Texsox

QUOTE (shipps @ Aug 15, 2008 -> 07:07 AM) I think it was because I was always talking s*** and could kick any of their asses.I pretty much got what was coming to me,my teammates were mostly laughing because how it swelled up my face like instantly. 6th grade we had a guy on our basketball team that rarely played. He got put in during the first half and gets in a fight with their best player. Both get tossed and we go on to win our first game of the season. A couple games later, same thing happens, he gets in a fight with their best player, they both get tossed, and we go on to win. Funny thing, he was not suspended or anything. He does this twice more and tells us it was his idea to help the team. We're looking at him like he has two heads, then start cracking up. That was about all he could do to help the team. We only had 8 guys try out, so everyone made the team.

I was close to adding Jackson based on reading stories and watching movies.

It seems that many of the people who contributed lists confined their selections to players who they actually saw play. Which makes perfect sense to me. After all it is about favorites. Fans like Yas and I have forty years of players to choose from, and quite frankly, at least for me, childhood memories are pretty cool. Nostalgia sells. I also wonder what '77 would have been like if there had been a Soxtalk. I probably would not be looking back with such fondness. The sheer repetitiveness of posting everyday how much the team now sucks and will miss the playoffs would have left a terrible mark. Instead, I did not have that avenue to reinforce my disappointment and really only remember the curtain calls and singing with Nancy.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 15, 2008 -> 06:58 AM) Not to mention is takes half of a brain to understand the game of hockey. And it seems that everyone with only half a brain is drunk by the third, bringing us back to the d-bags Firing Keanan confirmed everything I thought about Wirt$ & Co. Hiring Bowman (he's still alive?) tells me a lot about the new management. I'm liking it.

My first cut off was players I actually saw play. I certainly can appreciate people putting him on their list.

I've seen enough.

I'm guessing I'm one batter away from turning this off.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 14, 2008 -> 01:23 PM) I don't get what you're saying, to be honest. I still can't decide if you like Broadway or not. Like as in the person? I don't know. Like as in what he's done today? Can't understand why he was drafted. I really have no idea why he's pitching today.

Griffey struck out, stop me if you've heard this before . . .

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 14, 2008 -> 01:15 PM) It feels like we're simply just giving this game away in order to keep Carrasco in the bullpen. Let's just hope no one gets hurt. Too bad we couldn't just forfeit and move on. Catch an earlier flight to Oakland. Zero runs in two games, then two before even one out. The bullpen gets worn out, and nothing for Oakland. This could cost us two or thyree games. Or leave Broadway in for 6 or 7 no matter what.

And Konerko didn't receive an error, so this is all on Broadway and his 18.0 ERA. not.worth.watching

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 14, 2008 -> 01:16 PM) Good one...or maybe just realize that until he can get hitters out in the minors again, he should be nowhere near their major league roster? Look at this s***, he'll never get anyone out with high 80 flat fastballs. No talent.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 14, 2008 -> 01:12 PM) Simply put, he's not major league caliber. They should cut him now.

call up jitters + a defensive miscue. Let's hope he settles down. There is a lot of pressure on his shoulders.

"I just shook his hand!"

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 12, 2008 -> 02:23 PM) Look at Ford and GM's cost models versus Toyota and Honda. Their R&D has been non-existant because they have been saddled with the ginormus legacy costs of health care and pensions, not to mention wages that are WAY higher than their Japanese competion. Now they are stuck behind and firing tens of thousands of people as well. QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 13, 2008 -> 07:31 AM) I'd love to see where I said anything like that. I gave the effect of rising costs on business with very clear real world examples. I'd love to see how you gave raises and hired more people in the face of higher taxes/costs in your business though. I did not say you said it, I thought we agreed that American wages and benefits placed some industries at a serious disadvantage against rest of the world competition. I see wages and benefits dropping to stay competitive. I have thought we'd see a "coming to the middle". That wages at the very bottom would continue to rise, with minimum wage pressures, etc. and the top executives would drop as well, with the middle kind of holding dsteady, which is losing against inflation. So I asked how you saw American companies solving the too high of labor cost to be competitive issue?

We have laws that split hairs all the time. So videotaping being legal in one context does not automatically mean it is legal in all. For example you can video tape people walking down the street from eye level, place the same camera hidden on the ground to get "up skirt" shots, and it is illegal. So I would believe there is ample precedent to ban cameras. I also believe there is a difference between specific locations and wide area surveillance. A well marked traffic camera or store camera is better controlled then thousands of ubiquitous camera that records everything in 10 square miles. I'd like to explore the presumption of innocence that seemingly is thrown out when you record everyone looking for crimes. I'd be more inclined to support this if it was in response to a specific crime rate in a specific area, and would need judicial review before being set up. The Google thing hits a gray area between advertising and news.

Popeye's in Lake Geneva. A friend of mine who is really tall, bent waaaay over to read this girl's t-shirt. It said "It's not the size of the ship, but the motion of the ocean". He was pretty drunk, so it took him a long time to read it. One might assume he was also staring at her chest. He looked up at her, looked at her boyfriend, and said "small dick huh?" That's when he started getting his ass kicked. Of course we had to help him, and his buddies had to help him. I grabbed one guy and basically thought we'd pretend to be fighting, only he took this s*** for real and started throwing punches. I barely held him off when the bouncers came to royally kick our ass. So the cops released us first because we were on the losing end and would probably be smart and follow their orders to leave town. Nope, we found a hidden away bar, down the end of an alley, and drank some more. As we were leaving, and turning a corner, we bumped into our buddies. Why the hell can't they listen to the cops and leave? This time I avoided that guy and started punching a different guy. He kicked my ass also. Interestingly enough we had the same court date. This time we decided to avoid those guys. I swear the judge held back a laugh when I told him why the fight got started.

They will have to portray him as a self seeking, flip flopping (are you a GOP or Dem?) turn coat, without loyalties.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 14, 2008 -> 10:46 AM) I wonder when the next time we'll see someone strike out swinging on a 49 mph pitch is. When is the next WSI - ST softball game

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Aug 14, 2008 -> 11:25 AM) If RSO picks Powell and he accepts, GAME.SET.MATCH, period. They might as well cancel the GOP convention, and I'm being serious. I agree, and I cannot think of a similar person for McCain.

QUOTE (LosMediasBlancas @ Aug 13, 2008 -> 01:09 PM) and how does that mean easy? By usage. Same as "bad" and "wicked sick" could mean good.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Aug 14, 2008 -> 11:15 AM) You know, at this point, it wouldn't surprise me, but then - he said "never" because IIRC his family thinks he'd be dead... (which is pathetic about our country). I hate to say it, but Obama would be a bigger target to the same people that would make an attempt on Powell. That may factor in.

IIRC the Astros were in a World Series a couple years ago. One of my criteria would be no post season appearances in the past ten years. I'd be hard pressed to pick a League Champion as having the worst franchise.

Another player that just missed my top 20. I'm glad he made the list. He is exactly the type of player that could be a fan favorite.