Texsox

QUOTE (shipps @ Sep 13, 2008 -> 04:41 PM) I mostly wax my turtle You kids always have the best euphemisms

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 13, 2008 -> 07:29 PM) Then again we could stop imports entirely by not buying them... Exactly. That is about the same thing I say when term limits come up, just don't vote for an incumbent, we don't need another law.

I was flipping coins between him and Fisk for my #1 spot. If there ever was an athlete that could curse his luck, it would be Baines. If his knees stayed healthy, he's a first ballot HoF. Guys like Payton, Banks, and Baines are much too rare in sports today. Maybe it's the money, maybe it's society, I don't know. But I do know it's a damn shame we don't have more heroes in sports.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Sep 13, 2008 -> 05:52 PM) It's not too hard to convince someone it's raining during a downpour. The only thing that will go down in history is how the media completely imploded and totally abandoned objectivity. As far as the millionaire candidates....uh the Democrats run millionaires all the time (just about every election). I am glad that the majority of citizens in our fine country understand that the MSM is sloppy and pro-Democrat. Even conservative Democrats are beginning to tune out the MSM. Honestly, there are so many new media sources, the MSM is rapidly becoming less and less valuable to the Democrats. As far as I'm concerned to more the media shows a blatant bias the more other sources of information will thrive. I certainly will go with the all wet analogy And THE WSJ and Fox easily balance MSM in the bias department. I never have watched MSM, so I honestly cannot comment on their coverage. But keep paying attention to the messager and not the message. The GOP likes that.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Sep 13, 2008 -> 05:14 PM) Texsox, this thread was created with the sole purpose of discussing media bias and giving critiques. If you don't like to read about media bias, as you seem to only respond with sarcasm and usually don't lend much to the argument, why do you even read our posts? This thread can easily be avoided. Just like I try to stay out of the Democrat thread, as me posting sarcastic, smart alecky posts really doesn't ad to the debate. I love to read about the perception of media bias. I have a great deal of respect for the GOP for coming up with this strategy. It will go down in history as perhaps the greatest political coup of all time. They have wiped out their biggest watchdogs. Brilliant. Those poor disenfranchised millionaire conservative candidates that can't get a break from the mean, rotten, BIASED!!, media. Thank GOD they have multiple channels of 24/7 media talk radio to tell you how misleading all that negative news is. Don't read the article just look at how they didn't mention D or R!! Don't read the article, look at the placement of the headline. Attack the messenger!! TASS didn't have it this good.

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That's what reporters do. They take big, long events, and pare them down. When you see the TV news, you are not getting the entire event. So you can look at every newspaper story and find stuff like this. And yes, thousands of newspapers and tens of thousands of television and radio stations are all against conservatives. So do NOT believe anything they tell you. They have secret meetings and everything. I don't even think they are Americans, why else would they forget little R and D? /popping corn, watching the show

I'm with Shipps on this one. I believe waxing should be between two consenting adults with a possibility of sex tossed in.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Sep 13, 2008 -> 02:00 PM) what a bunch of hacks. no integrity. We should stop newspapers and just read transcripts. f***ing lazy people. And no more TV news or talk radio programs, just watch news conferences and get the whole story.

QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Sep 12, 2008 -> 02:23 PM) People find things sometimes that make me laugh. -John McCain, Fox News Presidential Debate, Oct 21, 2007 I've stopped even worrying about these sorts of things. Clinton v. Bush: GOP No Military service = bad. Dems No military service = no problem Bush v. Kerry: Dems No Military service = bad. GOP Questionable military service = no problem McCain He's got no experience Obama Who needs experience McCain picks Palin = almost no experience Obama picks Biden for ta da experience

This is really going to suck. A banged up team doesn't need a bunch of doubleheaders.

I'm predicting . . . #5 Robin Ventura #4 Harold Baines #3 Carlton Fisk #2 Frank Thomas #1 Mark Buehrle Wow, no Thome. I'm a little surprised. I had 1-6 Fisk, Baines, Wood, Buerhle, AJ, Ventura.

Glad to see Bobby here. I had him in my top 20.

Stone is the bridge to the future, a future without Hawk.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Sep 13, 2008 -> 01:54 PM) Galveston and Houston got frickin' nailed. So did Port Arthur/Beaumont. There's a lot of skyskrapers in Houston with glass blown out. So here, right now, the winds are blowing about 30 mph steady, we're getting some squally rain, but the center's still coming this way but we're really on the fringe of the worst. So all in all, we're not in bad shape. It's kind of amazing how large these things are.

