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QUOTE (RockRaines @ Nov 21, 2008 -> 10:27 AM) It hilarious how ignorant some people are about baseball though. On the radio people were lauding KW's deal for DV saying that it was too much money for a player that wasnt proven in a league that is not up to par. Uh, you mean you would put our American High School baseball a level above Cuban leauge? Because we are essentually signing a player right out of highschool, yet he has been playing pro ball for 4 years longer than those HS'ers. Whole websites are filled with those people. And they keep telling each others how smart they are.

Summers with all my aunts and uncles and grandparents at cabins in Eagle River, Wisconsin

Packing eleven playings in a station wagon with the bat bag and equipment bag while playing in the Bronco traveling league.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Nov 21, 2008 -> 10:24 AM) Did you see one of the reasons Penny's option wasn't picked up by the Dodgers? He didn't hang around for the playoffs. Its more like when your boss "suggests" you work some overtime. You don't have to, but its best you take his/her advise. No, the boss told them there was no work for them, and they could leave. Sorry I called you all to this meeting, but as it turns out, we don't need you guys, just these guys over here. So you can stick around while we have the meeting, or you could go home.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Nov 21, 2008 -> 07:43 AM) Po-Yu Lin. QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Nov 21, 2008 -> 10:26 AM) Po-Yu-Lin I believe. Man, he doesn't even read his own boards

QUOTE (daa84 @ Nov 21, 2008 -> 09:49 AM) he is leaving himself at a competitive disadvantage Like evaluating the agent before the player

QUOTE (Soxy @ Nov 21, 2008 -> 10:07 AM) I find it difficult to believe that the only creepy way you, of all people, can hit on girls is on facebook. I kid because I care. I kid because I care™ Get it right or FlaSoxxJim will take away our rights to use it. Are you saying it's not the only creepy way, or not the only way?

QUOTE (Kenny Hates Prospects @ Nov 20, 2008 -> 04:38 PM) ^And Broadway walked out on the team instead of hanging around the locker room for the playoffs, I love the double secret loyalty tests. "We're going to close early today, if you are done with your work, you can go home." "Look at them, obviously not team players. Let's get rid of them!"

I lived a couple blocks from a lake and would spend my summers swimming at the beach and fishing off of people's piers.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 21, 2008 -> 09:36 AM) If he can get a team to win, he will sell tickets. True, but they expect every manager to do that. Do that *and* be Ozzie and you have a show, you get coverage, etc. It seems like more and more baseball isn't the only factor and that sucks.

We broke the same window, in the same under construction house, four times before the builder showed up one day and threatened to kick our m-fing asses if we broke the wndow one more time playing baseball. So we broke the m-fers window with a rock instead!

QUOTE (lostfan @ Nov 21, 2008 -> 09:29 AM) You guys are talking about the time when he came in with bases loaded and nobody out in Fenway and somehow ended the inning with no runs scored? No

Unknown, foreign players sell more hope and therefor season tickets.

Topic: Childhood Memories Remember complete sentences

Joey Cora will not sell tickets as a manager. Not certain how that fits.

QUOTE (PlaySumFnJurny @ Nov 21, 2008 -> 09:22 AM) Yeah, I'm embarassed I didn't mention him. "HOCUS POCUS SAYS HERNANDEZ" -- That inning was unbelievable. if not the all-time top performance by a White Sox reliever, in the top three.

It was cool for a while that the tallest building in the world was in Chicago.

Would anyone really like a guy that battles through a couple serious health issues, without telling the press, which may have helped keep his value high? Is that the kind of character you would want on a team?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 21, 2008 -> 09:13 AM) New Comiskey Park should have been built in the south loop instead of Bridgeport. I'll admit as much as I disliked the aesthetics of the naming rights, and what we all predicted for the new nickname, I have grown to love "The Cell".

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Nov 21, 2008 -> 09:04 AM) "Thankfully, we aren't talking about Ed Wade or Houston, but instead a sometimes sly, sometimes straight up questionable Kenny Williams." "inconsistent" Well, geez, what GM is always consistent and never deviates from a straight-forward path?? This criticism is a little bit ridiculous to me...I mean, some of these writers are still stuck in "Moneyball" thinking about KW and conveniently have already forgotten the 2005 season and some of his recent masterful moves (Quentin, Ramirez, Floyd, Danks, Thornton) because they're too bent on beating the two Swisher deals to death. Simply, the White Sox weren't doing well in either the draft (partly because of positioning, partly due to the department itself, Wilder, etc.) and they weren't getting much of anything out of Venezuela or the Domincan. Hence, we've explored two new markets in Japan and Cuba...and potentially more from Taiwan/China. Heck, Anderson Gomes is Brazilian, correct? I don't see inconsistent, in this context, as a criticism. Perhaps unpredictable, or surprising would have been better terms to use and without what has become a negative connotation to inconsistent.

Keeping as much of the lakefront open as Chicago did was brilliant, and we can thank Mr. Burnham for that.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Nov 20, 2008 -> 10:44 AM) But what about that pic on your Facebook page with you, the Indonesian tranny hooker, Mel Renyolds and Fidel Casto at a bar in Key West? You didn't post that here? You're holding back on us! QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 20, 2008 -> 11:23 AM) OMG, you couldn't be more wrong on that! I can't believe you would let fly with such inaccurate and misleading information! It was South Padre Island, not Key West. And here's a secret, Mel Gibson was hiding in the bathroom when the picture was taken. Yeah, I hang with the cool people and yes, I've been paling around with Fidel, so y'all can thank me for Viciedo

The President of the United States calls Chicago home.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Nov 21, 2008 -> 08:36 AM) Tex's thread options at the bottom are hilarious. Thank you. Some people like to see the results, but do not have an opinion and then need to pick something, throwing off our highly scientific and important results. I always like to add a little something and let me tell you, and this will sound like an oxymoron, Cuban French Toast is incredible. I believe it is the evaporated milk that is the secret ingredient.

A couple people asked and I did not see an answer, my guess on pronunciation is Viciedo Vee-Cee-Ah`-though The d at the end is tricky. We all know the spanish d from words like Durango, but it generally is softer at the end of a word. So kind of slip it between a d and a th