Texsox

QUOTE (shipps @ Sep 1, 2008 -> 10:20 AM) We are the god damn blind leading the blind. Fixed and I changed your vote, even though you are wrong.

QUOTE (shipps @ Sep 1, 2008 -> 10:14 AM) Err,I accidently clicked no but I meant for it to be a hit.The poll is flawed already!!!No wonder why they dont let me moderate Diamond club! f***ing Florida voter already. I should have worded it better. Now we need an admin to rewrite the answers I do not have poll edit privileges here for some reason.

I watched it a couple more times and have to go E1. He could have easily thrown the runner out, he was there in time and it was a relatively easy pick up, one that would have been fielded 99% of the time, if he wasn't so fricking fat.

QUOTE (kyyle23 @ Sep 1, 2008 -> 10:08 AM) Yay for the poll I neglected to add! Sorry, I screwed up your title. My screw up for certain was an E-1

merging soon

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Aug 31, 2008 -> 10:36 PM) So if 6 months from now the curculation is up at the Sun-Times, can we lay to bed this myth that Moroniti brought people to the paper? Anyone have circulation numbers now, or recently? Can't check rightnow, I am in St. Louis and borrowing a relatives really crappy computer. It takes forever just for Soxtalk to come up, I canjust imagine a google search or something. I miss high-speed. And if it is down, would you give all the credit to Jay? I would not. There are too many variables in place. We would also need to know historical trends, etc. Circulation may always be down in the summer and up in the fall. So any bump could be that.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Aug 28, 2008 -> 01:17 PM) Again, you are assuming that Mariotti actually BROUGHT people to the paper, who purchased it. 100 people yelling about him on a message board doesn't put a penny in the Sun-Times pockets, purchasing the paper does, because circulation dictates ad rates. I can point to alot of people I know who read or used to read the ST, who DIDN'T buy it because of Jay. At work, we don't read Jay, and get mad when a headline or something attracts our eye and it turns out to be a Jay article. People buy whichever format they are used to reading (tabloid style or the mega fold like the Trib), or whatever their parents used to read. I can see all of about 10 people jumping to the Trib just because of Jay. Yes, I am making that assumption. But it would take an assumption on your part that the Sun Times employed him for all those years and paid him those millions without any research regarding his impact on their sales.

I'd like to connect my laptop to my cable or sat system without going through a cable box. Is it possible?

QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ Aug 28, 2008 -> 12:54 PM) I was reading today that about 10 percent of the people in South Africa are white. So, doesn't that mean technically that if somebody in that grouping were to immigrate to the United States, they'd be "African-American" even with their skin complexion? Seems confusing to me. I worked for a white man from South Africa who owned a die casting company. I so badly wanted to list his ethnicity for a government contract as African-American but he said he tried it once and was reprimanded pretty quickly.

Since it is the No Fun League, I kind of like it. I'm not one of his fans, but I'm an even lesser fan of the NFL's Draconian attempts at regulating their players.

Questioning how any rookie will respond is natural. Looking a behavioral clues based on temperament and other characteristics is also natural. I'm not too worked up over someone like Mark doing it.

Glad to see him on the list.

Now that I have a little bit of first hand knowledge, I understand people staying put. Yes, a hurricane is dangerous, but so too are the shelters, albeit a different kind of danger. The best analogy I can give is asking, when you have a tornado warning, do you head to your basement and stay there until the warning is over? I would not stay, especially in any structure below sea level, but I could see staying in a well built building 6-10' above sea level.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Aug 29, 2008 -> 09:16 AM) When looking back at the old cw threads, i hit the "next oldest" thread button several times to see some old threads and i stumbled upon one of Tex's polls that I figured i'd bring back up. I just find it funny that he asked this as a poll http://www.soxtalk.com/forums/index.php?sh...=10996&st=0 We had so much more important stuff to discuss back then . . .

I generally try not to watch the scoreboard during most of the season. It's just too damn long of a season and I like to smooth out the bumps. Now I'm checking the other games and catching the fever. And it's not the kind of fever that is cured with more cowbells. I'm laughing at Cleveland and their

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Aug 29, 2008 -> 07:29 AM) I was thinking the same thing, but for different reasons. They rent those buildings out so far in advance, and the hotels, etc. That's a logistical nightmare if they have to cancel and reschedule. Good point, plus the prep work is crazy. Remember when the Astros had a 32 day road trip when the Astrodome was used for a convention?

Is there a legal point where they have to hold the convention? It would seem that holding off benefits McCain (as well as being the right thing to do). That post convention bump is always nice and getting it later would seem pretty damn nice. I'd love to see candidates and their parties tripping over each other helping.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Aug 29, 2008 -> 07:13 AM) The "Star Spangled Banner" is actually an old "drinking song" in a time of war. The melody was sampled from a British drinking song IIRC. BTW, the "tradition" only started in 1931, so it isn't like this was ordained from above a couple hundred years ago.

A major argument and I wasn't in the middle if it. That was probably the last time I missed one

Of course I may be singing Oh beautiful, for smoggy skies, insecticided grain For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain. America, America, man sheds his waste on thee And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea! I have that feeling that there is more, no a lot more, to the story. A couple things that jumped out at me: Would we not laugh at some Cub fan that gets ejected? But even more telling You would not think that this was a set up and perhaps he was trying to get ejected? Nah, not in America.

QUOTE (kjshoe04 @ Aug 28, 2008 -> 09:42 AM) I really think BA understands this now though, in my opinion he has been a very important piece to this team. I love his current attitude. I do to. In the history of the game, very few young players have been given a bigger gift.

QUOTE (YASNY @ Aug 28, 2008 -> 10:38 AM) Believe me, I know that there are knowledgable Cub fans. That remark was totally tongue-in-cheek. I know you do, I should not have quoted you, it was more a general response to the general comment about idiot Cub fans. I believe it is important to realize how much effort Brooks and Co. make to attract those same idiots to a game on the south side. Get 3,000 of them to every home game and viola'

Good luck Steff. 15 years is a long time to be in a relationship.

QUOTE (kyyle23 @ Aug 28, 2008 -> 10:28 AM) If Jay doesnt head up to the New York media market or to a bigger role in ESPN I will be shocked That is a more obvious possibility. The NY or Philly markets would be a better fit. The again, perhaps there is a rival to ESPN being planned. Not wanting to compare the two, but perhaps this is a kind of Frank Deford National-eque story with Jay being part of a group launching a rival to ESPN and SI. I think he has just enough ego and chutzpa to try.