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Someone, I thought it was SS, suggested I post over here. But for obvious reasons, no one wants credit for that recruiting now. There was time when PA, Steff, SS, and a few others had positions that allowed for a lot more daytime posting. That was some of my favorite times on a message board.

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Aug 27, 2008 -> 02:48 PM) Only time that class is offered. Tell me it's some Freshman required and you can at least miss it half the time and sleep through the other half. BTW, do you have Prof Tom Meyer in the Physics department there? Really interesting guy?

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Aug 25, 2008 -> 08:14 AM) Gotta love people who dress up for 8 AM lecture on syllabus day. Goddamn right I'm wearing shades and my Hollister s***. Pickin up b****es ain't never been so easy. I'm also partial to the guys that use the safety straps on their backpacks, like they're climbing a goddamn mountain. WTF are you doing in an 8:00 AM class??

QUOTE (YASNY @ Aug 25, 2008 -> 01:59 AM) Scott's homer was one of the most magical moments in Sox history. Rowand and Anderson's reactions just added to moment. Etched forever in my mind.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Aug 21, 2008 -> 09:54 PM) What you call negativity, another poster may call the truth. Felix didn't say Gagne had a better season to be a dick, he said it because he believes that Gagne had a better season. No problem, I fixed the bio.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 21, 2008 -> 06:53 PM) Didn't I already say Gagne's season didn't count because he spent the whole time with a needle in his arse? And anyway, I'm just pulling out numbers to prove you wrong at this point. I find it very entertaining. The team is in first. We put togewther a list of the fan's favorites and instead the usual soxtalk negativity comes s***ting through.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 21, 2008 -> 06:43 PM) Gagne made $550,000 in 2003. Thigpen made $325,000 in 1990. Hmm, Soxtalk. We run a favorite WHITE SOX player poll and decide to prove that the closer with the MLB record actually isn't as good as other closers. So let's start a favorite DODGERS List. f*** we can't even celebrate a Sox player who has the MLB record without people ripping Sox players. This list is going to keep getting better and better. Nothing like having a place that White Sox fans can go to s*** on their team and history.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 21, 2008 -> 05:41 PM) When did they start ranking teams by saves? By wins, and if a closer doesn't earn a save, it's generally a loss. I like guys who win. Some like guys who put up great stats. To each their own.

As I said, saves alone does not tell the whole story. I'm a simple guy, I noticed that they have been ranking teams by wins for over one hundred years. So I prefer pitchers that win and save games. When they start ranking them by other means, I'll stop looking at wins and saves. It ain't how, it's how many. Wait, I did forget, we also have to look at the player's contract. Comparing salaries, Thigpen's paltry salary was way better then Gagne and his impossibly large contract.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Aug 21, 2008 -> 04:57 PM) Why not? We all hear how Obama is black and we can't be mean to him. because it would be racist. Great point. Someone in this contest should take the gloves off and really start with some hard hitting attack ads.

QUOTE (shipps @ Aug 21, 2008 -> 03:17 PM) Lol.I know I was just pointing myself out kinda like when you commit a crime and you think you are a person of interest even if your not and you just break.It feels like a load off my shoulders. Any more you are suppose to be doing?

Saves is a terrible stat to use? I'll admit it does not tell the whole story, most closers may never get 50 chances in a season, but it seems that the very definition of closer is to earn saves. So it may not tell the entire picture, but it should be the first stat to use. I've never seen how they won in the standings just how many.

QUOTE (shipps @ Aug 21, 2008 -> 02:29 PM) Let me ask you this.How large are your balls? Actually they seem to have not changed in size, except there was some pain on the right side when the pain was on my right side. ATH, thanks for the concern, but I will not be going off the deep end based on this diagnosis. I was actually considering writing an article about various diagnosis and a random post on an internet message board was one of the diagnosis I thought I would include.

While I wait for my Doctor's appointment, let's play Doctor. I started presenting with lower right side abdominal pain after moderate exertion. This had been going on for a couple months, gradually getting worse. It was localized slightly below my belly button. My Dr. decided that is was probably the early signs of a hernia. Yippee! Let's all turn our heads and cough! Now, it suddenly moved to the left side only, and then to both sides. It is intermittent paid, about a 3 on a 1-10 scale. I have not been able to correlate it to food, drink, or anything like that. I'll be seeing him in a couple weeks, but in the meantime, what's the diagnosis?

QUOTE (lostfan @ Aug 21, 2008 -> 12:56 PM) Frustrating isn't it? God I hate the f***ing Twins. Way back it was the A's that pissed me off. Now it is the Twins. They weren't even suppose to be in the race this year. It was suppose to be Detroit and Cleveland. How dare they play well.

QUOTE (shipps @ Aug 21, 2008 -> 02:10 PM) www.fingerpointing/Texsox.com.Stop making me feel even more guilty than I did before. Knight has way too much class to name names. He just said he was waiting. If I knew it was you, I would have offered to help.

Just to keep it from becoming too obscure, and assuming I was the top of the ticket, which is slightly hubris. I'd pick from here, ABC. My short list would have DE (but we'd kill each other), FGH (ditto but a slower death and the hyperbole from both of us would be unreal lol), IJK (probably not enough diversity of opinion), and LMNOP (again, probably too liberal), unless I needed the old people in Fla, then it would be QRS. I'd honestly prefer to be the VP to one of those guys. It seems that as VP you can actually do stuff. You do not have an official agenda, can pick a pet project, and use the office of VP to make it happen. Note: I started to name names and realized that was a bit unfair.