Yep. Less painful. It was a long time ago, I was a crazy kid at the time. Eyebrows. She was naked. We were very careful with the wax.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Sep 13, 2008 -> 08:41 AM) If you were to start doing phone interviews with a potential new employer and taking days and weeks off at a time to go interview and audition for a new job, while still working at your present job, you would probably be fired. I can understand not having them quit or resign, but there has to be a way to have them not get paid. I know that its a tiny drop in the bucket compared to everything else they spend, but its the principle. There are some states where you are not allowed to run for office if you are currently in one (except for reelection to your current office). Even if they are not being paid, they are still not representing their district. Companies offer sabbaticals all the time. But hey, if you are not wealthy enough to take two years off without pay, why would anyone want to elect you President? Of course since there are 50 Senators and only one Governor, you are most upset about Palin.

Donated to both candidates. Push for truth by replying to every b.s. loaded email that gets forwarded to me.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Sep 12, 2008 -> 10:54 PM) It might be one thing if a small business of 25 employees had one illegal working for them, but for a plant with 1100 employees to be 40% illegal, someone dropped the ball. plants like that have people whose only job is HR, these are things they need to find out. Bank Tellers have been fooled by counterfeits, Museums by forgeries. But taking that 1100 person plant. Should 600 legals lose their jobs because an HR person did something wrong? And again I ask, is it worth crippling our Agriculture Industry to send millions of able, trained, and willing workers away so we can hire people who have been unwilling to take those jobs? Do we want to see gas price like increases in our food bills and the ripple effect throughout the economy?

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Sep 12, 2008 -> 10:53 PM) "Working on both campaigns"? How about Obama the #3 beneficiary over the last decade. Kerry even more so than Obama, and Hillary right behind him. http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2008/07/to...s-of-fanni.html Yet it's Bush leading the way. Interesting.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Sep 12, 2008 -> 11:47 PM) I don't like the fact that any of the 4 of them are getting paid for jobs that they are not doing. Why can't they take an UNPAID leave while they run? Or at least refund portions of their pay for the campaigning they do. Voters In Illinois and Arizona elected their respective Senators to represent them in the Senate. If they are not there representing, they are not doing their jobs. It shouldn't matter if their vote 'would have made a difference' or not. In fact, all this non-voting is what hurts each guy, by "McCain voting with Bush 90% of the time" because he has only made like 10 votes all year, and Obama toeing the Dem party line 100% of the time because he has probably made just as few votes, if not less. I want the best candidates running, the process is that important to me. It seems reasonable to me to allow them time off to run for President, and we're already funding the elections at 100sX their salaries, it's just not a big deal to me.

QUOTE (knightni @ Sep 12, 2008 -> 10:40 PM) That has to be one of the best Guillen stories ever. I don't really remember if we won or lost, I just remember Oz must have stranded runners at every at bat. That last one almost took off the pitchers jock but there was a hit and run on, and with the infielder moving he was right there to rob Ozzie. I also wish I knew who the player was that said it, he cracked up the entire section. And yes, I have stolen that line when one of my friends who does not speak great English lets loose with a tirade of profanity. The other thing I remember was telling my Ops Manager that there was no way those were Bud's personal seats. Why the hell would the owner have seats on the visitor side?

Solid. He was #7 on my list and the second 3rd basemen I listed.

Wow, I just went over my list and there will be a couple names I am shocked that will not be on this list. I knew some like Bannister, Carlos May, Karkovice, probably would not make it, but I'm now guessing Gamble, Zisk, and Minosa will not. Maybe even Ventura will be left off. Wow.

My favorite Ozzie moment from his playing days. I worked for a company headquartered in Milwaukee that leased many Lexus from Selig leasing. We would get tickets in their old press box converted to premium service seats. We also received "Bud's own tickets" *cough bull s**** first row next to the visitor's on deck circle. I was invited and did not mention I was a Sox fan until we were safely inside and I bought the second round of drinks. Oz was having one of those days, and after hitting three ropes, all caught, he get's robbed on a shot up the middle. He is running to the dugout, pulls off his helmet, throws it as hard as he could as he yells f*** THIS MOTHERf***ING GAME! I forget who was on on deck, but he turned to the stands and said "his English is really gotten better!" That was also the day I learned the best gambling game, mound ball for between innings fun.