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So Fathom dragged his sixteen volume set of White Sox Stats August 2008 to September 2008 and joined the fray. Moments later, amid a loud whirl of noise that no one could understand, Kap appeared.

I love a home run hitting team, f*** the small ball

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Oct 2, 2008 -> 12:21 PM) About 3 weeks ago, my 15 year old son comes to the door and says 'Dad, brianna's parents want to meet you and mom'. Brianna is his girlfriend of 4 weeks. Every thought in the world went thru my head at that very moment I swear causing what little hair I have left to turn gray and age me 10 more years. Having the 'talk' with the redneck father that only sees a walking penis when looking at his daughter's boyfriends, and remembering what I was like and got away with at his age, just made me dread that conversation even more. I loved the "meet the parents date". I had all the credentials for "nice boy". President of the Chess Club. Editor of the Newspaper. Treasurer of the Varsity Club. Three sport athlete. Confident smile as I look dad in the eyes and tell him I'll be careful and have her home on time. It scares me to death that my daughter would date someone like me.

So they hopped in Jim's Dodge Dart and drove to the stadium where they hoped to get on TV with all their Sox gear. They even decided on black socks to match their sandals. Sadly, it wasn't much of a statement, as almost all of the Rays fans wear knee high black socks with their shorts.

Big ones. When two of my buddies dropped from heart attacks in the same year. When my ex-wife's father passed away.

QUOTE (Brian @ Oct 2, 2008 -> 10:46 AM) When buddies from high school get married and started having kids. When my buddies were having kids and getting married, I felt smart When my buddies started getting married and having kids, I felt old.

When I could no longer tell if a high school student was a Freshman or Senior When I no longer cares about putting "hair on my chest" instead cared about hair everywhere else. Various times on fields, rinks, courts, and pools When I couldn't "pop" up on a surfboard When I was too old to apply for a couple positions When I see us repeating mistakes and not learning from the history of my youth When I had to ask my kids what something means

You must write two to three sentences, including one Soxtalk poster. Please try and keep the story line. FlaSoxxJim is in line at Denny's for their Early Bird Special before the Sox - Rays playoff game when he meets up with YASNY. Over the low cholesterol skinless, fatless, tasteless, chicken breasts YASNY decides they should do something crazy during the game to show their support for Javy.

Time for a new game.

QUOTE (Lemon_44 @ Oct 2, 2008 -> 09:40 AM) I'm thinking,if the sitaution was reversed, and Cox had sent someone like AJ,and he was out at the plate, that Cox would be getting roasted by the fans. X100

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Oct 1, 2008 -> 08:10 PM) He would've thrown the ball home in order to stop Cuddyer from advancing to 3rd from 2nd earlier in the inning? My point was that Cuddyer wouldn't have advance to 3rd base on the fly out earlier in the inning. Good point. I'm leaning towards they sent him because it was the old man out there. That ball was shallow.

At this point either player will have to step up his game to be truly useful at the plate. Where I think Swish has a nice advantage is experience. Perhaps there is a stat for smarts and the potential to not do something monumentally stupid. I think both their upsides are within spitting distance of each other, but I trust Swish to not make a boneheaded mistake, I'm not so certain about Wise. So in a battle of mediocre, I take the guy with the smaller downside and that's Swisher.

I'm wondering if Anderson was in center if the Twins would have sent Cuddyer?

What other jobs should have a term limit? Are there other jobs where the employee gets worse over time or are elected positions the only ones? I fear what happens when we have a bunch of Freshmen leaders running around. No continuity, almost zero experience. I also fear the grab what you can because you will not be responsible again to the voters. Then the real power will reside in senior staffers who stay from official to official. They are never voted on, but they know the ropes and how to get things done.

QUOTE (knightni @ Oct 1, 2008 -> 04:46 AM) http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y115/knig...ff/aldswall.jpg Thank you.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 30, 2008 -> 06:11 PM) The counter-point is that these elected officials are able to write the laws that make it harder to get them out of office, by moving "troublesome" voters out of their district, making it harder for opponents to qualify for the ballot, making their fundraising advantage, whatever. That's totally legal because they're the same guys writing the laws. There is not that much redistricting, but yes it happens. Still, I want to decide who I send to office. Term limits means someone outside my district tells me who I can vote for.

Where is that twinkie fan that registered tonight and whined about the coin flip?? Let's flip a coin if you ever post here again

Thome and Junior

I can't believe it. I just can't believe it.

I'm loving our lefties

Holy s***. Danks, Thome, Jr. Bobby, WOW This is so f***ing unbelievable.

BOBBY

Amazing. Six months ago who would have though three outs from a playoff spot?

I haven't sat since the 6th inning

Tough call for Oz. I'm leaning towards Danks.