QUOTE (Felix @ Aug 21, 2008 -> 12:00 PM) Gagne's 2003 disagrees, and that's without putting any research into it. Thigpen had a great season, but it's not even close between the two. That depends on the criteria you use. Based solely on saves, Thigpen had more than any other reliever, ever. No argument from me if you want to look for other stats and reasons to name Gagne's season better. It will be fairly easy to do and if I wasn't a Sox fan, I just might do that. But I'm a Sox fan and used saves as the bottom line for a closer.

QUOTE (knightni @ Aug 20, 2008 -> 06:57 PM) Sorry for the long delay guys. I'll try to pick it up more. For the record, it isn't Knight slowing things down. He has asked a number of people to write short bios and they are taking some time to get done. So he's too nice to kick some butt, I'm not. If he asked, get your lists done.

Bias alert. Alpha, I didn't think I needed to mention this to you but, as a conservative gun owner, I known how the liberal press would like nothing better then to take away our weapons. So they write horribly biased articles that make all gun owners out to be some wack jobs. I'm glad we had a judge up there protecting gun owners. Just read American Rifleman magazine. Month after month stories of good, honest people getting screwed over my cops and judges. If all the judge had was this article, then I agree with you Alpha, the sentence was too light. Thankfully, we have a system where people have their day in court. Based on everything else the Judge heard, this is what he decided. When I took my carry training, they called it carrying when ever we were transporting the weapon by any means. In our vehicles, in a back pack, in a panniers while biking, in a waterproof case while boating etc. But I agree that the most direct meaning would be physically out and carrying. I believe he would have been charged with carrying even with it in the back seat and I am fairly certain you would have supported the definition of carrying in that case. So let's go with your scenario, they knew he was armed, but approached as if he wasn't? However, that gives probable cause for pulling him over. It just seems strange they go after him for carrying a loaded (how did they know at the time it was loaded? Good assumption though) weapon. Then when they saw the weapon say "he's armed". I also do not understand how he knew if his hands were or were not out of sight. There were at least two officers circling his car. Should he ask, can you see my hands? Again, I've rested my hands on my lap when being pulled over and never have been dragged from my car. And, laughingly, once with my face painted from a paintball match. Bottom line, I don't think there is enough info to pass judgment on the sentence. You do. That's cool.

I am so embarrassed I left him off my list. As I was writing the bio I was kicking my butt, which hurts my already poor typing skills. Bo was class and always seemed to genuinely have fun playing. I also read something I wasn't aware of, basically the Bucs took him on a private airplane ride which made him ineligible for his Senior year of baseball at Auburn. The bastards did it on purpose because they were worried he would get injured.

I had hot soup from an airport Chilis taken from me back a few years on a Continental flight. They nice person at the gate told me it was "too hot". I asked him to blow on it for me. That may have been the problem* *I kid. I delayed boarding a couple minutes and ate it at the gate. It did make sense, I was planning on finishing before take off. I figured they serve hot coffee in flight.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 20, 2008 -> 06:01 PM) Well, here's the question we all need to ask. Do we have a high enough tolerance at this point in our lives to play a drinking game with Rudy's speech using 9/11 as one of the phrases? I'm actually worried about casualties from that night. Depends on how we play. If you use an exact phrase, it may not be so bad. But I'm guessing Rudy G. has 1001 ways to say Obama will let the terrorists in, and will use them all. And some of it may be true.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Aug 20, 2008 -> 05:47 PM) OK, let' see here. So many things in that post i want to get the straight. 1) if we are going to start arguing semantics and conjecture with every damn story that gets posted here, there will be no discussions at all. At some point, we have to, at least for discussions sake, take the story at its word. 2) The story said he was seen walking around with a gun. WHY the officers didn't initially approach him with their guns out, I have no idea. As for the reaction to him moving towards the consol, you must not have been pulled over in a long time, at least not bycops who didn't know you. You always keep your hands where the oficers can see them, ESPECIALLY if you are wearing camo face paint. 3) How much jail time I don't care. the fact he got NONE is what pissed me off. 4) Take your scenerio and put it about 10 years ago, and maybe throw in a few abortion clinic pamphlets and you would be dead wrong that no one would blink. Even if it happened today, if he openly supported abortion killers, the Pro-Choice people and NOW would be on this faster than Homer Simpson on a doughnut. 5) Semantics here again. It doesn't say if they ordered him out of the car before they grabbed his wrist. They grabbed it fearing he was reaching for a weapon. While holding his wrist, they noticed a weapon and then ordered him out, and when he refused, dragged him out. Since he did NOT get jail time, I hope he gave up something good. But his medical career could be alot more difficult now. Assuming the school doesn't kick him out for this, just imagine him trying to get malpractice insurance with these charges on his records. That is one bill I wouldn't want to see. And with people googling doctors nowadays, I wonder how many times his name will pop up with this info when people are checking out the new doc in town! I hope this follows him around forever. I am taking the story at it's word. He lowered his hands. Do you seriously keep your hands on the dash or raised when the cops pull you over? I would think resting your hands on your lap would be a normal movement. Why weren't the cops in a position to see his hands? I don't see where they mention he was out of his vehicle. I read the article three times. They do mention carrying a weapon, which to mean means he was carrying it in his car, not physically carrying it. Like a trucker is carrying dynamite. You could be right, but again, taking the article word for word, I believe they did not know he possessed any weapons until they saw it in the car. I read where law enforcement could not link him to any terrorist groups, but it seems you have. Perhaps you can make a judgement by reading one newspaper article, but I refuse to second guess the judge who probably reviewed more material than what was reported here.