the players or the game.

I love finds like this. There was a rib place, take out only, and Algonquin and 53 in Schaumburg. If you didn't know about it, you would never find it. It was always busy.