Texsox

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 29, 2008 -> 01:45 PM) I will say that I like House a lot, but I can't watch the reruns. Once you have seen it, there is no point in seeing it again. That is a great point. I think comedies hold up better for multiple watches then dramas. I have watched some episodes of Seinfeld four or five times and find funny stuff each time that I overlooked. Frasier is the same way.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jul 29, 2008 -> 01:43 PM) Be sure to let us know when a volcano erupts under Los Angeles. Get a room . . .

QUOTE (Felix @ Jul 29, 2008 -> 01:39 PM) House is by far the best show on television IMO. Also: You are a bad, bad man. House, at its best, is very near the top, if not at the top. At it's average, it falls way down. Some episodes are just so gawd awful. But I think their willingness to risk a crappy show keeps them away from the warm and comfortable puke that clogs the airwaves.

Balta, isn't this basically porn for someone in your field of study

y'all know Alaska will elect someone just like him?!

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 29, 2008 -> 12:08 PM) I never really cared for it at first, but after you watch a cycle of the re-runs and learn some of the jokes and characters, it gets funnier everytime you watch it. Seinfeld was the same way for me. you can hold the remote anytime.

I was hoping you would chime in. You don't have a choice in a lot of government services, police protection, fire department, neighborhood parks, libraries, etc. Your hometown is your hometown. But we can make it better by giving our time and talents. Volunteer in the school, clean up a park, be part of a neighborhood crime watch.

QUOTE (SleepyWhiteSox @ Jul 29, 2008 -> 01:54 PM) sexual position I thought they already did that for you -- it's called alone I kid because I care™

http://www.cnn.com/ front page of CNN I'd be banned at other sites for posting this

Just came across my screen

I'd go library.

One thing that really caught my eye, which may be the only bright spot in all this With graduation rates on major programs as low as they are, and for star players, even lower, that shows he has some maturity and there is some hope for his future.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jul 29, 2008 -> 12:11 PM) I guarantee you the Dems would much rather Young and Stevens on the tickets than off them, Tex. I'm not saying that it was the Dems. Sometimes an internal cleansing is in order. Either way, if guilty, I hope they fall fast and hard. This stuff sucks way worse than having too wide a stance or getting a blow job from an intern.

If there ever was a guy that Sox fans should get behind and hope he improves it's Kong. He's been a decent, stand up guy, plays hard, has never in my memory embarassed the team. I'd rather be cheering for someone like that to get healthy and regain his form, then some of the other guys that have wore a Sox jersey.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Jul 29, 2008 -> 09:58 AM) Anything "reality" ding ding ding we have a winner

QUOTE (bmags @ Jul 29, 2008 -> 10:12 AM) Can I ask you a question, Tex? (i'm going to ask it before a response) I was recently reading about NCLB, and in it they allow states to make their own test or they could use the national test. In Missouri, they tested kids with both and the MAP test was harder and the kids did slightly better on the national test. 25% passed. In Texas, 24% passed the national test, but on their state test, 90% passed. Now, I am well aware of the huge variations mere wording can have on a similar question for kids from different cultures. And so maybe Texas nailed it. But, did they just give out a completely fluff test? I do not know enough about the national test to draw a comparison. I do know that we have a major controversy here about "teaching to the test" and the many, many, classroom hours that are devoted to "test taking skills" that have no other value other then learning to take standardized tests. There is a lot of pressure placed on schools to have their students do well on these tests. That has been a seismic shift over the past 10-15 years. Careers and made and lost on how well students do on the tests. I'd like to know if the same students took both tests. How large of a sample size was used and how well distributed it was. It would also be helpful to know if either test was administered in Spanish. Bottom line, teachers have curriculum in place that helps kids to sort out answers and other test taking strategies. I fail to find much value in that.

Election year politics

Home Improvement is a good choice, I would also add Friends. Simpsons went from underrated to overrated.

Any team that refuses to speak with Boras clients immediatly cuts themselves out of a lot of quality players.

QUOTE (DBAH0 @ Jul 29, 2008 -> 09:23 AM) I saw a clip on The Soup the other night where 1 woman bids 999, and the next woman bids 998. The price was around 1,000 something, and the woman who bid 998 went crazy thinking she had won. Oops. I love those moments. I saw one on Jeopardy where the person was in first place, heard the correct answer, must have thought he wrote the cprrect answer, and when they revealed his answer, was making a little victory dance. Priceless when he looked down. And the answer wasn't even close. IIRC he said Norway and the answer was Ireland or some s*** like that.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jul 29, 2008 -> 10:10 AM) LMAO Any worse and he'd want to go home to his wife . . . I kid because I care™

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 28, 2008 -> 12:02 PM) Wild. I would have never guessed that. Plus, you were already on double secret probation

There was an article a couple years back that basically showed that a deadline pick up rarely ever made a difference.

^^^^^ He's having fun at the ol' ballpark

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jul 29, 2008 -> 01:02 AM) Funny how the young guys get called out like that. Coop would be in a world of hurt if he said that about Javy. Or if Oz said that about Paulie. Wait ... Oz could probably get away with that though Paulie would probably be hurt. It's all part of learning to have a career in baseball. Javy knows what to do as does Paulie. Sometimes the new guy needs a little prodding.